top 50% hacker news stories for 2025-07-26

Rust running on every GPU

https://rust-gpu.github.io/blog/2025/07/25/rust-on-every-gpu/

1 year ago

605 upvotes – 205 comments

CCTV footage captures video of an earthquake fault in motion

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/cctv-footage-captures-the-first-ever-video-of-an-earthquake-fault-in-motion-shining-a-rare-light-on-seismic-dynamics-180987034/

1 year ago

471 upvotes – 88 comments

How we rooted Copilot

https://research.eye.security/how-we-rooted-copilot/

1 year ago

350 upvotes – 140 comments

The natural diamond industry is getting rocked. Thank the lab-grown variety

https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/lab-grown-diamonds-1.7592336

1 year ago

297 upvotes – 386 comments

What went wrong for Yahoo

https://dfarq.homeip.net/what-went-wrong-for-yahoo/

1 year ago

255 upvotes – 265 comments

Test Results for AMD Zen 5

https://www.agner.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=287&start=10

1 year ago

255 upvotes – 79 comments

Ageing accelerates around age 50 ― some organs faster than others

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-02333-z

1 year ago

223 upvotes – 166 comments

Coronary artery calcium testing can reveal plaque in arteries, but is underused

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/26/health/coronary-artery-calcium-heart.html

1 year ago

214 upvotes – 194 comments

Simon Tatham's Portable Puzzle Collection

https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/puzzles/

1 year ago

200 upvotes – 51 comments

SQLx – Rust SQL Toolkit

https://github.com/launchbadge/sqlx

1 year ago

180 upvotes – 97 comments

Teach Yourself Programming in Ten Years (1998)

https://norvig.com/21-days.html

1 year ago

179 upvotes – 102 comments

Bringing a decade old bicycle navigator back to life with open source software

https://raymii.org/s/blog/Bringing_a_Decade_Old_Bicycle_Navigator_Back_to_Life_with_Open_Source_Software_and_DOOM.html

1 year ago

179 upvotes – 38 comments

Personal aviation is about to get interesting (2023)

https://www.elidourado.com/p/personal-aviation

1 year ago

159 upvotes – 147 comments

Users claim Discord's age verification can be tricked with video game characters

https://www.thepinknews.com/2025/07/25/discord-video-game-characters-age-verification-checks-uk-online-safety-act/

1 year ago

157 upvotes – 185 comments

Resizable structs in Zig

https://tristanpemble.com/resizable-structs-in-zig/

1 year ago

152 upvotes – 74 comments

Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024: WebAssembly SDK

https://docs.flightsimulator.com/msfs2024/html/6_Programming_APIs/WASM/WebAssembly.htm

1 year ago

152 upvotes – 115 comments

Where are vacation homes located in the US?

https://www.construction-physics.com/p/where-are-vacation-homes-located

1 year ago

138 upvotes – 98 comments

OCaml Programming: Correct and Efficient and Beautiful

https://cs3110.github.io/textbook/cover.html

1 year ago

138 upvotes – 54 comments

Earth Has Tilted 31.5 Inches. That Shouldn't Happen

https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/environment/a65515974/why-earth-has-tilted-science/

1 year ago

137 upvotes – 88 comments

Asyncio: A library with too many sharp corners

https://sailor.li/asyncio

1 year ago

121 upvotes – 99 comments

Arvo Pärt at 90

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2025/jul/24/the-god-of-small-things-celebrating-arvo-part-at-90

1 year ago

116 upvotes – 25 comments

Show HN: QuickTunes: Apple Music player for Mac with iPod vibes

https://furnacecreek.org/quicktunes/

1 year ago

98 upvotes – 40 comments

Paul Dirac and the religion of mathematical beauty (2011) [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jPwo1XsKKXg

1 year ago

97 upvotes – 8 comments

The Rise of Shippable Microfactories

https://www.thesisdriven.com/p/the-rise-of-shippable-microfactories

1 year ago

93 upvotes – 27 comments

Svalbard winter warming is reaching melting point

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-025-60926-8

1 year ago

91 upvotes – 15 comments

We revamped our docs for AI-driven development

https://docs.freestyle.sh/blog/docs-revamp

1 year ago

90 upvotes – 35 comments

Fuck dopamine, we're voluntarily breaking our own brains

https://anushkakarmakar.substack.com/p/35-fuck-dopamine

1 year ago

85 upvotes – 95 comments

Hologram v0.5.0

https://hologram.page/blog/hologram-v0-5-0-released

1 year ago

83 upvotes – 50 comments

Why I do programming

https://esafev.com/notes/why-i-do-programming/

1 year ago

81 upvotes – 48 comments

The UK’s new age-gating rules are easy to bypass

https://www.theverge.com/analysis/713773/uk-online-safety-act-age-verification-bypass-vpn

1 year ago

79 upvotes – 180 comments

Torqued Accelerator Using Radiation from the Sun (Tars) for Interstellar Payload

https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.17615

1 year ago

77 upvotes – 17 comments

Turn any diagram image into an editable Draw.io file. No more redrawing

https://imagetodrawio.com/

1 year ago

75 upvotes – 42 comments

Epic Recall, Epic Fail

https://taipology.substack.com/p/epic-recall-epic-fail

1 year ago

75 upvotes – 23 comments

Write "Freehold" Software

https://deadbeef.io/freehold_software

1 year ago

75 upvotes – 32 comments

Clj-coll: Clojure collections and sequences in Common Lisp

https://github.com/dtenny/clj-coll

1 year ago

72 upvotes – 2 comments

What if AI made the world’s economic growth explode?

https://www.economist.com/briefing/2025/07/24/what-if-ai-made-the-worlds-economic-growth-explode

1 year ago

66 upvotes – 187 comments

I am a SOTA 0-shot classifier of your slop

https://christopherkrapu.com/blog/2025/i-know-you-didnt-write-that/

1 year ago

66 upvotes – 62 comments

DJI couldn't confirm or deny it disguised this drone to evade a US ban

https://www.theverge.com/report/714103/dji-skyrover-x1-evade-ban-amazon

1 year ago

58 upvotes – 35 comments

SF may soon ban natural gas in homes and businesses undergoing major renovations

https://www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/natural-gas-ban-renovations-20776228.php

1 year ago

54 upvotes – 150 comments

Getting into Flow State with Agentic Coding

https://kau.sh/blog/agentic-coding-flow-state/

1 year ago

52 upvotes – 26 comments

Anker is no longer selling 3D Printers

https://www.theverge.com/report/714006/anker-stop-selling-3d-printer-m5-m5c-parts-eufymake

1 year ago

50 upvotes – 71 comments

The Sail instruction-set semantics specification language

https://alasdair.github.io/manual.html

1 year ago

50 upvotes – 8 comments

From Async/Await to Virtual Threads

https://lucumr.pocoo.org/2025/7/26/virtual-threads/

1 year ago

48 upvotes – 29 comments

Viral Language

https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/viral-language/

1 year ago

47 upvotes – 7 comments

.gitignore Is Inherently Sisyphean

https://rgbcu.be/blog/gitignore/

1 year ago

45 upvotes – 63 comments

Show HN: CUDA Fractal Renderer

https://github.com/tripplyons/cuda-fractal-renderer

1 year ago

44 upvotes – 18 comments

Documents detail U.S. soldiers shot by their own Sig Sauer guns (2024)

https://www.nhpr.org/nh-news/2024-06-25/documents-detail-u-s-soldiers-shot-by-their-own-sig-sauer-guns-military-says-no-reason-for-concern

1 year ago

39 upvotes – 41 comments
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