top 50% hacker news stories for 2025-07-10

Show HN: Ten years of running every day, visualized

https://nodaysoff.run

1 year ago

Measuring the impact of AI on experienced open-source developer productivity

https://metr.org/blog/2025-07-10-early-2025-ai-experienced-os-dev-study/

1 year ago

Show HN: Pangolin – Open source alternative to Cloudflare Tunnels

https://github.com/fosrl/pangolin

1 year ago

Grok 4 Launch [video]

https://twitter.com/xai/status/1943158495588815072

1 year ago

German court rules Meta tracking technology violates European privacy laws

https://therecord.media/german-court-meta-tracking-tech

1 year ago

Flix – A powerful effect-oriented programming language

https://flix.dev/

1 year ago

Grok 4

https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jul/10/grok-4/

1 year ago

Graphical Linear Algebra

https://graphicallinearalgebra.net/

1 year ago

Andrew Ng: Building Faster with AI [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RNJCfif1dPY

1 year ago

FOKS: Federated Open Key Service

https://foks.pub/

1 year ago

Show HN: Open source alternative to Perplexity Comet

https://www.browseros.com/

1 year ago

What is Realtalk’s relationship to AI? (2024)

https://dynamicland.org/2024/FAQ/#What_is_Realtalks_relationship_to_AI

1 year ago

Red Hat Technical Writing Style Guide

https://stylepedia.net/style/

1 year ago

Is Gemini 2.5 good at bounding boxes?

https://simedw.com/2025/07/10/gemini-bounding-boxes/

1 year ago

AI coding tools can reduce productivity

https://secondthoughts.ai/p/ai-coding-slowdown

1 year ago

Underwater turbine spinning for 6 years off Scotland's coast is a breakthrough

https://apnews.com/article/tidal-energy-turbine-marine-meygen-scotland-ffff3a7082205b33b612a1417e1ec6d6

1 year ago

A Virginia public library is fighting off a takeover by private equity

https://lithub.com/a-virginia-public-library-is-fighting-off-a-threatened-takeover-by-private-equity/

1 year ago

Show HN: Cactus – Ollama for Smartphones

https://github.com/cactus-compute/cactus

1 year ago

Show HN: Bedrock – An 8-bit computing system for running programs anywhere

https://benbridle.com/projects/bedrock.html

1 year ago

How to prove false statements: Practical attacks on Fiat-Shamir

https://www.quantamagazine.org/computer-scientists-figure-out-how-to-prove-lies-20250709/

1 year ago

Matt Trout has died

https://www.shadowcat.co.uk/2025/07/09/ripples-they-cause-in-the-world/

1 year ago

Show HN: Typeform was too expensive so I built my own forms

https://www.ikiform.com/

1 year ago

Kite News

https://kite.kagi.com/

1 year ago

Show HN: FFmpeg in plain English – LLM-assisted FFmpeg in the browser

https://vidmix.app/ffmpeg-in-plain-english/

1 year ago

Seven Engineers Suspended After $2.3M Bridge Includes 90-Degree Turn

https://www.vice.com/en/article/7-engineers-suspended-after-2-3-million-bridge-includes-bizarre-90-degree-turn/

1 year ago

Monitoring My Homelab, Simply

https://b.tuxes.uk/simple-homelab-monitoring.html

1 year ago

Final report on Alaska Airlines Flight 1282 in-flight exit door plug separation

https://www.ntsb.gov:443/investigations/Pages/DCA24MA063.aspx

1 year ago

The underground cathedral protecting Tokyo from floods (2018)

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20181129-the-underground-cathedral-protecting-tokyo-from-floods

1 year ago

Diffsitter – A Tree-sitter based AST difftool to get meaningful semantic diffs

https://github.com/afnanenayet/diffsitter

1 year ago

Turkey bans Grok over Erdoğan insults

https://www.politico.eu/article/turkey-ban-elon-musk-grok-recep-tayyip-erdogan-insult/

