top 50% hacker news stories for 2025-06-15

Why SSL was renamed to TLS in late 90s (2014)

https://tim.dierks.org/2014/05/security-standards-and-name-changes-in.html

1 year ago

How to modify Starlink Mini to run without the built-in WiFi router

https://olegkutkov.me/2025/06/15/how-to-modify-starlink-mini-to-run-without-the-built-in-wifi-router/

1 year ago

Datalog in Rust

https://github.com/frankmcsherry/blog/blob/master/posts/2025-06-03.md

1 year ago

Canyon.mid

https://canyonmid.com/

1 year ago

Childhood leukemia: how a deadly cancer became treatable

https://ourworldindata.org/childhood-leukemia-treatment-history

1 year ago

Modifying an HDMI dummy plug's EDID using a Raspberry Pi

https://www.downtowndougbrown.com/2025/06/modifying-an-hdmi-dummy-plugs-edid-using-a-raspberry-pi/

1 year ago

David Attenborough at 99: 'I will not see how the story ends'

https://www.thetimes.com/life-style/celebrity/article/david-attenborough-book-extract-age-99-lj3rd2fg7

1 year ago

Foundations of Computer Vision (2024)

https://visionbook.mit.edu

1 year ago

Journalists wary of travelling to US due to Palantir surveillance

https://bsky.app/profile/alistairkitchen.bsky.social/post/3lrjsdecc5c2x

1 year ago

3D-printed device splits white noise into an acoustic rainbow without power

https://phys.org/news/2025-06-3d-device-white-noise-acoustic.html

1 year ago

Social anxiety disorder-associated gut microbiota increases social fear

https://www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1073/pnas.2308706120

1 year ago

Q-learning is not yet scalable

https://seohong.me/blog/q-learning-is-not-yet-scalable/

1 year ago

Show HN: Zeekstd – Rust Implementation of the ZSTD Seekable Format

https://github.com/rorosen/zeekstd

1 year ago

How Frogger 2’s source code was recovered from a destroyed tape [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lvEO4IaEJlw

1 year ago

The Art of Lisp and Writing (2003)

https://www.dreamsongs.com/ArtOfLisp.html

1 year ago

Meta's Llama 3.1 can recall 42 percent of the first Harry Potter book

https://www.understandingai.org/p/metas-llama-31-can-recall-42-percent

1 year ago

Simplest C++ Callback, from SumatraPDF

https://blog.kowalczyk.info/a-stsj/simplest-c-callback-from-sumatrapdf.html

1 year ago

Telephone Exchanges in the UK

https://telephone-exchanges.org.uk/

1 year ago

Twin – A Textmode WINdow Environment

https://github.com/cosmos72/twin

1 year ago

DARPA program sets distance record for power beaming

https://www.darpa.mil/news/2025/darpa-program-distance-record-power-beaming

1 year ago

It’s nearly impossible to buy an original Bob Ross painting (2021)

https://thehustle.co/why-its-nearly-impossible-to-buy-an-original-bob-ross-painting

1 year ago

Munich from a Hamburger's perspective

https://mertbulan.com/2025/06/14/munich-from-a-hamburgers-perspective/

1 year ago

Datalog in miniKanren

https://deosjr.github.io/dynamicland/datalog.html

1 year ago

Real-time CO2 monitoring without batteries or external power

https://news.kaist.ac.kr/newsen/html/news/?mode=V&mng_no=47450

1 year ago

GNOME and Red Hat Linux eleven years ago (2009)

https://linuxgazette.net/165/laycock.html

1 year ago

Writing Toy Software Is a Joy

https://www.jsbarretto.com/blog/software-is-joy/

1 year ago

Studio Ghibli marks 40 years, but future looks uncertain

https://www.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2025/06/06/film/ghibli-anniversary-40/

1 year ago

How you breathe is like a fingerprint that can identify you

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-01835-0

1 year ago

ZX Spectrum graphics magic

https://zxonline.net/zx-spectrum-graphics-magic-the-basics-every-spectrum-fan-should-know/

1 year ago

I Wrote a Compiler

https://blog.singleton.io/posts/2021-01-31-i-wrote-a-compiler/

1 year ago

Show HN: I made an online Unicode Cuneiform digital clock

https://oisinmoran.com/sumertime

1 year ago

Nvidia CEO criticizes Anthropic boss over his statements on AI

https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/nvidia-ceo-slams-anthropic-chief-over-claims-of-job-eliminations-says-many-jobs-are-going-to-be-created

1 year ago

Iron nitride permanent magnets made with DIY ball mill [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M6XIgdS1rzs

1 year ago

Reinventing circuit breakers with supercritical CO2

https://spectrum.ieee.org/sf6-gas-replacement

1 year ago

Show HN: Tikt.com – Remove the "OK" from TikTok URL's to Download as MP3 or MP4

https://tikt.com/

1 year ago

Show HN: Meow – An Image File Format I made because PNGs and JPEGs suck for AI

https://github.com/Kuberwastaken/meow

1 year ago

An origin trial for a new HTML <permission> element (2024)

https://developer.chrome.com/blog/permission-element-origin-trial

1 year ago

Tiny-diffusion: A minimal implementation of probabilistic diffusion models

https://github.com/tanelp/tiny-diffusion

1 year ago

Let's Talk About ChatGPT-Induced Spiritual Psychosis

https://default.blog/p/lets-talk-about-chatgpt-induced-spiritual

1 year ago

The experience continues until you stop experiencing it

https://strangemachine.tv/safespace/popov/

1 year ago

I want to be a Journey Programmer Again

https://hexhowells.com/posts/journey.html

1 year ago

Large language models often know when they are being evaluated

https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.23836

1 year ago

Biofuels Policy, a Mainstay of American Agriculture, a Failure for the Climate

https://insideclimatenews.org/news/13062025/agriculture-ethanol-biofuel-policy-climate-failure/

1 year ago

Sperm are very different from all other cells

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20250613-untangling-the-mysteries-of-what-we-dont-know-about-sperm

1 year ago

FAA pick has claimed 'commercial' pilot license he doesn't have

https://www.politico.com/news/2025/06/15/trumps-faa-pick-has-claimed-commercial-pilot-license-he-doesnt-have-00406090

1 year ago

A different take on S-expressions

https://gist.github.com/tearflake/569db7fdc8b363b7d320ebfeef8ab503

1 year ago

Fake bands and artificial songs are taking over YouTube and Spotify

https://english.elpais.com/culture/2025-06-15/fake-bands-and-artificial-songs-are-taking-over-youtube-and-spotify.html

1 year ago

Show HN: Container-compose – A Docker-compose like tool for Apple containers

https://github.com/noghartt/container-compose

1 year ago

How fast can the RPython GC allocate?

https://pypy.org/posts/2025/06/rpython-gc-allocation-speed.html

1 year ago

A skyscraper that could have toppled over in the wind (1995)

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1995/05/29/the-fifty-nine-story-crisis-citicorp-center

1 year ago

The Algebra of an Infinite Grid of Resistors

https://www.mathpages.com/home/kmath669/kmath669.htm

1 year ago