The best of Hacker News - August 16, 2025

1.
Occult books digitized and put online by Amsterdam’s Ritman Library

363 points

2.
Show HN: Edka – Kubernetes clusters on your own Hetzner account

295 points

3.
Do Things That Don't Scale (2013)

293 points

4.
The future of large files in Git is Git

289 points

5.
I accidentally became PureGym’s unofficial Apple Wallet developer

247 points

6.
ADHD drug treatment and risk of negative events and outcomes

210 points

7.
The electric fence stopped working years ago

190 points

8.
AI is different

166 points

9.
OpenBSD is so fast, I had to modify the program slightly to measure itself

149 points

10.
ARM adds neural accelerators to GPUs

147 points

11.
Recto – A Truly 2D Language

102 points

12.
Launch HN: Embedder (YC S25) – Claude code for embedded software

84 points

13.
PuTTY has a new website

79 points

14.
Show HN: Prime Number Grid Visualizer

78 points

15.
Best Practices for Building Agentic AI Systems

71 points

16.
TextKit 2 – The Promised Land

63 points

17.
A privacy VPN you can verify

61 points

18.
Porting Gigabyte MZ33-AR1 Server Board with AMD Turin CPU to Coreboot

59 points

19.
Model intelligence is no longer the constraint for automation

47 points

20.
Deep-Sea Desalination Pulls Fresh Water from the Depths

20 points

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