news, !paper 2025-07-18

1001 Bootstrapping a side project into a profitable seven-figure business / projectionlab.com / 257

916 Valve confirms credit card companies pressured it to delist certain adult games / pcgamer.com / 892

604 US Court nullifies FTC requirement for click-to-cancel / arstechnica.com / 559

593 My Self-Hosting Setup / codecaptured.com / 202

443 Fully homomorphic encryption and the dawn of a private internet / bozmen.io / 198

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

365 AI capex is so big that it's affecting economic statistics / paulkedrosky.com / 352

348 lsr: ls with io_uring / rockorager.dev / 168

330 Meta says it won't sign Europe AI agreement / cnbc.com / 512

317 Cancer DNA is detectable in blood years before diagnosis / sciencenews.org / 139

307 Asynchrony is not concurrency / kristoff.it / 210

307 NIH is cheaper than the wrong dependency / lewiscampbell.tech / 198

298 Simulating hand-drawn motion with SVG filters / camillovisini.com / 24

297 NYPD bypassed facial recognition ban to ID pro-Palestinian student protester / thecity.nyc / 171

281 How I keep up with AI progress / blog.nilenso.com / 117

271 Psilocybin decreases depression and anxiety in cancer patients (2016) / pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov / 285

266 ICE is getting unprecedented access to Medicaid data / wired.com / 290

266 How to write Rust in the Linux kernel: part 3 / lwn.net / 23

261 EPA says it will eliminate its scientific research arm / nytimes.com / 295

259 CP/M creator Gary Kildall's memoirs released as free download / spectrum.ieee.org / 146

257 My favorite use-case for AI is writing logs / newsletter.vickiboykis.com / 176

247 Linux and Secure Boot certificate expiration / lwn.net / 256

240 Ask HN: Any active COBOL devs here? What are you working on? / news.ycombinator.com / 183

233 Broadcom to discontinue free Bitnami Helm charts / github.com/bitnami / 130

213 LibreOffice slams Microsoft for locking in Office users w/ complex file formats / neowin.net / 131

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

206 Zorin OS / zorin.com / 200

205 Dear valued user, You have reached the error page for the error page / imgur.com / 48

200 Silence Is a Commons by Ivan Illich (1983) / davidtinapple.com / 53

199 Trying Guix: A Nixer's impressions / tazj.in / 88

196 People kept working, became healthier while on basic income: report (2020) / cbc.ca / 255

196 USB-C hubs and my slow descent into madness (2021) / overengineer.dev / 177

170 Third patient dies from acute liver failure caused by a Sarepta gene therapy / biocentury.com / 73

169 Wii U SDBoot1 Exploit “paid the beak” / consolebytes.com / 30

162 I'm Peter Roberts, immigration attorney who does work for YC and startups. AMA / news.ycombinator.com / 264

161 Section 174 is reversed, mostly / newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com / 98

155 Apple bans entire dev account, no reason given / twitter.com/rameerez / 144

155 DuckDuckGo now lets you hide AI-generated images in search results / techcrunch.com / 59

149 When root meets immutable: OpenBSD chflags vs. log tampering / rsadowski.de / 44

145 Firefox-patch-bin, librewolf-fix-bin AUR packages contain malware / lists.archlinux.org / 134

138 H-1B program grew 81 percent from 2011 to 2022 / twitter.com/USTechWorkers / 201

135 A New Geometry for Einstein's Theory of Relativity / quantamagazine.org / 23

130 ACA health insurance will cost the average person 75% more next year / npr.org / 163

128 Shutting Down Clear Linux OS / community.clearlinux.org / 114

125 The year of peak might and magic / filfre.net / 65

122 Show HN: Molab, a cloud-hosted Marimo notebook workspace / molab.marimo.io / 21

120 French villages have no more drinking water. The reason? PFAS pollution / lemonde.fr / 103

117 Louisiana cancels $3B coastal repair funded by oil spill settlement / apnews.com / 29

115 Gmail's backup codes are useless to access account / news.ycombinator.com / 99

114 Bun adds pnpm-style isolated installation mode / github.com/oven-sh / 16

111 Inspect ANSI control codes and escape sequences / ansi.tools / 50

110 23andMe is out of bankruptcy and it still hasn’t substantially changed its ways / washingtonpost.com / 82

109 The Israeli "art student" mystery (2002) / salon.com / 28

105 The EU can be shut down with a few keystrokes / bitecode.dev / 72

103 Extending That XOR Trick to Billions of Rows / nochlin.com / 22

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