top 20 hacker news stories for 2025-06-13

If the moon were only 1 pixel: A tediously accurate solar system model (2014)

https://joshworth.com/dev/pixelspace/pixelspace_solarsystem.html

1 year ago

Jemalloc Postmortem

https://jasone.github.io/2025/06/12/jemalloc-postmortem/

1 year ago

I convinced HP's board to buy Palm and watched them kill it

https://philmckinney.substack.com/p/i-convinced-hps-board-to-buy-palm

1 year ago

Meta invests $14.3B in Scale AI to kick-start superintelligence lab

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/12/technology/meta-scale-ai.html

1 year ago

Rendering Crispy Text on the GPU

https://osor.io/text

1 year ago

Ask HN: How do I give back to people helped me when I was young and had nothing?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44268448

1 year ago

Endometriosis is an interesting disease

https://www.owlposting.com/p/endometriosis-is-an-incredibly-interesting

1 year ago

Apple's Liquid Glass is prep work for AR interfaces, not just a design refresh

https://omc345.substack.com/p/from-skeuomorphic-to-liquid-glass

1 year ago

OxCaml - a set of extensions to the OCaml programming language.

https://oxcaml.org/

1 year ago

The Army’s Newest Recruits: Tech Execs From Meta, OpenAI and More

https://www.wsj.com/tech/army-reserve-tech-executives-meta-palantir-796f5360

1 year ago

Peano arithmetic is enough, because Peano arithmetic encodes computation

https://math.stackexchange.com/a/5075056/6708

1 year ago

Self-Adapting Language Models

https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.10943

1 year ago

Implementing Logic Programming

https://btmc.substack.com/p/implementing-logic-programming

1 year ago

Show HN: I wrote a BitTorrent Client from scratch

https://github.com/piyushgupta53/go-torrent-client

1 year ago

After millions of years, why are carnivorous plants still so small?

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/articles/carnivorous-plants-have-been-trapping-animals-for-millions-of-years-so-why-have-they-never-grown-larger-180986708/

1 year ago

Show HN: Tattoy – a text-based terminal compositor

https://tattoy.sh

1 year ago

Luxe Game Engine

https://luxeengine.com/

1 year ago

Israel launches strikes against Iran, Defense Minister says

https://www.cnn.com/2025/06/12/middleeast/israel-iran-strikes-intl-hnk

1 year ago

Major sugar substitute found to impair brain blood vessel cell function

https://medicalxpress.com/news/2025-06-major-sugar-substitute-impair-brain.html

1 year ago

Ask HN: Is ageism in tech still a problem?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44269225

1 year ago