top 50% hacker news stories for 2025-07-28

Copyparty – Turn almost any device into a file server

https://github.com/9001/copyparty

1 year ago

‘I witnessed war crimes’ in Gaza – former worker at GHF aid site [video]

https://www.bbc.com/news/videos/cy8k8045nx9o

1 year ago

Show HN: Use Their ID – Use your local UK MP’s ID for the Online Safety Act

https://use-their-id.com/

1 year ago

Face it: you're a crazy person

https://www.experimental-history.com/p/face-it-youre-a-crazy-person

1 year ago

VPN use surges in UK as new online safety rules kick in

https://www.ft.com/content/356674b0-9f1d-4f95-b1d5-f27570379a9b

1 year ago

Visa and Mastercard are getting overwhelmed by gamer fury over censorship

https://www.polygon.com/news/616835/visa-mastercard-steam-itchio-campaign-adult-games

1 year ago

Claude Code weekly rate limits

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44713757

1 year ago

Sign in with Google in Chrome

https://underpassapp.com/news/2025/7/5.html

1 year ago

Tao on “blue team” vs. “red team” LLMs

https://mathstodon.xyz/@tao/114915604830689046

1 year ago

LLM Embeddings Explained: A Visual and Intuitive Guide

https://huggingface.co/spaces/hesamation/primer-llm-embedding

1 year ago

I designed my own fast game streaming video codec – PyroWave

https://themaister.net/blog/2025/06/16/i-designed-my-own-ridiculously-fast-game-streaming-video-codec-pyrowave/

1 year ago

Debian switches to 64-bit time for everything

https://www.theregister.com/2025/07/25/y2k38_bug_debian/

1 year ago

FDA has approved Yeztugo, a drug that provides protection against HIV infection

https://newatlas.com/infectious-diseases/hiv-prevention-fda-lenacapavir/

1 year ago

How to make websites that will require lots of your time and energy

https://blog.jim-nielsen.com/2025/how-to-make-websites-that-require-lots-of-time-and-energy/

1 year ago

Show HN: I made a website that makes you cry

https://www.cryonceaweek.com

1 year ago

Samsung Removes Bootloader Unlocking with One UI 8

https://sammyguru.com/breaking-samsung-removes-bootloader-unlocking-with-one-ui-8/

1 year ago

OpenAI's ChatGPT Agent casually clicks through "I am not a robot" verification

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2025/07/openais-chatgpt-agent-casually-clicks-through-i-am-not-a-robot-verification-test/

1 year ago

Big agriculture mislead the public about the benefits of biofuels

https://lithub.com/how-big-agriculture-mislead-the-public-about-the-benefits-of-biofuels/

1 year ago

GLM-4.5: Reasoning, Coding, and Agentic Abililties

https://z.ai/blog/glm-4.5

1 year ago

I saved a PNG image to a bird

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hCQCP-5g5bo

1 year ago

Different Clocks

https://ianto-cannon.github.io/clock.html

1 year ago

Show HN: Companies use AI to take your calls. I built AI to make them for you

https://www.pipervoice.com/

1 year ago

Why does a fire truck cost $2m

https://thehustle.co/originals/why-does-a-fire-truck-cost-2-million

1 year ago

Simplify, then add delightness: On designing for children

https://shaneosullivan.wordpress.com/2025/07/28/on-designing-for-children/

1 year ago

SIMD within a register: How I doubled hash table lookup performance

https://maltsev.space/blog/012-simd-within-a-register-how-i-doubled-hash-table-lookup-performance

1 year ago

What would an efficient and trustworthy meeting culture look like?

https://abitmighty.com/posts/the-ultimate-meeting-culture

1 year ago

Replacing cron jobs with a centralized task scheduler

https://mayhul.com/posts/scheduled-tasks/

1 year ago

Danish Study: No link between vaccines and autism or other health conditions

https://en.ssi.dk/news/news/2025/large-danish-study-no-link-between-vaccines-and-autism-or-49-other-health-conditions

1 year ago

Claude Code Router

https://github.com/musistudio/claude-code-router

1 year ago

Sumo – Simulation of Urban Mobility

https://eclipse.dev/sumo/

1 year ago

Principles for production AI agents

https://www.app.build/blog/six-principles-production-ai-agents

1 year ago

Tea app leak worsens with second database exposing user chats

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/tea-app-leak-worsens-with-second-database-exposing-user-chats/

1 year ago

Show HN: I made a tool to generate photomosaics with your pictures

https://pictiler.com

1 year ago

Robot hand could harvest blackberries better than humans

https://news.uark.edu/articles/79750/robot-hand-could-harvest-blackberries-better-than-humans

1 year ago

More women than expected are genetically men (2016)

https://novonordiskfonden.dk/en/news/more-women-than-expected-are-genetically-men/

1 year ago

The Useless UseCallback

https://tkdodo.eu/blog/the-useless-use-callback

1 year ago

Windows 11 is a minefield of micro-aggressions in the shipping lane of progress

https://www.theregister.com/2025/07/28/windows_11_is_a_minefield/

1 year ago

Following Up on the Python JIT

https://lwn.net/Articles/1029307/

1 year ago

Interstellar Comet 3I/Atlas: What We Know Now

https://skyandtelescope.org/astronomy-news/interstellar-comet-3i-atlas-what-we-know-now/

1 year ago

Raspberry Pi 5 Gets a MicroSD Express Hat

https://www.cnx-software.com/2025/07/28/raspberry-pi-5-gets-a-microsd-express-hat/

1 year ago

Claude Code new limits – Important updates to your Max account usage limits

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44713837

1 year ago

Requesting Funding for 90s.dev

https://90s.dev/blog/requesting-funding-for-90s-dev.html

1 year ago

NASA faces brain drain as thousands exit under voluntary resignation scheme

https://www.theregister.com/2025/07/28/nasa_voluntary_exits/

1 year ago

AI Companion Piece

https://thezvi.substack.com/p/ai-companion-piece

1 year ago

Playing with more user-friendly methods for multi-factor authentication

https://tesseral.com/blog/i-designed-some-more-user-friendly-methods-for-multi-factor-authentication

1 year ago