top 50% hacker news stories for 2025-07-11

OpenAI’s Windsurf deal is off, and Windsurf’s CEO is going to Google

https://www.theverge.com/openai/705999/google-windsurf-ceo-openai

1 year ago

Grok: Searching X for "From:Elonmusk (Israel or Palestine or Hamas or Gaza)"

https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jul/11/grok-musk/

1 year ago

ETH Zurich and EPFL to release a LLM developed on public infrastructure

https://ethz.ch/en/news-and-events/eth-news/news/2025/07/a-language-model-built-for-the-public-good.html

1 year ago

At Least 13 People Died by Suicide Amid U.K. Post Office Scandal, Report Says

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/10/world/europe/uk-post-office-scandal-report.html

1 year ago

Bill Atkinson's psychedelic user interface

https://patternproject.substack.com/p/from-the-mac-to-the-mystical-bill

1 year ago

Upgrading an M4 Pro Mac mini's storage for half the price

https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2025/upgrading-m4-pro-mac-minis-storage-half-price

1 year ago

Faking a JPEG

https://www.ty-penguin.org.uk/~auj/blog/2025/03/25/fake-jpeg/

1 year ago

Preliminary report into Air India crash released

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cx20p2x9093t

1 year ago

Apple vs the Law

https://formularsumo.co.uk/blog/2025/apple-vs-the-law/

1 year ago

Lead pigment in turmeric is the culprit in a global poisoning mystery (2024)

https://www.npr.org/sections/goats-and-soda/2024/09/23/nx-s1-5011028/detectives-mystery-lead-poisoning-new-york-bangladesh

1 year ago

Chrome's hidden X-Browser-Validation header reverse engineered

https://github.com/dsekz/chrome-x-browser-validation-header

1 year ago

★ 298 Python

LLM Inference Handbook

https://bentoml.com/llm/

1 year ago

Kimi K2 is a state-of-the-art mixture-of-experts (MoE) language model

https://twitter.com/Kimi_Moonshot/status/1943687594560332025

1 year ago

I'm done with social media – Or: why I have a blog now

https://www.carolinecrampton.com/im-done-with-social-media/

1 year ago

Jank is C++

https://jank-lang.org/blog/2025-07-11-jank-is-cpp/

1 year ago

Repasting a MacBook

https://christianselig.com/2025/07/repaste-macbook/

1 year ago

Pa. House passes 'click-to-cancel' subscription bills

https://www.pennlive.com/news/2025/07/pa-house-passes-click-to-cancel-subscription-bills-as-court-throws-out-federal-rule.html

1 year ago

Switching to Claude Code and VSCode Inside Docker

https://timsh.org/claude-inside-docker/

1 year ago

Recovering from AI addiction

https://internetaddictsanonymous.org/internet-and-technology-addiction/signs-of-an-addiction-to-ai/

1 year ago

In a First, Solar Was Europe's Biggest Source of Power Last Month

https://e360.yale.edu/digest/solar-biggest-power-source-europe-june-2025

1 year ago

Axon’s Draft One is designed to defy transparency

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/07/axons-draft-one-designed-defy-transparency

1 year ago

Overtourism in Japan, and how it hurts small businesses

https://craigmod.com/ridgeline/210/

1 year ago

FP8 is ~100 tflops faster when the kernel name has "cutlass" in it

https://twitter.com/cis_female/status/1943069934332055912

1 year ago

OpenFront: Realtime Risk-like multiplayer game in the browser

https://openfront.io/

1 year ago

It took 45 years, but spreadsheet legend Mitch Kapor finally got his MIT degree

https://www.bostonglobe.com/2025/06/24/business/mitch-kapor-mit-degree-bill-aulet/

1 year ago

SQLite async connection pool for high-performance

https://github.com/slaily/aiosqlitepool

1 year ago

Show HN: Vibe Kanban – Kanban board to manage your AI coding agents

https://github.com/BloopAI/vibe-kanban

1 year ago

AI agent benchmarks are broken

https://ddkang.substack.com/p/ai-agent-benchmarks-are-broken

1 year ago

I'm more proud of these 128 kilobytes than anything I've built since

https://medium.com/@mikehall314/im-more-proud-of-these-128-kilobytes-than-anything-i-ve-built-since-53706cfbdc18

1 year ago

Replicube: 3D shader puzzle game, online demo

https://replicube.xyz/staging/

1 year ago

A software conference that advocates for quality

https://bettersoftwareconference.com/

1 year ago

Top DNS domains seen on the Quad9 recursive resolver array each day

https://github.com/Quad9DNS/quad9-domains-top500

1 year ago

Astronomers race to study interstellar interloper

https://www.science.org/content/article/astronomers-race-study-interstellar-interloper

1 year ago

C3 solved memory lifetimes with scopes

https://c3-lang.org/blog/forget-borrow-checkers-c3-solved-memory-lifetimes-with-scopes/

1 year ago

U.S. abandons hunt for signal of cosmic inflation

https://www.science.org/content/article/u-s-abandons-hunt-signal-cosmic-inflation

1 year ago

'123456' password exposed chats for 64M McDonald's job applicants

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/123456-password-exposed-chats-for-64-million-mcdonalds-job-applicants/

1 year ago

Things I learned from 5 years at Vercel

https://leerob.com/vercel

1 year ago

Australia is introducing age checks for search engines like Google

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-07-11/age-verification-search-engines/105516256

1 year ago

Introduction to Digital Filters (2024)

https://ccrma.stanford.edu/~jos/filters/

1 year ago

The day someone created 184 billion Bitcoin (2020)

https://decrypt.co/39750/184-billion-bitcoin-anonymous-creator

1 year ago

'Click-to-cancel' rule is blocked

https://apnews.com/article/ftc-click-to-cancel-30db2be07fdcb8aefd0d4835abdb116a

1 year ago

Slack's 57MB 404 page

https://a.slack.com/archives/b/c

1 year ago

Transition to using 16 KB page sizes for Android apps and games

https://android-developers.googleblog.com/2025/07/transition-to-16-kb-page-sizes-android-apps-games-android-studio.html

1 year ago

VHS, VCDs, and Laserdiscs in Southeast Asia

https://rubenerd.com/vcds-and-laserdiscs-in-southeast-asia/

1 year ago

At Amazon's biggest data center, everything is supersized for AI

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/24/technology/amazon-ai-data-centers.html

1 year ago

Belkin shows tech firms getting too comfortable with bricking customers' stuff

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/07/belkin-shows-tech-firms-getting-too-comfortable-with-bricking-customers-stuff/

1 year ago

Show HN: RULER – Easily apply RL to any agent

https://openpipe.ai/blog/ruler

1 year ago

Some arguments against a land value tax (2024)

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/CCuJotfcaoXf8FYcy/some-arguments-against-a-land-value-tax

1 year ago

Nerve pain drug gabapentin linked to increased dementia, cognitive impairment

https://medicalxpress.com/news/2025-07-nerve-pain-drug-gabapentin-linked.html

1 year ago

Measuring power network frequency using junk you have in your closet

https://halcy.de/blog/2025/02/09/measuring-power-network-frequency-using-junk-you-have-in-your-closet/

1 year ago