Hacker News Highlights

Writing toy software is a joy
https://blog.jsbarretto.com/post/software-is-joy
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44367084

Fun with uv and PEP 723
https://www.cottongeeks.com/articles/2025-06-24-fun-with-uv-and-pep-723
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44369388

A new PNG spec
https://www.programmax.net/articles/png-is-back/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44373504

PlasticList – Plastic Levels in Foods
https://www.plasticlist.org/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44366548

Finding a 27-year-old easter egg in the Power Mac G3 ROM
https://www.downtowndougbrown.com/2025/06/finding-a-27-year-old-easter-egg-in-the-power-mac-g3-rom/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44365806

Basic Facts about GPUs
https://damek.github.io/random/basic-facts-about-gpus/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44365320

MCP is eating the world
https://www.stainless.com/blog/mcp-is-eating-the-world--and-its-here-to-stay
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44338793

The bitter lesson is coming for tokenization
https://lucalp.dev/bitter-lesson-tokenization-and-blt/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44366494

Microsoft Edit
https://github.com/microsoft/edit
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44372380

Ancient X11 scaling technology
https://flak.tedunangst.com/post/forbidden-secrets-of-ancient-X11-scaling-technology-revealed
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44369646

Backyard Coffee and Jazz in Kyoto
https://thedeletedscenes.substack.com/p/backyard-coffee-and-jazz-in-kyoto
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44356248

Vera C. Rubin Observatory first images
https://rubinobservatory.org/news/rubin-first-look/cosmic-treasure-chest
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44356890

How I use my terminal
https://jyn.dev/how-i-use-my-terminal/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44356646

Fairphone 6 is switching to a new design that's even more sustainable
https://www.androidcentral.com/phones/fairphone-6-official-render-leaks-showcase-its-sustainable-design
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44356788

U.S. Chemical Safety Board could be eliminated
https://www.ishn.com/articles/114776-us-chemical-safety-board-could-be-eliminated
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44361430

Making TRAMP faster
https://coredumped.dev/2025/06/18/making-tramp-go-brrrr./
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44356346

Excalidraw+ Is Now SoC 2 Certified
https://plus.excalidraw.com/blog/excalidraw-soc2
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44362165

A Deep Dive into Solid Queue for Ruby on Rails
https://blog.appsignal.com/2025/06/18/a-deep-dive-into-solid-queue-for-ruby-on-rails.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44326382

First methane-powered sea spiders found crawling on the ocean floor
https://www.cnn.com/2025/06/17/science/spiders-deep-sea-methane-new-species
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44338309

The FPGA turns 40
https://www.adiuvoengineering.com/post/the-fpga-turns-40
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44333033

Mechanical Watch: Exploded View
https://fellerts.no/projects/epoch.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44347425

I wrote my PhD Thesis in Typst
https://fransskarman.com/phd_thesis_in_typst.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44350322

Klein Bottle Amazon Brand Hijacking (2021)
https://www.kleinbottle.com/Amazon_Brand_Hijacking.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44349525

Using Home Assistant, adguard home and an $8 smart outlet to avoid brain rot
https://www.romanklasen.com/blog/beating-brainrot-by-button/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44350002

Python can run Mojo now
https://koaning.io/posts/giving-mojo-a-spin/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44331316

The cultural decline of literary fiction
https://oyyy.substack.com/p/the-cultural-decline-of-literary
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44347973

2048 with only 64 bits of state
https://github.com/izabera/bitwise-challenge-2048
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44320285

Finding a billion factorials in 60 ms with SIMD
https://codeforces.com/blog/entry/143279
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44351068

New Linux udisks flaw lets attackers get root on major Linux distros
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/linux/new-linux-udisks-flaw-lets-attackers-get-root-on-major-linux-distros/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44325861

Radio Garden
https://radio.garden/?2025
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44350450

U.S. bombs Iranian nuclear sites
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/ckg3rzj8emjt
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44341639

Tell HN: Beware confidentiality agreements that act as lifetime non competes
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44338562

Airpass – Easily overcome WiFi time limits
https://airpass.tiagoalves.me/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44310763

uBlock Origin Lite Beta for Safari iOS
https://testflight.apple.com/join/JjTcThrV
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44335664

Delta Chat is a decentralized and secure messenger app
https://delta.chat/en/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44335065

