The best of Hacker News - July 20, 2025

1.
Nobody knows how to build with AI yet

290 points

2.
Death by AI

233 points

3.
Local LLMs versus offline Wikipedia

209 points

4.
Make Your Own Backup System – Part 1: Strategy Before Scripts

208 points

5.
Ring introducing new feature to allow police to live-stream access to cameras

202 points

6.
The borrowchecker is what I like the least about Rust

179 points

7.
Rethinking CLI interfaces for AI

147 points

8.
Mushroom learns to crawl after being given robot body (2024)

89 points

9.
The curious case of the Unix workstation layout

79 points

10.
New York’s bill banning One-Person Train Operation

78 points

11.
Hungary's oldest library is fighting to save books from a beetle infestation

64 points

12.
What Were the Earliest Laws Like?

49 points

13.
Piano Keys

45 points

14.
Beyond Meat Fights for Survival

42 points

15.
Trigon: Exploiting coprocessors for fun and for profit (part 2)

34 points

16.
Matterport walkthrough of the original Microsoft Building 3

24 points

17.
How to Run an Arduino for Years on a Battery

20 points

18.
Airbnb allowed rampant price gouging following L.A. fires, city attorney alleges

19 points

19.
"Bypassing" Specialization in Rust or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love F

15 points

20.
Borg - Deduplicating Archiver with Compression and Encryption

9 points

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