top 50% 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

Self-Adapting Language Models

https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.10943

1 year ago

Peano arithmetic is enough, because Peano arithmetic encodes computation

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

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

Anker is recalling over 1.1M power banks due to fire and burn risks

https://www.theverge.com/news/686084/anker-recall-uscpsc-power-bank-battery-powercore-a1263

1 year ago

The European public DNS that makes your Internet safer

https://www.dns0.eu

1 year ago

When random people give money to random other people (2017)

https://quomodocumque.wordpress.com/2017/06/27/when-random-people-give-money-to-random-other-people/

1 year ago

100 years of Zermelo's axiom of choice: What was the problem with it? (2006)

https://research.mietek.io/mi.MartinLof2006.html

1 year ago

Design Patterns for Securing LLM Agents Against Prompt Injections

https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jun/13/prompt-injection-design-patterns/

1 year ago

The Hat, the Spectre and SAT Solvers (2024)

https://www.nhatcher.com/post/on-hats-and-sats/

1 year ago

US Streetlights Are Turning Purple

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/streetlights-are-mysteriously-turning-purple-heres-why/

1 year ago

MUMPS

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MUMPS

1 year ago

Slow and steady, this poem will win your heart

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/06/12/books/kay-ryan-turtle-poem.html

1 year ago

Using computers more freely and safely (2023)

https://akkartik.name/freewheeling/

1 year ago

Denmark Wants to Dump Microsoft Software for Linux, LibreOffice

https://uk.pcmag.com/office-suites/158570/denmark-wants-to-dump-microsoft-software-for-linux-libreoffice

1 year ago

Ask HN: What is your fallback job if AI takes away your career?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44269756

1 year ago

The Emperor's New LLM

https://dayafter.substack.com/p/the-emperors-new-llm

1 year ago

The Missing Manual for Signals: State Management for Python Developers

https://bui.app/the-missing-manual-for-signals-state-management-for-python-developers/

1 year ago

How the Alzheimer's Research Scandal Set Back Treatment 16 Years (2022)

https://www.discovermagazine.com/the-sciences/false-alzheimers-study-could-set-research-back-16-years

1 year ago

Zero-Shot Forecasting: Our Search for a Time-Series Foundation Model

https://www.parseable.com/blog/zero-shot-forecasting

1 year ago

Radio pulses detected coming from ice in Antarctica

https://www.psu.edu/news/research/story/strange-radio-pulses-detected-coming-ice-antarctica#

1 year ago

U.S. Army bringing in big tech executives as lieutenant colonels

https://taskandpurpose.com/military-life/army-reserve-lt-col-tech-execs/

1 year ago

Show HN: Qrkey – Offline private key backup on paper

https://github.com/Techwolf12/qrkey

1 year ago

Dance Captcha

https://dance-captcha.vercel.app/

1 year ago

The Claude Bliss Attractor

https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/the-claude-bliss-attractor

1 year ago

Photon transport through the entire adult human head

https://www.spiedigitallibrary.org/journals/neurophotonics/volume-12/issue-02/025014/Photon-transport-through-the-entire-adult-human-head/10.1117/1.NPh.12.2.025014.full

1 year ago

Cloudflare service outage June 12, 2025

https://blog.cloudflare.com/cloudflare-service-outage-june-12-2025/

1 year ago

Urban Design and Adaptive Reuse in North Korea, Japan, and Singapore

https://www.governance.fyi/p/adaptive-reuse-across-asia-singapores

1 year ago

Anne Wojcicki Wins Bidding for 23andMe

https://www.wsj.com/tech/biotech/anne-wojcicki-wins-bidding-for-23andme-92dcfd5b

1 year ago

Geometry from Quantum Temporal Correlations

https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.13293

1 year ago

They Asked an A.I. Chatbot Questions. The Answers Sent Them Spiraling

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/13/technology/chatgpt-ai-chatbots-conspiracies.html

1 year ago

The Claude Bliss Attractor

https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/the-claude-bliss-attractor

1 year ago

xAI accused of pollution over Memphis supercomputer

https://www.politico.com/news/2025/05/06/elon-musk-xai-memphis-gas-turbines-air-pollution-permits-00317582

1 year ago

I'm the CTO of Palantir. Today I Join the Army

https://www.thefp.com/p/im-the-cto-of-palantir-today-i-join

1 year ago

US Marines carry out first known detention of civilian in Los Angeles

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-marines-carry-out-first-known-detention-civilian-los-angeles-video-shows-2025-06-13/

1 year ago