top 50% hacker news stories for 2025-07-25

Do not download the app, use the website

https://idiallo.com/blog/dont-download-apps

1 year ago

It's time for modern CSS to kill the SPA

https://www.jonoalderson.com/conjecture/its-time-for-modern-css-to-kill-the-spa/

1 year ago

Steam, Itch.io are pulling ‘porn’ games. Critics say it's a slippery slope

https://www.wired.com/story/steam-itchio-are-pulling-porn-games-censorship/

1 year ago

Women dating safety app 'Tea' breached, users' IDs posted to 4chan

https://www.404media.co/women-dating-safety-app-tea-breached-users-ids-posted-to-4chan/

1 year ago

The future is not self-hosted

https://www.drewlyton.com/story/the-future-is-not-self-hosted/

1 year ago

It's a DE9, not a DB9 (but we know what you mean)

https://news.sparkfun.com/14298

1 year ago

Celebrating 20 Years of MDN

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/blog/mdn-turns-20/

1 year ago

Show HN: Price Per Token – LLM API Pricing Data

https://pricepertoken.com/

1 year ago

Programming vehicles in games

https://wassimulator.com/blog/programming/programming_vehicles_in_games.html

1 year ago

Internet Archive is now a federal depository library

https://www.kqed.org/news/12049420/sf-based-internet-archive-is-now-a-federal-depository-library-what-does-that-mean

1 year ago

Google spoofed via DKIM replay attack: A technical breakdown

https://easydmarc.com/blog/google-spoofed-via-dkim-replay-attack-a-technical-breakdown/

1 year ago

Vanilla JavaScript support for Tailwind Plus

https://tailwindcss.com/blog/vanilla-js-support-for-tailwind-plus

1 year ago

How Anthropic teams use Claude Code

https://www.anthropic.com/news/how-anthropic-teams-use-claude-code

1 year ago

Why MIT switched from Scheme to Python (2009)

https://www.wisdomandwonder.com/link/2110/why-mit-switched-from-scheme-to-python

1 year ago

Never write your own date parsing library

https://www.zachleat.com/web/adventures-in-date-parsing/

1 year ago

Asciinema: Record and share your terminal sessions

https://asciinema.org

1 year ago

Against the censorship of adult content by payment processors

https://soatok.blog/2025/07/24/against-the-censorship-of-adult-content-by-payment-processors/

1 year ago

Efficient Computer's Electron E1 CPU – 100x more efficient than Arm?

https://morethanmoore.substack.com/p/efficient-computers-electron-e1-cpu

1 year ago

Google's shortened goo.gl links will stop working next month

https://www.theverge.com/news/713125/google-url-shortener-links-shutdown-deadline

1 year ago

Animated Cursors

https://tattoy.sh/news/animated-cursors/

1 year ago

Terminal app can now run full graphical Linux apps in the latest Android Canary

https://www.androidauthority.com/linux-terminal-graphical-apps-3580905/

1 year ago

FoundationDB: From idea to Apple acquisition [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C1nZzQqcPZw

1 year ago

Quantitative AI progress needs accurate and transparent evaluation

https://mathstodon.xyz/@tao/114910028356641733

1 year ago

Who has the fastest F1 website (2021)

https://jakearchibald.com/2021/f1-perf-part-3/

1 year ago

Rotring 600 Ballpoint Pen

https://www.shellshore.com/review-rotring-600-ballpoint-pen/

1 year ago

Games Look Bad: HDR and Tone Mapping (2017)

https://ventspace.wordpress.com/2017/10/20/games-look-bad-part-1-hdr-and-tone-mapping/

1 year ago

CO2 Battery

https://energydome.com/co2-battery/

1 year ago

Immigration agents told a teenage US citizen: 'You've got no rights.'

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jul/25/florida-teen-immigration-arrest

1 year ago

Claude Code introduces specialized sub-agents

https://docs.anthropic.com/en/docs/claude-code/sub-agents

1 year ago

Qwen3-235B-A22B-Thinking-2507

https://huggingface.co/Qwen/Qwen3-235B-A22B-Thinking-2507

1 year ago

Tour de France confronts a new threat: Are cyclists using tiny motors?

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/07/25/tour-france-bikes-hidden-motors/

1 year ago

Britain's spies-for-hire are running wild

https://www.politico.eu/article/uk-british-spies-private-intelligence-government-ministers/

1 year ago

Experimental surgery performed by AI-driven surgical robot

https://arstechnica.com/science/2025/07/experimental-surgery-performed-by-ai-driven-surgical-robot/

1 year ago

Truchet Tiles

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

1 year ago

Show HN: The Montana MiniComputer

https://mtmc.cs.montana.edu/

1 year ago

Exploiting zero days in abandoned hardware

https://blog.trailofbits.com/2025/07/25/exploiting-zero-days-in-abandoned-hardware/

1 year ago

The Tabs vs. Spaces war is over, and spaces have emerged victorious

https://xn--gckvb8fzb.com/tabs-vs-spaces-the-war-is-over/

1 year ago

Dwl: Dwm for Wayland

https://codeberg.org/dwl/dwl

1 year ago

Meta to stop running political ads on Facebook and Instagram in the EU

https://www.euractiv.com/section/tech/news/meta-to-stop-running-political-ads-on-facebook-and-instagram/

1 year ago

I've Had It with Microsoft

https://www.disconnect.blog/p/ive-had-it-with-microsoft

1 year ago

What even is 'adult' content? [NSFW]

https://worldofmatthew.com/blog/notporn/

1 year ago

Alto turns Apple Notes into a website

https://alto.so/

1 year ago

Lisp project of the day

https://40ants.com/lisp-project-of-the-day/index.html

1 year ago

Cells that breathe oxygen and sulfur at the same time

https://www.quantamagazine.org/the-cells-that-breathe-two-ways-20250723/

1 year ago

The sad state of font rendering on Linux (2018)

https://pandasauce.org/post/linux-fonts/

1 year ago

A Union Pacific-Norfolk Southern combination would redraw the railroad map

https://www.trains.com/trn/news-reviews/news-wire/a-union-pacific-norfolk-southern-combination-would-redraw-the-railroad-map/

1 year ago

SRAM Has No Chill: Exploiting Power Domain Separation to Steal On-Chip Secrets

https://cacm.acm.org/research-highlights/sram-has-no-chill-exploiting-power-domain-separation-to-steal-on-chip-secrets/

1 year ago

Nullable but not null

https://efe.me/posts/nullable-but-not-null/

1 year ago

Bits 0x02: switching to Orion as a browser

https://andinfinity.eu/post/2025-07-24-bits-0x02/

1 year ago

How to configure X11 in a simple way

https://eugene-andrienko.com/en/it/2025/07/24/x11-configuration-simple.html

1 year ago

Air Canada returned lost bag, it now had knife,toiletries, ticket scanner inside

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/newfoundland-labrador/air-canada-mystery-baggage-1.7592756

1 year ago