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🪐 What’s happening in tech today, July 10, 2025?

The HackerNoon Newsletter brings the HackerNoon homepage straight to your inbox. On this day, Microsoft Acquires GeCAD’s Antivirus Technology in 2003, Apple Introduced macOSX 10.9 Code-Named Mavericks in 2013, Apple Released Apple II Series of Computers in 1977, and we present you with these top quality stories. From When Every Dash Is AI: Why Good Writing Now Feels Illegal to VPNs Promise Privacy But Often Deliver the Opposite, let’s dive right in.

When Every Dash Is AI: Why Good Writing Now Feels Illegal

TL;DR You’re not a suspect for writing too well — you’re just a human who still knows how to use language.

By @yuliiaharkusha [ 8 Min read ]

But here we are.

Welcome to 2025 — where writing well is starting to look like a confession.

Start misspelling words to reclaim our humanity?

Sprinkle in the occasional ‘um’ to sound more organic?

What does that make you sound like?

Who do they think you are?..

Habits to Improve Engineering Team Efficiency (Part 1): Design Documents

TL;DR A design document is a shared file among engineers that describes a feature to be implemented.

By @tyy [ 4 Min read ]

In Silicon Valley, if you randomly stop a programmer on the street and ask, "Before starting a project, what should you do?" nine out of ten will likely answer, "Write a design doc." So, why are design docs so important? Let's start by defining what a design doc is...

VPNs Promise Privacy But Often Deliver the Opposite

TL;DR VPNs don’s guarantee freedom from censorship or preservation of privacy. In fact, providers can be blocked, pressured, or directly forced to hand over user data

By @javiermateos [ 19 Min read ]

Internet neutrality isn’t guaranteed by swapping one watchdog for another.

It’s not about who controls access, but that no one should control it.

Source: Wikipedia

To summarize, the main technical functions of a VPN are:

Let’s now take a look at how this phenomenon manifests in different contexts...

AI Replaced My Job… So I Let It Manage My Schedule Too

TL;DR AI replaced my job — so I let it take over my schedule too. Heres what happened when I gave control of my day to artificial intelligence.

By @fourfoldtech [ 5 Min read ]

I was in panic at first. and then I became interested.

AI would tell me that: when it was possible to replace my job with AI, could it also manage my everyday life than me?

Therefore, I tried it.

Rules:

periods

I was behind at 8.05...

How Your Layover Time Can Make or Break an Airline’s Profit

TL;DR Airlines don’t just fly planes—they model your choices. This deep dive shows how layover times impact profits in codeshare agreements and passenger flows.

By @hacker11589894 [ 29 Min read ]

Let’s get straight to the problem. Suppose that there is a small route network of three cities, consisting of only three routes:

Passenger flows can be represented in two forms — let’s call them H and D:

For the B→C segment, things are a little more interesting:

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