The best of Hacker News - August 4, 2025

1.
If you're remote, ramble

755 points

2.
Modern Node.js Patterns

483 points

3.
Persona vectors: Monitoring and controlling character traits in language models

321 points

4.
Writing a good design document

262 points

5.
2,500-year-old Siberian 'ice mummy' had intricate tattoos, imaging reveals

203 points

6.
So you want to parse a PDF?

147 points

7.
Welcome to url.town, population 465

130 points

8.
Typed languages are better suited for vibecoding

119 points

9.
Life, Work, Death and the Peasant: Family Formation

104 points

10.
Poorest US workers hit hardest by slowing wage growth

85 points

11.
How to grow almost anything

82 points

12.
Everything to know about UniFi OS Server

53 points

13.
Names are not type safety (2020)

39 points

14.
Why doctors hate their computers (2018)

35 points

15.
How Python grew from a language to a community

32 points

16.
Human speech may have a universal transmission rate (2019)

30 points

17.
Learnable Programming (2012)

25 points

18.
A parser for TypeScript types, written in TypeScript types

22 points

19.
Efficiently Generating a Number in a Range (2018)

13 points

20.
A dedicated skin-to-brain circuit for cool sensation in mice

6 points

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