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Daily Hacker News for 2025-07-15

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on July 15, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Random selection is necessary to create stable meritocratic institutions
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• Japanese grandparents create life-size Totoro with bus stop for grandkids (2020)
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• Cognition (Devin AI) to Acquire Windsurf
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• LIGO detects most massive black hole merger to date
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• Dog Walk: Blender Studio's official game project
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• Apple's MLX adding CUDA support
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• LLM Inevitabilism
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• Ask HN: Is it time to fork HN into AI/LLM and \"Everything else/other?\"
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• Show HN: Shoggoth Mini – A soft tentacle robot powered by GPT-4o and RL
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• Reflections on OpenAI
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Daily Hacker News for 2025-07-14

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on July 14, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Show HN: Ten years of running every day, visualized
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• GLP-1s are breaking life insurance
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• Happy 20th Birthday, Django
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• OpenCut: The open-source CapCut alternative
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• Let's Learn x86-64 Assembly (2020)
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• Show HN: Refine – A Local Alternative to Grammarly
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• Apple's Browser Engine Ban Persists, Even Under the DMA
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• Kiro: A new agentic IDE
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• Oakland cops gave ICE license plate data; SFPD also illegally shared with feds
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• Data brokers are selling flight information to CBP and ICE
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Daily Hacker News for 2025-07-13

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on July 13, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Chrome's hidden X-Browser-Validation header reverse engineered
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• Kimi K2 is a state-of-the-art mixture-of-experts (MoE) language model
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• New Date(\"wtf\") – How well do you know JavaScript's Date class?
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• The fish kick may be the fastest subsurface swim stroke yet (2015)
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• Arizona resident dies from the plague less than 24 hours after showing symptoms
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• Kimi K2 is a state-of-the-art mixture-of-experts (MoE) language model
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• Zig's New Async I/O
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• Reading Neuromancer for the first time in 2025
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• Let me pay for Firefox
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• How does a screen work?
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Daily Hacker News for 2025-07-12

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on July 12, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• The ChompSaw: A benchtop power tool that's safe for kids to use
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• Lead pigment in turmeric is the culprit in a global poisoning mystery (2024)
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• ETH Zurich and EPFL to release a LLM developed on public infrastructure
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• Preliminary report into Air India crash released
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• OpenAI’s Windsurf deal is off, and Windsurf’s CEO is going to Google
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• Faking a JPEG
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• MacPaint Art from the Mid-80s Still Looks Great Today
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• Proposed NOAA Budget Kills Program Designed to Prevent Satellite Collisions
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• Supreme Court's ruling practically wipes out free speech for sex writing online
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• Bypassing Google's big anti-adblock update
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Daily Hacker News for 2025-07-11

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on July 11, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Postgres LISTEN/NOTIFY does not scale
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• Flix – A powerful effect-oriented programming language
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• Graphical Linear Algebra
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• Show HN: Pangolin – Open source alternative to Cloudflare Tunnels
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• Grok: Searching X for \"From:Elonmusk (Israel or Palestine or Hamas or Gaza)\"
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• LLM Inference Handbook
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• Apple vs the Law
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• Bill Atkinson's psychedelic user interface
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• At Least 13 People Died by Suicide Amid U.K. Post Office Scandal, Report Says
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• Upgrading an M4 Pro Mac mini's storage for half the price
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Daily Hacker News for 2025-07-10

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on July 10, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• The jank programming language
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• Thunderbird 140 “Eclipse”
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• Phrase origin: Why do we \"call\" functions?
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• Solar power has begun to transform the world’s energy system
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• Show HN: FlopperZiro – A DIY open-source Flipper Zero clone
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• The death of partying in the USA
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• MCP-B: A Protocol for AI Browser Automation
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• Grok 4 Launch [video]
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• German court rules Meta tracking technology violates European privacy laws
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• Measuring the impact of AI on experienced open-source developer productivity
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Daily Hacker News for 2025-07-09

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on July 09, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• 7-Zip for Windows can now use more than 64 CPU threads for compression
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• Bootstrapping a side project into a profitable seven-figure business
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• Smollm3: Smol, multilingual, long-context reasoner LLM
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• Breaking Git with a carriage return and cloning RCE
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• US Court nullifies FTC requirement for click-to-cancel
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• RapidRAW: A non-destructive and GPU-accelerated RAW image editor
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• Most RESTful APIs aren't really RESTful
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• IKEA ditches Zigbee for Thread going all in on Matter smart homes
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• Tree Borrows
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• Linda Yaccarino is leaving X
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Daily Hacker News for 2025-07-08

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on July 08, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Neanderthals operated prehistoric “fat factory” on German lakeshore
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• Can an email go 500 miles in 2025?
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• When Figma starts designing us
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• I used o3 to profile myself from my saved Pocket links
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• New sphere-packing record stems from an unexpected source
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• BBC staff: we're forced to do pro-Israel PR
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• SVGs that feel like GIFs
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• Show HN: OffChess – Offline chess puzzles app
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• Google can now read your WhatsApp messages
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• Supabase MCP can leak your entire SQL database
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Daily Hacker News for 2025-07-07

