The best of Hacker News - July 16, 2025

1.
Reflections on OpenAI

473 points

2.
Show HN: Shoggoth Mini – A soft tentacle robot powered by GPT-4o and RL

430 points

3.
To be a better programmer, write little proofs in your head

290 points

4.
NIST ion clock sets new record for most accurate clock

286 points

5.
Where's Firefox going next?

143 points

6.
Designing for the Eye: Optical corrections in architecture and typography

140 points

7.
Plasma Bigscreen rises from the dead with a better UI

138 points

8.
My Family and the Flood

135 points

9.
GPUHammer: Rowhammer attacks on GPU memories are practical

133 points

10.
The FIPS 140-3 Go Cryptographic Module

122 points

11.
Encrypting files with passkeys and age

91 points

12.
Running a million-board chess MMO in a single process

79 points

13.
Congress moves to reject bulk of White House's proposed NASA cuts

78 points

14.
The Story of Mel, A Real Programmer, Annotated (1996)

78 points

15.
Six Years of Gemini

75 points

16.
Cloudflare 1.1.1.1 Incident on July 14, 2025

60 points

17.
Tilck: A Tiny Linux-Compatible Kernel

40 points

18.
Algorithms for making interesting organic simulations

39 points

19.
Show HN: Reviving a 20 year old OS X App

22 points

20.
These states are America's worst for quality of life in 2025

21 points

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