top 50% hacker news stories for 2025-07-22

How to Firefox

https://kau.sh/blog/how-to-firefox/

1 year ago

Qwen3-Coder: Agentic coding in the world

https://qwenlm.github.io/blog/qwen3-coder/

1 year ago

The United States withdraws from UNESCO

https://www.state.gov/releases/office-of-the-spokesperson/2025/07/the-united-states-withdraws-from-the-united-nations-educational-scientific-and-cultural-organization-unesco

1 year ago

Ozzy Osbourne has died

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cn0qq5nyxn0t

1 year ago

Complete silence is always hallucinated as "ترجمة نانسي قنقر" in Arabic

https://github.com/openai/whisper/discussions/2608

1 year ago

More than you wanted to know about how Game Boy cartridges work

https://abc.decontextualize.com/more-than-you-wanted-to-know/

1 year ago

TODOs aren't for doing

https://sophiebits.com/2025/07/21/todos-arent-for-doing

1 year ago

Unsafe and Unpredictable: My Volvo EX90 Experience

https://www.myvolvoex90.com/

1 year ago

Jujutsu for busy devs

https://maddie.wtf/posts/2025-07-21-jujutsu-for-busy-devs

1 year ago

Facts don't change minds, structure does

https://vasily.cc/blog/facts-dont-change-minds/

1 year ago

Android Earthquake Alerts: A global system for early warning

https://research.google/blog/android-earthquake-alerts-a-global-system-for-early-warning/

1 year ago

Swift-erlang-actor-system

https://forums.swift.org/t/introducing-swift-erlang-actor-system/81248

1 year ago

I watched Gemini CLI hallucinate and delete my files

https://anuraag2601.github.io/gemini_cli_disaster.html

1 year ago

Algorithms for Modern Processor Architectures

https://lemire.github.io/talks/2025/sea/sea2025.html

1 year ago

Vector Tiles are deployed on OpenStreetMap.org

https://blog.openstreetmap.org/2025/07/22/vector-tiles-are-deployed-on-openstreetmap-org/

1 year ago

Compression culture is making you stupid and uninteresting

https://maalvika.substack.com/p/compression-culture-is-making-you

1 year ago

We built an air-gapped Jira alternative for regulated industries

https://plane.so/blog/everything-you-need-to-know-about-plane-air-gapped

1 year ago

AI comes up with bizarre physics experiments, but they work

https://www.quantamagazine.org/ai-comes-up-with-bizarre-physics-experiments-but-they-work-20250721/

1 year ago

Font Comparison: Atkinson Hyperlegible Mono vs. JetBrains Mono and Fira Code

https://www.anthes.is/font-comparison-review-atkinson-hyperlegible-mono.html

1 year ago

DaisyUI: Tailwind CSS Components

https://daisyui.com/

1 year ago

Many lung cancers are now in nonsmokers

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/22/well/lung-cancer-nonsmokers.html

1 year ago

The Hater's Guide to the AI Bubble

https://www.wheresyoured.at/the-haters-gui/

1 year ago

Subliminal learning: Models transmit behaviors via hidden signals in data

https://alignment.anthropic.com/2025/subliminal-learning/

1 year ago

Killing the Mauna Loa observatory over irrefutable evidence of increasing CO2

https://www.theregister.com/2025/07/22/trump_shoots_climate_messenger/

1 year ago

OSS Rebuild: open-source, rebuilt to last

https://security.googleblog.com/2025/07/introducing-oss-rebuild-open-source.html

1 year ago

Replit's CEO apologizes after its AI agent wiped a company's code base

https://www.businessinsider.com/replit-ceo-apologizes-ai-coding-tool-delete-company-database-2025-7

1 year ago

Yt-transcriber – Give a YouTube URL and get a transcription

https://github.com/pmarreck/yt-transcriber

1 year ago

US companies, consumers are paying for tariffs, not foreign firms

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-07-22/us-companies-and-consumers-are-paying-for-trump-s-tariffs

1 year ago

Tiny Code Reader: a $7 QR code sensor

https://excamera.substack.com/p/tiny-code-reader-a-7-qr-code-sensor

1 year ago

Blip: Peer-to-peer massive file sharing

https://blip.net/

1 year ago

So you think you've awoken ChatGPT

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/2pkNCvBtK6G6FKoNn/so-you-think-you-ve-awoken-chatgpt

