top 50% hacker news stories for 2025-06-12

GCP Outage

https://status.cloud.google.com/

1 year ago

Frequent reauth doesn't make you more secure

https://tailscale.com/blog/frequent-reath-security

1 year ago

A receipt printer cured my procrastination

https://www.laurieherault.com/articles/a-thermal-receipt-printer-cured-my-procrastination

1 year ago

US-backed Israeli company's spyware used to target European journalists

https://apnews.com/article/spyware-italy-paragon-meloni-pegasus-f36dd32106f44398ee24001317ccf2bb

1 year ago

Waymo rides cost more than Uber or Lyft and people are paying anyway

https://techcrunch.com/2025/06/12/waymo-rides-cost-more-than-uber-or-lyft-and-people-are-paying-anyway/

1 year ago

Air India flight to London crashes in Ahmedabad with more than 240 onboard

https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2025/jun/12/air-india-flight-ai171-plane-crash-ahmedabad-india-latest-updates

1 year ago

Danish Ministry Replaces Windows and Microsoft Office with Linux and LibreOffice

https://www.heise.de/en/news/From-Word-and-Excel-to-LibreOffice-Danish-ministry-says-goodbye-to-Microsoft-10438942.html

1 year ago

iPhone 11 emulation done in QEMU

https://github.com/ChefKissInc/QEMUAppleSilicon

1 year ago

macOS Tahoe brings a new disk image format

https://eclecticlight.co/2025/06/12/macos-tahoe-brings-a-new-disk-image-format/

1 year ago

Microsoft Office migration from Source Depot to Git

https://danielsada.tech/blog/carreer-part-7-how-office-moved-to-git-and-i-loved-devex/

1 year ago

Cloudflare was down

https://www.cloudflarestatus.com/incidents/25r9t0vz99rp

1 year ago

Trump's NASA cuts would destroy decades of science and wipe out its future

https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2025-06-09/trumps-nasa-cuts-would-destroy-decades-of-science-and-wipe-out-its-future

1 year ago

Show HN: Tritium – The Legal IDE in Rust

https://tritium.legal/preview

1 year ago

Agentic Coding Recommendations

https://lucumr.pocoo.org/2025/6/12/agentic-coding/

1 year ago

Maximizing Battery Storage Profits via High-Frequency Intraday Trading

https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.06932

1 year ago

AOSP project is coming to an end

https://old.reddit.com/r/StallmanWasRight/comments/1l8rhon/aosp_project_is_coming_to_an_end/

1 year ago

Fields where Native Americans farmed a thousand years ago discovered in Michigan

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/massive-field-where-native-american-farmers-grew-corn-beans-and-squash-1000-years-ago-discovered-in-michigan-180986758/

1 year ago

A dark adtech empire fed by fake CAPTCHAs

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2025/06/inside-a-dark-adtech-empire-fed-by-fake-captchas/

1 year ago

Seedance 1.0

https://seed.bytedance.com/en/seedance

1 year ago

Google Pixels are no longer the AOSP reference device

https://9to5google.com/2025/06/12/android-open-source-project-pixel-change/

1 year ago

Researchers confirm two journalists were hacked with Paragon spyware

https://techcrunch.com/2025/06/12/researchers-confirm-two-journalists-were-hacked-with-paragon-spyware/

1 year ago

Ruby on Rails Audit Complete

https://ostif.org/ruby-on-rails-audit-complete/

1 year ago

Why does my ripped CD have messed up track names? And why is one track missing?

https://www.akpain.net/blog/inside-a-cd/

1 year ago

My Mac contacted 63 different Apple owned domains in an hour, while not is use

https://appaddict.app/post/my-mac-contacted-63-different-apple-owned-domains-in-one-hour-while-not-is-use

1 year ago

The Case for Software Craftsmanship in the Era of Vibes

https://zed.dev/blog/software-craftsmanship-in-the-era-of-vibes

1 year ago

Show HN: Tool-Assisted Speedrunning the Boring Parts of Animal Crossing (GCN)

https://github.com/hunterirving/pico-crossing

1 year ago

Next.js 15.1 is unusable outside of Vercel

https://omarabid.com/nextjs-vercel

1 year ago

Show HN: McWig – A modal, Vim-like text editor written in Go

https://github.com/firstrow/mcwig

1 year ago

How much EU is in DNS4EU?

https://techlog.jenslink.net/posts/dns4eu/

1 year ago

NASA Is Worth Saving

https://caseyhandmer.wordpress.com/2025/06/12/nasa-is-worth-saving/

1 year ago

First 2D, non-silicon computer developed

https://www.psu.edu/news/research/story/worlds-first-2d-non-silicon-computer-developed

1 year ago

Worldwide power grid with glass insulated HVDC cables

https://omattos.com/2025/06/12/glass-hvdc-cables.html

1 year ago

Show HN: Eyesite – Experimental website combining computer vision and web design

https://blog.andykhau.com/blog/eyesite

1 year ago

Expanding Racks [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iWknov3Xpts

1 year ago

Text-to-LoRA: Hypernetwork that generates task-specific LLM adapters (LoRAs)

https://github.com/SakanaAI/text-to-lora

1 year ago

Solving LinkedIn Queens with SMT

https://buttondown.com/hillelwayne/archive/solving-linkedin-queens-with-smt/

1 year ago

Navy backs right to repair after $13B carrier goes half-fed

https://www.theregister.com/2025/06/11/us_navy_repair/

1 year ago

The international standard for identifying postal items

https://www.akpain.net/blog/s10-upu/

1 year ago

Pentagon Has Been Pushing Americans to Believe in UFOs for Decades, New Report

https://gizmodo.com/pentagon-has-been-pushing-americans-to-believe-in-ufos-for-decades-new-report-finds-2000614615

1 year ago

Sen. Padilla is forcefully removed from Noem's news conference and handcuffed

https://apnews.com/article/alex-padilla-noem-immigration-protest-california-f67d220a0254473c53c16aa96f554239

1 year ago

Wrong ways to use the databases, when the pendulum swung too far

https://www.luu.io/posts/2025-database-pendulum

1 year ago

Spaceballs 2 Will See Rick Moranis Return as Dark Helmet

https://www.ign.com/articles/spaceballs-2-plots-a-course-for-2027-with-mel-brooks-in-first-teaser-trailer

1 year ago

Breaking My Security Assignments

https://www.akpain.net/blog/breaking-secnet-assignments/

1 year ago

Sam Altman's Lies About ChatGPT Are Growing Bolder

https://gizmodo.com/sam-altmans-lies-about-chatgpt-are-growing-bolder-2000614431

1 year ago

Being full of value‑added shit

https://feld.com/archives/2025/06/being-full-of-value%e2%80%91added-shit/

1 year ago

We investigated Amsterdam's attempt to build a 'fair' fraud detection model

https://www.lighthousereports.com/methodology/amsterdam-fairness/

1 year ago

In case of emergency, break glass

https://morrick.me/archives/10048

1 year ago

The curse of Toumaï: an ancient skull and a bitter feud over humanity's origins

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2025/may/27/the-curse-of-toumai-ancient-skull-disputed-femur-feud-humanity-origins

1 year ago

Builder.ai did not "fake AI with 700 engineers"

https://newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/p/the-pulse-137

1 year ago

Have a damaged painting? Restore it in just hours with an AI-generated “mask”

https://news.mit.edu/2025/restoring-damaged-paintings-using-ai-generated-mask-0611

1 year ago

Humans have nasal respiratory fingerprints

https://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(25)00583-4

1 year ago

Everything Is Down

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44261618

1 year ago

Firebase Global Outage

https://status.firebase.google.com/

1 year ago