top 50% 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

Distillation makes AI models smaller and cheaper

https://www.quantamagazine.org/how-distillation-makes-ai-models-smaller-and-cheaper-20250718/

1 year ago

A human metaphor for evaluating AI capability

https://mathstodon.xyz/@tao/114881418225852441

1 year ago

Show HN: MCP server for Blender that builds 3D scenes via natural language

https://blender-mcp-psi.vercel.app/

1 year ago

EU commissioner shocked by dangers of some goods sold by Shein and Temu

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2025/jul/20/eu-commissioner-shocked-dangerous-goods-sold-shein-temu

1 year ago

Replit AI deletes entire database during code freeze, then lies about it

https://twitter.com/jasonlk/status/1946069562723897802

1 year ago

Subreply – An open source text-only social network

https://github.com/lucianmarin/subreply

1 year ago

Borg – Deduplicating archiver with compression and encryption

https://www.borgbackup.org/

1 year ago

New York’s bill banning One-Person Train Operation

https://www.etany.org/statements/impeding-progress-costing-riders-opto

1 year ago

Insights on Teufel’s first open-source speaker

https://blog.teufelaudio.com/visionary-mynds-insights-on-teufels-first-open-source-speaker/

1 year ago

“I noticed a clear violation of our contributing guidelines”

https://github.com/antiwork/flexile/pull/427#issuecomment-3079688548

1 year ago

Erythritol linked to brain cell damage and stroke risk

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2025/07/250718035156.htm

1 year ago

Data and Democracy: Charting Assault on American Democracy and a Path Forward

https://data4democracy.substack.com/p/on-data-and-democracy-mid-year-roundup

1 year ago

IPv6 Based Canvas

https://canvas.openbased.org/

1 year ago

Hacking a Toniebox

https://www.schafe-sind-bessere-rasenmaeher.de/tech/hack-all-the-things-toniebox/

1 year ago

The old Caveman Chemistry website (1996-2000)

https://cavemanchemistry.com/oldcave/

1 year ago

The Genius Device That Rocked F1

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FhmLb2DhNYM

1 year ago

Airbnb allowed rampant price gouging following L.A. fires, city attorney alleges

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2025-07-19/airbnb-allowed-price-gouging-following-l-a-fires-city-attorney-alleges-in-lawsuit

1 year ago

US signals intention to rethink job H-1B lottery

https://www.theregister.com/2025/07/20/h_1b_job_lottery/

1 year ago

QuakeNotch: Quake Terminal on your MacBook's notch

https://quakenotch.com

1 year ago

Master Foo and the Script Kiddie (2003)

https://soda.privatevoid.net/foo/arc/02.html

1 year ago

The landlord gutting America’s hospitals

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/07/the-landlord-gutting-americas-hospitals/

1 year ago

Solving a Childhood Mystery: How BASIC Games Learned to Win

https://sublevelgames.github.io/blogs/2025-07-20-basic-game-hexapawn/

1 year ago

Australia Wants to See Your Papers Before You Press Play

https://reclaimthenet.org/australia-wants-to-see-your-papers-before-you-press-play

1 year ago

Bus Bunching

https://www.futilitycloset.com/2025/07/12/bus-bunching/

1 year ago

Group Behind Steam Censorship Policies Have Powerful Allies

https://web.archive.org/web/20250719204151/https://www.vice.com/en/article/group-behind-steam-censorship-policies-have-powerful-allies-and-targeted-popular-games-with-outlandish-claims/

1 year ago

Allentown man said to have died in ICE custody is alive in Guatemala

https://www.mcall.com/2025/07/18/luis-leon-allentown-grandfather-ice-guatemala/

1 year ago

They're putting blue food coloring in everything

https://blog.foxtrotluna.social/theyre-putting-blue-food-coloring-in-everything/

1 year ago

Intel to boost gross margins – new products must deliver 50% gross profit

https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/semiconductors/intel-draws-a-line-in-the-sand-to-boost-gross-margins-new-products-must-deliver-50-percent-to-get-the-green-light

1 year ago

Seven Sisters eclipse will temporarily block stars from view

https://www.discovermagazine.com/the-sciences/the-seven-sisters-eclipse-will-temporarily-block-stars-from-view

1 year ago

Vanishing home field advantage in English football

https://blog.engora.com/2025/07/vanishing-home-field-advantage-in.html

1 year ago

Robot metabolism: Toward machines that can grow by consuming other machines

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adu6897

1 year ago

Amazon's Emissions Climbed 6% in 2024 on Data Center Buildout

https://www.datacenterknowledge.com/sustainability/amazon-s-emissions-climbed-6-in-2024-on-data-center-buildout

1 year ago

“The Bitter Lesson” is wrong. Well sort of

https://assaf-pinhasi.medium.com/the-bitter-lesson-is-wrong-sort-of-a3d021864924

1 year ago

AICodingHorrors – The price of AI-assisted coding

https://aicodinghorrors.com/

1 year ago

Leaders are using appeals to nostalgia, nationalism to attack higher education

https://theconversation.com/leaders-in-india-hungary-and-the-us-are-using-appeals-to-nostalgia-and-nationalism-to-attack-higher-education-258975

1 year ago