The best of Hacker News - August 24, 2025

1.
What makes Claude Code so damn good

256 points

2.
Line scan camera image processing for train photography

249 points

3.
RFC 9839 and Bad Unicode

227 points

4.
The cost of interrupted work (2023)

149 points

5.
Texas Instruments’ new plants where Apple will make iPhone chips

126 points

6.
How can AI ID a cat?

120 points

7.
AGI is an engineering problem, not a model training problem

115 points

8.
Why was Apache Kafka created?

111 points

9.
Static sites with Python, uv, Caddy, and Docker

110 points

10.
A 2k-year-old sun hat worn by a Roman soldier in Egypt

108 points

11.
Acronis True Image costs performance when not used

99 points

12.
How to build a coding agent

61 points

13.
Physics of badminton's new killer spin serve

53 points

14.
Rolling the dice with CSS random()

43 points

15.
I built a tiny mac app to monitor and manage my development processes

33 points

16.
Evaluating LLMs for my personal use case

30 points

17.
Debdelta

22 points

18.
Taking a look at my old Palm IIIx – by Paul Lefebvre

21 points

19.
Agentic Browser Security: Indirect Prompt Injection in Perplexity Comet

11 points

20.
What if every city had a London Overground?

7 points

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