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I Built a Ballistic Missile Defense Simulator in a Browser

https://medium.com/@ErikKannike/i-built-a-ballistic-missile-defense-simulator-in-a-browser-292c755a6ceb
1•thunderbong•2m ago•0 comments

Arch shares its wiki strategy with Debian

https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/1032604/73596e0c3ed1945a/
1•lemper•2m ago•0 comments

Social Media Apps Engineered Like Narcotics: The Dopamine Addiction Crisis

https://www.lookatmyprofile.org/blog/social-media-apps-engineered-like-narcotics-the-dopamine-add-1755157203663
1•flixing•5m ago•1 comments

Show HN: I built an agent that applies to VCs for you

https://www.suparaise.com/
1•Princemuichkine•8m ago•0 comments

Small plane (with no radio) lands on aircraft carrier, 7 people saved

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DIwfglLP4NI/
1•asdefghyk•9m ago•1 comments

AI Allergy

http://togelius.blogspot.com/2025/08/ai-allergy.html
1•doubtfuluser•12m ago•0 comments

iPhone DevOps

https://clearsky.dev/blog/iphone-devops-ssh/
1•ustad•13m ago•0 comments

Map Projection Transitions

https://www.jasondavies.com/maps/transition/
1•fanf2•19m ago•0 comments

Rails Versions 7.1.5.2, 7.2.2.2, and 8.0.2.1 have been released

https://rubyonrails.org/2025/8/13/Rails-Versions-8-0-2-1-7-2-2-2-and-7-1-5-2-have-been-released
3•amalinovic•22m ago•0 comments

Senior Microsoft official shares what next major Windows version will be like

https://www.neowin.net/news/senior-microsoft-official-shares-what-next-major-windows-version-will-be-like/
1•defrost•23m ago•2 comments

The first EV powered by a semi-solid-state battery has been cleared for sale

https://electrek.co/2025/08/13/first-ev-with-semi-solid-state-battery-cleared-for-sale/
1•breve•28m ago•0 comments

Top Free Web Scrapers in 2025 for Easy Data Scraping

https://momoproxy.com/blog/top-10-free-web-scrapers-in-2024
1•xbjamilnz•29m ago•1 comments

Show HN: Transactional State Management for JavaScript

https://github.com/b3nten/horizonstate
1•b_e_n_t_o_n•31m ago•0 comments

Coding in the Red-Queen Era [audio]

https://corecursive.com/red-queen-coding/
1•alecco•32m ago•0 comments

Local AI Data Tool: No Coding, Privacy, Big Data Friendly

1•olllo•33m ago•0 comments

China-Plus-One Was Just China All Along

https://indiadispatch.com/p/china-plus-one-was-just-china-all-along
1•jnord•35m ago•0 comments

DeepSeek failed to train a new model without using Nvidia hardware

https://www.ft.com/content/eb984646-6320-4bfe-a78d-a1da2274b092
1•macleginn•40m ago•0 comments

Starlink Mini users just lost their beloved pause feature

https://www.theverge.com/analysis/758826/starlink-mini-standby-pause-bait-switch
2•isaacfrond•41m ago•1 comments

There is a new short domain name for PuTTY

https://hachyderm.io/@simontatham/115025974777386803
2•nokita•43m ago•1 comments

Building a Stable Uncensored AI Model: Lessons Learned from HackAIGC

1•hackaigc•46m ago•0 comments

All the concerns that make you a boring developer

https://daverupert.com/2025/08/got-99-engineering-problems-but-a-grift-aint-one/
1•gregwolanski•47m ago•0 comments

Show HN: The Operating System for Trading

https://www.aulico.com/
1•imatelescope•48m ago•0 comments

What I look for in typeface licenses

https://davesmyth.com/typeface-licenses
2•gregwolanski•49m ago•0 comments

Our Culture Is Addicted to Validation

https://freddiedeboer.substack.com/p/modern-culture-as-sociopath-instructions
1•Michelangelo11•53m ago•0 comments

GrapheneOS Under Threat: EU Age Verification and Google Changes Endanger Privacy

https://www.forbes.com/sites/federicoguerrini/2025/08/10/whos-afraid-of-privacy-focused-smartphones/
4•nabakin•53m ago•2 comments

GPT-OSS-20B extracted to a base model without alignment

https://twitter.com/jxmnop/status/1955436067353502083
2•polyrand•55m ago•2 comments

I just unlocked a hidden lever in ChatGPT's "Saved Memory"

