top 20 hacker news stories for 2025-06-03

Quarkdown: A modern Markdown-based typesetting system

https://github.com/iamgio/quarkdown

6 days ago

662 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

5 days ago

595 upvotes – 157 comments

Covert web-to-app tracking via localhost on Android

https://localmess.github.io/

6 days ago

531 upvotes – 337 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/

6 days ago

480 upvotes – 280 comments

(On | No) Syntactic Support for Error Handling

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

5 days ago

409 upvotes – 577 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

6 days ago

363 upvotes – 257 comments

How Ukraine’s killer drones are beating Russian jamming

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

6 days ago

350 upvotes – 430 comments

Precious Plastic is in trouble

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

5 days ago

308 upvotes – 222 comments

AI makes the humanities more important, but also weirder

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

6 days ago

277 upvotes – 311 comments

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

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

5 days ago

274 upvotes – 149 comments

Covert Web-to-App Tracking via Localhost on Android

https://localmess.github.io/

6 days ago

260 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/

5 days ago

240 upvotes – 228 comments

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

https://github.com/neon443/AirAP

5 days ago

205 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

6 days ago

196 upvotes – 66 comments

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

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

5 days ago

191 upvotes – 96 comments

Vision Language Models Are Biased

https://vlmsarebiased.github.io/

6 days ago

174 upvotes – 140 comments

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

https://github.com/neocanable/garlic

6 days ago

169 upvotes – 94 comments

The Metamorphosis of Prime Intellect (1994)

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

6 days ago

166 upvotes – 87 comments

The Small World of English

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

5 days ago

157 upvotes – 69 comments

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

https://github.com/unvalley/ephe

5 days ago

142 upvotes – 54 comments
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