7.13.25 | MacPaint Art's enduring appeal, Bypassing Google's adblock update, Understanding JavaScript's Date class
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This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Jul 13, 2025.MacPaint Art from the Mid-80s Still Looks Great Todayhttps://blog.decryption.net.au/posts/macpaint.htmlhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44540402Bypassing Google's big anti-adblock updatehttps://0x44.xyz/blog/web-request-blocking/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44544266New Date("wtf") – How well do you know JavaScript's Date class?https://jsdate.wtfhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44540241The fish kick may be the fastest subsurface swim stroke yet (2015)https://nautil.us/is-this-new-swim-stroke-the-fastest-yet-235511/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44541576Malware found in official gravityforms plugin indicating supply chain breachhttps://patchstack.com/articles/critical-malware-found-in-gravityforms-official-plugin-site/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44539879Kimi K2 is a state-of-the-art mixture-of-experts (MoE) language modelhttps://twitter.com/Kimi_Moonshot/status/1943687594560332025https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44533403Zig's New Async I/Ohttps://kristoff.it/blog/zig-new-async-io/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44545949Chrome's hidden X-Browser-Validation header reverse engineeredhttps://github.com/dsekz/chrome-x-browser-validation-headerhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44527739Lost Chapter of Automate the Boring Stuff: Audio, Video, and Webcams in Pythonhttps://inventwithpython.com/blog/lost-av-chapter.htmlhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44543240Working through 'Writing A C Compiler'https://jollygoodsw.wordpress.com/2025/03/13/working-through-writing-a-c-compiler/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44541565