Using Microsoft's New CLI Text Editor on Ubuntu
https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/06/microsoft-edit-text-editor-ubuntu
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44306892

Unexpected security footguns in Go's parsers
https://blog.trailofbits.com/2025/06/17/unexpected-security-footguns-in-gos-parsers/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44308953

TPU Deep Dive
https://henryhmko.github.io/posts/tpu/tpu.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44342977

Scaling our observability platform by embracing wide events and replacing OTel
https://clickhouse.com/blog/scaling-observability-beyond-100pb-wide-events-replacing-otel
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44336015

LaborBerlin: State-of-the-Art 16mm Projector
https://www.filmlabs.org/wiki/en/meetings_projects/spectral/laborberlin16mmprojector/start
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44340386

YouTube's new anti-adblock measures
https://iter.ca/post/yt-adblock/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44329712

Phoenix.new – Remote AI Runtime for Phoenix
https://fly.io/blog/phoenix-new-the-remote-ai-runtime/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44328326

Samsung Embeds IronSource Spyware App on Phones Across WANA
https://smex.org/open-letter-to-samsung-end-forced-israeli-app-installations-in-the-wana-region/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44334167

Harper – an open-source alternative to Grammarly
https://writewithharper.com
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44331362

Show HN: Nxtscape – an open-source agentic browser
https://github.com/nxtscape/nxtscape
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44329457

AbsenceBench: Language models can't tell what's missing
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.11440
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44332699

Visualizing environmental costs of war in Hayao Miyazaki's Nausicaä
https://jgeekstudies.org/2025/06/20/wilted-lands-and-wounded-worlds-visualizing-environmental-costs-of-war-in-hayao-miyazakis-nausicaa-of-the-valley-of-the-wind/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44328598

Oklo, the Earth's Two-billion-year-old only Known Natural Nuclear Reactor (2018)
https://www.iaea.org/newscenter/news/meet-oklo-the-earths-two-billion-year-old-only-known-natural-nuclear-reactor
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44326145

College baseball, venture capital, and the long maybe
https://bcantrill.dtrace.org/2025/06/15/college-baseball-venture-capital-and-the-long-maybe/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44290992

Alpha Centauri
https://www.filfre.net/2025/06/alpha-centauri/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44329600

Guess I'm a Rationalist Now
https://scottaaronson.blog/?p=8908
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44317180

Show HN: I wrote a new BitTorrent tracker in Elixir
https://github.com/Dahrkael/ExTracker
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44323253

Compiling LLMs into a MegaKernel: A path to low-latency inference
https://zhihaojia.medium.com/compiling-llms-into-a-megakernel-a-path-to-low-latency-inference-cf7840913c17
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44321672

What would a Kubernetes 2.0 look like
https://matduggan.com/what-would-a-kubernetes-2-0-look-like/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44317825

Infinite Mac OS X
https://blog.persistent.info/2025/03/infinite-mac-os-x.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44323719

Hurl: Run and test HTTP requests with plain text
https://github.com/Orange-OpenSource/hurl
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44324592

Show HN: A DOS-like hobby OS written in Rust and x86 assembly
https://github.com/krustowski/rou2exOS
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44318588

Curved-Crease Sculpture
https://erikdemaine.org/curved/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44318874

Break Up Big Tech: Civil Society Declaration – People vs. Big Tech
https://peoplevsbig.tech/break-up-big-tech-civil-society-declaration/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44325596

How OpenElections uses LLMs
https://thescoop.org/archives/2025/06/09/how-openelections-uses-llms/index.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44320001

Show HN: Workout.cool – Open-source fitness coaching platform
https://github.com/Snouzy/workout-cool
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44309320

Andrej Karpathy: Software in the era of AI [video]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LCEmiRjPEtQ
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44314423

Show HN: Unregistry – “docker push” directly to servers without a registry
https://github.com/psviderski/unregistry
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44314085

New US visa rules will force foreign students to unlock social media profiles
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jun/18/social-media-student-visa-screening
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44314054

My iPhone 8 Refuses to Die: Now It's a Solar-Powered Vision OCR Server
https://terminalbytes.com/iphone-8-solar-powered-vision-ocr-server/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44310944

The Zed Debugger Is Here
https://zed.dev/blog/debugger
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44314977

Websites are tracking you via browser fingerprinting
https://engineering.tamu.edu/news/2025/06/websites-are-tracking-you-via-browser-fingerprinting.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44313206

