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Hacker News (Jul 2025)

  1. Cloudflare to introduce pay-per-crawl for AI bots

    523 points • comment • jul 01, 2025

  2. How was the Universal Pictures 1936 opening logo created?

    520 points • comment • jul 31, 2025

  3. Gemini with Deep Think achieves gold-medal standard at the IMO

    519 points • comment • jul 21, 2025

  4. AccountingBench: Evaluating LLMs on real long-horizon business tasks

    516 points • comment • jul 21, 2025

  5. SVGs that feel like GIFs

    515 points • comment • jul 08, 2025

  6. I used o3 to profile myself from my saved Pocket links

    515 points • comment • jul 07, 2025

  7. Nobody has a personality anymore: we are products with labels

    513 points • comment • jul 06, 2025

  8. Nobody knows how to build with AI yet

    511 points • comment • jul 19, 2025

  9. Jane Street barred from Indian markets as regulator freezes $566M

    510 points • comment • jul 06, 2025

  10. Figma files for proposed IPO

    508 points • comment • jul 01, 2025

  11. Ex-Waymo engineers launch Bedrock Robotics to automate construction

    506 points • comment • jul 16, 2025

  12. Show HN: I wrote a "web OS" based on the Apple Lisa's UI, with 1-bit graphics

    506 points • comment • jul 06, 2025

  13. Apple's Browser Engine Ban Persists, Even Under the DMA

    505 points • comment • jul 14, 2025

  14. Private sector lost 33k jobs, badly missing expectations of 100k increase

    505 points • comment • jul 02, 2025

  15. Don’t use “click here” as link text (2001)

    503 points • comment • jul 02, 2025

  16. Electric cars produce less brake dust pollution than combustion-engine cars

    503 points • comment • jul 24, 2025

  17. 4k NASA employees opt to leave agency through deferred resignation program

    501 points • comment • jul 27, 2025

  18. ICEBlock, an app for anonymously reporting ICE sightings, goes viral

    501 points • comment • jul 02, 2025

  19. Uv: Running a script with dependencies

    500 points • comment • jul 21, 2025

  20. iPhone 16 cameras vs. traditional digital cameras

    496 points • comment • jul 29, 2025

  21. Cognition (Devin AI) to Acquire Windsurf

    495 points • comment • jul 14, 2025

  22. What went wrong inside recalled Anker PowerCore 10000 power banks?

    494 points • comment • jul 21, 2025

  23. The anti-abundance critique on housing is wrong

    493 points • comment • jul 31, 2025

  24. MacBook Pro Insomnia

    488 points • comment • jul 31, 2025

  25. Show HN: Pangolin – Open source alternative to Cloudflare Tunnels

    487 points • comment • jul 10, 2025

  26. A 14kb page can load much faster than a 15kb page (2022)

    486 points • comment • jul 19, 2025

  27. Anthropic cut up millions of used books, and downloaded 7M pirated ones – judge

    478 points • comment • jul 07, 2025

  28. Open letter accuses BBC board member of having a conflict of interest on Gaza

    474 points • comment • jul 08, 2025

  29. OpenAI claims gold-medal performance at IMO 2025

    473 points • comment • jul 19, 2025

  30. A non-anthropomorphized view of LLMs

    469 points • comment • jul 06, 2025

  31. Bill Atkinson's psychedelic user interface

    468 points • comment • jul 11, 2025

  32. Ask HN: Is it time to fork HN into AI/LLM and "Everything else/other?"

    467 points • comment • jul 15, 2025

  33. Irrelevant facts about cats added to math problems increase LLM errors by 300%

    465 points • comment • jul 29, 2025

  34. CCTV footage captures video of an earthquake fault in motion

    462 points • comment • jul 26, 2025

  35. Major reversal in ocean circulation detected in the Southern Ocean

    457 points • comment • jul 04, 2025

  36. Many countries that said no to ChatControl in 2024 are now undecided

    457 points • comment • jul 31, 2025

  37. Don't animate height

    452 points • comment • jul 19, 2025

  38. When we get Komooted

    452 points • comment • jul 27, 2025

  39. I'm switching to Python and actually liking it

    444 points • comment • jul 16, 2025

  40. Mini NASes marry NVMe to Intel's efficient chip

    443 points • comment • jul 04, 2025

  41. I want an iPhone Mini-sized Android phone (2022)

    443 points • comment • jul 16, 2025

  42. There is no memory safety without thread safety

    441 points • comment • jul 24, 2025

  43. To be a better programmer, write little proofs in your head

    439 points • comment • jul 15, 2025

  44. The future is not self-hosted

    435 points • comment • jul 25, 2025

  45. LLM Embeddings Explained: A Visual and Intuitive Guide

    434 points • comment • jul 28, 2025

  46. Fully homomorphic encryption and the dawn of a private internet

    433 points • comment • jul 18, 2025

  47. OpenCut: The open-source CapCut alternative

    432 points • comment • jul 13, 2025

  48. Google can now read your WhatsApp messages

    432 points • comment • jul 08, 2025