1 year ago

Fun with gzip bombs and email clients

https://www.grepular.com/Fun_with_Gzip_Bombs_and_Email_Clients

1 year ago

We have made the decision to not continue paying for BBB accreditation

https://mycherrytree.com/blogs/news/why-we-have-made-the-decision-to-not-continue-paying-for-accreditation-from-the-better-business-bureau-bbb

1 year ago

CBA hiring Indian ICT workers after firing Australians

https://ia.acs.org.au/article/2025/-shameful--cba-hiring-indian-ict-workers-after-firing-australian.html

1 year ago

Gemini North telescope discovers long-predicted stellar companion of Betelgeuse

https://www.science.org/content/article/betelgeuse-s-long-predicted-stellar-companion-may-have-been-found-last

1 year ago

French petition against return of bee-killing pesticide passes 1M

https://phys.org/news/2025-07-french-petition-bee-pesticide-1mn.html

1 year ago

CSS's problems are Tailwind's problems

https://colton.dev/blog/tailwind-is-the-worst-of-all-worlds/

1 year ago

Show HN: Any-LLM – Lightweight router to access any LLM Provider

https://github.com/mozilla-ai/any-llm

1 year ago

The vibe coder's career path is doomed

https://blog.florianherrengt.com/vibe-coder-career-path.html

1 year ago

Tinyio: A tiny (~200 line) event loop for Python

https://github.com/patrick-kidger/tinyio

1 year ago

Workers at Snopes.com win voluntary recognition

https://newsguild.org/workers-at-snopes-com-win-voluntary-union-recognition/

1 year ago

Show HN: The Magic of Code – book about the wonders and weirdness of computation

https://themagicofcode.com/sample/

1 year ago

AI Market Clarity

https://blog.eladgil.com/p/ai-market-clarity

1 year ago

First Hubble telescope images of interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS

https://bsky.app/profile/astrafoxen.bsky.social/post/3luiwnar3j22o

1 year ago

Large ancient Hawaiian petroglyphs uncovered by waves on Oahu

https://www.sfgate.com/hawaii/article/hawaii-petroglyphs-uncovered-20780579.php

1 year ago

Go allocation probe

https://www.scattered-thoughts.net/writing/go-allocation-probe/

1 year ago

Show HN: Phind.design – Image editor & design tool powered by 4o / custom models

https://phind.design

1 year ago

Mary had schizophrenia, then suddenly didn't

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/07/28/mary-had-schizophrenia-then-suddenly-she-didnt

1 year ago

TapTrap: Animation‑Driven Tapjacking on Android

https://taptrap.click/

1 year ago

Comparing the Glove80 and Maltron Keyboards

https://tratt.net/laurie/blog/2025/comparing_the_glove80_and_maltron_keyboards.html

1 year ago

Show HN: A word of the day that doesn't suck

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44645597

1 year ago

One in six US workers pretends to use AI to please the bosses

https://www.theregister.com/2025/07/22/ai_anxiety_us_workers/

1 year ago

Science confirms what we all suspected: Four-day weeks rule

https://www.theregister.com/2025/07/22/4_day_week_study/

1 year ago

Media's AI Anthropomorphism Problem

https://www.readtpa.com/p/stop-pretending-chatbots-have-feelings

1 year ago

Mistral reports on the environmental impact of LLMs

https://mistral.ai/news/our-contribution-to-a-global-environmental-standard-for-ai

1 year ago

NonRAID – fork of unRAID array kernel module

https://github.com/qvr/nonraid

1 year ago

Reverse proxy deep dive: Why HTTP parsing at the edge is harder than it looks

https://startwithawhy.com/reverseproxy/2025/07/20/ReverseProxy-Deep-Dive-Part2.html

1 year ago

1KB JavaScript Numbers Station

https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2025/07/1kb-js-numbers-station/

1 year ago

NASA loses another senior official as tension about the agency's future grows

https://www.nbcnews.com/science/space/nasa-loses-another-senior-official-tension-grows-agencys-future-rcna220064

1 year ago

A big problem for Tesla isn't getting much attention

https://www.cnn.com/2025/07/22/business/tesla-regulatory-credit-sales-revenue

1 year ago