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Hacker News (Jun 2025)

  1. I made a search engine worse than Elasticsearch (2024)

    137 points • comment • jun 05, 2025

  2. AI Is Dehumanization Technology

    137 points • comment • jun 26, 2025

  3. A Python-first data lakehouse

    137 points • comment • jun 17, 2025

  4. The Unsustainability of Moore's Law

    137 points • comment • jun 29, 2025

  5. Denmark to tackle deepfakes by giving people copyright to their own features

    137 points • comment • jun 27, 2025

  6. Show HN: Oasis – An open-source, 3D-printed smart terrarium

    137 points • comment • jun 24, 2025

  7. Worldwide power grid with glass insulated HVDC cables

    137 points • comment • jun 12, 2025

  8. FedFlix — Public Domain Stock Footage Library

    137 points • comment • jun 20, 2025

  9. How much EU is in DNS4EU?

    136 points • comment • jun 12, 2025

  10. Bot or human? Creating an invisible Turing test for the internet

    136 points • comment • jun 25, 2025

  11. Rust in the Linux kernel: part 2

    136 points • comment • jun 27, 2025

  12. A Spiral Structure in the Inner Oort Cloud

    136 points • comment • jun 04, 2025

  13. DeepSeek R2 launch stalled as CEO balks at progress

    136 points • comment • jun 27, 2025

  14. Medieval Africans had a unique process for purifying gold with glass (2019)

    135 points • comment • jun 06, 2025

  15. Show HN: Autumn – Open-source infra over Stripe

    135 points • comment • jun 24, 2025

  16. Discord Is Threatening to Shutdown BotGhost

    135 points • comment • jun 23, 2025

  17. Show HN: Ephe – A minimalist open-source Markdown paper for today

    135 points • comment • jun 03, 2025

  18. AI at Amazon: A case study of brittleness

    135 points • comment • jun 11, 2025

  19. Amelia Earhart's Reckless Final Flights

    134 points • comment • jun 04, 2025

  20. Online sports betting: As you do well, they cut you off

    134 points • comment • jun 06, 2025

  21. Sirius: A GPU-native SQL engine

    134 points • comment • jun 28, 2025

  22. Doge Developed Error-Prone AI Tool to "Munch" Veterans Affairs Contracts

    134 points • comment • jun 06, 2025

  23. $100 Hamburger

    134 points • comment • jun 14, 2025

  24. Transmitting data via ultrasound without any special equipment

    134 points • comment • jun 27, 2025

  25. Is Lovable getting monetization wrong?

    134 points • comment • jun 25, 2025

  26. FLUX.1 Kontext [Dev] – Open Weights for Image Editing

    133 points • comment • jun 26, 2025

  27. Salesforce study finds LLM agents flunk CRM and confidentiality tests

    133 points • comment • jun 16, 2025

  28. APL Interpreter – An implementation of APL, written in Haskell (2024)

    133 points • comment • jun 05, 2025

  29. JavaScript broke the web (and called it progress)

    133 points • comment • jun 20, 2025

  30. Tuxracer.js play Tux Racer in the browser

    133 points • comment • jun 20, 2025

  31. Show HN: Magnitude – Open-source AI browser automation framework

    132 points • comment • jun 26, 2025

  32. Canal Boat Simulator

    132 points • comment • jun 22, 2025

  33. Model Once, Represent Everywhere: UDA (Unified Data Architecture) at Netflix

    132 points • comment • jun 14, 2025

  34. Datalog in miniKanren

    132 points • comment • jun 15, 2025

  35. A brief history of children sent through the mail (2016)

    132 points • comment • jun 27, 2025

  36. Accumulation of Cognitive Debt When Using an AI Assistant for Essay Writing Task

    132 points • comment • jun 17, 2025

  37. Cell Towers Can Double as Cheap Radar Systems for Ports and Harbors (2014)

    132 points • comment • jun 29, 2025

  38. 2025 ARRL Field Day

    131 points • comment • jun 28, 2025

  39. The Humble Programmer (1972)

    131 points • comment • jun 17, 2025

  40. Sharing everything I could understand about gradient noise

    131 points • comment • jun 06, 2025

  41. Text-to-LoRA: Hypernetwork that generates task-specific LLM adapters (LoRAs)

    131 points • comment • jun 12, 2025

  42. Show HN: Eyesite – Experimental website combining computer vision and web design

    131 points • comment • jun 12, 2025

  43. Unsupervised Elicitation of Language Models

    130 points • comment • jun 14, 2025

  44. Supreme Court Gives Doge Access to Social Security Data

    130 points • comment • jun 06, 2025

  45. Show HN: Inspect and extract files from MSI installers directly in your browser

    130 points • comment • jun 20, 2025

  46. Solving LinkedIn Queens with SMT

    130 points • comment • jun 12, 2025

  47. Doubling Down on Open Source

    130 points • comment • jun 04, 2025

  48. Klong: A Simple Array Language

    129 points • comment • jun 20, 2025

  49. Show HN: PyDoll – Async Python scraping engine with native CAPTCHA bypass

    129 points • comment • jun 10, 2025

  50. Real-time CO2 monitoring without batteries or external power

