Hacker News

This is a compilation of Hacker News from August 17, 2025, created so that you do not miss the top rated topics. Subscribe to the Telegram channel @YHackerNews.

GDPR meant nothing: chat control ends privacy for the EU [video]
378 points | 299 comments

FFmpeg moves to Forgejo
296 points | 272 comments

Node.js can now execute TypeScript files
396 points | 224 comments

Hyundai wants loniq 5 customers to pay for cybersecurity patch in baffling move
208 points | 155 comments

Why LinkedIn Rewards Mediocrity
433 points | 363 comments

LL3M: Large Language 3D Modelers
410 points | 173 comments


Wan – Open-source alternative to VEO 3
192 points | 31 comments

IQ Tests Results for AI
187 points | 288 comments

Eliminating JavaScript cold starts on AWS Lambda
183 points | 68 comments

Lessons learned from building a sync-engine and reactivity system with SQLite
173 points | 35 comments

Why Nim?
169 points | 181 comments

SuperSight: A graphical enhancement mod for Brøderbund's "Stunts"
159 points | 19 comments

Faster Index I/O with NVMe SSDs
156 points | 25 comments

BBC Micro: The Ancestor to a Device You Are Guaranteed to Own
128 points | 129 comments

Passive Microwave Repeaters
104 points | 16 comments

OpenAI Misled You on RLHF
103 points | 27 comments

An Argument for Increasing TCP's Initial Congestion Window Again
100 points | 38 comments

LLMs tell bad jokes because they avoid surprises
97 points | 115 comments

Microsoft's latest Windows 11 24H2 update breaks SSDs/HDDs, may corrupt data
84 points | 66 comments

Simulator of the life of a 30-year-old in the UK
64 points | 32 comments

VictoriaLogs Practical Ingestion Guide for Message, Time and Streams
46 points | 11 comments

Modern Cars Wreak Havoc on Radar Detectors
40 points | 37 comments

Counting Words at SIMD Speed
36 points | 12 comments

Comparison of Generic Container Libraries for C
34 points | 4 comments

Nuvistor Valves
29 points | 13 comments

Hardening Systemd Services
25 points | 6 comments

Running Wayland Clients as Non-Root Users on Yocto
25 points | 6 comments

Please Keep Humans in the Loop (on GitHub Issues)
24 points | 3 comments

When Fascism Comes Wrapped in the Flag and Carrying a Cross
21 points | 1 comments

In one command use 500 open source tools
18 points | 8 comments

CIA's 'Kryptos' sculpture, unsolved for 35 years, is up for sale
15 points | 5 comments

Good multipliers for congruential pseudorandom number generators
14 points | 3 comments

ResurrectedGod: The Ruby Framework for Process Management
11 points | 2 comments

Clinical genetics and the problem of uncertain significance
10 points | 2 comments

New Cloudflare Pirate Site Blocking May Involve Domains
10 points | 2 comments

GPT-4o quoted deleted GPT-5 content. Model isolation appears brok
9 points | 3 comments

"Mocha Dick," the White Whale of the Pacific
7 points | discuss

Refine your initial prompt instead of course-correcting
6 points | 1 comments