1. How to Make Things Slower So They Go Faster

2. Show HN: Base, an SQLite database editor for macOS

3. The air is hissing out of the overinflated AI balloon

4. What Is a Color Space?

5. Japan''s Creepiest Station

6. A Small Change to Improve Browsers for Keyboard Navigation

7. The Unlikely Revival of Nuclear Batteries

8. The Size of Adobe Reader Installers Through the Years

9. Prediction-Encoded Pixels image format

10. A lightweight TypeScript library for assertion-based runtime data validation

11. An Illustrated Guide to OAuth

12. Standard Thermal: Energy Storage 500x Cheaper Than Batteries

13. Trump halts construction on nearly complete wind farm off Rhode Island

14. Mathematical secrets of ancient tablet unlocked after nearly a century of study (2017)

15. Agent-C: a 4KB AI agent

16. Cornell''s world-first ''microwave brain'' computes differently

17. The great medieval water myth (2013)

18. We Put Agentic AI Browsers to the Test – They Clicked, They Paid, They Failed

19. The SD Association has an official SD card format utility [Win/OS X/Linux]

20. Show HN: CasCache – multi-generational cache with optimistic concurrency control

21. SmallJS: Smalltalk-80 that compiles to JavaScript

22. On the Screen, Libyans Learned About Everything but Themselves (2021)

23. Buypass Discontinues Issuance of TLS/SSL Certificates

24. What Are OKLCH Colors?

25. YouTube used AI to edit videos without telling users

26. MCP Gateway and Registry

27. A bubble that knows it''s a bubble

28. In-Memory Filesystems in Rust

29. Bro, ban me at the IP level if you don''t like me

30. Git-Annex

31. Why is choral music harder to appreciate?

32. Show HN: Decentralized Bitcoin Incentives via QR Codes

33. The Unix-Haters Handbook (1994) [pdf]

34. From Hackathon to YC

35. German contest to live in depopulated Soviet-era city proves global hit

36. Using acetaminophen during pregnancy may increase childrens autism and ADHD risk

37. Bash Strict Mode

38. Busy beaver hunters reach numbers that overwhelm ordinary math

39. Prison isn’t set up for today’s tech so we have to do legal work the old way

40. How to check if your Apple Silicon Mac is booting securely

41. How many paths of length K are there between A and B? (2021)

42. Show HN: Sping – A HTTP/TCP Latency Tool That''s Easy on the Eye

43. Vanguard hits new ''Bans-Per-Second'' record

44. Introducing: VuIO – open-source UPNP/DLNA server written in Rust

45. GNU cross-tools: musl-cross 313.3M

46. Ghrc.io Appears to Be Malicious

47. Show HN: I Built a XSLT Blog Framework

48. My ZIP isn''t your ZIP: Identifying and exploiting semantic gaps between parsers

49. 2.5B Gmail users endangered after Google database hack

50. Uncle Sam Shouldn''t Own Intel Stock

51. Iterative DFS with stack-based graph traversal (2024)

52. SpaceX Starship Orbital Flight Test 10

53. Halt and Catch Fire Syllabus (2021)

54. Everything I know about good API design

55. Math Not Required (2023)

56. Looking back at my transition from Windows to Linux in an anti-customer age

57. A Brilliant and Nearby One-Off Fast Radio Burst Localized to 13pc Precision

58. How Does a Firewall Work Step by Step

59. The two versions of Parquet

60. Paracetamol disrupts early embryogenesis by cell cycle inhibition

61. Show HN: My first game made with my homemade engine

62. Walmart Fires VP for Taking Daily Kickbacks Starting from 30K

63. Bring Back the Blue-Book Exam

64. Materialized views are obviously useful

65. Building ultra cheap energy storage for solar PV

66. Cloudflare incident on August 21, 2025

67. Y Combinator files brief supporting Epic Games

68. Don''t pick weird subnets for embedded networks, use VRFs

69. Burner Phone 101

70. Claim: GPT-5-pro can prove new interesting mathematics

71. Update on my Racket exit

72. Y Combinator says Apple''s App Store has hindered startup growth

73. Will at centre of legal battle over Shakespeare’s home unearthed after 150 years

74. People stuck using ancient Windows computers

75. ''Sneakflation'': how tariffs are gradually raising costs for American consumers

