top 50% 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

7-Zip for Windows can now use more than 64 CPU threads for compression

https://www.7-zip.org/history.txt

1 year ago

Launch HN: Morph (YC S23) – Apply AI code edits at 4,500 tokens/sec

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44490863

1 year ago

Show HN: NYC Subway Simulator and Route Designer

https://buildmytransit.nyc

1 year ago

Archaeologists unveil 3,500-year-old city in Peru

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c07dmx38kyeo

1 year ago

My first verified imperative program

https://markushimmel.de/blog/my-first-verified-imperative-program/

1 year ago

CPU-X: CPU-Z for Linux

https://thetumultuousunicornofdarkness.github.io/CPU-X/

1 year ago

Batch Mode in the Gemini API: Process More for Less

https://developers.googleblog.com/en/scale-your-ai-workloads-batch-mode-gemini-api/

1 year ago

Running a Certificate Transparency log

https://words.filippo.io/run-sunlight/

1 year ago

Ask HN: Any resources for finding non-smart appliances?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44488810

1 year ago

Show HN: Interactive pinout for the Raspberry Pi Pico 2

https://pico2.pinout.xyz

1 year ago

Deno 2.4

https://deno.com/blog/v2.4

1 year ago

I Ported SAP to a 1976 CPU. It Wasn't That Slow

https://github.com/oisee/zvdb-z80/blob/master/ZVDB-Z80-ABAP.md

1 year ago

LookingGlass: Generative Anamorphoses via Laplacian Pyramid Warping

https://studios.disneyresearch.com/2025/06/09/lookingglass-generative-anamorphoses-via-laplacian-pyramid-warping/

1 year ago

Rules of good writing (2007)

https://dilbertblog.typepad.com/the_dilbert_blog/2007/06/the_day_you_bec.html

1 year ago

Serving a half billion requests per day with Rust and CGI

https://jacob.gold/posts/serving-half-billion-requests-with-rust-cgi/

1 year ago

'Improved' Grok Criticizes Democrats and Hollywood's 'Jewish Executives'

https://techcrunch.com/2025/07/06/improved-grok-criticizes-democrats-and-hollywoods-jewish-executives/

1 year ago

The era of exploration

https://yidingjiang.github.io/blog/post/exploration/

1 year ago

I'm Building LLM for Satellite Data EarthGPT.app

https://www.earthgpt.app/

1 year ago

Mini robots detect and fix water pipe leaks without digging

https://www.foxnews.com/tech/mini-robots-detect-fix-water-pipe-leaks-without-digging

1 year ago

Show HN: Ossia score – A sequencer for audio-visual artists

https://github.com/ossia/score

1 year ago

Poland's clean energy usage overtakes coal for first time

https://www.ft.com/content/ae920241-597e-49d9-a4b9-bfdfa9deabb6

1 year ago

High Performance Image Sensor Processing Using FPGAs [pdf]

https://oda.uni-obuda.hu/bitstream/handle/20.500.14044/10350/Gabor_S_Becker_ertekezes.pdf

1 year ago

Dyson, techno-centric design and social consumption

https://2earth.github.io/website/20250707.html

1 year ago

Applite – A macOS native GUI for homebrew

https://aerolite.dev/applite

1 year ago

XAI data center gets air permit to run 15 turbines, but imaging shows 24 on site

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/07/xai-gets-an-air-permit-to-power-its-supercomputer-but-pollution-fears-remain/

1 year ago

Show HN: A Language Server Implementation for SystemD Unit Files

https://github.com/JFryy/systemd-lsp

1 year ago

I am uninstalling AI coding assistants from my personal computer

https://sam.sutch.net/posts/uninstailling-ai-coding-from-personal-computer

1 year ago

China is increasingly a home to major brands

https://musgrave.substack.com/p/oh-no-i-betrayed-america

1 year ago

There's a COMPUTER inside my DS flashcart [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uq0pJmd7GAA

1 year ago

Regarding Prollyferation: Followup to "People Keep Inventing Prolly Trees"

https://www.dolthub.com/blog/2025-07-03-regarding-prollyferation/

1 year ago

ICE Using Border Facial Recognition Tech to ID Protesters and Activists in US

https://www.techdirt.com/2025/07/07/ice-using-repurposed-border-facial-recognition-tech-to-id-protesters-activists-and-migrants-on-us-streets/

1 year ago

Tuning the Prusa Core One

https://arachnoid.com/3D_Printing_Prusa_Core_One/

1 year ago

Generic interfaces

https://go.dev/blog/generic-interfaces

1 year ago

Show HN: I Got Tired of Calculator Sites, So I Built My Own

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44491938

1 year ago

AI cameras change driver behavior at intersections

https://spectrum.ieee.org/ai-intersection-monitoring

1 year ago

Ptar: Replacing .tgz for petabyte-scale S3 archives

https://plakar.io/posts/2025-06-30/technical-deep-dive-into-.ptar-replacing-.tgz-for-petabyte-scale-s3-archives/

1 year ago

Tyr, a new Rust DRM driver targeting CSF-based ARM Mali GPUs

https://www.collabora.com/news-and-blog/news-and-events/introducing-tyr-a-new-rust-drm-driver.html

1 year ago

Southern Ocean Circulation Reversed

https://iefworld.org/SMOCreversal2025

1 year ago

SUS Lang: The SUS Hardware Description Language

https://sus-lang.org/

1 year ago

Ziglings: Learn Zig by fixing broken programs

https://codeberg.org/ziglings/exercises

1 year ago

Author of William the Conqueror's 'Medieval Big Data' Project Revealed

https://www.ox.ac.uk/news/2025-07-02-author-william-conqueror-s-medieval-big-data-project-revealed

1 year ago

tinymcp: Let LLMs control embedded devices via the Model Context Protocol

https://github.com/golioth/tinymcp

1 year ago

Show HN: CXXStateTree – A modern C++ library for hierarchical state machines

https://github.com/ZigRazor/CXXStateTree

1 year ago

Evaluating the Effectiveness of Memory Safety Sanitizers

https://www.computer.org/csdl/proceedings-article/sp/2025/223600a088/21TfesaEHTy

1 year ago

Introduction to Indian English

https://www.oed.com/discover/introduction-to-indian-english/

1 year ago

The era of full stack chip designers

https://chipinsights.substack.com/p/the-era-of-full-stack-chip-designers

1 year ago

Showh HN: Microjax – JAX in two classes and six functions

https://github.com/joelburget/microjax

1 year ago