top 20 hacker news stories for 2025-07-05

Hidden interface controls that affect usability

https://interactions.acm.org/archive/view/july-august-2025/stop-hiding-my-controls-hidden-interface-controls-are-affecting-usability

4 days ago

558 upvotes – 439 comments

OBBB signed: Reinstates immediate expensing for U.S.-based R&D

https://www.kbkg.com/feature/house-passes-tax-bill-sending-to-president-for-signature

5 days ago

424 upvotes – 369 comments

Local-first software (2019)

https://www.inkandswitch.com/essay/local-first/

5 days ago

861 upvotes – 295 comments

Techno-feudalism and the rise of AGI: A future without economic rights?

https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.14283

4 days ago

237 upvotes – 243 comments

Problems the AI industry is not addressing adequately

https://www.thealgorithmicbridge.com/p/im-losing-all-trust-in-the-ai-industry

5 days ago

220 upvotes – 233 comments

The Prime Reasons to Avoid Amazon

https://blog.thenewoil.org/the-prime-reasons-to-avoid-amazon

4 days ago

216 upvotes – 209 comments

A 37-year-old wanting to learn computer science

https://initcoder.com/posts/37-year-old-learning-cs/

5 days ago

165 upvotes – 173 comments

Stop Killing Games

https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2025/you-will-own-nothing-and-be-happy-stop-killing-games-0

5 days ago

182 upvotes – 143 comments

'Positive review only': Researchers hide AI prompts in papers

https://asia.nikkei.com/Business/Technology/Artificial-intelligence/Positive-review-only-Researchers-hide-AI-prompts-in-papers

5 days ago

229 upvotes – 142 comments

How to Network as an Introvert

https://aginfer.bearblog.dev/how-to-network-as-an-introvert/

4 days ago

367 upvotes – 138 comments

What a Hacker Stole from Me

https://mynoise.net/blog.php

4 days ago

387 upvotes – 120 comments

macOS Icon History

https://basicappleguy.com/basicappleblog/macos-icon-history

5 days ago

255 upvotes – 102 comments

Eastern Baltic cod grow much smaller than they did due to overfishing

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/these-cod-have-been-shrinking-dramatically-for-decades-now-scientists-say-theyve-solved-the-mystery-180986920/

5 days ago

273 upvotes – 89 comments

Why AO3 Was Down

https://www.reddit.com/r/AO3/s/67nQid89MW

5 days ago

156 upvotes – 83 comments

Local-First Software Is Easier to Scale

https://elijahpotter.dev/articles/local-first_software_is_easier_to_scale

5 days ago

174 upvotes – 77 comments

Apple just released a weirdly interesting coding language model

https://9to5mac.com/2025/07/04/apple-just-released-a-weirdly-interesting-coding-language-model/

5 days ago

163 upvotes – 71 comments

The Miyawaki Method of micro-forestry

https://www.futureecologies.net/listen/fe-6-5-the-method

5 days ago

229 upvotes – 55 comments

Europe's first geostationary sounder satellite is launched

https://www.eumetsat.int/europes-first-geostationary-sounder-satellite-launched

5 days ago

222 upvotes – 50 comments

Speeding up PostgreSQL dump/restore snapshots

https://xata.io/blog/behind-the-scenes-speeding-up-pgstream-snapshots-for-postgresql

5 days ago

153 upvotes – 40 comments

Solving Wordle with uv's dependency resolver

https://mildbyte.xyz/blog/solving-wordle-with-uv-dependency-resolver/

4 days ago

206 upvotes – 17 comments
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