The best of Hacker News - July 19, 2025

1.
Valve confirms credit card companies pressured it to delist certain adult games

348 points

2.
Asynchrony is not concurrency

208 points

3.
Meta says it won’t sign Europe AI agreement, calling it an overreach

160 points

4.
EPA says it will eliminate its scientific reseach arm

136 points

5.
Broadcom to discontinue free Bitnami Helm charts

129 points

6.
My Ultimate Self-Hosting Setup

126 points

7.
Silence Is a Commons by Ivan Illich (1983)

125 points

8.
How to write Rust in the Linux kernel: part 3

124 points

9.
Wii U SDBoot1 Exploit “paid the beak”

115 points

10.
Multiplatform Matrix Multiplication Kernels

64 points

11.
Mr Browser – Macintosh Repository file downloader that runs directly on 68k Macs

52 points

12.
Ccusage: A CLI tool for analyzing Claude Code usage from local JSONL files

47 points

13.
Bun adds pnpm-style isolated installation mode

42 points

14.
C++: zero-cost static initialization

41 points

15.
Debcraft – Easiest way to modify and build Debian packages

34 points

16.
Advertising Without Signal: The Rise of the Grifter Equilibrium

29 points

17.
Zig's New Writer

23 points

18.
Show HN: OrioleDB Beta12 Features and Benchmarks

15 points

19.
The Halo Effect

14 points

20.
Microsoft Office is using an artificially complex XML schema as a lock-in tool

13 points

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