The best of Hacker News - July 14, 2025

1.
How does a screen work?

378 points

2.
GLP-1s Are Breaking Life Insurance

292 points

3.
Show HN: Ten years of running every day, visualized

273 points

4.
OpenCut: The open-source CapCut alternative

269 points

5.
The North Korean fake IT worker problem is ubiquitous

243 points

6.
Five companies now control over 90% of the restaurant food delivery market

194 points

7.
Let's Learn x86-64 Assembly (2020)

177 points

8.
Show HN: A Raycast-compatible launcher for Linux

156 points

9.
A technical look at Iran's internet shutdowns

143 points

10.
The underground cathedral protecting Tokyo from floods (2018)

88 points

11.
APKLab: Android Reverse-Engineering Workbench for VS Code

79 points

12.
Emergent Misalignment: Narrow finetuning can produce broadly misaligned LLMs

74 points

13.
Hypercapitalism and the AI talent wars

67 points

14.
Show HN: FFmpeg in plain English – LLM-assisted FFmpeg in the browser

58 points

15.
Stellantis declares bankruptcy in China, with $1B in debts

54 points

16.
James Webb, Hubble space telescopes face reduction in operations

49 points

17.
Black hole merger challenges our understanding of black hole formation

28 points

18.
Myanmar’s proliferating scam centers

22 points

19.
Chimpfluencers Stick Grass in Their Ears and Butts in Latest Viral Trend

15 points

20.
A Century of Quantum Mechanics

5 points

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