76. Is 4chan the perfect Pirate Bay poster child to justify wider UK site-blocking?

77. Fractal drum machine plays any beat [video]

78. We Put a Coding Agent in a While Loop and It Shipped 6 Repos Overnight

79. Making Games in Go: 3 Months Without LLMs vs. 3 Days with LLMs

80. SQLite (with WAL) doesn''t do fsync on each commit under default settings

81. NASA''s Juno Mission Leaves Legacy of Science at Jupiter

82. Comet AI browser can get prompt injected from any site, drain your bank account

83. Deep Think with Confidence

84. US attack on renewables will lead to power crunch that spikes electricity prices

85. Trees on city streets cope with drought by drinking from leaky pipes

86. US Supreme Court allows NIH to cut 2B in research grants

87. A short introduction to optimal transport and Wasserstein distance

88. ICE Uses Celebrity Loophole to Hide Deportation Flights

89. Dynamically patch a Python function''s source code at runtime

90. Germany''s Copyright Clearing House now requires courts for website blocks

91. SSD-IQ: Uncovering the Hidden Side of SSD Performance [pdf]

92. Spending Too Much Time at Airports

93. Show HN: Clearcam – Add AI Object Detection to Your IP CCTV Cameras in a Minute

94. Show HN: Bicyclopedia

95. A Family Project (2022)

96. The AI vibe shift is upon us

97. A German ISP tampered with their DNS – specifically to sabotage my website

98. Writing with LLM is not a shame

99. The oldest unopened bottle of wine in the world

100. US halts work on almost finished wind farm because national security

101. How to Fix Your Context

102. Go-away – Customizable, conditional challenges to incoming requests

103. Valve Software handbook for new employees [pdf]

104. A Clash Course in Solving Sudoku (Functional Pearl) [pdf]

105. Turning Claude Code into My Best Design Partner

106. Seed: Interactive software environment based on Common Lisp

107. Buy a Faster CPU

108. Mob Programming

109. Setting serial baud rate on ESP-IDF does nothing

110. Marshal madness: A brief history of Ruby deserialization exploits

111. Equal Earth – Political Wall Map (2018)

112. The problems that accountability can''t fix

113. Insights from research with probiotic E. coli (2016)

114. You Are the Assistant Now

115. Open Source Maintenance Fee business model example from WiX Toolset

116. Ask HN: Best codebases to study to learn software design?

117. ThinkMesh: A Python lib for parallel thinking in LLMs

118. Kinds of Programming People

119. What if every city had a London Overground?

120. I built a tiny mac app to monitor and manage my development processes

121. Agentic Browser Security: Indirect Prompt Injection in Perplexity Comet

122. Rolling the dice with CSS random()

123. Show HN: How to Build a Coding Agent (free workshop)

124. Evaluating LLMs for my personal use case

125. Taking a look at my old Palm IIIx – by Paul Lefebvre

126. Not so prompt: Prompt optimization as model selection (2024)

127. Debdelta

128. AGI Is an Engineering Problem

129. Physics of badminton''s new killer spin serve

130. The Cornervery: A 90-Degree Stapler

131. Interruptions cost 23 minutes 15 seconds, right?

132. Actually Good Regulations

133. Gutenprint Discontinues macOS Support

134. Hacker and physicist – a tale of "common sense"

135. The Amiga games and demo scene collection

136. Romhack.ing''s Internet Archive Mirror No Longer Available

137. Ergonomic errors in Rust: write fast, debug with ease, handle precisely

138. Motion (YC W20) Is Hiring Senior Software Engineers

139. A 2k-year-old sun hat worn by a Roman soldier in Egypt

140. How Can AI ID a Cat? An Illustrated Guide

141. Optimizing FizzBuzz in Rust

142. What makes Claude Code so damn good

143. Static sites with Python, uv, Caddy, and Docker

144. Reproducing prospect theory with ''differentiable decision theories''

145. Exploring EXIF (2023)

146. Reserve First

147. Stepanov''s biggest blunder? The curious case of adjacent difference

148. Recreationally overengineering my location history

149. Children of the Geissler Tube

150. Acronis True Image costs performance when not used

151. A simple way to generate random points on a sphere

152. Practical approach for streaming UI from LLMs

