news, !paper 2025-07-14

1284 Adding a feature because ChatGPT incorrectly thinks it exists / holovaty.com / 422

987 Nvidia won, we all lost / blog.sebin-nyshkim.net / 571

985 Bootstrapping a side project into a profitable seven-figure business / projectionlab.com / 257

882 Local-first software (2019) / inkandswitch.com / 297

839 Supabase MCP can leak your entire SQL database / generalanalysis.com / 464

791 Kiro: A new agentic IDE / kiro.dev / 343

788 Bitchat – A decentralized messaging app that works over Bluetooth mesh networks / github.com/jackjackbits / 400

769 Being too ambitious is a clever form of self-sabotage / maalvika.substack.com / 210

600 US Court nullifies FTC requirement for click-to-cancel / arstechnica.com / 551

573 Mercury: Ultra-fast language models based on diffusion / arxiv.org / 242

547 Oakland cops gave ICE license plate data; SFPD also illegally shared with feds / sfstandard.com / 470

539 I extracted the safety filters from Apple Intelligence models / github.com/BlueFalconHD / 436

531 SVGs that feel like GIFs / koaning.io / 131

530 I used o3 to profile myself from my saved Pocket links / noperator.dev / 203

519 Jane Street barred from Indian markets as regulator freezes $566M / cnbc.com / 336

515 Show HN: I wrote a "web OS" based on the Apple Lisa's UI, with 1-bit graphics / alpha.lisagui.com / 141

496 Anthropic cut up millions of used books, and downloaded 7M pirated ones – judge / businessinsider.com / 647

490 Apple's Browser Engine Ban Persists, Even Under the DMA / open-web-advocacy.org / 348

481 A non-anthropomorphized view of LLMs / addxorrol.blogspot.com / 419

477 Data brokers are selling flight information to CBP and ICE / eff.org / 252

453 Mini NASes marry NVMe to Intel's efficient chip / jeffgeerling.com / 248

441 Hannah Cairo: 17-year-old teen refutes a math conjecture proposed 40 years ago / english.elpais.com / 105

427 New sphere-packing record stems from an unexpected source / quantamagazine.org / 218

403 Cognition (Devin AI) to Acquire Windsurf / cognition.ai / 316

392 What a Hacker Stole from Me / mynoise.net / 122

388 Smollm3: Smol, multilingual, long-context reasoner LLM / huggingface.co / 78

385 Show HN: Refine – A Local Alternative to Grammarly / refine.sh / 187

374 I don't think AGI is right around the corner / dwarkesh.com / 441

373 Why I left my tech job to work on chronic pain / sailhealth.substack.com / 230

373 Breaking Git with a carriage return and cloning RCE / dgl.cx / 162

367 Show HN: OffChess – Offline chess puzzles app / offchess.com / 169

353 How I build software quickly / evanhahn.com / 176

350 Why English doesn't use accents / deadlanguagesociety.com / 596

345 The first time I was almost fired from Apple / engineersneedart.com / 149

341 Get the location of the ISS using DNS / shkspr.mobi / 90

336 Serving 200M requests per day with a CGI-bin / simonwillison.net / 325

335 AI slows down open source developers. Peter Naur can teach us why / johnwhiles.com / 202

330 Firefox is fine. The people running it are not / theregister.com / 260

323 Two guys hated using Comcast, so they built their own fiber ISP / arstechnica.com / 210

318 Opencode: AI coding agent, built for the terminal / github.com/sst / 91

315 Can an email go 500 miles in 2025? / flak.tedunangst.com / 122

301 When Figma starts designing us / designsystems.international / 142

300 LLMs should not replace therapists / arxiv.org / 416

293 Thunderbird 140 “Eclipse” / blog.thunderbird.net / 285

285 7-Zip for Windows can now use more than 64 CPU threads for compression / 7-zip.org / 211

273 Eastern Baltic cod grow much smaller than they did due to overfishing / smithsonianmag.com / 89

266 Japanese grandparents create life-size Totoro with bus stop for grandkids (2020) / mymodernmet.com / 70

264 Neanderthals operated prehistoric “fat factory” on German lakeshore / archaeologymag.com / 197

261 Radium Music Editor / users.notam02.no / 58

259 Intel's Lion Cove P-Core and Gaming Workloads / chipsandcheese.com / 122

255 Async Queue – One of my favorite programming interview questions / davidgomes.com / 309

254 Backlog.md – Markdown‑native Task Manager and Kanban visualizer for any Git repo / github.com/MrLesk / 61

242 GlobalFoundries to Acquire MIPS / mips.com / 148

240 Taking over 60k spyware user accounts with SQL injection / ericdaigle.ca / 70

238 'Positive review only': Researchers hide AI prompts in papers / asia.nikkei.com / 142

