Hacker News Highlights

Nvidia is full of shit
https://blog.sebin-nyshkim.net/posts/nvidia-is-full-of-shit/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44468175

Mini NASes marry NVMe to Intel's efficient chip
https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2025/mini-nases-marry-nvme-intels-efficient-chip
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44465319

OBBB signed: Reinstates immediate expensing for U.S.-based R&D
https://www.kbkg.com/feature/house-passes-tax-bill-sending-to-president-for-signature
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44469124

Why I left my tech job to work on chronic pain
https://sailhealth.substack.com/p/why-i-left-my-tech-job-to-work-on
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44464068

Larry (cat)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry_(cat)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44462947

Being too ambitious is a clever form of self-sabotage
https://maalvika.substack.com/p/being-too-ambitious-is-a-clever-form
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44467912

Show HN: I AI-coded a tower defense game and documented the whole process
https://github.com/maciej-trebacz/tower-of-time-game
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44463967

Writing a Game Boy Emulator in OCaml (2022)
https://linoscope.github.io/writing-a-game-boy-emulator-in-ocaml/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44462896

EverQuest
https://www.filfre.net/2025/07/everquest/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44465731

Baba Is Eval
https://fi-le.net/baba/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44455124

Introducing tmux-rs
https://richardscollin.github.io/tmux-rs/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44455787

My open source project was relicensed by a YC company [license updated]
https://twitter.com/soham_btw/status/1940952786491027886
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44460552

The Rise of Whatever
https://eev.ee/blog/2025/07/03/the-rise-of-whatever/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44461208

Major reversal in ocean circulation detected in the Southern Ocean
https://www.icm.csic.es/en/news/major-reversal-ocean-circulation-detected-southern-ocean-key-climate-implications
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44461222

Opening up ‘Zero-Knowledge Proof’ technology
https://blog.google/technology/safety-security/opening-up-zero-knowledge-proof-technology-to-promote-privacy-in-age-assurance/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44457390

Fei-Fei Li: Spatial intelligence is the next frontier in AI [video]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_PioN-CpOP0
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44433996

Peasant Railgun
https://knightsdigest.com/what-exactly-is-the-peasant-railgun-in-dd-5e/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44455222

Flounder Mode – Kevin Kelly on a different way to do great work
https://joincolossus.com/article/flounder-mode/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44455933

AV1@Scale: Film Grain Synthesis, The Awakening
https://netflixtechblog.com/av1-scale-film-grain-synthesis-the-awakening-ee09cfdff40b
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44456779

Launch HN: K-Scale Labs (YC W24) – Open-Source Humanoid Robots
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44456904

Exploiting the IKKO Activebuds “AI powered” earbuds (2024)
https://blog.mgdproductions.com/ikko-activebuds/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44443919

Websites hosting major US climate reports taken down
https://apnews.com/article/climate-change-national-assessment-nasa-white-house-057cec699caef90832d8b10f21a6ffe8
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44448868

Gene therapy restored hearing in deaf patients
https://news.ki.se/gene-therapy-restored-hearing-in-deaf-patients
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44444626

Show HN: CSS generator for a high-def glass effect
https://glass3d.dev/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44445238

ASCIIMoon: The moon's phase live in ASCII art
https://asciimoon.com/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44432571

Couchers is officially out of beta
https://couchers.org/blog/2025/07/01/releasing-couchers-v1
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44446917

Writing Code Was Never the Bottleneck
https://ordep.dev/posts/writing-code-was-never-the-bottleneck
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44429789

AI note takers are flooding Zoom calls as workers opt to skip meetings
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2025/07/02/ai-note-takers-meetings-bots/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44446916

What to build instead of AI agents
https://decodingml.substack.com/p/stop-building-ai-agents
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44450160

I scanned all of GitHub's "oops commits" for leaked secrets
https://trufflesecurity.com/blog/guest-post-how-i-scanned-all-of-github-s-oops-commits-for-leaked-secrets
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44452317

The Fed says this is a cube of $1M. They're off by half a million
https://calvin.sh/blog/fed-lie/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44435484

Show HN: Spegel, a Terminal Browser That Uses LLMs to Rewrite Webpages
https://simedw.com/2025/06/23/introducing-spegel/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44433409

Figma files for proposed IPO
https://www.figma.com/blog/s1-public/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44437316

