top 10 hacker news stories for 2025-07-21

TrackWeight: Turn your MacBook's trackpad into a digital weighing scale

https://github.com/KrishKrosh/TrackWeight

2 months ago

620 upvotes – 148 comments

UK backing down on Apple encryption backdoor after pressure from US

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/07/uk-backing-down-on-apple-encryption-backdoor-after-pressure-from-us/

2 months ago

555 upvotes – 422 comments

AccountingBench: Evaluating LLMs on real long-horizon business tasks

https://accounting.penrose.com/

2 months ago

534 upvotes – 149 comments

Gemini with Deep Think achieves gold-medal standard at the IMO

https://deepmind.google/discover/blog/advanced-version-of-gemini-with-deep-think-officially-achieves-gold-medal-standard-at-the-international-mathematical-olympiad/

2 months ago

529 upvotes – 242 comments

Uv: Running a script with dependencies

https://docs.astral.sh/uv/guides/scripts/#running-a-script-with-dependencies

2 months ago

511 upvotes – 172 comments

What went wrong inside recalled Anker PowerCore 10000 power banks?

https://www.lumafield.com/article/what-went-wrong-inside-these-recalled-power-banks

2 months ago

504 upvotes – 295 comments

I wasted weeks hand optimizing assembly because I benchmarked on random data

https://www.vidarholen.net/contents/blog/?p=1160

2 months ago

391 upvotes – 186 comments

Writing is thinking

https://www.nature.com/articles/s44222-025-00323-4

2 months ago

329 upvotes – 128 comments

Don't bother parsing: Just use images for RAG

https://www.morphik.ai/blog/stop-parsing-docs

2 months ago

328 upvotes – 72 comments

FCC to eliminate gigabit speed goal and scrap analysis of broadband prices

https://arstechnica.com/civis/threads/fcc-to-eliminate-gigabit-speed-goal-and-scrap-analysis-of-broadband-prices.1508451/page-2

2 months ago

272 upvotes – 207 comments
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