top 50% hacker news stories for 2025-07-04

Nvidia won, we all lost

https://blog.sebin-nyshkim.net/posts/nvidia-is-full-of-shit/

1 year ago

My open source project was relicensed by a YC company [license updated]

https://twitter.com/soham_btw/status/1940952786491027886

1 year ago

Being too ambitious is a clever form of self-sabotage

https://maalvika.substack.com/p/being-too-ambitious-is-a-clever-form

1 year ago

The Rise of Whatever

https://eev.ee/blog/2025/07/03/the-rise-of-whatever/

1 year ago

Major reversal in ocean circulation detected in the Southern Ocean

https://www.icm.csic.es/en/news/major-reversal-ocean-circulation-detected-southern-ocean-key-climate-implications

1 year ago

Mini NASes marry NVMe to Intel's efficient chip

https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2025/mini-nases-marry-nvme-intels-efficient-chip

1 year ago

Why I left my tech job to work on chronic pain

https://sailhealth.substack.com/p/why-i-left-my-tech-job-to-work-on

1 year ago

Larry (cat)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry_(cat)

1 year ago

The first time I was almost fired from Apple

https://www.engineersneedart.com/blog/almostfired/almostfired.html

1 year ago

Show HN: I AI-coded a tower defense game and documented the whole process

https://github.com/maciej-trebacz/tower-of-time-game

1 year ago

Can an email go 500 miles in 2025?

https://flak.tedunangst.com/post/can-an-email-go-500-miles-in-2025

1 year ago

Is an Intel N100 or N150 a better value than a Raspberry Pi?

https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2025/intel-n100-better-value-raspberry-pi

1 year ago

Everything around LLMs is still magical and wishful thinking

https://dmitriid.com/everything-around-llms-is-still-magical-and-wishful-thinking

1 year ago

EverQuest

https://www.filfre.net/2025/07/everquest/

1 year ago

Data on AI-related Show HN posts

https://ryanfarley.co/ai-show-hn-data/

1 year ago

Neanderthals operated prehistoric “fat factory” on German lakeshore

https://archaeologymag.com/2025/07/neanderthals-operated-fat-factory-125000-years-ago/

1 year ago

Writing a Game Boy Emulator in OCaml (2022)

https://linoscope.github.io/writing-a-game-boy-emulator-in-ocaml/

1 year ago

Zig breaking change – Initial Writergate

https://github.com/ziglang/zig/pull/24329

1 year ago

The chemical secrets that help keep honey fresh for so long

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20250701-the-chemical-secrets-that-help-keep-honey-fresh-for-so-long

1 year ago

Epanet-JS

https://macwright.com/2025/07/03/epanet-placemark

1 year ago

Sleeping beauty Bitcoin wallets wake up after 14 years to the tune of $2B

https://www.marketwatch.com/story/sleeping-beauty-bitcoin-wallets-wake-up-after-14-years-to-the-tune-of-2-billion-79f1f11f

1 year ago

Incapacitating Google Tag Manager (2022)

https://backlit.neocities.org/incapacitate-google-tag-manager

1 year ago

Lightfastness Testing of Colored Pencils

https://sarahrenaeclark.com/lightfast-testing-pencils/

1 year ago

Hymn to Babylon, missing for a millennium, has been discovered

https://phys.org/news/2025-07-hymn-babylon-millennium.html

1 year ago

Show HN: Piano Trainer – Learn piano scales, chords and more using MIDI

https://github.com/ZaneH/piano-trainer

1 year ago

Why are there no good dinosaur films?

https://briannazigler.substack.com/p/why-are-there-no-good-dinosaur-films

1 year ago

ChatGPT creates phisher's paradise by serving the wrong URLs for major companies

https://www.theregister.com/2025/07/03/ai_phishing_websites/

1 year ago

Kepler.gl

https://kepler.gl/

1 year ago

Serving 200M requests per day with a CGI-bin

https://jacob.gold/posts/serving-200-million-requests-with-cgi-bin/

1 year ago

WASM Agents: AI agents running in the browser

https://blog.mozilla.ai/wasm-agents-ai-agents-running-in-your-browser/

1 year ago

What Microchip doesn't (officially) tell you about the VSC8512

https://serd.es/2025/07/04/Switch-project-pt3.html

1 year ago

Ask HN: I want to leave tech: what do I do?

