Hacker News Highlights

OpenAI slams court order to save all ChatGPT logs, including deleted chats
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/06/openai-says-court-forcing-it-to-save-all-chatgpt-logs-is-a-privacy-nightmare/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44185913

FFmpeg merges WebRTC support
https://git.ffmpeg.org/gitweb/ffmpeg.git/commit/167e343bbe75515a80db8ee72ffa0c607c944a00
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44182186

IRS Direct File on GitHub
https://chrisgiven.com/2025/05/direct-file-on-github/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44182356

Why I wrote the BEAM book
https://happihacking.com/blog/posts/2025/why_I_wrote_theBEAMBook/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44179257

Cursor 1.0
https://www.cursor.com/en/changelog/1-0
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44185256

A proposal to restrict sites from accessing a users’ local network
https://github.com/explainers-by-googlers/local-network-access
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44183799

Tesla seeks to guard crash data from public disclosure
https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/musks-tesla-seeks-guard-crash-data-public-disclosure-2025-06-04/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44186780

The iPhone 15 Pro’s Depth Maps
https://tech.marksblogg.com/apple-iphone-15-pro-depth-map-heic.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44183591

Prompt engineering playbook for programmers
https://addyo.substack.com/p/the-prompt-engineering-playbook-for
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44182188

Apple Notes Expected to Gain Markdown Support in iOS 26
https://www.macrumors.com/2025/06/04/apple-notes-rumored-markdown-support-ios-26/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44183923

Deep learning gets the glory, deep fact checking gets ignored
https://rachel.fast.ai/posts/2025-06-04-enzyme-ml-fails/index.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44174965

Covert Web-to-App Tracking via Localhost on Android
https://localmess.github.io/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44169115

DiffX – Next-Generation Extensible Diff Format
https://diffx.org/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44176737

Merlin Bird ID
https://merlin.allaboutbirds.org/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44176829

Brain aging shows nonlinear transitions, suggesting a midlife "critical window"
https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2416433122
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44175905

Precious Plastic is in trouble
https://www.preciousplastic.com//news/problems-in-precious-plastic
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44175773

The Small World of English
https://www.inotherwords.app/linguabase/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44170968

Ask HN: Has anybody built search on top of Anna's Archive?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44176514

A deep dive into self-improving AI and the Darwin-Gödel Machine
https://richardcsuwandi.github.io/blog/2025/dgm/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44174856

Binary Wordle
https://wordle.chengeric.com/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44176825

My AI skeptic friends are all nuts
https://fly.io/blog/youre-all-nuts/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44163063

Cloudlflare builds OAuth with Claude and publishes all the prompts
https://github.com/cloudflare/workers-oauth-provider/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44159166

Show HN: Kan.bn – An open-source alterative to Trello
https://github.com/kanbn/kan
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44157177

Show HN: Onlook – Open-source, visual-first Cursor for designers
https://github.com/onlook-dev/onlook
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44127653

Show HN: A toy version of Wireshark (student project)
https://github.com/lixiasky/vanta
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44159758

Show HN: I build one absurd web project every month
https://absurd.website
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44162363

Quarkdown: A modern Markdown-based typesetting system
https://github.com/iamgio/quarkdown
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44167592

AI makes the humanities more important, but also weirder
https://resobscura.substack.com/p/ai-makes-the-humanities-more-important
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44166102

ThorVG: Super Lightweight Vector Graphics Engine
https://www.thorvg.org/about
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44157406

Younger generations less likely to have dementia, study suggests
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2025/jun/02/younger-generations-less-likely-dementia-study
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44160012

Root shell on a credit card terminal
https://stefan-gloor.ch/yomani-hack
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44150803

Cinematography of “Andor”
https://www.pushing-pixels.org/2025/05/20/cinematography-of-andor-interview-with-christophe-nuyens.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44149718

The Visual World of 'Samurai Jack'
https://animationobsessive.substack.com/p/the-visual-world-of-samurai-jack
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44154032

How to post when no one is reading
https://www.jeetmehta.com/posts/thrive-in-obscurity
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44155746

