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Hacker News (Jul 2025)

  1. A fast 3D collision detection algorithm

    257 points • comment • jul 09, 2025

  2. CP/M creator Gary Kildall's memoirs released as free download

    256 points • comment • jul 18, 2025

  3. Underwater turbine spinning for 6 years off Scotland's coast is a breakthrough

    256 points • comment • jul 10, 2025

  4. OpenAI delays launch of open-weight model

    256 points • comment • jul 12, 2025

  5. FCC to eliminate gigabit speed goal and scrap analysis of broadband prices

    256 points • comment • jul 21, 2025

  6. Asciinema: Record and share your terminal sessions

    256 points • comment • jul 25, 2025

  7. Never write your own date parsing library

    255 points • comment • jul 25, 2025

  8. Recovering from AI addiction

    254 points • comment • jul 11, 2025

  9. Volvo delivers 5,000th electric semi

    254 points • comment • jul 06, 2025

  10. Writing a Game Boy Emulator in OCaml (2022)

    254 points • comment • jul 04, 2025

  11. Maru OS – Use your phone as your PC

    254 points • comment • jul 29, 2025

  12. AI comes up with bizarre physics experiments, but they work

    254 points • comment • jul 22, 2025

  13. EPA says it will eliminate its scientific research arm

    254 points • comment • jul 18, 2025

  14. Artisanal handcrafted Git repositories

    253 points • comment • jul 16, 2025

  15. Building a Personal AI Factory

    253 points • comment • jul 01, 2025

  16. Fintech dystopia

    253 points • comment • jul 29, 2025

  17. Radium Music Editor

    252 points • comment • jul 08, 2025

  18. AV1@Scale: Film Grain Synthesis, The Awakening

    252 points • comment • jul 03, 2025

  19. A technical look at Iran's internet shutdowns

    251 points • comment • jul 13, 2025

  20. X-Clacks-Overhead

    251 points • comment • jul 02, 2025

  21. Retro gaming YouTuber Once Were Nerd sued and raided by the Italian government

    251 points • comment • jul 17, 2025

  22. The borrowchecker is what I like the least about Rust

    251 points • comment • jul 19, 2025

  23. Baba Is Eval

    251 points • comment • jul 03, 2025

  24. Claude Code is a slot machine

    251 points • comment • jul 27, 2025

  25. Why Elixir? Common misconceptions

    251 points • comment • jul 23, 2025

  26. A Typology of Canadianisms

    251 points • comment • jul 09, 2025

  27. Ask HN: What are you working on? (July 2025)

    251 points • comment • jul 27, 2025

  28. Digital vassals? French Government ‘exposes citizens’ data to US'

    250 points • comment • jul 20, 2025

  29. My favorite use-case for AI is writing logs

    250 points • comment • jul 17, 2025

  30. Developing our position on AI

    250 points • comment • jul 23, 2025

  31. Axon’s Draft One is designed to defy transparency

    250 points • comment • jul 11, 2025

  32. Weather Model based on ADS-B

    250 points • comment • jul 30, 2025

  33. Two narratives about AI

    249 points • comment • jul 24, 2025

  34. So you're a manager now

    249 points • comment • jul 31, 2025

  35. Diet, not lack of exercise, drives obesity, a new study finds

    248 points • comment • jul 24, 2025

  36. Efficient Computer's Electron E1 CPU – 100x more efficient than Arm?

    248 points • comment • jul 25, 2025

  37. The fish kick may be the fastest subsurface swim stroke yet (2015)

    248 points • comment • jul 12, 2025

  38. OpenAI's ChatGPT Agent casually clicks through "I am not a robot" verification

    248 points • comment • jul 28, 2025

  39. Web fingerprinting is worse than I thought (2023)

    248 points • comment • jul 24, 2025

  40. Bulgaria to join euro area on 1 January 2026

    248 points • comment • jul 09, 2025

  41. What went wrong for Yahoo

    248 points • comment • jul 26, 2025

  42. Test Results for AMD Zen 5

    247 points • comment • jul 26, 2025

  43. In a First, Solar Was Europe's Biggest Source of Power Last Month

    247 points • comment • jul 11, 2025

  44. The many JavaScript runtimes of the last decade

    247 points • comment • jul 27, 2025

  45. Big agriculture mislead the public about the benefits of biofuels

    247 points • comment • jul 28, 2025

  46. macOS Icon History

    246 points • comment • jul 05, 2025

  47. Show HN: MCP server for searching and downloading documents from Anna's Archive

    246 points • comment • jul 09, 2025

  48. Async Queue – One of my favorite programming interview questions

    246 points • comment • jul 06, 2025

  49. Linux and Secure Boot certificate expiration

    246 points • comment • jul 18, 2025

  50. Arizona resident dies from the plague less than 24 hours after showing symptoms

    245 points • comment • jul 12, 2025

  51. Font Comparison: Atkinson Hyperlegible Mono vs. JetBrains Mono and Fira Code

    245 points • comment • jul 22, 2025