OpenFLOW – Quickly make beautiful infrastructure diagrams local to your machine
https://github.com/stan-smith/OpenFLOW
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44431178

Fakespot shuts down today after 9 years of detecting fake product reviews
https://blog.truestar.pro/fakespot-shuts-down/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44437712

Building a Personal AI Factory
https://www.john-rush.com/posts/ai-20250701.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44438065

Code-GUI bidirectional editing via LSP
https://jamesbvaughan.com/bidirectional-editing/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44435716

Sam Altman Slams Meta's AI Talent Poaching: 'Missionaries Will Beat Mercenaries'
https://www.wired.com/story/sam-altman-meta-ai-talent-poaching-spree-leaked-messages/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44436579

Feasibility study of a mission to Sedna - Nuclear propulsion and solar sailing
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.17732
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44434062

HN Slop: AI startup ideas generated from Hacker News
https://www.josh.ing/hn-slop
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44434938

The new skill in AI is not prompting, it's context engineering
https://www.philschmid.de/context-engineering
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44427757

Xfinity using WiFi signals in your house to detect motion
https://www.xfinity.com/support/articles/wifi-motion
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44426726

Proton joins suit against Apple for practices that harm developers and consumers
https://proton.me/blog/apple-lawsuit
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44426128

I write type-safe generic data structures in C
https://danielchasehooper.com/posts/typechecked-generic-c-data-structures/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44425461

YouTube No Translation
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-GB/firefox/addon/youtube-no-translation/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44416009

Melbourne man discovers extensive model train network underneath house
https://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/i-was-shocked-melbourne-mans-unbelievable-find-after-buying-house/m4sksfer8
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44429182

Donkey Kong Country 2 and Open Bus
https://jsgroth.dev/blog/posts/dkc2-open-bus/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44424194

Claude Code now supports Hooks
https://docs.anthropic.com/en/docs/claude-code/hooks
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44429225

The hidden JTAG in a Qualcomm/Snapdragon device’s USB port
https://www.linaro.org/blog/hidden-jtag-qualcomm-snapdragon-usb/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44426428

End of an Era
https://www.erasmatazz.com/personal/self/end-of-an-era.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44426845

I made my VM think it has a CPU fan
https://wbenny.github.io/2025/06/29/i-made-my-vm-think-it-has-a-cpu-fan.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44413185

Many ransomware strains will abort if they detect a Russian keyboard installed (2021)
https://krebsonsecurity.com/2021/05/try-this-one-weird-trick-russian-hackers-hate/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44415233

Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (June 2025)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44416093

The $25k car is going extinct?
https://media.hubspot.com/why-the-25000-car-is-going-extinct
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44414115

Touching the back wall of the Apple store
https://blog.lauramichet.com/touching-the-back-wall-of-the-apple-store/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44393307

We accidentally solved robotics by watching 1M hours of YouTube
https://ksagar.bearblog.dev/vjepa/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44414171

Bought myself an Ampere Altra system
https://marcin.juszkiewicz.com.pl/2025/06/27/bought-myself-an-ampere-altra-system/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44419446

Gridfinity: The modular, open-source grid storage system
https://gridfinity.xyz/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44419091

The Book of Shaders (2015)
https://thebookofshaders.com/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44389622

Event – Fast, In-Process Event Dispatcher
https://github.com/kelindar/event
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44413809

JavaScript Trademark Update
https://deno.com/blog/deno-v-oracle4
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44407139

MCP: An (Accidentally) Universal Plugin System
https://worksonmymachine.substack.com/p/mcp-an-accidentally-universal-plugin
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44404905

Engineered Addictions
https://masonyarbrough.substack.com/p/engineered-addictions
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44405057

We ran a Unix-like OS on our home-built CPU with a home-built C compiler (2020)
https://fuel.edby.coffee/posts/how-we-ported-xv6-os-to-a-home-built-cpu-with-a-home-built-c-compiler/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44404164

BusyBeaver(6) Is Quite Large
https://scottaaronson.blog/?p=8972
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44406171

Solving `Passport Application` with Haskell
https://jameshaydon.github.io/passport/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44408872

The Death of the Middle-Class Musician
https://thewalrus.ca/the-death-of-the-middle-class-musician/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44408552

Life of an inference request (vLLM V1): How LLMs are served efficiently at scale
https://www.ubicloud.com/blog/life-of-an-inference-request-vllm-v1
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44407058

