top 10 hacker news stories for 2025-06-16

Working on databases from prison

https://turso.tech/blog/working-on-databases-from-prison

2 weeks ago

848 upvotes – 534 comments

WhatsApp introduces ads in its app

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/16/technology/whatsapp-ads.html

2 weeks ago

713 upvotes – 1028 comments

Start your own Internet Resiliency Club

https://bowshock.nl/irc/

2 weeks ago

579 upvotes – 340 comments

Accumulation of cognitive debt when using an AI assistant for essay writing task

https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.08872

2 weeks ago

390 upvotes – 426 comments

Show HN: Chawan TUI web browser

https://chawan.net/news/chawan-0-2-0.html

2 weeks ago

387 upvotes – 70 comments

Nanonets-OCR-s – OCR model that transforms documents into structured markdown

https://huggingface.co/nanonets/Nanonets-OCR-s

2 weeks ago

361 upvotes – 79 comments

What happens when clergy take psilocybin

https://nautil.us/clergy-blown-away-by-psilocybin-1217112/

2 weeks ago

353 upvotes – 557 comments

Snorting the AGI with Claude Code

https://kadekillary.work/blog/#2025-06-16-snorting-the-agi-with-claude-code

2 weeks ago

332 upvotes – 243 comments

Show HN: Canine – A Heroku alternative built on Kubernetes

https://github.com/czhu12/canine

2 weeks ago

320 upvotes – 124 comments

OpenAI wins $200M U.S. defense contract

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/06/16/openai-wins-200-million-us-defense-contract.html

2 weeks ago

319 upvotes – 277 comments
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