7.20.25 | Uncertainty in AI development, AI-related fatalities, Ring's new police live-stream feature

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Jul 20, 2025.Nobody knows how to build with AI yethttps://worksonmymachine.substack.com/p/nobody-knows-how-to-build-with-aihttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44616479Death by AIhttps://davebarry.substack.com/p/death-by-aihttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44615801Ring introducing new feature to allow police to live-stream access to camerashttps://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/07/amazon-ring-cashes-techno-authoritarianism-and-mass-surveillancehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44620002Make Your Own Backup System – Part 1: Strategy Before Scriptshttps://it-notes.dragas.net/2025/07/18/make-your-own-backup-system-part-1-strategy-before-scripts/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44618687Local LLMs versus offline Wikipediahttps://evanhahn.com/local-llms-versus-offline-wikipedia/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44617078The borrowchecker is what I like the least about Rusthttps://viralinstruction.com/posts/borrowchecker/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44618535How we tracked down a Go 1.24 memory regressionhttps://www.datadoghq.com/blog/engineering/go-memory-regression/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44597550Rethinking CLI interfaces for AIhttps://www.notcheckmark.com/2025/07/rethinking-cli-interfaces-for-ai/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44617184Mushroom learns to crawl after being given robot body (2024)https://www.the-independent.com/tech/robot-mushroom-biohybrid-robotics-cornell-b2610411.htmlhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44591775Hungary's oldest library is fighting to save books from a beetle infestationhttps://www.npr.org/2025/07/14/nx-s1-5467062/hungary-library-books-beetleshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44583316