It's 2025-08-16. What's happening?

HACKER NEWS

Do things that don't scale, and then don't scale | comment
Making Your Own Merchant Service Provider | comment
Dicing an Onion, the Mathematically Optimal Way | comment
GitHub is no longer independent at Microsoft after CEO resignation | comment
Claude Sonnet 4 now supports 1M tokens of context | comment
Fight Chat Control | comment
We replaced passwords with something worse | comment
Wikipedia loses challenge against Online Safety Act | comment
Gemma 3 270M: Compact model for hyper-efficient AI | comment
Steve Wozniak: Life to me was never about accomplishment, but about happiness | comment
Debian 13 "Trixie" | comment
Nginx introduces native support for ACME protocol | comment
This website is for humans | comment
I want everything local – Building my offline AI workspace | comment
Streaming services are driving viewers back to piracy | comment
Good system design | comment
PYX: The next step in Python packaging | comment
FFmpeg 8.0 adds Whisper support | comment
Why are there so many rationalist cults? | comment
Jim Lovell, Apollo 13 commander, has died | comment
The Chrome VRP Panel has decided to award $250k for this report | comment
Vanishing from Hyundai’s data network | comment
StarDict sends X11 clipboard to remote servers | comment
AI is different | comment
Ultrathin business card runs a fluid simulation | comment
Blood oxygen monitoring returning to Apple Watch in the US | comment
PuTTY has a new website | comment
Occult books digitized and put online by Amsterdam’s Ritman Library | comment
Show HN: Building a web search engine from scratch with 3B neural embeddings | comment
Claude says “You're absolutely right!” about everything | comment

HACKER NEWS WEEKLY

GPT-5 | comment
Open models by OpenAI | comment
GitHub is no longer independent at Microsoft after CEO resignation | comment
Claude Sonnet 4 now supports 1M tokens of context | comment
Fight Chat Control | comment
Show HN: I spent 6 years building a ridiculous wooden pixel display | comment
Claude Opus 4.1 | comment
Vibechart | comment
We replaced passwords with something worse | comment
Wikipedia loses challenge against Online Safety Act | comment
I gave the AI arms and legs then it rejected me | comment
Show HN: Kitten TTS – 25MB CPU-Only, Open-Source TTS Model | comment
Gemma 3 270M: Compact model for hyper-efficient AI | comment
Steve Wozniak: Life to me was never about accomplishment, but about happiness | comment
Debian 13 "Trixie" | comment
Slow | comment
Nginx introduces native support for ACME protocol | comment
This website is for humans | comment
uBlock Origin Lite now available for Safari | comment
I want everything local – Building my offline AI workspace | comment
Streaming services are driving viewers back to piracy | comment
GPT-5: Key characteristics, pricing and system card | comment
PYX: The next step in Python packaging | comment
FFmpeg 8.0 adds Whisper support | comment
Telo MT1 | comment
Meta Leaks Part 1: Israel and Meta | comment
Why are there so many rationalist cults? | comment
Jim Lovell, Apollo 13 commander, has died | comment
The Chrome VRP Panel has decided to award $250k for this report | comment
Monitor your security cameras with locally processed AI | comment
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