The best of Hacker News - August 18, 2025

1.
Node.js is able to execute TypeScript files without additional configuration

392 points

2.
Claudia – Desktop companion for Claude code

365 points

3.
Show HN: NextDNS Adds "Bypass Age Verification"

330 points

4.
ArchiveTeam has finished archiving all goo.gl short links

328 points

5.
The Enterprise Experience

305 points

6.
Show HN: OverType – A Markdown WYSIWYG editor that's just a textarea

255 points

7.
Derivatives, Gradients, Jacobians and Hessians

221 points

8.
Show HN: Doxx – Terminal .docx viewer inspired by Glow

132 points

9.
Google admits anti-competitive conduct involving Google Search in Australia

114 points

10.
BBC Micro, ancestor to ARM

107 points

11.
Llama-Scan: Convert PDFs to Text W Local LLMs

102 points

12.
Clojure Async Flow Guide

89 points

13.
MS-DOS development resources

77 points

14.
Modifying other people's software

41 points

15.
A gigantic jet caught on camera: A spritacular moment for NASA astronaut

41 points

16.
NUMA Is the New Network: Reshaping Per-Socket Microservice Placement

40 points

17.
Mangle – a language for deductive database programming

30 points

18.
Fun with Finite State Transducers

25 points

19.
How Keeta processes 11M financial transactions per second with Spanner

10 points

20.
Show HN: ASCII Tree Editor

6 points

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