top 20 hacker news stories for 2025-07-20

Global hack on Microsoft Sharepoint hits U.S., state agencies, researchers say

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2025/07/20/microsoft-sharepoint-hack/

1 year ago

XMLUI

https://blog.jonudell.net/2025/07/18/introducing-xmlui/

1 year ago

Coding with LLMs in the summer of 2025 – an update

https://antirez.com/news/154

1 year ago

The current hype around autonomous agents, and what actually works in production

https://utkarshkanwat.com/writing/betting-against-agents/

1 year ago

LLM architecture comparison

https://magazine.sebastianraschka.com/p/the-big-llm-architecture-comparison

1 year ago

The bewildering phenomenon of declining quality

https://english.elpais.com/culture/2025-07-20/the-bewildering-phenomenon-of-declining-quality.html

1 year ago

FFmpeg devs boast of another 100x leap thanks to handwritten assembly code

https://www.tomshardware.com/software/the-biggest-speedup-ive-seen-so-far-ffmpeg-devs-boast-of-another-100x-leap-thanks-to-handwritten-assembly-code

1 year ago

Staying cool without refrigerants: Next-generation Peltier cooling

https://news.samsung.com/global/interview-staying-cool-without-refrigerants-how-samsung-is-pioneering-next-generation-peltier-cooling

1 year ago

Tough news for our UK users

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

1 year ago

AI is killing the web – can anything save it?

https://www.economist.com/business/2025/07/14/ai-is-killing-the-web-can-anything-save-it

1 year ago

Digital vassals? French Government ‘exposes citizens’ data to US'

https://brusselssignal.eu/2025/07/digital-vassals-french-government-exposes-citizens-data-to-us/

1 year ago

Speeding up my ZSH shell

https://scottspence.com/posts/speeding-up-my-zsh-shell

1 year ago

Peep Show is the most realistic portrayal of evil I have seen (2020)

https://mattlakeman.org/2020/01/22/peep-show-the-most-realistic-portrayal-of-evil-ive-ever-seen/

1 year ago

AI groups spend to replace low-cost 'data labellers' with high-paid experts

https://www.ft.com/content/e17647f0-4c3b-49b4-a031-b56158bbb3b8

1 year ago

A Tour of Microsoft's Mac Lab (2006)

https://davidweiss.blogspot.com/2006/04/tour-of-microsofts-mac-lab.html

1 year ago

Async I/O on Linux in databases

https://blog.canoozie.net/async-i-o-on-linux-and-durability/

1 year ago

How Tesla is proving doubters right on why its robotaxi service cannot scale

https://www.aol.com/elon-gambling-tesla-proving-doubters-090300237.html

1 year ago

Payment processors' bar on Japanese adult content endangers democracy (2024)

https://automaton-media.com/en/news/nier-creator-speaks-out-against-payment-processors-pressuring-japanese-adult-content-platforms/

1 year ago

Checklists are hard, but still a good thing

https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/sysadmin/ChecklistsAreHardButGood

1 year ago

Stdio(3) change: FILE is now opaque

https://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20250717103345

1 year ago