7.30.25 | Study mode, M8.7 earthquake in Western Pacific with tsunami warning, laptop writes Space Invaders in JavaScript

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Jul 30, 2025.Study modehttps://openai.com/index/chatgpt-study-mode/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44725764M8.7 earthquake in Western Pacific, tsunami warning issuedhttps://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/us6000qw60/executivehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44729865My 2.5 year old laptop can write Space Invaders in JavaScript now (GLM-4.5 Air)https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jul/29/space-invaders/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44723316Irrelevant facts about cats added to math problems increase LLM errors by 300%https://www.science.org/content/article/scienceadviser-cats-confuse-aihttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44724238iPhone 16 cameras vs. traditional digital camerashttps://candid9.com/phone-camera/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44723461RIP Shunsaku Tamiya, the man who made plastic model kits a global obsessionhttps://JapaneseNostalgicCar.com/rip-shunsaku-tamiya-plastic-model-kits/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44728188Learning basic electronics by building fireflieshttp://a64.in/posts/learning-basic-electronics-by-building-fireflies/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44725757ACM Transitions to Full Open Accesshttps://www.acm.org/publications/openaccesshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44725966Show HN: I built an AI that turns any book into a text adventure gamehttps://www.kathaaverse.com/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44725202Observable Notebooks 2.0 Technology Previewhttps://observablehq.com/notebook-kit/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44724068