    129 points • comment • jun 15, 2025

  51. Comparing Claude System Prompts Reveal Anthropic's Priorities

    128 points • comment • jun 04, 2025

  52. Time Series Forecasting with Graph Transformers

    128 points • comment • jun 17, 2025

  53. AMD's AI Future Is Rack Scale 'Helios'

    128 points • comment • jun 14, 2025

  54. China Dominates 44% of Visible Fishing Activity Worldwide

    128 points • comment • jun 29, 2025

  55. Show HN: EnrichMCP – A Python ORM for Agents

    128 points • comment • jun 19, 2025

  56. Lessons from That 1834 Landscape Gardening Guidebook

    128 points • comment • jun 07, 2025

  57. Smalltalk, Haskell and Lisp

    127 points • comment • jun 06, 2025

  58. AMD's Freshly-Baked MI350: An Interview with the Chief Architect

    127 points • comment • jun 20, 2025

  59. Nordic Semiconductor Acquires Memfault

    127 points • comment • jun 24, 2025

  60. Miscalculation by Spanish power grid operator REE contributed to blackout

    126 points • comment • jun 17, 2025

  61. Fun with Telnet (2024)

    126 points • comment • jun 17, 2025

  62. OpenTelemetry for Go: Measuring overhead costs

    126 points • comment • jun 16, 2025

  63. Show HN: Ask-human-mcp – zero-config human-in-loop hatch to stop hallucinations

    126 points • comment • jun 05, 2025

  64. Filedb: Disk-based key-value store inspired by Bitcask

    126 points • comment • jun 14, 2025

  65. A brief, incomplete, and mostly wrong history of robotics

    126 points • comment • jun 16, 2025

  66. The story of Max, a real programmer

    126 points • comment • jun 30, 2025

  67. Expanding Racks [video]

    125 points • comment • jun 12, 2025

  68. GNOME and Red Hat Linux eleven years ago (2009)

    125 points • comment • jun 15, 2025

  69. Parsing JSON in Forty Lines of Awk

    125 points • comment • jun 28, 2025

  70. The Evolution of Caching Libraries in Go

    125 points • comment • jun 29, 2025

  71. Highly efficient matrix transpose in Mojo

    125 points • comment • jun 06, 2025

  72. Getting free internet on a cruise, saving $170

    125 points • comment • jun 16, 2025

  73. I think I'm done thinking about GenAI for now

    125 points • comment • jun 05, 2025

  74. NASA Is Worth Saving

    125 points • comment • jun 12, 2025

  75. After Pornhub left France, this VPN saw a 1,000% surge in signups in 30 minutes

    125 points • comment • jun 07, 2025

  76. A glob of 99M-year-old amber trapped a zombie fungus erupting from a fly

    124 points • comment • jun 26, 2025

  77. Knowledge Management in the Age of AI

    124 points • comment • jun 08, 2025

  78. Changing Directions

    124 points • comment • jun 03, 2025

  79. US Congress is making more than 250M acres of public lands available for sale

    124 points • comment • jun 21, 2025

  80. Old payphones get new life, thanks to Vermont engineer

    124 points • comment • jun 05, 2025

  81. A bit more on Twitter/X's new encrypted messaging

    124 points • comment • jun 09, 2025

  82. When random people give money to random other people (2017)

    123 points • comment • jun 13, 2025

  83. Cheap yet ultrapure titanium might enable widespread use in industry (2024)

    123 points • comment • jun 04, 2025

  84. CVE 2025 31200

    123 points • comment • jun 02, 2025

  85. Show HN: Let’s Bend – Open-Source Harmonica Bending Trainer

    123 points • comment • jun 08, 2025

  86. Waymo's market share in San Francisco exceeds Lyft's

    123 points • comment • jun 14, 2025

  87. Base44 sells to Wix for $80M cash

    123 points • comment • jun 19, 2025

  88. How renewables are saving Texans billions

    123 points • comment • jun 25, 2025

  89. Apple Research unearthed forgotten AI technique and using it to generate images

    122 points • comment • jun 23, 2025

  90. Another Crack in the Chain of Trust: Uncovering (Yet Another) Secure Boot Bypass

    122 points • comment • jun 10, 2025

  91. Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (June 2025)

    122 points • comment • jun 02, 2025

  92. Transparent peer review to be extended to all of Nature's research papers

    122 points • comment • jun 16, 2025

  93. The original LZEXE (A.K.A. Kosinski) compressor source code has been released

    122 points • comment • jun 30, 2025

  94. You need much less memory than time

    122 points • comment • jun 07, 2025

  95. Debunking HDR [video]

    122 points • comment • jun 11, 2025

  96. The Xerox Alto, Smalltalk, and rewriting a running GUI (2017)

    122 points • comment • jun 09, 2025

  97. DNA floating in the air tracks wildlife, viruses, even drugs

    121 points • comment • jun 16, 2025

  98. Second study finds Uber used opaque algorithm to dramatically boost profits

    121 points • comment • jun 25, 2025

  99. The Zen of Quakerism (2016)

    121 points • comment • jun 29, 2025

  100. How to Design Programs 2nd Ed (2024)

    121 points • comment • jun 20, 2025