The Best Hacker News Posts of July 2025
We track 1,163 stories from July 2025, averaging 271 points each. github.com was the most linked source, with 86 stories. Together they drew 202,153 comments, 174 per story on average.
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LLM Inevitabilism
tomrenner.com · SwoopsFromAbove · 15 Jul 2025
1.8k pts
1.6k comments
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The Fed says this is a cube of $1M. They're off by half a million
calvin.sh · c249709 · 1 Jul 2025
1.5k pts
552 comments
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Do not download the app, use the website
idiallo.com · foxfired · 25 Jul 2025
1.3k pts
728 comments
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Adding a feature because ChatGPT incorrectly thinks it exists
holovaty.com · adrianh · 7 Jul 2025
1.3k pts
424 comments
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Helsinki records zero traffic deaths for full year
helsinkitimes.fi · DaveZale · 30 Jul 2025
1.2k pts
652 comments
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Copyparty – Turn almost any device into a file server
github.com · saint11 · 28 Jul 2025
1.1k pts
169 comments
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CARA – High precision robot dog using rope
aaedmusa.com · hakonjdjohnsen · 23 Jul 2025
1.1k pts
182 comments
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MacPaint Art from the Mid-80s Still Looks Great Today
blog.decryption.net.au · decryption · 12 Jul 2025
1.1k pts
196 comments
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OpenAI’s Windsurf deal is off, and Windsurf’s CEO is going to Google
theverge.com · rcchen · 11 Jul 2025
1.1k pts
685 comments
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EU age verification app to ban any Android system not licensed by Google
reddit.com · cft · 27 Jul 2025
1.1k pts
690 comments
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Bypassing Google's big anti-adblock update
0x44.xyz · deryilz · 12 Jul 2025
1k pts
919 comments
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Show HN: Tinder but it's only pictures of my wife and I can only swipe right
trytender.app · risquer · 23 Jul 2025
1k pts
263 comments
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Linux Reaches 5% Desktop Market Share in USA
ostechnix.com · marcodiego · 16 Jul 2025
1k pts
614 comments
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‘I witnessed war crimes’ in Gaza – former worker at GHF aid site [video]
bbc.com · nathanyz · 28 Jul 2025
1k pts
1.3k comments
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Bootstrapping a side project into a profitable seven-figure business
projectionlab.com · jonkuipers · 7 Jul 2025
1k pts
257 comments
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Nvidia won, we all lost
blog.sebin-nyshkim.net · todsacerdoti · 4 Jul 2025
995 pts
571 comments
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Enough AI copilots, we need AI HUDs
geoffreylitt.com · walterbell · 27 Jul 2025
979 pts
271 comments
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Show HN: Ten years of running every day, visualized
nodaysoff.run · friggeri · 10 Jul 2025
958 pts
495 comments
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Performance and telemetry analysis of Trae IDE, ByteDance's VSCode fork
github.com · segfault22 · 27 Jul 2025
954 pts
366 comments
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Valve confirms credit card companies pressured it to delist certain adult games
pcgamer.com · freedomben · 18 Jul 2025
948 pts
905 comments
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My open source project was relicensed by a YC company [license updated]
twitter.com · sohzm · 4 Jul 2025
947 pts
506 comments
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Show HN: Draw a fish and watch it swim with the others
drawafish.com · hallak · 29 Jul 2025
935 pts
234 comments
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Local-first software (2019)
inkandswitch.com · gasull · 5 Jul 2025
883 pts
297 comments
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Hyatt Hotels are using algorithmic Rest “smoking detectors”
twitter.com · RebeccaTheDev · 19 Jul 2025
882 pts
511 comments
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Introducing tmux-rs
richardscollin.github.io · Jtsummers · 3 Jul 2025
868 pts
293 comments
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M8.7 earthquake in Western Pacific, tsunami warning issued
earthquake.usgs.gov · jandrewrogers · 30 Jul 2025
864 pts
243 comments
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Show HN: Use Their ID – Use your local UK MP’s ID for the Online Safety Act
use-their-id.com · timje1 · 28 Jul 2025
862 pts
281 comments
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Supabase MCP can leak your entire SQL database
generalanalysis.com · rexpository · 8 Jul 2025
848 pts
470 comments
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Let me pay for Firefox
discourse.mozilla.org · csmantle · 13 Jul 2025
814 pts
618 comments
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Global hack on Microsoft Sharepoint hits U.S., state agencies, researchers say
washingtonpost.com · spenvo · 20 Jul 2025
809 pts
428 comments
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Bitchat – A decentralized messaging app that works over Bluetooth mesh networks
github.com · ananddtyagi · 7 Jul 2025
795 pts
424 comments
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Writing Code Was Never the Bottleneck
ordep.dev · phire · 1 Jul 2025
776 pts
389 comments
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Measuring the impact of AI on experienced open-source developer productivity
metr.org · dheerajvs · 10 Jul 2025
775 pts
485 comments
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Being too ambitious is a clever form of self-sabotage
maalvika.substack.com · alihm · 4 Jul 2025
775 pts
210 comments
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Qwen3-Coder: Agentic coding in the world
qwenlm.github.io · danielhanchen · 22 Jul 2025
765 pts
366 comments
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Face it: you're a crazy person
experimental-history.com · surprisetalk · 28 Jul 2025
760 pts
371 comments
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AI overviews cause massive drop in search clicks
arstechnica.com · jonbaer · 23 Jul 2025
758 pts
845 comments
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Graphene OS: a security-enhanced Android build
lwn.net · madars · 24 Jul 2025
749 pts
556 comments
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It's time for modern CSS to kill the SPA
jonoalderson.com · tambourine_man · 25 Jul 2025
744 pts
492 comments
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‘No Other Land’ consultant Awdah Hathaleen killed by Israeli settler
latimes.com · _shadi · 30 Jul 2025
735 pts
829 comments
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Grok: Searching X for "From:Elonmusk (Israel or Palestine or Hamas or Gaza)"
simonwillison.net · simonw · 11 Jul 2025
734 pts
546 comments
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Are we the baddies?
geohot.github.io · AndrewSwift · 6 Jul 2025
718 pts
523 comments
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ETH Zurich and EPFL to release a LLM developed on public infrastructure
ethz.ch · andy99 · 11 Jul 2025
716 pts
101 comments
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Supreme Court's ruling practically wipes out free speech for sex writing online
ellsberg.substack.com · blurbleblurble · 12 Jul 2025
698 pts
1k comments
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VPN use surges in UK as new online safety rules kick in
ft.com · mmarian · 28 Jul 2025
697 pts
1.3k comments
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Ukrainian hackers destroyed the IT infrastructure of Russian drone manufacturer
prm.ua · doener · 16 Jul 2025
690 pts
480 comments
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ChatGPT agent: bridging research and action
openai.com · Topfi · 17 Jul 2025
686 pts
486 comments
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At Least 13 People Died by Suicide Amid U.K. Post Office Scandal, Report Says
nytimes.com · xbryanx · 11 Jul 2025
675 pts
557 comments
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Windsurf employee #2: I was given a payout of only 1% what my shares where worth
twitter.com · rfurmani · 24 Jul 2025
672 pts
525 comments
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Mistral Releases Deep Research, Voice, Projects in Le Chat
mistral.ai · pember · 17 Jul 2025
664 pts
147 comments
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