top 20 hacker news stories for 2025-06-16

Working on databases from prison

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

1 year ago

WhatsApp introduces ads in its app

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

1 year ago

Start your own Internet Resiliency Club

https://bowshock.nl/irc/

1 year ago

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

https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.08872

1 year ago

Show HN: Chawan TUI web browser

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

1 year ago

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

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

1 year ago

What happens when clergy take psilocybin

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

1 year ago

Snorting the AGI with Claude Code

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

1 year ago

Show HN: Canine – A Heroku alternative built on Kubernetes

https://github.com/czhu12/canine

1 year ago

OpenAI wins $200M U.S. defense contract

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

1 year ago

Is gravity just entropy rising? Long-shot idea gets another look

https://www.quantamagazine.org/is-gravity-just-entropy-rising-long-shot-idea-gets-another-look-20250613/

1 year ago

Jokes and Humour in the Public Android API

https://voxelmanip.se/2025/06/14/jokes-and-humour-in-the-public-android-api/

1 year ago

Dull Men’s Club

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2025/jun/09/meet-the-members-of-the-dull-mens-club-some-of-them-would-bore-the-ears-off-you

1 year ago

Benzene at 200

https://www.chemistryworld.com/opinion/benzene-at-200/4021504.article

1 year ago

College baseball, venture capital, and the long maybe

https://bcantrill.dtrace.org/2025/06/15/college-baseball-venture-capital-and-the-long-maybe/

1 year ago

The Matrix (1999) Filming Locations – Shot-for-Shot – Sydney, Australia [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UVf7rMqnwI0

1 year ago

Darklang Goes Open Source

https://blog.darklang.com/darklang-goes-open-source/

1 year ago

Getting Started Strudel

https://strudel.cc/workshop/getting-started/

1 year ago

Tesla blows past stopped school bus and hits kid-sized dummies in FSD tests

https://www.engadget.com/transportation/tesla-blows-past-stopped-school-bus-and-hits-kid-sized-dummies-in-full-self-driving-tests-183756251.html

1 year ago

Salesforce study finds LLM agents flunk CRM and confidentiality tests

https://www.theregister.com/2025/06/16/salesforce_llm_agents_benchmark/

1 year ago