  49. Grok 4 Launch [video]

    431 points • comment • jul 10, 2025

  50. Hand: open-source Robot Hand

    429 points • comment • jul 17, 2025

  51. Hannah Cairo: 17-year-old teen refutes a math conjecture proposed 40 years ago

    428 points • comment • jul 06, 2025

  52. GLP-1s are breaking life insurance

    427 points • comment • jul 13, 2025

  53. Upgrading an M4 Pro Mac mini's storage for half the price

    425 points • comment • jul 11, 2025

  54. Fstrings.wtf

    425 points • comment • jul 19, 2025

  55. The force-feeding of AI features on an unwilling public

    424 points • comment • jul 06, 2025

  56. Reading Neuromancer for the first time in 2025

    423 points • comment • jul 13, 2025

  57. Self-taught engineers often outperform (2024)

    422 points • comment • jul 17, 2025

  58. New sphere-packing record stems from an unexpected source

    422 points • comment • jul 07, 2025

  59. It's a DE9, not a DB9 (but we know what you mean)

    420 points • comment • jul 25, 2025

  60. I designed my own fast game streaming video codec – PyroWave

    420 points • comment • jul 28, 2025

  61. The death of partying in the USA

    419 points • comment • jul 09, 2025

  62. OBBB signed: Reinstates immediate expensing for U.S.-based R&D

    418 points • comment • jul 05, 2025

  63. Cloudflare Introduces Default Blocking of A.I. Data Scrapers

    414 points • comment • jul 02, 2025

  64. RIP Shunsaku Tamiya, the man who made plastic model kits a global obsession

    413 points • comment • jul 29, 2025

  65. US AI Action Plan

    413 points • comment • jul 23, 2025

  66. “Dynamic programming” is not referring to “computer programming”

    412 points • comment • jul 18, 2025

  67. The jank programming language

    411 points • comment • jul 06, 2025

  68. Show HN: CSS generator for a high-def glass effect

    411 points • comment • jul 02, 2025

  69. Show HN: Spegel, a Terminal Browser That Uses LLMs to Rewrite Webpages

    411 points • comment • jul 01, 2025

  70. The current hype around autonomous agents, and what actually works in production

    409 points • comment • jul 20, 2025

  71. Let's Learn x86-64 Assembly (2020)

    408 points • comment • jul 13, 2025

  72. Return of wolves to Yellowstone has led to a surge in aspen trees

    405 points • comment • jul 23, 2025

  73. Fakespot shuts down today after 9 years of detecting fake product reviews

    405 points • comment • jul 01, 2025

  74. More than you wanted to know about how Game Boy cartridges work

    402 points • comment • jul 22, 2025

  75. The Math Is Haunted

    402 points • comment • jul 30, 2025

  76. Faking a JPEG

    402 points • comment • jul 11, 2025

  77. Try the Mosquito Bucket of Death

    402 points • comment • jul 30, 2025

  78. I'm dialing back my LLM usage

    401 points • comment • jul 02, 2025

  79. Debian switches to 64-bit time for everything

    401 points • comment • jul 28, 2025

  80. Scientists may have found a way to eliminate chromosome linked to Down syndrome

    400 points • comment • jul 24, 2025

  81. IKEA ditches Zigbee for Thread going all in on Matter smart homes

    399 points • comment • jul 09, 2025

  82. The bewildering phenomenon of declining quality

    399 points • comment • jul 20, 2025

  83. LLM architecture comparison

    399 points • comment • jul 20, 2025

  84. Altermagnets: The first new type of magnet in nearly a century

    399 points • comment • jul 16, 2025

  85. Preliminary report into Air India crash released

    398 points • comment • jul 11, 2025

  86. The Promised LAN

    396 points • comment • jul 23, 2025

  87. TODOs aren't for doing

    396 points • comment • jul 22, 2025

  88. AMD CEO sees chips from TSMC's US plant costing 5%-20% more

    395 points • comment • jul 23, 2025

  89. PixiEditor 2.0 – A FOSS universal 2D graphics editor

    395 points • comment • jul 31, 2025

  90. I drank every cocktail

    394 points • comment • jul 23, 2025

  91. Show HN: Refine – A Local Alternative to Grammarly

    392 points • comment • jul 14, 2025

  92. New Date("wtf") – How well do you know JavaScript's Date class?

    392 points • comment • jul 12, 2025

  93. FFmpeg devs boast of another 100x leap thanks to handwritten assembly code

    390 points • comment • jul 20, 2025

  94. Celebrating 20 Years of MDN

    389 points • comment • jul 25, 2025

  95. Apple vs the Law

    386 points • comment • jul 11, 2025

  96. Wikimedia Foundation Challenges UK Online Safety Act Regulations

    386 points • comment • jul 29, 2025

  97. Unsafe and Unpredictable: My Volvo EX90 Experience

    386 points • comment • jul 22, 2025

  98. ACM Transitions to Full Open Access

    386 points • comment • jul 29, 2025

  99. My experience with Claude Code after two weeks of adventures

    384 points • comment • jul 17, 2025

  100. Anthropic tightens usage limits for Claude Code without telling users

    384 points • comment • jul 17, 2025