top 50% 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

Maintaining an Android app in Google Play Store is a lot of work

https://ashishb.net/programming/maintaining-android-app/

1 year ago

Why not use DNS over HTTPS (DoH)?

https://www.bsdhowto.ch/doh.html

1 year ago

FAA to eliminate floppy disks used in air traffic control systems

https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/storage/the-faa-seeks-to-eliminate-floppy-disk-usage-in-air-traffic-control-systems

1 year ago

The Illusion of Thinking: Strengths and Limitations of Reasoning Models

https://machinelearning.apple.com/research/illusion-of-thinking

1 year ago

Knowledge Management in the Age of AI

https://ericgardner.info/notes/knowledge-management-june-2025

1 year ago

Show HN: Let’s Bend – Open-Source Harmonica Bending Trainer

https://letsbend.de

1 year ago

The wire that transforms much of Manhattan into one big, symbolic home (2017)

https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/eruv-manhattan-invisible-wire-jewish-symbolic-religious-home

1 year ago

Reverse engineering Claude Code

https://kirshatrov.com/posts/claude-code-internals

1 year ago

Trump deploys National Guard as Los Angeles protests against immigration agents

https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/world/563439/trump-deploys-national-guard-as-los-angeles-protests-against-immigration-agents-continue

1 year ago

Re: My AI skeptic friends are all nuts

https://skarlso.github.io/2025/06/07/re-my-ai-skeptic-friends-are-all-nuts/

1 year ago

Binfmtc – binfmt_misc C scripting interface

https://www.netfort.gr.jp/~dancer/software/binfmtc.html.en

1 year ago

Reflections on Sudoku, or the Impossibility of Systematizing Thought

https://rjp.io/blog/2025-06-07-reflections-on-sudoku

1 year ago

Should I Use a Carousel? (2013)

https://shouldiuseacarousel.com/

1 year ago

Focus and Context and LLMs

https://taras.glek.net/posts/focus-and-context-and-llms/

1 year ago

An innovative superfamily of fonts for code (2023)

https://monaspace.githubnext.com/

1 year ago

A Knockout Blow for LLMs?

https://garymarcus.substack.com/p/a-knockout-blow-for-llms

1 year ago

YouTuber claims to have received an offer to buy the Commodore brand

https://www.amiga-news.de/en/news/AN-2025-06-00029-EN.html

1 year ago

CEO of Health Care Software Company Convicted of $1B Fraud Conspiracy

https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/ceo-health-care-software-company-convicted-1b-fraud-conspiracy

1 year ago

Fray: A Controlled Concurrency Testing Framework for the JVM

https://github.com/cmu-pasta/fray

1 year ago

Rohde and Schwarz AMIQ Modulation Generator Teardown

https://tomverbeure.github.io/2025/04/26/RS-AMIQ-Teardown-Analog-Deep-Dive.html

1 year ago

The Diary of Samuel Pepys

https://www.historytoday.com/archive/feature/hidden-diary-samuel-pepys

1 year ago

Installing Microsoft Windows 98 in DOSBox-X

https://dosbox-x.com/wiki/Guide%3AInstalling-Windows-98#_windows_editions_this_guide_applies_to

1 year ago