top 20 hacker news stories for 2025-07-31

The anti-abundance critique on housing is wrong

https://www.derekthompson.org/p/the-anti-abundance-critique-on-housing

8 months ago

518 upvotes – 791 comments

6 weeks of Claude Code

https://blog.puzzmo.com/posts/2025/07/30/six-weeks-of-claude-code/

8 months ago

581 upvotes – 590 comments

“No tax on tips” is an industry plant

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/08/04/no-tax-on-tips-is-an-industry-plant

8 months ago

302 upvotes – 586 comments

Denver rent is back to 2022 prices after 20k new units hit the market

https://denverite.com/2025/07/25/denver-rent-prices-drop-q2/

8 months ago

311 upvotes – 376 comments

Many countries that said no to ChatControl in 2024 are now undecided

https://digitalcourage.social/@echo_pbreyer/114946559233051667

8 months ago

474 upvotes – 356 comments

Ubiquiti launches UniFi OS Server for self-hosting

https://lazyadmin.nl/home-network/unifi-os-server/

8 months ago

396 upvotes – 331 comments

I tried Servo

https://www.spacebar.news/servo-undercover-web-browser-engine/

8 months ago

356 upvotes – 248 comments

U.S. senators introduce new pirate site blocking bill, "Block BEARD"

https://torrentfreak.com/u-s-senators-introduce-new-pirate-site-blocking-bill-block-beard/

8 months ago

267 upvotes – 247 comments

MacBook Pro Insomnia

https://manuel.bernhardt.io/posts/2025-07-24-macbook-pro-insomnia

8 months ago

516 upvotes – 233 comments

QUIC for the kernel

https://lwn.net/Articles/1029851/

8 months ago

335 upvotes – 229 comments

Slow

https://michaelnotebook.com/slow/index.html

8 months ago

991 upvotes – 229 comments

AI is a floor raiser, not a ceiling raiser

https://elroy.bot/blog/2025/07/29/ai-is-a-floor-raiser-not-a-ceiling-raiser.html

8 months ago

370 upvotes – 210 comments

Carbon Language: An experimental successor to C++

https://docs.carbon-lang.dev/

8 months ago

155 upvotes – 193 comments

Why leather is best motorcycle protection [video]

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

8 months ago

219 upvotes – 192 comments

So you're a manager now

https://scottkosman.com/post/blog/so-youre-a-manager-now/

8 months ago

260 upvotes – 185 comments

Hawley and Democrats vote to advance congressional stock trading ban

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/hawley-democrats-vote-stock-trading-ban-committee/

8 months ago

191 upvotes – 182 comments

I tried living on IPv6 for a day

https://www.xda-developers.com/the-internet-isnt-fully-ipv6-ready/

8 months ago

107 upvotes – 181 comments

Kaleidos – A portable nuclear microreactor that replaces diesel generators

https://radiantnuclear.com/

8 months ago

117 upvotes – 179 comments

I know when you're vibe coding

https://alexkondov.com/i-know-when-youre-vibe-coding/

8 months ago

353 upvotes – 173 comments

Microsoft became incompetent in IT

https://mikekaganski.wordpress.com/2025/07/25/microsoft-anybody-home/

8 months ago

214 upvotes – 152 comments
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