The best of Hacker News - August 17, 2025

1.
Dicing an Onion, the Mathematically Optimal Way

241 points

2.
OpenAI Progress

237 points

3.
Pfeilstorch

234 points

4.
FFmpeg moves to Forgejo

215 points

5.
GDPR meant nothing: chat control ends privacy for the EU [video]

176 points

6.
The Raft Consensus Algorithm (2015)

118 points

7.
Dyna – Logic Programming for Machine Learning

105 points

8.
Dev Compass – Programming Philosophy Quiz

102 points

9.
Visualising how close random GUIDs come to being the same

93 points

10.
Hyundai wants loniq 5 customers to pay for cybersecurity patch in baffling move

83 points

11.
Tversky Neural Networks

82 points

12.
Living with Williams Syndrome, the 'opposite of autism' (2014)

70 points

13.
That 16B password story (a.k.a. "data troll")

69 points

14.
A single lock of hair could rewrite what we know about Inca record-keeping

65 points

15.
Show HN: unsafehttp – tiny web server from scratch in C, running on an orange pi

40 points

16.
An Argument for Increasing TCP's Initial Congestion Window Again

40 points

17.
Modern Cars Wreak Havoc on Radar Detectors

35 points

18.
For Iris Murdoch, morality is about love, not duties and rules

31 points

19.
In one command use 500 open source tools

17 points

20.
Counting Words at SIMD Speed

6 points

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