HN Buddy - August 17, 2025

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Sunny days are warm: why LinkedIn rewards mediocrity (www.elliotcsmith.com)

452 points by smitec | 378 comments

GDPR meant nothing: chat control ends privacy for the EU [video] (www.youtube.com)

428 points by givemeethekeys | 351 comments

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

410 points by simonpure | 173 comments

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

402 points by steren | 225 comments

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

396 points by zerealshadowban | 193 comments

Show HN: NextDNS Adds "Bypass Age Verification" (news.ycombinator.com)

383 points by nextdns | 117 comments

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

355 points by pentagrama | 83 comments

The Enterprise Experience (churchofturing.github.io)

349 points by Improvement | 102 comments

Show HN: OverType – A Markdown WYSIWYG editor that's just a textarea (news.ycombinator.com)

297 points by panphora | 78 comments

When did AI take over Hacker News? (zachperk.com)

285 points by zachperkel | 179 comments

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

270 points by geox | 284 comments

Hyundai wants loniq 5 customers to pay for cybersecurity patch in baffling move (www.neowin.net)

245 points by duxup | 203 comments

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

238 points by ibobev | 55 comments

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

202 points by modinfo | 34 comments

IQ tests results for AI (www.trackingai.org)

198 points by stared | 304 comments

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

191 points by busymom0 | 39 comments

AI doesn't lighten the burden of mastery (playtechnique.io)

184 points by gwynforthewyn | 63 comments

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

184 points by engmarketer | 36 comments

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

167 points by w108bmg | 42 comments

Review of Anti-Aging Drugs (scienceblog.com)

160 points by XzetaU8 | 125 comments

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

157 points by ingve | 25 comments

Who does your assistant serve? (xeiaso.net)

153 points by todsacerdoti | 86 comments

Why Nim? (undefined.pyfy.ch)

143 points by TheWiggles | 152 comments

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

138 points by nawazgafar | 61 comments

Microsoft's latest Windows 11 24H2 update breaks SSDs/HDDs, may corrupt data (www.neowin.net)

126 points by bundie | 105 comments

US state department stops issuing visas for Gaza’s children to get medical care (www.theguardian.com)

122 points by NomDePlum | 106 comments

BBC Micro, ancestor to ARM (retrogamecoders.com)

115 points by ingve | 96 comments

Dispelling misconceptions about RLHF (aerial-toothpaste-34a.notion.site)

114 points by fpgaminer | 30 comments

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

106 points by giuliomagnifico | 164 comments

Israeli gov. official arrested in Nevada internet crimes against children sting (www.theguardian.com)

106 points by NomDePlum | 18 comments