news, !paper / hn digest   2025-07-23

1042 CARA – High precision robot dog using rope / aaedmusa.com / 181
1004 Show HN: Tinder but it's only pictures of my wife and I can only swipe right / trytender.app / 261
750 AI overviews cause massive drop in search clicks / arstechnica.com / 831
628 Cops say criminals use a Google Pixel with GrapheneOS – I say that's freedom / androidauthority.com / 459
569 You can now disable all AI features in Zed / zed.dev / 267
518 Electric cars produce less brake dust pollution than combustion-engine cars / modernengineeringmarvels.com / 756
421 US AI Action Plan / ai.gov / 625
403 I drank every cocktail / aaronson.org / 222
402 The Promised LAN / tpl.house / 181
397 AMD CEO sees chips from TSMC's US plant costing 5%-20% more / bloomberg.com / 727
363 Cerebras launches Qwen3-235B, achieving 1.5k tokens per second / cerebras.ai / 152
343 Building better AI tools / hazelweakly.me / 180
322 Major rule about cooking meat turns out to be wrong / seriouseats.com / 248
307 Mathematics for Computer Science (2024) / ocw.mit.edu / 93
301 BGP.Tools: Browse the Internet Ecosystem / bgp.tools / 48
293 Neil Armstrong's customs form for moon rocks (2016) / magazine.uc.edu / 193
290 Brave blocks Microsoft Recall by default / brave.com / 296
282 Proxmox Donates €10k to the Perl and Raku Foundation / perl.com / 184
280 What to expect from Debian/Trixie / michael-prokop.at / 202
265 AccuWeather to discontinue free access to Core Weather API / developer.accuweather.com / 257
256 Why Elixir? Common misconceptions / matthewsinclair.com / 284
248 Developing our position on AI / recurse.com / 78
239 Lumo: Privacy-first AI assistant / proton.me / 123
212 Jitsi privacy flaw enables one-click stealth audio and video capture / zimzi.substack.com / 34
204 How to increase your surface area for luck / usefulfictions.substack.com / 99
189 Org tutorials / orgmode.org / 74
185 When Is WebAssembly Going to Get DOM Support? / queue.acm.org / 204
169 Checklists are hard, but still a good thing / utcc.utoronto.ca / 84
164 Distillation makes AI models smaller and cheaper / quantamagazine.org / 82
164 Show HN: TheProtector – Linux Bash script for the paranoid admin on a budget / github.com/IHATEGIVINGAUSERNAME / 35
162 Geocities Backgrounds / pixelmoondust.neocities.org / 51
154 Reverse engineering GitHub Actions cache to make it fast / blacksmith.sh / 37
150 Employee – CEO pay gap historically wide / cnn.com / 181
147 AI coding agents are removing programming language barriers / railsatscale.com / 175
144 Extending Emacs with Fennel (2024) / andreyor.st / 40
136 Manticore Search: Fast, efficient, drop-in replacement for Elasticsearch / github.com/manticoresoftware / 57
136 Researchers value null results, but struggle to publish them / nature.com / 57
123 Apple's Liquid Glass: When Aesthetics Beat Function / maxvanijsselmuiden.nl / 167
122 20 years of Linux on the Desktop (part 4) / ploum.net / 101
121 A small web July / smallcypress.bearblog.dev / 35
115 Rescuing two PDP-11s from a former British Telecom underground shelter (2023) / forum.vcfed.org / 25
100 SQL Injection as a Feature / idiallo.com / 50

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