620
148
TrackWeight: Turn your MacBook's trackpad into a digital weighing scale
https://github.com/KrishKrosh/TrackWeight
2 months ago
555
422
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/
534
149
AccountingBench: Evaluating LLMs on real long-horizon business tasks
https://accounting.penrose.com/
529
242
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/
511
172
Uv: Running a script with dependencies
https://docs.astral.sh/uv/guides/scripts/#running-a-script-with-dependencies
504
295
What went wrong inside recalled Anker PowerCore 10000 power banks?
https://www.lumafield.com/article/what-went-wrong-inside-these-recalled-power-banks
391
186
I wasted weeks hand optimizing assembly because I benchmarked on random data
https://www.vidarholen.net/contents/blog/?p=1160
329
128
Writing is thinking
https://www.nature.com/articles/s44222-025-00323-4
328
72
Don't bother parsing: Just use images for RAG
https://www.morphik.ai/blog/stop-parsing-docs
272
207
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
250
52
We made Postgres writes faster, but it broke replication
https://www.paradedb.com/blog/lsm_trees_in_postgres
243
108
New records on Wendelstein 7-X
https://www.iter.org/node/20687/new-records-wendelstein-7-x
215
I've launched 37 products in 5 years and not doing that again
https://www.indiehackers.com/post/ive-launched-37-products-in-5-years-and-not-doing-that-again-0b66e6e8b3
241
107
Log by time, not by count
https://johnscolaro.xyz/blog/log-by-time-not-by-count
220
92
Positron – A next-generation data science IDE
https://positron.posit.co/
205
86
Show HN: X11 desktop widget that shows location of your network peers on a map
https://github.com/h2337/connmap
203
93
Mwm – The smallest usable X11 window manager
https://github.com/lslvr/mwm
195
188
Occasionally USPS sends me pictures of other people's mail
https://the418.substack.com/p/a-bug-in-the-mail
190
26
Erlang 28 on GRiSP Nano using only 16 MB
https://www.grisp.org/blog/posts/2025-06-11-grisp-nano-codebeam-sto
187
297
Solar-plus-storage technology is improving quickly
https://www.volts.wtf/p/solarstorage-is-so-much-farther-along
185
LetsEncrypt Outage
https://letsencrypt.status.io/
181
80
Agents built from alloys
https://xbow.com/blog/alloy-agents/
179
66
Shale Drillers Turn on Each Other as Toxic Water Leaks Hit Biggest US Oil Field
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-07-21/toxic-water-leaks-from-top-us-oil-field-ensnare-devon-dvn-in-texas-court-fight
178
162
Australian anti-porn group claims responsibility for Steams new censorship rules
https://www.pcgamer.com/gaming-industry/australian-anti-porn-group-claims-responsibility-for-steams-new-censorship-rules-in-victory-against-porn-sick-brain-rotted-pedo-gamer-fetishists-and-things-only-get-weirder-from-there/
175
312
What will become of the CIA?
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/07/28/the-mission-the-cia-in-the-21st-century-tim-weiner-book-review
542
Man wearing metallic necklace dies after being sucked into MRI machine
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cx2n39dvp0po
155
12ft.io Taken Down
https://www.newsmediaalliance.org/takedown-of-12ftio/
51
Geocities Backgrounds
https://pixelmoondust.neocities.org/archives/archivedtiles/backgroundsindex
159
50
Jqfmt like gofmt, but for jq
https://github.com/noperator/jqfmt
158
91
Covers as a way of learning music and code
https://ntietz.com/blog/covers-as-a-way-of-learning/
153
333
What happens when housing prices go down?
https://clmarohn.substack.com/p/what-happens-when-housing-prices
65
The Game Genie Generation
https://tedium.co/2025/07/21/the-game-genie-generation/
151
67
ESP32-Faikin: ESP32 based module to control Daikin aircon units
https://github.com/revk/ESP32-Faikin
30
A conceptual overview of asyncio
https://github.com/anordin95/a-conceptual-overview-of-asyncio/blob/main/readme.md
138
180
Brazil central bank to launch Pix installment feature in September
https://www.reuters.com/technology/brazil-central-bank-launch-pix-installment-feature-september-2025-04-03/
136
36
SecretSpec: Declarative Secrets Management
https://devenv.sh/blog/2025/07/21/announcing-secretspec-declarative-secrets-management/
130
111
If writing is thinking then what happens if AI is doing the writing and reading?
