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Hacker News (Jul 2025)

  1. Solving a Childhood Mystery: How BASIC Games Learned to Win

    65 points • comment • jul 20, 2025

  2. When is tech not hype? Tulips, toilets, trains and tabs

    65 points • comment • jul 15, 2025

  3. What should a native DOM templating API look like?

    65 points • comment • jul 01, 2025

  4. I deleted my entire social media presence before visiting the US – I'm a citizen

    65 points • comment • jul 21, 2025

  5. C++ Coroutines Advanced: Converting std:future to asio:awaitable

    65 points • comment • jul 15, 2025

  6. When photography was born, fascination, obsession, and danger followed

    65 points • comment • jul 24, 2025

  7. Why Tesla’s cars keep crashing

    65 points • comment • jul 05, 2025

  8. Can a Country Be Too Rich? Norway Is Finding Out

    65 points • comment • jul 29, 2025

  9. Science confirms what we all suspected: Four-day weeks rule

    65 points • comment • jul 22, 2025

  10. What happens when an octopus engages with art?

    65 points • comment • jul 18, 2025

  11. Palo Alto Networks agrees to buy CyberArk for $25B

    65 points • comment • jul 30, 2025

  12. The EU wants to decrypt your private data by 2030

    65 points • comment • jul 05, 2025

  13. Show HN: ToplingDB - A Persistent Key-Value Store for External Storage

    65 points • comment • jul 01, 2025

  14. No AI Content

    65 points • comment • jul 27, 2025

  15. DeepSeek app faces ban in Germany for illegal transfer of user data

    65 points • comment • jul 01, 2025

  16. The Convenience Trap: Why Seamless Banking Access Can Turn 2FA into 1FA

    65 points • comment • jul 29, 2025

  17. Ask HN: Worth leaving position over push to adopt vibe coding?

    65 points • comment • jul 04, 2025

  18. Mkosi – Build Bespoke OS Images

    65 points • comment • jul 16, 2025

  19. QSBS Limits Raised

    65 points • comment • jul 05, 2025

  20. Parallelizing SHA256 Calculation on FPGA

    64 points • comment • jul 03, 2025

  21. Fixing a Direct3D9 bug in Far Cry (2018)

    64 points • comment • jul 18, 2025

  22. NonRAID – fork of unRAID array kernel module

    64 points • comment • jul 22, 2025

  23. Show HN: VS Code extension to edit the filesystem like a text buffer

    64 points • comment • jul 13, 2025

  24. Async Ruby Is the Future of AI Apps (and It's Already Here)

    64 points • comment • jul 10, 2025

  25. Train a 70b language model at home (2024)

    64 points • comment • jul 24, 2025

  26. Launch HN: Gecko Security (YC F24) – AI That Finds Vulnerabilities in Code

    64 points • comment • jul 31, 2025

  27. Tandy Corporation, Part 3

    64 points • comment • jul 11, 2025

  28. Writing your Clojure tests in EDN files

    64 points • comment • jul 19, 2025

  29. Is Jeff Bezos killing The Washington Post on purpose or by accident?

    64 points • comment • jul 27, 2025

  30. The Robot Sculptors of Italy

    64 points • comment • jul 10, 2025

  31. CO2 sequestration through accelerated weathering of limestone on ships

    64 points • comment • jul 03, 2025

  32. EU Commission finds Temu in breach of online platform rules

    64 points • comment • jul 29, 2025

  33. Lessons from 863 episodes of This American Life

    64 points • comment • jul 06, 2025

  34. What is X-Forwarded-For and when can you trust it? (2024)

    64 points • comment • jul 23, 2025

  35. The Number go up rule: Why America refuses to fix anything

    64 points • comment • jul 18, 2025

  36. Show HN: BloomSearch – Keyword search with hierarchical Bloom filters

    63 points • comment • jul 13, 2025

  37. CU Randomness Beacon

    63 points • comment • jul 05, 2025

  38. Escher's art and computer science

    63 points • comment • jul 01, 2025

  39. Ultra-Rapid Vision in Birds

    63 points • comment • jul 27, 2025

  40. WinUAE 6 Amiga Emulator

    63 points • comment • jul 05, 2025

  41. Show HN: CallFS – S3-style object store in one Go binary (MIT)

    63 points • comment • jul 15, 2025

  42. 'Starter packs' have played a central role in Bluesky's rapid growth

    63 points • comment • jul 12, 2025

  43. Show HN: HackerNewt – Breadth-first exploring HN client for iOS

    63 points • comment • jul 01, 2025

  44. The End of Windows 10: a toolkit for community repair groups

    63 points • comment • jul 14, 2025

  45. Show HN: ggc – A terminal-based Git CLI written in Go

    63 points • comment • jul 16, 2025

  46. Perplexity launches Comet, an AI-powered web browser

    63 points • comment • jul 09, 2025

  47. Exhausted man defeats AI model in world coding championship

    63 points • comment • jul 18, 2025

  48. Nullable but not null

    63 points • comment • jul 25, 2025

  49. How to Get Foreign Keys Horribly Wrong

    63 points • comment • jul 15, 2025