https://write.as/conjure-utopia/lets-say-youre-working-in-tech-and-you-have-a-technical-role-youre-a

1 year ago

We're not innovating, we're just forgetting slower

https://www.elektormagazine.com/articles/opinion-no-innovation-forgetting-slower

1 year ago

Bcachefs may be headed out of the kernel

https://lwn.net/Articles/1027289/

1 year ago

Air pollution may contribute to development of lung cancer in never-smokers

https://today.ucsd.edu/story/air-pollution-may-contribute-to-development-of-lung-cancer-in-never-smokers-new-study-finds

1 year ago

The story behind Caesar salad

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/travel/article/story-behind-caesar-salad

1 year ago

Eight dormant Satoshi-era Bitcoin wallets reactivated after 14 yrs

https://twitter.com/WatcherGuru/status/1941167512491864554

1 year ago

Gremllm

https://github.com/awwaiid/gremllm

1 year ago

# [derive(Clone)] Is Broken

https://rgbcu.be/blog/derive-broken/

1 year ago

LooksMapping

https://looksmapping.com/

1 year ago

The US dollar is on track for its worst year in modern history

https://www.semafor.com/article/07/03/2025/the-us-dollar-is-on-track-for-its-worst-year-in-modern-history

1 year ago

As a Labrador swam by me out to sea his owner said I hope he doesn't meet a seal

https://www.irishtimes.com/opinion/an-irish-diary/2025/07/03/all-at-sea-with-a-lockdown-labrador/

1 year ago

LLM-assisted writing in biomedical publications through excess vocabulary

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adt3813

1 year ago

Show HN: BunkerWeb – the open-source and cloud-native WAF

https://docs.bunkerweb.io/latest/

1 year ago

White House claims expansive power to nullify TikTok ban and other laws

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/03/us/politics/trump-bondi-tiktok-executive-power.html

1 year ago

Prompting LLMs is not engineering

https://dmitriid.com/prompting-llms-is-not-engineering

1 year ago

Compression Dictionary Transport

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Guides/Compression_dictionary_transport

1 year ago

Is anybody using this private key?

https://isanybodyusingthisprivatekey.com/

1 year ago

Show HN: AirBending – Hand gesture based macOS app MIDI controller

https://www.nanassound.com/products/software/airbending

1 year ago

Ask HN: Worth leaving position over push to adopt vibe coding?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44468375

1 year ago

Lessons from creating my first text adventure

https://entropicthoughts.com/lessons-from-creating-first-text-adventure

1 year ago

DRM Panic QR code generator

https://rust-for-linux.com/drm-panic-qr-code-generator

1 year ago

Tesla's Cybertruck flop is historic. The brand collapse is even worse

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2025/7/3/2331384/-Tesla-s-Cybertruck-flop-is-historic-The-brand-collapse-is-even-worse

1 year ago

The Amiga 3000 Unix and Sun Microsystems: Deal or No Deal?

https://www.datagubbe.se/amix/

1 year ago

When Your Exit Strategy Dream Is My Customer Nightmare

https://my-notes.dragas.net/2025/07/04/your-exit-strategy-dream-is-my-customer-nightmare/

1 year ago

The Cat's Meat Man: Feeding Felines in Victorian London

https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/the-cats-meat-man/

1 year ago

Can Large Language Models Play Text Games Well? (2023)

https://arxiv.org/abs/2304.02868

1 year ago

Is there a no-AI audience?

https://thatshubham.com/blog/ai

1 year ago

Valve conquered PC gaming – what comes next?

https://www.ft.com/content/f4a13716-838a-43da-853b-7c31ac17192c

1 year ago