Hacker News Weekly

Weekly Hacker News for the 7 days ending 2025-07-26

The 20 highest-rated articles on Hacker News in the 7 days ending July 26, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Weekly are:

• New colors without shooting lasers into your eyes
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• Coding with LLMs in the summer of 2025 – an update
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• XMLUI
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• Global hack on Microsoft Sharepoint hits U.S., state agencies, researchers say
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• UK backing down on Apple encryption backdoor after pressure from US
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• TrackWeight: Turn your MacBook's trackpad into a digital weighing scale
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• AccountingBench: Evaluating LLMs on real long-horizon business tasks
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• Complete silence is always hallucinated as \"ترجمة نانسي قنقر\" in Arabic
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• How to Firefox
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• The United States withdraws from UNESCO
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• Qwen3-Coder: Agentic coding in the world
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• Cops say criminals use a Google Pixel with GrapheneOS – I say that's freedom
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• CARA – High precision robot dog using rope
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• AI overviews cause massive drop in search clicks
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• Show HN: Tinder but it's only pictures of my wife and I can only swipe right
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• Windsurf employee #2: I was given a payout of only 1% what my shares where worth
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• Graphene OS: a security-enhanced Android build
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• Steam, Itch.io are pulling ‘porn’ games. Critics say it's a slippery slope
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• It's time for modern CSS to kill the SPA
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• Do not download the app, use the website
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Weekly Hacker News for the 7 days ending 2025-07-19

The 20 highest-rated articles on Hacker News in the 7 days ending July 19, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Weekly are:

• Show HN: Ten years of running every day, visualized
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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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• Let me pay for Firefox
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• How does a screen work?
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• Happy 20th Birthday, Django
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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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• Apple's MLX adding CUDA support
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• LLM Inevitabilism
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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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• Cloudflare 1.1.1.1 Incident on July 14, 2025
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• Ukrainian hackers destroyed the IT infrastructure of Russian drone manufacturer
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• Linux Reaches 5% Desktop Market Share in USA
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• Mistral Releases Deep Research, Voice, Projects in Le Chat
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• ChatGPT agent: bridging research and action
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• Valve confirms credit card companies pressured it to delist certain adult games
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• My Self-Hosting Setup
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• Hyatt Hotels are using algorithmic Rest “smoking detectors”
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Weekly Hacker News for the 7 days ending 2025-07-12

The 20 highest-rated articles on Hacker News in the 7 days ending July 12, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Weekly are:

• Hidden interface controls that affect usability
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• Are we the baddies?
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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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• Bitchat – A decentralized messaging app that works over Bluetooth mesh networks
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• Mercury: Ultra-fast language models based on diffusion
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• I used o3 to profile myself from my saved Pocket links
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• Postgres LISTEN/NOTIFY does not scale
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• Adding a feature because ChatGPT incorrectly thinks it exists
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• Bootstrapping a side project into a profitable seven-figure business
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• Supabase MCP can leak your entire SQL database
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• US Court nullifies FTC requirement for click-to-cancel
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• Tree Borrows
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• Linda Yaccarino is leaving X
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• Measuring the impact of AI on experienced open-source developer productivity
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• Grok: Searching X for \"From:Elonmusk (Israel or Palestine or Hamas or Gaza)\"
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• At Least 13 People Died by Suicide Amid U.K. Post Office Scandal, Report Says
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• ETH Zurich and EPFL to release a LLM developed on public infrastructure
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• OpenAI’s Windsurf deal is off, and Windsurf’s CEO is going to Google
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• MacPaint Art from the Mid-80s Still Looks Great Today
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Weekly Hacker News for the 7 days ending 2025-07-05

The 20 highest-rated articles on Hacker News in the 7 days ending July 05, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Weekly are:

• I built something that changed my friend group's social fabric
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• MCP: An (Accidentally) Universal Plugin System
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• Engineered Addictions
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• JavaScript Trademark Update
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• More on Apple's Trust-Eroding 'F1 the Movie' Wallet Ad
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• I made my VM think it has a CPU fan
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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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• The new skill in AI is not prompting, it's context engineering
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• Writing Code Was Never the Bottleneck
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• The Fed says this is a cube of $1M. They're off by half a million
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• Figma files for proposed IPO
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• Don’t use “click here” as link text (2001)
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• Exploiting the IKKO Activebuds “AI powered” earbuds (2024)
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• Websites hosting major US climate reports taken down
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• Introducing tmux-rs
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• My open source project was relicensed by a YC company [license updated]
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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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• Local-first software (2019)
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