The Best Hacker News Posts of July 2025

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LLM Inevitabilism tomrenner.com · SwoopsFromAbove · 15 Jul 2025

1.8k pts 1.6k comments

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Fast catherinejue.com · gaplong · 30 Jul 2025

1.6k pts 431 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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Study mode openai.com · meetpateltech · 29 Jul 2025

1.1k pts 805 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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Kiro: A new agentic IDE kiro.dev · QuinnyPig · 14 Jul 2025

1.1k pts 462 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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Dumb Pipe dumbpipe.dev · udev4096 · 27 Jul 2025

1k pts 247 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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Slow michaelnotebook.com · calvinfo · 31 Jul 2025

991 pts 229 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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How to Firefox kau.sh · Vinnl · 22 Jul 2025

818 pts 484 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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Reflections on OpenAI calv.info · calvinfo · 15 Jul 2025

771 pts 421 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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Vibe code is legacy code blog.val.town · simonw · 30 Jul 2025

758 pts 454 comments

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Our $100M Series B oxide.computer · spatulon · 30 Jul 2025

751 pts 503 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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The Rise of Whatever eev.ee · cratermoon · 4 Jul 2025

644 pts 508 comments