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  • 7.10.25 | Tree Borrows concept, Linda Yaccarino departs X, jank programming language discussed
    This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Jul 10, 2025.Tree Borrowshttps://plf.inf.ethz.ch/research/pldi25-tree-borrows.htmlhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44510600Linda Yaccarino is leaving Xhttps://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/09/technology/linda-yaccarino-x-steps-down.htmlhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44510731The jank programming languagehttps://jank-lang.org/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44482273German court rules Meta tracking technology violates European privacy lawshttps://therecord.media/german-court-meta-tracking-techhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44517424Show HN: FlopperZiro – A DIY open-source Flipper Zero clonehttps://github.com/lraton/FlopperZirohttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44512763MCP-B: A Protocol for AI Browser Automationhttps://mcp-b.ai/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44515403A fast 3D collision detection algorithmhttps://cairno.substack.com/p/improvements-to-the-separating-axishttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44510282Ruby 3.4 frozen string literals: What Rails developers need to knowhttps://www.prateekcodes.dev/ruby-34-frozen-string-literals-rails-upgrade-guide/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44479302Grok 4 Launch [video]https://twitter.com/xai/status/1943158495588815072https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44517055Biomni: A General-Purpose Biomedical AI Agenthttps://github.com/snap-stanford/Biomnihttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44513843
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  • 7.9.25 | Supabase MCP SQL leak, Bootstrapping profitable side project, OffChess offline chess puzzles app
    This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Jul 9, 2025.Supabase MCP can leak your entire SQL databasehttps://www.generalanalysis.com/blog/supabase-mcp-bloghttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44502318Bootstrapping a side project into a profitable seven-figure businesshttps://projectionlab.com/blog/we-reached-1m-arr-with-zero-fundinghttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44495428Show HN: OffChess – Offline chess puzzles apphttps://offchess.comhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44498296Breaking Git with a carriage return and cloning RCEhttps://dgl.cx/2025/07/git-clone-submodule-cve-2025-48384https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44502330Smollm3: Smol, multilingual, long-context reasoner LLMhttps://huggingface.co/blog/smollm3https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44501413Taking over 60k spyware user accounts with SQL injectionhttps://ericdaigle.ca/posts/taking-over-60k-spyware-user-accounts/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44455707Radium Music Editorhttp://users.notam02.no/~kjetism/radium/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44502298Brut: A New Web Framework for Rubyhttps://naildrivin5.com/blog/2025/07/08/brut-a-new-web-framework-for-ruby.htmlhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44502463RapidRAW: A non-destructive and GPU-accelerated RAW image editorhttps://github.com/CyberTimon/RapidRAWhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44505876US Court nullifies FTC requirement for click-to-cancelhttps://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/07/us-court-cancels-ftc-rule-that-would-have-made-canceling-subscriptions-easier/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44504699
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  • 7.8.25 | ChatGPT prompts feature addition, Mercury introduces fast diffusion models, o3 profiles from Pocket links
    This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Jul 8, 2025.Adding a feature because ChatGPT incorrectly thinks it existshttps://www.holovaty.com/writing/chatgpt-fake-feature/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44491071Mercury: Ultra-fast language models based on diffusionhttps://arxiv.org/abs/2506.17298https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44489690I used o3 to profile myself from my saved Pocket linkshttps://noperator.dev/posts/o3-pocket-profile/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44489803New sphere-packing record stems from an unexpected sourcehttps://www.quantamagazine.org/new-sphere-packing-record-stems-from-an-unexpected-source-20250707/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44493196When Figma starts designing ushttps://designsystems.international/ideas/when-figma-starts-designing-us/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44479502François Chollet: The Arc Prize and How We Get to AGI [video]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5QcCeSsNRkshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44455175Hymn to Babylon, missing for a millennium, has been discoveredhttps://phys.org/news/2025-07-hymn-babylon-millennium.htmlhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44461082Launch HN: Morph (YC S23) – Apply AI code edits at 4,500 tokens/sechttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44490863Solving Wordle with uv's dependency resolverhttps://mildbyte.xyz/blog/solving-wordle-with-uv-dependency-resolver/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44476382Show HN: NYC Subway Simulator and Route Designerhttps://buildmytransit.nychttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44490588
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  • 7.7.25 | Extracted Apple Intelligence safety filters, Loss of individuality in society, Bitchat – decentralized Bluetooth messaging app
    This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Jul 7, 2025.I extracted the safety filters from Apple Intelligence modelshttps://github.com/BlueFalconHD/apple_generative_model_safety_decryptedhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44483485Nobody has a personality anymore: we are products with labelshttps://www.freyaindia.co.uk/p/nobody-has-a-personality-anymorehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44484595Bitchat – A decentralized messaging app that works over Bluetooth mesh networkshttps://github.com/jackjackbits/bitchathttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44485342Show HN: I wrote a "web OS" based on the Apple Lisa's UI, with 1-bit graphicshttps://alpha.lisagui.com/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44482965Get the location of the ISS using DNShttps://shkspr.mobi/blog/2025/07/get-the-location-of-the-iss-using-dns/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44480223Opencode: AI coding agent, built for the terminalhttps://github.com/sst/opencodehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44482504The first time I was almost fired from Applehttps://www.engineersneedart.com/blog/almostfired/almostfired.htmlhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44463063Functions Are Vectors (2023)https://thenumb.at/Functions-are-Vectors/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44481464Intel's Lion Cove P-Core and Gaming Workloadshttps://chipsandcheese.com/p/intels-lion-cove-p-core-and-gaminghttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44484688Crypto 101 – Introductory course on cryptography (2017)https://www.crypto101.io/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44484074
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  • 7.6.25 | Local-first software, hidden interface controls, questioning morality
    This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Jul 6, 2025.Local-first software (2019)https://www.inkandswitch.com/essay/local-first/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44473135Hidden interface controls that affect usabilityhttps://interactions.acm.org/archive/view/july-august-2025/stop-hiding-my-controls-hidden-interface-controls-are-affecting-usabilityhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44476297Are We the Baddies?https://geohot.github.io//blog/jekyll/update/2025/07/05/are-we-the-baddies.htmlhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44478115X-Clacks-Overheadhttps://xclacksoverhead.org/home/abouthttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44440968Eastern Baltic cod grow much smaller than they did due to overfishinghttps://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/these-cod-have-been-shrinking-dramatically-for-decades-now-scientists-say-theyve-solved-the-mystery-180986920/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44474759macOS Icon Historyhttps://basicappleguy.com/basicappleblog/macos-icon-historyhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44473400Europe's first geostationary sounder satellite is launchedhttps://www.eumetsat.int/europes-first-geostationary-sounder-satellite-launchedhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44472992How to Network as an Introverthttps://aginfer.bearblog.dev/how-to-network-as-an-introvert/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44475537What a Hacker Stole from Mehttps://mynoise.net/blog.phphttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44476115Serving 200M requests per day with a CGI-binhttps://simonwillison.net/2025/Jul/5/cgi-bin-performance/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44476716
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