The best of Hacker News - August 11, 2025

1.
Fight Chat Control

928 points

2.
Try and

488 points

3.
GPT-OSS vs. Qwen3 and a detailed look how things evolved since GPT-2

359 points

4.
Show HN: Engineering.fyi – Search across tech engineering blogs in one place

332 points

5.
1910: The year the modern world lost its mind

242 points

6.
Show HN: Bolt – A super-fast, statically-typed scripting language written in C

189 points

7.
One Million Screenshots

166 points

8.
Diffusion language models are super data learners

162 points

9.
Vanishing from Hyundai’s data network

148 points

10.
Creating the Longest Possible Ski Jump in “The Games: Winter Challenge”

132 points

11.
Compiling a Lisp: Lambda lifting

87 points

12.
PHP compile time generics: yay or nay?

59 points

13.
Digital Foundry leaves IGN, now independent [video]

51 points

14.
The enduring puzzle of static electricity

33 points

15.
Show HN: A Sinclair ZX81 retro web assembler+simulator

26 points

16.
Lists and Lists: Basics of Lisp through interactive fiction (1996)

23 points

17.
TCP Client Self-Connect (2013)

19 points

18.
Going Faster Than Memcpy

16 points

19.
Easily run Windows software on Linux with Bottles

13 points

20.
Graham: Synchronizing Clocks by Leveraging Local Clock Properties (2022) [pdf]

7 points

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