8.5.25 | Perplexity evades no-crawl directives, Show HN showcases wooden pixel display, Qwen-Image features native text rendering

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 directiveshttps://blog.cloudflare.com/perplexity-is-using-stealth-undeclared-crawlers-to-evade-website-no-crawl-directives/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44785636Show HN: I spent 6 years building a ridiculous wooden pixel displayhttps://benholmen.com/blog/kilopixel/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44787902Qwen-Image: Crafting with native text renderinghttps://qwenlm.github.io/blog/qwen-image/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44787631How we made JSON.stringify more than twice as fasthttps://v8.dev/blog/json-stringifyhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44786005DrawAFish.com Postmortemhttps://aldenhallak.com/blog/posts/draw-a-fish-postmortem.htmlhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44784743OpenIPC: Open IP Camera Firmwarehttps://openipc.org/àhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44758463Show HN: I've been building an ERP for manufacturing for the last 3 yearshttps://github.com/crbnos/carbonhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44792005Ask HN: What trick of the trade took you too long to learn?https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44789068Monitor your security cameras with locally processed AIhttps://frigate.video/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44794508I tried to replace myself with ChatGPT in my English classhttps://lithub.com/what-happened-when-i-tried-to-replace-myself-with-chatgpt-in-my-english-classroom/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44769547