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Pebble Time 2 Design Reveal [video] (Score: 152+ in 8 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6zBJP
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UK expands police facial recognition rollout with 10 new facial recognition vans (Score: 151+ in 9 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6zBAf
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PYX: The next step in Python packaging (🔥 Score: 162+ in 2 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6zD8B
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Pebble Time 2* Design Reveal (Score: 158+ in 5 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6zC8B
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Nginx Introduces Native Support for Acme Protocol (🔥 Score: 156+ in 2 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6zCq7
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Nearly 1 in 3 Starlink satellites detected within the SKA-Low frequency band (Score: 150+ in 8 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6zB6x
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[BUG] Claude says "You're absolutely right!" about everything (Score: 152+ in 6 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6zAWY
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The History of Windows XP (❄️ Score: 150+ in 3 days)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6zqZm
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Journaling using Nix, Vim and coreutils (Score: 151+ in 20 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6zy5w
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H-1B Visa Changes Approved by White House (Score: 150+ in 15 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6zza4
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WHY2025: How to become your own ISP [video] (Score: 150+ in 14 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6zyTe
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We shouldn't have needed lockfiles (❄️ Score: 150+ in 6 days)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6zbZf
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Blender is Native on Windows 11 on Arm (❄️ Score: 152+ in 4 days)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6zmCk
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All known 49-year-old Apple-1 computers (❄️ Score: 150+ in 4 days)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6zkkH
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Show HN: Building a web search engine from scratch with 3B neural embeddings (Score: 156+ in 4 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6zyDz
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OCaml as my primary language (🔥 Score: 151+ in 3 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6zCYz
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I'm Worried It Might Get Bad (Score: 150+ in 6 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6zC54
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So what's the difference between plotted and printed artwork? (Score: 152+ in 7 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6zBLP
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New treatment eliminates bladder cancer in 82% of patients (🔥 Score: 152+ in 3 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6zChE
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We caught companies making it harder to delete your personal data online (🔥 Score: 155+ in 3 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6zBVp
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Website Is for Humans (🔥 Score: 167+ in 1 hour)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6zCiv
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Bezier-rs – algorithms for Bézier segments and shapes (❄️ Score: 151+ in 3 days)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6znDp
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FFmpeg 8.0 adds Whisper support (🔥 Score: 155+ in 1 hour)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6zBmh
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F-Droid build servers can't build modern Android apps due to outdated CPUs (Score: 153+ in 4 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/c/6zAJF
On August 7, 2025, a new build problem started hitting many Android apps on F-Droid. Many Android apps on F-Droid have been unable to publish updates if they use Android Gradle Plugin (AGP) 8.12.0 or Gradle 9.0.
The root cause: Google’s new aapt2 binary in AGP 8.12.0 started requiring CPU instructions (SSE4.1, SSSE3) that F-Droid’s build farm hardware doesn’t support. This is similar to a 2021 AGP 4.1.0 issue, but it has returned, and now affects hundreds of apps.
As an example, my open-source app MBCompass hit this issue. I downgraded to AGP 8.11.1 with Gradle 8.13 to make it build, but even then, F-Droid failed due to a baseline profile reproducibility bug in AGP. The only workaround was disabling baseline profiles and pushing yet another release.
This has led to multiple “maintenance” versions in a short time, confusing users and wasting developer time, just to work around infrastructure issues outside the developer’s control.
References:
- F-Droid admin issue: https://gitlab.com/fdroid/admin/-/issues/593
- Catima example: https://github.com/CatimaLoyalty/Android/issues/2608
- MBCompass case: https://github.com/CompassMB/MBCompass/issues/88
Online Safety Act – shutdowns and site blocks (🔥 Score: 152+ in 1 hour)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6zAV9
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RISC-V single-board computer for less than 40 euros (❄️ Score: 153+ in 4 days)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6zma4
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Millau Viaduct (❄️ Score: 150+ in 5 days)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6zeXU
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A spellchecker used to be a major feat of software engineering (2008) (❄️ Score: 152+ in 4 days)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6zmvR
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Search all text in New York City (🔥 Score: 158+ in 3 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6zAhA
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36B solar mass black hole at centre of the Cosmic Horseshoe gravitational lens (Score: 150+ in 20 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6zum2
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