Hacker News top 30 - 2025-08-23
- FFmpeg 8.0 ffmpeg.org - 175 comments 777 points
- Go is still not good blog.habets.se - 739 comments 546 points
- Waymo granted permit to begin testing in New York City www.cnbc.com - 510 comments 543 points
- U.S. government takes 10% stake in Intel www.cnbc.com - 576 comments 507 points
- 4chan will refuse to pay daily online safety fines, lawyer tells BBC www.bbc.co.uk - 397 comments 364 points
- What is going on right now? catskull.net - 282 comments 335 points
- All managers make mistakes; good managers acknowledge and repair terriblesoftware.org - 121 comments 280 points
- Leaving Gmail for Mailbox.org giuliomagnifico.blog - 248 comments 225 points
- LabPlot: Free, open source and cross-platform Data Visualization and Analysis labplot.org - 37 comments 212 points
- The first Media over QUIC CDN: Cloudflare moq.dev - 91 comments 203 points
- Nitro: A tiny but flexible init system and process supervisor git.vuxu.org - 60 comments 173 points
- The US Department of Agriculture Bans Support for Renewables insideclimatenews.org - 172 comments 169 points
- It’s not wrong that “\u{1F926}\u{1F3FC}\u200D\u2642\uFE0F”.length == 7 - 2019 hsivonen.fi - 231 comments 161 points
- Thunderbird Pro August 2025 Update blog.thunderbird.net - 68 comments 160 points
- Our Response to Mississippi’s Age Assurance Law bsky.social - 133 comments 158 points
- XSLT removal will break multiple government and regulatory sites github.com - 118 comments 152 points
- Computer fraud laws used to prosecute leaking air crash footage to CNN www.techdirt.com - 64 comments 151 points
- Being “Confidently Wrong” is holding AI back promptql.io - 241 comments 149 points
- Sprinkling self-doubt on ChatGPT justin.searls.co - 89 comments 136 points
- Bluesky Goes Dark in Mississippi over Age Verification Law www.wired.com - 52 comments 130 points
- Mail Carriers Pause US Deliveries as Tariff Shift Sows Confusion www.bloomberg.com - 78 comments 129 points
- Scientists just found a protein that reverses brain aging in mice www.sciencedaily.com - 70 comments 127 points
- Making LLMs Cheaper and Better via Performance-Efficiency Optimized Routing arxiv.org - 22 comments 121 points
- A guide to Gen AI / LLM vibecoding for expert programmers www.stochasticlifestyle.com - 112 comments 120 points
- Show HN: JavaScript-free - XHTML Includes github.com - 54 comments 116 points
- Popular Japanese smartphone games have introduced external payment systems english.kyodonews.net - 59 comments 110 points
- Should the web platform adopt XSLT 3.0? github.com - 71 comments 108 points
- From $479 to $2,800 a month for ACA health insurance next year www.npr.org - 123 comments 107 points
- Google did not unilaterally decide to kill XSLT meyerweb.com - 115 comments 94 points
- Google says it dropped the energy cost of AI queries by 33x in one year arstechnica.com - 35 comments 89 points
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