top 50% 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

1 year ago

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

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

1 year ago

Poline – An enigmatic color palette generator using polar coordinates

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

1 year ago

SIMD-friendly algorithms for substring searching (2016)

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

1 year ago

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

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

1 year ago

Infinite Grid of Resistors

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

1 year ago

Google Cloud Incident Report – 2025-06-13

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

1 year ago

Occurences of swearing in the Linux kernel source code over time

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

1 year ago

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

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

1 year ago

The Tech Job Meltdown

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

1 year ago

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

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

1 year ago

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

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

1 year ago

$100 Hamburger

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

1 year ago

Unsupervised Elicitation of Language Models

https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.10139

1 year ago

AMD's AI Future Is Rack Scale 'Helios'

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

1 year ago

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

https://github.com/rajivharlalka/filedb

1 year ago

How to Build Conscious Machines

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

1 year ago

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

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

1 year ago

SSHTron: A multiplayer lightcycle game that runs through SSH

https://github.com/zachlatta/sshtron

1 year ago

Cure Dolly's Japanese Grammar Lessons

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

1 year ago

Attempting to Make the Smallest* Electric Motor [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6x_NMytSA90

1 year ago

Proofs Without Words

https://artofproblemsolving.com/wiki/index.php/Proofs_without_words

1 year ago

Meta-analysis of three different notions of software complexity

https://typesanitizer.com/blog/complexity-definitions.html

1 year ago

Green Tea Garbage Collector

https://github.com/golang/go/issues/73581

1 year ago

Lisp-stat: Lisp environment for statistical computing

https://lisp-stat.dev/about/

1 year ago

Chemical knowledge and reasoning of large language models vs. chemist expertise

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41557-025-01815-x

1 year ago

Clinical knowledge in LLMs does not translate to human interactions

https://arxiv.org/pdf/2504.18919

1 year ago

UK unis to cough up to £10M on Java to keep Oracle off their backs

https://www.theregister.com/2025/06/13/jisc_java_oracle/

1 year ago

2 Minnesota lawmakers shot in politically motivated killings, governor says

https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/minnesota-lawmakers-shot-1.7561491

1 year ago

Drones will realize the promise of suicide terrorism

https://blog.exitgroup.us/p/cheap-drones-will-realize-the-promise

1 year ago

Pitfalls of premature closure with LLM assisted coding

https://www.shayon.dev/post/2025/164/pitfalls-of-premature-closure-with-llm-assisted-coding/

1 year ago

How the Final Cartridge III Freezer Works

https://www.pagetable.com/?p=1810

1 year ago

Maya Blue: Unlocking the Mysteries of an Ancient Pigment

https://www.mexicolore.co.uk/maya/home/maya-blue-unlocking-the-mysteries-of-an-ancient-pigment

1 year ago

Saab achieves AI milestone with Gripen E

https://www.saab.com/newsroom/press-releases/2025/saab-achieves-ai-milestone-with-gripen-e

1 year ago

Fujifilm X half: Is it the perfect family camera?

https://arslan.io/2025/06/14/fujifilm-x-half-is-it-the-perfect-family-camera/

1 year ago

Adding public transport data to Transitous

https://www.volkerkrause.eu/2025/06/14/transitous-adding-data.html

1 year ago

Caltrain official lived in secret apartment built illegally inside train station

https://sfstandard.com/2025/06/12/caltrain-employee-secret-apartment-burlingame-station-photos/

1 year ago

SQLite Date and Time Functions (2007)

https://www2.sqlite.org/cvstrac/wiki?p=DateAndTimeFunctions

1 year ago

Danish department determined to dump Microsoft

https://www.theregister.com/2025/06/13/danish_department_dump_microsoft/

1 year ago

Anne Wojcicki to buy back 23andMe and its data for $305M

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/06/13/anne-wojcicki-to-buy-back-23andme-and-its-data-for-305-million.html

1 year ago

Solving LinkedIn Queens with APL

https://pitr.ca/2025-06-14-queens

1 year ago

Strace Tips for Better Debugging

https://rrampage.github.io/2025/06/13/strace-tips-for-better-debugging/

1 year ago

A Straightforward Explanation of the Good Regulator Theorem

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/JQefBJDHG6Wgffw6T/a-straightforward-explanation-of-the-good-regulator-theorem

1 year ago

Tetrachromatic Vision

https://www.bookofjoe.com/2025/05/my-entry-32.html

1 year ago

For All That Is Good About Humankind, Ban Smartphones

https://jacobin.com/2025/06/ban-smartphones-tech-society/

1 year ago

RAG Is a Fancy, Lying Search Engine

https://labs.stardog.ai/rag-is-a-fancy-lying-search-engine

1 year ago

AI agent startups at Y Combinator’s Spring ’25 Demo Day

https://www.businessinsider.com/y-combinator-yc-demo-day-spring-ai-agent-startups-2025-6

1 year ago

Fixing the mechanics of my bullet chess

https://jacobbrazeal.wordpress.com/2025/06/14/fixing-the-mechanics-of-my-bullet-chess/

1 year ago

Infineon security microcontroller flaw enabled extraction of TPM secret keys

https://it4sec.substack.com/p/a-flaw-in-infineons-security-microcontrollers

1 year ago