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August 13, 2025Hacker News – 13 Aug 2025
Table of Contents
AI and Language Models
Claude Sonnet 4 now supports 1M tokens of context

Training language models to be warm and empathetic makes them less reliable

LLMs aren't world models

Software and Development Tools
Bezier-rs – algorithms for Bézier segments and shapes

F-Droid build servers can't build modern Android apps due to outdated CPUs

Omnara – Run Claude Code from anywhere

Innovative Projects and Concepts
Search all text in New York City

The Factory Timezone

Journaling using Nix, Vim and coreutils

Cultural Insights and Regulations
Lördagsgodis (Saturday Sweets)

Online Safety Act – shutdowns and site blocks

Blender is Native on Windows 11 on Arm
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4min
August 12, 2025Hacker News – 12 Aug 2025
Table of Contents
AI Innovations and Security Concerns
GLM-4.5: Agentic, Reasoning, and Coding (ARC) Foundation Models [pdf]

OpenSSH Post-Quantum Cryptography

LLMs' "simulated reasoning" abilities are a brittle mirage

Legal Battles and Privacy Issues
Wikipedia loses challenge against Online Safety Act

StarDict sends X11 clipboard to remote servers

Productivity Solutions and Development Tools
I tried every todo app and ended up with a .txt file

A fast, low-latency, open-hardware e-paper monitor and dev kit

Neki – sharded Postgres by the team behind Vitess

Historical Insights and Future Prospects
The History of Windows XP

Weathering Software Winter (2022)

Artificial biosensor can better measure the body's main stress hormone
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4min
August 11, 2025Hacker News – 11 Aug 2025
Table of Contents
Security and Privacy Insights
Google paid a $250K reward for a bug

Vanishing from Hyundai’s data network

Technological Advances
Dropbox announces new gen server hardware for higher efficiency and scalability

Going faster than memcpy

Programming and Development
Generic Containers in C: Safe Division Using Maybe

Compiling a Lisp: Lambda lifting

Cultural Touchstones in Tech
One Million Screenshots

Show HN: Engineering.fyi – Search across tech engineering blogs in one place
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August 10, 2025Hacker News – 10 Aug 2025
Table of Contents
AI and Development Tools
How I code with AI on a budget/free

The current state of LLM-driven development

Ch.at – a lightweight LLM chat service accessible through HTTP, SSH, DNS and API

Security and Vulnerabilities
Abusing Entra OAuth for fun and access to internal Microsoft applications

My Lethal Trifecta talk at the Bay Area AI Security Meetup

Tech Innovations and Projects
Abogen – Generate audiobooks from EPUBs, PDFs and text

OpenFreeMap survived 100k requests per second

Debian 13 "Trixie"

Cultural Curiosities
People returned to live in Pompeii's ruins, archaeologists say

Melonking Website

Reflections on Work Culture
The importance of offtopic

Don't “let it crash”, let it heal
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4min
August 09, 2025Hacker News – 09 Aug 2025
Table of Contents
Local AI and Self-Hosting
I want everything local – Building my offline AI workspace

Sandstorm- self-hostable web productivity suite

AI Developments and Challenges
What the windsurf sale means for the AI coding ecosystem

Hacking Diffusion into Qwen3 for the Arc Challenge

Getting good results from Claude Code

Programming Paradigms
Partially Matching Zig Enums

Representing Python notebooks as dataflow graphs

How we replaced Elasticsearch and MongoDB with Rust and RocksDB

Innovative Tech and Gadgets
Tribblix – The Retro Illumos Distribution

I bought a £16 smartwatch just because it used USB-C

Ultrathin business card runs a fluid simulation

In Memoriam
Jim Lovell, Apollo 13 commander, has died
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3min
August 08, 2025Hacker News – 08 Aug 2025
Table of Contents
AI Developments and Discussions
GPT-5

GPT-5: Key characteristics, pricing and system card

Benchmarking GPT-5 on 400 real-world code reviews

Innovative Tools and Approaches
Linear sent me down a local-first rabbit hole

Cursor CLI

Virtual Linux Devices on ARM64

Security Concerns in Tech
Flipper Zero dark web firmware bypasses rolling code security

Encryption made for police and military radios may be easily cracked

Exit Tax: Leave Germany before your business gets big

Reflections on Software Development
A love letter to my future employer (2020)

Cursed Knowledge

Writing a storage engine for Postgres: An in-memory table access method (2023)
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4min
August 07, 2025Hacker News – 07 Aug 2025
Table of Contents
Security Matters
We replaced passwords with something worse

Cracking the Vault: How we found zero-day flaws in HashiCorp Vault

Innovative Developments
Running GPT-OSS-120B at 500 tokens per second on Nvidia GPUs

Claude Code IDE integration for Emacs

Tech for Accuracy
Herbie detects inaccurate expressions and finds more accurate replacements

Debounce

Exploring New Frontiers
Project Hyperion: Interstellar ship design competition

A candidate giant planet imaged in the habitable zone of α Cen A

Nostalgic Tech and Insights
40 Years of the Amiga

Did Craigslist decimate newspapers? Legend meets reality
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3min
August 06, 2025Hacker News – 06 Aug 2025
Table of Contents
AI Breakthroughs
Open models by OpenAI

Genie 3: A new frontier for world models

I gave the AI arms and legs then it rejected me

Innovative Tools
Show HN: Kitten TTS – 25MB CPU-Only, Open-Source TTS Model

Ollama Turbo

Kart – Distributed version-control for geospatial and tabular data

AI in Education and Ethics
Teacher AI Use Is Already Out of Control and It's Not Ok

Scientific fraud has become an 'industry,' analysis finds

Software Development Challenges
Software Rot

Consider using Zstandard and/or LZ4 instead of Deflate

Things that helped me get out of the AI 10x engineer imposter syndrome

Innovative Projects and Concepts
The Amaranth hardware description language

Create personal illustrated storybooks in the Gemini app
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4min
August 05, 2025Hacker News – 05 Aug 2025
Table of Contents
Ad Blocking Innovations
uBlock Origin Lite now available for Safari

Monitor your security cameras with locally processed AI

Development and Programming
PHP 8.5 adds pipe operator

How we made JSON.stringify more than twice as fast

Creative Projects
Show HN: I spent 6 years building a ridiculous wooden pixel display

3D Line Drawings

Open Source and Community
Thingino: Open-Source Firmware for IP Cameras

OpenIPC: Open IP Camera Firmware

Learning and Education
I tried to replace myself with ChatGPT in my English class

Content-Aware Spaced Repetition
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4min
August 04, 2025Hacker News – 04 Aug 2025
Table of Contents
Quantum Discoveries
New quantum state of matter found at interface of exotic materials

Programming Paradigms
Modern Node.js Patterns

A parser for TypeScript types, written in TypeScript types

Typed languages are better suited for vibecoding

Documentation and Design
Writing a good design document

If you're remote, ramble

Health and Society Insights
Why doctors hate their computers (2018)

Life, Work, Death and the Peasant: Family Formation
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3min

FAQs about HN Daily Digest:

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