top 50% hacker news stories for 2025-07-09

Tree Borrows

https://plf.inf.ethz.ch/research/pldi25-tree-borrows.html

1 year ago

Linda Yaccarino is leaving X

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/09/technology/linda-yaccarino-x-steps-down.html

1 year ago

The death of partying in the USA

https://www.derekthompson.org/p/the-death-of-partying-in-the-usaand

1 year ago

IKEA ditches Zigbee for Thread going all in on Matter smart homes

https://www.theverge.com/smart-home/701697/ikea-matter-thread-new-products-new-smart-home-strategy

1 year ago

Show HN: FlopperZiro – A DIY open-source Flipper Zero clone

https://github.com/lraton/FlopperZiro

1 year ago

Solar power has begun to transform the world’s energy system

https://www.newyorker.com/news/annals-of-a-warming-planet/46-billion-years-on-the-sun-is-having-a-moment

1 year ago

Most RESTful APIs aren't really RESTful

https://florian-kraemer.net//software-architecture/2025/07/07/Most-RESTful-APIs-are-not-really-RESTful.html

1 year ago

MCP-B: A Protocol for AI Browser Automation

https://mcp-b.ai/

1 year ago

Phrase origin: Why do we "call" functions?

https://quuxplusone.github.io/blog/2025/04/04/etymology-of-call/

1 year ago

Astro is a return to the fundamentals of the web

https://websmith.studio/blog/astro-is-a-developers-dream/

1 year ago

RapidRAW: A non-destructive and GPU-accelerated RAW image editor

https://github.com/CyberTimon/RapidRAW

1 year ago

Bulgaria to join euro area on 1 January 2026

https://www.ecb.europa.eu//press/pr/date/2025/html/ecb.pr250708~b9676a9fa8.en.html

1 year ago

A fast 3D collision detection algorithm

https://cairno.substack.com/p/improvements-to-the-separating-axis

1 year ago

Show HN: MCP server for searching and downloading documents from Anna's Archive

https://github.com/iosifache/annas-mcp

1 year ago

A Typology of Canadianisms

https://dchp.arts.ubc.ca/how-to-use

1 year ago

The upcoming GPT-3 moment for RL

https://www.mechanize.work/blog/the-upcoming-gpt-3-moment-for-rl/

1 year ago

US court strikes down 'click-to-cancel' rule designed to make unsubscribing easy

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jul/08/court-click-to-cancel-ruling

1 year ago

Biomni: A General-Purpose Biomedical AI Agent

https://github.com/snap-stanford/Biomni

1 year ago

Frame of preference A history of Mac settings, 1984–2004

https://aresluna.org/frame-of-preference/

1 year ago

Show HN: Petrichor – a free, open-source, offline music player for macOS

https://github.com/kushalpandya/Petrichor

1 year ago

Is the doc bot docs, or not?

https://www.robinsloan.com/lab/what-are-we-even-doing-here/

1 year ago

Helm local code execution via a malicious chart

https://github.com/helm/helm/security/advisories/GHSA-557j-xg8c-q2mm

1 year ago

ESIM Security

https://security-explorations.com/esim-security.html

1 year ago

"Just Fucking Ship It" (Or: On Vibecoding)

https://coal.sh/blog/pandu_bad

1 year ago

Where can I see Hokusai's Great Wave today?

https://greatwavetoday.com/

1 year ago

Fundamentals of garbage collection (2023)

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/standard/garbage-collection/fundamentals

1 year ago

Springer Nature book on machine learning is full of made-up citations

https://retractionwatch.com/2025/06/30/springer-nature-book-on-machine-learning-is-full-of-made-up-citations/

1 year ago

SUSE launches new European digital sovereignty service to meet surging demand

https://www.zdnet.com/article/suse-launches-new-european-digital-sovereignty-support-service-to-meet-surging-demand/

1 year ago

I used to prefer permissive licenses and now favor copyleft

https://vitalik.eth.limo/general/2025/07/07/copyleft.html

1 year ago

Would You Like an IDOR With That? Leaking 64m McDonald's Job Applications

https://ian.sh/mcdonalds

1 year ago

Florida is letting companies make it harder for highly paid workers to swap jobs

https://www.businessinsider.com/florida-made-it-harder-highly-paid-workers-to-swap-jobs-2025-7

1 year ago

Parse, Don’t Validate – Some C Safety Tips

https://www.lelanthran.com/chap13/content.html

1 year ago

Let Kids Be Loud

https://www.afterbabel.com/p/let-kids-be-loud

1 year ago

Hugging Face just launched a $299 robot that could disrupt the robotics industry

https://venturebeat.com/ai/hugging-face-just-launched-a-299-robot-that-could-disrupt-the-entire-robotics-industry/

