7.24.25 | High precision robot dog, Tinder clone with wife’s pictures, Google Pixel and GrapheneOS for freedom

Hacker News Highlights

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Jul 24, 2025.

CARA – High precision robot dog using rope
https://www.aaedmusa.com/projects/cara
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44661846

Show HN: Tinder but it's only pictures of my wife and I can only swipe right
https://trytender.app/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44664873

Cops say criminals use a Google Pixel with GrapheneOS – I say that's freedom
https://www.androidauthority.com/why-i-use-grapheneos-on-pixel-3575477/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44658908

AI overviews cause massive drop in search clicks
https://arstechnica.com/ai/2025/07/research-shows-google-ai-overviews-reduce-website-clicks-by-almost-half/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44663227

The Promised LAN
https://tpl.house/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44661682

US AI Action Plan
https://www.ai.gov/action-plan
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44660323

Building better AI tools
https://hazelweakly.me/blog/stop-building-ai-tools-backwards/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44659921

Major rule about cooking meat turns out to be wrong
https://www.seriouseats.com/meat-resting-science-11776272
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44662757

I drank every cocktail
https://aaronson.org/blog/i-drank-every-cocktail
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44665373

Electric cars produce far less brake dust pollution than combustion-engine cars
https://modernengineeringmarvels.com/2025/07/22/surprising-science-how-electric-cars-quietly-transform-urban-air/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44666157