Poline – An enigmatic color palette generator using polar coordinates
https://meodai.github.io/poline/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44279569

Homomorphically Encrypting CRDTs
https://jakelazaroff.com/words/homomorphically-encrypted-crdts/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44309520

The unreasonable effectiveness of fuzzing for porting programs
https://rjp.io/blog/2025-06-17-unreasonable-effectiveness-of-fuzzing
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44311241

Honda conducts successful launch and landing of experimental reusable rocket
https://global.honda/en/topics/2025/c_2025-06-17ceng.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44300102

The Grug Brained Developer (2022)
https://grugbrain.dev/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44303542

Resurrecting a dead torrent tracker and finding 3M peers
https://kianbradley.com/2025/06/15/resurrecting-a-dead-tracker.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44301686

Building Effective AI Agents
https://www.anthropic.com/engineering/building-effective-agents
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44301809

Making 2.5 Flash and 2.5 Pro GA, and introducing Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite
https://blog.google/products/gemini/gemini-2-5-model-family-expands/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44300717

Bzip2 crate switches from C to 100% Rust
https://trifectatech.org/blog/bzip2-crate-switches-from-c-to-rust/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44303361

Now might be the best time to learn software development
https://substack.com/home/post/p-165655726
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44299979

Scrappy - make little apps for you and your friends
https://pontus.granstrom.me/scrappy/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44306859

What Google Translate can tell us about vibecoding
https://ingrids.space/posts/what-google-translate-can-tell-us-about-vibecoding/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44302870

Why JPEGs still rule the web (2024)
https://spectrum.ieee.org/jpeg-image-format-history
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44299970

WhatsApp introduces ads in its app
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/16/technology/whatsapp-ads.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44289412

Nanonets-OCR-s – OCR model that transforms documents into structured markdown
https://huggingface.co/nanonets/Nanonets-OCR-s
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44287043

Show HN: Chawan TUI web browser
https://chawan.net/news/chawan-0-2-0.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44293260

Generative AI coding tools and agents do not work for me
https://blog.miguelgrinberg.com/post/why-generative-ai-coding-tools-and-agents-do-not-work-for-me
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44294633

Show HN: Canine – A Heroku alternative built on Kubernetes
https://github.com/czhu12/canine
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44292103

Benzene at 200
https://www.chemistryworld.com/opinion/benzene-at-200/4021504.article
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44290413

OpenAI wins $200M U.S. defense contract
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/06/16/openai-wins-200-million-us-defense-contract.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44293988

Show HN: Zeekstd – Rust Implementation of the ZSTD Seekable Format
https://github.com/rorosen/zeekstd
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44284871

What happens when clergy take psilocybin
https://nautil.us/clergy-blown-away-by-psilocybin-1217112/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44293610

Dull Men’s Club
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2025/jun/09/meet-the-members-of-the-dull-mens-club-some-of-them-would-bore-the-ears-off-you
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44291892

Why SSL was renamed to TLS in late 90s (2014)
https://tim.dierks.org/2014/05/security-standards-and-name-changes-in.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44282378

How to modify Starlink Mini to run without the built-in WiFi router
https://olegkutkov.me/2025/06/15/how-to-modify-starlink-mini-to-run-without-the-built-in-wifi-router/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44282017

Canyon.mid
https://canyonmid.com/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44282177

Datalog in Rust
https://github.com/frankmcsherry/blog/blob/master/posts/2025-06-03.md
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44281727

Modifying an HDMI dummy plug's EDID using a Raspberry Pi
https://www.downtowndougbrown.com/2025/06/modifying-an-hdmi-dummy-plugs-edid-using-a-raspberry-pi/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44282998

Foundations of Computer Vision (2024)
https://visionbook.mit.edu
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44281506

Childhood leukemia: how a deadly cancer became treatable
https://ourworldindata.org/childhood-leukemia-treatment-history
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44282143

Fields where Native Americans farmed a thousand years ago discovered in Michigan
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/massive-field-where-native-american-farmers-grew-corn-beans-and-squash-1000-years-ago-discovered-in-michigan-180986758/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44257422

The Art of Lisp and Writing (2003)
https://www.dreamsongs.com/ArtOfLisp.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44281016

Accumulation of cognitive debt when using an AI assistant for essay writing task
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.08872
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44286277