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Hacker News (Jul 2025)

  1. Checklists are hard, but still a good thing

    165 points • comment • jul 20, 2025

  2. Commodore 64 Ultimate

    165 points • comment • jul 12, 2025

  3. Show HN: FFmpeg in plain English – LLM-assisted FFmpeg in the browser

    165 points • comment • jul 10, 2025

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

    165 points • comment • jul 21, 2025

  5. Third patient dies from acute liver failure caused by a Sarepta gene therapy

    165 points • comment • jul 18, 2025

  6. What Microchip doesn't (officially) tell you about the VSC8512

    164 points • comment • jul 04, 2025

  7. Distillation makes AI models smaller and cheaper

    164 points • comment • jul 20, 2025

  8. I'm more proud of these 128 kilobytes than anything I've built since

    164 points • comment • jul 11, 2025

  9. Smallest particulate matter air quality sensor for ultra-compact IoT devices

    164 points • comment • jul 27, 2025

  10. Wii U SDBoot1 Exploit “paid the beak”

    164 points • comment • jul 18, 2025

  11. CPU-X: CPU-Z for Linux

    163 points • comment • jul 07, 2025

  12. A software conference that advocates for quality

    162 points • comment • jul 11, 2025

  13. Final report on Alaska Airlines Flight 1282 in-flight exit door plug separation

    162 points • comment • jul 10, 2025

  14. Kite News

    161 points • comment • jul 10, 2025

  15. A 37-year-old wanting to learn computer science

    161 points • comment • jul 05, 2025

  16. WASM Agents: AI agents running in the browser

    161 points • comment • jul 04, 2025

  17. Getting decent error reports in Bash when you're using 'set -e'

    161 points • comment • jul 24, 2025

  18. CO2 Battery

    160 points • comment • jul 25, 2025

  19. James Webb, Hubble space telescopes face reduction in operations

    160 points • comment • jul 14, 2025

  20. Geocities Backgrounds

    160 points • comment • jul 21, 2025

  21. Code highlighting extension for Cursor AI used for $500k theft

    159 points • comment • jul 15, 2025

  22. Personal aviation is about to get interesting (2023)

    159 points • comment • jul 26, 2025

  23. I'm Peter Roberts, immigration attorney who does work for YC and startups. AMA

    158 points • comment • jul 18, 2025

  24. OpenICE: Open-Source US Immigration Detention Dashboard

    158 points • comment • jul 13, 2025

  25. How the brain increases blood flow on demand

    158 points • comment • jul 29, 2025

  26. The underground cathedral protecting Tokyo from floods (2018)

    158 points • comment • jul 10, 2025

  27. Running a Certificate Transparency log

    157 points • comment • jul 07, 2025

  28. Jqfmt like gofmt, but for jq

    157 points • comment • jul 21, 2025

  29. A major AI training data set contains millions of examples of personal data

    157 points • comment • jul 30, 2025

  30. Section 174 is reversed, mostly

    156 points • comment • jul 18, 2025

  31. I tried vibe coding in BASIC and it didn't go well

    156 points • comment • jul 16, 2025

  32. Apple just released a weirdly interesting coding language model

    156 points • comment • jul 05, 2025

  33. Claude Code introduces specialized sub-agents

    156 points • comment • jul 25, 2025

  34. The Hater's Guide to the AI Bubble

    155 points • comment • jul 22, 2025

  35. Building a Mac app with Claude code

    154 points • comment • jul 06, 2025

  36. 12ft.io Taken Down

    154 points • comment • jul 21, 2025

  37. US companies, consumers are paying for tariffs, not foreign firms

    154 points • comment • jul 22, 2025

  38. Inside the box: Everything I did with an Arduino starter kit

    154 points • comment • jul 15, 2025

  39. Covers as a way of learning music and code

    154 points • comment • jul 21, 2025

  40. Replit's CEO apologizes after its AI agent wiped a company's code base

    154 points • comment • jul 22, 2025

  41. Claude Code Router

    154 points • comment • jul 28, 2025

  42. Tiny Code Reader: a $7 QR code sensor

    154 points • comment • jul 22, 2025

  43. Hacking Coroutines into C

    154 points • comment • jul 13, 2025

  44. Shallow water is dangerous too

    154 points • comment • jul 23, 2025

  45. Math.Pow(-1, 2) == -1 in Windows 11 Insider build

    153 points • comment • jul 02, 2025

  46. Trans-Taiga Road (2004)

    153 points • comment • jul 03, 2025

  47. BlueOS Kernel – Written in Rust, compatible with POSIX

    153 points • comment • jul 24, 2025

  48. LangExtract: Python library for extracting structured data from language models

    153 points • comment • jul 30, 2025

  49. Top DNS domains seen on the Quad9 recursive resolver array each day

    152 points • comment • jul 11, 2025

  50. Signs of autism could be encoded in the way you walk

