top 50% hacker news stories for 2025-07-17

ChatGPT agent: bridging research and action

https://openai.com/index/introducing-chatgpt-agent/

1 year ago

Mistral Releases Deep Research, Voice, Projects in Le Chat

https://mistral.ai/news/le-chat-dives-deep

1 year ago

New colors without shooting lasers into your eyes

https://dynomight.net/colors/

1 year ago

Self-taught engineers often outperform (2024)

https://michaelbastos.com/blog/why-self-taught-engineers-often-outperform

1 year ago

Hand: open-source Robot Hand

https://github.com/pollen-robotics/AmazingHand

1 year ago

Tell HN: Notion Desktop is monitoring your audio and network

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44594790

1 year ago

Anthropic tightens usage limits for Claude Code without telling users

https://techcrunch.com/2025/07/17/anthropic-tightens-usage-limits-for-claude-code-without-telling-users/

1 year ago

My experience with Claude Code after two weeks of adventures

https://sankalp.bearblog.dev/my-claude-code-experience-after-2-weeks-of-usage/

1 year ago

“Reading Rainbow” was created to combat summer reading slumps

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian-institution/to-combat-summer-reading-slumps-this-timeless-childrens-television-show-tried-to-bridge-the-literacy-gap-with-the-magic-of-stories-180986984/

1 year ago

My bank keeps on undermining anti-phishing education

http://moritz-mander.de/blog/my_bank_keeps_on_undermining_anti-phishing_education/

1 year ago

Perfume reviews

https://gwern.net/blog/2025/perfume

1 year ago

All AI models might be the same

https://blog.jxmo.io/p/there-is-only-one-model

1 year ago

Simulating hand-drawn motion with SVG filters

https://camillovisini.com/coding/simulating-hand-drawn-motion-with-svg-filters

1 year ago

The daily life of a medieval king

https://www.medievalists.net/2025/07/medieval-king-daily-life/

1 year ago

How I Use Kagi

https://flamedfury.com/posts/how-i-use-kagi/

1 year ago

Wttr: Console-oriented weather forecast service

https://github.com/chubin/wttr.in

1 year ago

My favorite use-case for AI is writing logs

https://newsletter.vickiboykis.com/archive/my-favorite-use-case-for-ai-is-writing-logs/

1 year ago

Retro gaming YouTuber Once Were Nerd sued and raided by the Italian government

https://www.androidauthority.com/once-were-nerd-youtuber-copyright-lawsuit-3577995/

1 year ago

Parsing Protobuf like never before

https://mcyoung.xyz/2025/07/16/hyperpb/

1 year ago

The patterns of elites who conceal their assets offshore

https://home.dartmouth.edu/news/2025/07/patterns-elites-who-conceal-their-assets-offshore

1 year ago

Apple Intelligence Foundation Language Models Tech Report 2025

https://machinelearning.apple.com/research/apple-foundation-models-tech-report-2025

1 year ago

Show HN: Conductor, a Mac app that lets you run a bunch of Claude Codes at once

https://conductor.build/

1 year ago

People kept working, became healthier while on basic income: report (2020)

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/hamilton/basic-income-mcmaster-report-1.5485729

1 year ago

The Big Oops: Anatomy of a Thirty-Five-Year Mistake [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wo84LFzx5nI

1 year ago

How we tracked down a Go 1.24 memory regression

https://www.datadoghq.com/blog/engineering/go-memory-regression/

1 year ago

Mushroom learns to crawl after being given robot body (2024)

https://www.the-independent.com/tech/robot-mushroom-biohybrid-robotics-cornell-b2610411.html

1 year ago

Upcoming coordinated security fix for all Matrix server implementations

https://matrix.org/blog/2025/07/security-predisclosure/

1 year ago

I was wrong about robots.txt

https://evgeniipendragon.com/posts/i-was-wrong-about-robots-txt/

1 year ago

ICE's Supercharged Facial Recognition App of 200M Images

https://www.404media.co/inside-ices-supercharged-facial-recognition-app-of-200-million-images/

1 year ago

Gaslight-driven development

https://tonsky.me/blog/gaslight-driven-development/

1 year ago

Code execution through email: How I used Claude to hack itself

https://www.pynt.io/blog/llm-security-blogs/code-execution-through-email-how-i-used-claude-mcp-to-hack-itself

1 year ago

Molecule produced by gut bacteria causes atherosclerosis

https://english.elpais.com/health/2025-07-17/revolution-in-medicine-a-molecule-produced-by-gut-bacteria-causes-atherosclerosis-responsible-for-millions-of-deaths.html

1 year ago

Ask HN: What Pocket alternatives did you move to?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44597668