235 Death by a Thousand Slops / daniel.haxx.se / 122

235 The Miyawaki Method of micro-forestry / futureecologies.net / 55

231 Why random selection is necessary to create stable meritocratic institutions / assemblingamerica.substack.com / 202

227 François Chollet: The Arc Prize and How We Get to AGI [video] / youtube.com / 204

225 The chemical secrets that help keep honey fresh for so long / bbc.com / 167

224 Building the Rust Compiler with GCC / fractalfir.github.io / 58

218 Epanet-JS / macwright.com / 23

217 Launch HN: Morph (YC S23) – Apply AI code edits at 4,500 tokens/sec / news.ycombinator.com / 182

208 Solving Wordle with uv's dependency resolver / mildbyte.xyz / 18

207 Hymn to Babylon, missing for a millennium, has been discovered / phys.org / 114

207 Brut: A New Web Framework for Ruby / naildrivin5.com / 74

207 Xenharmlib: A music theory library that supports non-western harmonic systems / xenharmlib.readthedocs.io / 19

206 Lightfastness Testing of Colored Pencils / sarahrenaeclark.com / 47

205 Zorin OS / zorin.com / 197

201 Show HN: NYC Subway Simulator and Route Designer / buildmytransit.nyc / 32

200 Why are there no good dinosaur films? / briannazigler.substack.com / 461

200 Frame of preference A history of Mac settings, 1984–2004 / aresluna.org / 24

186 East Asian aerosol cleanup has likely contributed to global warming / nature.com / 213

182 Archaeologists unveil 3,500-year-old city in Peru / bbc.co.uk / 62

181 My first verified imperative program / markushimmel.de / 93

181 Kepler.gl / kepler.gl / 20

174 Thesis: Interesting work is less amenable to the use of AI / remark.ing / 105

174 Analyzing database trends through 1.8M Hacker News headlines / camelai.com / 93

170 CPU-X: CPU-Z for Linux / thetumultuousunicornofdarkness.github.io / 42

168 What Microchip doesn't (officially) tell you about the VSC8512 / serd.es / 100

160 Running a Certificate Transparency log / words.filippo.io / 63

148 Show HN: Interactive pinout for the Raspberry Pi Pico 2 / pico2.pinout.xyz / 33

148 Building Modular Rails Applications: A Deep Dive into Rails Engines / panasiti.me / 32

147 I Ported SAP to a 1976 CPU. It Wasn't That Slow / github.com/oisee / 72

146 Strategies for Fast Lexers / xnacly.me / 56

142 Blind to Disruption – The CEOs Who Missed the Future / steveblank.com / 161

142 The Origin of the Research University / asteriskmag.com / 45

141 Claude Code Pro Limit? Hack It While You Sleep / github.com/terryso / 88

136 Myanmar’s proliferating scam centers / asia.nikkei.com / 64

130 You Are in a Box / jyn.dev / 120

129 LookingGlass: Generative Anamorphoses via Laplacian Pyramid Warping / studios.disneyresearch.com / 28

122 Game publishers respond to Stop Killing Games claim it curtails developer choice / pcgamer.com / 432

122 Take Two: Eshell / yummymelon.com / 67

121 Show HN: Jukebox – Free, Open Source Group Playlist with Fair Queueing / jukeboxhq.com / 43

120 The most otherworldly, mysterious forms of lightning on Earth / nationalgeographic.com / 59

119 Swedish Campground (2004) / folklore.org / 38

117 Happy 20th Birthday Django / djangoproject.com / 2

116 Overthinking GIS (2024) / scottsexton.co / 42

113 Rules of good writing (2007) / dilbertblog.typepad.com / 80

111 Replicube: 3D shader puzzle game, online demo / replicube.xyz / 19

110 Impacts of adding PV solar system to internal combustion engine vehicles / jstor.org / 224

110 Lenovo Legion Go S: Windows 11 vs. SteamOS Performance, and General Availability / boilingsteam.com / 94

110 SIMD.info – Reference tool for C intrinsics of all major SIMD engines / simd.info / 36

108 The War on the Walkman / newsletter.pessimistsarchive.org / 110

106 Embedding user-defined indexes in Apache Parquet / datafusion.apache.org / 16

106 The era of exploration / yidingjiang.github.io / 11

105 A Century of Quantum Mechanics / home.cern / 82

104 Berry Script: lightweight embedded scripting language for microcontrollers / berry-lang.github.io / 54

102 Show HN: A rain Pomodoro with brown noise, ASMR, and Middle Eastern music / forgetoolz.com / 52

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