top 20 hacker news stories for 2025-06-06

Self-hosting your own media considered harmful according to YouTube

https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2025/self-hosting-your-own-media-considered-harmful

1 year ago

How we decreased GitLab repo backup times from 48 hours to 41 minutes

https://about.gitlab.com/blog/2025/06/05/how-we-decreased-gitlab-repo-backup-times-from-48-hours-to-41-minutes/

1 year ago

Meta: Shut down your invasive AI Discover feed

https://www.mozillafoundation.org/en/campaigns/meta-shut-down-your-invasive-ai-discover-feed-now/

1 year ago

The Illusion of Thinking: Strengths and limitations of reasoning models [pdf]

https://ml-site.cdn-apple.com/papers/the-illusion-of-thinking.pdf

1 year ago

Falsehoods programmers believe about aviation

https://flightaware.engineering/falsehoods-programmers-believe-about-aviation/

1 year ago

Researchers develop ‘transparent paper’ as alternative to plastics

https://japannews.yomiuri.co.jp/science-nature/technology/20250605-259501/

1 year ago

A year of funded FreeBSD development

https://www.daemonology.net/blog/2025-06-06-A-year-of-funded-FreeBSD.html

1 year ago

I read all of Cloudflare's Claude-generated commits

https://www.maxemitchell.com/writings/i-read-all-of-cloudflares-claude-generated-commits/

1 year ago

4-7-8 Breathing

https://www.breathbelly.com/exercises/4-7-8-breathing

1 year ago

A masochist's guide to web development

https://sebastiano.tronto.net/blog/2025-06-06-webdev/

1 year ago

How we’re responding to The NYT’s data demands in order to protect user privacy

https://openai.com/index/response-to-nyt-data-demands/

1 year ago

Dystopian tales of that time when I sold out to Google

https://wordsmith.social/elilla/deep-in-mordor-where-the-shadows-lie-dystopian-stories-of-my-time-as-a-googler

1 year ago

Odyc.js – A tiny JavaScript library for narrative games

https://odyc.dev

1 year ago

Jepsen: TigerBeetle 0.16.11

https://jepsen.io/analyses/tigerbeetle-0.16.11

1 year ago

Sandia turns on brain-like storage-free supercomputer

https://blocksandfiles.com/2025/06/06/sandia-turns-on-brain-like-storage-free-supercomputer/

1 year ago

SaaS is just vendor lock-in with better branding

https://rwsdk.com/blog/saas-is-just-vendor-lock-in-with-better-branding

1 year ago

Researchers find a way to make the HIV virus visible within white blood cells

https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2025/jun/05/breakthrough-in-search-for-hiv-cure-leaves-researchers-overwhelmed

1 year ago

Czech Republic: Petition for open source in public administration

https://portal.gov.cz/e-petice/1205-petice-za-povinne-zverejneni-zdrojovych-kodu-softwaru-pouzitych-ve-verejne-sprave

1 year ago

Infomaniak comes out in support of controversial Swiss encryption law

https://www.tomsguide.com/computing/vpns/infomaniak-breaks-rank-and-comes-out-in-support-of-controversial-swiss-encryption-law

1 year ago

Too Many Open Files

https://mattrighetti.com/2025/06/04/too-many-files-open

1 year ago