7.21.25 | XMLUI, LLMs in summer 2025 update, new colors without lasers

Hacker News Highlights

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Jul 21, 2025.

XMLUI
https://blog.jonudell.net/2025/07/18/introducing-xmlui/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44625292

Coding with LLMs in the summer of 2025 – an update
https://antirez.com/news/154
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44623953

New colors without shooting lasers into your eyes
https://dynomight.net/colors/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44594808

FFmpeg devs boast of another 100x leap thanks to handwritten assembly code
https://www.tomshardware.com/software/the-biggest-speedup-ive-seen-so-far-ffmpeg-devs-boast-of-another-100x-leap-thanks-to-handwritten-assembly-code
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44629206

Staying cool without refrigerants: Next-generation Peltier cooling
https://news.samsung.com/global/interview-staying-cool-without-refrigerants-how-samsung-is-pioneering-next-generation-peltier-cooling
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44628930

Digital vassals? French Government ‘exposes citizens’ data to US'
https://brusselssignal.eu/2025/07/digital-vassals-french-government-exposes-citizens-data-to-us/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44624114

AI is killing the web – can anything save it?
https://www.economist.com/business/2025/07/14/ai-is-killing-the-web-can-anything-save-it
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44623361

Simulating hand-drawn motion with SVG filters
https://camillovisini.com/coding/simulating-hand-drawn-motion-with-svg-filters
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44591305

“Dynamic Programming” is not referring to “computer programming”
https://www.vidarholen.net/contents/blog/?p=1172
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44603349

Speeding up my ZSH shell
https://scottspence.com/posts/speeding-up-my-zsh-shell
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44626363