Hacker News Highlights

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7.25.25 | Graphene OS enhances Android security, Memory safety requires thread safety, AMD CEO predicts TSMC US plant chips 5%-20% pricier 25.07.2025 12:53

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Jul 25, 2025. Graphene OS: a security-enhanced Android build https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/1030004/898017c7953c0946/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44676691 There is no memory safety without thread safety https://www.ralfj.de/blog/2025/07/24/memory-safety.html https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44672003 AMD CEO sees chips from TSMC's U...

7.24.25 | High precision robot dog, Tinder clone with wife’s pictures, Google Pixel and GrapheneOS for freedom 24.07.2025 11:53

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Jul 24, 2025. CARA – High precision robot dog using rope https://www.aaedmusa.com/projects/cara https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44661846 Show HN: Tinder but it's only pictures of my wife and I can only swipe right https://trytender.app/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44664873 Cops say criminals use a Google Pixel with GrapheneOS – I...

7.23.25 | Qwen3-Coder's agentic coding, avoid animating height, TODOs as reminders 23.07.2025 12:12

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Jul 23, 2025. Qwen3-Coder: Agentic coding in the world https://qwenlm.github.io/blog/qwen3-coder/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44653072 Don't animate height https://www.granola.ai/blog/dont-animate-height https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44619206 TODOs aren't for doing https://sophiebits.com/2025/07/21/todos-arent-for-doing https://...

7.22.25 | Global hack on Microsoft Sharepoint, TrackWeight turns MacBook trackpad into scale, AccountingBench evaluates LLMs on business tasks 22.07.2025 12:43

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Jul 22, 2025. Global hack on Microsoft Sharepoint hits U.S., state agencies, researchers say https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2025/07/20/microsoft-sharepoint-hack/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44629710 TrackWeight: Turn your MacBook's trackpad into a digital weighing scale https://github.com/KrishKrosh/TrackWeight https://news....

7.21.25 | XMLUI, LLMs in summer 2025 update, new colors without lasers 21.07.2025 12:36

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Jul 21, 2025. XMLUI https://blog.jonudell.net/2025/07/18/introducing-xmlui/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44625292 Coding with LLMs in the summer of 2025 – an update https://antirez.com/news/154 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44623953 New colors without shooting lasers into your eyes https://dynomight.net/colors/ https://news.ycomb...

7.20.25 | Uncertainty in AI development, AI-related fatalities, Ring's new police live-stream feature 20.07.2025 12:26

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Jul 20, 2025. Nobody knows how to build with AI yet https://worksonmymachine.substack.com/p/nobody-knows-how-to-build-with-ai https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44616479 Death by AI https://davebarry.substack.com/p/death-by-ai https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44615801 Ring introducing new feature to allow police to live-stream access to c...

7.19.25 | Valve pressured by credit card companies, AI capex impacts economic stats, personal self-hosting setup 19.07.2025 12:32

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Jul 19, 2025. Valve confirms credit card companies pressured it to delist certain adult games https://www.pcgamer.com/software/platforms/valve-confirms-credit-card-companies-pressured-it-to-delist-certain-adult-games-from-steam/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44606184 AI capex is so big that it's affecting economic statistics https://paul...

7.17.25 | Altermagnets introduce a new type of magnet, Ex-Waymo engineers create Bedrock Robotics for construction automation, Pgactive offers Postgres active-active replication 17.07.2025 12:03

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Jul 17, 2025. Altermagnets: The first new type of magnet in nearly a century https://www.newscientist.com/article/2487013-weve-discovered-a-new-kind-of-magnetism-what-can-we-do-with-it/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44583171 Ex-Waymo engineers launch Bedrock Robotics to automate construction https://techcrunch.com/2025/07/16/ex-waymo-eng...

