top 50% hacker news stories for 2025-07-15

LLM Inevitabilism

https://tomrenner.com/posts/llm-inevitabilism/

1 year ago

1773 upvotes – 1628 comments

Reflections on OpenAI

https://calv.info/openai-reflections

1 year ago

771 upvotes – 421 comments

Show HN: Shoggoth Mini – A soft tentacle robot powered by GPT-4o and RL

https://www.matthieulc.com/posts/shoggoth-mini

1 year ago

610 upvotes – 107 comments

Ask HN: Is it time to fork HN into AI/LLM and "Everything else/other?"

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44571740

1 year ago

553 upvotes – 372 comments

To be a better programmer, write little proofs in your head

https://the-nerve-blog.ghost.io/to-be-a-better-programmer-write-little-proofs-in-your-head/

1 year ago

463 upvotes – 167 comments

NIST ion clock sets new record for most accurate clock

https://www.nist.gov/news-events/news/2025/07/nist-ion-clock-sets-new-record-most-accurate-clock-world

1 year ago

352 upvotes – 120 comments

Helix Editor 25.07

https://helix-editor.com/news/release-25-07-highlights/

1 year ago

331 upvotes – 153 comments

Blender 4.5 LTS

https://www.blender.org/download/releases/4-5/

1 year ago

328 upvotes – 100 comments

Where's Firefox going next?

https://connect.mozilla.org/t5/discussions/where-s-firefox-going-next-you-tell-us/m-p/100698#M39094

1 year ago

327 upvotes – 541 comments

My Family and the Flood

https://www.texasmonthly.com/news-politics/texas-flood-firsthand-account/

1 year ago

278 upvotes – 110 comments

Cloudflare starts blocking pirate sites for UK users

https://torrentfreak.com/cloudflare-starts-blocking-pirate-sites-for-uk-users-thats-a-pretty-big-deal-250715/

1 year ago

234 upvotes – 258 comments

The new literalism plaguing today’s movies

https://www.newyorker.com/culture/critics-notebook/the-new-literalism-plaguing-todays-biggest-movies

1 year ago

231 upvotes – 442 comments

Designing for the Eye: Optical corrections in architecture and typography

https://www.nubero.ch/blog/015/

1 year ago

223 upvotes – 42 comments

OpenAI – vulnerability responsible disclosure

https://requilence.any.org/open-ai-vulnerability-responsible-disclosure

1 year ago

221 upvotes – 82 comments

The Collapse of the FDA

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/08/magazine/fda-collapse-rfk-kennedy.html

1 year ago

219 upvotes – 206 comments

Claude for Financial Services

https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-for-financial-services

1 year ago

213 upvotes – 114 comments

Tech oligarchs have turned against the system that made them

https://www.liberalcurrents.com/marc-andreessen-is-a-traitor/

1 year ago

209 upvotes – 115 comments

Protecting my attention at the dopamine carnival

https://www.amirsharif.com/protecting-my-attention-at-the-dopamine-carnival

1 year ago

202 upvotes – 135 comments

Plasma Bigscreen rises from the dead with a better UI

https://www.neowin.net/news/kdes-android-tv-alternative-plasma-bigscreen-rises-from-the-dead-with-a-better-ui/

1 year ago

202 upvotes – 71 comments

Trying Guix: A Nixer's impressions

https://tazj.in/blog/trying-guix

1 year ago

201 upvotes – 89 comments

The FIPS 140-3 Go Cryptographic Module

https://go.dev/blog/fips140

1 year ago

196 upvotes – 71 comments

Show HN: We made our own inference engine for Apple Silicon

https://github.com/trymirai/uzu

1 year ago

186 upvotes – 46 comments

Code highlighting extension for Cursor AI used for $500k theft

https://securelist.com/open-source-package-for-cursor-ai-turned-into-a-crypto-heist/116908/

1 year ago

182 upvotes – 155 comments

Claude Code Unleashed

https://ymichael.com/2025/07/15/claude-code-unleashed

1 year ago

158 upvotes – 114 comments

Inside the box: Everything I did with an Arduino starter kit

https://lopespm.com/hardware/2025/07/15/arduino.html

1 year ago

157 upvotes – 45 comments

Voxtral – Frontier open source speech understanding models

https://mistral.ai/news/voxtral

1 year ago

156 upvotes – 26 comments

Mira Murati’s AI startup Thinking Machines valued at $12B in early-stage funding

https://www.reuters.com/technology/mira-muratis-ai-startup-thinking-machines-raises-2-billion-a16z-led-round-2025-07-15/

1 year ago

147 upvotes – 245 comments

DOGE Denizen Marko Elez Leaked API Key for xAI

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2025/07/doge-denizen-marko-elez-leaked-api-key-for-xai/

1 year ago

138 upvotes – 45 comments

Encrypting files with passkeys and age

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

1 year ago

131 upvotes – 2 comments

How I lost my backpack with passports and laptop

https://psychotechnology.substack.com/p/how-i-lost-my-backpack-with-passports

1 year ago

131 upvotes – 146 comments

What were the earliest laws like?

https://worldhistory.substack.com/p/what-were-the-earliest-laws-really

1 year ago

131 upvotes – 62 comments

A Rust shaped hole

https://mnvr.in/rust

1 year ago

120 upvotes – 314 comments

A little-known Microsoft program could expose the Defense Department to hackers

https://www.propublica.org/article/microsoft-digital-escorts-pentagon-defense-department-china-hackers

1 year ago

118 upvotes – 50 comments

The IRS Is Building a System to Share Taxpayers' Data with ICE

https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-irs-share-tax-records-ice-dhs-deportations

