The best of Hacker News - August 1, 2025

1.
Slow

655 points

2.
MacBook Pro Insomnia

357 points

3.
Many countries that said no to ChatControl in 2024 are now undecided

342 points

4.
The anti-abundance critique on housing is wrong

281 points

5.
Ubiquiti launches UniFi OS Server for self-hosting

260 points

6.
Releasing weights for FLUX.1 Krea

238 points

7.
QUIC for the kernel

222 points

8.
Gemini Embedding: Powering RAG and context engineering

197 points

9.
Show HN: I made a website that makes you cry

153 points

10.
Secure boot certificate rollover is real but probably won't hurt you

114 points

11.
Show HN: Mcp-use – Connect any LLM to any MCP

107 points

12.
Show HN: AgentMail – Email infra for AI agents

68 points

13.
Launch HN: Gecko Security (YC F24) – AI That Finds Vulnerabilities in Code

55 points

14.
Replacing cron jobs with a centralized task scheduler

49 points

15.
Mountain of Ink

42 points

16.
LLM leaderboard – Comparing models from OpenAI, Google, DeepSeek and others

29 points

17.
Show HN: KubeForge – A GUI for Kubernetes YAMLs

16 points

18.
Telephone colophon: Or, how I overengineered my call audio (2020)

15 points

19.
Scientists and engineers craft radio telescope bound for the moon

12 points

20.
Every satellite orbiting earth and who owns them (2023)

7 points

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