Hacker News Highlights

I have reimplemented Stable Diffusion 3.5 from scratch in pure PyTorch
https://github.com/yousef-rafat/miniDiffusion
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44276476

Waymo rides cost more than Uber or Lyft and people are paying anyway
https://techcrunch.com/2025/06/12/waymo-rides-cost-more-than-uber-or-lyft-and-people-are-paying-anyway/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44258139

TimeGuessr
https://timeguessr.com/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44233063

Seven replies to the viral Apple reasoning paper and why they fall short
https://garymarcus.substack.com/p/seven-replies-to-the-viral-apple
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44278403

Solar Orbiter gets world-first views of the Sun's poles
https://www.esa.int/Science_Exploration/Space_Science/Solar_Orbiter/Solar_Orbiter_gets_world-first_views_of_the_Sun_s_poles
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44252717

SIMD-friendly algorithms for substring searching (2016)
http://0x80.pl/notesen/2016-11-28-simd-strfind.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44274001

Last fifty years of integer linear programming: Recent practical advances
https://inria.hal.science/hal-04776866v1
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44274567

Infinite Grid of Resistors
https://www.mathpages.com/home/kmath668/kmath668.htm
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44279181

The Many Sides of Erik Satie
https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/the-many-sides-of-erik-satie/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44216921

Inside the Apollo “8-Ball” FDAI (Flight Director / Attitude Indicator)
https://www.righto.com/2025/06/inside-apollo-fdai.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44277051

If the moon were only 1 pixel: A tediously accurate solar system model (2014)
https://joshworth.com/dev/pixelspace/pixelspace_solarsystem.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44266828

I convinced HP's board to buy Palm and watched them kill it
https://philmckinney.substack.com/p/i-convinced-hps-board-to-buy-palm
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44270709

Apple's Liquid Glass is prep work for AR interfaces, not just a design refresh
https://omc345.substack.com/p/from-skeuomorphic-to-liquid-glass
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44271630

Show HN: Tattoy – a text-based terminal compositor
https://tattoy.sh
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44268644

Endometriosis is an interesting disease
https://www.owlposting.com/p/endometriosis-is-an-incredibly-interesting
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44272933

Self-Adapting Language Models
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.10943
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44271284

Implementing Logic Programming
https://btmc.substack.com/p/implementing-logic-programming
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44272467

100 years of Zermelo's axiom of choice: What was the problem with it? (2006)
https://research.mietek.io/mi.MartinLof2006.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44269002

When random people give money to random other people (2017)
https://quomodocumque.wordpress.com/2017/06/27/when-random-people-give-money-to-random-other-people/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44270144

Student discovers fungus predicted by Albert Hoffman
https://wvutoday.wvu.edu/stories/2025/06/02/wvu-student-makes-long-awaited-discovery-of-mystery-fungus-sought-by-lsd-s-inventor
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44243059

A receipt printer cured my procrastination
https://www.laurieherault.com/articles/a-thermal-receipt-printer-cured-my-procrastination
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44256499

Frequent reauth doesn't make you more secure
https://tailscale.com/blog/frequent-reath-security
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44261777

US-backed Israeli company's spyware used to target European journalists
https://apnews.com/article/spyware-italy-paragon-meloni-pegasus-f36dd32106f44398ee24001317ccf2bb
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44259398

Jemalloc Postmortem
https://jasone.github.io/2025/06/12/jemalloc-postmortem/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44264958

Microsoft Office migration from Source Depot to Git
https://danielsada.tech/blog/carreer-part-7-how-office-moved-to-git-and-i-loved-devex/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44253212

iPhone 11 emulation done in QEMU
https://github.com/ChefKissInc/QEMUAppleSilicon
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44258670

Maximizing Battery Storage Profits via High-Frequency Intraday Trading
https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.06932
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44255728

Rust compiler performance
https://kobzol.github.io/rust/rustc/2025/06/09/why-doesnt-rust-care-more-about-compiler-performance.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44234080

Rendering Crispy Text on the GPU
https://osor.io/text
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44265233

Show HN: Tritium – The Legal IDE in Rust
https://tritium.legal/preview
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44256765

Research suggests Big Bang may have taken place inside a black hole
https://www.port.ac.uk/news-events-and-blogs/blogs/space-cosmology-and-the-universe/what-if-the-big-bang-wasnt-the-beginning-our-research-suggests-it-may-have-taken-place-inside-a-black-hole
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44251047

