The best of Hacker News - August 8, 2025

1.
GPT-5

1586 points

2.
Vibechart

706 points

3.
GPT-5: Key characteristics, pricing and system card

501 points

4.
GPT-5 for Developers

382 points

5.
Historical Tech Tree

339 points

6.
Windows XP Professional

332 points

7.
Building Bluesky comments for my blog

296 points

8.
OpenAI's new open-source model is basically Phi-5

236 points

9.
Flipper Zero dark web firmware bypasses rolling code security

234 points

10.
Cursor CLI

226 points

11.
Cursed Knowledge

219 points

12.
GPT-5 leaked system prompt

176 points

13.
Encryption made for police and military radios may be easily cracked

156 points

14.
New executive order puts all grants under political control

122 points

15.
Achieving 10,000x training data reduction with high-fidelity labels

85 points

16.
Writing a storage engine for Postgres: An in-memory table access method (2023)

44 points

17.
Over engineering my homelab so I don't pay cloud providers

33 points

18.
The Paranoid Style in American Politics (1964)

25 points

19.
Ask HN: Has any of the Pivotal Tracker replacement attempts succeeded?

14 points

20.
Lessons from writing a Kubernetes Security book

3 points

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