Hacker News on Tuesday, 22 July 2025

Qwen3-Coder: Agentic coding in the world(qwenlm.github.io)

680 points by danielhanchen 1 year ago | 300 comments

Qwen Team blog post announcing Qwen3-Coder, their most agentic code model to date, with links to GitHub, Hugging Face, ModelScope and Discord.

How to Firefox(kau.sh)

623 points by Vinnl 1 year ago | 367 comments

A blog post arguing for switching from Chrome to Firefox after Chrome disabled uBlock Origin, and describing how the author sets up and uses Firefox.

Complete silence is always hallucinated as "ترجمة نانسي قنقر" in Arabic(github.com)

504 points by edent 1 year ago | 283 comments

GitHub discussion reporting that OpenAI Whisper transcribes complete silence in Arabic as "Translation by Nancy Qunqar", with ffmpeg steps to reproduce.

The United States withdraws from UNESCO(state.gov)

493 points by layer8 1 year ago | 599 comments

US State Department press release announcing the United States' withdrawal from UNESCO; the page loaded as a 'forbidden' technical difficulties error.

More than you wanted to know about how Game Boy cartridges work(abc.decontextualize.com)

385 points by todsacerdoti 1 year ago | 42 comments

Allison Parrish's in-depth explainer on how Game Boy cartridges work, covering the bus, memory map, and MBCs, alongside her open RP2040-based bootleg cartridge design.

TODOs aren't for doing(sophiebits.com)

380 points by todsacerdoti 1 year ago | 218 comments

A blog post by Sophie Alpert arguing that TODO comments are valuable as documentation of known issues even if never acted on, and shouldn't be auto-deleted or tracked.

Ozzy Osbourne has died(bbc.co.uk)

376 points by fantunes 1 year ago | 97 comments

BBC News live coverage page reporting the death of rock musician Ozzy Osbourne, former Black Sabbath frontman.

Android Earthquake Alerts: A global system for early warning(research.google)

312 points by michaefe 1 year ago | 108 comments

Unsafe and Unpredictable: My Volvo EX90 Experience(myvolvoex90.com)

306 points by prova_modena 1 year ago | 267 comments

Swift-erlang-actor-system(forums.swift.org)

295 points by todsacerdoti 1 year ago | 66 comments

I watched Gemini CLI hallucinate and delete my files(anuraag2601.github.io)

269 points by anuraag2601 1 year ago | 321 comments

Facts don't change minds, structure does(vasily.cc)

269 points by staph 1 year ago | 181 comments

Algorithms for Modern Processor Architectures(lemire.github.io)

259 points by matt_d 1 year ago | 45 comments

We built an air-gapped Jira alternative for regulated industries(plane.so)

250 points by viharkurama 1 year ago | 165 comments

Vector Tiles are deployed on OpenStreetMap.org(blog.openstreetmap.org)

240 points by ikawe 1 year ago | 58 comments

Font Comparison: Atkinson Hyperlegible Mono vs. JetBrains Mono and Fira Code(anthes.is)

237 points by maybebyte 1 year ago | 146 comments

AI comes up with bizarre physics experiments, but they work(quantamagazine.org)

235 points by pseudolus 1 year ago | 140 comments

Why you can't color calibrate deep space photos(maurycyz.com)

208 points by LorenDB 1 year ago | 95 comments

Many lung cancers are now in nonsmokers(nytimes.com)

196 points by alexcos 1 year ago | 258 comments

DaisyUI: Tailwind CSS Components(daisyui.com)

184 points by a_bored_husky 1 year ago | 147 comments

Subliminal learning: Models transmit behaviors via hidden signals in data(alignment.anthropic.com)

183 points by treebrained 1 year ago | 38 comments

OSS Rebuild: open-source, rebuilt to last(security.googleblog.com)

150 points by tasn 1 year ago | 48 comments

Killing the Mauna Loa observatory over irrefutable evidence of increasing CO2(theregister.com)

144 points by rntn 1 year ago | 85 comments

Yt-transcriber – Give a YouTube URL and get a transcription(github.com)

143 points by Bluestein 1 year ago | 48 comments

Tiny Code Reader: a $7 QR code sensor(excamera.substack.com)

140 points by jamesbowman 1 year ago | 41 comments

Compression culture is making you stupid and uninteresting(maalvika.substack.com)

