https://www.daemonology.net/hn-daily/2025-07-11.html

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on July 11, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Postgres LISTEN/NOTIFY does not scale
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• Flix – A powerful effect-oriented programming language
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• Graphical Linear Algebra
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• Show HN: Pangolin – Open source alternative to Cloudflare Tunnels
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• Grok: Searching X for \"From:Elonmusk (Israel or Palestine or Hamas or Gaza)\"
  (comments)
• LLM Inference Handbook
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• Apple vs the Law
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• Bill Atkinson's psychedelic user interface
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• At Least 13 People Died by Suicide Amid U.K. Post Office Scandal, Report Says
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• Upgrading an M4 Pro Mac mini's storage for half the price
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https://www.daemonology.net/hn-daily/2025-07-11.html

1. The fan. Got house down to Actually Matching Outside Air Temperature in finite time; set up to experiment with running it in the bedroom overnight. (It has been Too Warm For Cuddles, which is Bad.)
2. Made the nonsense lavender-and-honey Welsh cakes for breakfast. I was sure I had picked way too much lavender but it actually fit in the measuring spoon pretty much perfectly, and wound up being noticeable but not Overwhelming.
3. New Murderbot novelette! I have not launched right into reading it because I am just about a quarter of the way through a System Collapse reread (and fascinated by how little of it I remember, though I concede I've read it many fewer times than All Systems Red...) so I'm going to finish that first. Which I am not expecting to take me very long.
4. Having spent a bunch of time poking around Wikipedia, I've gone back to Nerve and Muscle and, now almost two whole pages in, it is making significantly more sense than my previous attempt. (I have not yet started making myself notes on neuroanatomy but I am definitely considering it.)
5. It is The Time Of Year when strawberries are relatively cheap, so after dinner we wandered down the hill in service of me getting my steps, and us getting some exposure to The Breeze, and acquiring me a giant box of strawberries, and also picking up Ice Lollies to consume on the way back up.
6. Realised I could stick a jug of water in the fridge. This has made hydrating significantly easier. (I do not do well at drinking water that isn't Cold, and the magic ice dispenser on our freezer is currently out of action.)
7. The online Oxfam shop. Shortly to be on their way to me: a pair of cargo shorts; two pairs of linen cargo trousers; a book I previously had out from the library but which I wanted to have a reference copy of at least briefly for writing purposes.

Posted by Bruce Schneier

https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2025/07/squid-dominated-the-oceans-in-the-late-cretaceous.html

https://www.schneier.com/?p=70436

New research:

One reason the early years of squids has been such a mystery is because squids’ lack of hard shells made their fossils hard to come by. Undeterred, the team instead focused on finding ancient squid beaks—hard mouthparts with high fossilization potential that could help the team figure out how squids evolved.

With that in mind, the team developed an advanced fossil discovery technique that completely digitized rocks with all their embedded fossils in complete 3D form. Upon using that technique on Late Cretaceous rocks from Japan, the team identified 1,000 fossilized cephalopod beaks hidden inside the rocks, which included 263 squid specimens and 40 previously unknown squid species.

The team said the number of squid fossils they found vastly outnumbered the number of bony fishes and ammonites, which are extinct shelled relatives of squids that are considered among the most successful swimmers of the Mesozoic era.

“Forty previously unknown squid species.” Wow.

As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven’t covered.

Blog moderation policy.

https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2025/07/squid-dominated-the-oceans-in-the-late-cretaceous.html

https://www.schneier.com/?p=70436

https://xkcd.com/3114/

https://xkcd.com/3114/

Posted by Bruce Schneier

https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2025/07/tradecraft-in-the-information-age.html

https://www.schneier.com/?p=70454

Long article on the difficulty (impossibility?) of human spying in the age of ubiquitous digital surveillance.

https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2025/07/tradecraft-in-the-information-age.html

https://www.schneier.com/?p=70454

1. Everything tech giants will hate about the EU's new AI rules

(tags:ai technology regulation Europe )

2. Photos: The Scale of China's Solar Power Projects

(tags:solarpower photos china )

3. What kind of video games do different fantasy races make?

(tags:games funny fantasy )

4. Fake signs and graffiti, frequently science-fiction related, from Glasgow

(tags:Glasgow scifi graffiti sign art funny viaSwampers )

