top 50% 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

Getting free internet on a cruise, saving $170

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44291630

1 year ago

Retrobootstrapping Rust for some reason

https://graydon2.dreamwidth.org/317484.html

1 year ago

A brief, incomplete, and mostly wrong history of robotics

https://generalrobots.substack.com/p/a-brief-incomplete-and-mostly-wrong

1 year ago

OpenTelemetry for Go: Measuring overhead costs

https://coroot.com/blog/opentelemetry-for-go-measuring-the-overhead/

1 year ago

Transparent peer review to be extended to all of Nature's research papers

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-01880-9

1 year ago

DNA floating in the air tracks wildlife, viruses, even drugs

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2025/06/250603114822.htm

1 year ago

Privacy implications of browsers’ (mis)implementations of Widevine EME (2023)

https://hal.science/hal-04179324v1/document

1 year ago

Object personification in autism: This paper will be sad if you don't read (2018)

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30101594/

1 year ago

OpenAI and Microsoft tensions are reaching a boiling point

https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/openai-and-microsoft-tensions-are-reaching-a-boiling-point-4981c44f

1 year ago

Extracting memorized pieces of books from open-weight language models

https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.12546

1 year ago

Open-Source RISC-V: Energy Efficiency of Superscalar, Out-of-Order Execution

https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.24363

1 year ago

Octobass

https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/octobass

1 year ago

3D printable 6" f/5 compact travel telescope model

https://www.printables.com/model/1325533-smallest-telescope-kit-for-150750

1 year ago

Show HN: Nexus.js - Fabric.js for 3D

https://punk.cam/lab/nexus

1 year ago

NesDev.org – A community of homebrew game devs for NES and other retro consoles

https://www.nesdev.org/

1 year ago

ZjsComponent: A Pragmatic Approach to Reusable UI Fragments for Web Development

https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.11016

1 year ago

Should we design for iffy internet?

https://bytes.zone/posts/should-we-design-for-iffy-internet/

1 year ago

Breaking Quadratic Barriers: A Non-Attention LLM for Ultra-Long Context Horizons

https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.01963

1 year ago

How the BIC Cristal ballpoint pen became ubiquitous

https://www.openculture.com/2025/06/how-the-bic-cristal-ballpoint-pen-became-the-most-successful-product-in-history.html

1 year ago

USDA Pomological Watercolors

https://search.nal.usda.gov/discovery/collectionDiscovery?vid=01NAL_INST:MAIN&collectionId=81279629860007426

1 year ago

Mathematical Illustrations: A Manual of Geometry and PostScript

https://personal.math.ubc.ca/~cass/graphics/text/www/

1 year ago

Sincerity Wins the War

https://www.wheresyoured.at/sic/

1 year ago

Show HN: dk – A script runner and cross-compiler, written in OCaml

https://diskuv.com/dk/help/latest/

1 year ago

Battle to eradicate invasive pythons in Florida achieves milestone

https://phys.org/news/2025-06-eradicate-invasive-pythons-florida-stunning.html

1 year ago

The Hewlett-Packard Archive

https://hparchive.com

1 year ago

Denmark tests unmanned robotic sailboat fleet

https://apnews.com/article/denmark-robot-sailboats-baltic-sea-bfa31c98cf7c93320115c0ad0e6908c5

1 year ago

Writing in the Age of LLMs

https://www.sh-reya.com/blog/ai-writing/

1 year ago