Hacker News Highlights

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Jul 28, 2025.

Performance and telemetry analysis of Trae IDE, ByteDance's VSCode fork
https://github.com/segmentationf4u1t/trae_telemetry_research
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44703164

Dumb Pipe
https://www.dumbpipe.dev/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44701555

EU age verification app to ban any Android system not licensed by Google
https://www.reddit.com/r/degoogle/s/YxmPgFes8a
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44705240

Tom Lehrer has died
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/27/arts/music/tom-lehrer-dead.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44702782

Enough AI copilots, we need AI HUDs
https://www.geoffreylitt.com/2025/07/27/enough-ai-copilots-we-need-ai-huds
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44705445

Making Postgres slower
https://byteofdev.com/posts/making-postgres-slow/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44704736

I hacked my washing machine
https://nexy.blog/2025/07/27/how-i-hacked-my-washing-machine/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44704270

Ask HN: What are you working on? (July 2025)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44702833

Blender: Beyond Mouse and Keyboard
https://code.blender.org/2025/07/beyond-mouse-keyboard/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44671802

Big agriculture mislead the public about the benefits of biofuels
https://lithub.com/how-big-agriculture-mislead-the-public-about-the-benefits-of-biofuels/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44706428