top 50% hacker news stories for 2025-07-31

Slow

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

1 year ago

6 weeks of Claude Code

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

1 year ago

How was the Universal Pictures 1936 opening logo created?

https://movies.stackexchange.com/questions/128020/how-was-the-universal-pictures-1936-opening-logo-created

1 year ago

The anti-abundance critique on housing is wrong

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

1 year ago

MacBook Pro Insomnia

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

1 year ago

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

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

1 year ago

PixiEditor 2.0 – A FOSS universal 2D graphics editor

https://pixieditor.net/blog/2025/07/30/20-release/

1 year ago

Ubiquiti launches UniFi OS Server for self-hosting

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

1 year ago

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

1 year ago

Releasing weights for FLUX.1 Krea

https://www.krea.ai/blog/flux-krea-open-source-release

1 year ago

I tried Servo

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

1 year ago

I know when you're vibe coding

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

1 year ago

QUIC for the kernel

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

1 year ago

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/

1 year ago

“No tax on tips” is an industry plant

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

1 year ago

Introduction to Computer Music

https://cmtext.com/

1 year ago

Gemini Embedding: Powering RAG and context engineering

https://developers.googleblog.com/en/gemini-embedding-powering-rag-context-engineering/

1 year ago

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/

1 year ago

So you're a manager now

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

1 year ago

2,500-year-old Siberian 'ice mummy' had intricate tattoos, imaging reveals

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c4gzx0zm68vo

1 year ago

Why leather is best motorcycle protection [video]

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

1 year ago

Microsoft became incompetent in IT

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

1 year ago

Hawley and Democrats vote to advance congressional stock trading ban

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

1 year ago

Show HN: Mcp-use – Connect any LLM to any MCP

https://github.com/mcp-use/mcp-use

1 year ago

Carbon Language: An experimental successor to C++

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

1 year ago

Remote hosting for your telescope

https://www.sierra-remote.com/

1 year ago

Secure boot certificate rollover is real but probably won't hurt you

https://mjg59.dreamwidth.org/72892.html

1 year ago

OpenAI's "Study Mode" and the risks of flattery

https://resobscura.substack.com/p/openais-new-study-mode-and-the-risks

1 year ago

Classic Common Desktop Environment coming to OpenBSD

https://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20250730080301

1 year ago

Ongoing Lean formalization of the proof for Fermat's Last Theorem

https://github.com/ImperialCollegeLondon/FLT

1 year ago

What is gVisor?

https://blog.yelinaung.com/posts/gvisor/

1 year ago

Dark patterns

https://www.nsw.gov.au/departments-and-agencies/fair-trading/dark-patterns

1 year ago

Show HN: AgentMail – Email infra for AI agents

https://chat.agentmail.to/

1 year ago

Orion Browser

https://kagi.com/orion/

1 year ago

Kaleidos – A portable nuclear microreactor that replaces diesel generators

https://radiantnuclear.com/

1 year ago

Caches: LRU vs. Random

https://danluu.com/2choices-eviction/

1 year ago

I tried living on IPv6 for a day

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

1 year ago

Stargate Norway

https://openai.com/index/introducing-stargate-norway/

1 year ago

The Chrome Speculation Rules API allows the browser to preload and prerender

https://www.docuseal.com/blog/make-any-website-load-faster-with-6-lines-html

1 year ago

Ursa: A leaderless, object storage–based alternative to Kafka

https://streamnative.io/products/ursa

1 year ago

The Big Oops in type systems: This problem extends to FP as well

https://danieltan.weblog.lol/2025/07/the-big-oops-in-type-systems-this-problem-extends-to-fp-as-well

1 year ago

Double-slit experiment holds up when stripped to its quantum essentials

https://news.mit.edu/2025/famous-double-slit-experiment-holds-when-stripped-to-quantum-essentials-0728

1 year ago

GEPA: Reflective prompt evolution can outperform reinforcement learning

https://arxiviq.substack.com/p/gepa-reflective-prompt-evolution

1 year ago

A Hitchhiker's Guide to the AI Bubble

https://fluxus.io/article/a-hitchhikers-guide-to-the-ai-bubble

1 year ago

Helion begins work on Washington nuclear fusion plant

https://www.nucnet.org/news/microsoft-backed-fusion-company-begins-work-on-washington-nuclear-fusion-plant-7-4-2025

1 year ago

What Can a Cell Remember?

https://www.quantamagazine.org/what-can-a-cell-remember-20250730/

1 year ago

How to trigger a command on Linux when power switches from AC to battery

https://dataswamp.org/~solene/2025-05-31-linux-killswitch-on-power-disconnect.html

1 year ago

British man claims he's unable to watch porn as tattoos confuse age check system

https://needtoknow.co.uk/2025/07/30/britains-most-tattooed-man-claims-he-is-unable-to-watch-prn-as-new-age-check-system-mistakes-his-ink-for-a-mask/

1 year ago

Nova: A New Web Framework for Erlang

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44745250

1 year ago

How Scientific Empires End

https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2025/07/science-empire-america-decline/683711/

1 year ago

Launch HN: Gecko Security (YC F24) – AI That Finds Vulnerabilities in Code

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44747204

1 year ago

Do LLMs identify fonts?

https://maxhalford.github.io/blog/llm-font-identification/

1 year ago

Google loses US appeal over app store reforms in Epic Games case

https://www.reuters.com/legal/litigation/google-loses-us-appeal-over-app-store-reforms-epic-games-case-2025-07-31/

1 year ago

How long before superintelligence? (1997)

https://nickbostrom.com/superintelligence

1 year ago

Age verification doesn't need to be a privacy footgun

https://soatok.blog/2025/07/31/age-verification-doesnt-need-to-be-a-privacy-footgun/

1 year ago

Astronomical Telescope “Hadley” – an easy assembly, high performance Newtonian

https://www.printables.com/model/224383-astronomical-telescope-hadley-an-easy-assembly-hig

1 year ago

Friction and Not Being Touched

https://tante.cc/2025/07/30/friction-and-not-being-touched/

1 year ago