top 50% hacker news stories for 2025-07-13

Let me pay for Firefox

https://discourse.mozilla.org/t/let-me-pay-for-firefox/141297

1 year ago

How does a screen work?

https://www.makingsoftware.com/chapters/how-a-screen-works

1 year ago

Happy 20th Birthday, Django

https://www.djangoproject.com/weblog/2025/jul/13/happy-20th-birthday-django/

1 year ago

OpenCut: The open-source CapCut alternative

https://github.com/OpenCut-app/OpenCut

1 year ago

GLP-1s are breaking life insurance

https://www.glp1digest.com/p/how-glp-1s-are-breaking-life-insurance

1 year ago

Reading Neuromancer for the first time in 2025

https://mbh4h.substack.com/p/neuromancer-2025-review-william-gibson

1 year ago

Let's Learn x86-64 Assembly (2020)

https://gpfault.net/posts/asm-tut-0.txt.html

1 year ago

The North Korean fake IT worker problem is ubiquitous

https://www.theregister.com/2025/07/13/fake_it_worker_problem/

1 year ago

Five companies now control over 90% of the restaurant food delivery market

https://marketsaintefficient.substack.com/p/five-companies-now-control-over-90

1 year ago

A technical look at Iran's internet shutdowns

https://zola.ink/blog/posts/a-technical-look-at-irans-internet-shutdown

1 year ago

AI therapy bots fuel delusions and give dangerous advice, Stanford study finds

https://arstechnica.com/ai/2025/07/ai-therapy-bots-fuel-delusions-and-give-dangerous-advice-stanford-study-finds/

1 year ago

Investors bought 27% of US homes in Q1, as traditional buyers struggle to afford

https://abcnews.go.com/Business/wireStory/investors-snap-growing-share-us-homes-traditional-buyers-123560969

1 year ago

Thunderbird: Fluent Windows 11 Design

https://github.com/Deathbyteacup/fluentbird

1 year ago

Does showing seconds in the system tray actually use more power?

https://www.lttlabs.com/blog/2025/07/11/does-showing-seconds-in-the-system-tray-actually-use-more-power

1 year ago

Most people who buy games on Steam never play them

https://howtomarketagame.com/2025/06/03/most-people-who-buy-your-game-wont-play-it/

1 year ago

Show HN: I built this to talk Danish to my girlfriend – works with any language

https://menerdu.vercel.app/

1 year ago

Hypercapitalism and the AI talent wars

https://blog.johnluttig.com/p/hypercapitalism-and-the-ai-talent

1 year ago

Show HN: A Raycast-compatible launcher for Linux

https://github.com/ByteAtATime/raycast-linux

1 year ago

What's happening to reading?

https://www.newyorker.com/culture/open-questions/whats-happening-to-reading

1 year ago

Show HN: Learn LLMs LeetCode Style

https://github.com/Exorust/TorchLeet

1 year ago

Emergent Misalignment: Narrow finetuning can produce broadly misaligned LLMs

https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.17424

1 year ago

Lorem Gibson

http://loremgibson.com/

1 year ago

OpenICE: Open-Source US Immigration Detention Dashboard

https://www.openice.org/

1 year ago

Hacking Coroutines into C

https://wiomoc.de/misc/posts/hacking_coroutines_into_c.html

1 year ago

APKLab: Android Reverse-Engineering Workbench for VS Code

https://github.com/APKLab/APKLab

1 year ago

Algorithms for making interesting organic simulations

https://bleuje.com/physarum-explanation/

1 year ago

Stone blocks from the Lighthouse of Alexandria recovered from seafloor

https://archaeologymag.com/2025/07/lighthouse-of-alexandria-rises-again/

1 year ago

Edward Burtynsky's monumental chronicle of the human impact on the planet

https://www.newyorker.com/culture/photo-booth/earths-poet-of-scale

1 year ago

Big Data was used to see if TCM was scientific (2023)

https://www.mcgill.ca/oss/article/medical-critical-thinking-health-and-nutrition/no-traditional-chinese-medicine-has-not-been-vindicated-science

1 year ago

Happy 20th Birthday Django

https://www.djangoproject.com/weblog/2025/jul/13/happy-20th-birthday-django/

1 year ago

Fine dining restaurants researching guests to make their dinner unforgettable

https://www.sfgate.com/food/article/data-deep-dives-bay-area-fine-dining-restaurants-20404434.php

1 year ago

Show HN: 0xDEAD//TYPE – A fast-paced typing shooter with retro vibes

https://0xdeadtype.theden.sh/

1 year ago

Are a few people ruining the internet for the rest of us?

