The best of Hacker News - August 12, 2025

1.
GitHub is no longer independent at Microsoft after CEO resignation

1076 points

2.
I tried every todo app and ended up with a .txt file

923 points

3.
Wikipedia loses challenge against Online Safety Act

705 points

4.
Claude Code is all you need

568 points

5.
OpenSSH Post-Quantum Cryptography

381 points

6.
Neki – sharded Postgres by the team behind Vitess

179 points

7.
GLM-4.5: Agentic, Reasoning, and Coding (ARC) Foundation Models [pdf]

157 points

8.
Ollama and gguf

119 points

9.
Japan's largest paper, Yomiuri Shimbun, sues Perplexity for copyright violations

104 points

10.
Show HN: I built an offline, open‑source desktop Pixel Art Editor in Python

99 points

11.
Show HN: Play Pokémon to unlock your Wayland session

88 points

12.
How to teach your kids to play poker: Start with one card

63 points

13.
Chris Simpkins, creator of Hack font, has died

56 points

14.
Launch HN: Halluminate (YC S25) – Simulating the internet to train computer use

54 points

15.
All known 49-year-old Apple-1 computer

49 points

16.
What does it mean to be thirsty?

44 points

17.
FreeBSD Scheduling on Hybrid CPUs

42 points

18.
Weathering Software Winter

31 points

19.
StarDict sends X11 clipboard to remote servers

27 points

20.
The Article in the Most Languages

19 points

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