top 50% 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

Building an AI server on a budget

https://www.informationga.in/blog/building-an-ai-server-on-a-budget

1 year ago

What you need to know about EMP weapons

https://www.aardvark.co.nz/daily/2025/0606.shtml

1 year ago

Top researchers leave Intel to build startup with 'the biggest, baddest CPU'

https://www.oregonlive.com/silicon-forest/2025/06/top-researchers-leave-intel-to-build-startup-with-the-biggest-baddest-cpu.html

1 year ago

What methylene blue can (and can’t) do for the brain

https://neurofrontiers.blog/what-methylene-blue-can-and-cant-do-for-the-brain/

1 year ago

Supreme Court allows DOGE to access social security data

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/supreme-court/supreme-court-trump-doge-social-security-data-access-elon-musk-rcna206515

1 year ago

An Interactive Guide to Rate Limiting

https://blog.sagyamthapa.com.np/interactive-guide-to-rate-limiting

1 year ago

Show HN: AI game animation sprite generator

https://www.godmodeai.cloud/ai-sprite-generator

1 year ago

Being fat is a trap

https://federicopereiro.com/fat-trap/

1 year ago

Test Postgres in Python Like SQLite

https://github.com/wey-gu/py-pglite

1 year ago

United States Digital Service Origins

https://usdigitalserviceorigins.org/

1 year ago

Animate a mesh across a sphere's surface

https://garden.bradwoods.io/notes/javascript/three-js/animate-a-mesh-on-a-spheres-surface

1 year ago

Curate your shell history

https://esham.io/2025/05/shell-history

1 year ago

Doge Developed Error-Prone AI Tool to "Munch" Veterans Affairs Contracts

https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-doge-veterans-affairs-ai-contracts-health-care

1 year ago

Online sports betting: As you do well, they cut you off

https://doc.searls.com/2025/05/21/online-sports-betting-is-for-losers/

1 year ago

Medieval Africans had a unique process for purifying gold with glass (2019)

https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/medieval-african-gold

1 year ago

Sharing everything I could understand about gradient noise

https://blog.pkh.me/p/42-sharing-everything-i-could-understand-about-gradient-noise.html

1 year ago

Supreme Court Gives Doge Access to Social Security Data

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-06-06/supreme-court-gives-doge-access-to-social-security-data

1 year ago

Smalltalk, Haskell and Lisp

https://storytotell.org/smalltalk-haskell-and-lisp

1 year ago

Highly efficient matrix transpose in Mojo

https://veitner.bearblog.dev/highly-efficient-matrix-transpose-in-mojo/

1 year ago

Small Programs and Languages

https://ratfactor.com/cards/pl-small

1 year ago

OpenAI is retaining all ChatGPT logs "indefinitely." Here's who's affected

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/06/openai-confronts-user-panic-over-court-ordered-retention-of-chatgpt-logs/

1 year ago

Workhorse LLMs: Why Open Source Models Dominate Closed Source for Batch Tasks

https://sutro.sh/blog/workhorse-llms-why-open-source-models-win-for-batch-tasks

1 year ago

The X.Org Server just got forked (announcing XLibre)

https://github.com/X11Libre/xserver/commits/xlibre/prepare/

1 year ago

What “working” means in the era of AI apps

https://a16z.com/revenue-benchmarks-ai-apps/

1 year ago

VPN providers in France ordered to block pirate sports IPTV

https://torrentfreak.com/major-vpn-providers-ordered-to-block-pirate-sports-streaming-sites-250516/

1 year ago

Ask HN: Any good tools for viewing congressional bills?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44202110

1 year ago

Anthropic co-founder on cutting access to Windsurf

https://techcrunch.com/2025/06/05/anthropic-co-founder-on-cutting-access-to-windsurf-it-would-be-odd-for-us-to-sell-claude-to-openai/

1 year ago

Self-reported race, ethnicity don't match genetic ancestry in the U.S.: study

https://www.science.org/content/article/race-ethnicity-don-t-match-genetic-ancestry-according-large-u-s-study

1 year ago

Weaponizing Dependabot: Pwn Request at its finest

https://boostsecurity.io/blog/weaponizing-dependabot-pwn-request-at-its-finest

1 year ago

Swift and the Cute 2d game framework: Setting up a project with CMake

https://layer22.com/swift-and-cute-framework-setting-up-a-project-with-cmake

1 year ago

Series C and scale

https://www.cursor.com/en/blog/series-c

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

A Primer on Molecular Dynamics

https://www.owlposting.com/p/a-primer-on-molecular-dynamics

1 year ago

Freight rail fueled a new luxury overnight train startup

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/how-freight-rail-fueled-a-new-luxury-overnight-train-startup

1 year ago

Why Bell Labs Worked

https://1517.substack.com/p/why-bell-labs-worked

1 year ago

A man rebuilding the last Inca rope bridge

https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/last-inca-rope-bridge-qeswachaka-tradition

1 year ago

Open Source Distilling

https://opensourcedistilling.com/

1 year ago

A maths proof that is only true in Japan

https://www.newscientist.com/article/2482461-the-bizarre-story-of-a-maths-proof-that-is-only-true-in-japan/

1 year ago

Tesla seeks to block city of Austin from releasing records on robotaxi trial

https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/tesla-seeks-block-city-austin-releasing-records-robotaxi-trial-2025-06-06/

1 year ago

AMD Radeon 8050S “Strix Halo” Linux Graphics Performance Review

https://www.phoronix.com/review/amd-radeon-8050s-graphics

1 year ago

NASA Mars Orbiter Captures Volcano Peeking Above Morning Cloud Tops

https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/nasa-mars-orbiter-captures-volcano-peeking-above-morning-cloud-tops/

1 year ago

See how a dollar would have grown over the past 94 years [pdf]

https://www.newyorklifeinvestments.com/assets/documents/education/investing-essentials-growthofadollar.pdf

1 year ago

A leaderless NASA faces its biggest-ever cuts

https://www.economist.com/science-and-technology/2025/06/04/a-leaderless-nasa-faces-its-biggest-ever-cuts

1 year ago

Free Gaussian Primitives at Anytime Anywhere for Dynamic Scene Reconstruction

https://zju3dv.github.io/freetimegs/

1 year ago

Pi in Pascal's Triangle (2014)

https://www.cut-the-knot.org/arithmetic/algebra/PiInPascal.shtml

1 year ago

Digital Minister wants open standards and open source as guiding principle

https://www.heise.de/en/news/Digital-Minister-wants-open-standards-and-open-source-as-guiding-principle-10414632.html

1 year ago

Google confirms more ads on your paid YouTube Premium Lite soon

https://www.neowin.net/news/google-confirms-more-ads-on-your-paid-youtube-premium-lite-soon/

1 year ago