The best of Hacker News - August 10, 2025

1.
Debian 13 "Trixie"

623 points

2.
Show HN: The current sky at your approximate location, as a CSS gradient

603 points

3.
OpenFreeMap survived 100k requests per second

417 points

4.
My Lethal Trifecta talk at the Bay Area AI Security Meetup

319 points

5.
Quickshell – building blocks for your desktop

281 points

6.
Long-term exposure to outdoor air pollution linked to increased risk of dementia

276 points

7.
How I use Tailscale

228 points

8.
A CT scanner reveals surprises inside the 386 processor's ceramic package

198 points

9.
How I code with AI on a budget/free

186 points

10.
Happy BuyNothing Day

173 points

11.
Abusing Entra OAuth for fun and access to internal Microsoft applications

153 points

12.
Ch.at – a lightweight LLM chat service accessible through HTTP, SSH, DNS and API

127 points

13.
Who got arrested in the raid on the XSS crime forum?

101 points

14.
Don't “let it crash”, let it heal

65 points

15.
A Simple CPU on the Game of Life (2021)

53 points

16.
R0ML's Ratio

50 points

17.
People returned to live in Pompeii's ruins, archaeologists say

45 points

18.
Curious about the training data of OpenAI's new GPT-OSS models? I was too

41 points

19.
How Potatoes Evolved

14 points

20.
Suzhou Imperial Kiln Ruins Park and Museum of Imperial Kiln Brick (2018)

10 points

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