top 20 hacker news stories for 2025-07-02

Websites hosting major US climate reports taken down

https://apnews.com/article/climate-change-national-assessment-nasa-white-house-057cec699caef90832d8b10f21a6ffe8

1 year ago

Exploiting the IKKO Activebuds “AI powered” earbuds (2024)

https://blog.mgdproductions.com/ikko-activebuds/

1 year ago

ICEBlock, an app for anonymously reporting ICE sightings, goes viral

https://techcrunch.com/2025/07/01/iceblock-an-app-for-anonymously-reporting-ice-sightings-goes-viral-overnight-after-bondi-criticism/

1 year ago

Don’t use “click here” as link text (2001)

https://www.w3.org/QA/Tips/noClickHere

1 year ago

Private sector lost 33k jobs, badly missing expectations of 100k increase

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/07/02/adp-jobs-report-june-2025.html

1 year ago

Cloudflare Introduces Default Blocking of A.I. Data Scrapers

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/01/technology/cloudflare-ai-data.html

1 year ago

I'm dialing back my LLM usage

https://zed.dev/blog/dialing-back-my-llm-usage-with-alberto-fortin

1 year ago

Show HN: CSS generator for a high-def glass effect

https://glass3d.dev/

1 year ago

The Moat of Low Status

https://usefulfictions.substack.com/p/learn-to-love-the-moat-of-low-status

1 year ago

ICEBlock climbs to the top of the App Store charts after officials slam it

https://www.engadget.com/social-media/iceblock-climbs-to-the-top-of-the-app-store-charts-after-officials-slam-it-004319963.html

1 year ago

Gene therapy restored hearing in deaf patients

https://news.ki.se/gene-therapy-restored-hearing-in-deaf-patients

1 year ago

Huawei releases an open weight model trained on Huawei Ascend GPUs

https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.21411

1 year ago

AI note takers are flooding Zoom calls as workers opt to skip meetings

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2025/07/02/ai-note-takers-meetings-bots/

1 year ago

Ask HN: How did Soham Parekh get so many jobs?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44448461

1 year ago

Stop Killing Games

https://www.stopkillinggames.com/

1 year ago

How large are large language models?

https://gist.github.com/rain-1/cf0419958250d15893d8873682492c3e

1 year ago

X-Clacks-Overhead

https://xclacksoverhead.org/home/about

1 year ago

Couchers is officially out of beta

https://couchers.org/blog/2025/07/01/releasing-couchers-v1

1 year ago

A Higgs-Bugson in the Linux Kernel

https://blog.janestreet.com/a-higgs-bugson-in-the-linux-kernel/

1 year ago

Microsoft to Cut 9k Workers in Second Wave of Major Layoffs

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-07-02/microsoft-to-cut-9-000-workers-in-second-wave-of-major-layoffs

1 year ago