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12:03

7.17.25 | Altermagnets introduce a new type of...

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2025/07/17

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Jul 17, 2025.Altermagnets: The first new type of magnet in nearly a centuryhttps://www.newscientist.com/article/2487013-weve-discovered-a-new-kind-of-magnetism-what-can-we-do-with-it/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44583171Ex-Waymo engineers launch Bedrock Robotics to automate

12:29

7.16.25 | Reflections on OpenAI, Shoggoth Mini robot...

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2025/07/16

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Jul 16, 2025.Reflections on OpenAIhttps://calv.info/openai-reflectionshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44573195Show HN: Shoggoth Mini – A soft tentacle robot powered by GPT-4o and RLhttps://www.matthieulc.com/posts/shoggoth-minihttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44572377To be a better programmer, write little proofs in your

12:36

7.15.25 | Kiro IDE launch, LLM inevitabilism...

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2025/07/15

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Jul 15, 2025.Kiro: A new agentic IDEhttps://kiro.dev/blog/introducing-kiro/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44560662LLM Inevitabilismhttps://tomrenner.com/posts/llm-inevitabilism/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44567857Happy 20th Birthday, Djangohttps://www.djangoproject.com/weblog/2025/jul/13/happy-20th-birthday-django/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44552500Cognition (Devin AI) to Acquire

12:15

7.14.25 | Ten years of daily running visualized,...

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2025/07/14

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Jul 14, 2025.Show HN: Ten years of running every day, visualizedhttps://nodaysoff.runhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44522683How does a screen work?https://www.makingsoftware.com/chapters/how-a-screen-workshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44550572OpenCut: The open-source CapCut alternativehttps://github.com/OpenCut-app/OpenCuthttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44553752GLP-1s are breaking life

11:55

7.13.25 | MacPaint Art's enduring appeal, Bypassing...

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2025/07/13

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Jul 13, 2025.MacPaint Art from the Mid-80s Still Looks Great Todayhttps://blog.decryption.net.au/posts/macpaint.htmlhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44540402Bypassing Google's big anti-adblock updatehttps://0x44.xyz/blog/web-request-blocking/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44544266New Date("wtf") – How well do you know JavaScript's Date class?https://jsdate.wtfhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44540241The fish kick may be the

11:40

7.12.25 | OpenAI's Windsurf deal canceled, Windsurf...

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2025/07/12

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Jul 12, 2025.OpenAI’s Windsurf deal is off, and Windsurf’s CEO is going to Googlehttps://www.theverge.com/openai/705999/google-windsurf-ceo-openaihttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44536988ETH Zurich and EPFL to release a LLM developed on public infrastructurehttps://ethz.ch/en/news-and-events/eth-news/news/2025/07/a-language-model-built-for-the-public-good.htmlhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44535637Bill Atkinson's psychedelic

11:48

7.11.25 | AI's impact on open-source productivity,...

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2025/07/11

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Jul 11, 2025.Measuring the impact of AI on experienced open-source developer productivityhttps://metr.org/blog/2025-07-10-early-2025-ai-experienced-os-dev-study/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44522772Postgres LISTEN/NOTIFY does not scalehttps://www.recall.ai/blog/postgres-listen-notify-does-not-scalehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44490510Grok: Searching X for "From:Elonmusk (Israel or Palestine or Hamas or

11:43

7.10.25 | Tree Borrows concept, Linda Yaccarino...

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2025/07/10

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Jul 10, 2025.Tree Borrowshttps://plf.inf.ethz.ch/research/pldi25-tree-borrows.htmlhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44510600Linda Yaccarino is leaving Xhttps://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/09/technology/linda-yaccarino-x-steps-down.htmlhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44510731The jank programming languagehttps://jank-lang.org/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44482273German court rules Meta tracking technology violates European

12:20

7.9.25 | Supabase MCP SQL leak, Bootstrapping...

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2025/07/09

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Jul 9, 2025.Supabase MCP can leak your entire SQL databasehttps://www.generalanalysis.com/blog/supabase-mcp-bloghttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44502318Bootstrapping a side project into a profitable seven-figure businesshttps://projectionlab.com/blog/we-reached-1m-arr-with-zero-fundinghttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44495428Show HN: OffChess – Offline chess puzzles

12:11

7.8.25 | ChatGPT prompts feature addition, Mercury...

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2025/07/08

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Jul 8, 2025.Adding a feature because ChatGPT incorrectly thinks it existshttps://www.holovaty.com/writing/chatgpt-fake-feature/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44491071Mercury: Ultra-fast language models based on diffusionhttps://arxiv.org/abs/2506.17298https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44489690I used o3 to profile myself from my saved Pocket

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7.7.25 | Extracted Apple Intelligence safety filters,...

