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Hacker News (Jul 2025)

  1. The FIPS 140-3 Go Cryptographic Module

    192 points • comment • jul 15, 2025

  2. Protecting my attention at the dopamine carnival

    192 points • comment • jul 15, 2025

  3. Plasma Bigscreen rises from the dead with a better UI

    192 points • comment • jul 15, 2025

  4. Simplify, then add delightness: On designing for children

    192 points • comment • jul 28, 2025

  5. Show HN: Petrichor – a free, open-source, offline music player for macOS

    192 points • comment • jul 09, 2025

  6. Subliminal learning: Models transmit behaviors via hidden signals in data

    191 points • comment • jul 22, 2025

  7. I scanned all of GitHub's "oops commits" for leaked secrets

    191 points • comment • jul 03, 2025

  8. Silence Is a Commons by Ivan Illich (1983)

    190 points • comment • jul 18, 2025

  9. Why LLMs Can't Write Q/Kdb+: Writing Code Right-to-Left

    190 points • comment • jul 08, 2025

  10. Tin Can – The landline, reinvented for kids

    190 points • comment • jul 16, 2025

  11. Occasionally USPS sends me pictures of other people's mail

    189 points • comment • jul 21, 2025

  12. The Prime Reasons to Avoid Amazon

    189 points • comment • jul 05, 2025

  13. Show HN: Improving search ranking with chess Elo scores

    189 points • comment • jul 16, 2025

  14. Show HN: A Raycast-compatible launcher for Linux

    188 points • comment • jul 13, 2025

  15. Is the doc bot docs, or not?

    188 points • comment • jul 09, 2025

  16. AMD CEO says U.S.-made TSMC chips are 5%-20% more expensive, but worth it

    188 points • comment • jul 24, 2025

  17. USB-C hubs and my slow descent into madness (2021)

    188 points • comment • jul 18, 2025

  18. How we tracked down a Go 1.24 memory regression

    188 points • comment • jul 17, 2025

  19. Pimping My Casio: Part Deux

    187 points • comment • jul 19, 2025

  20. Org tutorials

    187 points • comment • jul 23, 2025

  21. Games Look Bad: HDR and Tone Mapping (2017)

    187 points • comment • jul 25, 2025

  22. Programmers aren’t so humble anymore, maybe because nobody codes in Perl

    187 points • comment • jul 29, 2025

  23. ChatGPT creates phisher's paradise by serving the wrong URLs for major companies

    187 points • comment • jul 04, 2025

  24. Erlang 28 on GRiSP Nano using only 16 MB

    186 points • comment • jul 21, 2025

  25. The rise and fall of the Hanseatic League

    186 points • comment • jul 23, 2025

  26. Rotring 600 Ballpoint Pen

    186 points • comment • jul 25, 2025

  27. Microsoft bans LibreOffice developer's account without warning, rejects appeal

    185 points • comment • jul 29, 2025

  28. SIMD within a register: How I doubled hash table lookup performance

    184 points • comment • jul 28, 2025

  29. In a milestone for Manhattan, a pair of coyotes has made Central Park their home

    184 points • comment • jul 01, 2025

  30. Compression culture is making you stupid and uninteresting

    184 points • comment • jul 22, 2025

  31. About AI Evals

    184 points • comment • jul 01, 2025

  32. Show HN: Vibe Kanban – Kanban board to manage your AI coding agents

    183 points • comment • jul 11, 2025

  33. Ethersync: Peer-to-peer collaborative editing of local text files

    183 points • comment • jul 29, 2025

  34. Running a million-board chess MMO in a single process

    183 points • comment • jul 12, 2025

  35. Grammarly acquires Superhuman

    182 points • comment • jul 01, 2025

  36. Payment processors' bar on Japanese adult content endangers democracy (2024)

    182 points • comment • jul 20, 2025

  37. When Is WebAssembly Going to Get DOM Support?

    182 points • comment • jul 23, 2025

  38. Bad Actors Are Grooming LLMs to Produce Falsehoods

    182 points • comment • jul 12, 2025

  39. What's happening to reading?

    181 points • comment • jul 13, 2025

  40. AI agent benchmarks are broken

    181 points • comment • jul 11, 2025

  41. Archaeologists unveil 3,500-year-old city in Peru

    180 points • comment • jul 07, 2025

  42. Age Verification Laws Send VPN Use Soaring–and Threaten the Open Internet

    180 points • comment • jul 29, 2025

  43. .NET 10 Preview 6 brings JIT improvements, one-shot tool execution

    180 points • comment • jul 27, 2025

  44. Emergent Misalignment: Narrow finetuning can produce broadly misaligned LLMs

    179 points • comment • jul 13, 2025

  45. People kept working, became healthier while on basic income: report (2020)

    179 points • comment • jul 17, 2025

  46. Death by a Thousand Slops

    179 points • comment • jul 14, 2025

  47. LetsEncrypt Outage

    179 points • comment • jul 21, 2025

  48. Effectiveness of trees in reducing temperature, outdoor heat exposure in Vegas

    178 points • comment • jul 01, 2025

  49. Show HN: Typeform was too expensive so I built my own forms

    178 points • comment • jul 10, 2025

