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Hacker News (Jul 2025)

  1. Mistakes Microsoft made in the Xbox security system (2005)

    100 points • comment • jul 17, 2025

  2. The vibe coder's career path is doomed

    99 points • comment • jul 22, 2025

  3. The curious case of the Unix workstation layout

    99 points • comment • jul 19, 2025

  4. Run TypeScript code without worrying about configuration

    99 points • comment • jul 17, 2025

  5. Yet Another Zip Trick

    99 points • comment • jul 02, 2025

  6. Using Sun Ray thin clients in 2025

    99 points • comment • jul 01, 2025

  7. A better Ghidra MCP server – GhidrAssistMCP

    99 points • comment • jul 12, 2025

  8. Mini robots detect and fix water pipe leaks without digging

    99 points • comment • jul 07, 2025

  9. Compression Dictionary Transport

    99 points • comment • jul 04, 2025

  10. Show HN: Beyond Z²+C, Plot Any Fractal

    99 points • comment • jul 15, 2025

  11. Tea app leak worsens with second database exposing user chats

    99 points • comment • jul 28, 2025

  12. Tell HN: uBlock Origin on Chrome is finally gone

    99 points • comment • jul 12, 2025

  13. Psilocybin shows promise as anti-aging therapy

    98 points • comment • jul 12, 2025

  14. A short post on short trains

    98 points • comment • jul 30, 2025

  15. Windows 11 is a minefield of micro-aggressions in the shipping lane of progress

    98 points • comment • jul 28, 2025

  16. Project Zero – Policy and Disclosure: 2025 Edition

    98 points • comment • jul 29, 2025

  17. Zig Interface Revisited

    98 points • comment • jul 16, 2025

  18. MI5’s falsehoods in the case of neo-Nazi spy who abused women

    98 points • comment • jul 06, 2025

  19. The wanton destruction of a creative-tech era

    97 points • comment • jul 01, 2025

  20. I tried living on IPv6 for a day

    97 points • comment • jul 31, 2025

  21. Someone made a 128k line PR to OpenCut

    97 points • comment • jul 29, 2025

  22. When swiping supplants scissors: The hidden cost of touchscreens

    97 points • comment • jul 24, 2025

  23. Stellantis declares bankruptcy in China, with $1B in debts

    97 points • comment • jul 14, 2025

  24. Katharine Graham: The Washington Post

    97 points • comment • jul 24, 2025

  25. SCP-055 is an "antimeme" – it erases itself from memory when observed

    97 points • comment • jul 13, 2025

  26. July 5, 1687: When Newton explained why you don't float away

    97 points • comment • jul 06, 2025

  27. Prompting LLMs is not engineering

    97 points • comment • jul 04, 2025

  28. Uncommon Uses of Python in Commonly Used Libraries (2022)

    96 points • comment • jul 03, 2025

  29. Wife of ICEBlock app founder speaks out after DOJ fires her

    96 points • comment • jul 23, 2025

  30. Show HN: BunkerWeb – the open-source and cloud-native WAF

    96 points • comment • jul 04, 2025

  31. Show HN: A rain Pomodoro with brown noise, ASMR, and Middle Eastern music

    96 points • comment • jul 08, 2025

  32. Show HN: Sourcebot – Self-hosted Perplexity for your codebase

    96 points • comment • jul 30, 2025

  33. SQL Injection as a Feature

    96 points • comment • jul 21, 2025

  34. Documenting what you're willing to support (and not)

    95 points • comment • jul 12, 2025

  35. The Gentoo Perl versioning scheme

    95 points • comment • jul 19, 2025

  36. Paul Dirac and the religion of mathematical beauty (2011) [video]

    95 points • comment • jul 26, 2025

  37. Tram Trains

    95 points • comment • jul 23, 2025

  38. Using the Matrix Cores of AMD RDNA 4 architecture GPUs

    95 points • comment • jul 18, 2025

  39. Burning a Magnesium NeXT Cube (1993)

    95 points • comment • jul 10, 2025

  40. Dynamical origin of Theia, the last giant impactor on Earth

    95 points • comment • jul 08, 2025

  41. Show HN: QuickTunes: Apple Music player for Mac with iPod vibes

    95 points • comment • jul 26, 2025

  42. An open letter from educators who refuse the call to adopt GenAI in education

    94 points • comment • jul 10, 2025

  43. More women than expected are genetically men (2016)

    94 points • comment • jul 28, 2025

  44. Rust CLI with Clap

    94 points • comment • jul 01, 2025

  45. Structuring large Clojure codebases with Biff

    94 points • comment • jul 29, 2025

  46. Libpostal: C library for parsing/normalizing street addresses around the world

    94 points • comment • jul 09, 2025

  47. 7-Zip 25.00

    94 points • comment • jul 05, 2025

  48. The Big Oops in type systems: This problem extends to FP as well

    93 points • comment • jul 31, 2025

  49. Ursa: A leaderless, object storage–based alternative to Kafka

    93 points • comment • jul 31, 2025

  50. The Israeli "art student" mystery (2002)

    93 points • comment • jul 18, 2025

