top 10 hacker news stories for 2025-07-07

Adding a feature because ChatGPT incorrectly thinks it exists

https://www.holovaty.com/writing/chatgpt-fake-feature/

1 year ago

Bootstrapping a side project into a profitable seven-figure business

https://projectionlab.com/blog/we-reached-1m-arr-with-zero-funding

1 year ago

Bitchat – A decentralized messaging app that works over Bluetooth mesh networks

https://github.com/jackjackbits/bitchat

1 year ago

Mercury: Ultra-fast language models based on diffusion

https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.17298

1 year ago

Postgres LISTEN/NOTIFY does not scale

https://www.recall.ai/blog/postgres-listen-notify-does-not-scale

1 year ago

I used o3 to profile myself from my saved Pocket links

https://noperator.dev/posts/o3-pocket-profile/

1 year ago

Anthropic cut up millions of used books, and downloaded 7M pirated ones – judge

https://www.businessinsider.com/anthropic-cut-pirated-millions-used-books-train-claude-copyright-2025-6

1 year ago

New sphere-packing record stems from an unexpected source

https://www.quantamagazine.org/new-sphere-packing-record-stems-from-an-unexpected-source-20250707/

1 year ago

The ChompSaw: A benchtop power tool that's safe for kids to use

https://www.core77.com/posts/137602/The-ChompSaw-A-Benchtop-Power-Tool-Thats-Safe-for-Kids-to-Use

1 year ago

Thunderbird 140 “Eclipse”

https://blog.thunderbird.net/2025/07/welcome-to-thunderbird-140-eclipse/

1 year ago