The best of Hacker News - August 23, 2025

1.
FFmpeg 8.0

770 points

2.
The first Media over QUIC CDN: Cloudflare

192 points

3.
Nitro: A tiny but flexible init system and process supervisor

169 points

4.
Computer fraud laws used to prosecute leaking air crash footage to CNN

143 points

5.
Bluesky Goes Dark in Mississippi over Age Verification Law

116 points

6.
Show HN: JavaScript-free (X)HTML Includes

109 points

7.
Popular Japanese smartphone games have introduced external payment systems

105 points

8.
Shader Academy: Learn computer graphics by solving challenges

81 points

9.
Top Secret: Automatically filter sensitive information

80 points

10.
I Run a Full Linux Desktop in Docker Just Because I Can

68 points

11.
Google says it dropped the energy cost of AI queries by 33x in one year

65 points

12.
Japan city drafts ordinance to cap smartphone use at 2 hours per day

58 points

13.
Developer sentenced to prison for activating “kill switch” to avenge his firing

43 points

14.
Glyn: Type-safe PubSub and Registry for Gleam actors with distributed clustering

38 points

15.
My tips for using LLM agents to create software

29 points

16.
A visual history of Visual C++ (2017)

25 points

17.
Why is this hard?

25 points

18.
Show HN: Creao – Vibe coding product for founders

21 points

19.
The theory and practice of selling the Aga cooker (1935) [pdf]

14 points

20.
Now, Together

5 points

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