Hacker News on Monday, 4 August 2025

Stories posted this day, by points. Rank history starts with the October 2026 rebuild.

Screenshot of blog.cloudflare.com: Perplexity is using stealth, undeclared crawlers to evade no-crawl directives

Perplexity is using stealth, undeclared crawlers to evade no-crawl directives (blog.cloudflare.com)

1183 points by rrampage 1 year ago | 652 comments

Cloudflare blog post reporting that Perplexity uses stealth, undeclared crawlers to evade websites' robots.txt and no-crawl directives.

perplexity cloudflare web-crawlers robots-txt

Screenshot of benholmen.com: Show HN: I spent 6 years building a ridiculous wooden pixel display

Show HN: I spent 6 years building a ridiculous wooden pixel display (benholmen.com)

1056 points by benholmen 1 year ago | 135 comments

Blog post by Ben Holmen describing his six-year project building Kilopixel, a 1000-pixel wooden mechanical display that anyone online can draw on.

kilopixel pixel-display woodworking maker

Screenshot of fortune.com: Job-seekers are dodging AI interviewers

Job-seekers are dodging AI interviewers (fortune.com)

539 points by robtherobber 1 year ago | 786 comments

Fortune article reporting that job candidates are avoiding AI-conducted interviews, with some saying they'd rather stay unemployed than talk to an AI interviewer.

ai-interviews hiring job-seekers recruiting

Screenshot of qwenlm.github.io: Qwen-Image: Crafting with native text rendering

Qwen-Image: Crafting with native text rendering (qwenlm.github.io)

515 points by meetpateltech 1 year ago | 145 comments

Qwen Team blog post announcing Qwen-Image, an image generation foundation model notable for native text rendering, including Chinese text.

qwen-image qwen alibaba image-generation

Screenshot of pcgamer.com: Mastercard deflects blame for NSFW games being taken down

Mastercard deflects blame for NSFW games being taken down (pcgamer.com)

491 points by croes 1 year ago | 479 comments

PC Gamer article on Mastercard denying blame for NSFW game removals while Valve says payment processors cited a Mastercard brand-damage rule.

mastercard valve steam payment-processors

Screenshot of electrek.co: Tesla withheld data, lied, misdirected police to avoid blame in Autopilot crash

Tesla withheld data, lied, misdirected police to avoid blame in Autopilot crash (electrek.co)

454 points by Hamuko 1 year ago | 219 comments

Electrek article reporting that Tesla withheld data, lied, and misdirected police and plaintiffs to avoid blame in a fatal Autopilot crash lawsuit.

tesla autopilot self-driving litigation

Screenshot of v8.dev: How we made JSON.stringify more than twice as fast

How we made JSON.stringify more than twice as fast (v8.dev)

424 points by emschwartz 1 year ago | 146 comments

V8 blog post explaining the engineering optimizations, including a side-effect-free fast path, that made JSON.stringify more than twice as fast.

v8 javascript json-stringify performance

Screenshot of dustri.org: Objects should shut up

Objects should shut up (dustri.org)

413 points by gm678 1 year ago | 306 comments

Blog post ranting that devices like cars emit intrusive, non-configurable beeps and alerts, arguing objects should stay quiet unless something critical happens.

notifications user-experience product-design cars