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Hacker News (Jul 2025)

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

    144 points • comment • jul 07, 2025

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

    144 points • comment • jul 05, 2025

  3. Mira Murati’s AI startup Thinking Machines valued at $12B in early-stage funding

    143 points • comment • jul 15, 2025

  4. Embedding user-defined indexes in Apache Parquet

    143 points • comment • jul 14, 2025

  5. The Game Genie Generation

    143 points • comment • jul 21, 2025

  6. ICE's Supercharged Facial Recognition App of 200M Images

    142 points • comment • jul 17, 2025

  7. Dict Unpacking in Python

    142 points • comment • jul 08, 2025

  8. Air pollution may contribute to development of lung cancer in never-smokers

    142 points • comment • jul 04, 2025

  9. Researchers value null results, but struggle to publish them

    142 points • comment • jul 23, 2025

  10. PlanetScale for Postgres

    142 points • comment • jul 01, 2025

  11. Blip: Peer-to-peer massive file sharing

    141 points • comment • jul 22, 2025

  12. Show HN: Interactive pinout for the Raspberry Pi Pico 2

    141 points • comment • jul 07, 2025

  13. Gemini North telescope discovers long-predicted stellar companion of Betelgeuse

    141 points • comment • jul 22, 2025

  14. U.S. abandons hunt for signal of cosmic inflation

    141 points • comment • jul 11, 2025

  15. You Are in a Box

    141 points • comment • jul 14, 2025

  16. Where can I see Hokusai's Great Wave today?

    141 points • comment • jul 09, 2025

  17. C3 solved memory lifetimes with scopes

    140 points • comment • jul 11, 2025

  18. EU commissioner shocked by dangers of some goods sold by Shein and Temu

    140 points • comment • jul 20, 2025

  19. A conceptual overview of asyncio

    140 points • comment • jul 21, 2025

  20. Danish Study: No link between vaccines and autism or other health conditions

    140 points • comment • jul 28, 2025

  21. DuckDuckGo now lets you hide AI-generated images in search results

    140 points • comment • jul 18, 2025

  22. The Origin of the Research University

    140 points • comment • jul 06, 2025

  23. We have made the decision to not continue paying for BBB accreditation

    140 points • comment • jul 22, 2025

  24. Gmailtail – Command-line tool to monitor Gmail messages and output them as JSON

    139 points • comment • jul 03, 2025

  25. Blind to Disruption – The CEOs Who Missed the Future

    139 points • comment • jul 08, 2025

  26. New Aarch64 Back End

    139 points • comment • jul 24, 2025

  27. Converting a large mathematical software package written in C++ to C++20 modules

    139 points • comment • jul 01, 2025

  28. We're not innovating, we're just forgetting slower

    139 points • comment • jul 04, 2025

  29. Secure boot certificate rollover is real but probably won't hurt you

    138 points • comment • jul 31, 2025

  30. Serving 200M requests per day with a CGI-bin

    138 points • comment • jul 04, 2025

  31. Incus – Next-generation system container, application container, and VM manager

    138 points • comment • jul 12, 2025

  32. Firefox-patch-bin, librewolf-fix-bin AUR packages contain malware

    138 points • comment • jul 18, 2025

  33. Stop Killing Games

    138 points • comment • jul 05, 2025

  34. Fundamentals of garbage collection (2023)

    138 points • comment • jul 09, 2025

  35. SUSE launches new European digital sovereignty service to meet surging demand

    137 points • comment • jul 09, 2025

  36. Micron rolls out 276-layer SSD trio for speed, scale, and stability

    137 points • comment • jul 30, 2025

  37. Claude Code Pro Limit? Hack It While You Sleep

    137 points • comment • jul 06, 2025

  38. OpenAI's "Study Mode" and the risks of flattery

    136 points • comment • jul 31, 2025

  39. Brazil central bank to launch Pix installment feature in September

    136 points • comment • jul 21, 2025

  40. Myanmar’s proliferating scam centers

    136 points • comment • jul 14, 2025

  41. Optimizing a Math Expression Parser in Rust

    136 points • comment • jul 10, 2025

  42. Nothing to watch – Experimental gallery visualizing 50k film posters

    136 points • comment • jul 29, 2025

  43. A media company demanded a license fee for an Open Graph image I used

    136 points • comment • jul 23, 2025

  44. First malaria treatment for babies approved for use

    135 points • comment • jul 08, 2025

  45. NASA’s X-59 quiet supersonic aircraft begins taxi tests

    135 points • comment • jul 19, 2025

  46. 150 years of Hans Christian Andersen

    135 points • comment • jul 30, 2025

  47. A valid HTML zip bomb

    135 points • comment • jul 24, 2025

  48. Gaslight-driven development

    134 points • comment • jul 17, 2025

  49. SecretSpec: Declarative Secrets Management

    134 points • comment • jul 21, 2025

  50. Australians to face age checks from search engines

    134 points • comment • jul 01, 2025