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2025/07/07

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Jul 7, 2025.I extracted the safety filters from Apple Intelligence modelshttps://github.com/BlueFalconHD/apple_generative_model_safety_decryptedhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44483485Nobody has a personality anymore: we are products with labelshttps://www.freyaindia.co.uk/p/nobody-has-a-personality-anymorehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44484595Bitchat – A decentralized messaging app that works over Bluetooth mesh

12:12

7.6.25 | Local-first software, hidden interface...

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2025/07/06

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Jul 6, 2025.Local-first software (2019)https://www.inkandswitch.com/essay/local-first/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44473135Hidden interface controls that affect usabilityhttps://interactions.acm.org/archive/view/july-august-2025/stop-hiding-my-controls-hidden-interface-controls-are-affecting-usabilityhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44476297Are We the

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7.5.25 | Nvidia criticized, Mini NASes combine NVMe...

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2025/07/05

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Jul 5, 2025.Nvidia is full of shithttps://blog.sebin-nyshkim.net/posts/nvidia-is-full-of-shit/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44468175Mini NASes marry NVMe to Intel's efficient chiphttps://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2025/mini-nases-marry-nvme-intels-efficient-chiphttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44465319OBBB signed: Reinstates immediate expensing for U.S.-based

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7.4.25 | tmux-rs launched, YC company relicensed my...

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2025/07/04

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Jul 4, 2025.Introducing tmux-rshttps://richardscollin.github.io/tmux-rs/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44455787My open source project was relicensed by a YC company [license updated]https://twitter.com/soham_btw/status/1940952786491027886https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44460552The Rise of Whateverhttps://eev.ee/blog/2025/07/03/the-rise-of-whatever/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44461208Major reversal in ocean circulation

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7.3.25 | Exploiting IKKO Activebuds, US climate...

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2025/07/03

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Jul 3, 2025.Exploiting the IKKO Activebuds “AI powered” earbuds (2024)https://blog.mgdproductions.com/ikko-activebuds/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44443919Websites hosting major US climate reports taken downhttps://apnews.com/article/climate-change-national-assessment-nasa-white-house-057cec699caef90832d8b10f21a6ffe8https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44448868Gene therapy restored hearing in deaf

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7.2.25 | Fed miscalculates $1M cube, Spegel is an...

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2025/07/02

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Jul 2, 2025.The Fed says this is a cube of $1M. They're off by half a millionhttps://calvin.sh/blog/fed-lie/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44435484Show HN: Spegel, a Terminal Browser That Uses LLMs to Rewrite Webpageshttps://simedw.com/2025/06/23/introducing-spegel/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44433409Figma files for proposed IPOhttps://www.figma.com/blog/s1-public/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44437316OpenFLOW –

12:07

7.1.25 | AI's new skill is context engineering,...

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2025/07/01

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Jul 1, 2025.The new skill in AI is not prompting, it's context engineeringhttps://www.philschmid.de/context-engineeringhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44427757Xfinity using WiFi signals in your house to detect motionhttps://www.xfinity.com/support/articles/wifi-motionhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44426726Proton joins suit against Apple for practices that harm developers and

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6.30.25 | VM simulates CPU fan, ransomware avoids...

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2025/06/30

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Jun 30, 2025.I made my VM think it has a CPU fanhttps://wbenny.github.io/2025/06/29/i-made-my-vm-think-it-has-a-cpu-fan.htmlhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44413185Many ransomware strains will abort if they detect a Russian keyboard installed (2021)https://krebsonsecurity.com/2021/05/try-this-one-weird-trick-russian-hackers-hate/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44415233Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (June

12:29

6.29.25 | JavaScript trademark changes, MCP's...

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2025/06/29

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Jun 29, 2025.JavaScript Trademark Updatehttps://deno.com/blog/deno-v-oracle4https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44407139MCP: An (Accidentally) Universal Plugin Systemhttps://worksonmymachine.substack.com/p/mcp-an-accidentally-universal-pluginhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44404905Engineered Addictionshttps://masonyarbrough.substack.com/p/engineered-addictionshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44405057We ran a Unix-like OS on our

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6.28.25 | Airline pilot creates flight graphs,...

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2025/06/28

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Jun 28, 2025.Show HN: I'm an airline pilot – I built interactive graphs/globes of my flightshttps://jameshard.ing/pilothttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44396518Facebook is starting to feed its AI with private, unpublished photoshttps://www.theverge.com/meta/694685/meta-ai-camera-rollhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44401406I deleted my second

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