Hacker News Weekly

Weekly Hacker News for the 7 days ending 2025-08-30

The 20 highest-rated articles on Hacker News in the 7 days ending August 30, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Weekly are:

• A visual introduction to big O notation
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• A German ISP changed their DNS to block my website
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• Comet AI browser can get prompt injected from any site, drain your bank account
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• Ban me at the IP level if you don't like me
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• What are OKLCH colors?
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• Show HN: Base, an SQLite database editor for macOS
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• Google will allow only apps from verified developers to be installed on Android
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• Gemini 2.5 Flash Image
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• We regret but have to temporary suspend the shipments to USA
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• Michigan Supreme Court: Unrestricted phone searches violate Fourth Amendment
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• Claude for Chrome
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• Dissecting the Apple M1 GPU, the end
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• Monodraw
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• Google has eliminated 35% of managers overseeing small teams in past year
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• Altered states of consciousness induced by breathwork accompanied by music
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• Ask HN: The government of my country blocked VPN access. What should I use?
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• Tesla said it didn't have key data in a fatal crash, then a hacker found it
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• Updates to Consumer Terms and Privacy Policy
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• Do the simplest thing that could possibly work
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• Cognitive load is what matters
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Weekly Hacker News for the 7 days ending 2025-08-23

The 20 highest-rated articles on Hacker News in the 7 days ending August 23, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Weekly are:

• Lazy-brush – smooth drawing with mouse or finger
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• Show HN: I built an app to block Shorts and Reels
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• Web apps in a single, portable, self-updating, vanilla HTML file
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• Anna's Archive: An Update from the Team
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• Show HN: Whispering – Open-source, local-first dictation you can trust
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• Obsidian Bases
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• OpenMower – An open source lawn mower
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• How we exploited CodeRabbit: From simple PR to RCE and write access on 1M repos
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• AGENTS.md – Open format for guiding coding agents
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• Copilot broke audit logs, but Microsoft won't tell customers
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• Show HN: I was curious about spherical helix, ended up making this visualization
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• Why are anime catgirls blocking my access to the Linux kernel?
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• Zedless: Zed fork focused on privacy and being local-first
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• Mark Zuckerberg freezes AI hiring amid bubble fears
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• AWS CEO says using AI to replace junior staff is 'Dumbest thing I've ever heard'
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• AI tooling must be disclosed for contributions
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• DeepSeek-v3.1
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• FFmpeg 8.0
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• Waymo granted permit to begin testing in New York City
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• U.S. government takes 10% stake in Intel
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Weekly Hacker News for the 7 days ending 2025-08-16

The 20 highest-rated articles on Hacker News in the 7 days ending August 16, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Weekly are:

• Show HN: The current sky at your approximate location, as a CSS gradient
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• Debian 13 “Trixie”
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• How I code with AI on a budget/free
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• Fight Chat Control
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• I tried every todo app and ended up with a .txt file
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• Claude Code is all you need
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• GitHub is no longer independent at Microsoft after CEO resignation
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• Wikipedia loses challenge against Online Safety Act
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• Claude Sonnet 4 now supports 1M tokens of context
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• VC-backed company just killed my EU trademark for a small OSS project
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• Claude says “You're absolutely right!” about everything
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• FFmpeg 8.0 adds Whisper support
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• Nginx introduces native support for ACME protocol
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• PYX: The next step in Python packaging
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• Why LLMs can't really build software
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• Gemma 3 270M: Compact model for hyper-efficient AI
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• Streaming services are driving viewers back to piracy
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• Steve Wozniak: Life to me was never about accomplishment, but about happiness
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• Open hardware desktop 3D printing is dead?
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• Good system design
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Weekly Hacker News for the 7 days ending 2025-08-09

The 20 highest-rated articles on Hacker News in the 7 days ending August 09, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Weekly are:

• Helsinki records zero traffic deaths for full year
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• Telo MT1
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• If you're remote, ramble
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• Modern Node.js Patterns
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• Perplexity is using stealth, undeclared crawlers to evade no-crawl directives
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• Show HN: I spent 6 years building a ridiculous wooden pixel display
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• uBlock Origin Lite now available for Safari
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• Genie 3: A new frontier for world models
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• Things that helped me get out of the AI 10x engineer imposter syndrome
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• Claude Opus 4.1
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• Open models by OpenAI
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• Show HN: Kitten TTS – 25MB CPU-Only, Open-Source TTS Model
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• I gave the AI arms and legs then it rejected me
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• Claude Code IDE integration for Emacs
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• Emailing a one-time code is worse than passwords
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• GPT-5
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• GPT-5: Key characteristics, pricing and system card
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• Vibechart
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• Ultrathin business card runs a fluid simulation
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• I want everything local – Building my offline AI workspace
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Weekly Hacker News for the 7 days ending 2025-08-02

The 20 highest-rated articles on Hacker News in the 7 days ending August 02, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Weekly are:

• Rust running on every GPU
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• Dumb Pipe
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• Tom Lehrer has died
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• Performance and telemetry analysis of Trae IDE, ByteDance's VSCode fork
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• EU age verification app to ban any Android system not licensed by Google
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• Enough AI copilots, we need AI HUDs
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• VPN use surges in UK as new online safety rules kick in
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• Face it: you're a crazy person
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• Copyparty – Turn almost any device into a file server
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• Claude Code weekly rate limits
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• ‘I witnessed war crimes’ in Gaza – former worker at GHF aid site [video]
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• Show HN: Use Their ID – Use your local UK MP’s ID for the Online Safety Act
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• Show HN: Draw a fish and watch it swim with the others
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• Study mode
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• M8.7 earthquake in Western Pacific, tsunami warning issued
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• ‘No Other Land’ consultant Awdah Hathaleen killed by Israeli settler
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• Our $100M Series B
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• Fast
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• Vibe code is legacy code
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• Slow
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