top 50% hacker news stories for 2025-07-29

Study mode

https://openai.com/index/chatgpt-study-mode/

1 year ago

Show HN: Draw a fish and watch it swim with the others

https://drawafish.com

1 year ago

My 2.5 year old laptop can write Space Invaders in JavaScript now (GLM-4.5 Air)

https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jul/29/space-invaders/

1 year ago

iPhone 16 cameras vs. traditional digital cameras

https://candid9.com/phone-camera/

1 year ago

Irrelevant facts about cats added to math problems increase LLM errors by 300%

https://www.science.org/content/article/scienceadviser-cats-confuse-ai

1 year ago

RIP Shunsaku Tamiya, the man who made plastic model kits a global obsession

https://JapaneseNostalgicCar.com/rip-shunsaku-tamiya-plastic-model-kits/

1 year ago

Wikimedia Foundation Challenges UK Online Safety Act Regulations

https://wikimediafoundation.org/news/2025/07/17/wikimedia-foundation-challenges-uk-online-safety-act-regulations/

1 year ago

ACM Transitions to Full Open Access

https://www.acm.org/publications/openaccess

1 year ago

Stop selling “unlimited”, when you mean “until we change our minds”

https://blog.kilocode.ai/p/ai-pricing-playbook-strikes-again

1 year ago

Attention is your scarcest resource (2020)

https://www.benkuhn.net/attention/

1 year ago

Learning basic electronics by building fireflies

http://a64.in/posts/learning-basic-electronics-by-building-fireflies/

1 year ago

URL-Driven State in HTMX

https://www.lorenstew.art/blog/bookmarkable-by-design-url-state-htmx/

1 year ago

Pony: An actor-model, capabilities-secure, high-performance programming language

https://www.ponylang.io/

1 year ago

Show HN: I built an AI that turns any book into a text adventure game

https://www.kathaaverse.com/

1 year ago

Launch HN: Hyprnote (YC S25) – An open-source AI meeting notetaker

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44725306

1 year ago

Maru OS – Use your phone as your PC

https://maruos.com/

1 year ago

Fintech dystopia

https://fintechdystopia.com/

1 year ago

The EU could be scanning your chats by October 2025

https://www.techradar.com/computing/cyber-security/the-eu-could-be-scanning-your-chats-by-october-2025-heres-everything-we-know

1 year ago

Observable Notebooks 2.0 Technology Preview

https://observablehq.com/notebook-kit/

1 year ago

Microsoft bans LibreOffice developer's account without warning, rejects appeal

https://www.neowin.net/news/microsoft-bans-libreoffice-developers-account-without-warning-rejects-appeal/

1 year ago

More honey bees dying, even as antibiotic use halves

https://news.uoguelph.ca/2025/07/more-honey-bees-dying-even-as-antibiotic-use-halves/

1 year ago

Programmers aren’t so humble anymore, maybe because nobody codes in Perl

https://www.wired.com/story/programmers-arent-humble-anymore-nobody-codes-in-perl/

1 year ago

Ethersync: Peer-to-peer collaborative editing of local text files

https://github.com/ethersync/ethersync

1 year ago

UK Online Safety Act sends VPN use soaring

https://www.wired.com/story/vpn-use-spike-age-verification-laws-uk/

1 year ago

Linux Performance Analysis (2015)

https://netflixtechblog.com/linux-performance-analysis-in-60-000-milliseconds-accc10403c55

1 year ago

How the brain increases blood flow on demand

https://hms.harvard.edu/news/how-brain-increases-blood-flow-demand

1 year ago

Linux 6.16: faster file systems, improved confidential memory, more Rust support

https://www.zdnet.com/article/linux-6-16-brings-faster-file-systems-improved-confidential-memory-support-and-more-rust-support/

1 year ago

Elements of System Design

https://github.com/jarulraj/periodic-table

1 year ago

JavaScript retro sound effects generator

https://github.grumdrig.com/jsfxr/

1 year ago

Nothing to watch – Experimental gallery visualizing 50k film posters

https://nothing-to-watch.port80.ch

1 year ago

A month using XMPP (using Snikket) for every call and chat (2023)

https://neilzone.co.uk/2023/08/a-month-using-xmpp-using-snikket-for-every-call-and-chat/

1 year ago

Yearly Organiser

https://neatnik.net/calendar/

1 year ago

The hit film about overworked nurses that's causing alarm across Europe

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2025/jul/29/late-shift-swiss-hospital-nurses-overworked-healthcare

