Hacker News Highlights

Do not download the app, use the website
https://idiallo.com/blog/dont-download-apps
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44689059

Steam, Itch.io are pulling ‘porn’ games. Critics say it's a slippery slope
https://www.wired.com/story/steam-itchio-are-pulling-porn-games-censorship/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44685011

It's time for modern CSS to kill the SPA
https://www.jonoalderson.com/conjecture/its-time-for-modern-css-to-kill-the-spa/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44688489

Women dating safety app 'Tea' breached, users' IDs posted to 4chan
https://www.404media.co/women-dating-safety-app-tea-breached-users-ids-posted-to-4chan/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44684373

It's a DE9, not a DB9 (but we know what you mean)
https://news.sparkfun.com/14298
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44682964

The future is not self-hosted
https://www.drewlyton.com/story/the-future-is-not-self-hosted/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44682175

Programming vehicles in games
https://wassimulator.com/blog/programming/programming_vehicles_in_games.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44683682

Vanilla JavaScript support for Tailwind Plus
https://tailwindcss.com/blog/vanilla-js-support-for-tailwind-plus
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44686317

Why MIT switched from Scheme to Python (2009)
https://www.wisdomandwonder.com/link/2110/why-mit-switched-from-scheme-to-python
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44685119

Developing our position on AI
https://www.recurse.com/blog/191-developing-our-position-on-ai
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44663072

Graphene OS: a security-enhanced Android build
https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/1030004/898017c7953c0946/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44676691

There is no memory safety without thread safety
https://www.ralfj.de/blog/2025/07/24/memory-safety.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44672003

AMD CEO sees chips from TSMC's US plant costing 5%-20% more
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-07-23/amd-ceo-su-sees-chips-from-us-tsmc-plant-costing-5-to-20-more
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44663074

I wasted weeks hand optimizing assembly because I benchmarked on random data
https://www.vidarholen.net/contents/blog/?p=1160
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44632674

Scientists may have found a way to eliminate chromosome linked to Down syndrome
https://academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/article/4/2/pgaf022/8016019
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44676817

Open Source Maintenance Fee
https://github.com/wixtoolset/issues/issues/8974
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44669858

Use Your Type System
https://www.dzombak.com/blog/2025/07/use-your-type-system/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44671484

PSA: SQLite WAL checksums fail silently and may lose data
https://avi.im/blag/2025/sqlite-wal-checksum/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44671373

Vet is a safety net for the curl | bash pattern
https://github.com/vet-run/vet
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44669998

Positron – A next-generation data science IDE
https://positron.posit.co/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44634598

CARA – High precision robot dog using rope
https://www.aaedmusa.com/projects/cara
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44661846

Show HN: Tinder but it's only pictures of my wife and I can only swipe right
https://trytender.app/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44664873

Cops say criminals use a Google Pixel with GrapheneOS – I say that's freedom
https://www.androidauthority.com/why-i-use-grapheneos-on-pixel-3575477/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44658908

AI overviews cause massive drop in search clicks
https://arstechnica.com/ai/2025/07/research-shows-google-ai-overviews-reduce-website-clicks-by-almost-half/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44663227

The Promised LAN
https://tpl.house/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44661682

US AI Action Plan
https://www.ai.gov/action-plan
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44660323

Building better AI tools
https://hazelweakly.me/blog/stop-building-ai-tools-backwards/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44659921

Major rule about cooking meat turns out to be wrong
https://www.seriouseats.com/meat-resting-science-11776272
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44662757

I drank every cocktail
https://aaronson.org/blog/i-drank-every-cocktail
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44665373

Electric cars produce far less brake dust pollution than combustion-engine cars
https://modernengineeringmarvels.com/2025/07/22/surprising-science-how-electric-cars-quietly-transform-urban-air/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44666157

Qwen3-Coder: Agentic coding in the world
https://qwenlm.github.io/blog/qwen3-coder/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44653072

Don't animate height
https://www.granola.ai/blog/dont-animate-height
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44619206

