top 20 hacker news stories for 2025-06-08

The last six months in LLMs, illustrated by pelicans on bicycles

https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jun/6/six-months-in-llms/

1 year ago

We’re secretly winning the war on cancer

https://www.vox.com/health/415812/cancer-death-rates-myeloma-immunotherapy-smoking

1 year ago

Building supercomputers for autocrats probably isn't good for democracy

https://helentoner.substack.com/p/supercomputers-for-autocrats

1 year ago

Why Android can't use CDC Ethernet (2023)

https://jordemort.dev/blog/why-android-cant-use-cdc-ethernet/

1 year ago

Self-hosted x86 back end is now default in debug mode

https://ziglang.org/devlog/2025/#2025-06-08

1 year ago

What happens when people don't understand how AI works

https://www.theatlantic.com/culture/archive/2025/06/artificial-intelligence-illiteracy/683021/

1 year ago

A look at Cloudflare's AI-coded OAuth library

https://neilmadden.blog/2025/06/06/a-look-at-cloudflares-ai-coded-oauth-library/

1 year ago

Ask HN: How to learn CUDA to professional level

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44216123

1 year ago

I used AI-powered calorie counting apps, and they were even worse than expected

https://lifehacker.com/health/ai-powered-calorie-counting-apps-worse-than-expected

1 year ago

Administering immunotherapy in the morning seems to matter. Why?

https://www.owlposting.com/p/the-time-of-day-that-immunotherapy

1 year ago

<Blink> and <Marquee> (2020)

https://danq.me/2020/11/11/blink-and-marquee/

1 year ago

Louis Rossmann: We've started a foundation to bring back ownership [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WBG6Vw3nxZs

1 year ago

Gaussian integration is cool

https://rohangautam.github.io/blog/chebyshev_gauss/

1 year ago

Omnimax

https://computer.rip/2025-06-08-Omnimax.html

1 year ago

Dancing brainwaves: How sound reshapes your brain networks in real time

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2025/06/250602155001.htm

1 year ago

Riding high in Germany on the world's oldest suspended railway

https://www.theguardian.com/travel/2025/jun/09/riding-high-in-germany-on-the-worlds-oldest-suspended-railway

1 year ago

Demystifying Debuggers

https://www.rfleury.com/p/demystifying-debuggers-part-1-a-busy

1 year ago

The Many Sides of Erik Satie

https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/the-many-sides-of-erik-satie/

1 year ago

Air-dried vs. Kiln-dried Wood

https://christopherschwarz.substack.com/p/air-dried-vs-kiln-dried-wood

1 year ago

Poison everywhere: No output from your MCP server is safe

https://www.cyberark.com/resources/threat-research-blog/poison-everywhere-no-output-from-your-mcp-server-is-safe

1 year ago