1 year ago

The leverage arbitrage: Why everything feels broken

https://tushardadlani.com/the-leverage-arbitrage-why-everything-feels-broken

1 year ago

How Hyper built a 1M-accurate indoor GPS

https://andrewhart.me/hyper/

1 year ago

Mountain of Ink

https://mountainofink.com

1 year ago

Show HN: Terminal-Bench-RL: Training long-horizon terminal agents with RL

https://github.com/Danau5tin/terminal-bench-rl

1 year ago

Make Your Own Backup System – Part 2: Forging the FreeBSD Backup Stronghold

https://it-notes.dragas.net/2025/07/29/make-your-own-backup-system-part-2-forging-the-freebsd-backup-stronghold/

1 year ago

Learning Is Slower Than You Think

https://nisheethvishnoi.substack.com/p/learning-is-slower-than-you-think

1 year ago

Zig Profiling on Apple Silicon

https://blog.bugsiki.dev/posts/zig-profilers/

1 year ago

Webflow Down for >31 Hours

https://status.webflow.com

1 year ago

Fixing Ctrl+C in Rust terminal apps: Child process management

https://www.fiveonefour.com/blog/Fixing-ctrl-c-in-terminal-apps-child-process-management

1 year ago

Someone made a 128k line PR to OpenCut

https://github.com/OpenCut-app/OpenCut/pull/479

1 year ago

Two Birds with One Tone: I/Q Signals and Fourier Transform

https://wirelesspi.com/two-birds-with-one-tone-i-q-signals-and-fourier-transform-part-1/

1 year ago

Project Zero – Policy and Disclosure: 2025 Edition

https://googleprojectzero.blogspot.com/2025/07/reporting-transparency.html

1 year ago

Structuring large Clojure codebases with Biff

https://biffweb.com/p/structuring-large-codebases/

1 year ago

NSF plans end to lone U.S. Antarctic research icebreaker

https://www.science.org/content/article/nsf-plans-abrupt-end-lone-u-s-antarctic-research-icebreaker

1 year ago

Show HN: A GitHub Action that quizzes you on a pull request

https://github.com/dkamm/pr-quiz

1 year ago

Playing with Open Source LLMs

https://alicegg.tech//2025/07/29/open-source-llm.html

1 year ago

RP2350 A4, RP2354, and a New Hacking Challenge

https://www.raspberrypi.com/news/rp2350-a4-rp2354-and-a-new-hacking-challenge/

1 year ago

PHP-ORT: Machine learning inference for the web

https://krakjoe.github.io/ort/

1 year ago

Futurehome smart hub owners must pay new $117 subscription or lose access

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/07/bankrupt-futurehome-suddenly-makes-its-smart-home-hub-a-subscription-service/

1 year ago

Dropbox Passwords discontinuation

https://help.dropbox.com/en-us/installs/dropbox-passwords-discontinuation

1 year ago

Florida’s attorney general targets a restaurant over an LGBTQ Pride event

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/07/you-went-drag-show-now-state-florida-wants-your-name

1 year ago

Union Pacific to buy Norfolk in $85B mega U.S. railroad deal

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/07/29/union-pacific-to-buy-norfolk.html

1 year ago

Go’s race detector has a mutex blind spot

https://doublefree.dev/go-race-mutex-blindspot/

1 year ago

Palestinian who helped make Oscar-winning No Other Land killed in West Bank

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jul/29/palestinian-awdah-hathaleen-oscar-winning-no-other-land-killed-in-west-bank

1 year ago

Cucumber lets you write automated tests in plain language

https://cucumber.io/

1 year ago

Can a Country Be Too Rich? Norway Is Finding Out

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-07-25/can-a-country-be-too-rich-norway-is-finding-out-essay

1 year ago

Pseudo, a Common Lisp macro for pseudocode expressions

http://funcall.blogspot.com/2025/07/pseudo.html

1 year ago

2025 Stack Overflow Developer Survey Results

https://survey.stackoverflow.co/2025

1 year ago

Supervised fine tuning on curated data is reinforcement learning

https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.12856

1 year ago

EU Commission finds Temu in breach of online platform rules

https://www.euronews.com/next/2025/07/28/eu-commission-finds-temu-in-breach-of-online-platform-rules

1 year ago

Microsoft Introduces 'Copilot Mode' in Edge

https://blogs.windows.com/msedgedev/2025/07/28/introducing-copilot-mode-in-edge-a-new-way-to-browse-the-web/

1 year ago

The Convenience Trap: Why Seamless Banking Access Can Turn 2FA into 1FA

https://blog.opencore.ch/posts/the-convenience-trap-2fa/

1 year ago

Anthropic Faces Potentially "Business-Ending" Copyright Lawsuit

https://www.obsolete.pub/p/anthropic-faces-potentially-business

1 year ago

Lovense: The Company That Lies to Security Researchers

https://bobdahacker.com/blog/lovense-still-leaking-user-emails

1 year ago