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

CARA – High precision robot dog using rope

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

1 year ago

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

https://trytender.app/

1 year ago

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/

1 year ago

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/

1 year ago

You can now disable all AI features in Zed

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

1 year ago

US AI Action Plan

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

1 year ago

I drank every cocktail

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

1 year ago

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

1 year ago

The Promised LAN

https://tpl.house/

1 year ago

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

1 year ago

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

1 year ago

Building better AI tools

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

1 year ago

Open Sauce is a confoundingly brilliant Bay Area event

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

1 year ago

Major rule about cooking meat turns out to be wrong

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

1 year ago

Mathematics for Computer Science (2024)

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

1 year ago

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

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

1 year ago

Brave blocks Microsoft Recall by default

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

1 year ago

Proxmox Donates €10k to the Perl and Raku Foundation

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

1 year ago

What to expect from Debian/Trixie

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

1 year ago

AccuWeather to discontinue free access to Core Weather API

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

1 year ago

Why Elixir? Common misconceptions

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

1 year ago

Developing our position on AI

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

1 year ago

Lumo: Privacy-first AI assistant

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

1 year ago

Why you can't color calibrate deep space photos

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

1 year ago

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

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

1 year ago

How to increase your surface area for luck

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

1 year ago

Show HN: Apple Health MCP Server

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

1 year ago

The rise and fall of the Hanseatic League

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

1 year ago

Org tutorials

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

1 year ago

When Is WebAssembly Going to Get DOM Support?

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

1 year ago

Font-size-adjust Is Useful

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

1 year ago

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

https://github.com/IHATEGIVINGAUSERNAME/theProtector

1 year ago

Shallow water is dangerous too

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

1 year ago

Reverse engineering GitHub Actions cache to make it fast

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

1 year ago

Employee – CEO pay gap historically wide

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

1 year ago

AI coding agents are removing programming language barriers

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

1 year ago

Wife of ICEBlock app founder speaks out after DOJ fires her

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

1 year ago

Extending Emacs with Fennel (2024)

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

1 year ago

Researchers value null results, but struggle to publish them

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

1 year ago

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

https://github.com/manticoresoftware/manticoresearch

1 year ago

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

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

1 year ago

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

1 year ago

Breaking the WASM/JS communication performance barrier

https://github.com/ealmloff/sledgehammer_bindgen

1 year ago

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

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

1 year ago

Apple's Liquid Glass: When Aesthetics Beat Function

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

1 year ago

20 years of Linux on the Desktop (part 4)

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

1 year ago

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

1 year ago

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/

1 year ago

Apple introduces AppleCare One

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

1 year ago

Tram Trains

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

1 year ago

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

1 year ago

Using Radicle CI

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

1 year ago

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

https://bookhead.net/

1 year ago

Steve Jobs' cabinet

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

1 year ago

Keep Pydantic out of your Domain Layer

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

1 year ago

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/

1 year ago

FastVLM: Efficient Vision Encoding for Vision Language Models

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

1 year ago

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/

1 year ago

Reading QR codes without a computer (2023)

https://qr.blinry.org/

1 year ago

Interactive Programming in C (2014)

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

1 year ago

The append-and-review note

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

1 year ago

Show HN: WTFfmpeg – Natural Language to FFmpeg Translator

https://github.com/scottvr/wtffmpeg

1 year ago

Checking Out CPython 3.14's remote debugging protocol

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

1 year ago

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

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

1 year ago

Cable bacteria are living batteries

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

1 year ago

Copilot Vision on Windows 11 sends data to Microsoft servers

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

1 year ago

Hyperpb: Faster dynamic Protobuf parsing

https://buf.build/blog/hyperpb

1 year ago

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

1 year ago

NPM stylus package contained malicious code and was removed from the registry

https://www.npmjs.com/package/stylus/v/0.0.1-security?activeTab=code

1 year ago

What is X-Forwarded-For and when can you trust it? (2024)

https://httptoolkit.com/blog/what-is-x-forwarded-for/

1 year ago

Ask HN: What software subscriptions are worth paying for?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44655866

1 year ago

AWS merges malicious PR into Amazon Q

https://www.lastweekinaws.com/blog/amazon-q-now-with-helpful-ai-powered-self-destruct-capabilities/

1 year ago

Has Brazil Invented the Future of Money?

https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/has-brazil-invented-the-future-of

1 year ago