Hacker News on Sunday, 17 August 2025

Claudia – Desktop companion for Claude code(claudiacode.com)

468 points by zerealshadowban 1 year ago | 214 comments

Landing page for Claudia, an open-source desktop GUI for Claude Code that manages sessions, custom agents, and usage tracking.

Show HN: NextDNS Adds "Bypass Age Verification"

464 points by nextdns 1 year ago | 157 comments

Show HN post announcing a NextDNS feature that uses DNS tricks to bypass website age verification flows requiring ID or selfie uploads.

The Enterprise Experience(churchofturing.github.io)

458 points by Improvement 1 year ago | 130 comments

A personal blog post by a software developer reflecting snarkily on one year working at a large enterprise after a decade in startups and SMEs.

D4D4(nmichaels.org)

440 points by csense 1 year ago | 52 comments

A blog post investigating mysterious unreachable d4d4 instructions found in disassembled ARM code, which objdump decodes as a relative branch.

Show HN: OverType – A Markdown WYSIWYG editor that's just a textarea

411 points by panphora 1 year ago | 93 comments

Show HN post introducing OverType, a 45KB markdown editor that overlays a transparent textarea on a rendered preview to look like rich text editing.

LL3M: Large Language 3D Modelers(threedle.github.io)

410 points by simonpure 1 year ago | 173 comments

Project page for LL3M, a University of Chicago research system where large language models write Blender code to create and iteratively edit 3D models.

Node.js is able to execute TypeScript files without additional configuration(nodejs.org)

396 points by steren 1 year ago | 224 comments

Node.js v22.18.0 LTS release notes, highlighting that TypeScript type stripping is now enabled by default.

ArchiveTeam has finished archiving all goo.gl short links(tracker.archiveteam.org)

387 points by pentagrama 1 year ago | 92 comments

ArchiveTeam's tracker dashboard for its distributed project archiving Google's goo.gl short links, with a prompt to run an ArchiveTeam Warrior.

Electricity prices are climbing more than twice as fast as inflation(npr.org)

267 points by geox 1 year ago | 278 comments

Derivatives, Gradients, Jacobians and Hessians(blog.demofox.org)

260 points by ibobev 1 year ago | 65 comments

Show HN: Doxx – Terminal .docx viewer inspired by Glow(github.com)

227 points by w108bmg 1 year ago | 60 comments

Llama-Scan: Convert PDFs to Text W Local LLMs(github.com)

207 points by nawazgafar 1 year ago | 78 comments

Clojure Async Flow Guide(clojure.github.io)

190 points by simonpure 1 year ago | 74 comments

HN Search isn't ingesting new data since Friday(github.com)

189 points by busymom0 1 year ago | 38 comments

Wan – Open-source alternative to VEO 3(github.com)

188 points by modinfo 1 year ago | 31 comments

IQ tests results for AI(trackingai.org)

185 points by stared 1 year ago | 287 comments

Lessons learned from building a sync-engine and reactivity system with SQLite(finkelstein.fr)

173 points by engmarketer 1 year ago | 35 comments

Why Nim?(undefined.pyfy.ch)

168 points by TheWiggles 1 year ago | 179 comments

SK hynix dethrones Samsung as world’s top DRAM maker(koreajoongangdaily.joins.com)

161 points by ksec 1 year ago | 67 comments

Epson MX-80 Fonts(mw.rat.bz)

160 points by m_walden 1 year ago | 58 comments

Faster Index I/O with NVMe SSDs(marginalia.nu)

156 points by ingve 1 year ago | 25 comments

Who does your assistant serve?(xeiaso.net)

139 points by todsacerdoti 1 year ago | 80 comments

BBC Micro, ancestor to ARM(retrogamecoders.com)

128 points by ingve 1 year ago | 130 comments

MS-DOS development resources(github.com)

104 points by mariuz 1 year ago | 32 comments

I Prefer RST to Markdown (2024)(buttondown.com)

92 points by shlomo_z 1 year ago | 83 comments

The decline of high-tech manufacturing in the United States(blog.waldrn.com)

90 points by giuliomagnifico 1 year ago | 119 comments

AI vs. Professional Authors Results(mark---lawrence.blogspot.com)

84 points by biffles 1 year ago | 62 comments

The Lives and Loves of James Baldwin(newyorker.com)

82 points by Caiero 1 year ago | 12 comments

Mangle – a language for deductive database programming(github.com)

81 points by simonpure 1 year ago | 14 comments

Here be dragons: Preventing static damage, latchup, and metastability in the 386(righto.com)

79 points by todsacerdoti 1 year ago | 46 comments

Show HN: Fallinorg - Offline Mac app that organizes files by meaning(fallinorg.com)

76 points by bobnarizes 1 year ago | 43 comments

Visualizing GPT-OSS-20B embeddings(melonmars.github.io)

75 points by melonmars 1 year ago | 22 comments

You Should Add Debug Views to Your DB(chrispenner.ca)

64 points by ezekg 1 year ago | 24 comments

The Rise and Fall of Music Ringtones: A Statistical Analysis(statsignificant.com)

51 points by gmays 1 year ago | 72 comments

Mirror Ball Emoji Proposal (2018) [pdf](unicode.org)

47 points by michalc 1 year ago | 35 comments

Sixteen bottles of wine riddle(chriskw.xyz)

43 points by chriskw 1 year ago | 22 comments

Linear scan register allocation on SSA(bernsteinbear.com)

32 points by surprisetalk 1 year ago | 3 comments

Understanding Moravec's Paradox(hexhowells.com)

17 points by hexhowells 1 year ago | 2 comments

The rise and fall of the Seagaia Ocean Dome wave pool(surfertoday.com)

15 points by herbertl 1 year ago | 1 comments

Parallel Reduce and Scan on the GPU(cachemiss.xyz)

10 points by coffeeaddict1 1 year ago | 0 comments

Still want to be a London cabbie?(economist.com)

6 points by helsinkiandrew 1 year ago | 2 comments