7.12.25 | OpenAI's Windsurf deal canceled, Windsurf CEO joins Google, ETH Zurich and EPFL releasing LLM, Bill Atkinson's psychedelic UI

Hacker News Highlights

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Jul 12, 2025.

OpenAI’s Windsurf deal is off, and Windsurf’s CEO is going to Google
https://www.theverge.com/openai/705999/google-windsurf-ceo-openai
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44536988

ETH Zurich and EPFL to release a LLM developed on public infrastructure
https://ethz.ch/en/news-and-events/eth-news/news/2025/07/a-language-model-built-for-the-public-good.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44535637

Bill Atkinson's psychedelic user interface
https://patternproject.substack.com/p/from-the-mac-to-the-mystical-bill
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44530767

Upgrading an M4 Pro Mac mini's storage for half the price
https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2025/upgrading-m4-pro-mac-minis-storage-half-price
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44532306

Preliminary report into Air India crash released
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cx20p2x9093t
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44536459

jank is C++
https://jank-lang.org/blog/2025-07-11-jank-is-cpp/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44534787

Faking a JPEG
https://www.ty-penguin.org.uk/~auj/blog/2025/03/25/fake-jpeg/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44537631

Repaste Your MacBook
https://christianselig.com/2025/07/repaste-macbook/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44531569

Andrew Ng: Building Faster with AI [video]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RNJCfif1dPY
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44521225

OpenAI delays launch of open-weight model
https://twitter.com/sama/status/1943837550369812814
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44538413