How I Program with Agents
https://crawshaw.io/blog/programming-with-agents
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44221655

Chatterbox TTS
https://github.com/resemble-ai/chatterbox
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44251411

Show HN: Spark, An advanced 3D Gaussian Splatting renderer for Three.js
https://sparkjs.dev/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44249565

Show HN: Ikuyo a Travel Planning Web Application
https://ikuyo.kenrick95.org/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44247029

Plants hear their pollinators, and produce sweet nectar in response
https://www.cbc.ca/listen/live-radio/1-51-quirks-and-quarks/clip/16150976-plants-hear-pollinators-produce-sweet-nectar-response
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44211971

V-JEPA 2 world model and new benchmarks for physical reasoning
https://ai.meta.com/blog/v-jepa-2-world-model-benchmarks/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44248165

OpenAI o3-pro
https://help.openai.com/en/articles/9624314-model-release-notes
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44240999

AOSP project is coming to an end
https://old.reddit.com/r/StallmanWasRight/comments/1l8rhon/aosp_project_is_coming_to_an_end/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44254540

Show HN: RomM – An open-source, self-hosted ROM manager and player
https://github.com/rommapp/romm
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44247964

Magistral — the first reasoning model by Mistral AI
https://mistral.ai/news/magistral
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44236997

Launch HN: Vassar Robotics (YC X25) – $219 robot arm that learns new skills
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44240302

OpenAI dropped the price of o3 by 80%
https://twitter.com/sama/status/1932434606558462459
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44239359

Low-background Steel: content without AI contamination
https://blog.jgc.org/2025/06/low-background-steel-content-without-ai.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44239481

Show HN: Chili3d – A open-source, browser-based 3D CAD application
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44238171

Show HN: I made a 3D printed VTOL drone
https://www.tsungxu.com/p/i-made-a-3d-printed-vtol-that-can
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44241278

Mikeal Rogers has died
https://b.h4x.zip/mikeal/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44236728

Denuvo Analysis
https://connorjaydunn.github.io/blog/posts/denuvo-analysis/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44226406

We’re secretly winning the war on cancer
https://www.vox.com/health/415812/cancer-death-rates-myeloma-immunotherapy-smoking
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44219379

Malleable software: Restoring user agency in a world of locked-down apps
https://www.inkandswitch.com/essay/malleable-software/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44237881

Tell HN: Help restore the tax deduction for software dev in the US (Section 174)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44226145

Apple announces Foundation Models and Containerization frameworks, etc
https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2025/06/apple-supercharges-its-tools-and-technologies-for-developers/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44226978

Apple introduces a universal design across platforms
https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2025/06/apple-introduces-a-delightful-and-elegant-new-software-design/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44226612

Containerization is a Swift package for running Linux containers on macOS
https://github.com/apple/containerization
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44229348

Bruteforcing the phone number of any Google user
https://brutecat.com/articles/leaking-google-phones
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44224684

Marines being mobilized in response to LA protests
https://www.cnn.com/2025/06/09/politics/marines-mobilized-los-angeles-protests
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44230182

Sly Stone has died
https://abcnews.go.com/US/sly-stone-pioneering-leader-funk-band-sly-family/story?id=122666345
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44229841

Show HN: Munal OS: a graphical experimental OS with WASM sandboxing
https://github.com/Askannz/munal-os
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44226879

Container: Apple's Linux-Container Runtime
https://github.com/apple/container
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44229239

Go is a good fit for agents
https://docs.hatchet.run/blog/go-agents
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44179889

The last six months in LLMs, illustrated by pelicans on bicycles
https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jun/6/six-months-in-llms/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44215352

Kagi Reaches 50k Users
https://kagi.com/stats?stat=members
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44221450

Building supercomputers for autocrats probably isn't good for democracy
https://helentoner.substack.com/p/supercomputers-for-autocrats
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44219519

FSE meets the FBI
https://blog.freespeechextremist.com/blog/fse-vs-fbi.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44220860

Why Android can't use CDC Ethernet (2023)
https://jordemort.dev/blog/why-android-cant-use-cdc-ethernet/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44219405

Self-hosted x86 back end is now default in debug mode
https://ziglang.org/devlog/2025/#2025-06-08
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44219857

Tracking Copilot vs. Codex vs. Cursor vs. Devin PR Performance
https://aavetis.github.io/ai-pr-watcher/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44188839

Administering immunotherapy in the morning seems to matter. Why?
https://www.owlposting.com/p/the-time-of-day-that-immunotherapy
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44217876

