top 20 hacker news stories for 2025-07-06

Why English doesn't use accents

https://www.deadlanguagesociety.com/p/why-english-doesnt-use-accents

9 months ago

350 upvotes – 602 comments

Are we the baddies?

https://geohot.github.io//blog/jekyll/update/2025/07/05/are-we-the-baddies.html

9 months ago

718 upvotes – 523 comments

Nobody has a personality anymore: we are products with labels

https://www.freyaindia.co.uk/p/nobody-has-a-personality-anymore

9 months ago

551 upvotes – 498 comments

I don't think AGI is right around the corner

https://www.dwarkesh.com/p/timelines-june-2025

9 months ago

374 upvotes – 442 comments

I extracted the safety filters from Apple Intelligence models

https://github.com/BlueFalconHD/apple_generative_model_safety_decrypted

9 months ago

540 upvotes – 437 comments

Game publishers respond to Stop Killing Games claim it curtails developer choice

https://www.pcgamer.com/gaming-industry/european-game-publisher-group-responds-to-stop-killing-games-claims-these-proposals-would-curtail-developer-choice/

9 months ago

122 upvotes – 432 comments

A non-anthropomorphized view of LLMs

http://addxorrol.blogspot.com/2025/07/a-non-anthropomorphized-view-of-llms.html

9 months ago

484 upvotes – 422 comments

LLMs should not replace therapists

https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.18412

9 months ago

303 upvotes – 417 comments

The force-feeding of AI features on an unwilling public

https://www.honest-broker.com/p/the-force-feeding-of-ai-on-an-unwilling

9 months ago

458 upvotes – 401 comments

Jane Street barred from Indian markets as regulator freezes $566M

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/07/04/indian-regulator-bars-us-trading-firm-jane-street-from-accessing-securities-market.html

9 months ago

521 upvotes – 338 comments

Serving 200M requests per day with a CGI-bin

https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jul/5/cgi-bin-performance/

9 months ago

336 upvotes – 329 comments

Async Queue – One of my favorite programming interview questions

https://davidgomes.com/async-queue-interview-ai/

9 months ago

255 upvotes – 310 comments

Volvo delivers 5,000th electric semi

https://electrek.co/2025/06/29/volvo-delivers-5000th-electric-semi-with-little-fanfare-sending-a-big-message/

9 months ago

265 upvotes – 237 comments

Colombia seizes first unmanned narco-submarine with Starlink antenna

https://www.france24.com/en/americas/20250702-colombia-narco-submarine-starlink

9 months ago

158 upvotes – 183 comments

When Figma starts designing us

https://designsystems.international/ideas/when-figma-starts-designing-us/

9 months ago

302 upvotes – 142 comments

Show HN: I wrote a "web OS" based on the Apple Lisa's UI, with 1-bit graphics

https://alpha.lisagui.com/

9 months ago

516 upvotes – 142 comments

The Jank programming language

https://jank-lang.org/

9 months ago

423 upvotes – 137 comments

Ruby 3.4 frozen string literals: What Rails developers need to know

https://www.prateekcodes.dev/ruby-34-frozen-string-literals-rails-upgrade-guide/

9 months ago

237 upvotes – 127 comments

Functions Are Vectors (2023)

https://thenumb.at/Functions-are-Vectors/

9 months ago

233 upvotes – 127 comments

Intel's Lion Cove P-Core and Gaming Workloads

https://chipsandcheese.com/p/intels-lion-cove-p-core-and-gaming

9 months ago

260 upvotes – 123 comments
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