top 50% hacker news stories for 2025-07-18

Valve confirms credit card companies pressured it to delist certain adult games

https://www.pcgamer.com/software/platforms/valve-confirms-credit-card-companies-pressured-it-to-delist-certain-adult-games-from-steam/

1 year ago

Fully homomorphic encryption and the dawn of a private internet

https://bozmen.io/fhe

1 year ago

“Dynamic programming” is not referring to “computer programming”

https://www.vidarholen.net/contents/blog/?p=1172

1 year ago

AI capex is so big that it's affecting economic statistics

https://paulkedrosky.com/honey-ai-capex-ate-the-economy/

1 year ago

lsr: ls with io_uring

https://rockorager.dev/log/lsr-ls-but-with-io-uring/

1 year ago

Meta says it won't sign Europe AI agreement

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/07/18/meta-europe-ai-code.html

1 year ago

Cancer DNA is detectable in blood years before diagnosis

https://www.sciencenews.org/article/cancer-tumor-dna-blood-test-screening

1 year ago

Asynchrony is not concurrency

https://kristoff.it/blog/asynchrony-is-not-concurrency/

1 year ago

NIH is cheaper than the wrong dependency

https://lewiscampbell.tech/blog/250718.html

1 year ago

NYPD bypassed facial recognition ban to ID pro-Palestinian student protester

https://www.thecity.nyc/2025/07/18/nypd-fdny-clearview-ai-ban-columbia-palestinian-protest/

1 year ago

How I keep up with AI progress

https://blog.nilenso.com/blog/2025/06/23/how-i-keep-up-with-ai-progress/

1 year ago

Psilocybin decreases depression and anxiety in cancer patients (2016)

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC5367557/

1 year ago

How to write Rust in the Linux kernel: part 3

https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/1026694/3413f4b43c862629/

1 year ago

ICE is getting unprecedented access to Medicaid data

https://www.wired.com/story/ice-access-medicaid-data/

1 year ago

CP/M creator Gary Kildall's memoirs released as free download

https://spectrum.ieee.org/cpm-creator-gary-kildalls-memoirs-released-as-free-download

1 year ago

EPA says it will eliminate its scientific research arm

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/18/climate/epa-firings-scientific-research.html

1 year ago

Linux and Secure Boot certificate expiration

https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/1029767/08f1d17c020e8292/

1 year ago

Ask HN: Any active COBOL devs here? What are you working on?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44604257

1 year ago

Broadcom to discontinue free Bitnami Helm charts

https://github.com/bitnami/charts/issues/35164

1 year ago

LibreOffice slams Microsoft for locking in Office users w/ complex file formats

https://www.neowin.net/news/libreoffice-calls-out-microsoft-for-using-complex-file-formats-to-lock-in-office-users/

1 year ago

Dear valued user, You have reached the error page for the error page

https://imgur.com/a/2H7HVcU

1 year ago

An unprecedented window into how diseases take hold years before symptoms appear

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-07-18/what-scientists-learned-scanning-the-bodies-of-100-000-brits

1 year ago

Silence Is a Commons by Ivan Illich (1983)

http://www.davidtinapple.com/illich/1983_silence_commons.html

1 year ago

USB-C hubs and my slow descent into madness (2021)

https://overengineer.dev/blog/2021/04/25/usb-c-hub-madness/

1 year ago

Wii U SDBoot1 Exploit “paid the beak”

https://consolebytes.com/wii-u-sdboot1-exploit-paid-the-beak/

1 year ago

Third patient dies from acute liver failure caused by a Sarepta gene therapy

https://www.biocentury.com/article/656520/third-death-from-a-sarepta-gene-therapy

1 year ago

I'm Peter Roberts, immigration attorney who does work for YC and startups. AMA

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44605213

1 year ago

Section 174 is reversed, mostly

https://newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/p/the-pulse-section-174-is-reversed

1 year ago

Apple bans entire dev account, no reason given

https://twitter.com/rameerez/status/1945784476723810739

1 year ago

DuckDuckGo now lets you hide AI-generated images in search results

https://techcrunch.com/2025/07/18/duckduckgo-now-lets-you-hide-ai-generated-images-in-search-results/

1 year ago

When root meets immutable: OpenBSD chflags vs. log tampering

https://rsadowski.de/posts/2025/openbsd-immutable-system-logs/

1 year ago

Firefox-patch-bin, librewolf-fix-bin AUR packages contain malware

https://lists.archlinux.org/archives/list/[email protected]/thread/7EZTJXLIAQLARQNTMEW2HBWZYE626IFJ/

1 year ago

H-1B program grew 81 percent from 2011 to 2022

https://twitter.com/USTechWorkers/status/1945999773825196492

1 year ago

A New Geometry for Einstein's Theory of Relativity

https://www.quantamagazine.org/a-new-geometry-for-einsteins-theory-of-relativity-20250716/

1 year ago

Shutting Down Clear Linux OS

https://community.clearlinux.org/t/all-good-things-come-to-an-end-shutting-down-clear-linux-os/10716

1 year ago

ACA health insurance will cost the average person 75% more next year

https://www.npr.org/sections/shots-health-news/2025/07/18/nx-s1-5471281/aca-health-insurance-premiums-obamacare-bbb-kff

