The best of Hacker News - August 14, 2025

1.
FFmpeg 8.0 adds Whisper support

857 points

2.
Nginx introduces native support for ACME protocol

567 points

3.
PYX: The next step in Python packaging

518 points

4.
OCaml as my primary language

267 points

5.
Facial recognition vans to be rolled out across police forces in England

194 points

6.
Kodak says it might have to cease operations

193 points

7.
PCIe 8.0 announced by the PCI-Sig will double throughput again

137 points

8.
NIST Finalizes 'Lightweight Cryptography' Standard to Protect Small Devices

115 points

9.
Launch HN: Golpo (YC S25) – AI-generated explainer videos

80 points

10.
Open Banking and Payments Competition

66 points

11.
ForgeFed: ActivityPub-based forge federation protocol

45 points

12.
Zenobia Pay – A mission to build an alternative to high-fee card networks

42 points

13.
What Medieval People Got Right About Learning (2019)

41 points

14.
Show HN: Yet another memory system for LLMs

41 points

15.
Print, a one-line BASIC program

26 points

16.
Show HN: Real-time privacy protection for smart glasses

25 points

17.
My AI-driven identity crisis

25 points

18.
Index 1.6B Keys with Automata and Rust (2015)

24 points

19.
Nyxt: The Emacs-like web browser

17 points

20.
Show HN: XR2000: A science fiction programming challenge

7 points

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