top 20 hacker news stories for 2025-07-06

China Is Quickly Eroding America's Lead in the Global AI Race

https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/markets/china-is-quickly-eroding-america-s-lead-in-the-global-ai-race/ar-AA1HNoP4

1 year ago

Show HN: Modernized file manager and program manager from Windows 3.x

https://github.com/brianluft/heirloom

1 year ago

Swedish Campground (2004)

https://www.folklore.org/Swedish_Campground.html

1 year ago

China Has Paid a High Price for Its Dominance in Rare Earths

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/05/business/china-rare-earth-environment.html

1 year ago

Researchers seek to influence peer review with hidden AI prompts

https://techcrunch.com/2025/07/06/researchers-seek-to-influence-peer-review-with-hidden-ai-prompts/

1 year ago

Show HN: uvtarget – a helpful utility to manage Python in CMake, powered by uv

https://github.com/basis-robotics/uvtarget

1 year ago

Activision takes Call of Duty: WWII offline after reports of RCE exploits

https://www.tomshardware.com/video-games/pc-gaming/activision-takes-call-of-duty-wwii-offline-after-hackers-apparently-disrupted-the-game-with-rce-exploits-malicious-code-wreaks-havoc-on-pc-gamers-as-bad-actors-take-complete-control-of-your-computer

1 year ago

As Drones Spot Sharks, New York Beaches Are Shut Down

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/06/nyregion/shark-sightings-new-york-beaches-drones.html

1 year ago

"Do not highlight any negatives"

https://www.google.com/search?q=%22do+not+highlight+any+negatives%22+site%3Aarxiv.org

1 year ago

Centaur: A controversial leap towards simulating human cognition

https://insidescientific.com/centaur-a-controversial-leap-towards-simulating-human-cognition/

1 year ago

Ukraine's Acoustic Detection System That Tracks Drones Cheap and Fast

https://united24media.com/war-in-ukraine/sky-fortress-ukraines-acoustic-detection-system-that-tracks-drones-cheap-and-fast-9451

1 year ago

The Broken Microsoft Pact: Layoffs and Performance Management

https://danielsada.tech/blog/microsoft-pact/

1 year ago

FedEx founder saved company from bankruptcy with blackjack winnings (2014)

https://www.businessinsider.com/fedex-saved-from-bankruptcy-with-blackjack-winnings-2014-7

1 year ago

Intel's Lion Cove P-Core and Gaming Workloads

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

1 year ago

A non-anthropomorphized view of LLMs

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

1 year ago

Battle of Vukovar: how 1,800 fighters held off a force of 36,000

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Vukovar

1 year ago

Ask HN: How do I buy a typewriter?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44484642

1 year ago

Nobody has a personality anymore: we are products with labels

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

1 year ago

Code and Trust: Vibrators to Pacemakers

https://punkx.org/jackdoe/code-and-trust.html

1 year ago

New Horizons images enable first test of interstellar navigation

https://www.newscientist.com/article/2486823-new-horizons-images-enable-first-test-of-interstellar-navigation/

1 year ago