Fuzzy Hacker Digest

The best of Hacker News - August 6, 2025

1.

Open models by OpenAI

1614 points

2.

Genie 3: A new frontier for world models

1229 points

3.

uBlock Origin Lite now available for Safari

1013 points

4.

Things that helped me get out of the AI 10x engineer imposter syndrome

772 points

5.

Claude Opus 4.1

718 points

6.

Scientific fraud has become an 'industry,' analysis finds

331 points

7.

323 points

8.

Spotting base64 encoded JSON, certificates, and private keys

258 points

9.

Build Your Own Lisp

238 points

10.

Ozempic shows anti-aging effects in trial

218 points

11.

AI is propping up the US economy

198 points

12.

Ask HN: Have you ever regretted open-sourcing something?

169 points

13.

Consider using Zstandard and/or LZ4 instead of Deflate

154 points

14.

Create personal illustrated storybooks in the Gemini app

136 points

15.

Show HN: Kitten TTS – 25MB CPU-Only, Open-Source TTS Model

84 points

16.

Marines now have an official drone-fighting handbook

62 points

17.

I'm Archiving Picocrypt

61 points

18.

50 points

19.

Show HN: Stagewise (YC S25) – Front end coding agent for existing codebases

40 points

20.

The Amaranth hardware description language

31 points