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Hacker News (Jul 2025)

  1. LLMs can now identify public figures in images

    41 points • comment • jul 28, 2025

  2. Nimtable: Open-source web UI to browse and manage Apache Iceberg tables

    41 points • comment • jul 01, 2025

  3. Swahili on the Road

    41 points • comment • jul 09, 2025

  4. Show HN: Unlearning Comparator, a visual tool to compare machine unlearning

    40 points • comment • jul 07, 2025

  5. A DOJ Whistleblower Speaks Out

    40 points • comment • jul 23, 2025

  6. Ask HN: Anyone else tired of AI being forced on you?

    40 points • comment • jul 16, 2025

  7. Large language models are improving exponentially?

    40 points • comment • jul 05, 2025

  8. Texas ranks as No. 1 state with the most people in financial distress

    40 points • comment • jul 20, 2025

  9. Post Office scandal may have led to more than 13 suicides, inquiry finds

    40 points • comment • jul 08, 2025

  10. Impact of PCIe 5.0 Bandwidth on GPU Content Creation and LLM Performance

    40 points • comment • jul 03, 2025

  11. Clang: -Wexperimental-lifetime-safety: Experimental C++ Lifetime Safety Analysis

    40 points • comment • jul 14, 2025

  12. Nuclear Explosion for Carbon Sequestration

    40 points • comment • jul 13, 2025

  13. Go Assembly Mutation Testing

    40 points • comment • jul 31, 2025

  14. Extreme skydiver Baumgartner dies in paragliding accident

    40 points • comment • jul 17, 2025

  15. Inequality, decay of democratic institutions linked to accelerated ageing

    40 points • comment • jul 14, 2025

  16. Trying to play an isomorphic piano (2022) [video]

    40 points • comment • jul 24, 2025

  17. Their Water Taps Ran Dry When Meta Built Next Door

    40 points • comment • jul 14, 2025

  18. AI could have written this: Birth of a classist slur in knowledge work [pdf]

    40 points • comment • jul 22, 2025

  19. Reverse Engineering the Firmware Loader for an X-Rite Spectrophotometer

    40 points • comment • jul 10, 2025

  20. The New York Times wants your private ChatGPT history – even the deleted parts

    40 points • comment • jul 08, 2025

  21. This month in Servo: network inspector, a11y first steps, WebDriver, and more

    40 points • comment • jul 18, 2025

  22. When circumvention is more popular than compliance

    40 points • comment • jul 27, 2025

  23. Analysing Roman itineraries using GIS tooling

    40 points • comment • jul 04, 2025

  24. Generative AI. "Slop Generators, are unsuitable for use [ ]"

    40 points • comment • jul 28, 2025

  25. UK Gov Petition: Repeal the Online Safety Act

    39 points • comment • jul 25, 2025

  26. Age verification doesn't need to be a privacy footgun

    39 points • comment • jul 31, 2025

  27. Show HN: A high-altitude low-power flight computer for high-altitude balloons

    39 points • comment • jul 30, 2025

  28. Goodbye to All That – My Resignation from the FBI

    39 points • comment • jul 05, 2025

  29. Allentown man said to have died in ICE custody is alive in Guatemala

    39 points • comment • jul 20, 2025

  30. Easy dynamic dispatch using GLIBC Hardware Capabilities

    39 points • comment • jul 12, 2025

  31. Economists made a model of the U.S. economy. Our debt crashed the model

    39 points • comment • jul 17, 2025

  32. OpenAI to release web browser in challenge to Google Chrome

    39 points • comment • jul 09, 2025

  33. Abrego Garcia Was Beaten and Tortured in El Salvador Prison, Lawyers Say

    39 points • comment • jul 03, 2025

  34. Yamlfmt: An extensible command line tool or library to format YAML files

    39 points • comment • jul 07, 2025

  35. Why the simplest desktop agent abstraction wins

    39 points • comment • jul 03, 2025

  36. When we die do we still have any of the original cells from our birth? (2020)

    39 points • comment • jul 02, 2025

  37. Four-day workweek makes for healthier, more satisfied workers

    39 points • comment • jul 21, 2025

  38. New federal data show H-1B and H-4 visas now capture 82% of all new US tech jobs

    39 points • comment • jul 22, 2025

  39. Tracking source locations in the Futhark compiler

    39 points • comment • jul 31, 2025

  40. A Canadian's AI hoax duped the media and propelled a 'band' to success

    39 points • comment • jul 06, 2025

  41. Roman Roads Research Association (UK)

    39 points • comment • jul 20, 2025

  42. Multiplex: Command-Line Process Mutliplexer

    39 points • comment • jul 28, 2025

  43. Show HN: Convert from MIDI file to ASCII tablature (and more)

    39 points • comment • jul 27, 2025

  44. Show HN: Monchromate – Smart greyscale browser extension

    39 points • comment • jul 29, 2025

  45. Southern Ocean Circulation Reversed

    39 points • comment • jul 07, 2025

  46. Meta Unveils Wristband for Controlling Computers with Hand Gestures

    39 points • comment • jul 23, 2025

  47. Rapidus Starts 2nm Gate All Around Prototype Production at IIM-1

    39 points • comment • jul 21, 2025

  48. Shattering the rotation illusion: The attacker view and AWSKeyLockdown (2024)

    39 points • comment • jul 24, 2025

