top 50% hacker news stories for 2025-06-05

The impossible predicament of the death newts

https://crookedtimber.org/2025/06/05/occasional-paper-the-impossible-predicament-of-the-death-newts/

1 year ago

Show HN: Air Lab – A portable and open air quality measuring device

https://networkedartifacts.com/airlab/simulator

1 year ago

Google restricts Android sideloading

https://puri.sm/posts/google-restricts-android-sideloading-what-it-means-for-user-autonomy-and-the-future-of-mobile-freedom/

1 year ago

Apple Notes Will Gain Markdown Export at WWDC, and, I Have Thoughts

https://daringfireball.net/linked/2025/06/04/apple-notes-markdown

1 year ago

Gemini-2.5-pro-preview-06-05

https://deepmind.google/models/gemini/pro/

1 year ago

I do not remember my life and it's fine

https://aethermug.com/posts/i-do-not-remember-my-life-and-it-s-fine

1 year ago

Eleven v3

https://elevenlabs.io/v3

1 year ago

Tracking Copilot vs. Codex vs. Cursor vs. Devin PR Performance

https://aavetis.github.io/ai-pr-watcher/

1 year ago

Endangered classic Mac plastic color returns as 3D-printer filament

https://arstechnica.com/apple/2025/06/new-filament-lets-you-3d-print-parts-in-authentic-1980s-apple-computer-color/

1 year ago

Show HN: ClickStack – Open-source Datadog alternative by ClickHouse and HyperDX

https://github.com/hyperdxio/hyperdx

1 year ago

My first attempt at iOS app development

https://mgx.me/my-first-attempt-at-ios-app-development

1 year ago

Twitter's new encrypted DMs aren't better than the old ones

https://mjg59.dreamwidth.org/71646.html

1 year ago

Seven Days at the Bin Store

https://defector.com/seven-days-at-the-bin-store

1 year ago

Tokasaurus: An LLM inference engine for high-throughput workloads

https://scalingintelligence.stanford.edu/blogs/tokasaurus/

1 year ago

Show HN: I made a 3D SVG Renderer that projects textures without rasterization

https://seve.blog/p/i-made-a-3d-svg-renderer-that-projects

1 year ago

Startup Equity 101

https://quarter--mile.com/Startup-Equity-101

1 year ago

X changes its terms to bar training of AI models using its content

https://techcrunch.com/2025/06/05/x-changes-its-terms-to-bar-training-of-ai-models-using-its-content/

1 year ago

I think I'm done thinking about GenAI for now

https://blog.glyph.im/2025/06/i-think-im-done-thinking-about-genai-for-now.html

1 year ago

Show HN: Claude Composer

https://github.com/possibilities/claude-composer

1 year ago

Rare black iceberg spotted off Labrador coast could be 100k years old

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/newfoundland-labrador/black-iceberg-labrador-coast-1.7551078

1 year ago

What a developer needs to know about SCIM

https://tesseral.com/blog/what-a-developer-needs-to-know-about-scim

1 year ago

I made a search engine worse than Elasticsearch (2024)

https://softwaredoug.com/blog/2024/08/06/i-made-search-worse-elasticsearch

1 year ago

Panjandrum: The ‘giant firework’ built to break Hitler's Atlantic Wall

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20250603-the-giant-firework-built-to-break-hitlers-atlantic-wall

1 year ago

APL Interpreter – An implementation of APL, written in Haskell (2024)

https://scharenbroch.dev/projects/apl-interpreter/

1 year ago

Show HN: Ask-human-mcp – zero-config human-in-loop hatch to stop hallucinations

https://masonyarbrough.com/blog/ask-human

1 year ago

Old payphones get new life, thanks to Vermont engineer

https://www.core77.com/posts/137183/Engineer-Fixes-and-Re-Installs-Old-Payphones-Provides-Free-Calls-to-the-Public

1 year ago

From tokens to thoughts: How LLMs and humans trade compression for meaning

https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.17117

1 year ago

End of an Era: Landsat 7 Decommissioned After 25 Years of Earth Observation

https://www.usgs.gov/news/national-news-release/end-era-landsat-7-decommissioned-after-25-years-earth-observation

1 year ago

SkyRoof: New Ham Satellite Tracking and SDR Receiver Software

https://www.rtl-sdr.com/skyroof-new-ham-satellite-tracking-and-sdr-receiver-software/

