The best of Hacker News - July 26, 2025

1.
Do not download the app, use the website

597 points

2.
Windsurf employee #2: I was given a payout of only 1% what my shares where worth

480 points

3.
Steam, Itch.io are pulling ‘porn’ games. Critics say it's a slippery slope

446 points

4.
It's time for modern CSS to kill the SPA

365 points

5.
It's a DE9, not a DB9 (but we know what you mean)

359 points

6.
The future is not self-hosted

273 points

7.
Programming vehicles in games

253 points

8.
Vanilla JavaScript support for Tailwind Plus

225 points

9.
Why MIT switched from Scheme to Python (2009)

203 points

10.
Developing our position on AI

187 points

11.
Efficient Computer's Electron E1 CPU – 100x more efficient than Arm?

179 points

12.
Animated Cursors

160 points

13.
Never write your own date parsing library

158 points

14.
CO2 Battery

118 points

15.
Experimental surgery performed by AI-driven surgical robot

79 points

16.
CCTV Footage Captures the First-Ever Video of an Earthquake Fault in Motion

58 points

17.
A Union Pacific-Norfolk Southern combination would redraw the railroad map

45 points

18.
Choosing the rijght .NET container image for your workload

13 points

19.
Open Sauce is a confoundingly brilliant Bay Area event

11 points

20.
Generic Containers in C: Vec

8 points

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