The best of Hacker News - August 22, 2025

1.
AWS CEO says using AI to replace junior staff is 'Dumbest thing I've ever heard'

1233 points

2.
AI tooling must be disclosed for contributions

578 points

3.
DeepSeek-v3.1

390 points

4.
Weaponizing image scaling against production AI systems

342 points

5.
An interactive guide to SVG paths

254 points

6.
How well does the money laundering control system work?

218 points

7.
Beyond sensor data: Foundation models of behavioral data from wearables

204 points

8.
Uv format: Code Formatting Comes to uv (experimentally)

203 points

9.
Crimes with Python's Pattern Matching (2022)

160 points

10.
How does the US use water?

134 points

11.
Control shopping cart wheels with your phone (2021)

117 points

12.
Building AI products in the probabilistic era

113 points

13.
From GPT-4 to GPT-5: Measuring progress through MedHELM [pdf]

83 points

14.
Elegant mathematics bending the future of design

82 points

15.
Benchmarks for Golang SQLite Drivers

49 points

16.
Skill issues – Dialectical Behavior Therapy and its discontents (2024)

41 points

17.
1981 Sony Trinitron KV-3000R: The Most Luxurious Trinitron [video]

40 points

18.
Io_uring, kTLS and Rust for zero syscall HTTPS server

37 points

19.
How Not to Buy a SSD

20 points

20.
Everything Is Correlated

11 points

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