Hacker News Frontpage Titles - August 15, 2025
- Toothpaste made from hair provides natural root to repair teeth
- Good system design
- Payment Processor Fun 2025 – Making Your Own Merchant Service Provider
- Pfeilstorch
- PuTTY has a new website
- Writing a competitive BZip2 encoder in Ada from scratch in a few days – part 2
- Traps to Developers
- The future of large files in Git is Git
- Low-latency, high-throughput garbage collection
- Woz: 'I Am the Happiest Person'
- AI is different
- I accidentally became PureGym's unofficial Apple Wallet developer
- Show HN: Edka – Kubernetes clusters on your own Hetzner account
- Ashby (YC W19) Is Hiring Design Engineers in AMER and EMEA
- Dicing an Onion, the Mathematically Optimal Way
- Occult books digitized and put online by Amsterdam's Ritman Library
- Seagate spins up a raid on a counterfeit hard drive workshop
- How randomness improves algorithms (2023)
- Dokploy is the sweet spot between PaaS and EC2
- ADHD drug treatment and risk of negative events and outcomes
- The electric fence stopped working years ago
- OpenBSD is so fast, I had to modify the program slightly to measure itself
- Do Things That Don't Scale (2013)
- A Race to Save a Signature American Tree from a Deadly Disease
- Deep-Sea Desalination Pulls Fresh Water from the Depths
- Launch HN: Embedder (YC S25) – Claude code for embedded software
- Model intelligence is no longer the constraint for automation
- Solving the Nostr web clients attack vector
- Recto – A Truly 2D Language
- Compiler Bug Causes Compiler Bug: How a 12-Year-Old G++ Bug Took Down Solidity
Total: 30 stories Extracted from: Hacker News frontpage Date: August 15, 2025