1•Alchemical-Gold•1h ago•0 comments

Turning ChatGPT's "Saved Memory" into a Persistent, Self-Updating Runtime Tool

1•Alchemical-Gold•1h ago•0 comments

UK Court Ruling Leaves Wikipedia Years of Uncertainty Under Online Safety Act

https://www.techdirt.com/2025/08/13/uk-court-ruling-leaves-wikipedia-facing-years-of-uncertainty-under-online-safety-act/
5•beardyw•1h ago•0 comments

Remember the Parachuting Beavers Story? Now There's Video

https://www.boisestatepublicradio.org/environment/2015-10-22/remember-the-parachuting-beavers-story-now-theres-video
2•JumpCrisscross•1h ago•0 comments
Open in hackernews

How Much Is Trump Profiting Off the Presidency?

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/08/18/the-number
68•gizzlon•15h ago

Comments

gizzlon•15h ago
https://archive.ph/drmM0
gizzlon•14h ago
TLDR; "Running total: $3.4 billion"

https://dd7hi9rzn9wx17.archive.ph/drmM0/1165634a2f850012d4ed...

codyb•14h ago
Cue some rambling about the Biden crime family when he hears about this article
RickJWagner•14h ago
In fairness, the “10% for the Big Guy” issue should be explained.
avmich•13h ago
What's that fairness issue?
RickJWagner•7h ago
The piece might have broadened the scope a bit to remind people of Hunter Bidens escapades, I.e. the $500k no show Ukrainian gas job. Without such information it seems like personal enrichment is something new.
the_gastropod•13h ago
I'd never heard this particular line. So had to look it up. According to the Wikipedia entry, assuming this happened at all, it:

1. Happened in 2017, when Joe Biden was a private citizen

2. Was rejected with "an emphatic no" by "the Chairman" (Joe Biden)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hunter_Biden_laptop_controvers...

RickJWagner•7h ago
Why then would the Big Guy have been paid?

Why was Hunter paid $500k yearly by a Ukrainian gas company, despite not speaking Ukrainian and having no expertise in the field?

It seems where there is smoke, there’s fire, no?

SilverElfin•14h ago
It’s hard to know because there can be many ways to make money indirectly or in time delayed ways. Who knows how much his friends and family are profiting. Each time there is some wild swing one way and then the other on tariffs, I am pretty sure someone is making a lot of money off that. Meanwhile the rest of us are taken for a ride of uncertainty.
DeRock•9h ago
Did you read the article? The whole thing is about how to actually calculate it, while being conservative through uncertainties. The answer: $3.4 billion.
gizzlon•14h ago
heh, this disappeared from the front. Guess it's "too political" to talk about how the president is enriching himself and his family?

shrugs

modmodmod•13h ago
Agreed
0xy•13h ago
After 4 years of pretending that Hunter Biden was an expert on the gas industry and not peddling influence and access, what authority is retained to comment on these matters?

10 for the big guy.

AnimalMuppet•13h ago
Per the site guidelines, it sure feels like "off topic for HN" to me.
gizzlon•12h ago
> Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, or celebrities, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon.

Guess I'd argue the the president of the United States taking bribes falls under the "interesting new phenomenon". Maybe people will say it's not new (?), but this level and this blatant certainly is. Not interesting? Well, people can disagree, but I think it is.

NomDePlum•11h ago
That argument can be made for lots of posts that never come close to being flagged. Hulk Hogans death as just one instance but there's hourly examples.

Not everyone, but lot of those flagging like/voted for Trump but don't want peers sneering at him (and them). Embarrassment is a powerful motivator.

ivape•13h ago
Bessent said tariffs are being paid at the dock:

"SCOTT BESSENT, TREASURY SECRETARY: Well, the check is written to the person who receives it at the dock in the US"

https://transcripts.cnn.com/show/ip/date/2025-08-07/segment/...

Yeah ...

How can this be reliable, audited, and free from corruption? Anyone associated with this Admin is getting a cut either straight up (which we won't know until the full four years are over since they won't allow investigation), or discounts. They've already made AMD and NVIDIA give a cut of sales (which is crazy). It's all just too much money for them not to be thieving.

lesuorac•13h ago
> They've already made AMD and NVIDIA give a cut of sales (which is crazy).

Imagine if you as an individual had to pay 15% of your income to the government!

Oh, you already pay much more than that and you want to pay only 15%?

josefritzishere•13h ago
It smells like racketeering.