The best of Hacker News - August 26, 2025

1.
Google will allow only apps from verified developers to be installed on Android

1352 points

2.
Show HN: Base, an SQLite database editor for macOS

568 points

3.
A visual introduction to big O notation

421 points

4.
Google's Liquid Cooling

297 points

5.
macOS 26 Tahoe's Dead Canary Utility App Icons

219 points

6.
DeepWiki: Understand Any Codebase

136 points

7.
The Annotated Transformer (2022)

121 points

8.
How RubyGems.org protects OSS infrastructure

102 points

9.
Launch HN: April (YC S25) – Voice AI to manage your email and calendar

84 points

10.
Fenster: Most minimal cross-platform GUI library

81 points

11.
Turning a Decommissioned iPhone into a UniFi Protect Camera

77 points

12.
WiFi-3D-Fusion – Real-time 3D motion sensing with Wi-Fi

75 points

13.
Reverse Engineering All the Raspberry Pis

61 points

14.
The Limits of NTP Accuracy on Linux

61 points

15.
Climbing catfish filmed scaling waterfalls

50 points

16.
macOS dotfiles should not go in –/Library/Application Support

44 points

17.
Capture Checking in Scala

26 points

18.
When a Bug Saved the Company

25 points

19.
Neural Nets vs. Cellular Automata

22 points

20.
Multi-Path TCP: revolutionizing connectivity, one path at a time

8 points

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