top 20 hacker news stories for 2025-06-14

I have reimplemented Stable Diffusion 3.5 from scratch in pure PyTorch

https://github.com/yousef-rafat/miniDiffusion

2 months ago

481 upvotes – 78 comments

Seven replies to the viral Apple reasoning paper and why they fall short

https://garymarcus.substack.com/p/seven-replies-to-the-viral-apple

2 months ago

343 upvotes – 312 comments

Poline – An enigmatic color palette generator using polar coordinates

https://meodai.github.io/poline/

2 months ago

291 upvotes – 60 comments

SIMD-friendly algorithms for substring searching (2016)

http://0x80.pl/notesen/2016-11-28-simd-strfind.html

2 months ago

223 upvotes – 35 comments

Last fifty years of integer linear programming: Recent practical advances (2024)

https://inria.hal.science/hal-04776866v1

2 months ago

216 upvotes – 83 comments

Infinite Grid of Resistors

https://www.mathpages.com/home/kmath668/kmath668.htm

2 months ago

215 upvotes – 109 comments

Google Cloud Incident Report – 2025-06-13

https://status.cloud.google.com/incidents/ow5i3PPK96RduMcb1SsW

2 months ago

209 upvotes – 218 comments

Occurences of swearing in the Linux kernel source code over time

https://www.vidarholen.net/contents/wordcount/#fuck*,shit*,damn*,idiot*,retard*,crap*

2 months ago

178 upvotes – 265 comments

Inside the Apollo “8-Ball” FDAI (Flight Director / Attitude Indicator)

https://www.righto.com/2025/06/inside-apollo-fdai.html

2 months ago

174 upvotes – 40 comments

The Tech Job Meltdown

https://www.professoraxelrod.com/p/the-tech-job-meltdown

2 months ago

171 upvotes – 78 comments

Model Once, Represent Everywhere: UDA (Unified Data Architecture) at Netflix

https://netflixtechblog.com/uda-unified-data-architecture-6a6aee261d8d

2 months ago

140 upvotes – 103 comments

Waymo's market share in San Francisco exceeds Lyft's

https://underscoresf.com/in-san-francisco-waymo-has-now-bested-lyft-uber-is-next/

2 months ago

139 upvotes – 124 comments

$100 Hamburger

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/$100_hamburger

2 months ago

139 upvotes – 52 comments

Unsupervised Elicitation of Language Models

https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.10139

2 months ago

135 upvotes – 24 comments

AMD's AI Future Is Rack Scale 'Helios'

https://morethanmoore.substack.com/p/amds-ai-future-is-rack-scale-helios

2 months ago

133 upvotes – 82 comments

Filedb: Disk-based key-value store inspired by Bitcask

https://github.com/rajivharlalka/filedb

2 months ago

130 upvotes – 14 comments

How to Build Conscious Machines

https://osf.io/preprints/thesiscommons/wehmg_v1

2 months ago

124 upvotes – 148 comments

AMD's Pre-Zen Interconnect: Testing Trinity's Northbridge

https://chipsandcheese.com/p/amds-pre-zen-interconnect-testing

2 months ago

122 upvotes – 19 comments

SSHTron: A multiplayer lightcycle game that runs through SSH

https://github.com/zachlatta/sshtron

2 months ago

115 upvotes – 12 comments

Cure Dolly's Japanese Grammar Lessons

https://kellenok.github.io/cure-script/

2 months ago

113 upvotes – 29 comments
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