top 50% hacker news stories for 2025-07-12

MacPaint Art from the Mid-80s Still Looks Great Today

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

1 year ago

Bypassing Google's big anti-adblock update

https://0x44.xyz/blog/web-request-blocking/

1 year ago

Supreme Court's ruling practically wipes out free speech for sex writing online

https://ellsberg.substack.com/p/free-speech

1 year ago

New Date("wtf") – How well do you know JavaScript's Date class?

https://jsdate.wtf

1 year ago

Zig's New Async I/O

https://kristoff.it/blog/zig-new-async-io/

1 year ago

Proposed NOAA Budget Kills Program Designed to Prevent Satellite Collisions

https://skyandtelescope.org/astronomy-news/proposed-noaa-budget-kills-program-to-prevent-satellite-collisions/

1 year ago

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

https://github.com/MoonshotAI/Kimi-K2

1 year ago

The fish kick may be the fastest subsurface swim stroke yet (2015)

https://nautil.us/is-this-new-swim-stroke-the-fastest-yet-235511/

1 year ago

OpenAI delays launch of open-weight model

https://twitter.com/sama/status/1943837550369812814

1 year ago

Arizona resident dies from the plague

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/health/arizona-plague-death-cases-b2787325.html

1 year ago

Mostly dead influential programming languages (2020)

https://www.hillelwayne.com/post/influential-dead-languages/

1 year ago

Malware found in official gravityforms plugin indicating supply chain breach

https://patchstack.com/articles/critical-malware-found-in-gravityforms-official-plugin-site/

1 year ago

Lost Chapter of Automate the Boring Stuff: Audio, Video, and Webcams in Python

https://inventwithpython.com/blog/lost-av-chapter.html

1 year ago

Bad Actors Are Grooming LLMs to Produce Falsehoods

https://americansunlight.substack.com/cp/168074209

1 year ago

Running a million-board chess MMO in a single process

https://eieio.games/blog/a-million-realtime-chess-boards-in-a-single-process/

1 year ago

Working through 'Writing A C Compiler'

https://jollygoodsw.wordpress.com/2025/03/13/working-through-writing-a-c-compiler/

1 year ago

Commodore 64 Ultimate

https://www.commodore.net

1 year ago

MARS.EXE → COM (2021)

https://chaos.if.uj.edu.pl/~wojtek/MARS.COM/

1 year ago

Vibe-Coding a PCB – surprisingly good

https://atomic14.substack.com/p/vibe-coding-a-pcb-surprisingly-good

1 year ago

Tell HN: uBlock Origin on Chrome is finally gone

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44538517

1 year ago

FEMA Didn’t Answer Thousands of Calls From Flood Survivors

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/11/climate/fema-missed-calls-texas-floods.html

1 year ago

The Story of Mel, A Real Programmer, Annotated (1996)

https://users.cs.utah.edu/~elb/folklore/mel-annotated/node1.html#SECTION00010000000000000000

1 year ago

ICANN fumes as AFRINIC offers no explanation for annulled election

https://www.theregister.com/2025/07/11/afrinic_election_annulled_why/

1 year ago

Incus – Next-generation system container, application container, and VM manager

https://linuxcontainers.org/incus/

1 year ago

Replication of Quantum Factorisation Records with an 8-bit Home Computer [pdf]

https://eprint.iacr.org/2025/1237.pdf

1 year ago

Light exposure at night predicts incidence of cardiovascular diseases

https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.06.20.25329961v1

1 year ago

Show HN: ArchGW – An intelligent edge and service proxy for agents

https://github.com/katanemo/archgw/

1 year ago

Psilocybin shows promise as anti-aging therapy

https://neurosciencenews.com/psilocybin-longevity-aging-29425/

1 year ago

A better Ghidra MCP server – GhidrAssistMCP

https://github.com/jtang613/GhidrAssistMCP

1 year ago

HDD Clicker generates HDD clicking sounds, based on HDD Led activity

https://www.serdashop.com/HDDClicker

1 year ago

Documenting what you're willing to support (and not)

https://rachelbythebay.com/w/2025/07/07/support/

1 year ago

Before Tragedy, Texas Repeatedly Rejected Pleas for Flood Alarm Funding

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/10/us/politics/texas-flood-alarm-system.html

1 year ago

I solved the century-old mystery of a shipwreck survivor

https://thewalrus.ca/empress-of-ireland-survivor-mystery/

1 year ago

Aeron: Efficient reliable UDP unicast, UDP multicast, and IPC message transport

https://github.com/aeron-io/aeron

1 year ago

Show HN: DesignArena – crowdsourced benchmark for AI-generated UI/UX

https://www.designarena.ai/

1 year ago

Grok 4 Heavy Protects it's System prompt

https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jul/12/grok-4-heavy/

1 year ago

Scanned piano rolls database

http://www.pianorollmusic.org/rolldatabase.php

1 year ago

Show HN: BinaryRPC – Lightweight WebSocket-based RPC framework in modern C++

https://github.com/efecan0/binaryrpc-framework

1 year ago

America's largest power grid is struggling to meet demand from AI

https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/boards-policy-regulation/americas-largest-power-grid-is-struggling-meet-demand-ai-2025-07-09/

1 year ago

Show HN: Reviving a 20 year old OS X App

https://andrewshaw.nl/blog/reviving-genius

1 year ago

'Starter packs' have played a central role in Bluesky's rapid growth

https://www.tu-darmstadt.de/universitaet/aktuelles_meldungen/einzelansicht_512064.en.jsp

1 year ago

Pascal's Scams (2012)

http://unenumerated.blogspot.com/2012/07/pascals-scams.html

1 year ago

I Messed Up My Google PM Vibe Coding Interview

https://old.reddit.com/r/ProductManagement/comments/1lw9r9h/i_messed_up_my_google_pm_vibe_coding_interview/

1 year ago

Marc Andreesen says universities will 'pay the price' for DEI

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2025/07/12/marc-andreessen-private-chat-universities-diversity/

1 year ago