Hacker News on Wednesday, 2 July 2025

Stories posted this day, by points. Rank history starts with the October 2026 rebuild.

Screenshot of blog.mgdproductions.com: Exploiting the IKKO Activebuds “AI powered” earbuds (2024)

Exploiting the IKKO Activebuds “AI powered” earbuds (2024)(blog.mgdproductions.com)

554 points by ajdude 1 year ago | 223 comments

Blog post detailing how the author exploited IKKO Activebuds AI earbuds, ran DOOM on them, and extracted their OpenAI API key and customer data.

ikko-activebuds hardware-hacking openai-api api-key-leak

Screenshot of w3.org: Don’t use “click here” as link text (2001)

Don’t use “click here” as link text (2001)(w3.org)

477 points by theandrewbailey 1 year ago | 328 comments

A W3C Quality Assurance tip for webmasters advising against using "click here" as link text and recommending meaningful, context-independent link wording.

w3c link-text accessibility usability

Screenshot of apnews.com: Websites hosting major US climate reports taken down

Websites hosting major US climate reports taken down (apnews.com)

462 points by geox 1 year ago | 253 comments

AP News article reporting that websites hosting major US climate reports, including the National Climate Assessment, have been taken down.

climate-change national-climate-assessment nasa white-house

Screenshot of cnbc.com: Private sector lost 33k jobs, badly missing expectations of 100k increase

Private sector lost 33k jobs, badly missing expectations of 100k increase (cnbc.com)

444 points by ceejayoz 1 year ago | 269 comments

CNBC news article reporting that ADP data showed US private employers shed 33,000 jobs in June 2025, versus expectations of a 100,000 gain.

adp-jobs-report labor-market employment us-economy

Screenshot of glass3d.dev: Show HN: CSS generator for a high-def glass effect

Show HN: CSS generator for a high-def glass effect (glass3d.dev)

383 points by kris-kay 1 year ago | 99 comments

glass3d is an interactive CSS generator for a layered glassmorphism effect with adjustable backdrop-filter, color, texture, and bevel, outputting copyable CSS.

css glassmorphism backdrop-filter css-generator

Screenshot of nytimes.com: Cloudflare Introduces Default Blocking of A.I. Data Scrapers

Cloudflare Introduces Default Blocking of A.I. Data Scrapers (nytimes.com)

369 points by stephendause 1 year ago | 257 comments

New York Times article on Cloudflare blocking AI data scrapers by default; the captured page shows only a CAPTCHA verification challenge.

cloudflare web-scraping ai-crawlers bot-blocking

Screenshot of usefulfictions.substack.com: The Moat of Low Status

The Moat of Low Status (usefulfictions.substack.com)

338 points by jger15 1 year ago | 141 comments

Cate Hall's Useful Fictions essay arguing that people should accept the embarrassment of being a beginner (the 'moat of low status') to learn new skills.

learning self-improvement status personal-growth

Screenshot of news.ki.se: Gene therapy restored hearing in deaf patients

Gene therapy restored hearing in deaf patients (news.ki.se)

336 points by justacrow 1 year ago | 80 comments

Karolinska Institutet news article reporting that a gene therapy restored hearing in patients with congenital deafness.

gene-therapy hearing-loss deafness karolinska-institutet

Screenshot of techcrunch.com: ICEBlock, an app for anonymously reporting ICE sightings, goes viral

ICEBlock, an app for anonymously reporting ICE sightings, goes viral (techcrunch.com)

331 points by exiguus 1 year ago | 519 comments

TechCrunch brief reporting that ICEBlock, an app for anonymously reporting ICE agent sightings, went viral after criticism from Attorney General Pam Bondi.

iceblock ice immigration mobile-apps