1 year ago

How to run an Arduino for years on a battery (2021)

https://makecademy.com/arduino-battery

1 year ago

The rise of AI as a threat to the S&P 500 [pdf]

https://autonomy.work/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/Sp-500-capital-at-risk_-3.pdf

1 year ago

The AI bubble today is bigger than the IT bubble in the 1990s

https://www.apolloacademy.com/ai-bubble-today-is-bigger-than-the-it-bubble-in-the-1990s/

1 year ago

23andMe is out of bankruptcy and it still hasn’t substantially changed its ways

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2025/07/17/23andme-bankruptcy-privacy/

1 year ago

Zig's New Writer

https://www.openmymind.net/Zigs-New-Writer/

1 year ago

Xbox Hacks: The A20 (2021)

https://connortumbleson.com/2021/07/19/the-xbox-and-a20-line/

1 year ago

Mistakes Microsoft made in the Xbox security system (2005)

https://xboxdevwiki.net/17_Mistakes_Microsoft_Made_in_the_Xbox_Security_System

1 year ago

Doge Put Free Tax Filing Tool on Chopping Block After One Meeting with Lobbyists

https://www.wired.com/story/doge-direct-file-chopping-block/

1 year ago

Run TypeScript code without worrying about configuration

https://tsx.is/

1 year ago

Nintendo Switch 2 account bans continue: warning after buying old copy of Bayo 3

https://www.tomshardware.com/video-games/nintendo/nintendo-switch-2-account-bans-continue-content-creator-with-over-a-million-subs-issues-warning-after-buying-an-old-copy-of-bayo-3-on-ebay

1 year ago

What my mother didn’t talk about (2020)

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/karolinawaclawiak/what-my-mother-didnt-talk-about-karolina-waclawiak

1 year ago

The AI Replaces Services Myth

https://aimode.substack.com/p/the-ai-replaces-services-myth

1 year ago

Debugging Bash Like a Sire (2023)

https://blog.brujordet.no/post/bash/debugging_bash_like_a_sire/

1 year ago

Java was not underhyped in 1997 (2021)

https://dylanbeattie.net/2021/07/01/java-is-criminally-underhyped.html

1 year ago

NINA: Rebuilding the original AIM, AOL Desktop, Yahoo and ICQ platforms

https://nina.chat/

1 year ago

N78 band 5G NR recordings

https://destevez.net/2025/07/n78-band-5g-nr-recordings/

1 year ago

Mammals Evolved into Ant Eaters 12 Times Since Dinosaur Age, Study Finds

https://news.njit.edu/mammals-evolved-ant-eaters-12-times-dinosaur-age-study-finds

1 year ago

FOSS4G Europe 2025 live streaming [video]

https://2025.europe.foss4g.org/livestream/

1 year ago

Delta moves to eliminate set prices, use AI to set your personal ticket price

https://fortune.com/2025/07/16/delta-moves-toward-eliminating-set-prices-in-favor-of-ai-that-determines-how-much-you-personally-will-pay-for-a-ticket/

1 year ago

Don't Fall for AI: Reasons for Writers to Reject Slop

https://mythcreants.com/blog/dont-fall-for-ai-nine-reasons-for-writers-to-reject-slop/

1 year ago

JOVE – Jonathan’s Own Version of Emacs

https://github.com/jonmacs/jove/

1 year ago

Ask HN: Is HN Pro-Fascist?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44598731

1 year ago

Treating beef like coal would make a big dent in greenhouse-gas emissions

https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/2021/10/02/treating-beef-like-coal-would-make-a-big-dent-in-greenhouse-gas-emissions

1 year ago

Open, free, and ignored: the afterlife of Symbian

https://www.theregister.com/2025/07/17/symbian_forgotten_foss_phone_os/

1 year ago

Chrome's SSL Bypass Cheatcode

https://thomascountz.com/2025/07/17/chromes-ssl-bypass-cheatcode

1 year ago

Onlycats

https://onlycats.gg/

1 year ago

Running TypeScript Natively in Node.js

https://nodejs.org/en/learn/typescript/run-natively

1 year ago

Terence Tao: Game theory, politics and control of information

https://mathstodon.xyz/@tao/114866543948652941

1 year ago

Gmail/Google starts disabling features unless you agree to data processing

https://bsky.app/profile/victor.earth/post/3lu5ovm2oy22g

1 year ago

New battery has life so long you may never have to recharge

https://www.neowin.net/news/this-amazing-new-battery-has-life-so-long-you-may-never-have-to-recharge/

1 year ago

The impact of file position on code review

https://arxiv.org/abs/2208.04259

1 year ago

Behind the ballistics of the 'explosive' squirting cucumber

https://phys.org/news/2025-07-ballistics-explosive-squirting-cucumber.html

1 year ago