top 50% hacker news stories for 2025-07-05

Local-first software (2019)

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

1 year ago

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

1 year ago

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

1 year ago

What a Hacker Stole from Me

https://mynoise.net/blog.php

1 year ago

How to Network as an Introvert

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

1 year ago

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/

1 year ago

macOS Icon History

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

1 year ago

'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

1 year ago

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

https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.14283

1 year ago

The Miyawaki Method of micro-forestry

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

1 year ago

Europe's first geostationary sounder satellite is launched

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

1 year ago

Problems the AI industry is not addressing adequately

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

1 year ago

The Prime Reasons to Avoid Amazon

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

1 year ago

Solving Wordle with uv's dependency resolver

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

1 year ago

Stop Killing Games

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

1 year ago

Local-First Software Is Easier to Scale

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

1 year ago

A 37-year-old wanting to learn computer science

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

1 year ago

Apple just released a weirdly interesting coding language model

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

1 year ago

Speeding up PostgreSQL dump/restore snapshots

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

1 year ago

The Two Towers MUD

https://t2tmud.org/

1 year ago

Why AO3 Was Down

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

1 year ago

Seine reopens to Paris swimmers after century-long ban

https://www.lemonde.fr/en/france/article/2025/07/05/seine-reopens-to-paris-swimmers-after-century-long-ban_6743058_7.html

1 year ago

Why Tesla’s cars keep crashing

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/jul/05/the-vehicle-suddenly-accelerated-with-our-baby-in-it-the-terrifying-truth-about-why-teslas-cars-keep-crashing

1 year ago

Optimizing Tool Selection for LLM Workflows with Differentiable Programming

https://viksit.substack.com/p/optimizing-tool-selection-for-llm

1 year ago

The messy reality of SIMD (vector) functions

https://johnnysswlab.com/the-messy-reality-of-simd-vector-functions/

1 year ago

How to not pay your taxes legally, apparently

https://mrsteinberg.com/how-to-not-pay-your-taxes-legally-apparently/

1 year ago

Exploring Coroutines in PHP

https://doeken.org/blog/coroutines-in-php

1 year ago

Berry Script: lightweight embedded scripting language for microcontrollers

https://berry-lang.github.io/

1 year ago

7-Zip 25.00

https://github.com/ip7z/7zip/releases/tag/25.00

1 year ago

Cops in [Spain] think everyone using a Google Pixel must be a drug dealer

https://www.androidauthority.com/google-pixel-organized-crime-preferred-phone-3573578/

1 year ago

Ceramic: A cross-platform and open-source 2D framework in Haxe

https://ceramic-engine.com/

1 year ago

Pet ownership and cognitive functioning in later adulthood across pet types

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-025-03727-9

1 year ago

The EU wants to decrypt your private data by 2030

https://www.techradar.com/vpn/vpn-privacy-security/the-eu-wants-to-decrypt-your-private-data-by-2030

1 year ago

Operators, Not Users and Programmers

https://jyn.dev/operators-not-users-and-programmers/

1 year ago

A new law in Sweden makes it illegal to buy custom adult content

https://www.euronews.com/next/2025/06/22/takes-away-our-safest-option-adult-creators-react-to-law-banning-online-sex-purchases-in-s

1 year ago

Clarifying our pricing

https://cursor.com/en/blog/june-2025-pricing

1 year ago

Heart attacks aren't as fatal as they used to be

https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/418849/heart-attack-deaths-cardiovascular-disease-progress-medicine

1 year ago

Happy Birthday, GamingOnLinux – 16 years today

https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/07/happy-birthday-gamingonlinux-16-years-today/

1 year ago

Goodbye to All That – My Resignation from the FBI

https://www.lawfaremedia.org/article/goodbye-to-all-that

1 year ago

Plants monitor the integrity of their barrier by sensing gas diffusion

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-025-09223-4

1 year ago

Reflections on 2 years of CPython's JIT Compiler

https://fidget-spinner.github.io/posts/jit-reflections.html

1 year ago

RFK's proposal to let bird flu spread through poultry

https://www.livescience.com/health/flu/rfks-proposal-to-let-bird-flu-spread-through-poultry-could-set-us-up-for-a-pandemic-experts-warn

1 year ago

A new, faster DeepSeek R1-0528 variant appears from German lab

https://venturebeat.com/ai/holy-smokes-a-new-200-faster-deepseek-r1-0528-variant-appears-from-german-lab-tng-technology-consulting-gmbh/

1 year ago

Gecode is an open source C++ toolkit for developing constraint-based systems (2019)

https://www.gecode.org/

1 year ago

On The Meaning of Ritual

https://alicemaz.substack.com/p/on-the-meaning-of-ritual

1 year ago

What 'Project Hail Mary' teaches us about the PlanetScale vs. Neon debate

https://blog.alexoglou.com/posts/database-decisions/

1 year ago

So you wanna build an aging company

https://www.librariesforthefuture.bio/p/is-this-aging

1 year ago

QSBS Limits Raised

https://www.mintz.com/insights-center/viewpoints/2906/2025-06-25-qsbs-benefits-expanded-under-senate-finance-proposal

1 year ago

WinUAE 6 Amiga Emulator

https://www.winuae.net/

1 year ago

ADXL345 (2024)

https://www.tinytransistors.net/2024/08/25/adxl345/

1 year ago

CU Randomness Beacon

https://random.colorado.edu/

1 year ago

French City of Lyon Kicks Out Microsoft

https://news.itsfoss.com/french-city-replaces-microsoft/

1 year ago

ApplePay vs. Alternative Payment Services

https://www.taler.net/en/news/2025-05.html

1 year ago

Show HN: From Photos to Positions: Prototyping VLM-Based Indoor Maps

https://arjo129.github.io/blog/5-7-2025-From-Photos-To-Positions-Prototyping.html

1 year ago

Holding Cellphone while driving is illegal, California court rules

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2025-06-05/holding-your-cell-to-navigate-while-driving-is-illegal-court-says

1 year ago

Measuring AI Ability to Complete Long Tasks

https://spectrum.ieee.org/large-language-model-performance

1 year ago

The Calculator-on-a-Chip (2015)

http://www.vintagecalculators.com/html/the_calculator-on-a-chip.html

1 year ago