7.13.25 | MacPaint Art's enduring appeal, Bypassing Google's adblock update, Understanding JavaScript's Date class - podcast episode cover

7.13.25 | MacPaint Art's enduring appeal, Bypassing Google's adblock update, Understanding JavaScript's Date class

Jul 13, 202512 minEp. 172
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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 Today
https://blog.decryption.net.au/posts/macpaint.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44540402

Bypassing Google's big anti-adblock update
https://0x44.xyz/blog/web-request-blocking/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44544266

New Date("wtf") – How well do you know JavaScript's Date class?
https://jsdate.wtf
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44540241

The 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=44541576

Malware found in official gravityforms plugin indicating supply chain breach
https://patchstack.com/articles/critical-malware-found-in-gravityforms-official-plugin-site/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44539879

Kimi K2 is a state-of-the-art mixture-of-experts (MoE) language model
https://twitter.com/Kimi_Moonshot/status/1943687594560332025
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44533403

Zig's New Async I/O
https://kristoff.it/blog/zig-new-async-io/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44545949

Chrome's hidden X-Browser-Validation header reverse engineered
https://github.com/dsekz/chrome-x-browser-validation-header
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44527739

Lost Chapter of Automate the Boring Stuff: Audio, Video, and Webcams in Python
https://inventwithpython.com/blog/lost-av-chapter.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44543240

Working 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

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