Gaussian integration is cool
https://rohangautam.github.io/blog/chebyshev_gauss/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44215603

My first attempt at iOS app development
https://mgx.me/my-first-attempt-at-ios-app-development
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44188214

Bill Atkinson has died
https://daringfireball.net/linked/2025/06/07/bill-atkinson-rip
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44210606

Washington Post's Privacy Tip: Stop Using Chrome, Delete Meta Apps (and Yandex)
https://tech.slashdot.org/story/25/06/07/035249/washington-posts-privacy-tip-stop-using-chrome-delete-metas-apps-and-yandex
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44210689

Getting Past Procrastination
https://spectrum.ieee.org/getting-past-procastination
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44207095

Convert photos to Atkinson dithering
https://gazs.github.io/canvas-atkinson-dither/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44212446

My experiment living in a tent in Hong Kong's jungle
https://corentin.trebaol.com/Blog/8.+The+Homelessness+Experiment
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44210736

Joining Apple Computer (2018)
https://www.folklore.org/Joining_Apple_Computer.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44212441

Low-Level Optimization with Zig
https://alloc.dev/2025/06/07/zig_optimization
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44208060

Self-Host and Tech Independence: The Joy of Building Your Own
https://www.ssp.sh/blog/self-host-self-independence/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44211273

Why We're Moving on from Nix
https://blog.railway.com/p/introducing-railpack
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44208968

What was Radiant AI, anyway?
https://blog.paavo.me/radiant-ai/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44209497

The time bomb in the tax code that's fueling mass tech layoffs
https://qz.com/tech-layoffs-tax-code-trump-section-174-microsoft-meta-1851783502
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44180533

Meta: Shut down your invasive AI Discover feed
https://www.mozillafoundation.org/en/campaigns/meta-shut-down-your-invasive-ai-discover-feed-now/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44201872

How we decreased GitLab repo backup times from 48 hours to 41 minutes
https://about.gitlab.com/blog/2025/06/05/how-we-decreased-gitlab-repo-backup-times-from-48-hours-to-41-minutes/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44201975

Researchers develop ‘transparent paper’ as alternative to plastics
https://japannews.yomiuri.co.jp/science-nature/technology/20250605-259501/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44205282

A year of funded FreeBSD development
https://www.daemonology.net/blog/2025-06-06-A-year-of-funded-FreeBSD.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44204224

Falsehoods programmers believe about aviation
https://flightaware.engineering/falsehoods-programmers-believe-about-aviation/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44205590

A masochist's guide to web development
https://sebastiano.tronto.net/blog/2025-06-06-webdev/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44200895

Odyc.js – A tiny JavaScript library for narrative games
https://odyc.dev
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44200866

The Illusion of Thinking: Understanding the Limitations of Reasoning LLMs [pdf]
https://ml-site.cdn-apple.com/papers/the-illusion-of-thinking.pdf
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44203562

Sandia turns on brain-like storage-free supercomputer
https://blocksandfiles.com/2025/06/06/sandia-turns-on-brain-like-storage-free-supercomputer/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44201812

Self-hosting your own media considered harmful according to YouTube
https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2025/self-hosting-your-own-media-considered-harmful
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44197932

The impossible predicament of the death newts
https://crookedtimber.org/2025/06/05/occasional-paper-the-impossible-predicament-of-the-death-newts/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44191620

Show HN: Air Lab – A portable and open air quality measuring device
https://networkedartifacts.com/airlab/simulator
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44189329

Autonomous drone defeats human champions in racing first
https://www.tudelft.nl/en/2025/lr/autonomous-drone-from-tu-delft-defeats-human-champions-in-historic-racing-first
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44184900

Apple Notes Will Gain Markdown Export at WWDC, and, I Have Thoughts
https://daringfireball.net/linked/2025/06/04/apple-notes-markdown
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44191558

Eleven v3
https://elevenlabs.io/v3
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44194521

LLMs and Elixir: Windfall or Deathblow?
https://www.zachdaniel.dev/p/llms-and-elixir-windfall-or-deathblow
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44186496

parrot.live
https://github.com/hugomd/parrot.live
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44186536

I do not remember my life and it's fine
https://aethermug.com/posts/i-do-not-remember-my-life-and-it-s-fine
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44196576

Show HN: ClickStack – Open-source Datadog alternative by ClickHouse and HyperDX
https://github.com/hyperdxio/hyperdx
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44194082