TODOs aren't for doing
https://sophiebits.com/2025/07/21/todos-arent-for-doing
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44646801

More than you wanted to know about how Game Boy cartridges work
https://abc.decontextualize.com/more-than-you-wanted-to-know/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44651770

Swift-erlang-actor-system
https://forums.swift.org/t/introducing-swift-erlang-actor-system/81248
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44651539

Android Earthquake Alerts: A global system for early warning
https://research.google/blog/android-earthquake-alerts-a-global-system-for-early-warning/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44651092

We built an air-gapped Jira alternative for regulated industries
https://plane.so/blog/everything-you-need-to-know-about-plane-air-gapped
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44651766

Font Comparison: Atkinson Hyperlegible Mono vs. JetBrains Mono and Fira Code
https://www.anthes.is/font-comparison-review-atkinson-hyperlegible-mono.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44647190

I watched Gemini CLI hallucinate and delete my files
https://anuraag2601.github.io/gemini_cli_disaster.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44651485

Algorithms for Modern Processor Architectures
https://lemire.github.io/talks/2025/sea/sea2025.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44653965

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

XMLUI
https://blog.jonudell.net/2025/07/18/introducing-xmlui/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44625292

Coding with LLMs in the summer of 2025 – an update
https://antirez.com/news/154
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44623953

New colors without shooting lasers into your eyes
https://dynomight.net/colors/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44594808

FFmpeg devs boast of another 100x leap thanks to handwritten assembly code
https://www.tomshardware.com/software/the-biggest-speedup-ive-seen-so-far-ffmpeg-devs-boast-of-another-100x-leap-thanks-to-handwritten-assembly-code
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44629206

Staying cool without refrigerants: Next-generation Peltier cooling
https://news.samsung.com/global/interview-staying-cool-without-refrigerants-how-samsung-is-pioneering-next-generation-peltier-cooling
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44628930

Digital vassals? French Government ‘exposes citizens’ data to US'
https://brusselssignal.eu/2025/07/digital-vassals-french-government-exposes-citizens-data-to-us/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44624114

AI is killing the web – can anything save it?
https://www.economist.com/business/2025/07/14/ai-is-killing-the-web-can-anything-save-it
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44623361

Simulating hand-drawn motion with SVG filters
https://camillovisini.com/coding/simulating-hand-drawn-motion-with-svg-filters
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44591305

“Dynamic Programming” is not referring to “computer programming”
https://www.vidarholen.net/contents/blog/?p=1172
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44603349

Speeding up my ZSH shell
https://scottspence.com/posts/speeding-up-my-zsh-shell
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44626363

Nobody knows how to build with AI yet
https://worksonmymachine.substack.com/p/nobody-knows-how-to-build-with-ai
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44616479

Death by AI
https://davebarry.substack.com/p/death-by-ai
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44615801

Ring introducing new feature to allow police to live-stream access to cameras
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/07/amazon-ring-cashes-techno-authoritarianism-and-mass-surveillance
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44620002

Make Your Own Backup System – Part 1: Strategy Before Scripts
https://it-notes.dragas.net/2025/07/18/make-your-own-backup-system-part-1-strategy-before-scripts/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44618687

Local LLMs versus offline Wikipedia
https://evanhahn.com/local-llms-versus-offline-wikipedia/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44617078

The borrowchecker is what I like the least about Rust
https://viralinstruction.com/posts/borrowchecker/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44618535

How we tracked down a Go 1.24 memory regression
https://www.datadoghq.com/blog/engineering/go-memory-regression/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44597550

Rethinking CLI interfaces for AI
https://www.notcheckmark.com/2025/07/rethinking-cli-interfaces-for-ai/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44617184

Mushroom learns to crawl after being given robot body (2024)
https://www.the-independent.com/tech/robot-mushroom-biohybrid-robotics-cornell-b2610411.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44591775

Hungary's oldest library is fighting to save books from a beetle infestation
https://www.npr.org/2025/07/14/nx-s1-5467062/hungary-library-books-beetles
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44583316

