top 50% hacker news stories for 2026-07-25

Android may soon restrict on-device ADB

https://kitsumed.github.io/blog/posts/android-may-soon-restrict-on-device-adb/

3 months ago

1 change
1008 upvotes – 507 comments

Hannah Fry Wins the Leelavati Prize in 2026 for Mathematics Outreach

https://www.maths.cam.ac.uk/features/professor-hannah-fry-wins-leelavati-prize

3 months ago

604 upvotes – 110 comments

Did they ghost you?

https://didtheyghostyou.com/

3 months ago

1 change
483 upvotes – 220 comments

The new rules of context engineering for Claude 5 generation models

https://claude.com/blog/the-new-rules-of-context-engineering-for-claude-5-generation-models

3 months ago

462 upvotes – 404 comments

Open-weight AI is having its Kubernetes moment

https://tobi.knaup.me/2026-07-25-open-weight-ai-is-having-its-kubernetes-moment/

3 months ago

1 change
415 upvotes – 321 comments

A shell colon does nothing. Use it anyway.

https://refp.se/articles/your-shell-and-the-magic-colon

3 months ago

402 upvotes – 176 comments

Taylor Farms Called White House to Try to Delay Cyclospora Recall

https://www.wsj.com/health/taylor-farms-cyclospora-recall-delay-call-41fef0bc

3 months ago

332 upvotes – 225 comments

What is happening to jobs? Separating AI hype from reality

https://siepr.stanford.edu/publications/policy-brief/what-really-happening-jobs-separating-ai-hype-reality

3 months ago

301 upvotes – 378 comments

Running a 28.9M parameter LLM on an $8 microcontroller

https://github.com/slvDev/esp32-ai

3 months ago

★ 2.6k Python MIT
289 upvotes – 72 comments

2x, not 10x: coding with LLMs in 2026

https://obryant.dev/p/2x-not-10x/

3 months ago

278 upvotes – 239 comments

The growing vigilante movement to knock out Flock surveillance cameras

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2026/jul/25/flock-surveillance-cameras

3 months ago

274 upvotes – 169 comments

Bitchat is now on Radicle

https://radicle.network/nodes/rosa.radicle.network/rad%3Az2v9tRJz1oknFAqCSY5W5c76nVvm6

3 months ago

1 change
270 upvotes – 146 comments

Watching Go's new garbage collector move through the heap

https://theconsensus.dev/p/2026/07/19/observing-gos-garbage-collector-old-and-new.html

3 months ago

259 upvotes – 43 comments

DeepSeek pause fundraise after comments on compute gap to US leaked (transcript) [pdf]

https://github.com/demo-zexuan/liang-wenfeng-investor-meeting-2026-7-22/blob/15c6504be51b884a0adc5d77e4dba41f94431454/%E6%A2%81%E6%96%87%E9%94%8B%E6%8A%95%E8%B5%84%E8%80%85%E4%BA%A4%E6%B5%81%E4%BC%9A-%E6%96%87%E5%AD%97%E7%A8%BF_1_18_translate_20260723201651.pdf

3 months ago

★ 11 1 change
252 upvotes – 200 comments

Turn And Face The Strange

https://fly.io/blog/kurt-scott-money-sprites/

3 months ago

1 change
231 upvotes – 151 comments

The Dark Night of Mathematics

https://kirwinhampshire.substack.com/p/the-dark-night-of-mathematics

3 months ago

230 upvotes – 306 comments

Show HN: Brolly, a plain-text weather forecast site

https://brolly.sh/forecast/RWFP2qW8

3 months ago

227 upvotes – 84 comments

LLM Usage in Debian: Three Proposals

https://www.debian.org/vote/2026/vote_002

3 months ago

1 change
215 upvotes – 212 comments

GM Backs Sodium Ion Batteries for U.S. Grid Storage

https://spectrum.ieee.org/sodium-ion-battery-peak-energy

3 months ago

207 upvotes – 105 comments

MouthPad: A Tongue-Controlled Touchpad

https://www.augmental.tech/

3 months ago

194 upvotes – 48 comments

Cloudflare's new AI traffic options for customers

https://blog.cloudflare.com/content-independence-day-ai-options/

3 months ago

194 upvotes – 158 comments

The Rust on ESP Book

https://docs.espressif.com/projects/rust/book/

3 months ago

175 upvotes – 23 comments

Tile's Security Is So Bad It's a Feature for Stalkers

https://blog.adafruit.com/2026/03/05/tiles-security-is-so-bad-its-a-feature-for-stalkers/

3 months ago

171 upvotes – 46 comments

ARC-AGI Leaderboard

https://arcprize.org/leaderboard

3 months ago

170 upvotes – 146 comments

A 77-year-old Republican man is staging a solo protest against Flock cameras

https://www.cltampa.com/news/a-77-year-old-republican-man-is-staging-a-solo-protest-against-st-petes-flock-cameras/

3 months ago

160 upvotes – 85 comments

The Fedora 45 Sausage Factory

https://supakeen.com/weblog/the-fedora-45-sausage-factory/

3 months ago

157 upvotes – 42 comments

Engineering management after the cost of code collapsed

https://karimjedda.com/engineering-management-after-cost-of-code-collapse/

3 months ago

154 upvotes – 204 comments

Clinical Failure Rates over the Decades: Yikes

https://www.science.org/content/blog-post/clinical-failure-rates-over-decades-yikes

3 months ago

145 upvotes – 141 comments

Producing ammonia and fertiliser using wind power in Morris, Minnesota

https://ammoniaenergy.org/articles/flexible-renewable-ammonia-demonstrator-now-operational-in-minnesota/

