The best of Hacker News - August 19, 2025

1.
Anna's Archive: An Update from the Team

862 points

2.
Show HN: I built an app to block Shorts and Reels

527 points

3.
Obsidian Bases

428 points

4.
FFmpeg Assembly Language Lessons

334 points

5.
Show HN: Whispering – Open-source, local-first dictation you can trust

328 points

6.
Counter-Strike: A billion-dollar game built in a dorm room

295 points

7.
Left to Right Programming

255 points

8.
Electromechanical reshaping, an alternative to laser eye surgery

224 points

9.
OpenMower – An open source lawn mower

156 points

10.
Croatian freediver held breath for 29 minutes

150 points

11.
Walkie-Textie Wireless Communicator

127 points

12.
Tiny-tpu: A minimal tensor processing unit (TPU), inspired by Google's TPU

125 points

13.
Show HN: We started building an AI dev tool but it turned into a Sims-style game

111 points

14.
X-ray scans reveal Buddhist prayers inside tiny Tibetan scrolls

90 points

15.
An IRC-Enabled Lawn Mower (2021)

73 points

16.
Ted Chiang: The Secret Third Thing

58 points

17.
A general Fortran code for solutions of problems in space mechanics [pdf]

32 points

18.
Association for the Preservation of Spiritualist and Occult Periodicals

15 points

19.
Precision mapping tracks woody plant spread across Great Plains grasslands

15 points

20.
dbcrust: The modern database CLI that speaks your language

8 points

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