It's 2025-08-24. What's happening?

HACKER NEWS

Comet AI browser can get prompt injected from any site, drain your bank account | comment
Making games in Go: 3 months without LLMs vs. 3 days with LLMs | comment
Ghrc.io appears to be malicious | comment
Manim: Animation engine for explanatory math videos | comment
Ted Chiang: The Secret Third Thing | comment
Prime Number Grid | comment
D2 (text to diagram tool) now supports ASCII renders | comment
Left to Right Programming | comment
An interactive guide to SVG paths | comment
Beyond sensor data: Foundation models of behavioral data from wearables | comment
Unity reintroduces the Runtime Fee through its Industry license | comment
Show HN: OverType – A Markdown WYSIWYG editor that's just a textarea | comment
Line scan camera image processing for train photography | comment
Everything is correlated (2014–23) | comment
Emacs as your video-trimming tool | comment
Notion releases offline mode | comment
Tidewave Web: in-browser coding agent for Rails and Phoenix | comment
I'm too dumb for Zig's new IO interface | comment
Who Invented Backpropagation? | comment
Leaving Gmail for Mailbox.org | comment
Anna's Archive: An Update from the Team | comment
FFmpeg 8.0 | comment
AI tooling must be disclosed for contributions | comment
Waymo granted permit to begin testing in New York City | comment
How we exploited CodeRabbit: From simple PR to RCE and write access on 1M repos | comment
A German ISP changed their DNS to block my website | 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
U.S. government takes 10% stake in Intel | comment
Zedless: Zed fork focused on privacy and being local-first | comment

HACKER NEWS WEEKLY

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
FFmpeg 8.0 | 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
AI tooling must be disclosed for contributions | comment
Nginx introduces native support for ACME protocol | comment
Waymo granted permit to begin testing in New York City | 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
AWS CEO says using AI to replace junior staff is 'Dumbest thing I've ever heard' | comment
Streaming services are driving viewers back to piracy | comment
Web apps in a single, portable, self-updating, vanilla HTML file | comment
Good system design | comment
U.S. government takes 10% stake in Intel | 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
95% of Companies See 'Zero Return' on $30B Generative AI Spend | 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
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