top 50% 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

Discovering a JDK Race Condition, and Debugging It in 30 Minutes with Fray

https://aoli.al/blogs/jdk-bug/

1 year ago

Windows 10 spies on your use of System Settings (2021)

https://www.michaelhorowitz.com/Windows10.spying.onsettings.php

1 year ago

Hate Radio (2011)

https://rwandanstories.org/genocide/hate_radio.html

1 year ago

After Pornhub left France, this VPN saw a 1,000% surge in signups in 30 minutes

https://mashable.com/article/proton-vpn-pornhub-france

1 year ago

Lessons from That 1834 Landscape Gardening Guidebook

https://fi-le.net/pueckler/

1 year ago

You need much less memory than time

https://blog.computationalcomplexity.org/2025/02/you-need-much-less-memory-than-time.html

1 year ago

If it works, it's not AI: a commercial look at AI startups (1999)

https://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/80558

1 year ago

The concurrency trap: How an atomic counter stalled a pipeline

https://www.conviva.com/platform/the-concurrency-trap-how-an-atomic-counter-stalled-a-pipeline/

1 year ago

Why Pandas feels clunky when coming from R (2024)

https://www.sumsar.net/blog/pandas-feels-clunky-when-coming-from-r/

1 year ago

I'm Wirecutter's water-quality expert. I don't filter my water

https://www.nytimes.com/wirecutter/reviews/know-your-water-quality/

1 year ago

Why Understanding Software Cycle Time Is Messy, Not Magic

https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.05040

1 year ago

EFF to the FTC: DMCA Section 1201 Creates Anti-Competitive Regulatory Barriers

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/06/eff-files-comments-ftc-regarding-reducing-anti-competitive-regulatory-barriers

1 year ago

The startling rise of disability in America (2013)

https://apps.npr.org/unfit-for-work/

1 year ago

The US is turning into a mass techno-surveillance state

https://english.elpais.com/usa/2025-06-05/how-the-us-is-turning-into-a-mass-techno-surveillance-state.html

1 year ago

Tesla AI VP Milan Kovac Resigns After 9 Years Leading FSD and Optimus Projects

https://gearmusk.com/2025/06/07/tesla-ai-vp-milan-kovac-resigns/

1 year ago

Dolphin Emulator Progress Report: Release 2506

https://dolphin-emu.org/blog/2025/06/04/dolphin-progress-report-release-2506/

1 year ago

The “Frankfurt Kitchen”

https://museumderdinge.org/programme/exhibitions/the-frankfurt-kitchen/

1 year ago

Updates to Advanced Voice Mode for paid users

https://help.openai.com/en/articles/6825453-chatgpt-release-notes

1 year ago

Taurine and aging: Is there anything to it?

https://www.science.org/content/blog-post/taurine-and-aging-there-anything-it

1 year ago

Why does C++ think my class is copy-constructible when it can't be?

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20250606-00/?p=111254

1 year ago

NASA delays next flight of Boeing's alternative to SpaceX Dragon

https://theedgemalaysia.com/node/758199

1 year ago