top 20 hacker news stories for 2025-07-24

Graphene OS: a security-enhanced Android build

https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/1030004/898017c7953c0946/

1 year ago

Windsurf employee #2: I was given a payout of only 1% what my shares where worth

https://twitter.com/premqnair/status/1948420769945682413

1 year ago

Electric cars produce less brake dust pollution than combustion-engine cars

https://modernengineeringmarvels.com/2025/07/22/surprising-science-how-electric-cars-quietly-transform-urban-air/

1 year ago

There is no memory safety without thread safety

https://www.ralfj.de/blog/2025/07/24/memory-safety.html

1 year ago

Scientists may have found a way to eliminate chromosome linked to Down syndrome

https://academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/article/4/2/pgaf022/8016019

1 year ago

Visa and Mastercard: The global payment duopoly (2024)

https://quartr.com/insights/edge/visa-and-mastercard-the-global-payment-duopoly

1 year ago

Open Source Maintenance Fee

https://github.com/wixtoolset/issues/issues/8974

1 year ago

Itch.io: Update on NSFW Content

https://itch.io/updates/update-on-nsfw-content

1 year ago

Use Your Type System

https://www.dzombak.com/blog/2025/07/use-your-type-system/

1 year ago

BGP.Tools: Browse the Internet Ecosystem

https://bgp.tools/

1 year ago

Intel CEO Letter to Employees

https://morethanmoore.substack.com/p/intel-ceo-letter-to-employees

1 year ago

Purple Earth hypothesis

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Purple_Earth_hypothesis

1 year ago

PSA: SQLite WAL checksums fail silently and may lose data

https://avi.im/blag/2025/sqlite-wal-checksum/

1 year ago

Starlink is currently experiencing a service outage

https://www.starlink.com/us

1 year ago

Two narratives about AI

https://calnewport.com/no-one-knows-anything-about-ai/

1 year ago

Blender: Beyond Mouse and Keyboard

https://code.blender.org/2025/07/beyond-mouse-keyboard/

1 year ago

Diet, not lack of exercise, drives obesity, a new study finds

https://www.npr.org/2025/07/24/nx-s1-5477662/diet-exercise-obesity-nutrition

1 year ago

Web fingerprinting is worse than I thought (2023)

https://www.bitestring.com/posts/2023-03-19-web-fingerprinting-is-worse-than-I-thought.html

1 year ago

Air Force unit suspends use of Sig Sauer pistol after shooting death of airman

https://www.nhpr.org/nh-news/2025-07-23/sig-sauer-pistol-air-force-shooting-death

1 year ago

UK: Phone networks down: EE, BT, Three, Vodafone, O2 not working in mass outage

https://www.the-independent.com/tech/ee-bt-three-vodafone-o2-down-phone-networks-outage-latest-b2795260.html

1 year ago