The best of Hacker News - August 25, 2025

1.
Burner Phone 101

315 points

2.
Ghrc.io appears to be malicious

288 points

3.
Making games in Go: 3 months without LLMs vs. 3 days with LLMs

271 points

4.
Everything I know about good API design

235 points

5.
Is 4chan the perfect Pirate Bay poster child to justify wider UK site-blocking?

208 points

6.
We put a coding agent in a while loop

177 points

7.
Show HN: Clearcam – Add AI object detection to your IP CCTV cameras

171 points

8.
Trees on city streets cope with drought by drinking from leaky pipes

162 points

9.
Cloudflare incident on August 21, 2025

156 points

10.
The two versions of Parquet

150 points

11.
Y Combinator files brief supporting Epic Games, says store fees stifle startups

135 points

12.
Show HN: Sping – An HTTP/TCP latency tool that's easy on the eye

91 points

13.
Busy beaver hunters reach numbers that overwhelm ordinary math

82 points

14.
A Brilliant and Nearby One-off Fast Radio Burst Localized to 13 pc Precision

58 points

15.
Bro, ban me at the IP level if you don't like me

54 points

16.
Git-Annex

27 points

17.
How many paths of length K are there between A and B? (2021)

25 points

18.
The Unix-Haters Handbook (1994) [pdf]

20 points

19.
From Hackathon to YC

18 points

20.
Why is choral music harder to appreciate?

18 points

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