Hacker News on Thursday, 24 July 2025

Graphene OS: a security-enhanced Android build(lwn.net)

637 points by madars 1 year ago | 399 comments

LWN article by Jonathan Corbet describing GrapheneOS, a privacy- and security-hardened open-source Android rebuild, its history and its changes.

Windsurf employee #2: I was given a payout of only 1% what my shares where worth(twitter.com)

568 points by rfurmani 1 year ago | 388 comments

X post by Windsurf's employee #2 saying he joined Cognition and received only 1% of his shares' value after the Google DeepMind deal.

Electric cars produce less brake dust pollution than combustion-engine cars(modernengineeringmarvels.com)

480 points by tzs 1 year ago | 680 comments

Article on how electric cars, through regenerative braking, produce less brake dust and non-exhaust pollution than combustion cars, improving urban air quality.

There is no memory safety without thread safety(ralfj.de)

432 points by tavianator 1 year ago | 421 comments

Blog post by Ralf Jung arguing that memory safety cannot be separated from thread safety, using a Go data race example, and that the real goal is absence of undefined behavior.

Scientists may have found a way to eliminate chromosome linked to Down syndrome(academic.oup.com)

359 points by MattSayar 1 year ago | 350 comments

Open-access PNAS Nexus journal article describing trisomic rescue in trisomy 21 cells by allele-specific multiple chromosome cleavage with CRISPR-Cas9.

Visa and Mastercard: The global payment duopoly (2024)(quartr.com)

338 points by bilekas 1 year ago | 223 comments

A Quartr Insights article examining how Visa and Mastercard came to form a global duopoly in card payment networks.

Open Source Maintenance Fee(github.com)

324 points by AndrewDucker 1 year ago | 202 comments

GitHub issue in the WiX Toolset repository proposing an Open Source Maintenance Fee to fund ongoing maintenance of the project.

Use Your Type System(dzombak.com)

294 points by ingve 1 year ago | 302 comments

BGP.Tools: Browse the Internet Ecosystem(bgp.tools)

277 points by RGBCube 1 year ago | 42 comments

PSA: SQLite WAL checksums fail silently and may lose data(avi.im)

266 points by avinassh 1 year ago | 121 comments

Intel CEO Letter to Employees(morethanmoore.substack.com)

245 points by fancy_pantser 1 year ago | 437 comments

Blender: Beyond Mouse and Keyboard(code.blender.org)

234 points by dagmx 1 year ago | 96 comments

Starlink is currently experiencing a service outage(starlink.com)

226 points by throwmeaway222 1 year ago | 226 comments

Web fingerprinting is worse than I thought (2023)(bitestring.com)

221 points by xrayarx 1 year ago | 183 comments

Two narratives about AI(calnewport.com)

217 points by RickJWagner 1 year ago | 198 comments

UK: Phone networks down: EE, BT, Three, Vodafone, O2 not working in mass outage(the-independent.com)

215 points by oger 1 year ago | 88 comments

Vet is a safety net for the curl | bash pattern(github.com)

206 points by mooreds 1 year ago | 185 comments

Air Force unit suspends use of Sig Sauer pistol after shooting death of airman(nhpr.org)

192 points by duxup 1 year ago | 319 comments

AMD CEO says U.S.-made TSMC chips are 5%-20% more expensive, but worth it(tomshardware.com)

188 points by LorenDB 1 year ago | 177 comments

Itch.io: Update on NSFW Content(itch.io)

187 points by panic 1 year ago | 154 comments

Diet, not lack of exercise, drives obesity, a new study finds(npr.org)

174 points by andsoitis 1 year ago | 206 comments

Inter-Planetary Network Special Interest Group(ipnsig.org)

154 points by OhMeadhbh 1 year ago | 42 comments

Software Development at 800 Words per Minute(neurrone.com)

146 points by ClawsOnPaws 1 year ago | 54 comments

Getting decent error reports in Bash when you're using 'set -e'(utcc.utoronto.ca)

145 points by zdw 1 year ago | 41 comments

BlueOS Kernel – Written in Rust, compatible with POSIX(github.com)

137 points by dacapoday 1 year ago | 29 comments

New Aarch64 Back End(ziglang.org)

123 points by Bogdanp 1 year ago | 50 comments

Apache HTTP Server: 'RewriteCond expr' always evaluates to true(github.com)