153. The F-35 Is Losing the (Trade) War

154. Line scan camera image processing for train photography

155. Why was Apache Kafka created?

156. Texas Instruments'' 60B U.S. project, the next iPhone chips fabric

157. Punch cards and dollar bills

158. Optimizing our way through Metroid

159. Arrays in Practice (2024)

160. Libre – An anonymous social experiment without likes, followers, or ads

161. The JWST Rocky Worlds DDT Program reveals GJ 3929B to likely be a bare rock

162. Determinants and causal effects of admission to selective private colleges [pdf]

163. RFK Jr demanded a vaccine study be retracted – the journal said no

164. Game math: precise control over numeric springing

165. Bild AI (YC W25) Is Hiring Applied AI Founding Engineer

166. I Hacked Monster Energy and You Won''t Believe What They Think You Look Like

167. Europe''s crusade against air conditioning is insane

168. Building A16Z''s Personal AI Workstation

169. I Hacked McDonald''s (Security Contact Was Harder to Find Than Secret Recipe)

170. Robots can now learn to use tools just by watching us

171. Waitgroups: What they are, how to use them and what changed with Go 1.25

172. Ne Zha II is the biggest movie in the world

173. Converting an online game to work without any JavaScript

174. Show HN: I Made the Hardest Focus App

175. Marital happiness lovemaking rate – argument rate [pdf]

176. 450 Faster Joins with Index Condition Pushdown

177. Writing Speed-of-Light Flash Attention for 5090 in CUDA C

178. ArduinoOS (2017)

179. RFC 9839 and Bad Unicode

180. Librebox: An open source, Roblox-compatible game engine

181. You can''t grow cool-climate plants in hot climates

182. Rethinking the Linux cloud stack for confidential VMs

183. Self-driving cars begin testing on NYC streets

184. I Made a Floppy Disk from Scratch

185. Echidna Enters a New Era of Symbolic Execution

186. Websites and web developers mostly don''t care about client-side problems

187. The ROI of Exercise

188. WebR – R in the Browser

189. Developer''s Block

190. Building a Computer in the 90s (2019)

191. Asking three LLMs a simple question

192. The Fancy Rug Dilemma

193. California teens are ditching office jobs – and making 100K before they turn 21

194. World Wide Lightning Location Network

195. Manim: Animation engine for explanatory math videos

196. David Klein''s TWA Posters (2018)

197. DeepCode: Open Agentic Coding

198. Show HN: OctaneDB – Fast, Open-Source Vector Database for Python

199. The world regulated sulfur in ship fuels and the lightning stopped

200. I''m too dumb for Zig''s new IO interface

201. Embedding Text Documents with Qwen3

202. Now, Together

203. Show HN: Creao – Vibe coding product for founders

204. The use of LLM assistants for kernel development

205. Developer gets 4 years for activating network "kill switch" to avenge his firing

206. A visual history of Visual C

207. Google says it dropped the energy cost of AI queries by 33x in one year

208. The theory and practice of selling the Aga cooker (1935) [pdf]

209. The Evolution of AI Software Engineering

210. My tips for using LLM agents to create software

211. Why Is This Hard?

212. Japan city drafts ordinance to cap smartphone use at 2 hours per day

213. I Run a Full Linux Desktop in Docker Just Because I Can

214. South Korea deploys hologram police officer to fight crime – and it''s working

215. Bluesky Goes Dark in Mississippi over Age Verification Law

216. Shader Academy: Learn computer graphics by solving challenges

217. Computer Fraud Laws Used to Prosecute Leaking Air Crash Footage to CNN

218. 70% of Japan smartphone games bypass in-app payment to avoid US tech giants

219. Why the Internet Is Turning to Shit

220. What Happened to Egghead Software

221. Coinbase CEO explains why he fired engineers who didn''t try AI immediately

222. Mail Carriers Pause US Deliveries as Tariff Shift Sows Confusion

223. Transcribe music in abc with syntax highlighting

224. Glyn: Type-safe PubSub and Registry for Gleam actors with distributed clustering

225. Show HN: JavaScript-free (X)HTML Includes

226. From M1 MacBook to Arch Linux: A month-long experiment that became permanenent

227. Tesla Hasn''t Filed Crash Reports on Time. Federal Investigators Want to Know Why

