top 20 hacker news stories for 2025-06-07

Bill Atkinson has died

https://daringfireball.net/linked/2025/06/07/bill-atkinson-rip

1 year ago

Self-Host and Tech Independence: The Joy of Building Your Own

https://www.ssp.sh/blog/self-host-self-independence/

1 year ago

My experiment living in a tent in Hong Kong's jungle

https://corentin.trebaol.com/Blog/8.+The+Homelessness+Experiment

1 year ago

The librarian immediately attempts to sell you a vuvuzela

https://kaveland.no/posts/2025-06-06-library

1 year ago

Washington Post's Privacy Tip: Stop Using Chrome, Delete Meta Apps (and Yandex)

https://tech.slashdot.org/story/25/06/07/035249/washington-posts-privacy-tip-stop-using-chrome-delete-metas-apps-and-yandex

1 year ago

Joining Apple Computer (2018)

https://www.folklore.org/Joining_Apple_Computer.html

1 year ago

Convert photos to Atkinson dithering

https://gazs.github.io/canvas-atkinson-dither/

1 year ago

Getting Past Procrastination

https://spectrum.ieee.org/getting-past-procastination

1 year ago

Field Notes from Shipping Real Code with Claude

https://diwank.space/field-notes-from-shipping-real-code-with-claude

1 year ago

Musk-Trump dispute includes threats to SpaceX contracts

https://spacenews.com/musk-trump-dispute-includes-threats-to-spacex-contracts/

1 year ago

Low-Level Optimization with Zig

https://alloc.dev/2025/06/07/zig_optimization

1 year ago

Plants hear their pollinators, and produce sweet nectar in response

https://www.cbc.ca/listen/live-radio/1-51-quirks-and-quarks/clip/16150976-plants-hear-pollinators-produce-sweet-nectar-response

1 year ago

Why We're Moving on from Nix

https://blog.railway.com/p/introducing-railpack

1 year ago

What was Radiant AI, anyway?

https://blog.paavo.me/radiant-ai/

1 year ago

The FAIR Package Manager: Decentralized WordPress infrastructure

https://joost.blog/path-forward-for-wordpress/

1 year ago

Coventry Very Light Rail

https://www.coventry.gov.uk/coventry-light-rail

1 year ago

A tool for burning visible pictures on a compact disc surface (2022)

https://github.com/arduinocelentano/cdimage

1 year ago

Why are smokestacks so tall?

https://practical.engineering/blog/2025/6/3/why-are-smokestacks-so-tall

1 year ago

BorgBackup 2 has no server-side append-only anymore

https://github.com/borgbackup/borg/pull/8798

1 year ago

Reverse Engineering Cursor's LLM Client

https://www.tensorzero.com/blog/reverse-engineering-cursors-llm-client/

1 year ago