top 50% hacker news stories for 2025-07-23

CARA – High precision robot dog using rope

https://www.aaedmusa.com/projects/cara

2 months ago

1073 upvotes – 182 comments

Show HN: Tinder but it's only pictures of my wife and I can only swipe right

https://trytender.app/

2 months ago

1030 upvotes – 263 comments

AI overviews cause massive drop in search clicks

https://arstechnica.com/ai/2025/07/research-shows-google-ai-overviews-reduce-website-clicks-by-almost-half/

2 months ago

758 upvotes – 844 comments

Cops say criminals use a Google Pixel with GrapheneOS – I say that's freedom

https://www.androidauthority.com/why-i-use-grapheneos-on-pixel-3575477/

2 months ago

639 upvotes – 469 comments

You can now disable all AI features in Zed

https://zed.dev/blog/disable-ai-features

2 months ago

577 upvotes – 269 comments

US AI Action Plan

https://www.ai.gov/action-plan

2 months ago

426 upvotes – 618 comments

I drank every cocktail

https://aaronson.org/blog/i-drank-every-cocktail

2 months ago

413 upvotes – 223 comments

Return of wolves to Yellowstone has led to a surge in aspen trees

https://www.livescience.com/animals/land-mammals/return-of-wolves-to-yellowstone-has-led-to-a-surge-in-aspen-trees-unseen-for-80-years

2 months ago

410 upvotes – 223 comments

The Promised LAN

https://tpl.house/

2 months ago

406 upvotes – 188 comments

AMD CEO sees chips from TSMC's US plant costing 5%-20% more

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-07-23/amd-ceo-su-sees-chips-from-us-tsmc-plant-costing-5-to-20-more

2 months ago

400 upvotes – 739 comments

Cerebras launches Qwen3-235B, achieving 1.5k tokens per second

https://www.cerebras.ai/press-release/cerebras-launches-qwen3-235b-world-s-fastest-frontier-ai-model-with-full-131k-context-support

2 months ago

364 upvotes – 155 comments

Building better AI tools

https://hazelweakly.me/blog/stop-building-ai-tools-backwards/

2 months ago

346 upvotes – 179 comments

Open Sauce is a confoundingly brilliant Bay Area event

https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2025/open-sauce-confoundingly-brilliant-bay-area-event

2 months ago

343 upvotes – 201 comments

Major rule about cooking meat turns out to be wrong

https://www.seriouseats.com/meat-resting-science-11776272

2 months ago

325 upvotes – 250 comments

Mathematics for Computer Science (2024)

https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/6-1200j-mathematics-for-computer-science-spring-2024/

2 months ago

311 upvotes – 107 comments

Neil Armstrong's customs form for moon rocks (2016)

https://magazine.uc.edu/editors_picks/recent_features/armstrong/moonrocks.html

2 months ago

295 upvotes – 194 comments

Brave blocks Microsoft Recall by default

https://brave.com/privacy-updates/35-block-recall/

2 months ago

290 upvotes – 296 comments

Proxmox Donates €10k to the Perl and Raku Foundation

https://www.perl.com/article/proxmox-donates-to-tprf/

2 months ago

288 upvotes – 185 comments

What to expect from Debian/Trixie

https://michael-prokop.at/blog/2025/07/20/what-to-expect-from-debian-trixie-newintrixie/

