top 50% hacker news stories for 2025-07-01

The Fed says this is a cube of $1M. They're off by half a million

https://calvin.sh/blog/fed-lie/

1 year ago

Writing Code Was Never the Bottleneck

https://ordep.dev/posts/writing-code-was-never-the-bottleneck

1 year ago

Cloudflare to introduce pay-per-crawl for AI bots

https://blog.cloudflare.com/introducing-pay-per-crawl/

1 year ago

Figma files for proposed IPO

https://www.figma.com/blog/s1-public/

1 year ago

Show HN: Spegel, a Terminal Browser That Uses LLMs to Rewrite Webpages

https://simedw.com/2025/06/23/introducing-spegel/

1 year ago

Fakespot shuts down today after 9 years of detecting fake product reviews

https://blog.truestar.pro/fakespot-shuts-down/

1 year ago

OpenFLOW – Quickly make beautiful infrastructure diagrams local to your machine

https://github.com/stan-smith/OpenFLOW

1 year ago

Claude Code now supports hooks

https://docs.anthropic.com/en/docs/claude-code/hooks

1 year ago

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/

1 year ago

Fei-Fei Li: Spatial intelligence is the next frontier in AI [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_PioN-CpOP0

1 year ago

Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2025)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44434576

1 year ago

ASCIIMoon: The moon's phase live in ASCII art

https://asciimoon.com/

1 year ago

Building a Personal AI Factory

https://www.john-rush.com/posts/ai-20250701.html

1 year ago

HN Slop: AI startup ideas generated from Hacker News

https://www.josh.ing/hn-slop

1 year ago

Code-GUI bidirectional editing via LSP

https://jamesbvaughan.com/bidirectional-editing/

1 year ago

Feasibility study of a mission to Sedna – Nuclear propulsion and solar sailing

https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.17732

1 year ago

In a milestone for Manhattan, a pair of coyotes has made Central Park their home

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/in-a-milestone-for-manhattan-a-pair-of-coyotes-has-made-central-park-their-home-180986892/

1 year ago

About AI Evals

https://hamel.dev/blog/posts/evals-faq/

1 year ago

Grammarly acquires Superhuman

https://www.reuters.com/business/grammarly-acquires-email-startup-superhuman-ai-platform-push-2025-07-01/

1 year ago

Scientists identify culprit behind biggest-ever U.S. honey bee die-off

https://www.science.org/content/article/scientists-identify-culprit-behind-biggest-ever-u-s-honeybee-die

1 year ago

Effectiveness of trees in reducing temperature, outdoor heat exposure in Vegas

https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/2752-5295/ade17d

1 year ago

Show HN: Jobs by Referral: Find jobs in your LinkedIn network

https://jobsbyreferral.com/

1 year ago

Spending Too Much Money on a Coding Agent

https://allenpike.com/2025/coding-agents

1 year ago

Conversations with a hit man

https://magazine.atavist.com/confessions-of-a-hit-man-larry-thompson-jim-leslie-george-dartois-louisiana-shreveport-cold-case/

1 year ago

PlanetScale for Postgres

https://planetscale.com/blog/planetscale-for-postgres

1 year ago

Why email startups fail

https://forwardemail.net/en/blog/docs/email-startup-graveyard-why-80-percent-email-companies-fail

1 year ago

Converting a large mathematical software package written in C++ to C++20 modules

https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.21654

1 year ago

Australians to face age checks from search engines

https://ia.acs.org.au/article/2025/australians-to-face-age-checks-from-search-engines.html

1 year ago

Caching is an abstraction, not an optimization

https://buttondown.com/jaffray/archive/caching-is-an-abstraction-not-an-optimization/

1 year ago

Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (July 2025)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44434574

1 year ago

Ubuntu 25.10 Raises RISC-V Profile Requirements

https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/06/ubuntu-riscv-rva23-support

1 year ago

Aging-related inflammation is not universal across human populations

https://www.publichealth.columbia.edu/news/aging-related-inflammation-not-universal-across-human-populations

