7.19.25 | Valve pressured by credit card companies, AI capex impacts economic stats, personal self-hosting setup
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This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Jul 19, 2025.Valve confirms credit card companies pressured it to delist certain adult gameshttps://www.pcgamer.com/software/platforms/valve-confirms-credit-card-companies-pressured-it-to-delist-certain-adult-games-from-steam/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44606184AI capex is so big that it's affecting economic statisticshttps://paulkedrosky.com/honey-ai-capex-ate-the-economy/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44609130My Self-Hosting Setuphttps://codecaptured.com/blog/my-ultimate-self-hosting-setup/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44612151Asynchrony is not concurrencyhttps://kristoff.it/blog/asynchrony-is-not-concurrency/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44608754Meta says it won’t sign Europe AI agreement, calling it an overreachhttps://www.cnbc.com/2025/07/18/meta-europe-ai-code.htmlhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44607838EPA says it will eliminate its scientific research armhttps://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/18/climate/epa-firings-scientific-research.htmlhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44610732How to write Rust in the Linux kernel: part 3https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/1026694/3413f4b43c862629/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44610468Trying Guix: A Nixer's impressionshttps://tazj.in/blog/trying-guixhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44569032Broadcom to discontinue free Bitnami Helm chartshttps://github.com/bitnami/charts/issues/35164https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44608856Why your website should be under 14kB in sizehttps://endtimes.dev/why-your-website-should-be-under-14kb-in-size/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44613625