7.16.25 | Reflections on OpenAI, Shoggoth Mini robot powered by GPT-4o, write proofs to improve programming skills 16.07.2025 12:29

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Jul 16, 2025. Reflections on OpenAI https://calv.info/openai-reflections https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44573195 Show HN: Shoggoth Mini – A soft tentacle robot powered by GPT-4o and RL https://www.matthieulc.com/posts/shoggoth-mini https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44572377 To be a better programmer, write little proofs in your head ht...

7.15.25 | Kiro IDE launch, LLM inevitabilism discussion, Django's 20th birthday celebration 15.07.2025 12:36

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Jul 15, 2025. Kiro: A new agentic IDE https://kiro.dev/blog/introducing-kiro/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44560662 LLM Inevitabilism https://tomrenner.com/posts/llm-inevitabilism/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44567857 Happy 20th Birthday, Django https://www.djangoproject.com/weblog/2025/jul/13/happy-20th-birthday-django/ https:...

7.14.25 | Ten years of daily running visualized, Explanation of screen functionality, Open-source alternative to CapCut 14.07.2025 12:15

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Jul 14, 2025. Show HN: Ten years of running every day, visualized https://nodaysoff.run https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44522683 How does a screen work? https://www.makingsoftware.com/chapters/how-a-screen-works https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44550572 OpenCut: The open-source CapCut alternative https://github.com/OpenCut-app/OpenCut...

7.13.25 | MacPaint Art's enduring appeal, Bypassing Google's adblock update, Understanding JavaScript's Date class 13.07.2025 11:55

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Jul 13, 2025. MacPaint Art from the Mid-80s Still Looks Great Today https://blog.decryption.net.au/posts/macpaint.html https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44540402 Bypassing Google's big anti-adblock update https://0x44.xyz/blog/web-request-blocking/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44544266 New Date("wtf") – How well do you know JavaScrip...

7.12.25 | OpenAI's Windsurf deal canceled, Windsurf CEO joins Google, ETH Zurich and EPFL releasing LLM, Bill Atkinson's psychedelic UI 12.07.2025 11:40

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Jul 12, 2025. OpenAI’s Windsurf deal is off, and Windsurf’s CEO is going to Google https://www.theverge.com/openai/705999/google-windsurf-ceo-openai https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44536988 ETH Zurich and EPFL to release a LLM developed on public infrastructure https://ethz.ch/en/news-and-events/eth-news/news/2025/07/a-language-model-built...

7.11.25 | AI's impact on open-source productivity, Postgres LISTEN/NOTIFY scalability issues, Grok searches X for Elon Musk's messages 11.07.2025 11:48

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Jul 11, 2025. Measuring the impact of AI on experienced open-source developer productivity https://metr.org/blog/2025-07-10-early-2025-ai-experienced-os-dev-study/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44522772 Postgres LISTEN/NOTIFY does not scale https://www.recall.ai/blog/postgres-listen-notify-does-not-scale https://news.ycombinator.com/item...

7.10.25 | Tree Borrows concept, Linda Yaccarino departs X, jank programming language discussed 10.07.2025 11:43

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Jul 10, 2025. Tree Borrows https://plf.inf.ethz.ch/research/pldi25-tree-borrows.html https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44510600 Linda Yaccarino is leaving X https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/09/technology/linda-yaccarino-x-steps-down.html https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44510731 The jank programming language https://jank-lang.org/ https:/...

7.9.25 | Supabase MCP SQL leak, Bootstrapping profitable side project, OffChess offline chess puzzles app 09.07.2025 12:20

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Jul 9, 2025. Supabase MCP can leak your entire SQL database https://www.generalanalysis.com/blog/supabase-mcp-blog https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44502318 Bootstrapping a side project into a profitable seven-figure business https://projectionlab.com/blog/we-reached-1m-arr-with-zero-funding https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44495428 Sho...

7.8.25 | ChatGPT prompts feature addition, Mercury introduces fast diffusion models, o3 profiles from Pocket links 08.07.2025 12:11

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Jul 8, 2025. Adding a feature because ChatGPT incorrectly thinks it exists https://www.holovaty.com/writing/chatgpt-fake-feature/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44491071 Mercury: Ultra-fast language models based on diffusion https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.17298 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44489690 I used o3 to profile myself from my...

