Hacker News on Saturday, 26 July 2025

Rust running on every GPU(rust-gpu.github.io)

576 points by littlestymaar 1 year ago | 195 comments

Blog post by Rust GPU maintainer Christian Legnitto showing a single Rust codebase running on CUDA, SPIR-V/Vulkan, Metal, DirectX 12, and WebGPU.

CCTV footage captures video of an earthquake fault in motion(smithsonianmag.com)

437 points by chrononaut 1 year ago | 77 comments

Smithsonian article on CCTV footage from Myanmar's March earthquake showing the first video of a fault in motion, revealing a curved slip path.

How we rooted Copilot(research.eye.security)

341 points by uponasmile 1 year ago | 136 comments

Eye Security research blog post describing how the team gained root access inside Microsoft Copilot's code execution sandbox.

The natural diamond industry is getting rocked. Thank the lab-grown variety(cbc.ca)

269 points by geox 1 year ago | 340 comments

What went wrong for Yahoo(dfarq.homeip.net)

232 points by giuliomagnifico 1 year ago | 231 comments

Test Results for AMD Zen 5(agner.org)

223 points by matt_d 1 year ago | 43 comments

Coronary artery calcium testing can reveal plaque in arteries, but is underused(nytimes.com)

179 points by brandonb 1 year ago | 166 comments

Simon Tatham's Portable Puzzle Collection(chiark.greenend.org.uk)

177 points by sogen 1 year ago | 38 comments

Ageing accelerates around age 50 ― some organs faster than others(nature.com)

171 points by rntn 1 year ago | 105 comments

SQLx – Rust SQL Toolkit(github.com)

171 points by stmw 1 year ago | 81 comments

Teach Yourself Programming in Ten Years (1998)(norvig.com)

165 points by smartmic 1 year ago | 71 comments

Bringing a decade old bicycle navigator back to life with open source software(raymii.org)

158 points by mtlynch 1 year ago | 29 comments

Personal aviation is about to get interesting (2023)(elidourado.com)

145 points by JumpCrisscross 1 year ago | 122 comments

Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024: WebAssembly SDK(docs.flightsimulator.com)

143 points by breve 1 year ago | 95 comments

Resizable structs in Zig(tristanpemble.com)

143 points by rvrb 1 year ago | 67 comments

Users claim Discord's age verification can be tricked with video game characters(thepinknews.com)

140 points by mediumdeviation 1 year ago | 144 comments

Earth Has Tilted 31.5 Inches. That Shouldn't Happen(popularmechanics.com)

112 points by dataflow 1 year ago | 59 comments

OCaml Programming: Correct and Efficient and Beautiful(cs3110.github.io)

106 points by smartmic 1 year ago | 34 comments

Where are vacation homes located in the US?(construction-physics.com)

102 points by rufus_foreman 1 year ago | 73 comments

Arvo Pärt at 90(theguardian.com)

95 points by merrier 1 year ago | 24 comments

Asyncio: A library with too many sharp corners(sailor.li)

89 points by chubot 1 year ago | 70 comments

Show HN: QuickTunes: Apple Music player for Mac with iPod vibes(furnacecreek.org)

83 points by albertru90 1 year ago | 25 comments

Paul Dirac and the religion of mathematical beauty (2011) [video](youtube.com)

79 points by magnifique 1 year ago | 6 comments

We revamped our docs for AI-driven development(docs.freestyle.sh)

78 points by benswerd 1 year ago | 23 comments

Epic Recall, Epic Fail(taipology.substack.com)

71 points by hunglee2 1 year ago | 20 comments

Turn any diagram image into an editable Draw.io file. No more redrawing(imagetodrawio.com)

70 points by matthewshere 1 year ago | 20 comments

Svalbard winter warming is reaching melting point(nature.com)

67 points by toomuchtodo 1 year ago | 13 comments

Why I do programming(esafev.com)

65 points by artmare 1 year ago | 38 comments

Torqued Accelerator Using Radiation from the Sun (Tars) for Interstellar Payload(arxiv.org)

65 points by virgildotcodes 1 year ago | 7 comments

The UK’s new age-gating rules are easy to bypass(theverge.com)

55 points by pseudolus 1 year ago | 104 comments

Clj-coll: Clojure collections and sequences in Common Lisp(github.com)

49 points by todsacerdoti 1 year ago | 2 comments

The Rise of Shippable Microfactories(thesisdriven.com)

49 points by mhb 1 year ago | 12 comments

I am a SOTA 0-shot classifier of your slop(christopherkrapu.com)

48 points by ckrapu 1 year ago | 34 comments

Fuck dopamine, we're voluntarily breaking our own brains(anushkakarmakar.substack.com)

46 points by ak_builds 1 year ago | 25 comments

The Sail instruction-set semantics specification language(alasdair.github.io)

46 points by weinzierl 1 year ago | 8 comments

Write "Freehold" Software(deadbeef.io)

42 points by rjinman 1 year ago | 19 comments

Getting into Flow State with Agentic Coding(kau.sh)

37 points by vortex_ape 1 year ago | 20 comments

Viral Language(lareviewofbooks.org)

37 points by lermontov 1 year ago | 6 comments

.gitignore Is Inherently Sisyphean(rgbcu.be)

37 points by RGBCube 1 year ago | 39 comments

A grand tour through the essays of Lewis H. Lapham(laphamsquarterly.org)

34 points by samclemens 1 year ago | 3 comments

From Async/Await to Virtual Threads(lucumr.pocoo.org)

33 points by Bogdanp 1 year ago | 14 comments

JavaScript decided my day starts at 9am(senhongo.com)

32 points by SenHeng 1 year ago | 39 comments

Show HN: Convert from MIDI file to ASCII tablature (and more)(github.com)

31 points by ycombiredd 1 year ago | 6 comments

DJI couldn't confirm or deny it disguised this drone to evade a US ban(theverge.com)

30 points by sea-gold 1 year ago | 15 comments

What if AI made the world’s economic growth explode?(economist.com)

28 points by andsoitis 1 year ago | 32 comments

Is the Interstellar Object 3I/Atlas Alien Technology?(arxiv.org)

23 points by monkburger 1 year ago | 5 comments

Show HN: Color Me Same – A new kind of logic game(color-me-same.franzai.com)

22 points by franze 1 year ago | 23 comments

Donate to the Treasury to help pay down the $36.7T public debt(pay.gov)

21 points by jxntb73 1 year ago | 26 comments

Documents detail U.S. soldiers shot by their own Sig Sauer guns (2024)(nhpr.org)

17 points by ummonk 1 year ago | 4 comments

Show HN: Auto Favicon MCP Server(github.com)

15 points by dh1011 1 year ago | 5 comments

2D to 3D model and 3D print it(amodeling.com)

14 points by Jimmy6929 1 year ago | 9 comments

Optimi-Zi(n)g Sudoku-Solving(log.pfad.fr)

14 points by todsacerdoti 1 year ago | 2 comments

Consciousness and being: How humans and AI influence each other(habr.com)

11 points by kamil_gr 1 year ago | 6 comments

Ambigrammia: Between Creation and Discovery (Hofstadter, 2025)(yalebooks.yale.edu)

7 points by lorenzuru 1 year ago | 2 comments

Great Oxidation Event(en.wikipedia.org)

4 points by Bluestein 1 year ago | 0 comments

Dutch Industry Buckles Under Energy Transition and Global Pressure(oilprice.com)

3 points by PaulHoule 1 year ago | 0 comments

The Coming Age of Super Entertainment and Super Porn(vutran.substack.com)

3 points by vu0tran 1 year ago | 0 comments