Hacker News Highlights

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Jun 30, 2025.

I made my VM think it has a CPU fan
https://wbenny.github.io/2025/06/29/i-made-my-vm-think-it-has-a-cpu-fan.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44413185

Many ransomware strains will abort if they detect a Russian keyboard installed (2021)
https://krebsonsecurity.com/2021/05/try-this-one-weird-trick-russian-hackers-hate/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44415233

Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (June 2025)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44416093

The $25k car is going extinct?
https://media.hubspot.com/why-the-25000-car-is-going-extinct
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44414115

Touching the back wall of the Apple store
https://blog.lauramichet.com/touching-the-back-wall-of-the-apple-store/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44393307

We accidentally solved robotics by watching 1M hours of YouTube
https://ksagar.bearblog.dev/vjepa/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44414171

Bought myself an Ampere Altra system
https://marcin.juszkiewicz.com.pl/2025/06/27/bought-myself-an-ampere-altra-system/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44419446

Gridfinity: The modular, open-source grid storage system
https://gridfinity.xyz/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44419091

The Book of Shaders (2015)
https://thebookofshaders.com/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44389622

Event – Fast, In-Process Event Dispatcher
https://github.com/kelindar/event
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44413809