Valve confirms credit card companies pressured it to delist certain adult games
https://www.pcgamer.com/software/platforms/valve-confirms-credit-card-companies-pressured-it-to-delist-certain-adult-games-from-steam/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44606184

AI capex is so big that it's affecting economic statistics
https://paulkedrosky.com/honey-ai-capex-ate-the-economy/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44609130

My Self-Hosting Setup
https://codecaptured.com/blog/my-ultimate-self-hosting-setup/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44612151

Asynchrony is not concurrency
https://kristoff.it/blog/asynchrony-is-not-concurrency/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44608754

Meta says it won’t sign Europe AI agreement, calling it an overreach
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/07/18/meta-europe-ai-code.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44607838

EPA says it will eliminate its scientific research arm
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/18/climate/epa-firings-scientific-research.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44610732

How to write Rust in the Linux kernel: part 3
https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/1026694/3413f4b43c862629/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44610468

Trying Guix: A Nixer's impressions
https://tazj.in/blog/trying-guix
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44569032

Broadcom to discontinue free Bitnami Helm charts
https://github.com/bitnami/charts/issues/35164
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44608856

Why your website should be under 14kB in size
https://endtimes.dev/why-your-website-should-be-under-14kb-in-size/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44613625

Altermagnets: The first new type of magnet in nearly a century
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2487013-weve-discovered-a-new-kind-of-magnetism-what-can-we-do-with-it/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44583171

Ex-Waymo engineers launch Bedrock Robotics to automate construction
https://techcrunch.com/2025/07/16/ex-waymo-engineers-launch-bedrock-robotics-with-80m-to-automate-construction/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44584372

Pgactive: Postgres active-active replication extension
https://github.com/aws/pgactive
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44580257

I want an iPhone Mini-sized Android phone (2022)
https://smallandroidphone.com/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44586723

“Reading Rainbow” was created to combat summer reading slumps
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian-institution/to-combat-summer-reading-slumps-this-timeless-childrens-television-show-tried-to-bridge-the-literacy-gap-with-the-magic-of-stories-180986984/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44588491

Artisanal handcrafted Git repositories
https://drew.silcock.dev/blog/artisanal-git/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44586064

Intel's retreat is unlike anything it's done before in Oregon
https://www.oregonlive.com/silicon-forest/2025/07/intels-retreat-is-unlike-anything-its-done-before-in-oregon.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44585755

Show HN: Improving search ranking with chess Elo scores
https://www.zeroentropy.dev/blog/improving-rag-with-elo-scores
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44582662

How and where will agents ship software?
https://www.instantdb.com/essays/agents
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44585002

Show HN: A 'Choose Your Own Adventure' written in Emacs Org Mode
https://tendollaradventure.com/sample/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44587248

Reflections on OpenAI
https://calv.info/openai-reflections
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44573195

Show HN: Shoggoth Mini – A soft tentacle robot powered by GPT-4o and RL
https://www.matthieulc.com/posts/shoggoth-mini
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44572377

To be a better programmer, write little proofs in your head
https://the-nerve-blog.ghost.io/to-be-a-better-programmer-write-little-proofs-in-your-head/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44573409

NIST ion clock sets new record for most accurate clock
https://www.nist.gov/news-events/news/2025/07/nist-ion-clock-sets-new-record-most-accurate-clock-world
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44572499

Cloudflare 1.1.1.1 Incident on July 14, 2025
https://blog.cloudflare.com/cloudflare-1-1-1-1-incident-on-july-14-2025/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44578490

Where's Firefox going next?
https://connect.mozilla.org/t5/discussions/where-s-firefox-going-next-you-tell-us/m-p/100698#M39094
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44575794

GPUHammer: Rowhammer attacks on GPU memories are practical
https://gpuhammer.com/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44577268

My Family and the Flood
https://www.texasmonthly.com/news-politics/texas-flood-firsthand-account/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44576352

Designing for the Eye: Optical corrections in architecture and typography
https://www.nubero.ch/blog/015/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44573887

Mostly dead influential programming languages (2020)
https://www.hillelwayne.com/post/influential-dead-languages/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44545050