2 months ago

283 upvotes – 203 comments

AccuWeather to discontinue free access to Core Weather API

https://developer.accuweather.com/new-portal

2 months ago

268 upvotes – 263 comments

Why Elixir? Common misconceptions

https://matthewsinclair.com/blog/0181-why-elixir

2 months ago

258 upvotes – 292 comments

Developing our position on AI

https://www.recurse.com/blog/191-developing-our-position-on-ai

2 months ago

254 upvotes – 81 comments

Lumo: Privacy-first AI assistant

https://proton.me/blog/lumo-ai

2 months ago

244 upvotes – 123 comments

Why you can't color calibrate deep space photos

https://maurycyz.com/misc/cc/

2 months ago

233 upvotes – 109 comments

Jitsi privacy flaw enables one-click stealth audio and video capture

https://zimzi.substack.com/p/jitsi-privacy-flaw-that-enables-one

2 months ago

214 upvotes – 34 comments

How to increase your surface area for luck

https://usefulfictions.substack.com/p/how-to-increase-your-surface-area

2 months ago

213 upvotes – 101 comments

Show HN: Apple Health MCP Server

https://github.com/neiltron/apple-health-mcp

2 months ago

199 upvotes – 48 comments

The rise and fall of the Hanseatic League

https://worksinprogress.co/issue/the-rise-and-fall-of-the-hanseatic-league/

2 months ago

192 upvotes – 52 comments

Org tutorials

https://orgmode.org/worg/org-tutorials/index.html

2 months ago

189 upvotes – 74 comments

When Is WebAssembly Going to Get DOM Support?

https://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=3746174

2 months ago

186 upvotes – 208 comments

Font-size-adjust Is Useful

https://matklad.github.io/2025/07/16/font-size-adjust.html

2 months ago

180 upvotes – 57 comments

Show HN: TheProtector – Linux Bash script for the paranoid admin on a budget

https://github.com/IHATEGIVINGAUSERNAME/theProtector

2 months ago

167 upvotes – 35 comments

Shallow water is dangerous too

https://www.jefftk.com/p/shallow-water-is-dangerous-too

2 months ago

159 upvotes – 162 comments

Reverse engineering GitHub Actions cache to make it fast

https://www.blacksmith.sh/blog/cache

2 months ago

154 upvotes – 37 comments

Employee – CEO pay gap historically wide

https://www.cnn.com/2025/07/23/business/afl-cio-executive-paywatch-report

2 months ago

152 upvotes – 183 comments

AI coding agents are removing programming language barriers

https://railsatscale.com/2025-07-19-ai-coding-agents-are-removing-programming-language-barriers/

2 months ago

148 upvotes – 176 comments

Wife of ICEBlock app founder speaks out after DOJ fires her

https://www.newsweek.com/iceblock-app-founder-wife-fired-doj-carolyn-feinstein-2102214

2 months ago

148 upvotes – 78 comments

Extending Emacs with Fennel (2024)

https://andreyor.st/posts/2024-12-20-extending-emacs-with-fennel/

2 months ago

146 upvotes – 40 comments

Researchers value null results, but struggle to publish them

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-02312-4

2 months ago

144 upvotes – 74 comments

Manticore Search: Fast, efficient, drop-in replacement for Elasticsearch

https://github.com/manticoresoftware/manticoresearch

2 months ago

141 upvotes – 57 comments

A media company demanded a license fee for an Open Graph image I used

https://alistairshepherd.uk/writing/open-graph-licensing/

2 months ago

140 upvotes – 72 comments

Yes, the Book of PF, fourth edition is coming soon

https://bsdly.blogspot.com/2025/07/yes-book-of-pf-4th-edition-is-coming.html

2 months ago

138 upvotes – 40 comments

Breaking the WASM/JS communication performance barrier

https://github.com/ealmloff/sledgehammer_bindgen

2 months ago

135 upvotes – 31 comments

A low power 1U Raspberry Pi cluster server for inexpensive colocation (2021)

https://github.com/pawl/raspberry-pi-1u-server

2 months ago

125 upvotes – 49 comments

Apple's Liquid Glass: When Aesthetics Beat Function

https://www.maxvanijsselmuiden.nl/liquid-glass

2 months ago

123 upvotes – 173 comments

20 years of Linux on the Desktop (part 4)

https://ploum.net/2025-07-23-linux_desktop4.html

2 months ago

122 upvotes – 102 comments

Rescuing two PDP-11s from a former British Telecom underground shelter (2023)

https://forum.vcfed.org/index.php?threads/rescuing-two-pdp-11-systems-in-uk-from-a-former-big-british-telecom-underground-shelter-in-central-london.1244723/page-2

