Hacker News Highlights

Kiro: A new agentic IDE
https://kiro.dev/blog/introducing-kiro/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44560662

LLM Inevitabilism
https://tomrenner.com/posts/llm-inevitabilism/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44567857

Happy 20th Birthday, Django
https://www.djangoproject.com/weblog/2025/jul/13/happy-20th-birthday-django/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44552500

Cognition (Devin AI) to Acquire Windsurf
https://cognition.ai/blog/windsurf
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44563324

Apple's MLX adding CUDA support
https://github.com/ml-explore/mlx/pull/1983
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44565668

Japanese grandparents create life-size Totoro with bus stop for grandkids (2020)
https://mymodernmet.com/totoro-sculpture-bus-stop/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44561818

LIGO detects most massive black hole merger to date
https://www.caltech.edu/about/news/ligo-detects-most-massive-black-hole-merger-to-date
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44564656

Dog Walk: Blender Studio's official game project
https://blenderstudio.itch.io/dogwalk
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44565603

RFC: PHP license update
https://wiki.php.net/rfc/php_license_update
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44565647

Context Rot: How increasing input tokens impacts LLM performance
https://research.trychroma.com/context-rot
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44564248

Show HN: Ten years of running every day, visualized
https://nodaysoff.run
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44522683

How does a screen work?
https://www.makingsoftware.com/chapters/how-a-screen-works
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44550572

OpenCut: The open-source CapCut alternative
https://github.com/OpenCut-app/OpenCut
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44553752

GLP-1s are breaking life insurance
https://www.glp1digest.com/p/how-glp-1s-are-breaking-life-insurance
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44552414

Let's Learn x86-64 Assembly (2020)
https://gpfault.net/posts/asm-tut-0.txt.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44554307

Five companies now control over 90% of the restaurant food delivery market
https://marketsaintefficient.substack.com/p/five-companies-now-control-over-90
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44553389

The upcoming GPT-3 moment for RL
https://www.mechanize.work/blog/the-upcoming-gpt-3-moment-for-rl/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44512350

A technical look at Iran's internet shutdowns
https://zola.ink/blog/posts/a-technical-look-at-irans-internet-shutdown
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44551652

Show HN: A Raycast-compatible launcher for Linux
https://github.com/ByteAtATime/raycast-linux
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44551762

Show HN: Refine – A Local Alternative to Grammarly
https://refine.sh
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44556684

MacPaint Art from the Mid-80s Still Looks Great Today
https://blog.decryption.net.au/posts/macpaint.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44540402

Bypassing Google's big anti-adblock update
https://0x44.xyz/blog/web-request-blocking/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44544266

New Date("wtf") – How well do you know JavaScript's Date class?
https://jsdate.wtf
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44540241

The fish kick may be the fastest subsurface swim stroke yet (2015)
https://nautil.us/is-this-new-swim-stroke-the-fastest-yet-235511/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44541576

Malware found in official gravityforms plugin indicating supply chain breach
https://patchstack.com/articles/critical-malware-found-in-gravityforms-official-plugin-site/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44539879

Kimi K2 is a state-of-the-art mixture-of-experts (MoE) language model
https://twitter.com/Kimi_Moonshot/status/1943687594560332025
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44533403

Zig's New Async I/O
https://kristoff.it/blog/zig-new-async-io/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44545949

Chrome's hidden X-Browser-Validation header reverse engineered
https://github.com/dsekz/chrome-x-browser-validation-header
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44527739

Lost Chapter of Automate the Boring Stuff: Audio, Video, and Webcams in Python
https://inventwithpython.com/blog/lost-av-chapter.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44543240

Working through 'Writing A C Compiler'
https://jollygoodsw.wordpress.com/2025/03/13/working-through-writing-a-c-compiler/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44541565

OpenAI’s Windsurf deal is off, and Windsurf’s CEO is going to Google
https://www.theverge.com/openai/705999/google-windsurf-ceo-openai
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44536988

ETH Zurich and EPFL to release a LLM developed on public infrastructure
https://ethz.ch/en/news-and-events/eth-news/news/2025/07/a-language-model-built-for-the-public-good.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44535637

