July 22, 2025

7.22.25 | Global hack on Microsoft Sharepoint, TrackWeight turns MacBook trackpad into scale, AccountingBench evaluates LLMs on business tasks

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This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Jul 22, 2025.

Global hack on Microsoft Sharepoint hits U.S., state agencies, researchers say
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2025/07/20/microsoft-sharepoint-hack/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44629710

TrackWeight: Turn your MacBook's trackpad into a digital weighing scale
https://github.com/KrishKrosh/TrackWeight
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44635808

AccountingBench: Evaluating LLMs on real long-horizon business tasks
https://accounting.penrose.com/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44637352

What went wrong inside recalled Anker PowerCore 10000 power banks?
https://www.lumafield.com/article/what-went-wrong-inside-these-recalled-power-banks
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44638580

Uv: Running a script with dependencies
https://docs.astral.sh/uv/guides/scripts/#running-a-script-with-dependencies
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44641521

Complete silence is always hallucinated as "ترجمة نانسي قنقر" in Arabic
https://github.com/openai/whisper/discussions/2608
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44643564

Don't bother parsing: Just use images for RAG
https://www.morphik.ai/blog/stop-parsing-docs
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44637715

New records on Wendelstein 7-X
https://www.iter.org/node/20687/new-records-wendelstein-7-x
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44636204

Jujutsu for busy devs
https://maddie.wtf/posts/2025-07-21-jujutsu-for-busy-devs
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44641961

AI comes up with bizarre physics experiments, but they work
https://www.quantamagazine.org/ai-comes-up-with-bizarre-physics-experiments-but-they-work-20250721/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44642349

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