2 months ago

115 upvotes – 25 comments

High-performance RISC-V processors: UltraRISC UR-DP1000, Zhihe A210, SpacemIT K3

https://www.cnx-software.com/2025/07/22/three-high-performance-risc-v-processors-to-watch-in-h2-2025-ultrarisc-ur-dp1000-zizhe-a210-and-spacemit-k3/

2 months ago

104 upvotes – 35 comments

Apple introduces AppleCare One

https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2025/07/apple-introduces-applecare-one-streamlining-coverage-into-a-single-plan/

2 months ago

100 upvotes – 92 comments

Tram Trains

https://www.worksinprogress.news/p/tram-trains

2 months ago

99 upvotes – 74 comments

Show HN: The missing link of a bookstore's tech stack

https://bookhead.net/

2 months ago

95 upvotes – 26 comments

Countries across the world see food price shocks from climate extremes

https://www.bsc.es/news/bsc-news/countries-across-the-world-see-food-price-shocks-climate-extremes-research-involving-bsc-shows

2 months ago

95 upvotes – 89 comments

Steve Jobs' cabinet

https://perfectdays23.substack.com/p/steve-jobs-cabinet

2 months ago

95 upvotes – 73 comments

Using Radicle CI

https://radicle.xyz/2025/07/23/using-radicle-ci-for-development

2 months ago

95 upvotes – 46 comments

Keep Pydantic out of your Domain Layer

https://coderik.nl/posts/keep-pydantic-out-of-your-domain-layer/

2 months ago

94 upvotes – 121 comments

Earthquake Causes 2.5-Meter Ground Slip in First-Ever Footage

https://www.vice.com/en/article/earthquake-causes-2-5-meter-ground-slip-in-first-ever-footage/

2 months ago

94 upvotes – 18 comments

A diverse cast of rocky worlds around a small star revealed by astronomers

https://nouvelles.umontreal.ca/en/article/2025/07/22/a-udem-team-confirms-a-fifth-potentially-habitable-planet-around-l-98-59-a-red-dwarf-35-l/

2 months ago

93 upvotes – 8 comments

FastVLM: Efficient Vision Encoding for Vision Language Models

https://machinelearning.apple.com/research/fast-vision-language-models

2 months ago

93 upvotes – 6 comments

Reading QR codes without a computer (2023)

https://qr.blinry.org/

2 months ago

92 upvotes – 13 comments

The append-and-review note

https://karpathy.bearblog.dev/the-append-and-review-note/

2 months ago

91 upvotes – 35 comments

Interactive Programming in C (2014)

https://nullprogram.com/blog/2014/12/23/

2 months ago

91 upvotes – 12 comments

Show HN: WTFfmpeg – Natural Language to FFmpeg Translator

https://github.com/scottvr/wtffmpeg

2 months ago

88 upvotes – 68 comments

Inverted Indexes: A Step-by-Step Implementation Guide (2023)

https://www.chashnikov.dev/post/inverted-indexes-a-step-by-step-implementation-guide

2 months ago

85 upvotes – 25 comments

Checking Out CPython 3.14's remote debugging protocol

https://rtpg.co/2025/06/28/checking-out-sys-remote-exec/

2 months ago

85 upvotes – 26 comments

Cable bacteria are living batteries

https://www.asimov.press/p/cable-bacteria

2 months ago

83 upvotes – 21 comments

Copilot Vision on Windows 11 sends data to Microsoft servers

https://www.theregister.com/2025/07/23/microsoft_copilot_vision/

2 months ago

83 upvotes – 9 comments

The Surprising gRPC Client Bottleneck in Low-Latency Networks

https://blog.ydb.tech/the-surprising-grpc-client-bottleneck-in-low-latency-networks-and-how-to-get-around-it-69d6977a1d02

2 months ago

76 upvotes – 21 comments

Hyperpb: Faster dynamic Protobuf parsing

https://buf.build/blog/hyperpb

2 months ago

76 upvotes – 19 comments
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