Trending on 2026-08-25 — HN, Reddit, Google Trends & YouTube Archive

Snapshot of what trended on 2026-08-25, archived automatically by NoobClaw.

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Hacker News

20 items

1
OpenAI: GPT 5.6 Sol price reduction (until at least Nov 21)
305 points · 271 comments
2
I were 17, I'd learn how to build LLMs from scratch
517 points · 610 comments
3
Autostep (YC P26) Is Hiring AI/Fullstack Engineers and a Chief of Staff
1 points · 0 comments
4
Hot Chips 2026: CUDA Targets RISC-V – By Chester Lam
80 points · 10 comments
5
Thomson Reuters Launches Its Own Frontier Model
11 points · 0 comments
6
Jabber/XMPP: 25 Years of Digital Independence
177 points · 72 comments
7
How Europe is killing makers and micro-entrepreneurs
1089 points · 673 comments
8
Peppermint oil reduces blood pressure by 8.48 mmHg in small study
99 points · 66 comments
9
IPFS Maintainers Winding Down
334 points · 165 comments
10
Octopus intelligence may be related to never-before-seen mutation
90 points · 69 comments
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LLMs could control their host machines by exploiting inference engines
103 points · 52 comments
12
Show HN: PicoMQ – Durable Streams over HTTP, on object storage
101 points · 18 comments
13
Where did all the public bathrooms go?
172 points · 349 comments
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Bookshelf – Self-hosted eBook library that runs on object storage
44 points · 14 comments
15
Oceans hit highest temperature on record
429 points · 349 comments
16
One corner of China’s internet is insisting that the Tang Dynasty never existed
136 points · 114 comments
17
Vintage Artificial Intelligence: Before It Got Awkward
59 points · 13 comments
18
SeL4 security proofs now complete on AArch64
173 points · 38 comments
19
The entire city of San Francisco as a video game
364 points · 123 comments
20
How Universities Should Prepare Founders
32 points · 28 comments

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Factsr/SipsTea
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Finally! Showing them rich people!!!r/PoursTea
3
If you were offered $125 an hour to work from 5 AM to 7 PM on Christmas Day, would you take the shift?r/answers
4
My local library has a vending machine with free Narcan, fentanyl test strips, covid tests, and woman’s toiletry kits.
r/mildlyinteresting
5
Gull Swallowing A Rabbit
r/interestingasfuck
6
What do y'all think of this?r/MoralityScaling
7
ONEder the sea 1st birthday cake for my daughter!r/Baking
8
TIL that Chernobyl was the costliest disaster in history, resulting in over $2 trillion in damage when adjusted for inflationr/todayilearned
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My dog looks like Scooby Doo 🤣r/DOG
10
Drove 5 hours for her family gathering and ended up eating this alone in a hotel roomr/BoyDinnerDiaries
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meirlr/meirl
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Jeff Bezos’ ex-wife MacKenzie Scott's $100 million donation helped wipe out $40 billion in medical debtr/UpliftingNews
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me_irlr/me_irl
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What is this heavy, hollow thing?r/whatisit
15
🔥 crab on coconut
r/NatureIsFuckingLit
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YouTube Premium is getting yet another price hike for users across the glober/technology
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My husband “must” have all of his shoes lined up under our kitchen island at all times.
r/mildlyinfuriating
18
I am Social-Interaction Manr/SipsTea
19
The amount of oil this single Cheeto released from sitting in the sun.
r/mildlyinteresting
20
What’s a profession you’ve seen die out in your lifetime?r/AskReddit

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