1 year ago

Optimizing a Math Expression Parser in Rust

https://rpallas.xyz/math-parser/

1 year ago

Orwell Diaries 1938-1942

https://orwelldiaries.wordpress.com/page/2/

1 year ago

A Century of Quantum Mechanics

https://home.cern/news/news/physics/century-quantum-mechanics

1 year ago

Lasagna Battery Cell

https://amazingribs.com/more-technique-and-science/more-cooking-science/reactive-pans/

1 year ago

U.S. will review social media for foreign student visa applications

https://www.npr.org/2025/06/19/g-s1-73572/us-resumes-visas-foreign-students-access-social-media

1 year ago

Lossless Float Image Compression

https://aras-p.info/blog/2025/07/08/Lossless-Float-Image-Compression/

1 year ago

An open letter from educators who refuse the call to adopt GenAI in education

https://openletter.earth/an-open-letter-from-educators-who-refuse-the-call-to-adopt-genai-in-education-cb4aee75

1 year ago

Burning a Magnesium NeXT Cube (1993)

https://simson.net/ref/1993/cubefire.html

1 year ago

At last, a use case for AI agents with sky-high ROI: Stealing crypto

https://www.theregister.com/2025/07/10/ai_agents_automatically_steal_cryptocurrency/

1 year ago

Belkin ending support for older Wemo products

https://www.belkin.com/support-article/?articleNum=335419

1 year ago

Executed Chinese prisoners likely used in UK exhibition (2021)

https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2021/01/25/executed-chinese-prisoners-likely-used-in-uk-exhibition

1 year ago

Binding Application in Idris

https://andrevidela.com/blog/2025/binding-application/

1 year ago

The FBI Is Using Polygraphs to Test Officials' Loyalty

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/10/us/politics/fbi-polygraph-kash-patel.html

1 year ago

Millions of Cars Exposed to Remote Hacking via PerfektBlue Attack

https://www.securityweek.com/millions-of-cars-exposed-to-remote-hacking-via-perfektblue-attack/

1 year ago

How to scale RL to 10^26 FLOPs

https://blog.jxmo.io/p/how-to-scale-rl-to-1026-flops

1 year ago

US utilities plot big rise in electricity rates as data centre demand booms

https://www.ft.com/content/c5f20c78-7931-492f-9153-675f3046e245

1 year ago

eBPF: Connecting with Container Runtimes

https://h0x0er.github.io/blog/2025/06/29/ebpf-connecting-with-container-runtimes/

1 year ago

Launch HN: Leaping (YC W25) – Self-Improving Voice AI

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44523523

1 year ago

Show HN: I built a playground to showcase what Flux Kontext is good at

https://fluxkontextlab.com

1 year ago

Dépanneurs

https://walkmontreal.com/curiosities/depanneurs/

1 year ago

Retail cyber attacks: NCA arrest four for attacks on M&S, Co-op and Harrods

https://www.nationalcrimeagency.gov.uk/news/retail-cyber-attacks-nca-arrest-four-for-attacks-on-m-s-co-op-and-harrods

1 year ago

Async Ruby Is the Future of AI Apps (and It's Already Here)

https://paolino.me/async-ruby-is-the-future/

1 year ago

EU rules ask tech giants to publicly track how, when AI models go off the rails

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/07/everything-tech-giants-will-hate-about-the-eus-new-ai-rules/

1 year ago

The Robot Sculptors of Italy

https://www.bloomberg.com/features/2025-robot-sculptors-marble/

1 year ago

A job queue in two lines of JavaScript

https://jameshfisher.com/2025/07/07/a-job-queue-in-two-lines-of-js/

1 year ago

El Salvador Tells UN That US Has "Exclusive" Jurisdiction over Detainees

https://www.techdirt.com/2025/07/09/el-salvador-throws-doj-under-the-bus-tells-un-that-us-has-exclusive-jurisdiction-over-renditioned-detainees/

1 year ago