The best of Hacker News - July 17, 2025

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I'm switching to Python and actually liking it

385 points

2.
Shipping WebGPU on Windows in Firefox 141

359 points

3.
Altermagnets: The first new type of magnet in nearly a century

310 points

4.
Pgactive: Postgres active-active replication extension

280 points

5.
Ex-Waymo engineers launch Bedrock Robotics to automate construction

271 points

6.
AI therapy bots fuel delusions and give dangerous advice, Stanford study finds

194 points

7.
I want an iPhone Mini-sized Android phone (2022)

167 points

8.
Show HN: Improving search ranking with chess Elo scores

145 points

9.
Artisanal handcrafted Git repositories

135 points

10.
“Reading Rainbow” was created to combat summer reading slumps

124 points

11.
Intel's retreat is unlike anything it's done before in Oregon

117 points

12.
How and where will agents ship software?

116 points

13.
Signs of autism could be encoded in the way you walk

115 points

14.
Show HN: A 'Choose Your Own Adventure' written in Emacs Org Mode

95 points

15.
Mistakes Microsoft made in the Xbox security system (2005)

45 points

16.
The 1960s schools experiment that created a whole new alphabet

32 points

17.
Inside the box: Everything I did with an Arduino starter kit

31 points

18.
Original Xbox Hacks: The A20 CPU Gate

30 points

19.
Blue Pencil no. 18–Some history about Arial

23 points

20.
Metaflow: Build, Manage and Deploy AI/ML Systems

5 points

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