top 50% hacker news stories for 2025-06-17

Honda conducts successful launch and landing of experimental reusable rocket

https://global.honda/en/topics/2025/c_2025-06-17ceng.html

1 year ago

The Grug Brained Developer (2022)

https://grugbrain.dev/

1 year ago

Resurrecting a dead torrent tracker and finding 3M peers

https://kianbradley.com/2025/06/15/resurrecting-a-dead-tracker.html

1 year ago

Building Effective AI Agents

https://www.anthropic.com/engineering/building-effective-agents

1 year ago

Fossify – A suite of open-source, ad-free apps

https://github.com/FossifyOrg

1 year ago

Generative AI coding tools and agents do not work for me

https://blog.miguelgrinberg.com/post/why-generative-ai-coding-tools-and-agents-do-not-work-for-me

1 year ago

Now might be the best time to learn software development

https://substack.com/home/post/p-165655726

1 year ago

Making 2.5 Flash and 2.5 Pro GA, and introducing Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite

https://blog.google/products/gemini/gemini-2-5-model-family-expands/

1 year ago

Iran asks its people to delete WhatsApp from their devices

https://apnews.com/article/iran-whatsapp-meta-israel-d9e6fe43280123c9963802e6f10ac8d1

1 year ago

Bzip2 crate switches from C to 100% Rust

https://trifectatech.org/blog/bzip2-crate-switches-from-c-to-rust/

1 year ago

Brad Lander detained by masked federal agents inside immigration court

https://www.thecity.nyc/2025/06/17/brad-lander-arrest-ice-immigration-court/

1 year ago

What Google Translate can tell us about vibecoding

https://ingrids.space/posts/what-google-translate-can-tell-us-about-vibecoding/

1 year ago

Introduction to the A* Algorithm (2014)

https://www.redblobgames.com/pathfinding/a-star/introduction.html

1 year ago

No Hello

https://nohello.net/en/

1 year ago

Why JPEGs still rule the web (2024)

https://spectrum.ieee.org/jpeg-image-format-history

1 year ago

LLMs pose an interesting problem for DSL designers

https://kirancodes.me/posts/log-lang-design-llms.html

1 year ago

Selfish reasons for building accessible UIs

https://nolanlawson.com/2025/06/16/selfish-reasons-for-building-accessible-uis/

1 year ago

Should we design for iffy internet?

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

1 year ago

Show HN: I recreated 90s Mode X demoscene effects in JavaScript and Canvas

https://jdfio.com/pages-output/demos/x-mode/

1 year ago

The magic of through running

https://www.worksinprogress.news/p/the-magic-of-through-running

1 year ago

Captain Cook's missing ship found after sinking 250 years ago

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/captain-cook-missing-ship-found-hms-endeavour-b2771322.html

1 year ago

Timescale Is Now TigerData

https://www.tigerdata.com/blog/timescale-becomes-tigerdata

1 year ago

AMD's CDNA 4 Architecture Announcement

https://chipsandcheese.com/p/amds-cdna-4-architecture-announcement

1 year ago

KiCad and Wayland Support

https://www.kicad.org/blog/2025/06/KiCad-and-Wayland-Support/

1 year ago

O3 Turns Pro

https://thezvi.substack.com/p/o3-turns-pro

1 year ago

Visual History of the Latin Alphabet

https://uclab.fh-potsdam.de/arete/en

1 year ago

A Python-first data lakehouse

https://www.bauplanlabs.com/blog/everything-as-python

1 year ago

Accumulation of Cognitive Debt When Using an AI Assistant for Essay Writing Task

https://www.brainonllm.com/

1 year ago

The Humble Programmer (1972)

https://www.cs.utexas.edu/~EWD/transcriptions/EWD03xx/EWD340.html

1 year ago

Time Series Forecasting with Graph Transformers

https://kumo.ai/research/time-series-forecasting/

1 year ago

Tesla Robotaxi launch is a dangerous game of smoke and mirrors

https://electrek.co/2025/06/16/tesla-robotaxi-launch-dangerous-game-smoke-mirrors/