1 year ago

117 upvotes – 138 comments

A 1960s schools experiment that created a new alphabet

https://www.theguardian.com/education/2025/jul/06/1960s-schools-experiment-created-new-alphabet-thousands-children-unable-to-spell

1 year ago

116 upvotes – 142 comments

What caused the 'baby boom'? What would it take to have another?

https://www.derekthompson.org/p/what-caused-the-baby-boom-what-would

1 year ago

116 upvotes – 864 comments

Inspect ANSI control codes and escape sequences

https://ansi.tools

1 year ago

115 upvotes – 51 comments

AWS Lambda Silent Crash – A Platform Failure, Not an Application Bug [pdf]

https://lyons-den.com/whitepapers/aws-lambda-silent-crash.pdf

1 year ago

115 upvotes – 102 comments

When Sigterm Does Nothing: A Postgres Mystery

https://clickhouse.com/blog/sigterm-postgres-mystery

1 year ago

115 upvotes – 34 comments

Unlike ChatGPT, Anthropic has doubled down on Artifacts

https://ben-mini.com/2025/claude-is-kicking-chatgpts-butt

1 year ago

112 upvotes – 35 comments

A look at IBM's short-lived "butterfly" ThinkPad 701 of 1995

https://www.fastcompany.com/91356463/ibm-thinkpad-701-butterfly-keyboard

1 year ago

109 upvotes – 48 comments

Show HN: Beyond Z²+C, Plot Any Fractal

https://www.juliascope.com/

1 year ago

101 upvotes – 28 comments

Nearly 3 out of 4 Oracle Java users say they've been audited in the past 3 years

https://www.theregister.com/2025/07/15/oracle_java_users_audited/

1 year ago

96 upvotes – 26 comments

Hierarchical Modeling (H-Nets)

https://cartesia.ai/blog/hierarchical-modeling

1 year ago

93 upvotes – 21 comments

What the Internet Was Like in 1998

https://cybercultural.com/p/internet-1998/

1 year ago

92 upvotes – 49 comments

Ask HN: What's Your Useful Local LLM Stack?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44572043

1 year ago

91 upvotes – 54 comments

TCP-in-UDP Solution (eBPF)

https://blog.mptcp.dev/2025/07/14/TCP-in-UDP.html

1 year ago

88 upvotes – 20 comments

C++: Zero-cost static initialization

https://cofault.com/zero-cost-static.html

1 year ago

84 upvotes – 58 comments

DIY Telescope Mods That Transformed My Astrophotography

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Efmzr_K4ApQ

1 year ago

82 upvotes – 18 comments

Benben: An audio player for the terminal, written in Common Lisp

https://chiselapp.com/user/MistressRemilia/repository/benben/home

1 year ago

80 upvotes – 8 comments

Meta shareholders look to haul CEO Mark Zuckerberg, Sheryl Sandberg to court

https://nypost.com/2025/07/15/business/meta-shareholders-aim-to-haul-ceo-mark-zuckerberg-sheryl-sandberg-to-court/

1 year ago

80 upvotes – 89 comments

Adding lookbehinds to rust-lang/regex

https://systemf.epfl.ch/blog/rust-regex-lookbehinds/

1 year ago

80 upvotes – 35 comments

Piano Keys

https://www.mathpages.com/home/kmath043.htm

1 year ago

74 upvotes – 69 comments

What's going on with gene therapies?

https://nehalslearnings.substack.com/p/whats-going-on-with-gene-therapies

1 year ago

73 upvotes – 61 comments

I'm a Genocide Scholar. I Know It When I See It

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/15/opinion/israel-gaza-holocaust-genocide-palestinians.html

1 year ago

73 upvotes – 29 comments

Hazel: A live functional programming environment with typed holes

https://github.com/hazelgrove/hazel

1 year ago

73 upvotes – 16 comments

How to Get Foreign Keys Horribly Wrong

https://hakibenita.com/django-foreign-keys

1 year ago

68 upvotes – 34 comments

When is tech not hype? Tulips, toilets, trains and tabs

https://ajmoon.com/posts/when-is-tech-not-hype-tulips-toilets-trains-and-tabs

1 year ago

68 upvotes – 55 comments

HathiTrust Digital Library

https://www.hathitrust.org/

1 year ago

67 upvotes – 18 comments

C++ Coroutines Advanced: Converting std:future to asio:awaitable

https://www.ddhigh.com/en/2025/07/15/cpp-coroutine-future-to-awaitable/

1 year ago

66 upvotes – 59 comments

Show HN: CallFS – S3-style object store in one Go binary (MIT)

https://github.com/ebogdum/callfs

1 year ago

66 upvotes – 29 comments

RisingWave: An Open‑Source Stream‑Processing and Management Platform

https://github.com/risingwavelabs/risingwave

1 year ago

66 upvotes – 26 comments

Human Stigmergy: The world is my task list

https://aethermug.com/posts/human-stigmergy

1 year ago

65 upvotes – 19 comments

Belgian CVD is deeply broken

https://devae.re/posts/belgian-cvd-is-deeply-broken/

1 year ago

64 upvotes – 13 comments

Voxtral-Mini-3B-2507 – Open source speech understanding model

https://huggingface.co/mistralai/Voxtral-Mini-3B-2507

1 year ago

64 upvotes – 1 comments

15 Years of Building Jefit

https://www.jefit.com/our-story

1 year ago

59 upvotes – 33 comments

C# Language Design Meeting for June 30th, 2025

https://github.com/dotnet/csharplang/blob/main/meetings/2025/LDM-2025-06-30.md

1 year ago

56 upvotes – 61 comments

Show HN: OrioleDB Beta12 Features and Benchmarks

https://www.orioledb.com/blog/orioledb-beta12-benchmarks

1 year ago

55 upvotes – 17 comments
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