  49. Who is Soham Parekh, the serial moonlighter Silicon Valley can't stop hiring?

    39 points • comment • jul 04, 2025

  50. Structuring Arrays with Algebraic Shapes [video]

    39 points • comment • jul 18, 2025

  51. The future of ultra-fast passenger travel

    39 points • comment • jul 19, 2025

  52. We're light-years away from true artificial intelligence, says martha wells

    38 points • comment • jul 11, 2025

  53. Why not Matrix (2023)

    38 points • comment • jul 28, 2025

  54. Logical implication is a comparison operator

    38 points • comment • jul 17, 2025

  55. Iran halts cooperation with UN nuclear watchdog

    38 points • comment • jul 02, 2025

  56. Prettier NPM Packages Compromised in Supply Chain Attack

    38 points • comment • jul 19, 2025

  57. Google failed to warn 10M of Turkey earthquake

    38 points • comment • jul 28, 2025

  58. Leaders are using appeals to nostalgia, nationalism to attack higher education

    38 points • comment • jul 20, 2025

  59. Wish you could escape the planet? Too bad life in space would suck (2024)

    38 points • comment • jul 29, 2025

  60. PHP 8.5 alpha 1 is available for download

    38 points • comment • jul 09, 2025

  61. Blue Pencil no. 18–Some history about Arial

    38 points • comment • jul 14, 2025

  62. ICE may deport to 'third countries' without assurances they won't be tortured

    38 points • comment • jul 16, 2025

  63. Walking every street in New York City

    38 points • comment • jul 11, 2025

  64. Aeneas transforms how historians connect the past

    38 points • comment • jul 24, 2025

  65. New York City's Subway Is Safer Than Your Car

    38 points • comment • jul 21, 2025

  66. How culture is made

    38 points • comment • jul 12, 2025

  67. 1945 TV Console Showed Two Programs at Once

    38 points • comment • jul 05, 2025

  68. Meta Is Going to Let Job Candidates Use AI During Coding Tests

    38 points • comment • jul 29, 2025

  69. You Must Listen to RFC 2119

    38 points • comment • jul 02, 2025

  70. SDR42E1 modulates Vitamin D absorption and cancer pathogenesis

    38 points • comment • jul 23, 2025

  71. Hello Sprout

    38 points • comment • jul 28, 2025

  72. Ask HN: What is a physiically disabled person to do in this job market?

    38 points • comment • jul 14, 2025

  73. Implementing dynamic scope for Fennel and Lua

    38 points • comment • jul 23, 2025

  74. The Future of Programming (2013)

    38 points • comment • jul 31, 2025

  75. Study finds AI tools made open source software developers 19 percent slower

    37 points • comment • jul 15, 2025

  76. Portability of Tar Features

    37 points • comment • jul 03, 2025

  77. Don't give children under age 13 smartphones

    37 points • comment • jul 27, 2025

  78. Bypassing Watermark Implementations

    37 points • comment • jul 22, 2025

  79. Singapore actively dealing with ongoing cyberattack on critical infrastructure

    37 points • comment • jul 19, 2025

  80. A grand tour through the essays of Lewis H. Lapham

    37 points • comment • jul 26, 2025

  81. Automatically Packaging a Haskell Library as a Swift Binary XCFramework

    37 points • comment • jul 07, 2025

  82. Give footnotes the boot – alternatives to footnotes on the web

    37 points • comment • jul 01, 2025

  83. Show HN: I built a biological network visualization tool

    37 points • comment • jul 25, 2025

  84. US to Stop Producing Pennies in 2026

    37 points • comment • jul 10, 2025

  85. Trigon: Exploiting coprocessors for fun and for profit (part 2)

    37 points • comment • jul 19, 2025

  86. Show HN: a community for collaborating on sideprojects

    37 points • comment • jul 02, 2025

  87. Why the Real Computer Revolution Never Happened – Alan Kay and Anjan Katta [video]

    37 points • comment • jul 15, 2025

  88. Magentic-UI: Towards Human-in-the-Loop Agentic Systems

    37 points • comment • jul 31, 2025

  89. Dogwalk: Blender Studio's Official Game

    37 points • comment • jul 13, 2025

  90. Amazon S3 Vectors

    37 points • comment • jul 16, 2025

  91. Show HN: I built a toy music controller for my 5yo with a coding agent

    37 points • comment • jul 08, 2025

  92. Just Ask for Generalization (2021)

    37 points • comment • jul 03, 2025

  93. SV AI Startups Are Embracing China's Controversial '996' Work Schedule

    37 points • comment • jul 23, 2025

  94. UK VPN demand soars after debut of Online Safety Act

    37 points • comment • jul 28, 2025

  95. What birdsong and back ends can teach us about magic

    37 points • comment • jul 20, 2025

  96. The Role of Blood Plasma Donation Centers in Crime Reduction

    37 points • comment • jul 22, 2025

  97. VMware Workstation: Bringing Virtualization to the x86 Architecture (2012) [pdf]

    37 points • comment • jul 13, 2025

  98. The U.S. debt outlook is so dire it now resembles the student loan crisis

    37 points • comment • jul 19, 2025

  99. EBAF – eBPF Based Ad Firewall

    37 points • comment • jul 03, 2025

  100. The Evilization of Google–and What to Do About It

    37 points • comment • jul 27, 2025