top 50% hacker news stories for 2025-07-06

Are we the baddies?

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

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

I extracted the safety filters from Apple Intelligence models

https://github.com/BlueFalconHD/apple_generative_model_safety_decrypted

1 year ago

★ 318 Python

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

1 year ago

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

https://alpha.lisagui.com/

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

The force-feeding of AI features on an unwilling public

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

1 year ago

A 17-year-old teen refutes a mathematical conjecture proposed 40 years ago

https://english.elpais.com/science-tech/2025-07-01/a-17-year-old-teen-refutes-a-mathematical-conjecture-proposed-40-years-ago.html

1 year ago

The Jank programming language

https://jank-lang.org/

1 year ago

I don't think AGI is right around the corner

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

1 year ago

Why English doesn't use accents

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

1 year ago

Get the location of the ISS using DNS

https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2025/07/get-the-location-of-the-iss-using-dns/

1 year ago

Serving 200M requests per day with a CGI-bin

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

1 year ago

Opencode: AI coding agent, built for the terminal

https://github.com/sst/opencode

1 year ago

★ 149.6k TypeScript MIT

LLMs should not replace therapists

https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.18412

1 year ago

When Figma starts designing us

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

1 year ago

Volvo delivers 5,000th electric semi

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

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

Async Queue – One of my favorite programming interview questions

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

1 year ago

Backlog.md – Markdown‑native Task Manager and Kanban visualizer for any Git repo

https://github.com/MrLesk/Backlog.md

1 year ago

★ 5.4k TypeScript MIT

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

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

1 year ago

Crypto 101 – Introductory course on cryptography (2017)

https://www.crypto101.io/

1 year ago

Functions Are Vectors (2023)

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

1 year ago

Building the Rust Compiler with GCC

https://fractalfir.github.io/generated_html/cg_gcc_bootstrap.html

1 year ago

Thesis: Interesting work is less amenable to the use of AI

https://remark.ing/rob/rob/Thesis-interesting-work-ie

1 year ago

Building a Mac app with Claude code

https://www.indragie.com/blog/i-shipped-a-macos-app-built-entirely-by-claude-code

1 year ago

Colombia seizes first unmanned narco-submarine with Starlink antenna

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

1 year ago

The Origin of the Research University

https://asteriskmag.com/issues/10/the-origin-of-the-research-university

1 year ago

Claude Code Pro Limit? Hack It While You Sleep

https://github.com/terryso/claude-auto-resume

1 year ago

The Broken Microsoft Pact: Layoffs and Performance Management

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

1 year ago

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/

1 year ago

The most otherworldly, mysterious forms of lightning on Earth

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/lightning-sprites-transient-luminous-events-thunderstorms

1 year ago

Swedish Campground (2004)

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

1 year ago

Stop killing games and the industry response

https://blog.kronis.dev/blog/stop-killing-games

1 year ago

Whistleblower: Huawei cloned Qwen and DeepSeek models, claimed as own

https://dilemmaworks.substack.com/p/whistleblower-huawei-cloned-and-renamed

1 year ago

Overthinking GIS (2024)

https://scottsexton.co/post/overthinking_gis/

1 year ago

MI5’s falsehoods in the case of neo-Nazi spy who abused women

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c3w4nwdwywno

1 year ago

Two and a Half Years in GameDev

https://smyachenkov.com/posts/two-and-half-years-in-gamedev/

1 year ago

Belgium Is Unsafe for CVD

https://floort.net/posts/belgium-unsafe-for-cvd/

1 year ago

July 5, 1687: When Newton explained why you don't float away

https://multiverseemployeehandbook.com/blog/when-newton-explained-why-you-dont-float-away/

1 year ago

The Real GenAI Issue

https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/2025/07/06/AI-Manifesto

1 year ago

Basically Everyone Should Be Avoiding Docker

https://lukesmith.xyz/articles/everyone-should-be-avoiding-docker/

1 year ago

Understand CPU Branch Instructions Better

https://chrisfeilbach.com/2025/07/05/understand-cpu-branch-instructions-better/

1 year ago

AI is coming for agriculture, but farmers aren’t convinced

https://theconversation.com/shit-in-shit-out-ai-is-coming-for-agriculture-but-farmers-arent-convinced-259997

1 year ago

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

https://github.com/brianluft/heirloom

1 year ago

Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback (RLHF) in Notebooks

https://github.com/ash80/RLHF_in_notebooks

1 year ago

Lessons from 863 episodes of This American Life

https://indarktrees.com/misc/tal/

1 year ago