122 points by Bogdanp 1 year ago | 66 comments

Low cost mmWave 60GHz radar sensor for advanced sensing(infineon.com)

122 points by teleforce 1 year ago | 51 comments

Revisiting Moneyball(djpardis.medium.com)

117 points by sebg 1 year ago | 46 comments

Why I write recursive descent parsers, despite their issues (2020)(utcc.utoronto.ca)

110 points by blobcode 1 year ago | 49 comments

A list of changes to make it easier to build beautiful and walkable places(chrisbarber.co)

107 points by cjbarber 1 year ago | 124 comments

American sentenced for helping North Koreans get jobs at U.S. firms(fortune.com)

105 points by fortran77 1 year ago | 74 comments

A valid HTML zip bomb(ache.one)

105 points by Bogdanp 1 year ago | 29 comments

16colo.rs: ANSI/ASCII art archive(16colo.rs)

104 points by debo_ 1 year ago | 23 comments

Major quantum computing advance made obsolete by teenager (2018)(quantamagazine.org)

101 points by kwie 1 year ago | 47 comments

A small web July(smallcypress.bearblog.dev)

96 points by debo_ 1 year ago | 27 comments

A GPU Calculator That Helps Calculate What GPU to Use(calculator.inference.ai)

93 points by chlobunnee 1 year ago | 24 comments

Psilocybin treatment extends cellular lifespan, improves survival of aged mice(news.emory.edu)

91 points by atombender 1 year ago | 74 comments

200k Flemish drivers can turn traffic lights green(vrt.be)

84 points by svenfaw 1 year ago | 144 comments

When swiping supplants scissors: The hidden cost of touchscreens(caseorganic.medium.com)

80 points by SLHamlet 1 year ago | 72 comments

Detekt – A static code analyzer for Kotlin(detekt.dev)

72 points by TheWiggles 1 year ago | 47 comments

OpenAI prepares to launch GPT-5 in August(theverge.com)

71 points by ghoulishly 1 year ago | 38 comments

How I fixed my blog's performance issues by writing a new Jekyll plugin(arclight.run)

71 points by arclight_ 1 year ago | 35 comments

Show HN: Nia – MCP server that gives more docs and repos to coding agents(trynia.ai)

69 points by jellyotsiro 1 year ago | 53 comments

Everything Else(newleftreview.org)

69 points by speckx 1 year ago | 15 comments

Alto turns Apple Notes into a website(alto.so)

67 points by colinprince 1 year ago | 25 comments

Solid protocol restores digital agency(schneier.com)

66 points by speckx 1 year ago | 39 comments

What does connecting with someone mean?(talk.bradwoods.io)

65 points by bradwoodsio 1 year ago | 39 comments

BYD Bets on Budget EV Boom with Atto 1 Debut in Indonesia(jakartaglobe.id)

65 points by breve 1 year ago | 70 comments

Train a 70b language model at home (2024)(answer.ai)

62 points by amrrs 1 year ago | 12 comments

The FastLanes File Format [pdf](github.com)

59 points by jandrewrogers 1 year ago | 20 comments

NixOS on a Tuxedo InfinityBook Pro 14 Gen9 AMD Laptop(fnune.com)

59 points by brainlessdev 1 year ago | 33 comments

When photography was born, fascination, obsession, and danger followed(washingtonpost.com)

53 points by prismatic 1 year ago | 31 comments

Python classes aren’t always the best solution(adamgrant.micro.blog)

53 points by hidelooktropic 1 year ago | 46 comments

Building MCP servers for ChatGPT and API integrations(platform.openai.com)

51 points by kevinslin 1 year ago | 20 comments

A Photonic SRAM with Embedded XOR Logic for Ultra-Fast In-Memory Computing(arxiv.org)

49 points by PaulHoule 1 year ago | 13 comments

Games: No sex, please. we're credit card companies(arstechnica.com)

45 points by worik 1 year ago | 24 comments

Tesla Q2 2025 Update [pdf](tesla.com)

43 points by bratao 1 year ago | 13 comments

Hacker slips malicious 'wiping' command into Amazon's Q AI coding assistant(zdnet.com)

42 points by CrankyBear 1 year ago | 11 comments

Upsides and Downsides(calv.info)

42 points by nohide 1 year ago | 1 comments