top 20 hacker news stories for 2025-07-16

Linux Reaches 5% Desktop Market Share in USA

https://ostechnix.com/linux-reaches-5-desktop-market-share-in-usa/

2 months ago

1021 upvotes – 614 comments

Ukrainian hackers destroyed the IT infrastructure of Russian drone manufacturer

https://prm.ua/en/ukrainian-hackers-destroyed-the-it-infrastructure-of-a-russian-drone-manufacturer-what-is-known/

2 months ago

690 upvotes – 480 comments

Cloudflare 1.1.1.1 Incident on July 14, 2025

https://blog.cloudflare.com/cloudflare-1-1-1-1-incident-on-july-14-2025/

2 months ago

581 upvotes – 380 comments

Ex-Waymo engineers launch Bedrock Robotics to automate construction

https://techcrunch.com/2025/07/16/ex-waymo-engineers-launch-bedrock-robotics-with-80m-to-automate-construction/

2 months ago

518 upvotes – 386 comments

I'm switching to Python and actually liking it

https://www.cesarsotovalero.net/blog/i-am-switching-to-python-and-actually-liking-it.html

2 months ago

469 upvotes – 694 comments

I want an iPhone Mini-sized Android phone (2022)

https://smallandroidphone.com/

2 months ago

457 upvotes – 684 comments

Altermagnets: The first new type of magnet in nearly a century

https://www.newscientist.com/article/2487013-weve-discovered-a-new-kind-of-magnetism-what-can-we-do-with-it/

2 months ago

405 upvotes – 115 comments

Shipping WebGPU on Windows in Firefox 141

https://mozillagfx.wordpress.com/2025/07/15/shipping-webgpu-on-windows-in-firefox-141/

2 months ago

384 upvotes – 170 comments

Pgactive: Postgres active-active replication extension

https://github.com/aws/pgactive

2 months ago

355 upvotes – 96 comments

Babies made using three people's DNA are born free of mitochondrial disease

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cn8179z199vo

2 months ago

304 upvotes – 234 comments

Tilck: A tiny Linux-compatible kernel

https://github.com/vvaltchev/tilck

2 months ago

286 upvotes – 58 comments

GPUHammer: Rowhammer attacks on GPU memories are practical

https://gpuhammer.com/

2 months ago

271 upvotes – 108 comments

Intel's retreat is unlike anything it's done before in Oregon

https://www.oregonlive.com/silicon-forest/2025/07/intels-retreat-is-unlike-anything-its-done-before-in-oregon.html

2 months ago

269 upvotes – 483 comments

Artisanal handcrafted Git repositories

https://drew.silcock.dev/blog/artisanal-git/

2 months ago

266 upvotes – 68 comments

Congress moves to reject bulk of White House's proposed NASA cuts

https://arstechnica.com/space/2025/07/congress-moves-to-reject-bulk-of-white-houses-proposed-nasa-cuts/

2 months ago

254 upvotes – 231 comments

LLM Daydreaming

https://gwern.net/ai-daydreaming

2 months ago

218 upvotes – 145 comments

Six Years of Gemini

https://geminiprotocol.net/news/2025_06_20.gmi

2 months ago

216 upvotes – 166 comments

Young graduates are facing an employment crisis

https://www.wsj.com/economy/jobs/jobs-unemployment-rise-young-people-ce4704d8

2 months ago

200 upvotes – 372 comments

Tin Can – The landline, reinvented for kids

https://tincan.kids/

2 months ago

197 upvotes – 132 comments

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

https://www.npr.org/2025/07/14/nx-s1-5467062/hungary-library-books-beetles

2 months ago

195 upvotes – 30 comments
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