5. The Marks & Spencer hack was down to TCS having *terrible* security processed on their helpdesk.

(tags:security epicfail OhForFucksSake incompetence )

https://www.daemonology.net/hn-daily/2025-07-10.html

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on July 10, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• The jank programming language
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• Thunderbird 140 “Eclipse”
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• Phrase origin: Why do we \"call\" functions?
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• Solar power has begun to transform the world’s energy system
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• Show HN: FlopperZiro – A DIY open-source Flipper Zero clone
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• The death of partying in the USA
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• MCP-B: A Protocol for AI Browser Automation
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• Grok 4 Launch [video]
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• German court rules Meta tracking technology violates European privacy laws
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• Measuring the impact of AI on experienced open-source developer productivity
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https://www.daemonology.net/hn-daily/2025-07-10.html

(I am continuing to think a lot about sensory systems; today I have mostly been discovering how many of the things I thought I half-remembered about nerves are wrong.)

Posted by Bruce Schneier

https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2025/07/using-signal-groups-for-activism.html

https://www.schneier.com/?p=70450

Good tutorial by Micah Lee. It includes some nonobvious use cases.

https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2025/07/using-signal-groups-for-activism.html

https://www.schneier.com/?p=70450

1. Let Kids Be Loud

(tags:children noise )

2. Fascinating essay on photography lighting techniques that predate AI and why they are confused for it (amongst other things)

(tags:lighting photography )

3. What if you Threw a Paper Airplane from the Space Station?

(tags:space paper airplanes viaPatrickHadfield )

4. Cellos totally belong in rock bands

(tags:music video awesome )

5. Time keeps on slipping - literally. Why today might have been the shortest day you'll ever experience

(tags:time earth )

https://www.daemonology.net/hn-daily/2025-07-09.html

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on July 09, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• 7-Zip for Windows can now use more than 64 CPU threads for compression
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• Bootstrapping a side project into a profitable seven-figure business
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• Smollm3: Smol, multilingual, long-context reasoner LLM
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• Breaking Git with a carriage return and cloning RCE
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• US Court nullifies FTC requirement for click-to-cancel
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• RapidRAW: A non-destructive and GPU-accelerated RAW image editor
  (comments)
• Most RESTful APIs aren't really RESTful
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• IKEA ditches Zigbee for Thread going all in on Matter smart homes
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• Tree Borrows
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• Linda Yaccarino is leaving X
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https://www.daemonology.net/hn-daily/2025-07-09.html

I had a first-thing physio appointment, so I dragged myself over to the hospital for that and then nestled down in my Surrounded By Green and... mostly read Murderbot, with occasional fruit harvest and weeding.

(I have also had lots of opportunities to practise self-compassion, both in re the number of things I did not manage to harvest before they went over and in terms of having realised within the last half hour or so that one of my pens has vanished from all of the bags it was nominally in; I hope that if I go and poke around the table etc tomorrow it will rematerialise...)

https://xkcd.com/3113/

https://xkcd.com/3113/

Posted by Bruce Schneier

https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2025/07/yet-another-strava-privacy-leak.html

https://www.schneier.com/?p=70447

This time it’s the Swedish prime minister’s bodyguards. (Last year, it was the US Secret Service and Emmanuel Macron’s bodyguards. in 2018, it was secret US military bases.)

This is ridiculous. Why do people continue to make their data public?

https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2025/07/yet-another-strava-privacy-leak.html

https://www.schneier.com/?p=70447

I wrote this on Bluesky last week, but wanted to save it in slightly longer form

https://www.daemonology.net/hn-daily/2025-07-08.html

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on July 08, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Neanderthals operated prehistoric “fat factory” on German lakeshore
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• Can an email go 500 miles in 2025?
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• When Figma starts designing us
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• I used o3 to profile myself from my saved Pocket links
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• New sphere-packing record stems from an unexpected source
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• BBC staff: we're forced to do pro-Israel PR
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• SVGs that feel like GIFs
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• Show HN: OffChess – Offline chess puzzles app
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• Google can now read your WhatsApp messages
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• Supabase MCP can leak your entire SQL database
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https://www.daemonology.net/hn-daily/2025-07-08.html

Apparently I'm not writing up a detailed version of this, so in brief...

( Bodily functions feature heavily. )