7.7.25 | Extracted Apple Intelligence safety filters, Loss of individuality in society, Bitchat – decentralized Bluetooth messaging app 07.07.2025 12:02

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Jul 7, 2025. I extracted the safety filters from Apple Intelligence models https://github.com/BlueFalconHD/apple_generative_model_safety_decrypted https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44483485 Nobody has a personality anymore: we are products with labels https://www.freyaindia.co.uk/p/nobody-has-a-personality-anymore https://news.ycombinator.co...

7.6.25 | Local-first software, hidden interface controls, questioning morality 06.07.2025 12:12

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Jul 6, 2025. Local-first software (2019) https://www.inkandswitch.com/essay/local-first/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44473135 Hidden interface controls that affect usability https://interactions.acm.org/archive/view/july-august-2025/stop-hiding-my-controls-hidden-interface-controls-are-affecting-usability https://news.ycombinator.com/i...

7.5.25 | Nvidia criticized, Mini NASes combine NVMe and Intel chip, OBBB reinstates R&D expensing in U.S 05.07.2025 12:09

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Jul 5, 2025. Nvidia is full of shit https://blog.sebin-nyshkim.net/posts/nvidia-is-full-of-shit/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44468175 Mini NASes marry NVMe to Intel's efficient chip https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2025/mini-nases-marry-nvme-intels-efficient-chip https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44465319 OBBB signed: Reinstates im...

7.4.25 | tmux-rs launched, YC company relicensed my project, The Rise of Whatever 04.07.2025 12:48

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Jul 4, 2025. Introducing tmux-rs https://richardscollin.github.io/tmux-rs/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44455787 My open source project was relicensed by a YC company [license updated] https://twitter.com/soham_btw/status/1940952786491027886 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44460552 The Rise of Whatever https://eev.ee/blog/2025/07/0...

7.3.25 | Exploiting IKKO Activebuds, US climate report websites down, gene therapy restored hearing 03.07.2025 12:02

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Jul 3, 2025. Exploiting the IKKO Activebuds “AI powered” earbuds (2024) https://blog.mgdproductions.com/ikko-activebuds/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44443919 Websites hosting major US climate reports taken down https://apnews.com/article/climate-change-national-assessment-nasa-white-house-057cec699caef90832d8b10f21a6ffe8 https://news.y...

7.2.25 | Fed miscalculates $1M cube, Spegel is an LLM-based Terminal Browser, Figma files for IPO 02.07.2025 12:03

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Jul 2, 2025. The Fed says this is a cube of $1M. They're off by half a million https://calvin.sh/blog/fed-lie/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44435484 Show HN: Spegel, a Terminal Browser That Uses LLMs to Rewrite Webpages https://simedw.com/2025/06/23/introducing-spegel/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44433409 Figma files for propos...

7.1.25 | AI's new skill is context engineering, Xfinity detects motion via WiFi signals, Proton sues Apple for harmful practices 01.07.2025 12:07

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Jul 1, 2025. The new skill in AI is not prompting, it's context engineering https://www.philschmid.de/context-engineering https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44427757 Xfinity using WiFi signals in your house to detect motion https://www.xfinity.com/support/articles/wifi-motion https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44426726 Proton joins suit aga...

6.30.25 | VM simulates CPU fan, ransomware avoids Russian keyboards, HN inquiry on current projects 30.06.2025 11:59

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Jun 30, 2025. I made my VM think it has a CPU fan https://wbenny.github.io/2025/06/29/i-made-my-vm-think-it-has-a-cpu-fan.html https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44413185 Many ransomware strains will abort if they detect a Russian keyboard installed (2021) https://krebsonsecurity.com/2021/05/try-this-one-weird-trick-russian-hackers-hate/ http...