top 20 hacker news stories for 2025-07-14

Kiro: A new agentic IDE

https://kiro.dev/blog/introducing-kiro/

1 year ago

Oakland cops gave ICE license plate data; SFPD also illegally shared with feds

https://sfstandard.com/2025/07/14/oakland-san-francisco-ice-license-plate-readers/

1 year ago

Apple's MLX adding CUDA support

https://github.com/ml-explore/mlx/pull/1983

1 year ago

Data brokers are selling flight information to CBP and ICE

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/07/data-brokers-are-selling-your-flight-information-cbp-and-ice

1 year ago

Apple's Browser Engine Ban Persists, Even Under the DMA

https://open-web-advocacy.org/blog/apples-browser-engine-ban-persists-even-under-the-dma/

1 year ago

Cognition (Devin AI) to Acquire Windsurf

https://cognition.ai/blog/windsurf

1 year ago

Show HN: Refine – A Local Alternative to Grammarly

https://refine.sh

1 year ago

How I build software quickly

https://evanhahn.com/how-i-build-software-quickly/

1 year ago

Two guys hated using Comcast, so they built their own fiber ISP

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/07/two-guys-hated-using-comcast-so-they-built-their-own-fiber-isp/

1 year ago

AI slows down open source developers. Peter Naur can teach us why

https://johnwhiles.com/posts/mental-models-vs-ai-tools

1 year ago

LIGO detects most massive black hole merger to date

https://www.caltech.edu/about/news/ligo-detects-most-massive-black-hole-merger-to-date

1 year ago

Random selection is necessary to create stable meritocratic institutions

https://assemblingamerica.substack.com/p/there-is-no-meritocracy-without-lottocracy

1 year ago

Japanese grandparents create life-size Totoro with bus stop for grandkids (2020)

https://mymodernmet.com/totoro-sculpture-bus-stop/

1 year ago

Dog Walk: Blender Studio's official game project

https://blenderstudio.itch.io/dogwalk

1 year ago

On doing hard things

https://parv.bearblog.dev/kayaking/

1 year ago

RFC: PHP license update

https://wiki.php.net/rfc/php_license_update

1 year ago

Context Rot: How increasing input tokens impacts LLM performance

https://research.trychroma.com/context-rot

1 year ago

Death by a Thousand Slops

https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2025/07/14/death-by-a-thousand-slops/

1 year ago

Hundred Rabbits – Low-tech living while sailing the world

https://100r.co/site/home.html

1 year ago

East Asian aerosol cleanup has likely contributed to global warming

https://www.nature.com/articles/s43247-025-02527-3

1 year ago