Daily Hacker News for 2025-07-30
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on July 30, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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iPhone 16 cameras vs. traditional digital cameras
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Irrelevant facts about cats added to math problems increase LLM errors by 300%
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ACM Transitions to Full Open Access
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RIP Shunsaku Tamiya, the man who made plastic model kits a global obsession
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M8.7 earthquake in Western Pacific, tsunami warning issued
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‘No Other Land’ consultant Awdah Hathaleen killed by Israeli settler
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Sleep all comes down to the mitochondria
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Our $100M Series B
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Try the Mosquito Bucket of Death
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Fast
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Daily Hacker News for 2025-07-29
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on July 29, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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How to make websites that will require lots of your time and energy
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FDA has approved Yeztugo, a drug that provides protection against HIV infection
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Claude Code weekly rate limits
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I designed my own fast game streaming video codec – PyroWave
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Sign in with Google in Chrome
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Show HN: Use Their ID – Use your local UK MP’s ID for the Online Safety Act
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Stop selling “unlimited”, when you mean “until we change our minds”
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Wikimedia Foundation Challenges UK Online Safety Act Regulations
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My 2.5 year old laptop can write Space Invaders in JavaScript now (GLM-4.5 Air)
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Study mode
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Daily Hacker News for 2025-07-28
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on July 28, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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I hacked my washing machine
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EU age verification app to ban any Android system not licensed by Google
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Enough AI copilots, we need AI HUDs
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VPN use surges in UK as new online safety rules kick in
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LLM Embeddings Explained: A Visual and Intuitive Guide
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Debian switches to 64-bit time for everything
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Tao on “blue team” vs. “red team” LLMs
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Copyparty – Turn almost any device into a file server
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Visa and Mastercard are getting overwhelmed by gamer fury over censorship
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‘I witnessed war crimes’ in Gaza – former worker at GHF aid site [video]
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Daily Hacker News for 2025-07-27
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on July 27, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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Return of wolves to Yellowstone has led to a surge in aspen trees
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Purple Earth hypothesis
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The natural diamond industry is getting rocked. Thank the lab-grown variety
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How we rooted Copilot
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4k NASA employees opt to leave agency through deferred resignation program
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When we get Komooted
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Hierarchical Reasoning Model
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Dumb Pipe
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Tom Lehrer has died
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Performance and Telemetry Analysis of Trae IDE, ByteDance's VSCode Fork
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Daily Hacker News for 2025-07-26
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on July 26, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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Open Sauce is a confoundingly brilliant Bay Area event
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The future is not self-hosted
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Show HN: Price Per Token – LLM API Pricing Data
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It's a DE9, not a DB9 (but we know what you mean)
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Programming vehicles in games
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Women dating safety app 'Tea' breached, users' IDs posted to 4chan
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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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CCTV footage captures video of an earthquake fault in motion
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Rust running on every GPU
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Daily Hacker News for 2025-07-25
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on July 25, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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I wasted weeks hand optimizing assembly because I benchmarked on random data
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AMD CEO sees chips from TSMC's US plant costing 5%-20% more
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Open Source Maintenance Fee
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There is no memory safety without thread safety
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Windsurf employee #2: I was given a payout of only 1% what my shares where worth
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Visa and Mastercard: The global payment duopoly (2024)
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Graphene OS: a security-enhanced Android build
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Scientists may have found a way to eliminate chromosome linked to Down syndrome
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Celebrating 20 Years of MDN
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Steam, Itch.io are pulling ‘porn’ games. Critics say it's a slippery slope
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Daily Hacker News for 2025-07-24
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on July 24, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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Building better AI tools
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US AI Action Plan
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Neil Armstrong's customs form for moon rocks (2016)
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The Promised LAN
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Major rule about cooking meat turns out to be wrong
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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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I drank every cocktail
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BGP.Tools: Browse the Internet Ecosystem
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Electric cars produce less brake dust pollution than combustion-engine cars
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Daily Hacker News for 2025-07-23
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on July 23, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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Don't animate height
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TODOs aren't for doing
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Android Earthquake Alerts: A global system for early warning
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Swift-erlang-actor-system
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More than you wanted to know about how Game Boy cartridges work
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Qwen3-Coder: Agentic coding in the world
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Cerebras launches Qwen3-235B, achieving 1.5k tokens per second
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Cops say criminals use a Google Pixel with GrapheneOS – I say that's freedom
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You can now disable all AI features in Zed
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CARA – High precision robot dog using rope
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Daily Hacker News for 2025-07-22
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on July 22, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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The daily life of a medieval king
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Don't bother parsing: Just use images for RAG
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What went wrong inside recalled Anker PowerCore 10000 power banks?
