top 50% 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

Anthropic, Google, OpenAI and XAI Granted Up to $200M from Defense Department

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/07/14/anthropic-google-openai-xai-granted-up-to-200-million-from-dod.html

1 year ago

NeuralOS: An operating system powered by neural networks

https://neural-os.com/

1 year ago

Strategies for Fast Lexers

https://xnacly.me/posts/2025/fast-lexer-strategies/

1 year ago

Building Modular Rails Applications: A Deep Dive into Rails Engines

https://www.panasiti.me/blog/modular-rails-applications-rails-engines-active-storage-dashboard/

1 year ago

James Webb, Hubble space telescopes face reduction in operations

https://www.astronomy.com/science/james-webb-hubble-space-telescopes-face-reduction-in-operations-over-funding-shortfalls/

1 year ago

Archaeologists discover tomb of first king of Caracol

https://uh.edu/news-events/stories/2025/july/07102025-caracol-chase-discovery-maya-ruler.php

1 year ago

You Are in a Box

https://jyn.dev/you-are-in-a-box/

1 year ago

Myanmar’s proliferating scam centers

https://asia.nikkei.com/static/vdata/infographics/myanmar-scam-centers/

1 year ago

Embedding user-defined indexes in Apache Parquet

https://datafusion.apache.org/blog/2025/07/14/user-defined-parquet-indexes/

1 year ago

Encrypting files with passkeys and age

https://words.filippo.io/passkey-encryption/

1 year ago

Tell HN: 1.1.1.1 appears to be down

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44565836

1 year ago

From engineer to manager: A practical guide to your first months in leadership

https://humansinsystems.com/blog/new-manager-essentials-a-practical-guide-to-your-first-months

1 year ago

Impacts of adding PV solar system to internal combustion engine vehicles

https://www.jstor.org/stable/26169128

1 year ago

Lenovo Legion Go S: Windows 11 vs. SteamOS Performance, and General Availability

https://boilingsteam.com/lenovo-legion-go-s-windows-vs-steam-os-performance/

1 year ago

Writing a competitive BZip2 encoder in Ada from scratch in a few days (2024)

https://gautiersblog.blogspot.com/2024/11/writing-bzip2-encoder-in-ada-from.html

1 year ago

Lightning Detector Circuits

https://techlib.com/electronics/lightningnew.htm

1 year ago

Extending That XOR Trick to Billions of Rows

https://nochlin.com/blog/extending-that-xor-trick

1 year ago

Stellantis declares bankruptcy in China, with $1B in debts

https://www.italpassion.fr/en/stellantis/stellantis-declares-bankruptcy-in-china-with-1-billion-in-debts/

1 year ago

Grok 4 Heavy ($300/mo) returns its surname and no other text: "Hitler"

https://twitter.com/goodside/status/1944266466875826617

1 year ago

Anthropic signs a $200M deal with the Department of Defense

https://www.anthropic.com/news/anthropic-and-the-department-of-defense-to-advance-responsible-ai-in-defense-operations

1 year ago

Google's widespread tracking across the web

https://www.simpleanalytics.com/blog/google-is-tracking-you-even-when-you-use-duck-duck-go

1 year ago

ESA’s Moonlight programme: Pioneering the path for lunar exploration (2024)

https://www.esa.int/Applications/Connectivity_and_Secure_Communications/ESA_s_Moonlight_programme_Pioneering_the_path_for_lunar_exploration

1 year ago

Kiro.dev - The AI IDE for prototype to production

https://kiro.dev/

1 year ago

Roman dodecahedron: 12-sided object has baffled archaeologists for centuries

https://www.livescience.com/archaeology/romans/roman-dodecahedron-a-mysterious-12-sided-object-that-has-baffled-archaeologists-for-centuries

1 year ago

Show HN: PlutoFilter- A single-header, zero-allocation image filter library in C

https://github.com/sammycage/plutofilter

1 year ago

GM, LG to upgrade Tennessee plant to make low-cost EV batteries

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/07/14/gm-lg-ultium-spring-hill-tennessee-plant-ev-batteries.html

1 year ago

DEWLine Museum – The Distant Early Warning Radar Line

https://dewlinemuseum.com/

1 year ago

The End of Windows 10: a toolkit for community repair groups

https://therestartproject.org/end-of-windows-10-toolkit-for-repair-groups/

1 year ago

Cidco MailStation as a Z80 Development Platform (2019)

https://jcs.org/2019/05/03/mailstation

1 year ago

Show HN: The HTML Maze – Escape an eerie labyrinth built with HTML pages

https://htmlmaze.com/

1 year ago

The Art of Roland-Garros

https://www.garros.gallery/

1 year ago

Marc Andreesen and the Billionaire Victims Club

https://www.thebulwark.com/p/marc-andreesen-and-the-billionaire

1 year ago

A bionic knee integrated into tissue can restore natural movement

https://news.mit.edu/2025/bionic-knee-integrated-into-tissue-can-restore-natural-movement-0710

1 year ago

The Scourge of Arial (2001)

https://www.marksimonson.com/notebook/view/the-scourge-of-arial/

1 year ago

Black hole merger challenges our understanding of black hole formation

https://gizmodo.com/astronomers-detect-a-black-hole-merger-thats-so-massive-it-shouldnt-exist-2000628197

1 year ago

Telefónica DE shifts VMware support to Spinnaker due to cost

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

1 year ago