  51. Transition to using 16 KB page sizes for Android apps and games

    93 points • comment • jul 11, 2025

  52. Hulk Hogan Has Died

    92 points • comment • jul 24, 2025

  53. VHS, VCDs, and Laserdiscs in Southeast Asia

    92 points • comment • jul 11, 2025

  54. Erythritol linked to brain cell damage and stroke risk

    92 points • comment • jul 20, 2025

  55. At last, a use case for AI agents with sky-high ROI: Stealing crypto

    92 points • comment • jul 10, 2025

  56. Before Tragedy, Texas Repeatedly Rejected Pleas for Flood Alarm Funding

    92 points • comment • jul 12, 2025

  57. Interstellar Comet 3I/Atlas: What We Know Now

    92 points • comment • jul 28, 2025

  58. Trying to send a sticker in Steam Chat burned through a month of mobile data

    92 points • comment • jul 18, 2025

  59. Belkin ending support for older Wemo products

    92 points • comment • jul 10, 2025

  60. Show HN: Open-source alternative to ChatGPT Agents for browsing

    92 points • comment • jul 30, 2025

  61. Local Chatbot RAG with FreeBSD Knowledge

    92 points • comment • jul 13, 2025

  62. Pentagon Pizza Index

    92 points • comment • jul 30, 2025

  63. Nintendo Switch 2 account bans continue: warning after buying old copy of Bayo 3

    92 points • comment • jul 17, 2025

  64. Doge Put Free Tax Filing Tool on Chopping Block After One Meeting with Lobbyists

    92 points • comment • jul 17, 2025

  65. Using Radicle CI

    92 points • comment • jul 23, 2025

  66. OpenAI prepares to launch GPT-5 in August

    91 points • comment • jul 24, 2025

  67. Show HN: Ossia score – A sequencer for audio-visual artists

    91 points • comment • jul 07, 2025

  68. Tesla's energy storage business gets sucked into the company's downward spiral

    91 points • comment • jul 02, 2025

  69. GEPA: Reflective prompt evolution can outperform reinforcement learning

    91 points • comment • jul 31, 2025

  70. The POSIX specification of vi

    91 points • comment • jul 21, 2025

  71. Double-slit experiment holds up when stripped to its quantum essentials

    91 points • comment • jul 31, 2025

  72. Reading QR codes without a computer (2023)

    91 points • comment • jul 23, 2025

  73. Raspberry Pi 5 Gets a MicroSD Express Hat

    91 points • comment • jul 28, 2025

  74. Steve Jobs' cabinet

    91 points • comment • jul 23, 2025

  75. HDD Clicker generates HDD clicking sounds, based on HDD Led activity

    91 points • comment • jul 12, 2025

  76. I Used Arch, BTW: macOS, Day 1

    91 points • comment • jul 19, 2025

  77. Large ancient Hawaiian petroglyphs uncovered by waves on Oahu

    91 points • comment • jul 22, 2025

  78. The IRS Is Building a System to Share Taxpayers' Data with ICE

    91 points • comment • jul 15, 2025

  79. The Rise of Shippable Microfactories

    91 points • comment • jul 26, 2025

  80. Show HN: A GitHub Action that quizzes you on a pull request

    91 points • comment • jul 29, 2025

  81. Are a few people ruining the internet for the rest of us?

    90 points • comment • jul 13, 2025

  82. I solved the century-old mystery of a shipwreck survivor

    90 points • comment • jul 12, 2025

  83. Two and a Half Years in GameDev

    90 points • comment • jul 06, 2025

  84. Keep Pydantic out of your Domain Layer

    90 points • comment • jul 23, 2025

  85. Show HN: The missing link of a bookstore's tech stack

    90 points • comment • jul 23, 2025

  86. FastVLM: Efficient Vision Encoding for Vision Language Models

    90 points • comment • jul 23, 2025

  87. IPv6 Based Canvas

    89 points • comment • jul 20, 2025

  88. Claude Code new limits – Important updates to your Max account usage limits

    89 points • comment • jul 28, 2025

  89. “I noticed a clear violation of our contributing guidelines”

    89 points • comment • jul 20, 2025

  90. The EU can be shut down with a few keystrokes

    89 points • comment • jul 18, 2025

  91. A diverse cast of rocky worlds around a small star revealed by astronomers

    89 points • comment • jul 23, 2025

  92. Debugging Bash Like a Sire (2023)

    89 points • comment • jul 17, 2025

  93. What my mother didn’t talk about (2020)

    89 points • comment • jul 17, 2025

  94. Meta to stop running political ads on Facebook and Instagram in the EU

    89 points • comment • jul 25, 2025

  95. Reverse proxy deep dive

    89 points • comment • jul 08, 2025

  96. Hierarchical Modeling (H-Nets)

    89 points • comment • jul 15, 2025

  97. Go allocation probe

    89 points • comment • jul 22, 2025

  98. Ceramic: A cross-platform and open-source 2D framework in Haxe

    89 points • comment • jul 05, 2025

  99. Trying to find meaning in owning an old Mac

    89 points • comment • jul 08, 2025

  100. A Python dict that can report which keys you did not use

    88 points • comment • jul 27, 2025