3 months ago

136 upvotes – 124 comments

Memory safety absolutists

https://itsallaboutthebit.com/memory-safety-absolutists/

3 months ago

1 change
133 upvotes – 247 comments

UK AISI / Caisi Preliminary Assessment of Kimi K3's Cyber Capabilities

https://www.nist.gov/news-events/news/2026/07/uk-aisi-caisi-preliminary-assessment-kimi-k3s-cyber-capabilities

3 months ago

132 upvotes – 45 comments

Extinct Media Museum Tokyo

https://extinct-media-museum.blog.jp/otemachi/

3 months ago

131 upvotes – 32 comments

IMAX vs. IMAX 70mm: The difference between these two cinema formats

https://www.engadget.com/2220571/differences-between-imax-70mm/

3 months ago

88 upvotes – 135 comments

Prosecutor Investigating U.S. Boat Strikes Was Murdered in Ecuador

https://www.dropsitenews.com/p/prosecutor-investigating-ecuador-boat-strikes-murdered

3 months ago

86 upvotes – 4 comments

Wind turbine is being used to produce zero-carbon "green ammonia" fertilizer

https://energiesmedia.com/wind-turbine-stopped-electricity-wind-water-air/

3 months ago

85 upvotes – 96 comments

Bringing PyTorch Monarch to AMD GPUs

https://pytorch.org/blog/bringing-pytorch-monarch-to-amd-gpus-single-controller-distributed-training-on-rocm/

3 months ago

81 upvotes – 7 comments

Show HN: Bribes.fyi – Know before you go. New feature added

https://bribes.fyi/before-you-go

3 months ago

77 upvotes – 53 comments

The Silurian Hypothesis (2020)

https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2020/01/23/the-silurian-hypothesis/

3 months ago

75 upvotes – 128 comments

The AI Productivity Illusion

https://www.hardresetmedia.com/p/the-ai-productivity-illusion

3 months ago

72 upvotes – 28 comments

London’s most equidistant pub

https://equidistance.io/londons-most-equidistant-pub/

3 months ago

1 change
71 upvotes – 41 comments

Politician reads AI prompt during assembly

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wlYa8NV5k-U

3 months ago

70 upvotes – 48 comments

Scanwheel is a drum style mechanical television you can build yourself

https://github.com/AncientJames/Scanwheel/

3 months ago

★ 186 Python
69 upvotes – 17 comments

Some combinatorial applications of spacefilling curves

https://www2.isye.gatech.edu/~jjb/research/mow/mow.html

3 months ago

69 upvotes – 18 comments

Corporate America Has Suddenly Decided to Stop Blowing Money on AI

https://www.wsj.com/business/china-us-ai-model-costs-53a12e96

3 months ago

66 upvotes – 85 comments

Multicast TV Distribution on My Home Network

https://www.apalrd.net/posts/2026/isp_mcast/

3 months ago

65 upvotes – 19 comments

ESP32-C6 Power Consumption: Arduino vs. Zephyr vs. ESP-IDF Comparison

https://www.qoitech.com/blog/esp32-c6-power-consumption-comparison/

3 months ago

64 upvotes – 17 comments

How to Mount a Balcony Awning (2025)

https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com/2025/07/how-to-mount-a-balcony-awning/

3 months ago

1 change
64 upvotes – 9 comments

'AI Mania Is Eviscerating Global Decision-Making'

https://daringfireball.net/linked/2026/07/25/ai-mania-nikhil-suresh

3 months ago

62 upvotes – 19 comments

Brazilian farmers tokenized dairy cows to get loans, bypassing bank limits

https://www.coindesk.com/markets/2026/07/24/brazilian-farmers-tokenized-dairy-cows-to-get-loans-bypassing-bank-lending-limits

3 months ago

61 upvotes – 54 comments

Winding Down Artichoke Ruby

https://hyperbo.la/w/winding-down-artichoke-ruby/

3 months ago

59 upvotes – 8 comments

Kimi K3 built a Windows XP in browser

https://windows-xp.kimi.site/

3 months ago

58 upvotes – 33 comments

Harddrive Is Probably Full

https://www.marginalia.nu/log/a_139_hdd/

3 months ago

57 upvotes – 47 comments

Ask HN: What livestream do you keep open in a tab?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49049281

3 months ago

55 upvotes – 20 comments

What if the RAM/GPU shortage is deliberate?

https://xn--vk5b17r.online/posts/ram-gpu-consp/

3 months ago

55 upvotes – 22 comments

Three Theses on the Literacy Crisis

https://trevoraleo.substack.com/p/three-theses-on-the-literacy-crisis

3 months ago

55 upvotes – 49 comments

The AI jobs apocalypse probably isn't coming anytime soon

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/jul/25/ai-jobs-apocalypse-human-labor

3 months ago

54 upvotes – 90 comments

Becoming a Research Engineer at a Big LLM Lab

https://www.maxmynter.com/pages/blog/jobhunt

3 months ago

54 upvotes – 21 comments

Show HN: Writemark, a dependency free web component for inline Markdown editing

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49051130

3 months ago

53 upvotes – 27 comments

Who does Anubis actually stop?

https://fzakaria.com/2026/07/09/who-does-anubis-actually-stop

3 months ago

52 upvotes – 81 comments

US accuses American of allegedly wiping his phone during border search

https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/24/us-accuses-american-of-allegedly-wiping-his-phone-using-a-duress-password-during-border-search/

3 months ago

51 upvotes – 7 comments

Task-centered iproute2 user guide

https://baturin.org/docs/iproute2/

3 months ago

46 upvotes – 6 comments

League of Legends designer shares game design field manual

https://areadenial.games/design/preface#00-01

3 months ago

46 upvotes – 50 comments
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