1 year ago

Fun with Telnet (2024)

https://brandonrozek.com/blog/fun-with-telnet/

1 year ago

Miscalculation by Spanish power grid operator REE contributed to blackout

https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/investigation-into-spains-april-28-blackout-shows-no-evidence-cyberattack-2025-06-17/

1 year ago

Virtual cells

https://udara.io/science/virtual-cells/

1 year ago

From SDR to 'Fake HDR': Mario Kart World on Switch 2

https://www.alexandermejia.com/from-sdr-to-fake-hdr-mario-kart-world-on-switch-2-undermines-modern-display-potential/

1 year ago

Finding Dead Websites

https://www.marginalia.nu/log/a_122_dead_websites/

1 year ago

The drawbridges come up: the dream of a interconnected context ecosystem is over

https://www.dbreunig.com/2025/06/16/drawbridges-go-up.html

1 year ago

The hamburger-menu icon today: Is it recognizable?

https://www.nngroup.com/articles/hamburger-menu-icon-recognizability/

1 year ago

ELIZA Reanimated: Restoring the Mother of All Chatbots

https://www.computer.org/csdl/magazine/an/2025/02/11030922/27sQDLuL7Uc

1 year ago

Claude Code feels like magic because it is iterative

https://omarabid.com/claude-magic

1 year ago

Finland warms up the world's largest sand battery, the economics look appealing

https://techcrunch.com/2025/06/16/finland-warms-up-the-worlds-largest-sand-battery-and-the-economics-look-appealing/

1 year ago

We Can Just Measure Things

https://lucumr.pocoo.org/2025/6/17/measuring/

1 year ago

"Microsoft Locked My Account – I Lost 30 Years of Photos and Work"

https://old.reddit.com/r/pcmasterrace/comments/1ldef4p/microsoft_locked_my_account_i_lost_30_years_of/

1 year ago

Ask HN: How to Deal with a Bad Manager?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44294776

1 year ago

Threat in Your Medicine Cabinet: The FDA's Gamble on America's Drugs

https://www.propublica.org/article/fda-drug-loophole-sun-pharma

1 year ago

Dinesh’s Mid-Summer Death Valley Walk (1998)

https://dineshdesai.info/dv/photos.html

1 year ago

BMW ConnectedDrive lets me control my returned rental car (Sixt)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44296237

1 year ago

Public/protected/private is an unnecessary feature

https://catern.com/private.html

1 year ago

Verified dynamic programming with Σ-types in Lean

https://tannerduve.github.io/blog/memoization-sigma/

1 year ago

Real-time action chunking with large models

https://www.pi.website/research/real_time_chunking

1 year ago

Windows 10 EOL

https://solhsa.com/oldernews2025.html#WINDOWS-10-EOL

1 year ago

Long live Xorg, I mean Xlibre

https://www.dedoimedo.com/computers/xlibre.html

1 year ago

Google aims to reinvent email with Wave (2009)

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/how-google-aims-to-reinvent-email-with-wave-1.826825

1 year ago

AI will shrink Amazon's workforce in the coming years, CEO Jassy says

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/06/17/ai-amazon-workforce-jassy.html

1 year ago

Celebrated pianist and writer Alfred Brendel dies aged 94

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2025/jun/17/celebrated-pianist-and-writer-alfred-brendel-dies-aged-94

1 year ago

An analysis of recent multithreading improvements for a smoother game

https://dev.arma3.com/post/oprep-performance-optimizations-in-220

1 year ago

George Orwell's 1984 and How Power Manufactures Truth

https://www.openculture.com/2025/06/an-introduction-to-george-orwells-1984-and-how-power-manufactures-truth.html

1 year ago

Firefox is dead to me – and I'm not the only one who is fed up

https://www.theregister.com/2025/06/17/opinion_column_firefox/

1 year ago

Show HN: RM2000 Tape Recorder, an audio sampler for macOS

https://rm2000.app

1 year ago

KDE Plasma 6.4 Released

https://kde.org/announcements/plasma/6/6.4.0/

1 year ago

Painting with Math: A Gentle Study of Raymarching (2023)

https://blog.maximeheckel.com/posts/painting-with-math-a-gentle-study-of-raymarching/

1 year ago