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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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