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2025/jul/13/are-a-few-people-ruining-the-internet-for-the-rest-of-us

1 year ago

Gaming cancer: How citizen science games could help cure disease

https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/how-citizen-science-games-could-help-cure-disease/

1 year ago

Petabit-class transmission over > 1000 km using standard 19-core optical fiber

https://www.nict.go.jp/en/press/2025/05/29-1.html

1 year ago

Atopile – Design circuit boards with code

https://atopile.io/atopile/introduction

1 year ago

SCP-055 is an "antimeme" – it erases itself from memory when observed

https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-055

1 year ago

Understanding Tool Calling in LLMs – Step-by-Step with REST and Spring AI

https://muthuishere.medium.com/understanding-tool-function-calling-in-llms-step-by-step-examples-in-rest-and-spring-ai-2149ecd6b18b

1 year ago

Hungary's oldest library fighting to save 100k books from a beetle infestation

https://www.nbcnews.com/world/hungary/hungary-pannonhalma-archabbey-beetle-infestation-rcna218539

1 year ago

Local Chatbot RAG with FreeBSD Knowledge

https://hackacad.net/post/2025-07-12-local-chatbot-rag-with-freebsd-knowledge/

1 year ago

The JPEG XL Image Coding History, Features, Coding Tools, Design Rationale

https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.05987

1 year ago

Lua beats MicroPython for embedded devs

https://www.embedded.com/why-lua-beats-micropython-for-serious-embedded-devs

1 year ago

'Europe must ban American Big Tech and create a European Silicon Valley'

https://www.tilburguniversity.edu/magazine/overview/europe-must-ban-american-big-tech-and-create-a-european-silicon-valley

1 year ago

Drones Are Key to Winning Wars Now. The U.S. Makes Hardly Any

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/13/business/drones-us-military-manufacturing-lags.html

1 year ago

Amazon CEO says AI agents will soon reduce company's corporate workforce

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/amazon-ceo-generative-ai-corporate-workforce/

1 year ago

What Was Cyberpunk? In Memoriam: 1980-2020 (2020)

https://forums.insertcredit.com/t/what-was-cyberpunk-in-memoriam-1980-2020/1721

1 year ago

Hill Space: Neural nets that do perfect arithmetic (to 10⁻¹⁶ precision)

https://hillspace.justindujardin.com/

1 year ago

Ask HN: How much of OpenAI code is written by AI?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44553379

1 year ago

Musks xAI pressed employees to install surveillance software on personal laptops

https://www.businessinsider.com/xai-pressed-workers-install-surveillance-software-personal-laptops-2025-7

1 year ago

Show HN: VS Code extension to edit the filesystem like a text buffer

https://github.com/ahrm/voil

1 year ago

Clashes between web and X11 colors in the CSS color scheme

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X11_color_names

1 year ago

Show HN: BloomSearch – Keyword search with hierarchical Bloom filters

https://github.com/danthegoodman1/bloomsearch

1 year ago

The Decipherment of the Dhofari Script

https://www.science.org/content/article/mysterious-pre-islamic-script-oman-finally-deciphered

1 year ago

A quick look at unprivileged sandboxing

https://www.uninformativ.de/blog/postings/2025-07-13/0/POSTING-en.html

1 year ago

Zig's new I/O: function coloring is inevitable?

https://blog.ivnj.org/post/function-coloring-is-inevitable

1 year ago

o3 and Grok 4 accidentally vindicate neurosymbolic AI

https://garymarcus.substack.com/p/how-o3-and-grok-4-accidentally-vindicated

1 year ago

Show HN: I built an LLM chat app because we shouldn't need 10 AI subscriptions

https://prismharmony.com/chat

1 year ago

MoonPay executives may have sent $250k to Nigerian scammer

https://www.theblock.co/post/362339/moonpay-executives-may-have-sent-250000-to-nigerian-scammer-doj-filing-suggests

1 year ago

A.I. Is Making Sure You Pay for That Ding on Your Rental Car

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/09/travel/rental-car-ai-scanner-hertz.html

1 year ago