  52. Context Rot: How increasing input tokens impacts LLM performance

    244 points • comment • jul 14, 2025

  53. Couchers is officially out of beta

    243 points • comment • jul 02, 2025

  54. HN Slop: AI startup ideas generated from Hacker News

    242 points • comment • jul 01, 2025

  55. Parsing Protobuf like never before

    242 points • comment • jul 17, 2025

  56. ICE is getting unprecedented access to Medicaid data

    241 points • comment • jul 18, 2025

  57. Speeding up my ZSH shell

    241 points • comment • jul 20, 2025

  58. We made Postgres writes faster, but it broke replication

    240 points • comment • jul 21, 2025

  59. Congress moves to reject bulk of White House's proposed NASA cuts

    240 points • comment • jul 16, 2025

  60. Backlog.md – Markdown‑native Task Manager and Kanban visualizer for any Git repo

    239 points • comment • jul 06, 2025

  61. Against the censorship of adult content by payment processors

    239 points • comment • jul 25, 2025

  62. Animated Cursors

    239 points • comment • jul 25, 2025

  63. New records on Wendelstein 7-X

    238 points • comment • jul 21, 2025

  64. 2,500-year-old Siberian 'ice mummy' had intricate tattoos, imaging reveals

    238 points • comment • jul 31, 2025

  65. Hundred Rabbits – Low-tech living while sailing the world

    237 points • comment • jul 14, 2025

  66. Mostly dead influential programming languages (2020)

    237 points • comment • jul 12, 2025

  67. Apple Intelligence Foundation Language Models Tech Report 2025

    236 points • comment • jul 17, 2025

  68. Chemical process produces critical battery metals with no waste

    236 points • comment • jul 27, 2025

  69. FP8 is ~100 tflops faster when the kernel name has "cutlass" in it

    236 points • comment • jul 11, 2025

  70. Google's shortened goo.gl links will stop working next month

    235 points • comment • jul 25, 2025

  71. GlobalFoundries to Acquire MIPS

    235 points • comment • jul 08, 2025

  72. The EU could be scanning your chats by October 2025

    235 points • comment • jul 29, 2025

  73. GLM-4.5: Reasoning, Coding, and Agentic Abililties

    234 points • comment • jul 28, 2025

  74. Taking over 60k spyware user accounts with SQL injection

    234 points • comment • jul 03, 2025

  75. Code-GUI bidirectional editing via LSP

    234 points • comment • jul 01, 2025

  76. Ask HN: Any active COBOL devs here? What are you working on?

    234 points • comment • jul 18, 2025

  77. Ruby 3.4 frozen string literals: What Rails developers need to know

    234 points • comment • jul 06, 2025

  78. AI therapy bots fuel delusions and give dangerous advice, Stanford study finds

    233 points • comment • jul 13, 2025

  79. Lumo: Privacy-first AI assistant

    232 points • comment • jul 23, 2025

  80. I've launched 37 products in 5 years and not doing that again

    232 points • comment • jul 21, 2025

  81. The Miyawaki Method of micro-forestry

    231 points • comment • jul 05, 2025

  82. A Virginia public library is fighting off a takeover by private equity

    231 points • comment • jul 10, 2025

  83. Malware found in official gravityforms plugin indicating supply chain breach

    230 points • comment • jul 12, 2025

  84. The upcoming GPT-3 moment for RL

    230 points • comment • jul 09, 2025

  85. Log by time, not by count

    230 points • comment • jul 21, 2025

  86. The future is not self-hosted, but self-sovereign

    230 points • comment • jul 27, 2025

  87. I saved a PNG image to a bird

    229 points • comment • jul 28, 2025

  88. Microsoft Office is using an artificially complex XML schema as a lock-in tool

    229 points • comment • jul 19, 2025

  89. Launch HN: K-Scale Labs (YC W24) – Open-Source Humanoid Robots

    229 points • comment • jul 03, 2025

  90. Zig breaking change – Initial Writergate

    228 points • comment • jul 04, 2025

  91. Terminal app can now run full graphical Linux apps in the latest Android Canary

    228 points • comment • jul 25, 2025

  92. Techno-feudalism and the rise of AGI: A future without economic rights?

    228 points • comment • jul 05, 2025

  93. What to build instead of AI agents

    227 points • comment • jul 03, 2025

  94. Different Clocks

    227 points • comment • jul 28, 2025

  95. The new literalism plaguing today’s movies

    227 points • comment • jul 15, 2025

  96. Cloudflare starts blocking pirate sites for UK users

    226 points • comment • jul 15, 2025

  97. Air Force unit suspends use of Sig Sauer pistol after shooting death of airman

    226 points • comment • jul 24, 2025

  98. Functions Are Vectors (2023)

    226 points • comment • jul 06, 2025

  99. Observable Notebooks 2.0 Technology Preview

    225 points • comment • jul 29, 2025

  100. UK: Phone networks down: EE, BT, Three, Vodafone, O2 not working in mass outage

    225 points • comment • jul 24, 2025