More on Apple's Trust-Eroding 'F1 the Movie' Wallet Ad
https://daringfireball.net/2025/06/more_on_apples_trust-eroding_f1_the_movie_wallet_ad
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44411069

Sirius: A GPU-native SQL engine
https://github.com/sirius-db/sirius
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44404876

Show HN: I'm an airline pilot – I built interactive graphs/globes of my flights
https://jameshard.ing/pilot
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44396518

Facebook is starting to feed its AI with private, unpublished photos
https://www.theverge.com/meta/694685/meta-ai-camera-roll
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44401406

I deleted my second brain
https://www.joanwestenberg.com/p/i-deleted-my-second-brain
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44402470

James Webb Space Telescope reveals its first direct image of an exoplanet
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/james-webb-space-telescope-reveals-its-first-direct-image-discovery-of-an-exoplanet-180986886/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44398756

IDF officers ordered to fire at unarmed crowds near Gaza food distribution sites
https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2025-06-27/ty-article-magazine/.premium/idf-soldiers-ordered-to-shoot-deliberately-at-unarmed-gazans-waiting-for-humanitarian-aid/00000197-ad8e-de01-a39f-ffbe33780000
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44402896

10 Years of Pomological Watercolors
https://parkerhiggins.net/2025/04/10-years-of-pomological-watercolors/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44397168

Qwen VLo: From “Understanding” the World to “Depicting” It
https://qwenlm.github.io/blog/qwen-vlo/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44397124

SymbolicAI: A neuro-symbolic perspective on LLMs
https://github.com/ExtensityAI/symbolicai
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44399234

Weird Expressions in Rust
https://www.wakunguma.com/blog/rust-weird-expr
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44397367

Learn OCaml
https://ocaml-sf.org/learn-ocaml-public/#activity=exercises
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44400025

AlphaGenome: AI for better understanding the genome
https://deepmind.google/discover/blog/alphagenome-ai-for-better-understanding-the-genome/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44387659

Introducing Gemma 3n
https://developers.googleblog.com/en/introducing-gemma-3n-developer-guide/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44389202

Launch HN: Issen (YC F24) – Personal AI language tutor
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44387828

Alternative Layout System
https://alternativelayoutsystem.com/scripts/#same-sizer
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44390501

Snow - Classic Macintosh emulator
https://snowemu.com/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44385562

XSLT – Native, zero-config build system for the Web
https://github.com/pacocoursey/xslt
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44393817

“Why is the Rust compiler so slow?”
https://sharnoff.io/blog/why-rust-compiler-slow
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44390488

The time is right for a DOM templating API
https://justinfagnani.com/2025/06/26/the-time-is-right-for-a-dom-templating-api/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44390452

Biomolecular shifts occur in our 40s and 60s (2024)
https://med.stanford.edu/news/all-news/2024/08/massive-biomolecular-shifts-occur-in-our-40s-and-60s--stanford-m.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44393547

Starcloud can’t put a data centre in space at $8.2M in one Starship
https://angadh.com/space-data-centers-1
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44390781

Gemini CLI
https://blog.google/technology/developers/introducing-gemini-cli-open-source-ai-agent/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44376919

OpenAI charges by the minute, so speed up your audio
https://george.mand.is/2025/06/openai-charges-by-the-minute-so-make-the-minutes-shorter/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44376989

A new PNG spec
https://www.programmax.net/articles/png-is-back/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44365754

A new pyramid-like shape always lands the same side up
https://www.quantamagazine.org/a-new-pyramid-like-shape-always-lands-the-same-side-up-20250625/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44381297

Define policy forbidding use of AI code generators
https://github.com/qemu/qemu/commit/3d40db0efc22520fa6c399cf73960dced423b048
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44382752

What Problems to Solve (1966)
http://genius.cat-v.org/richard-feynman/writtings/letters/problems
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44379606

-2000 Lines of code
https://www.folklore.org/Negative_2000_Lines_Of_Code.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44381252

Getting ready to issue IP address certificates
https://community.letsencrypt.org/t/getting-ready-to-issue-ip-address-certificates/238777
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44379034

Writing a basic Linux device driver when you know nothing about Linux drivers
https://crescentro.se/posts/writing-drivers/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44345681

Build and Host AI-Powered Apps with Claude – No Deployment Needed
https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-powered-artifacts
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44379673