top 50% 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/

1 year ago

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/

1 year ago

Cloudflare 1.1.1.1 Incident on July 14, 2025

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

1 year ago

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/

1 year ago

I'm switching to Python and actually liking it

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

1 year ago

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

https://smallandroidphone.com/

1 year ago

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/

1 year ago

Shipping WebGPU on Windows in Firefox 141

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

1 year ago

Pgactive: Postgres active-active replication extension

https://github.com/aws/pgactive

1 year ago

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

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

1 year ago

Tilck: A tiny Linux-compatible kernel

https://github.com/vvaltchev/tilck

1 year ago

GPUHammer: Rowhammer attacks on GPU memories are practical

https://gpuhammer.com/

1 year ago

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

1 year ago

Artisanal handcrafted Git repositories

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

1 year ago

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/

1 year ago

LLM Daydreaming

https://gwern.net/ai-daydreaming

1 year ago

Six Years of Gemini

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

1 year ago

Young graduates are facing an employment crisis

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

1 year ago

Tin Can – The landline, reinvented for kids

https://tincan.kids/

1 year ago

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

1 year ago

Show HN: Improving search ranking with chess Elo scores

https://www.zeroentropy.dev/blog/improving-rag-with-elo-scores

1 year ago

I tried vibe coding in BASIC and it didn't go well

https://www.goto10retro.com/p/vibe-coding-in-basic

1 year ago

Show HN: A 'Choose Your Own Adventure' written in Emacs Org Mode

https://tendollaradventure.com/sample/

1 year ago

Signs of autism could be encoded in the way you walk

https://www.sciencealert.com/signs-of-autism-could-be-encoded-in-the-way-you-walk

1 year ago

How and where will agents ship software?

https://www.instantdb.com/essays/agents

1 year ago

Thankyou for Loving Firefox (2022)

https://connect.mozilla.org/t5/discussions/mozilla-now-only-seems-to-speak-using-creepy-gibberish-lunatic/m-p/16863#M7430

1 year ago

Chain of thought monitorability: A new and fragile opportunity for AI safety

https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.11473

1 year ago

PyPI Prohibits inbox.ru email domain registrations

https://blog.pypi.org/posts/2025-06-15-prohibiting-inbox-ru-emails/

1 year ago

Metaflow: Build, Manage and Deploy AI/ML Systems

https://github.com/Netflix/metaflow

1 year ago

The Minecraft game score unexpectedly became big business for its composer

https://www.billboard.com/pro/how-minecraft-score-became-big-business-for-composer/

1 year ago

The Italian towns selling houses for €1

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2025/jul/08/the-life-swap-dream-or-a-marketing-gimmick-the-italian-towns-selling-houses-for-1

1 year ago

Zig Interface Revisited

https://williamw520.github.io/2025/07/13/zig-interface-revisited.html

1 year ago

Show HN: An MCP server that gives LLMs temporal awareness and time calculation

https://github.com/jlumbroso/passage-of-time-mcp

1 year ago

Mill: A better build tool for Java, Scala, and Kotlin

https://mill-build.org/mill/index.html

1 year ago

I'm Unsatisfied with Easing Functions

https://www.davepagurek.com/blog/easing-functions/

1 year ago

Lead GrapheneOS developer was forcibly conscripted into a war

https://grapheneos.social/@GrapheneOS/114825492698412916

1 year ago

cppyy: Automatic Python-C++ Bindings

https://cppyy.readthedocs.io/en/latest/

1 year ago

Hijacking Trust? Bitvise Under Fire for Controlling Domain of FOSS Project PuTTY

https://blog.pupred.com/blog/puttyvsbitvise/

1 year ago

Matterport walkthrough of the original Microsoft Building 3

https://my.matterport.com/show/?m=SZSV6vjcf4L

1 year ago

Mkosi – Build Bespoke OS Images

https://mkosi.systemd.io/

1 year ago

KX Community Edition

https://www.defconq.tech/blog/From%20Elite%20to%20Everyone%20-%20KX%20Community%20Edition%20Breaks%20Loose

1 year ago

Show HN: ggc – A terminal-based Git CLI written in Go

https://github.com/bmf-san/ggc

1 year ago

'Gentle parenting' my smartphone addiction

https://www.newyorker.com/culture/infinite-scroll/gentle-parenting-my-smartphone-addiction

1 year ago

Ask HN: Anyone else tired of AI being forced on you?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44585503

1 year ago

Nextflow: System for creating scalable, portable, reproducible workflows

https://github.com/nextflow-io/nextflow

1 year ago

Tsunami warning was issued in Alaska after 7.3 magnitude earthquake [updated]

https://www.tsunami.gov/

1 year ago

A recap on May/June stability at Neon

https://neon.com/blog/an-apology-and-a-recap-on-may-june-stability

1 year ago