top 20 hacker news stories for 2025-07-19

Hyatt Hotels are using algorithmic Rest “smoking detectors”

https://twitter.com/_ZachGriff/status/1945959030851035223

1 year ago

My Self-Hosting Setup

https://codecaptured.com/blog/my-ultimate-self-hosting-setup/

1 year ago

Death by AI

https://davebarry.substack.com/p/death-by-ai

1 year ago

Nobody knows how to build with AI yet

https://worksonmymachine.substack.com/p/nobody-knows-how-to-build-with-ai

1 year ago

A 14kb page can load much faster than a 15kb page (2022)

https://endtimes.dev/why-your-website-should-be-under-14kb-in-size/

1 year ago

OpenAI claims gold-medal performance at IMO 2025

https://twitter.com/alexwei_/status/1946477742855532918

1 year ago

Don't animate height

https://www.granola.ai/blog/dont-animate-height

1 year ago

Fstrings.wtf

https://fstrings.wtf/

1 year ago

Ring introducing new feature to allow police to live-stream access to cameras

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/07/amazon-ring-cashes-techno-authoritarianism-and-mass-surveillance

1 year ago

Make Your Own Backup System – Part 1: Strategy Before Scripts

https://it-notes.dragas.net/2025/07/18/make-your-own-backup-system-part-1-strategy-before-scripts/

1 year ago

It's rude to show AI output to people

https://distantprovince.by/posts/its-rude-to-show-ai-output-to-people/

1 year ago

Local LLMs versus offline Wikipedia

https://evanhahn.com/local-llms-versus-offline-wikipedia/

1 year ago

The borrowchecker is what I like the least about Rust

https://viralinstruction.com/posts/borrowchecker/

1 year ago

Microsoft Office is using an artificially complex XML schema as a lock-in tool

https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2025/07/18/artificially-complex-xml-schema-as-lock-in-tool/

1 year ago

The Big OOPs: Anatomy of a Thirty-Five Year Mistake

https://www.computerenhance.com/p/the-big-oops-anatomy-of-a-thirty

1 year ago

YouTube No Translation

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/youtube-no-translation/

1 year ago

What the Fuck Python

https://colab.research.google.com/github/satwikkansal/wtfpython/blob/master/irrelevant/wtf.ipynb

1 year ago

Beyond Meat fights for survival

https://foodinstitute.com/focus/beyond-meat-fights-for-survival/

1 year ago

Rethinking CLI interfaces for AI

https://www.notcheckmark.com/2025/07/rethinking-cli-interfaces-for-ai/

1 year ago

TSMC to start building four new plants with 1.4nm technology

https://www.taipeitimes.com/News/front/archives/2025/07/20/2003840583

1 year ago