228. Will AI Destroy the World Wide Web?

229. Our Response to Mississippi''s Age Assurance Law

230. Top Secret: Automatically filter sensitive information

231. Writing Micro Compiler in OCaml (2014)

232. U.S. government takes 10% stake in Intel

233. DeepSeek v3.1 is not having a moment

234. Ejabberd 25.08 / ProcessOne – Erlang Jabber/XMPP/Matrix Server – Communication

235. Nitro: A tiny but flexible init system and process supervisor

236. Should the web platform adopt XSLT 3.0?

237. Harper Evolves

238. Google Did Not Unilaterally Decide to Kill XSLT

239. Ask HN: How do you find early stage startups to join

240. Media over QUIC (MoQ): Refactoring the Internet''s real-time media stack

241. Scientists just found a protein that reverses brain aging

242. The First Media over QUIC CDN: Cloudflare

243. Essential Reading for Agentic Engineers – August 2025

244. Closing the Nix Gap: From Environments to Packaged Applications for Rust

245. The US Department of Agriculture Bans Support for Renewables

246. Sprinkling Self-Doubt on ChatGPT

247. Leaving Gmail for Mailbox.org

248. XSLT removal will break multiple government and regulatory sites

249. The issue of anti-cheat on Linux

250. Artificial light has essentially lengthened birds'' day

251. Waymo granted first permit to begin testing autonomous vehicles in New York City

252. Launch HN: BlankBio (YC S25) - Making RNA Programmable

253. Show HN: Clyp – Clipboard Manager for Linux

254. Does MHz Still Matter?

255. A Guide to Gen AI / LLM Vibecoding for Expert Programmers

256. Build Log: Macintosh Classic

257. Show HN: Pinch – macOS voice translation for real-time conversations

258. The warning signs the AI bubble is about to burst

259. My development team costs 41.73 a month

260. Vibe Debugging: Enterprises'' Up and Coming Nightmare

261. FFmpeg 8.0

262. Making LLMs Cheaper and Better via Performance-Efficiency Optimized Routing

263. Thunderbird Pro August 2025 Update

264. NIMBYs threaten to sink Project Sail, a 17B datacenter development in Georgia

265. Launch HN: Inconvo (YC S23) – AI agents for customer-facing analytics

266. The Management Skill Nobody Talks About

267. What about using rel"share-url" to expose sharing intents?

268. What the Hell Is Going On?

269. Florida lawmaker floats ban on HOAs amid growing backlash

270. Being confidently wrong is the only thing holding AI back

271. 4chan will refuse to pay daily online safety fines, lawyer tells BBC

272. Go is still not good

273. LabPlot: Free, open source and cross-platform Data Visualization and Analysis

274. Fmllm: 4mb training data, 100mb model, Fibonacci embeddings, near-coherent. WTF?

275. Zuckerberg Squandered His AI Talent. Now He''s Spending Billions to Replace It

276. Scientists No Longer Find X Professionally Useful, and Have Switched to Bluesky

277. Nano Banana

278. The Minecraft code no one has solved (2024) [video]

279. Is moderate drinking healthy? Scientists say the idea is outdated

280. VHS-C: when a lazy idea stumbles towards perfection [video]

281. It''s Not Wrong that " ".length 7

282. 24,000-Watt Scooter Is Going for a 100 MPH Speed Record at Bonneville

283. Io_uring, kTLS and Rust for zero syscall HTTPS server

284. Everything Is Correlated

285. How Not to Buy a SSD

286. My AI Had Fixed the Code Before I Saw It

287. The attr() function in CSS now supports types

288. Control shopping cart wheels with your phone (2021)

289. Google scores six-year Meta cloud deal worth over 10B

290. I benchmarked nine Go SQLite drivers and here are the results

291. Show HN: Changefly ID Anonymized Identity and Age Verification

292. Happy 0b100000th Birthday, Debian

293. GPT-5 underperforms in medical language understanding [pdf]

294. Mirage 2 – Generative World Engine

295. Philosophical Thoughts on Kolmogorov-Arnold Networks (2024)

296. The Onion Brought Back Its Print Edition. The Gamble Is Paying Off

297. Show HN: Splice – CAD for Cable Harnesses and Electrical Assemblies

298. Elegant mathematics bending the future of design

299. CEO pay and stock buybacks have soared at the 100 largest low-wage corporations

300. Beyond the Logo: How We''re Weaving Full Images Inside QR Codes