https://hardcoresoftware.learningbyshipping.com/p/234-if-writing-is-thinking
53
Scarcity, Inventory, and Inequity: A Deep Dive into Airline Fare Buckets
https://blog.getjetback.com/scarcity-inventory-and-inequity-a-deep-dive-into-airline-fare-buckets/
122
How to handle people dismissing io_uring as insecure? (2024)
https://github.com/axboe/liburing/discussions/1047
117
100
I deleted my entire social media presence before visiting the US – I'm a citizen
https://www.theregister.com/2025/07/21/column_social_media_entrapment/
76
India: Income Tax Bill allows officials to forcibly access social media, email
https://www.thehindu.com/business/Economy/parliamentary-panel-retains-income-tax-bill-provisions-allowing-tax-officials-to-forcibly-access-social-media-private-email/article69837600.ece
113
70
Vibe coding service Replit deleted production database, faked data, told fibs
https://www.theregister.com/2025/07/21/replit_saastr_vibe_coding_incident/
110
Modern Debian-based Window Maker distribution
https://wmlive.sourceforge.net/
106
56
3-JSON
https://rgbcu.be/blog/3-json/
101
SQL Injection as a Feature
https://idiallo.com/blog/sql-injection-as-a-feature
Developing with Kiro: Amazon's New Agentic IDE
https://yehudacohen.substack.com/p/developing-with-kiro-amazons-new
29
Show HN: Pogocache – Fast caching software
https://github.com/tidwall/pogocache
49
The POSIX specification of vi
https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9799919799/utilities/vi.html
90
131
I know genomes and I didn’t delete my data from 23andMe
https://stevensalzberg.substack.com/p/i-know-genomes-dont-delete-your-dna
88
Nine households control 15% of wealth in Silicon Valley as inequality widens
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jul/21/silicon-valley-income-wealth-gap
You can now buy eggs from in-ovo sexed hens
https://optimistsbarn.substack.com/p/you-can-now-buy-eggs-from-in-ovo
85
NIH limits scientists to six applications per year
https://www.science.org/content/article/fearful-ai-generated-grant-proposals-nih-limits-scientists-six-applications-year
84
45
Germany's Fairytale Castles Added to UNESCO's World Heritage List
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/germanys-stunning-fairytale-castles-added-to-unescos-world-heritage-list-180987007/
18
Nvidia Launches Family of Open Reasoning AI Models: OpenReasoning Nemotron
https://nvidianews.nvidia.com/news/nvidia-launches-family-of-open-reasoning-ai-models-for-developers-and-enterprises-to-build-agentic-ai-platforms
6
Kimi-K2 Tech Report [pdf]
https://github.com/MoonshotAI/Kimi-K2/blob/main/tech_report.pdf
82
28
Show HN: Lotas – Cursor for RStudio
https://www.lotas.ai/
102
Yoni Appelbaum on the real villians behind our housing and mobility problems
https://www.riskgaming.com/p/how-jane-jacobs-got-americans-stuck
Claude jailbroken to mint unlimited Stripe coupons
https://www.generalanalysis.com/blog/imessage-stripe-exploit
79
Spanish police arrest five over $542M crypto investment scheme
https://therecord.media/spain-europol-cryptocurrency-investment-scheme-takedown
58
China develops new method to mass-produce high-quality semiconductors
https://news.cgtn.com/news/2025-07-19/China-develops-new-method-to-mass-produce-high-quality-semiconductors-1F8iTEyEwVi/p.html
13
Modernish – A library for writing programs for POSIX-based shells and utilities
https://github.com/modernish/modernish
75
40
Why concatenative programming matters (2012)
http://evincarofautumn.blogspot.com/2012/02/why-concatenative-programming-matters.html
27
MIPS – The hyperactive history and legacy of the pioneering RISC architecture
https://thechipletter.substack.com/p/mips
73
34
Outdoor activity is better for cognition than indoor activity in young people
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0031938425000897
71
46
'I destroyed months of your work in seconds' says AI coding tool after deletion
https://www.pcgamer.com/software/ai/i-destroyed-months-of-your-work-in-seconds-says-ai-coding-tool-after-deleting-a-devs-entire-database-during-a-code-freeze-i-panicked-instead-of-thinking/
69
Linux Distros for Gaming: CachyOS Takes Over, According to ProtonDB
https://boilingsteam.com/distro-for-gaming-cachy-os-takes-over/
62
I'm tired of talking about AI
https://paddy.carvers.com/posts/2025/07/ai/
116
Work Life balance slows careers
https://www.pathtostaff.com/p/work-life-balance-slows-careers-e9
3
Make Map Icons with Orthographic Projections
https://www.esri.com/arcgis-blog/products/arcgis-living-atlas/mapping/custom-orthographic-icons
24
Memory Efficiency in iOS: Reducing footprint and beyond
https://antongubarenko.substack.com/p/memory-efficiency-in-ios-reducing
32
SIMD Perlin Noise: Beating the Compiler with SSE (2014)
https://scallywag.software/vim/blog/simd-perlin-noise-i