    152 points • comment • jul 16, 2025

  51. MCP Security Vulnerabilities and Attack Vectors

    152 points • comment • jul 19, 2025

  52. Sumo – Simulation of Urban Mobility

    152 points • comment • jul 28, 2025

  53. Reverse engineering GitHub Actions cache to make it fast

    152 points • comment • jul 23, 2025

  54. Ask HN: I want to leave tech: what do I do?

    152 points • comment • jul 04, 2025

  55. Local-First Software Is Easier to Scale

    152 points • comment • jul 05, 2025

  56. Show HN: A 'Choose Your Own Adventure' written in Emacs Org Mode

    151 points • comment • jul 16, 2025

  57. How and where will agents ship software?

    151 points • comment • jul 16, 2025

  58. Archaeologists discover tomb of first king of Caracol

    150 points • comment • jul 14, 2025

  59. Qwen3-235B-A22B-Thinking-2507

    150 points • comment • jul 25, 2025

  60. Claude Code Unleashed

    150 points • comment • jul 15, 2025

  61. Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024: WebAssembly SDK

    150 points • comment • jul 26, 2025

  62. Users claim Discord's age verification can be tricked with video game characters

    150 points • comment • jul 26, 2025

  63. Show HN: Mcp-use – Connect any LLM to any MCP

    150 points • comment • jul 31, 2025

  64. The Story of Mel, A Real Programmer, Annotated (1996)

    150 points • comment • jul 12, 2025

  65. FEMA Didn’t Answer Thousands of Calls From Flood Survivors

    150 points • comment • jul 12, 2025

  66. Seven Engineers Suspended After $2.3M Bridge Includes 90-Degree Turn

    150 points • comment • jul 10, 2025

  67. APKLab: Android Reverse-Engineering Workbench for VS Code

    150 points • comment • jul 13, 2025

  68. Show HN: TheProtector – Linux Bash script for the paranoid admin on a budget

    150 points • comment • jul 23, 2025

  69. Spending Too Much Money on a Coding Agent

    149 points • comment • jul 01, 2025

  70. Remote hosting for your telescope

    149 points • comment • jul 31, 2025

  71. Linux 6.16: faster file systems, improved confidential memory, more Rust support

    149 points • comment • jul 29, 2025

  72. A human metaphor for evaluating AI capability

    149 points • comment • jul 20, 2025

  73. Why AO3 Was Down

    149 points • comment • jul 05, 2025

  74. Robots move Shanghai city block [video]

    149 points • comment • jul 03, 2025

  75. JavaScript retro sound effects generator

    149 points • comment • jul 29, 2025

  76. Resizable structs in Zig

    149 points • comment • jul 26, 2025

  77. Emacs: The macOS Bug

    149 points • comment • jul 30, 2025

  78. Show HN: MCP server for Blender that builds 3D scenes via natural language

    148 points • comment • jul 20, 2025

  79. ESP32-Faikin: ESP32 based module to control Daikin aircon units

    148 points • comment • jul 21, 2025

  80. Whole-genome ancestry of an Old Kingdom Egyptian

    148 points • comment • jul 03, 2025

  81. Carbon Language: An experimental successor to C++

    148 points • comment • jul 31, 2025

  82. What happens when housing prices go down?

    148 points • comment • jul 21, 2025

  83. Fun with gzip bombs and email clients

    148 points • comment • jul 22, 2025

  84. The Two Towers MUD

    148 points • comment • jul 05, 2025

  85. When root meets immutable: OpenBSD chflags vs. log tampering

    147 points • comment • jul 18, 2025

  86. Elements of System Design

    147 points • comment • jul 29, 2025

  87. Hilbert's sixth problem: derivation of fluid equations via Boltzmann's theory

    147 points • comment • jul 02, 2025

  88. Astronomers race to study interstellar interloper

    147 points • comment • jul 11, 2025

  89. Build Your Own Minisforum N5 Inspired Mini NAS

    147 points • comment • jul 30, 2025

  90. Voxtral – Frontier open source speech understanding models

    147 points • comment • jul 15, 2025

  91. Colombia seizes first unmanned narco-submarine with Starlink antenna

    146 points • comment • jul 06, 2025

  92. AI coding agents are removing programming language barriers

    145 points • comment • jul 23, 2025

  93. A list of changes to make it easier to build beautiful and walkable places

    145 points • comment • jul 24, 2025

  94. Seine reopens to Paris swimmers after century-long ban

    144 points • comment • jul 05, 2025

  95. ICANN fumes as AFRINIC offers no explanation for annulled election

    144 points • comment • jul 12, 2025

  96. Bcachefs may be headed out of the kernel

    144 points • comment • jul 04, 2025

  97. Speeding up PostgreSQL dump/restore snapshots

    144 points • comment • jul 05, 2025

  98. ESIM Security

    144 points • comment • jul 09, 2025

  99. Conversations with a hit man

    144 points • comment • jul 01, 2025

  100. I Ported SAP to a 1976 CPU. It Wasn't That Slow

    144 points • comment • jul 07, 2025