  50. What would an efficient and trustworthy meeting culture look like?

    178 points • comment • jul 28, 2025

  51. More assorted notes on Liquid Glass

    178 points • comment • jul 02, 2025

  52. My first verified imperative program

    177 points • comment • jul 07, 2025

  53. Strategies for Fast Lexers

    177 points • comment • jul 14, 2025

  54. Scientists identify culprit behind biggest-ever U.S. honey bee die-off

    177 points • comment • jul 01, 2025

  55. Linux Performance Analysis (2015)

    177 points • comment • jul 29, 2025

  56. They tried Made in the USA – it was too expensive for their customers

    177 points • comment • jul 02, 2025

  57. Building Modular Rails Applications: A Deep Dive into Rails Engines

    177 points • comment • jul 14, 2025

  58. Where is my von Braun wheel?

    176 points • comment • jul 03, 2025

  59. Font-size-adjust Is Useful

    176 points • comment • jul 23, 2025

  60. OSS Rebuild: open-source, rebuilt to last

    176 points • comment • jul 22, 2025

  61. Killing the Mauna Loa observatory over irrefutable evidence of increasing CO2

    175 points • comment • jul 22, 2025

  62. Hawley and Democrats vote to advance congressional stock trading ban

    175 points • comment • jul 31, 2025

  63. Bringing a decade old bicycle navigator back to life with open source software

    174 points • comment • jul 26, 2025

  64. Lorem Gibson

    174 points • comment • jul 13, 2025

  65. Show HN: We made our own inference engine for Apple Silicon

    174 points • comment • jul 15, 2025

  66. Teach Yourself Programming in Ten Years (1998)

    174 points • comment • jul 26, 2025

  67. The JJ VCS workshop: A zero-to-hero speedrun

    173 points • comment • jul 27, 2025

  68. SQLx – Rust SQL Toolkit

    173 points • comment • jul 26, 2025

  69. Shale Drillers Turn on Each Other as Toxic Water Leaks Hit Biggest US Oil Field

    172 points • comment • jul 21, 2025

  70. Man wearing metallic necklace dies after being sucked into MRI machine

    172 points • comment • jul 21, 2025

  71. You know what: Microsoft became miserably incompetent in IT

    172 points • comment • jul 31, 2025

  72. Show HN: Learn LLMs LeetCode Style

    172 points • comment • jul 13, 2025

  73. Agents built from alloys

    172 points • comment • jul 21, 2025

  74. Advertising without signal: The rise of the grifter equilibrium

    171 points • comment • jul 19, 2025

  75. Show HN: Compass CNC – Open-source handheld CNC router

    171 points • comment • jul 19, 2025

  76. Kepler.gl

    171 points • comment • jul 04, 2025

  77. How Tesla is proving doubters right on why its robotaxi service cannot scale

    171 points • comment • jul 20, 2025

  78. Show HN: Jobs by Referral: Find jobs in your LinkedIn network

    171 points • comment • jul 01, 2025

  79. Mushroom learns to crawl after being given robot body (2024)

    171 points • comment • jul 17, 2025

  80. MARS.EXE → COM (2021)

    171 points • comment • jul 12, 2025

  81. Solar-plus-storage technology is improving quickly

    171 points • comment • jul 21, 2025

  82. Helm local code execution via a malicious chart

    170 points • comment • jul 09, 2025

  83. Software Development at 800 Words per Minute

    170 points • comment • jul 24, 2025

  84. Yt-transcriber – Give a YouTube URL and get a transcription

    170 points • comment • jul 22, 2025

  85. Thesis: Interesting work is less amenable to the use of AI

    170 points • comment • jul 06, 2025

  86. Upcoming coordinated security fix for all Matrix server implementations

    170 points • comment • jul 17, 2025

  87. Microsoft to Cut 9k Workers in Second Wave of Major Layoffs

    168 points • comment • jul 02, 2025

  88. Vibe-Coding a PCB – surprisingly good

    168 points • comment • jul 12, 2025

  89. Analyzing database trends through 1.8M Hacker News headlines

    168 points • comment • jul 08, 2025

  90. Working through 'Writing A C Compiler'

    168 points • comment • jul 12, 2025

  91. Replacing cron jobs with a centralized task scheduler

    168 points • comment • jul 28, 2025

  92. Show HN: Windows 7 GUI for the web

    168 points • comment • jul 27, 2025

  93. What will become of the CIA?

    168 points • comment • jul 21, 2025

  94. Inter-Planetary Network Special Interest Group

    167 points • comment • jul 24, 2025

  95. Batch Mode in the Gemini API: Process More for Less

    167 points • comment • jul 07, 2025

  96. Replicube: 3D shader puzzle game, online demo

    167 points • comment • jul 11, 2025

  97. Monitoring My Homelab, Simply

    167 points • comment • jul 10, 2025

  98. I avoid using LLMs as a publisher and writer

    166 points • comment • jul 19, 2025

  99. I was wrong about robots.txt

    166 points • comment • jul 17, 2025

  100. Australian anti-porn group claims responsibility for Steams new censorship rules

    165 points • comment • jul 21, 2025