LibriVox
https://librivox.org/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44153738

I made a chair
https://milofultz.com/2025-05-27-i-made-a-chair.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44142259

When Fine-Tuning Makes Sense: A Developer's Guide
https://getkiln.ai/blog/why_fine_tune_LLM_models_and_how_to_get_started
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44129495

HeidiSQL Available Also for Linux
https://www.heidisql.com/forum.php?t=44068
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44125793

If you are useful, it doesn't mean you are valued
https://betterthanrandom.substack.com/p/if-you-are-useful-it-doesnt-mean
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44156935

The Rise of Judgement over Technical Skill
https://notsocommonthoughts.com/blog/ai-and-judgement/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44153732

Precision Clock Mk IV
https://mitxela.com/projects/precision_clock_mk_iv
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44144750

Progressive JSON
https://overreacted.io/progressive-json/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44147945

A Lean companion to Analysis I
https://terrytao.wordpress.com/2025/05/31/a-lean-companion-to-analysis-i/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44145517

RenderFormer: Neural rendering of triangle meshes with global illumination
https://microsoft.github.io/renderformer/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44148524

Oniux: Kernel-level Tor isolation for any Linux app
https://blog.torproject.org/introducing-oniux-tor-isolation-using-linux-namespaces/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44146830

YOLO-World: Real-Time Open-Vocabulary Object Detection
https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.17270
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44146858

Show HN: Patio – Rent tools, learn DIY, reduce waste
https://patio.so
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44147803

CCD co-inventor George E. Smith dies at 95
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/science/george-e-smith-dead.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44146619

New adaptive optics shows details of our star's atmosphere
https://nso.edu/press-release/new-adaptive-optics-shows-stunning-details-of-our-stars-atmosphere/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44147573

Father Ted Kilnettle Shrine Tape Dispenser
https://stephencoyle.net/kilnettle
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44148853

Photos taken inside musical instruments
https://www.dpreview.com/photography/5400934096/probe-lenses-and-focus-stacking-the-secrets-to-incredible-photos-taken-inside-instruments
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44139626

The ‘white-collar bloodbath’ is all part of the AI hype machine
https://www.cnn.com/2025/05/30/business/anthropic-amodei-ai-jobs-nightcap
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44136117

Systems Correctness Practices at Amazon Web Services
https://cacm.acm.org/practice/systems-correctness-practices-at-amazon-web-services/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44135638

Microsandbox: Virtual Machines that feel and perform like containers
https://github.com/microsandbox/microsandbox
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44135977

Beating Google's kernelCTF PoW using AVX512
https://anemato.de/blog/kctf-vdf
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44137715

Surprisingly fast AI-generated kernels we didn't mean to publish yet
https://crfm.stanford.edu/2025/05/28/fast-kernels.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44139454

Silicon Valley finally has a big electronics retailer again: Micro Center opens
https://www.microcenter.com/site/mc-news/article/micro-center-santa-clara-photos.aspx
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44140378

Valkey Turns One: Community fork of Redis
https://www.gomomento.com/blog/valkey-turns-one-how-the-community-fork-left-redis-in-the-dust/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44140379

The Darwin Gödel Machine: AI that improves itself by rewriting its own code
https://sakana.ai/dgm/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44135369

Show HN: Icepi Zero – The FPGA Raspberry Pi Zero Equivalent
https://github.com/cheyao/icepi-zero
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44115853

WeatherStar 4000+: Weather Channel Simulator
https://weatherstar.netbymatt.com/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44127109

Human coders are still better than LLMs
https://antirez.com/news/153
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44127739

FLUX.1 Kontext
https://bfl.ai/models/flux-kontext
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44128322

Show HN: I wrote a modern Command Line Handbook
https://commandline.stribny.name/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44126612

The radix 2^51 trick (2017)
https://www.chosenplaintext.ca/articles/radix-2-51-trick.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44132673

I'm starting a social club to solve the male loneliness epidemic
https://wave3.social
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44131513

