The best of Hacker News - August 15, 2025

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Streaming services are driving viewers back to piracy

732 points

2.
Steve Wozniak: Life to me was never about accomplishment, but about happiness

620 points

3.
Gemma 3 270M: Compact model for hyper-efficient AI

603 points

4.
Why LLMs can't really build software

463 points

5.
Blood oxygen monitoring returning to Apple Watch in the US

376 points

6.
I made a real-time C/C++/Rust build visualizer

253 points

7.
We rewrote the Ghostty GTK application

250 points

8.
Blurry rendering of games on Mac

246 points

9.
Show HN: I built a free alternative to Adobe Acrobat PDF viewer

220 points

10.
Show HN: OWhisper – Ollama for realtime speech-to-text

161 points

11.
Org-social is a decentralized social network that runs on Org Mode

134 points

12.
The secret code behind the CIA's Kryptos puzzle is up for sale

61 points

13.
Citybound: City building game, microscopic models to vividly simulate organism

58 points

14.
Time to End Roundtripping by Big Pharma

52 points

15.
South Park and the greatest TV contract clause

34 points

16.
Making reliable distributed systems in the presence of software errors (2003) [pdf]

31 points

17.
Teenage Engineering's free computer case

29 points

18.
Progress towards universal Copy/Paste shortcuts on Linux

19 points

19.
Show HN: Evaluating LLMs on creative writing via reader usage, not benchmarks

16 points

20.
The Kuzma Self-Playing Guitar System

14 points

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