It's 2025-08-21. What's happening?

HACKER NEWS

AI tooling must be disclosed for contributions | comment
95% of Companies See 'Zero Return' on $30B Generative AI Spend | comment
DeepSeek-v3.1 Release | comment
Bank forced to rehire workers after lying about chatbot productivity, union says | comment
I forced every engineer to take sales calls and they rewrote our platform | comment
Ted Chiang: The Secret Third Thing | comment
D2 (text to diagram tool) now supports ASCII renders | comment
Prime Number Grid | comment
Claude Sonnet 4 now supports 1M tokens of context | comment
Anna's Archive: An Update from the Team | comment
Wikipedia loses challenge against Online Safety Act | comment
Gemma 3 270M: Compact model for hyper-efficient AI | comment
Nginx introduces native support for ACME protocol | comment
How we exploited CodeRabbit: From simple PR to RCE and write access on 1M repos | comment
I want everything local – Building my offline AI workspace | comment
AWS CEO says using AI to replace junior staff is 'Dumbest thing I've ever heard' | comment
Web apps in a single, portable, self-updating, vanilla HTML file | comment
Good system design | comment
PYX: The next step in Python packaging | comment
FFmpeg 8.0 adds Whisper support | comment
Lazy-brush – smooth drawing with mouse or finger | comment
Zedless: Zed fork focused on privacy and being local-first | comment
Do things that don't scale, and then don't scale | comment
AI is different | comment
Ask HN: Why does the US Visa application website do a port-scan of my network? | comment
Ultrathin business card runs a fluid simulation | comment
Pixel 10 Phones | comment
Blood oxygen monitoring returning to Apple Watch in the US | comment
PuTTY has a new website | comment
"Remove mentions of XSLT from the html spec" | comment

HACKER NEWS WEEKLY

GPT-5 | 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
Anna's Archive: An Update from the Team | comment
Vibechart | 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
How we exploited CodeRabbit: From simple PR to RCE and write access on 1M repos | 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
GPT-5: Key characteristics, pricing and system card | comment
Good system design | comment
Web apps in a single, portable, self-updating, vanilla HTML file | comment
PYX: The next step in Python packaging | comment
FFmpeg 8.0 adds Whisper support | comment
Lazy-brush – smooth drawing with mouse or finger | comment
Meta Leaks Part 1: Israel and Meta | comment
Why are there so many rationalist cults? | comment
Zedless: Zed fork focused on privacy and being local-first | comment
Jim Lovell, Apollo 13 commander, has died | comment
Do things that don't scale, and then don't scale | 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
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