top 50% 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

Features of D That I Love

https://bradley.chatha.dev/blog/dlang-propaganda/features-of-d-that-i-love/

1 year ago

They tried Made in the USA – it was too expensive for their customers

https://www.reuters.com/business/they-tried-made-usa-it-was-too-expensive-their-customers-2025-07-02/

1 year ago

More assorted notes on Liquid Glass

https://morrick.me/archives/10068

1 year ago

Math.Pow(-1, 2) == -1 in Windows 11 Insider build

https://github.com/dotnet/runtime/issues/117233

1 year ago

Hilbert's sixth problem: derivation of fluid equations via Boltzmann's theory

https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.01800

1 year ago

Vitamin C Boosts Epidermal Growth via DNA Demethylation

https://www.jidonline.org/article/S0022-202X(25)00416-6/fulltext

1 year ago

American science to soon face its largest brain drain in history

https://bigthink.com/starts-with-a-bang/american-science-brain-drain/

1 year ago

Spain and Brazil push global action to tax the super-rich and curb inequality

https://news.un.org/en/story/2025/07/1165146

1 year ago

TikTok is being flooded with racist AI videos generated by Google's Veo 3

https://arstechnica.com/ai/2025/07/racist-ai-videos-created-with-google-veo-3-are-proliferating-on-tiktok/

1 year ago

What I learned gathering nootropic ratings (2022)

https://troof.blog/posts/nootropics/

1 year ago

The History of Electronic Music in 476 Tracks (1937–2001)

https://www.openculture.com/2025/06/the-history-of-electronic-music-in-476-tracks.html

1 year ago

ClojureScript from First Principles [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=An-ImWVppNQ

1 year ago

Jack Welch, the Man Who Broke Capitalism (2022)

https://www.forbes.com/sites/kylewestaway/2022/05/31/jack-welch-the-man-who-broke-capitalism/

1 year ago

Firefox 120 to Firefox 141 Web Browser Benchmarks

https://www.phoronix.com/review/firefox-benchmarks-120-141

1 year ago

The War on the Walkman

https://newsletter.pessimistsarchive.org/p/the-forgotten-war-on-the-walkman

1 year ago

Yet Another Zip Trick

https://hackarcana.com/article/yet-another-zip-trick

1 year ago

Sony's Mark Cerny Has Worked on "Big Chunks of RDNA 5" with AMD

https://overclock3d.net/news/gpu-displays/sonys-mark-cerny-has-worked-on-big-chunks-of-rdna-5-with-amd/

1 year ago

Tesla's energy storage business gets sucked into the company's downward spiral

https://techcrunch.com/2025/07/02/teslas-energy-storage-business-gets-sucked-into-the-companys-downward-spiral/

1 year ago

Azure API vulnerability and roles misconfiguration compromise corporate networks

https://www.token.security/blog/azures-role-roulette-how-over-privileged-roles-and-api-vulnerabilities-expose-enterprise-networks

1 year ago

Tesla reports 14% decline in deliveries, marking second year-over-year drop

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/07/02/tesla-tsla-q2-2025-vehicle-delivery-and-production-numbers.html

1 year ago

Build Systems à la Carte (2018) [pdf]

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/build-systems.pdf

1 year ago

Show HN: I made Logic gates using CSS if() function

https://yongsk0066.github.io/css_if_logic_gate/

1 year ago

Atomic "Bomb" Ring from KiX, 1947 (2020)

https://toytales.ca/atomic-bomb-ring-from-kix-1947/

1 year ago

On latency, measurement, and optimization in algorithmic trading systems

https://www.architect.co/posts/how-fast-is-it-really

1 year ago

Hexagon fuzz: Full-system emulated fuzzing of Qualcomm basebands

https://www.srlabs.de/blog-post/hexagon-fuzz-full-system-emulated-fuzzing-of-qualcomm-basebands

1 year ago

The first American 'scientific refugees' arrive in France

https://www.politico.eu/article/meet-first-academic-refugees-fleeing-us-france-science-program/

1 year ago

Physicists start to pin down how stars forge heavy atoms

https://www.quantamagazine.org/physicists-start-to-pin-down-how-stars-forge-heavy-atoms-20250702/

1 year ago

Haskell, Reverse Polish Notation, and Parsing

https://mattwills.bearblog.dev/haskell-postfix/

1 year ago

The first alpha of Turso: The next evolution of SQLite

https://turso.tech/blog/turso-the-next-evolution-of-sqlite

1 year ago

Mandelbrot in x86 Assembly by Claude

https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jul/2/mandelbrot-in-x86-assembly-by-claude/

1 year ago

RFK Jr.'s health department calls Nature "junk science," cancels subscriptions

https://arstechnica.com/health/2025/07/rfk-jr-s-health-department-calls-nature-junk-science-cancels-subscriptions/

1 year ago

Law360 mandates reporters use AI "bias" detection on all stories

https://www.niemanlab.org/2025/07/law360-mandates-reporters-use-ai-bias-detection-on-all-stories/

1 year ago

Double is winding down

https://double.finance/blog/wind_down

1 year ago

The White House took down nation's top climate report. Here it is

https://www.npr.org/2025/07/01/nx-s1-5453501/national-climate-assessment-nca5-archive-report

1 year ago

Canada's "Strong Borders Act" (Bill C-2) Contains Four Mass Surveillance Trojans

https://easydns.com/blog/2025/06/05/canadas-strong-borders-act-bill-c-2-contains-four-surveillance-trojans/

1 year ago

Show HN: MemeGen.ai – Turn Any Photo into an AI Meme Video (No Prompts Needed)

https://meme-gen.ai

1 year ago