Hacker News Highlights

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Aug 11, 2025.

Fight Chat Control
https://fightchatcontrol.eu/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44856426

How I code with AI on a budget/free
https://wuu73.org/blog/aiguide1.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44850913

Try and
https://ygdp.yale.edu/phenomena/try-and
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44855079

GPT-OSS vs. Qwen3 and a detailed look how things evolved since GPT-2
https://magazine.sebastianraschka.com/p/from-gpt-2-to-gpt-oss-analyzing-the
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44855690

Show HN: Engineering.fyi – Search across tech engineering blogs in one place
https://engineering.fyi/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44855157

1910: The year the modern world lost its mind
https://www.derekthompson.org/p/1910-the-year-the-modern-world-lost
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44858154

The Chrome VRP Panel has decided to award $250k for this report
https://issues.chromium.org/issues/412578726
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44861106

Vanishing from Hyundai’s data network
http://techno-fandom.org/~hobbit/cars/ev/offnet.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44860139

Writing simple tab-completions for Bash and Zsh
https://mill-build.org/blog/14-bash-zsh-completion.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44854035

Show HN: Bolt – A super-fast, statically-typed scripting language written in C
https://github.com/Beariish/bolt
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44856935