Bill Atkinson's psychedelic user interface
https://patternproject.substack.com/p/from-the-mac-to-the-mystical-bill
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44530767

Upgrading an M4 Pro Mac mini's storage for half the price
https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2025/upgrading-m4-pro-mac-minis-storage-half-price
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44532306

Preliminary report into Air India crash released
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cx20p2x9093t
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44536459

jank is C++
https://jank-lang.org/blog/2025-07-11-jank-is-cpp/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44534787

Faking a JPEG
https://www.ty-penguin.org.uk/~auj/blog/2025/03/25/fake-jpeg/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44537631

Repaste Your MacBook
https://christianselig.com/2025/07/repaste-macbook/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44531569

Andrew Ng: Building Faster with AI [video]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RNJCfif1dPY
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44521225

OpenAI delays launch of open-weight model
https://twitter.com/sama/status/1943837550369812814
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44538413

Measuring the impact of AI on experienced open-source developer productivity
https://metr.org/blog/2025-07-10-early-2025-ai-experienced-os-dev-study/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44522772

Postgres LISTEN/NOTIFY does not scale
https://www.recall.ai/blog/postgres-listen-notify-does-not-scale
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44490510

Grok: Searching X for "From:Elonmusk (Israel or Palestine or Hamas or Gaza)"
https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jul/11/grok-musk/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44527190

Flix – A powerful effect-oriented programming language
https://flix.dev/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44521224

Show HN: Pangolin – Open source alternative to Cloudflare Tunnels
https://github.com/fosrl/pangolin
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44526015

What is Realtalk’s relationship to AI? (2024)
https://dynamicland.org/2024/FAQ/#What_is_Realtalks_relationship_to_AI
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44522076

Graphical Linear Algebra
https://graphicallinearalgebra.net/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44522505

FOKS: Federated Open Key Service
https://foks.pub/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44520419

Show HN: Open source alternative to Perplexity Comet
https://www.browseros.com/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44523409

Red Hat Technical Writing Style Guide
https://stylepedia.net/style/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44521871

Tree Borrows
https://plf.inf.ethz.ch/research/pldi25-tree-borrows.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44510600

Linda Yaccarino is leaving X
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/09/technology/linda-yaccarino-x-steps-down.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44510731

The jank programming language
https://jank-lang.org/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44482273

German court rules Meta tracking technology violates European privacy laws
https://therecord.media/german-court-meta-tracking-tech
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44517424

Show HN: FlopperZiro – A DIY open-source Flipper Zero clone
https://github.com/lraton/FlopperZiro
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44512763

MCP-B: A Protocol for AI Browser Automation
https://mcp-b.ai/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44515403

A fast 3D collision detection algorithm
https://cairno.substack.com/p/improvements-to-the-separating-axis
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44510282

Ruby 3.4 frozen string literals: What Rails developers need to know
https://www.prateekcodes.dev/ruby-34-frozen-string-literals-rails-upgrade-guide/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44479302

Grok 4 Launch [video]
https://twitter.com/xai/status/1943158495588815072
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44517055

Biomni: A General-Purpose Biomedical AI Agent
https://github.com/snap-stanford/Biomni
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44513843

Supabase MCP can leak your entire SQL database
https://www.generalanalysis.com/blog/supabase-mcp-blog
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44502318

Bootstrapping a side project into a profitable seven-figure business
https://projectionlab.com/blog/we-reached-1m-arr-with-zero-funding
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44495428

Show HN: OffChess – Offline chess puzzles app
https://offchess.com
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44498296

Breaking Git with a carriage return and cloning RCE
https://dgl.cx/2025/07/git-clone-submodule-cve-2025-48384
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44502330

Smollm3: Smol, multilingual, long-context reasoner LLM
https://huggingface.co/blog/smollm3
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44501413

Taking over 60k spyware user accounts with SQL injection
https://ericdaigle.ca/posts/taking-over-60k-spyware-user-accounts/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44455707

Radium Music Editor
http://users.notam02.no/~kjetism/radium/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44502298

