top 20 hacker news stories for 2025-06-03

Quarkdown: A modern Markdown-based typesetting system

https://github.com/iamgio/quarkdown

2 months ago

668 upvotes – 273 comments

Deep learning gets the glory, deep fact checking gets ignored

https://rachel.fast.ai/posts/2025-06-04-enzyme-ml-fails/index.html

2 months ago

609 upvotes – 160 comments

Covert web-to-app tracking via localhost on Android

https://localmess.github.io/

2 months ago

581 upvotes – 343 comments

EU Commission refuses to disclose authors behind its mass surveillance proposal

https://old.reddit.com/r/europe/comments/1l2655n/the_eu_commission_refuses_to_disclose_the/

2 months ago

497 upvotes – 280 comments

(On | No) Syntactic Support for Error Handling

https://go.dev/blog/error-syntax

2 months ago

416 upvotes – 579 comments

Builder.ai Collapses: $1.5B 'AI' Startup Exposed as 'Indians'?

https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/builderai-collapses-15bn-ai-startup-exposed-actually-indians-pretending-bots-1734784

2 months ago

368 upvotes – 259 comments

How Ukraine’s killer drones are beating Russian jamming

https://spectrum.ieee.org/ukraine-killer-drones

2 months ago

352 upvotes – 431 comments

Precious Plastic is in trouble

https://www.preciousplastic.com//news/problems-in-precious-plastic

2 months ago

309 upvotes – 223 comments

AI makes the humanities more important, but also weirder

https://resobscura.substack.com/p/ai-makes-the-humanities-more-important

2 months ago

279 upvotes – 312 comments

Brain aging shows nonlinear transitions, suggesting a midlife "critical window"

https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2416433122

2 months ago

276 upvotes – 150 comments

Covert Web-to-App Tracking via Localhost on Android

https://localmess.github.io/

2 months ago

261 upvotes – 6 comments

Swift at Apple: Migrating the Password Monitoring Service from Java

https://www.swift.org/blog/swift-at-apple-migrating-the-password-monitoring-service-from-java/

2 months ago

243 upvotes – 229 comments

Show HN: AirAP AirPlay server – AirPlay to an iOS Device

https://github.com/neon443/AirAP

2 months ago

207 upvotes – 38 comments

Wendelstein 7-X sets new fusion record

https://www.heise.de/en/news/Wendelstein-7-X-sets-new-fusion-record-10422955.html

2 months ago

204 upvotes – 68 comments

A deep dive into self-improving AI and the Darwin-Gödel Machine

https://richardcsuwandi.github.io/blog/2025/dgm/

2 months ago

195 upvotes – 98 comments

Vision Language Models Are Biased

https://vlmsarebiased.github.io/

2 months ago

176 upvotes – 141 comments

Show HN: I wrote a Java decompiler in pure C language

https://github.com/neocanable/garlic

2 months ago

172 upvotes – 96 comments

The Metamorphosis of Prime Intellect (1994)

https://localroger.com/prime-intellect/mopiall.html

2 months ago

167 upvotes – 86 comments

The Small World of English

https://www.inotherwords.app/linguabase/

2 months ago

157 upvotes – 70 comments

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

https://github.com/unvalley/ephe

2 months ago

143 upvotes – 54 comments
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