Buttplug MCP
https://github.com/ConAcademy/buttplug-mcp
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44133706

Practical SDR: Getting started with software-defined radio
https://nostarch.com/practical-sdr
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44131984

Why is everybody knitting chickens?
https://ironicsans.ghost.io/why-is-everybody-knitting-chickens/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44108139

Making C and Python Talk to Each Other
https://leetarxiv.substack.com/p/making-c-and-python-talk-to-each
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44105746

Show HN: I rewrote my Mac Electron app in Rust
https://desktopdocs.com/?v=2025
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44118023

Japan Post launches 'digital address' system
https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2025/05/27/companies/japan-post-digital-address/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44117779

Compiler Explorer and the promise of URLs that last forever
https://xania.org/202505/compiler-explorer-urls-forever
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44117722

Long live American Science and Surplus
https://milwaukeerecord.com/city-life/long-live-american-science-surplus-which-needs-your-help/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44120507

Compiling a neural net to C for a speedup
https://slightknack.dev/blog/difflogic/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44118373

Show HN: Porting Terraria and Celeste to WebAssembly
https://velzie.rip/blog/celeste-wasm
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44101175

A toy RTOS inside Super Mario Bros. using emulator save states
https://prettygoodblog.com/p/what-threads-are-part-2
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44120241

Show HN: Typed-FFmpeg 3.0–Typed Interface to FFmpeg and Visual Filter Editor
https://github.com/livingbio/typed-ffmpeg
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44123098

Visualize and debug Rust programs with a new lens
https://firedbg.sea-ql.org/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44086429

Show HN: Tesseral – Open-Source Auth
https://github.com/tesseral-labs/tesseral
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44117059

Square Theory
https://aaronson.org/blog/square-theory
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44107942

How a hawk learned to use traffic signals to hunt more successfully
https://www.frontiersin.org/news/2025/05/23/street-smarts-hawk-use-traffic-signals-hunting
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44105965

Show HN: My LLM CLI tool can run tools now, from Python code or plugins
https://simonwillison.net/2025/May/27/llm-tools/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44110584

Show HN: Lazy Tetris
https://lazytetris.com/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44103839

Pyrefly vs. Ty: Comparing Python's two new Rust-based type checkers
https://blog.edward-li.com/tech/comparing-pyrefly-vs-ty/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44107655

BGP handling bug causes widespread internet routing instability
https://blog.benjojo.co.uk/post/bgp-attr-40-junos-arista-session-reset-incident
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44105796

Show HN: AutoThink – Boosts local LLM performance with adaptive reasoning
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44112326

LumoSQL
https://lumosql.org/src/lumosql/doc/trunk/README.md
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44105619

The Level Design Book
https://book.leveldesignbook.com
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44086973

The Ingredients of a Productive Monorepo
https://blog.swgillespie.me/posts/monorepo-ingredients/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44086917

CSS Minecraft
https://benjaminaster.com/css-minecraft/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44100148

Hacker News now runs on top of Common Lisp
https://lisp-journey.gitlab.io/blog/hacker-news-now-runs-on-top-of-common-lisp/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44099006

Owls in Towels
https://owlsintowels.org/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44101349

A new class of materials that can passively harvest water from air
https://blog.seas.upenn.edu/penn-engineers-discover-a-new-class-of-materials-that-passively-harvest-water-from-air/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44097144

TIL: timeout in Bash scripts
https://heitorpb.github.io/bla/timeout/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44096395

Lossless video compression using Bloom filters
https://github.com/ross39/new_bloom_filter_repo/blob/main/README.md
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44100179

Show HN: PgDog – Shard Postgres without extensions
https://github.com/pgdogdev/pgdog
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44099187

Trying to teach in the age of the AI homework machine
https://www.solarshades.club/p/dispatch-from-the-trenches-of-the
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44100677

GitHub MCP exploited: Accessing private repositories via MCP
https://invariantlabs.ai/blog/mcp-github-vulnerability
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44097390

TSMC bets on unorthodox optical tech
https://spectrum.ieee.org/microled-optical-chiplet
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44099407