The best of Hacker News - July 28, 2025

1.
Performance and telemetry analysis of Trae IDE, ByteDance's VSCode fork

768 points

2.
Dumb Pipe

647 points

3.
EU age verification app to ban any Android system not licensed by Google

457 points

4.
Enough AI copilots, we need AI HUDs

246 points

5.
Making Postgres slower

211 points

6.
I hacked my washing machine

176 points

7.
Ask HN: What are you working on? (July 2025)

155 points

8.
The JJ VCS workshop: A zero-to-hero speedrun

110 points

9.
Blender: Beyond Mouse and Keyboard

97 points

10.
VPN use surges in UK as new online safety rules kick in

69 points

11.
Big agriculture mislead the public about the benefits of biofuels

68 points

12.
Why I write recursive descent parsers, despite their issues (2020)

55 points

13.
IBM Keyboard Patents

54 points

14.
ZUSE – The Modern IRC Chat for the Terminal Made in Go/Bubbletea

48 points

15.
Claude Code Router

40 points

16.
Designing a flatpack bed

39 points

17.
Solid protocol restores digital agency

27 points

18.
Software Development at 800 Words per Minute

27 points

19.
"Tivoization" and Your Right to Install Under Copyleft and The GNU GPL

23 points

20.
Formal specs as sets of behaviors

14 points

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