The best of Hacker News - July 12, 2025

1.
OpenAI’s Windsurf deal is off, and Windsurf’s CEO is going to Google

542 points

2.
Bill Atkinson's psychedelic user interface

394 points

3.
ETH Zurich and EPFL to release a LLM developed on public infrastructure

374 points

4.
Apple vs the Law

358 points

5.
Upgrading an M4 Pro Mac mini's storage for half the price

326 points

6.
jank is C++

214 points

7.
Repaste Your MacBook

195 points

8.
Andrew Ng: Building Faster with AI [video]

193 points

9.
Preliminary report into Air India crash released

190 points

10.
Faking a JPEG

141 points

11.
Astronomers race to study interstellar interloper

112 points

12.
OpenAI delays launch of open weights model

85 points

13.
Dict Unpacking in Python

65 points

14.
A software conference that advocates for quality

65 points

15.
Replication of Quantum Factorisation Records with an 8-bit Home Computer [pdf]

51 points

16.
HDD Clicker generates HDD clicking sounds, based on HDD Led activity

46 points

17.
Leveraging Elixir's hot code loading capabilities to modularize a monolithic app

25 points

18.
America's largest power grid is struggling to meet demand from AI

20 points

19.
Fundamentals of Garbage Collection

19 points

20.
Reverse Proxy Deep Dive

5 points

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