  50. Musks xAI pressed employees to install surveillance software on personal laptops

    63 points • comment • jul 13, 2025

  51. Show HN: Arch-Router – 1.5B model for LLM routing by preferences, not benchmarks

    63 points • comment • jul 01, 2025

  52. Valve conquered PC gaming – what comes next?

    63 points • comment • jul 04, 2025

  53. The Preserving Machine by Philip K. Dick (1953)

    63 points • comment • jul 30, 2025

  54. Pascal's Scams (2012)

    63 points • comment • jul 12, 2025

  55. What is going on in Unix with errno's limited nature

    63 points • comment • jul 04, 2025

  56. Microsoft Introduces 'Copilot Mode' in Edge

    63 points • comment • jul 29, 2025

  57. Reversing a Fingerprint Reader Protocol (2021)

    63 points • comment • jul 19, 2025

  58. Encoding Jake Gyllenhaal into one million checkboxes (2024)

    63 points • comment • jul 03, 2025

  59. China is increasingly a home to major brands

    62 points • comment • jul 07, 2025

  60. Show HN: A cross-platform terminal emulator written in Java

    62 points • comment • jul 01, 2025

  61. Build an AI telephony agent for inbound and outbound calls

    62 points • comment • jul 30, 2025

  62. Do LLMs identify fonts?

    62 points • comment • jul 31, 2025

  63. The Art of Roland-Garros

    62 points • comment • jul 14, 2025

  64. The first alpha of Turso: The next evolution of SQLite

    62 points • comment • jul 02, 2025

  65. Clashes between web and X11 colors in the CSS color scheme

    62 points • comment • jul 13, 2025

  66. Show HN: Dlg – Zero-cost printf-style debugging for Go

    62 points • comment • jul 27, 2025

  67. Corrected UTF-8 (2022)

    62 points • comment • jul 03, 2025

  68. TSA to end shoes-off policy for airport security screening

    62 points • comment • jul 08, 2025

  69. The Decipherment of the Dhofari Script

    62 points • comment • jul 13, 2025

  70. Concurrent Programming with Harmony

    62 points • comment • jul 11, 2025

  71. Belgian CVD is deeply broken

    61 points • comment • jul 15, 2025

  72. What if AI made the world’s economic growth explode?

    61 points • comment • jul 26, 2025

  73. ADXL345 (2024)

    61 points • comment • jul 05, 2025

  74. Pbf2sqlite: Reading OpenStreetMap into a SQLite Database

    61 points • comment • jul 01, 2025

  75. Ask HN: How much of OpenAI code is written by AI?

    61 points • comment • jul 13, 2025

  76. Show HN: The HTML Maze – Escape an eerie labyrinth built with HTML pages

    61 points • comment • jul 14, 2025

  77. Ask HN: Why is "Tea" still on the App Store after so many data breaches?

    61 points • comment • jul 30, 2025

  78. The 1970s psychology experiment behind 'Star Wars' special effects (2023)

    61 points • comment • jul 28, 2025

  79. Australia Wants to See Your Papers Before You Press Play

    61 points • comment • jul 20, 2025

  80. Florida’s attorney general targets a restaurant over an LGBTQ Pride event

    61 points • comment • jul 29, 2025

  81. Cosmic Dawn: The Untold Story of the James Webb Space Telescope

    61 points • comment • jul 19, 2025

  82. Google nerfs Pixel 6a batteries following fire hazard

    61 points • comment • jul 11, 2025

  83. Memory Efficiency in iOS: Reducing footprint and beyond

    61 points • comment • jul 21, 2025

  84. Overclocking LLM Reasoning: Monitoring and Controlling LLM Thinking Path Lengths

    61 points • comment • jul 06, 2025

  85. There's a COMPUTER inside my DS flashcart [video]

    61 points • comment • jul 07, 2025

  86. Human Stigmergy: The world is my task list

    60 points • comment • jul 15, 2025

  87. Bits 0x02: switching to orion as a browser

    60 points • comment • jul 25, 2025

  88. Six Game Devs Speak to Computer Games Mag (1984)

    60 points • comment • jul 11, 2025

  89. Is there a no-AI audience?

    60 points • comment • jul 04, 2025

  90. The Lumina Probiotic May Cause Blindness in the Same Way as Methanol

    60 points • comment • jul 11, 2025

  91. How to configure X11 in a simple way

    60 points • comment • jul 25, 2025

  92. Cidco MailStation as a Z80 Development Platform (2019)

    60 points • comment • jul 14, 2025

  93. eslint-config-prettier npm package compromised

    60 points • comment • jul 18, 2025

  94. 2025 Stack Overflow Developer Survey Results

    60 points • comment • jul 29, 2025

  95. A quick look at unprivileged sandboxing

    60 points • comment • jul 13, 2025

  96. SIMD Perlin Noise: Beating the Compiler with SSE (2014)

    60 points • comment • jul 21, 2025

  97. America's Hot Garbage Problem

    60 points • comment • jul 01, 2025

  98. The FBI Is Using Polygraphs to Test Officials' Loyalty

    60 points • comment • jul 10, 2025

  99. Open, free, and ignored: the afterlife of Symbian

    60 points • comment • jul 17, 2025

  100. Yes in My Bamako Yard

    59 points • comment • jul 28, 2025