top 50% hacker news stories for 2025-07-27

EU age verification app to ban any Android system not licensed by Google

https://www.reddit.com/r/degoogle/s/YxmPgFes8a

1 year ago

Dumb Pipe

https://www.dumbpipe.dev/

1 year ago

Enough AI copilots, we need AI HUDs

https://www.geoffreylitt.com/2025/07/27/enough-ai-copilots-we-need-ai-huds

1 year ago

Performance and telemetry analysis of Trae IDE, ByteDance's VSCode fork

https://github.com/segmentationf4u1t/trae_telemetry_research

1 year ago

Tom Lehrer has died

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/27/arts/music/tom-lehrer-dead.html

1 year ago

4k NASA employees opt to leave agency through deferred resignation program

https://www.kcrw.com/news/shows/npr/npr-story/nx-s1-5481304

1 year ago

When we get Komooted

https://bikepacking.com/plog/when-we-get-komooted/

1 year ago

I hacked my washing machine

https://nexy.blog/2025/07/27/how-i-hacked-my-washing-machine/

1 year ago

Making Postgres slower

https://byteofdev.com/posts/making-postgres-slow/

1 year ago

Hierarchical Reasoning Model

https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.21734

1 year ago

Linux on Snapdragon X Elite: Linaro and Tuxedo Pave the Way for ARM64 Laptops

https://www.linaro.org/blog/linux-on-snapdragon-x-elite/

1 year ago

Allianz Life says 'majority' of customers' personal data stolen in cyberattack

https://techcrunch.com/2025/07/26/allianz-life-says-majority-of-customers-personal-data-stolen-in-cyberattack/

1 year ago

Claude Code is a slot machine

https://rgoldfinger.com/blog/2025-07-26-claude-code-is-a-slot-machine/

1 year ago

Ask HN: What are you working on? (July 2025)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44702833

1 year ago

The many JavaScript runtimes of the last decade

https://buttondown.com/whatever_jamie/archive/the-many-many-many-javascript-runtimes-of-the-last-decade/

1 year ago

The future is not self-hosted, but self-sovereign

https://www.robertmao.com/blog/en/the-future-is-not-self-hosted-but-self-sovereign

1 year ago

Chemical process produces critical battery metals with no waste

https://spectrum.ieee.org/nmc-battery-aspiring-materials

1 year ago

USB-C for Lightning iPhones

https://obsoless.com/products/iph0n3-usb-c-protection-case

1 year ago

Fast and cheap bulk storage: using LVM to cache HDDs on SSDs

https://quantum5.ca/2025/05/11/fast-cheap-bulk-storage-using-lvm-to-cache-hdds-on-ssds/

1 year ago

Janet: Lightweight, Expressive, Modern Lisp

https://janet-lang.org

1 year ago

Beetroot juice lowers blood pressure by changing oral microbiome: study

https://news.exeter.ac.uk/faculty-of-health-and-life-sciences/beetroot-juice-lowers-blood-pressure-in-older-people-by-changing-oral-microbiome/

1 year ago

.NET 10 Preview 6 brings JIT improvements, one-shot tool execution

https://www.infoworld.com/article/4023654/net-10-preview-6-brings-jit-improvements-one-shot-tool-execution.html

1 year ago

The JJ VCS workshop: A zero-to-hero speedrun

https://github.com/jkoppel/jj-workshop

1 year ago

Show HN: Windows 7 GUI for the web

https://khang-nd.github.io/7.css/

1 year ago

Smallest particulate matter air quality sensor for ultra-compact IoT devices

https://www.bosch-sensortec.com/news/worlds-smallest-particulate-matter-sensor-bmv080.html

1 year ago

GPT might be an information virus (2023)

https://nonint.com/2023/03/09/gpt-might-be-an-information-virus/

1 year ago

ZUSE: IRC terminal client

https://github.com/babycommando/zuse

1 year ago

US Government takes $1B from nuclear modernization for gold-plated jet

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/27/us/politics/air-force-one-trump-cost.html

1 year ago

A Python dict that can report which keys you did not use

https://www.peterbe.com/plog/a-python-dict-that-can-report-which-keys-you-did-not-use

1 year ago

Show HN: Online Ruler – Measuring in inches/centimeters

https://anruler.com/

1 year ago

No AI Content

https://eclecticlight.co/2025/07/27/last-week-on-my-mac-%f0%9f%a6%89-no-ai-content/

1 year ago

IBM Keyboard Patents

https://sharktastica.co.uk/topics/patents

1 year ago

Is Jeff Bezos killing The Washington Post on purpose or by accident?

https://www.thebulwark.com/p/the-washington-post-is-dying-jeff-bezos-will-lewis

1 year ago

Constrained languages are easier to optimize

https://jyn.dev/constrained-languages-are-easier-to-optimize/

1 year ago

Ultra-Rapid Vision in Birds

https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0151099

1 year ago

Show HN: Dlg – Zero-cost printf-style debugging for Go

https://github.com/vvvvv/dlg

1 year ago

Wikipedia: Signs of AI Writing

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Signs_of_AI_writing

1 year ago

Traccar: an open source GPS tracking system

https://github.com/traccar/traccar

1 year ago

Designing a flatpack bed

https://kevinlynagh.com/newsletter/2025_07_flatpack/

1 year ago

The Saltgator: A Desktop SoftGel Injection Molding Machine

https://www.core77.com/posts/137875/The-Saltgator-A-Desktop-SoftGel-Injection-Molding-Machine

1 year ago

Warp.dev Terminal – Overpriced, Buggy, and AI-Sabotaged My Code

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44704043

1 year ago

Formal specs as sets of behaviors

https://surfingcomplexity.blog/2025/07/26/formal-specs-as-sets-of-behaviors/

1 year ago

Jeff Bezos doesn't believe in PowerPoint, and his employees agree

https://texttoslides.ai/blog/amazon-not-using-powerpoint

1 year ago

No

https://olu.online/no/

1 year ago