The best of Hacker News - August 2, 2025

1.
Show HN: Draw a fish and watch it swim with the others

823 points

2.
At 17, Hannah Cairo solved a major math mystery

264 points

3.
Cerebras Code

252 points

4.
I couldn't submit a PR, so I got hired and fixed it myself

214 points

5.
Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2025)

171 points

6.
Anthropic revokes OpenAI's access to Claude

168 points

7.
Coffeematic PC – A coffee maker computer that pumps hot coffee to the CPU

150 points

8.
Weather Model based on ADS-B

122 points

9.
Does the Bitter Lesson Have Limits?

114 points

10.
Native Sparse Attention

101 points

11.
Ethersync: Peer-to-peer collaborative editing of local text files

91 points

12.
Launch HN: Societies.io (YC W25) – AI simulations of your target audience

86 points

13.
Researchers map where solar energy delivers the biggest climate payoff

74 points

14.
Hardening mode for the compiler

62 points

15.
The Rickover Corpus: A digital archive of Admiral Rickover's speeches and memos

42 points

16.
JavaScript retro sound effects generator

37 points

17.
Robert Wilson has died

34 points

18.
The tradeoff between human and AI context

14 points

19.
Show HN: Print the daily weather forecast on a thermal receipt printer

9 points

20.
Yearly Organiser

4 points

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