1 year ago

The year of peak might and magic

https://www.filfre.net/2025/07/the-year-of-peak-might-and-magic/

1 year ago

Show HN: Molab, a cloud-hosted Marimo notebook workspace

https://molab.marimo.io/notebooks

1 year ago

Hiding messages in a deck playing cards

https://asherfalcon.com/blog/posts/3

1 year ago

French villages have no more drinking water. The reason? PFAS pollution

https://www.lemonde.fr/en/environment/article/2025/07/18/these-french-villages-have-no-more-drinking-water-the-reason-pfas-pollution_6743479_114.html

1 year ago

Losing language features: some stories about disjoint unions

https://graydon2.dreamwidth.org/318788.html

1 year ago

Louisiana cancels $3B coastal repair funded by oil spill settlement

https://apnews.com/article/louisiana-coastal-restoration-gulf-oil-spill-affaae2877bf250f636a633a14fbd0c7

1 year ago

Gmail's backup codes are useless to access account

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44606671

1 year ago

DHS: Filming Cops, ICE Officers Is a 'Violent Tactic'

https://www.techdirt.com/2025/07/18/dhs-filming-cops-ice-officers-is-a-violent-tactic/

1 year ago

The Israeli "art student" mystery (2002)

https://www.salon.com/2002/05/07/students/

1 year ago

The EU can be shut down with a few keystrokes

https://www.bitecode.dev/p/the-eu-can-be-shut-down-with-a-few

1 year ago

Trying to send a sticker in Steam Chat burned through a month of mobile data

https://old.reddit.com/r/Steam/comments/1m000kp/trying_to_send_a_sticker_in_steam_chat_burned/

1 year ago

Using the Matrix Cores of AMD RDNA 4 architecture GPUs

https://gpuopen.com/learn/using_matrix_core_amd_rdna4/

1 year ago

Python audio processing with pedalboard

https://lwn.net/Articles/1027814/

1 year ago

Show HN: I built library management app for those who outgrew spreadsheets

https://www.librari.io/

1 year ago

Travelers to the U.S. must pay a new $250 'visa integrity fee' – what to know

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/07/18/visa-integrity-fee-what-to-know-about-new-travel-fee-to-enter-the-us-.html

1 year ago

Ask HN: GCP Outage?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44605732

1 year ago

Multiplatform Matrix Multiplication Kernels

https://burn.dev/blog/sota-multiplatform-matmul/

1 year ago

Replication of Quantum Factorisation Records with a VIC-20, an Abacus, and a Dog

https://eprint.iacr.org/2025/1237

1 year ago

CBS Canceling 'Late Show with Stephen Colbert' After Next Season

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/17/business/stephen-colbert-late-show-ending.html

1 year ago

Super-resolution microscopes reveal new details of cells and disease

https://knowablemagazine.org/content/article/technology/2025/super-resolution-microscopes-reveal-new-details-cells

1 year ago

Exposed MCP servers across the internet

https://www.knostic.ai/blog/mapping-mcp-servers-study

1 year ago

Exhausted man defeats AI model in world coding championship

https://arstechnica.com/ai/2025/07/exhausted-man-defeats-ai-model-in-world-coding-championship/

1 year ago

Look up macOS system binaries

https://macosbin.com

1 year ago

The Number go up rule: Why America refuses to fix anything

https://www.thebignewsletter.com/p/the-number-go-up-rule-why-america

1 year ago

Data on How America Sold Out Its Computer Science Graduates

https://ifspp.substack.com/p/data-on-how-america-sold-out-its

1 year ago

Ccusage: A CLI tool for analyzing Claude Code usage from local JSONL files

https://github.com/ryoppippi/ccusage

1 year ago

eslint-config-prettier npm package compromised

https://www.stepsecurity.io/blog/supply-chain-security-alert-eslint-config-prettier-package-shows-signs-of-compromise

1 year ago

Why is AI so slow to spread?

https://www.economist.com/finance-and-economics/2025/07/17/why-is-ai-so-slow-to-spread-economics-can-explain

1 year ago

I'm rebelling against the algorithm

https://varunraghu.com/im-rebelling-against-the-algorithm/

1 year ago

Servo Web Engine Further Tuning Performance

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Servo-June-2025-Highlights

1 year ago

What happens when an octopus engages with art?

https://www.cnn.com/2025/07/17/style/what-happens-when-an-octopus-engages-with-art

1 year ago

Fixing a Direct3D9 bug in Far Cry (2018)

https://houssemnasri.github.io/2018/07/07/farcry-d3d9-bug/

1 year ago

Marathon fusion claims to invent alchemy, making 5000 kgs gold per gigawatt

https://www.marathonfusion.com/

1 year ago

Quadratic forms beyond arithmetic

https://www.ams.org/journals/notices/202507/noti3192/noti3192.html

1 year ago

Tell me again about neurons now

https://www.science.org/content/blog-post/tell-me-again-about-neurons-now

1 year ago

Ring reintroduces video sharing with police

https://www.theverge.com/news/709836/ring-police-video-sharing-police-axon-partnership

1 year ago

Astronomers Discover Rare Distant Object in Sync with Neptune

https://pweb.cfa.harvard.edu/news/astronomers-discover-rare-distant-object-sync-neptune

1 year ago