Hacker News Highlights

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Aug 1, 2025.

Slow
https://michaelnotebook.com/slow/index.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44748934

Face it: you're a crazy person
https://www.experimental-history.com/p/face-it-youre-a-crazy-person
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44710651

How was the Universal Pictures 1936 opening logo created?
https://movies.stackexchange.com/questions/128020/how-was-the-universal-pictures-1936-opening-logo-created
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44744454

MacBook Pro Insomnia
https://manuel.bernhardt.io/posts/2025-07-24-macbook-pro-insomnia
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44745897

Many countries that said no to ChatControl in 2024 are now undecided
https://digitalcourage.social/@echo_pbreyer/114946559233051667
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44744715

The anti-abundance critique on housing is wrong
https://www.derekthompson.org/p/the-anti-abundance-critique-on-housing
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44750416

Ubiquiti launches UniFi OS Server for self-hosting
https://lazyadmin.nl/home-network/unifi-os-server/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44746603

Releasing weights for FLUX.1 Krea
https://www.krea.ai/blog/flux-krea-open-source-release
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44745555

QUIC for the kernel
https://lwn.net/Articles/1029851/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44746948

Gemini Embedding: Powering RAG and context engineering
https://developers.googleblog.com/en/gemini-embedding-powering-rag-context-engineering/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44747457

What is Hacker News Highlights?

Daily overview of the Top 10 Hacker News posts. Post and comment summarization by AI.