Brut: A New Web Framework for Ruby
https://naildrivin5.com/blog/2025/07/08/brut-a-new-web-framework-for-ruby.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44502463

RapidRAW: A non-destructive and GPU-accelerated RAW image editor
https://github.com/CyberTimon/RapidRAW
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44505876

US Court nullifies FTC requirement for click-to-cancel
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/07/us-court-cancels-ftc-rule-that-would-have-made-canceling-subscriptions-easier/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44504699

Adding a feature because ChatGPT incorrectly thinks it exists
https://www.holovaty.com/writing/chatgpt-fake-feature/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44491071

Mercury: Ultra-fast language models based on diffusion
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.17298
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44489690

I used o3 to profile myself from my saved Pocket links
https://noperator.dev/posts/o3-pocket-profile/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44489803

New sphere-packing record stems from an unexpected source
https://www.quantamagazine.org/new-sphere-packing-record-stems-from-an-unexpected-source-20250707/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44493196

When Figma starts designing us
https://designsystems.international/ideas/when-figma-starts-designing-us/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44479502

François Chollet: The Arc Prize and How We Get to AGI [video]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5QcCeSsNRks
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44455175

Hymn to Babylon, missing for a millennium, has been discovered
https://phys.org/news/2025-07-hymn-babylon-millennium.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44461082

Launch HN: Morph (YC S23) – Apply AI code edits at 4,500 tokens/sec
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44490863

Solving Wordle with uv's dependency resolver
https://mildbyte.xyz/blog/solving-wordle-with-uv-dependency-resolver/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44476382

Show HN: NYC Subway Simulator and Route Designer
https://buildmytransit.nyc
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44490588

I extracted the safety filters from Apple Intelligence models
https://github.com/BlueFalconHD/apple_generative_model_safety_decrypted
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44483485

Nobody has a personality anymore: we are products with labels
https://www.freyaindia.co.uk/p/nobody-has-a-personality-anymore
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44484595

Bitchat – A decentralized messaging app that works over Bluetooth mesh networks
https://github.com/jackjackbits/bitchat
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44485342

Show HN: I wrote a "web OS" based on the Apple Lisa's UI, with 1-bit graphics
https://alpha.lisagui.com/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44482965

Get the location of the ISS using DNS
https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2025/07/get-the-location-of-the-iss-using-dns/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44480223

Opencode: AI coding agent, built for the terminal
https://github.com/sst/opencode
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44482504

The first time I was almost fired from Apple
https://www.engineersneedart.com/blog/almostfired/almostfired.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44463063

Functions Are Vectors (2023)
https://thenumb.at/Functions-are-Vectors/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44481464

Intel's Lion Cove P-Core and Gaming Workloads
https://chipsandcheese.com/p/intels-lion-cove-p-core-and-gaming
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44484688

Crypto 101 – Introductory course on cryptography (2017)
https://www.crypto101.io/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44484074

Local-first software (2019)
https://www.inkandswitch.com/essay/local-first/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44473135

Hidden interface controls that affect usability
https://interactions.acm.org/archive/view/july-august-2025/stop-hiding-my-controls-hidden-interface-controls-are-affecting-usability
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44476297

Are We the Baddies?
https://geohot.github.io//blog/jekyll/update/2025/07/05/are-we-the-baddies.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44478115

X-Clacks-Overhead
https://xclacksoverhead.org/home/about
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44440968

Eastern Baltic cod grow much smaller than they did due to overfishing
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/these-cod-have-been-shrinking-dramatically-for-decades-now-scientists-say-theyve-solved-the-mystery-180986920/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44474759

macOS Icon History
https://basicappleguy.com/basicappleblog/macos-icon-history
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44473400

Europe's first geostationary sounder satellite is launched
https://www.eumetsat.int/europes-first-geostationary-sounder-satellite-launched
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44472992

How to Network as an Introvert
https://aginfer.bearblog.dev/how-to-network-as-an-introvert/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44475537

What a Hacker Stole from Me
https://mynoise.net/blog.php
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44476115

Serving 200M requests per day with a CGI-bin
https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jul/5/cgi-bin-performance/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44476716