top 50% hacker news stories for 2025-07-08

Supabase MCP can leak your entire SQL database

https://www.generalanalysis.com/blog/supabase-mcp-blog

1 year ago

US Court nullifies FTC requirement for click-to-cancel

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/07/us-court-cancels-ftc-rule-that-would-have-made-canceling-subscriptions-easier/

1 year ago

SVGs that feel like GIFs

https://koaning.io/posts/svg-gifs/

1 year ago

Open letter accuses BBC board member of having a conflict of interest on Gaza

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2025/jul/02/more-than-400-media-figures-urge-bbc-board-to-remove-robbie-gibb-over-gaza

1 year ago

Google can now read your WhatsApp messages

https://www.neowin.net/guides/google-can-now-read-your-whatsapp-messages-heres-how-to-stop-it/

1 year ago

Smollm3: Smol, multilingual, long-context reasoner LLM

https://huggingface.co/blog/smollm3

1 year ago

Breaking Git with a carriage return and cloning RCE

https://dgl.cx/2025/07/git-clone-submodule-cve-2025-48384

1 year ago

Show HN: OffChess – Offline chess puzzles app

https://offchess.com

1 year ago

Firefox is fine. The people running it are not

https://www.theregister.com/2025/07/08/firefox_isnt_dead/

1 year ago

Elon Musk's Grok praises Hitler, shares antisemitic tropes in new posts

https://www.axios.com/2025/07/08/elon-musk-grok-x-twitter-hitler-posts

1 year ago

Radium Music Editor

http://users.notam02.no/~kjetism/radium/

1 year ago

GlobalFoundries to Acquire MIPS

https://mips.com/press-releases/gf-mips/

1 year ago

Xenharmlib: A music theory library that supports non-western harmonic systems

https://xenharmlib.readthedocs.io/en/latest/

1 year ago

Brut: A New Web Framework for Ruby

https://naildrivin5.com/blog/2025/07/08/brut-a-new-web-framework-for-ruby.html

1 year ago

Zorin OS

https://zorin.com/os/

1 year ago

Why LLMs Can't Write Q/Kdb+: Writing Code Right-to-Left

https://medium.com/@gabiteodoru/why-llms-cant-write-q-kdb-writing-code-right-to-left-ea6df68af443

1 year ago

DOJ goes after US citizen for developing anti-ICE app

https://appleinsider.com/articles/25/07/07/doj-goes-after-us-citizen-for-developing-anti-ice-app

1 year ago

Analyzing database trends through 1.8M Hacker News headlines

https://camelai.com/blog/hn-database-hype/

1 year ago

Dict Unpacking in Python

https://github.com/asottile/dict-unpacking-at-home

1 year ago

Blind to Disruption – The CEOs Who Missed the Future

https://steveblank.com/2025/07/08/blind-to-disruption-the-ceos-who-missed-the-future/

1 year ago

First malaria treatment for babies approved for use

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c89e872jdjxo

1 year ago

Leveraging Elixir's hot code loading capabilities to modularize a monolithic app

https://lucassifoni.info/blog/leveraging-hot-code-loading-for-fun-and-profit/

1 year ago

Show HN: Jukebox – Free, Open Source Group Playlist with Fair Queueing

https://www.jukeboxhq.com/

1 year ago

Monorail – Turn CSS animations into interactive SVG graphs

https://muffinman.io/monorail/

1 year ago

SIMD.info – Reference tool for C intrinsics of all major SIMD engines

https://simd.info/

1 year ago

Show HN: A rain Pomodoro with brown noise, ASMR, and Middle Eastern music

https://forgetoolz.com/rain-pomodoro

1 year ago

Trying to find meaning in owning an old Mac

https://blog.decryption.net.au/posts/macse30.html

1 year ago

Dynamical origin of Theia, the last giant impactor on Earth

https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.01826

1 year ago

WebAssembly: Yes, but for What?

https://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=3746171

1 year ago

Tell HN: I Lost Joy of Programming

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44499063

1 year ago

Reverse proxy deep dive (2024)

https://startwithawhy.com/reverseproxy/2024/01/15/ReverseProxy-Deep-Dive.html

1 year ago

Show HN: Sumble – knowledge graph for GTM data – query tech stack, key projects

https://sumble.com

1 year ago

Ask HN: What are some cool or underrated tech companies based in Canada?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44503952

1 year ago

Making a Speedrun Timer in D

https://bradley.chatha.dev/blog/linux-speedrun-timer-dlang/post/

1 year ago

TSA to end shoes-off policy for airport security screening

https://abcnews.go.com/US/tsa-end-shoes-off-policy-airport-security-screening/story?id=123556295

1 year ago

U.S. measles cases reach 33-year high as outbreaks spread

https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/07/07/measles-cases-hit-record/

1 year ago

NuxtLabs is joining Vercel

https://nuxtlabs.com/

1 year ago

The Tradeoffs of SSMs and Transformers

https://goombalab.github.io/blog/2025/tradeoffs/

1 year ago

Cloudflare: We Will Get Google to Provide a Way to Block AI Overviews

https://www.seroundtable.com/cloudflare-block-google-ai-overviews-39718.html

1 year ago

The New York Times wants your private ChatGPT history – even the deleted parts

https://thehill.com/opinion/technology/5383530-chatgpt-users-privacy-collateral-damage/

1 year ago

Show HN: I built a tool to solve window management

https://aboveaverageuser.com/smartswitcher

1 year ago

Post Office scandal may have led to more than 13 suicides, inquiry finds

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/jul/08/post-office-scandal-inquiry-horizon-it-scandal

1 year ago

Bear-Sized Giant Beavers Once Roamed North America

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/bear-sized-giant-beaver-once-roamed-north-america-and-theyre-now-the-official-state-fossil-of-minnesota-180986937/

1 year ago

A Marco Rubio impostor is using AI voice to call high-level officials

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2025/07/08/marco-rubio-ai-imposter-signal/

1 year ago

What goes wrong when we write ghazals in English

https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2025/06/24/what-goes-wrong-when-we-write-ghazals-in-english/

1 year ago

Announcing FOKS, the Federated Open Key Service

https://blog.foks.pub/posts/introducing/

1 year ago