top 50% hacker news stories for 2025-06-03

Quarkdown: A modern Markdown-based typesetting system

https://github.com/iamgio/quarkdown

1 year ago

Deep learning gets the glory, deep fact checking gets ignored

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

1 year ago

Covert web-to-app tracking via localhost on Android

https://localmess.github.io/

1 year ago

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/

1 year ago

(On | No) Syntactic Support for Error Handling

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

1 year ago

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

1 year ago

How Ukraine’s killer drones are beating Russian jamming

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

1 year ago

Precious Plastic is in trouble

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

1 year ago

AI makes the humanities more important, but also weirder

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

1 year ago

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

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

1 year ago

Covert Web-to-App Tracking via Localhost on Android

https://localmess.github.io/

1 year ago

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/

1 year ago

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

https://github.com/neon443/AirAP

1 year ago

Wendelstein 7-X sets new fusion record

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

1 year ago

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

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

1 year ago

Vision Language Models Are Biased

https://vlmsarebiased.github.io/

1 year ago

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

https://github.com/neocanable/garlic

1 year ago

The Metamorphosis of Prime Intellect (1994)

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

1 year ago

The Small World of English

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

1 year ago

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

https://github.com/unvalley/ephe

1 year ago

Meta pauses mobile port tracking tech on Android after researchers cry foul

https://www.theregister.com/2025/06/03/meta_pauses_android_tracking_tech/

1 year ago

Changing Directions

https://jacobian.org/2025/jun/3/changing-directions/

1 year ago

Mapping latitude and longitude to country, state, or city

https://austinhenley.com/blog/coord2state.html

1 year ago

Claude Code Is My Computer

https://steipete.me/posts/2025/claude-code-is-my-computer

1 year ago

NYC Drivers Who Run Red Lights Get Tickets. E-Bike Riders Get Court Dates

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/24/nyregion/ebikes-scooters-cyclists-nyc.html

1 year ago

Did "Big Oil" Sell Us on a Recycling Scam?

https://daily.jstor.org/did-big-oil-sell-us-on-a-recycling-scam/

1 year ago

Destination: Jupiter

https://clarkesworldmagazine.com/liptak_06_25/

1 year ago

Show HN: Controlling 3D models with voice and hand gestures

https://github.com/collidingScopes/3d-model-playground

1 year ago

There should be no Computer Art (1971)

https://dam.org/museum/essays_ui/essays/there-should-be-no-computer-art/

1 year ago

Ask HN: Options for One-Handed Typing

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44173581

1 year ago

Fun with Futex

https://blog.fredrb.com/2025/06/02/futex-fun/

1 year ago

Show HN: Localize React apps without rewriting code

https://github.com/lingodotdev/lingo.dev

1 year ago

Plutonium Mountain: The 17-year mission to guard remains of Soviet nuclear tests (2013)

https://www.belfercenter.org/publication/plutonium-mountain-inside-17-year-mission-secure-legacy-soviet-nuclear-testing

1 year ago

Polish engineer creates postage stamp-sized 1980s Atari computer

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/06/polish-engineer-creates-postage-stamp-sized-1980s-atari-computer/

1 year ago

Ask HN: What's with the repeated job posts on "Who's hiring"?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44172465

1 year ago

KDE for Windows 10 Exiles – Upgrade your software, not your computer

https://kde.org/for/w10-exiles/

1 year ago

Can adults grow new brain cells?

https://www.livescience.com/health/neuroscience/can-adults-grow-new-brain-cells

1 year ago

IT workers struggling in New Zealand's tight job market

https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/chinese/562914/it-workers-struggling-in-new-zealand-s-tight-job-market

1 year ago

When the sun dies, could life survive on the Jupiter ocean moon Europa?

https://www.space.com/astronomy/when-the-sun-dies-could-life-survive-on-the-jupiter-ocean-moon-europa

1 year ago

GenAI Is Our Polyester

https://culture.ghost.io/genai-is-our-polyester/

1 year ago

Claude has learned how to jailbreak Cursor

https://forum.cursor.com/t/important-claude-has-learned-how-to-jailbreak-cursor/96702

1 year ago

The Shape of the Essay Field

https://paulgraham.com/field.html

1 year ago

Updates to Windows for the Digital Markets Act

https://blogs.windows.com/windows-insider/2025/06/02/updates-to-windows-for-the-digital-markets-act/

1 year ago

CVE-2024-47081: Netrc credential leak in PSF requests library

https://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2025/Jun/2

1 year ago

Show HN: PinSend – Share text between devices using a PIN(P2P, no login)

https://pinsend.app

1 year ago

How much do language models memorize?

https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.24832

1 year ago

Where in the world are babies at the lowest risk of dying?

https://ourworldindata.org/where-are-babies-at-lowest-risk-of-dying

1 year ago

New study casts doubt on the likelihood of Milky Way collision with Andromeda

https://www.durham.ac.uk/departments/academic/physics/news/new-study-casts-doubt-on-the-likelihood-of-milky-way-collision-with-andromeda/

1 year ago

Poison Pill: Is the killer behind 1982 Tylenol poisonings still on the loose?

https://www.trulyadventure.us/poison-pill

1 year ago

Show HN: An Alfred workflow to open GCP services and browse resources within

https://github.com/dineshgowda24/alfred-gcp-workflow

1 year ago

Mario Kart designers had to rethink everything to make it open world

https://www.theverge.com/interview/678097/mario-kart-world-nintendo-switch-2-interview-kosuke-yabuki

1 year ago

Yoshua Bengio Launches LawZero: A New Nonprofit Advancing Safe-by-Design AI

https://lawzero.org/en/news/yoshua-bengio-launches-lawzero-new-nonprofit-advancing-safe-design-ai

1 year ago

Gemini in Chrome

https://gemini.google/overview/gemini-in-chrome/?hl=en

1 year ago

AWS forms EU-based cloud unit as customers fret

https://www.theregister.com/2025/06/03/aws_european_sovereign_cloud/

1 year ago

Human Brain Cells on Chip for Sale – First biocomputing platform hits the market

https://spectrum.ieee.org/biological-computer-for-sale

1 year ago