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August 2025 Archive
1981.
Should you take creatine? (economist.com)
36 points by Anon84 1 week ago | 67 comments
1982.
Amtrak NextGen Acela Debuts on August 28 (media.amtrak.com)
36 points by reimbar 2 weeks ago | 65 comments
1983.
SpaceX Gets Billions from the Government, Gives Little to Nothing Back in Taxes (nytimes.com)
36 points by pretext 1 week ago | 21 comments
1984.
Global Warming Has Accelerated: Are the United Nations and the Public Informed? (tandfonline.com)
36 points by icw_nru 1 week ago | 21 comments
1985.
Nuvistor Valves (r-type.org)
36 points by userbinator 1 week ago | 20 comments
1986.
How and Why to Ditch GitHub (taggart-tech.com)
36 points by rasso 3 weeks ago | 19 comments
1987.
Caligra Workbench (caligra.com)
36 points by phanimahesh 3 weeks ago | 18 comments
1988.
OpenAI Burns the Boats (ethanding.substack.com)
36 points by whoami_nr 2 weeks ago | 16 comments
1989.
GPT-5 System Prompt? (github.com)
36 points by georgehill 2 weeks ago | 15 comments
1990.
Show HN: Modelence – Supabase for MongoDB (github.com)
36 points by artahian 1 week ago | 14 comments
1991.
Show HN: Evaluating LLMs on creative writing via reader usage, not benchmarks (narrator.sh)
36 points by Jetwu 1 week ago | 12 comments
1992.
ChatGPT Will Apologize for Anything (aiweirdness.com)
36 points by xnx 2 weeks ago | 10 comments
1993.
German police expands use of Palantir surveillance software (dw.com)
36 points by perihelions 3 weeks ago | 9 comments
1994.
The "cracked coder" fetish: Epistemic arrogance in Silicon Valley (maxread.substack.com)
36 points by scruple 3 weeks ago | 8 comments
1995.
HTTP Is Not Simple (daniel.haxx.se)
36 points by thunderbong 2 weeks ago | 7 comments
1996.
What is the go proxy even doing? (flak.tedunangst.com)
36 points by ingve 1 week ago | 7 comments
1997.
Sqlite3 will also read and write ZIP archives (mastodon.social)
36 points by mtmail 2 weeks ago | 5 comments
1998.
Solar panels that fit on your balcony or deck are gaining traction in the US (apnews.com)
36 points by toomuchtodo 1 week ago | 5 comments
1999.
Tesla drivers can pursue class action over self-driving claims, judge rules (reuters.com)
36 points by TheAlchemist 1 week ago | 4 comments
2000.
A generic non-invasive neuromotor interface for human-computer interaction (nature.com)
36 points by msephton 3 weeks ago | 3 comments
2001.
NSF suspends nearly 300 UCLA grants (Terence Tao, Plasma Science Facility, etc.) (grant-witness.us)
36 points by dargscisyhp 3 weeks ago | 1 comments
2002.
AI, layoffs, productivity and The Klarna Effect (garymarcus.substack.com)
36 points by zdw 4 days ago | 1 comments
2003.
Hire People Who Care (2020) (alexw.substack.com)
35 points by suchintan 2 weeks ago | 76 comments
2004.
Show HN: Wordle-style game for Fermi questions (fermiquestions.org)
35 points by danielfetz 3 weeks ago | 36 comments
2005.
Which colors are primary? (jamesgurney.substack.com)
35 points by Michelangelo11 3 weeks ago | 36 comments
2006.
Family Farm Wins Historic Case After Feds Violate Constitution and Ruin Business (agweb.com)
35 points by storf45 1 week ago | 29 comments
2007.
Grok Has Been Suspended (x.com)
35 points by guluarte 2 weeks ago | 27 comments
2008.
Show HN: MCP Security Suite (github.com)
35 points by jodoking 1 week ago | 26 comments
2009.
We need a new theory of democracy – because this version has failed (salon.com)
35 points by hkhn 3 days ago | 23 comments
2010.
Thailand Is Using Long Range Acoustic Devices (LRAD) (twitter.com)
35 points by laikerkh 2 days ago | 23 comments