Hacker News Highlights

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Aug 5, 2025.

Perplexity is using stealth, undeclared crawlers to evade no-crawl directives
https://blog.cloudflare.com/perplexity-is-using-stealth-undeclared-crawlers-to-evade-website-no-crawl-directives/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44785636

Show HN: I spent 6 years building a ridiculous wooden pixel display
https://benholmen.com/blog/kilopixel/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44787902

Qwen-Image: Crafting with native text rendering
https://qwenlm.github.io/blog/qwen-image/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44787631

How we made JSON.stringify more than twice as fast
https://v8.dev/blog/json-stringify
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44786005

DrawAFish.com Postmortem
https://aldenhallak.com/blog/posts/draw-a-fish-postmortem.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44784743

OpenIPC: Open IP Camera Firmware
https://openipc.org/à
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44758463

Show HN: I've been building an ERP for manufacturing for the last 3 years
https://github.com/crbnos/carbon
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44792005

Ask HN: What trick of the trade took you too long to learn?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44789068

Monitor your security cameras with locally processed AI
https://frigate.video/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44794508

I tried to replace myself with ChatGPT in my English class
https://lithub.com/what-happened-when-i-tried-to-replace-myself-with-chatgpt-in-my-english-classroom/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44769547

What is Hacker News Highlights?

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