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Uv: Running a script with dependencies
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Jujutsu for busy devs
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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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Ozzy Osbourne has died
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Unsafe and Unpredictable: My Volvo EX90 Experience
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Daily Hacker News for 2025-07-21
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on July 21, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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Simulating hand-drawn motion with SVG filters
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New colors without shooting lasers into your eyes
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“Dynamic programming” is not referring to “computer programming”
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Staying cool without refrigerants: Next-generation Peltier cooling
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FFmpeg devs boast of another 100x leap thanks to handwritten assembly code
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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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Gemini with Deep Think achieves gold-medal standard at the IMO
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AccountingBench: Evaluating LLMs on real long-horizon business tasks
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Daily Hacker News for 2025-07-20
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on July 20, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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Death by AI
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Nobody knows how to build with AI yet
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Local LLMs versus offline Wikipedia
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Make Your Own Backup System – Part 1: Strategy Before Scripts
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Ring introducing new feature to allow police to live-stream access to cameras
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LLM architecture comparison
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The bewildering phenomenon of declining quality
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The current hype around autonomous agents, and what actually works in production
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Coding with LLMs in the summer of 2025 – an update
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XMLUI
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Daily Hacker News for 2025-07-19
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on July 19, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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Valve confirms credit card companies pressured it to delist certain adult games
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Meta says it won't sign Europe AI agreement
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Cancer DNA is detectable in blood years before diagnosis
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Asynchrony is not concurrency
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AI capex is so big that it's affecting economic statistics
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My Self-Hosting Setup
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Hyatt Hotels are using algorithmic Rest “smoking detectors”
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A 14kb page can load much faster than a 15kb page (2022)
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OpenAI claims gold-medal performance at IMO 2025
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Fstrings.wtf
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Daily Hacker News for 2025-07-18
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on July 18, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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On doing hard things
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Perfume reviews
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My bank keeps on undermining anti-phishing education
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Self-taught engineers often outperform (2024)
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All AI models might be the same
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My experience with Claude Code after two weeks of adventures
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Anthropic tightens usage limits for Claude Code without telling users
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NIH is cheaper than the wrong dependency
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Fully homomorphic encryption and the dawn of a private internet
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lsr: ls with io_uring
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Daily Hacker News for 2025-07-17
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on July 17, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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Tilck: A tiny Linux-compatible kernel
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Pgactive: Postgres active-active replication extension
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Altermagnets: The first new type of magnet in nearly a century
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Ex-Waymo engineers launch Bedrock Robotics to automate construction
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I want an iPhone Mini-sized Android phone (2022)
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“Reading Rainbow” was created to combat summer reading slumps
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Hand: open-source Robot Hand
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Mistral Releases Deep Research, Voice, Projects in Le Chat
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Tell HN: Notion Desktop is monitoring your audio and network
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ChatGPT agent: bridging research and action
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Daily Hacker News for 2025-07-16
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on July 16, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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Blender 4.5 LTS
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NIST ion clock sets new record for most accurate clock
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To be a better programmer, write little proofs in your head
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Helix Editor 25.07
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Where's Firefox going next?
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Cloudflare 1.1.1.1 Incident on July 14, 2025
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Shipping WebGPU on Windows in Firefox 141
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I'm switching to Python and actually liking it
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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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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:
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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:
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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:
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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:
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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:
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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:
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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:
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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:
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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:
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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:
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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:
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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:
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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:
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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:
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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:
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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:
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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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