  51. OCaml Programming: Correct and Efficient and Beautiful

    134 points • comment • jul 26, 2025

  52. '123456' password exposed chats for 64M McDonald's job applicants

    134 points • comment • jul 11, 2025

  53. A month using XMPP (using Snikket) for every call and chat (2023)

    134 points • comment • jul 29, 2025

  54. Caching is an abstraction, not an optimization

    134 points • comment • jul 01, 2025

  55. Employee – CEO pay gap historically wide

    133 points • comment • jul 23, 2025

  56. Algorithms for making interesting organic simulations

    133 points • comment • jul 13, 2025

  57. Ask HN: Any resources for finding non-smart appliances?

    133 points • comment • jul 07, 2025

  58. American sentenced for helping North Koreans get jobs at U.S. firms

    133 points • comment • jul 24, 2025

  59. Immigration agents told a teenage US citizen: 'You've got no rights.'

    133 points • comment • jul 25, 2025

  60. Yes, the Book of PF, fourth edition is coming soon

    133 points • comment • jul 23, 2025

  61. Breaking the WASM/JS communication performance barrier

    133 points • comment • jul 23, 2025

  62. Manticore Search: Fast, efficient, drop-in replacement for Elasticsearch

    133 points • comment • jul 23, 2025

  63. Replication of Quantum Factorisation Records with an 8-bit Home Computer [pdf]

    132 points • comment • jul 12, 2025

  64. Linux and Secure Boot certificate expiration

    132 points • comment • jul 19, 2025

  65. Tour de France confronts a new threat: Are cyclists using tiny motors?

    132 points • comment • jul 25, 2025

  66. The story behind Caesar salad

    132 points • comment • jul 04, 2025

  67. A New Geometry for Einstein's Theory of Relativity

    132 points • comment • jul 18, 2025

  68. Apache HTTP Server: 'RewriteCond expr' always evaluates to true

    132 points • comment • jul 24, 2025

  69. Code Execution Through Email: How I Used Claude to Hack Itself

    131 points • comment • jul 17, 2025

  70. 'Shameful' CBA hiring Indian ICT workers after firing Australians

    131 points • comment • jul 22, 2025

  71. Subreply – An open source text-only social network

    131 points • comment • jul 20, 2025

  72. Deno 2.4

    131 points • comment • jul 07, 2025

  73. Low cost mmWave 60GHz radar sensor for advanced sensing

    130 points • comment • jul 24, 2025

  74. Apple bans entire dev account, no reason given

    130 points • comment • jul 18, 2025

  75. Orwell Diaries 1938-1942

    129 points • comment • jul 10, 2025

  76. So you think you've awoken ChatGPT

    129 points • comment • jul 22, 2025

  77. H-1B program grew 81 percent from 2011 to 2022

    129 points • comment • jul 18, 2025

  78. Blog series on creating an OS in Rust

    129 points • comment • jul 30, 2025

  79. Stone blocks from the Lighthouse of Alexandria recovered from seafloor

    128 points • comment • jul 13, 2025

  80. Why email startups fail

    128 points • comment • jul 01, 2025

  81. Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (July 2025)

    128 points • comment • jul 01, 2025

  82. U.S. intelligence intervened with DOJ to push HPE-Juniper merger

    128 points • comment • jul 30, 2025

  83. Encrypting files with passkeys and age

    128 points • comment • jul 14, 2025

  84. # [derive(Clone)] Is Broken

    128 points • comment • jul 04, 2025

  85. Vitamin C Boosts Epidermal Growth via DNA Demethylation

    128 points • comment • jul 02, 2025

  86. How I lost my backpack with passports and laptop

    128 points • comment • jul 15, 2025

  87. Chain of thought monitorability: A new and fragile opportunity for AI safety

    128 points • comment • jul 16, 2025

  88. Earth Has Tilted 31.5 Inches. That Shouldn't Happen

    128 points • comment • jul 26, 2025

  89. Springer Nature book on machine learning is full of made-up citations

    128 points • comment • jul 09, 2025

  90. Where are vacation homes located in the US?

    127 points • comment • jul 26, 2025

  91. PyPI Prohibits inbox.ru email domain registrations

    127 points • comment • jul 16, 2025

  92. LookingGlass: Generative Anamorphoses via Laplacian Pyramid Warping

    127 points • comment • jul 07, 2025

  93. Ongoing Lean formalization of the proof for Fermat's Last Theorem

    127 points • comment • jul 31, 2025

  94. Yearly Organiser

    127 points • comment • jul 29, 2025

  95. What were the earliest laws like?

    126 points • comment • jul 15, 2025

  96. If writing is thinking then what happens if AI is doing the writing and reading?

    125 points • comment • jul 21, 2025

  97. Britain's spies-for-hire are running wild

    125 points • comment • jul 25, 2025

  98. Would You Like an IDOR With That? Leaking 64m McDonald's Job Applications

    125 points • comment • jul 09, 2025

  99. Turkey bans Grok over Erdoğan insults

    125 points • comment • jul 10, 2025

  100. Scarcity, Inventory, and Inequity: A Deep Dive into Airline Fare Buckets

    124 points • comment • jul 21, 2025