136 points by kjhughes 1 year ago | 83 comments

Gemini North telescope discovers long-predicted stellar companion of Betelgeuse(science.org)

134 points by layer8 1 year ago | 35 comments

The Hater's Guide to the AI Bubble(wheresyoured.at)

128 points by lukebennett 1 year ago | 64 comments

A media company demanded a license fee for an Open Graph image I used(alistairshepherd.uk)

120 points by cheeaun 1 year ago | 46 comments

Blip: Peer-to-peer massive file sharing(blip.net)

119 points by miles 1 year ago | 92 comments

'Shameful' CBA hiring Indian ICT workers after firing Australians(ia.acs.org.au)

117 points by theteapot 1 year ago | 74 comments

Fun with gzip bombs and email clients(grepular.com)

117 points by bundie 1 year ago | 39 comments

Replit's CEO apologizes after its AI agent wiped a company's code base(businessinsider.com)

116 points by jgalt212 1 year ago | 122 comments

We have made the decision to not continue paying for BBB accreditation(mycherrytree.com)

113 points by LorenDB 1 year ago | 52 comments

Show HN: Any-LLM – Lightweight router to access any LLM Provider(github.com)

103 points by AMeckes 1 year ago | 58 comments

So you think you've awoken ChatGPT(lesswrong.com)

102 points by firloop 1 year ago | 53 comments

Workers at Snopes.com win voluntary recognition(newsguild.org)

97 points by giuliomagnifico 1 year ago | 4 comments

First Hubble telescope images of interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS(bsky.app)

94 points by jandrewrogers 1 year ago | 26 comments

Americans are paying for tariffs, not foreign companies(bloomberg.com)

91 points by petethomas 1 year ago | 70 comments

AI Market Clarity(blog.eladgil.com)

90 points by todsacerdoti 1 year ago | 78 comments

Show HN: The Magic of Code – book about the wonders and weirdness of computation(themagicofcode.com)

90 points by arbesman 1 year ago | 25 comments

CSS's problems are Tailwind's problems(colton.dev)

87 points by coltonv 1 year ago | 124 comments

Large ancient Hawaiian petroglyphs uncovered by waves on Oahu(sfgate.com)

82 points by c420 1 year ago | 23 comments

Go allocation probe(scattered-thoughts.net)

81 points by blenderob 1 year ago | 22 comments

Tinyio: A tiny (~200 line) event loop for Python(github.com)

77 points by tehnub 1 year ago | 17 comments

French petition against return of bee-killing pesticide passes 1M(phys.org)

77 points by geox 1 year ago | 6 comments

Show HN: Phind.design – Image editor & design tool powered by 4o / custom models(phind.design)

74 points by rushingcreek 1 year ago | 19 comments

The vibe coder's career path is doomed(blog.florianherrengt.com)

71 points by florianherrengt 1 year ago | 66 comments

TapTrap: Animation‑Driven Tapjacking on Android(taptrap.click)

69 points by Bogdanp 1 year ago | 11 comments

Comparing the Glove80 and Maltron Keyboards(tratt.net)

64 points by ltratt 1 year ago | 30 comments

Show HN: A word of the day that doesn't suck

60 points by jsomers 1 year ago | 24 comments

NonRAID – fork of unRAID array kernel module(github.com)

54 points by qvr 1 year ago | 43 comments

Mistral reports on the environmental impact of LLMs(mistral.ai)

47 points by Kydlaw 1 year ago | 27 comments

Mary had schizophrenia, then suddenly didn't(newyorker.com)

44 points by fortran77 1 year ago | 34 comments

Reverse proxy deep dive: Why HTTP parsing at the edge is harder than it looks(startwithawhy.com)

42 points by miggy 1 year ago | 10 comments

How to Migrate from OpenAI to Cerebrium for Cost-Predictable AI Inference(ritza.co)

40 points by sixhobbits 1 year ago | 26 comments

Stop Pretending LLMs Have Feelings Media's Dangerous AI Anthropomorphism Problem(readtpa.com)

39 points by labrador 1 year ago | 34 comments

1KB JavaScript Numbers Station(shkspr.mobi)

38 points by blenderob 1 year ago | 19 comments

A big problem for Tesla isn't getting much attention(cnn.com)

38 points by breve 1 year ago | 29 comments

AI could have written this: Birth of a classist slur in knowledge work [pdf](advait.org)

36 points by deverton 1 year ago | 39 comments