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This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Aug 4, 2025.If you're remote, ramblehttps://stephango.com/ramblingshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44775563Modern Node.js Patternshttps://kashw1n.com/blog/nodejs-2025/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44778936Writing a good design documenthttps://grantslatton.com/how-to-design-documenthttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44779428Persona vectors: Monitoring and controlling character traits in language modelshttps://www.anthropic.com/research/persona-vectorshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44777760Twenty Eighth International Obfuscated C Code Contesthttps://www.ioccc.org/2024/index.htmlhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44774104Tokens are getting more expensivehttps://ethanding.substack.com/p/ai-subscriptions-get-short-squeezedhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44775700So you want to parse a PDF?https://eliot-jones.com/2025/8/pdf-parsing-xrefhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=447803532,500-year-old Siberian 'ice mummy' had intricate tattoos, imaging revealshttps://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c4gzx0zm68vohttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44745441How to make almost anything (2019)https://fab.cba.mit.edu/classes/863.19/CBA/people/dsculley/index.htmlhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44775830Typed languages are better suited for vibecodinghttps://solmaz.io/typed-languages-are-better-suited-for-vibecodinghttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44780878 What is Hacker News Highlights? Daily overview of the Top 10 Hacker News posts. Post and comment summarization by AI.