top 50% 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

Vet is a safety net for the curl | bash pattern

https://github.com/vet-run/vet

1 year ago

AMD CEO says U.S.-made TSMC chips are 5%-20% more expensive, but worth it

https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/amd-ceo-says-u-s-made-tsmc-chips-are-more-expensive-but-worth-it-costs-more-than-5-percent-but-less-than-20-percent-higher-than-taiwan-sourced-alternative

1 year ago

Software Development at 800 Words per Minute

https://neurrone.com/posts/software-development-at-800-wpm/

1 year ago

Inter-Planetary Network Special Interest Group

https://www.ipnsig.org

1 year ago

Getting decent error reports in Bash when you're using 'set -e'

https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/programming/BashGoodSetEReports

1 year ago

BlueOS Kernel – Written in Rust, compatible with POSIX

https://github.com/vivoblueos/kernel

1 year ago

A list of changes to make it easier to build beautiful and walkable places

https://chrisbarber.co/A+list+of+changes+to+make+it+easier+to+build+beautiful+%26+walkable+places

1 year ago

New Aarch64 Back End

https://ziglang.org/devlog/2025/#2025-07-23

1 year ago

A valid HTML zip bomb

https://ache.one/notes/html_zip_bomb

1 year ago

American sentenced for helping North Koreans get jobs at U.S. firms

https://fortune.com/2025/07/24/north-korean-it-workers-chapman-nike/

1 year ago

Low cost mmWave 60GHz radar sensor for advanced sensing

https://www.infineon.com/part/BGT60TR13C

1 year ago

Apache HTTP Server: 'RewriteCond expr' always evaluates to true

https://github.com/apache/httpd/commit/8abb3d06b23975705ebcf4bf4476464fd0b9bd0b

1 year ago

Revisiting Moneyball

https://djpardis.medium.com/revisiting-moneyball-074fc2435b07

1 year ago

Why I write recursive descent parsers, despite their issues (2020)

https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/programming/WhyRDParsersForMe

1 year ago

Psilocybin treatment extends cellular lifespan, improves survival of aged mice

https://news.emory.edu/stories/2025/07/hs_psilocybin_aging_study_10-07-2025/story.html

1 year ago

A small web July

https://smallcypress.bearblog.dev/a-small-web-july/

1 year ago

16colo.rs: ANSI/ASCII art archive

https://16colo.rs/

1 year ago

Major quantum computing advance made obsolete by teenager (2018)

https://www.quantamagazine.org/teenager-finds-classical-alternative-to-quantum-recommendation-algorithm-20180731/

1 year ago

200k Flemish drivers can turn traffic lights green

https://www.vrt.be/vrtnws/en/2025/07/24/200-000-flemish-drivers-can-turn-traffic-lights-green-but-waze/

1 year ago

A GPU Calculator That Helps Calculate What GPU to Use

https://calculator.inference.ai/

1 year ago

Hulk Hogan Has Died

https://www.tmz.com/2025/07/24/hulk-hogan-dead/

1 year ago

When swiping supplants scissors: The hidden cost of touchscreens

https://caseorganic.medium.com/when-swiping-supplants-scissors-the-hidden-cost-of-touchscreens-and-how-designers-can-help-dba0fa65f5b7

1 year ago

OpenAI prepares to launch GPT-5 in August

https://www.theverge.com/notepad-microsoft-newsletter/712950/openai-gpt-5-model-release-date-notepad

1 year ago

Katharine Graham: The Washington Post

https://fs.blog/knowledge-project-podcast/outliers-katharine-graham/

1 year ago

How I fixed my blog's performance issues by writing a new Jekyll plugin

https://arclight.run/how-i-fixed-my-blogs-performance-issues-by-writing-a-new-jekyll-plugin-jekyll-skyhook/

1 year ago

Everything Else

https://newleftreview.org/sidecar/posts/everything-else

1 year ago

What does connecting with someone mean?

https://talk.bradwoods.io/blog/connect/

1 year ago

Solid protocol restores digital agency

https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2025/07/how-solid-protocol-restores-digital-agency.html

1 year ago

Detekt – A static code analyzer for Kotlin

https://detekt.dev/

1 year ago

Show HN: Nia – MCP server that gives more docs and repos to coding agents

https://www.trynia.ai/

1 year ago

BYD Bets on Budget EV Boom with Atto 1 Debut in Indonesia

https://jakartaglobe.id/business/byd-bets-on-budget-ev-boom-with-atto-1-debut-in-indonesia

1 year ago

The FastLanes File Format [pdf]

https://github.com/cwida/FastLanes/blob/dev/docs/specification.pdf

1 year ago

Python classes aren’t always the best solution

https://adamgrant.micro.blog/2025/07/24/123050.html

1 year ago

Hacker slips malicious 'wiping' command into Amazon's Q AI coding assistant

https://www.zdnet.com/article/hacker-slips-malicious-wiping-command-into-amazons-q-ai-coding-assistant-and-devs-are-worried/

1 year ago

Tesla Q2 2025 Update [pdf]

https://www.tesla.com/sites/default/files/downloads/TSLA-Q2-2025-Update.pdf

1 year ago

Train a 70b language model at home (2024)

https://www.answer.ai/posts/2024-03-06-fsdp-qlora.html

1 year ago

NixOS on a Tuxedo InfinityBook Pro 14 Gen9 AMD Laptop

https://fnune.com/hardware/2025/07/20/nixos-on-a-tuxedo-infinitybook-pro-14-gen9-amd/

1 year ago

Building MCP servers for ChatGPT and API integrations

https://platform.openai.com/docs/mcp

1 year ago

Games: No sex, please. we're credit card companies

https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2025/07/once-a-relative-haven-for-adult-games-itch-io-begins-removing-explicit-titles/

1 year ago

When photography was born, fascination, obsession, and danger followed

https://www.washingtonpost.com/books/2025/07/12/flashes-brilliance-history-early-photography-anika-burgess-review/

1 year ago

SCOTUS to LowerCourts: Ignore Binding Precedent, Follow Our Covert Shadow Docket

https://www.techdirt.com/2025/07/24/supreme-court-to-lower-courts-ignore-actual-binding-precedent-follow-our-unexplained-shadow-docket-vibes-instead/

1 year ago

A Photonic SRAM with Embedded XOR Logic for Ultra-Fast In-Memory Computing

https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.22707

1 year ago

Upsides and Downsides

https://calv.info/upsides-and-downsides

1 year ago

Why are we pretending AI is going to take all the jobs?

https://www.thebignewsletter.com/p/why-are-we-pretending-ai-is-going

1 year ago

Vintage Macintosh Programming Book Library (2017)

https://vintageapple.org/macprogramming/index_year.html

1 year ago