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

2 months ago

936 upvotes – 261 comments

Jemalloc Postmortem

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

2 months ago

801 upvotes – 235 comments

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

2 months ago

687 upvotes – 498 comments

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

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

2 months ago

470 upvotes – 479 comments

Rendering Crispy Text on the GPU

https://osor.io/text

2 months ago

420 upvotes – 131 comments

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

2 months ago

396 upvotes – 206 comments

Endometriosis is an interesting disease

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

2 months ago

392 upvotes – 279 comments

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

2 months ago

331 upvotes – 348 comments

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

https://oxcaml.org/

2 months ago

313 upvotes – 118 comments

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

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

2 months ago

255 upvotes – 191 comments

Self-Adapting Language Models

https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.10943

2 months ago

246 upvotes – 75 comments

Peano arithmetic is enough, because Peano arithmetic encodes computation

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

2 months ago

246 upvotes – 141 comments

Implementing Logic Programming

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

2 months ago

217 upvotes – 77 comments

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/

2 months ago

211 upvotes – 100 comments

Show HN: I wrote a BitTorrent Client from scratch

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

2 months ago

211 upvotes – 56 comments

Show HN: Tattoy – a text-based terminal compositor

https://tattoy.sh

2 months ago

200 upvotes – 66 comments

Luxe Game Engine

https://luxeengine.com/

2 months ago

182 upvotes – 69 comments

Israel launches strikes against Iran, Defense Minister says

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

2 months ago

171 upvotes – 240 comments

Major sugar substitute found to impair brain blood vessel cell function

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

2 months ago

163 upvotes – 192 comments

Ask HN: Is ageism in tech still a problem?

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

2 months ago

150 upvotes – 186 comments
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