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on July 07, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Jane Street barred from Indian markets as regulator freezes $566M
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• Show HN: I wrote a \"web OS\" based on the Apple Lisa's UI, with 1-bit graphics
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• I extracted the safety filters from Apple Intelligence models
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• Why English doesn't use accents
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• Nobody has a personality anymore: we are products with labels
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• A non-anthropomorphized view of LLMs
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• Bitchat – A decentralized messaging app that works over Bluetooth mesh networks
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• Anthropic cut up millions of used books, and downloaded 7M pirated ones – judge
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• Mercury: Ultra-fast language models based on diffusion
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• Adding a feature because ChatGPT incorrectly thinks it exists
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Daily Hacker News for 2025-07-06

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on July 06, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• X-Clacks-Overhead
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• Eastern Baltic cod grow much smaller than they did due to overfishing
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• How to Network as an Introvert
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• What a Hacker Stole from Me
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• Hidden interface controls that affect usability
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• Serving 200M requests per day with a CGI-bin
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• Are we the baddies?
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• The force-feeding of AI features on an unwilling public
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• Get the location of the ISS using DNS
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• Hannah Cairo: 17-year-old teen refutes a math conjecture proposed 40 years ago
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Daily Hacker News for 2025-07-05

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on July 05, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• The Moat of Low Status
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• Wind Knitting Factory
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• Writing a Game Boy Emulator in OCaml (2022)
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• Larry (cat)
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• Show HN: I AI-coded a tower defense game and documented the whole process
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• EverQuest
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• Being too ambitious is a clever form of self-sabotage
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• Nvidia won, we all lost
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• OBBB signed: Reinstates immediate expensing for U.S.-based R&D
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• Local-first software (2019)
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Daily Hacker News for 2025-07-04

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on July 04, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Fei-Fei Li: Spatial intelligence is the next frontier in AI [video]
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• Peasant Railgun
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• Flounder Mode – Kevin Kelly on a different way to do great work
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• Opening up ‘Zero-Knowledge Proof’ technology
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• My open source project was relicensed by a YC company [license updated]
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• The Rise of Whatever
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• Major reversal in ocean circulation detected in the Southern Ocean
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• Is an Intel N100 or N150 a better value than a Raspberry Pi?
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• Why I left my tech job to work on chronic pain
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• Mini NASes marry NVMe to Intel's efficient chip
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Daily Hacker News for 2025-07-03

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on July 03, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• That XOR Trick (2020)
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• Writing Code Was Never the Bottleneck
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• Gene therapy restored hearing in deaf patients
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• Show HN: CSS generator for a high-def glass effect
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• ICEBlock, an app for anonymously reporting ICE sightings, goes viral
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• AI note takers are flooding Zoom calls as workers opt to skip meetings
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• Websites hosting major US climate reports taken down
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• Astronomers discover 3I/ATLAS – Third interstellar object to visit Solar System
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• Tools: Code Is All You Need
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• Introducing tmux-rs
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Daily Hacker News for 2025-07-02

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on July 02, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• OpenFLOW – Quickly make beautiful infrastructure diagrams local to your machine
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• Sam Altman Slams Meta’s AI Talent Poaching: 'Missionaries Will Beat Mercenaries'
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• Figma files for proposed IPO
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• Fakespot shuts down today after 9 years of detecting fake product reviews
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• Don’t use “click here” as link text (2001)
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• I'm dialing back my LLM usage
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• Cloudflare Introduces Default Blocking of A.I. Data Scrapers
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• Private sector lost 33k jobs, badly missing expectations of 100k increase
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• Exploiting the IKKO Activebuds \"AI powered\" earbuds
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• ICEBlock climbs to the top of the App Store charts after officials slam it
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Daily Hacker News for 2025-07-01

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on July 01, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• I built something that changed my friend group's social fabric
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• YouTube No Translation
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• I write type-safe generic data structures in C
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• Proton joins suit against Apple for practices that harm developers and consumers
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• Xfinity using WiFi signals in your house to detect motion
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• Melbourne man discovers extensive model train network underneath house
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• Claude Code now supports hooks
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• Cloudflare to introduce pay-per-crawl for AI bots
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• Show HN: Spegel, a Terminal Browser That Uses LLMs to Rewrite Webpages
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• The Fed says this is a cube of $1M. They're off by half a million
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Daily Hacker News for 2025-06-30

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on June 30, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Touching the back wall of the Apple store
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• Bloom Filters by Example
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• The $25k car is going extinct?
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• Many ransomware strains will abort if they detect a Russian keyboard installed (2021)
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• Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (June 2025)
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• Gridfinity: The modular, open-source grid storage system
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• Show HN: New Ensō – first public beta
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• Show HN: TokenDagger – A tokenizer faster than OpenAI's Tiktoken
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• There are no new ideas in AI only new datasets
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• The New Skill in AI Is Not Prompting, It's Context Engineering
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