1 year ago

Configuring Split Horizon DNS with Pi-Hole and Tailscale

https://www.bentasker.co.uk/posts/blog/general/configuring-pihole-to-serve-different-records-to-different-clients.html

1 year ago

Nuclear Waste Reprocessing Gains Momentum in the U.S.

https://spectrum.ieee.org/nuclear-waste-reprocessing-transmutation

1 year ago

White Noise – secure and private messenger

https://www.whitenoise.chat/

1 year ago

Evolution Mail Users Easily Trackable

https://www.grepular.com/Evolution_Mail_Users_Easily_Trackable

1 year ago

Nvidia Becomes First Company to Reach $4T Market Cap

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/07/09/nvidia-4-trillion.html

1 year ago

Million Times Million

https://susam.net/million-times-million.html

1 year ago

Exposing a web service with Cloudflare Tunnel (2022)

https://erisa.dev/exposing-a-web-service-with-cloudflare-tunnel/

1 year ago

Notes on Graham's ANSI Common Lisp (2024)

https://courses.cs.northwestern.edu/325/readings/graham/graham-notes.html

1 year ago

Systemd has been a complete, utter, unmitigated success

https://blog.tjll.net/the-systemd-revolution-has-been-a-success/

1 year ago

Libpostal: C library for parsing/normalizing street addresses around the world

https://github.com/openvenues/libpostal

1 year ago

Why you should delete WhatsApp and install Signal

https://andrewsteele.co.uk/blog/2025/07/delete-whatsapp-install-signal/

1 year ago

Second Variety, by Philip K. Dick (1953)

https://www.gutenberg.org/files/32032/32032-h/32032-h.htm

1 year ago

Two-step system makes plastic from carbon dioxide, water and electricity

https://phys.org/news/2025-06-plastic-carbon-dioxide-electricity.html

1 year ago

Why I don't ride the AI Hype Train

https://mertbulan.com/2025/06/26/why-i-dont-ride-the-ai-hype-train/

1 year ago

Series of posts on HTTP status codes (2018)

https://evertpot.com/http/

1 year ago

Context Engineering Guide

https://nlp.elvissaravia.com/p/context-engineering-guide

1 year ago

iPod Linux (2017)

http://www.ipodlinux.org/

1 year ago

The Architecture Behind Lovable and Bolt

https://www.beam.cloud/blog/agentic-apps

1 year ago

Desktop Publishing Tools That Didn't Make It (2022)

https://tedium.co/2022/10/12/forgotten-desktop-publishing-tools-history/

1 year ago

Experimental imperative-style music sequence generator engine

https://github.com/renoise/pattrns

1 year ago

I Deleted My Steam Account After 20 Years

https://gist.github.com/Kaldaien/c66bf3dca62a5ac63785714f686e60ad

1 year ago

Perplexity launches Comet, an AI-powered web browser

https://techcrunch.com/2025/07/09/perplexity-launches-comet-an-ai-powered-web-browser/

1 year ago

Operational Apple-1 Computer for sale [video]

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

1 year ago

That white guy who can't get a job at Tim Hortons? He's AI

https://www.cbc.ca/news/ai-generated-fake-marketing-1.7578772

1 year ago

Btrfs Allocator Hints

https://lwn.net/ml/all/[email protected]/

1 year ago

Choosing a Database Schema for Polymorphic Data (2024)

https://www.dolthub.com/blog/2024-06-25-polymorphic-associations/

1 year ago

Solar becomes top source of electricity in California

https://pv-magazine-usa.com/2025/07/09/solar-becomes-top-source-of-electricity-in-california/

1 year ago

Memory-Level Parallelism: Apple M2 vs. Apple M4

https://lemire.me/blog/2025/07/09/memory-level-parallelism-apple-m2-vs-apple-m4/

1 year ago

Multi-Region Row Level Security in CockroachDB

https://www.cockroachlabs.com/blog/fine-grained-access-control-row-level-security/

1 year ago

Why I'm skeptical of Ground News

https://sjodle.com/posts/2024/01/ground/

1 year ago

OpenAI to release web browser in challenge to Google Chrome

https://www.reuters.com/business/media-telecom/openai-release-web-browser-challenge-google-chrome-2025-07-09/

1 year ago

Musk's AI firm deletes posts after chatbot praises Hitler

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c4g8r34nxeno

1 year ago

HyAB k-means for color quantization

https://30fps.net/pages/hyab-kmeans/

1 year ago

Google fails to dismiss wiretapping claims on SJ, settles with app users

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44513750

1 year ago