1 year ago

10 Years of Betting on Rust

https://tably.com/tably/10-years-of-betting-on-rust

1 year ago

Efficient mRNA delivery to resting T cells to reverse HIV latency

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-025-60001-2

1 year ago

Show HN: iOS Screen Time from a REST API

https://www.thescreentimenetwork.com/api/

1 year ago

Phptop: Simple PHP ressource profiler, safe and useful for production sites

https://github.com/bearstech/phptop

1 year ago

DNS4EU for Public Is Available

https://www.joindns4.eu/for-public

1 year ago

Cysteine depletion triggers adipose tissue thermogenesis and weight loss

https://www.nature.com/articles/s42255-025-01297-8

1 year ago

PS5 shooter goes from 5 players to bestseller after devs defend game

https://www.polygon.com/news/602867/hypercharge-ps5-shooter-bestseller-devs-defend-game

1 year ago

How to get started with writing tech video essays

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44189391

1 year ago

Millions in west don't know they have aggressive fatty liver disease, study says

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2025/jun/05/millions-in-west-do-not-know-they-have-aggressive-fatty-liver-disease-study-says

1 year ago

Defending adverbs exuberantly if conditionally

https://countercraft.substack.com/p/defending-adverbs-exuberantly-if

1 year ago

Show HN: Container Use for Agents

https://github.com/dagger/container-use

1 year ago

Aurora, a foundation model for the Earth system

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/21/climate/ai-weather-models-aurora-microsoft.html

1 year ago

Differences in link hallucination and source comprehension across different LLM

https://mikecaulfield.substack.com/p/differences-in-link-hallucination

1 year ago

Generating Pixels One by One

https://tunahansalih.github.io/blog/autoregressive-vision-generation-part-1/

1 year ago

Magnus Carlsen might walk away from classical chess

https://lichess.org/@/MeTooSlow/blog/is-this-the-end-or-the-beginning/9aJj08zM

1 year ago

Understanding the PURL Specification (Package URL)

https://fossa.com/blog/understanding-purl-specification-package-url/

1 year ago

Musk says Trump is named in Epstein files

https://thehill.com/policy/technology/5335453-elon-musk-donald-trump-jeffrey-epstein-files/

1 year ago

ICANN fee price hike by 11% [pdf]

https://itp.cdn.icann.org/en/files/contracted-parties-communications/attn-planned-variable-accreditation-fee-adjustment-24oct24-en.pdf

1 year ago

Show HN: Lambduck, a Functional Programming Brainfuck

https://imjakingit.github.io/lambduck/

1 year ago

Canadian Government Buries “Lawful Access” Provisions in New Border Bill

https://www.michaelgeist.ca/2025/06/privacy-at-risk-government-buries-lawful-access-provisions-in-new-border-bill/

1 year ago

Trump threatens to cut Musk's government contracts, escalating their public feud

https://apnews.com/live/donald-trump-news-updates-6-5-2025

1 year ago

Musk Says SpaceX to Decommission Dragon Spacecraft Immediately

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-06-05/musk-says-spacex-to-decommission-dragon-spacecraft-immediately-mbjtsokw

1 year ago

Programming language Dino and its implementation

https://github.com/dino-lang/dino

1 year ago

How Common Is Multiple Invention?

https://www.construction-physics.com/p/how-often-do-inventions-have-multiple

1 year ago

US science is being wrecked

https://arstechnica.com/science/2025/06/us-science-is-being-wrecked-and-its-leadership-is-fighting-the-last-war/

1 year ago

Modeling land value taxes

https://progressandpoverty.substack.com/p/want-to-model-a-land-value-tax-shift

1 year ago

Track Errors First

https://www.bugsink.com/blog/track-errors-first/

1 year ago

Experimenting with no-build Web Applications

https://andregarzia.com/2025/06/experimenting-with-no-build-web-applications.html

1 year ago

Neuromorphic computing

https://www.lanl.gov/media/publications/1663/1269-neuromorphic-computing

1 year ago

Machine Learning: The Native Language of Biology

https://decodingbiology.substack.com/p/machine-learning-the-native-language

1 year ago

How Much Energy Does It Take to Think?

https://www.quantamagazine.org/how-much-energy-does-it-take-to-think-20250604/

1 year ago