top 20 hacker news stories for 2025-07-30

No One Is Defying Trump Like Brazil's President

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/30/world/americas/brazil-president-lula-trump-tariffs.html

1 year ago

AI in Wyoming may soon use more electricity than state's human residents

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2025/07/ai-in-wyoming-may-soon-use-more-electricity-than-states-human-residents/

1 year ago

"Copy link to highlight" has been added to Firefox Nightly

https://mastodon.social/@firefoxnightly/114805708639661562

1 year ago

Atlassian billionaire spruiks AI as CEO fires 150 workers over video

https://au.finance.yahoo.com/news/atlassian-billionaire-spruiks-ai-as-ceo-fires-150-workers-over-video-in-scary-digital-revolution-052623412.html

1 year ago

What's the Riskiest Thing You've Ever Done?

https://www.kapwing.com/blog/the-riskiest-thing-youve-ever-done/

1 year ago

People still use our old-fashioned Unix login servers

https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/sysadmin/LoginServersStillUsed

1 year ago

Ford Takes $800M Tariff Hit, Posts First Loss Since 2023

https://www.wsj.com/business/autos/ford-earnings-q2-2025-tariffs-0df0cedf

1 year ago

I built my blog with C preprocessor macros

https://wheybags.com/blog/macroblog.html

1 year ago

Google is using AI age checks to lock down user accounts

https://www.theverge.com/news/716154/google-ai-age-estimation-under-18

1 year ago

The Ski Rental Problem

https://lesves.github.io/articles/ski-rental/

1 year ago

St. Paul, MN was hacked so badly that the National Guard has been deployed

https://arstechnica.com/security/2025/07/st-paul-mn-was-hacked-so-badly-that-the-national-guard-has-been-deployed/

1 year ago

Figma will IPO on July 31

https://www.figma.com/blog/ipo-pricing/

1 year ago

Reminiscing About Retro (Don't Forget about Atari)

https://www.goto10retro.com/p/reminiscing-about-retro

1 year ago

Pentagon Pizza Index

https://www.pizzint.watch/

1 year ago

Canada's Measles Cases Surpass US, Alberta Officials Push for State of Emergency

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/30/world/canada/canada-alberta-measles-outbreak.html

1 year ago

Trump ends de minimis exemption for global low-cost goods

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/07/30/trump-de-minimis-shipping.html

1 year ago

Scientists discover a whole new type of ecosystem 30k feet – 9,144M deep

https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2025/07/30/deep-sea-discovery-pacific-ocean/

1 year ago

TclSqueak – Program in Tcl the Smalltalk Way

http://www.xdobry.de/tclsqueak/

1 year ago

Better Transit Could Solve Big Cities' Housing Problems

https://www.city-journal.org/article/work-commutes-public-transit-housing

1 year ago

Neural networks that learn non-linearity without activation functions [pdf]

https://www.tahabouhsine.com/nmn/assets/deep_learning_two_point_o_point_one.pdf

1 year ago