1 year ago

Context Engineering for Agents

https://rlancemartin.github.io/2025/06/23/context_engineering/

1 year ago

An Algorithm for a Better Bookshelf

https://cacm.acm.org/news/an-algorithm-for-a-better-bookshelf/

1 year ago

1KB JavaScript Demoscene Challenge Just Launched

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44436838

1 year ago

Small language models are the future of agentic AI

https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.02153

1 year ago

Show HN: Core – open source memory graph for LLMs – shareable, user owned

https://github.com/RedPlanetHQ/core

1 year ago

Show HN: I built the tool I wished existed for moving Stripe between countries

https://www.stripemove.com/

1 year ago

The Roman Roads Research Association

https://www.romanroads.org/

1 year ago

Using Sun Ray thin clients in 2025

https://catstret.ch/202506/sun-ray-shenanigans/

1 year ago

Evidence of a 12,800-year-old shallow airburst depression in Louisiana

https://www.scienceopen.com/hosted-document?doi=10.14293/ACI.2025.0004

1 year ago

The wanton destruction of a creative-tech era

https://blog.greg.technology/2025/06/30/fastly.html

1 year ago

Rust CLI with Clap

https://tucson-josh.com/posts/rust-clap-cli/

1 year ago

Lens: Lenses, Folds and Traversals

https://hackage.haskell.org/package/lens

1 year ago

Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (July 2025)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44434575

1 year ago

Copper is Faster than Fiber (2017) [pdf]

https://www.arista.com/assets/data/pdf/Copper-Faster-Than-Fiber-Brief.pdf

1 year ago

Virtue garnish: A mental hack to short-circuit bad habits

https://ledgeroflife.blog/virtue-garnishes-the-3-second-mental-hack-that-short-circuits-bad-habits/

1 year ago

We're all CTO now

https://jamie.ideasasylum.com/2025/07/01/you%27re-all-cto-now

1 year ago

phkmalloc

https://phk.freebsd.dk/sagas/phkmalloc/

1 year ago

Pluto is a unique dialect of Lua with a focus on general-purpose programming

https://github.com/PlutoLang/Pluto

1 year ago

We've Issued Our First IP Address Certificate

https://letsencrypt.org/2025/07/01/issuing-our-first-ip-address-certificate/

1 year ago

Show HN: ToplingDB - A Persistent Key-Value Store for External Storage

https://github.com/topling/toplingdb

1 year ago

DeepSeek app faces ban in Germany for illegal transfer of user data

https://www.searchenginejournal.com/deepseek-app-faces-ban-in-germany-for-illegal-transfer-of-user-data/550172/

1 year ago

What should a native DOM templating API look like?

https://justinfagnani.com/2025/06/30/what-should-a-dom-templating-api-look-like/

1 year ago

Raphael discovery emerges from Vatican museum restoration

https://news.artnet.com/art-world/raphael-rooms-restoration-discovery-2662624

1 year ago

Show HN: HackerNewt – Breadth-first exploring HN client for iOS

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/hackernewt-for-hacker-news/id6448201970

1 year ago

Escher's art and computer science

https://github.com/gritzko/librdx/blob/master/blog/escher.md

1 year ago

Show HN: Arch-Router – 1.5B model for LLM routing by preferences, not benchmarks

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44436031

1 year ago

America's Hot Garbage Problem

https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2025-america-hot-garbage-problem-toxic-landfills

1 year ago

Amazon is on the cusp of using more robots than humans in its warehouses

https://www.wsj.com/tech/amazon-warehouse-robots-automation-942b814f

1 year ago

Show HN: A cross-platform terminal emulator written in Java

https://github.com/sebkur/forceterm

1 year ago

Pbf2sqlite: Reading OpenStreetMap into a SQLite Database

https://github.com/osmzoso/pbf2sqlite

1 year ago

The Hidden Engineering of Liquid Dampers in Skyscrapers

https://practical.engineering/blog/2025/7/1/the-hidden-engineering-of-liquid-dampers-in-skyscrapers

1 year ago

The Hoyle State (2021)

https://johncarlosbaez.wordpress.com/2021/02/04/the-hoyle-state/

1 year ago

RP2350pc Open Source Hardware all in one computer

https://olimex.wordpress.com/2025/07/01/rp2350pc-open-source-hardware-all-in-one-computer-with-rp2350b-8mb-psram-16mb-flash-four-usb-host-dvi-hdmi-output-and-audio-codec-for-retro-computer-emulation-and-education/

1 year ago