The best of Hacker News - August 5, 2025

1.
Show HN: I spent 6 years building a ridiculous wooden pixel display

859 points

2.
Qwen-Image: Crafting with native text rendering

372 points

3.
DrawAFish.com Postmortem

294 points

4.
How we made JSON.stringify more than twice as fast

273 points

5.
OpenIPC: Open IP Camera Firmware

233 points

6.
Show HN: I've been building an ERP for manufacturing for the last 3 years

179 points

7.
I tried to replace myself with ChatGPT in my English class

155 points

8.
Indian Sign Painting: A typeface designer's take on the craft

155 points

9.
Ask HN: What trick of the trade took you too long to learn?

130 points

10.
Content-Aware Spaced Repetition

117 points

11.
NASA's Curiosity picks up new skills

116 points

12.
Thingino: Open-Source Firmware for IP Cameras

100 points

13.
3D Line Drawings

70 points

14.
EconTeen – Financial literacy lessons and tools for teens

65 points

15.
Hiroshima (1946)

64 points

16.
PHP 8.5 adds pipe operator

37 points

17.
The history of the Schwartzian Transform (2016)

32 points

18.
Deterministic Simulation Testing in Rust: A Theater of State Machines

29 points

19.
Monitor your security cameras with locally processed AI

26 points

20.
AI Turns Drone Footage into Disaster Response Maps in Minutes

19 points

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