top 50% hacker news stories for 2025-06-18

Show HN: Workout.cool – Open-source fitness coaching platform

https://github.com/Snouzy/workout-cool

1 year ago

Show HN: Unregistry – “docker push” directly to servers without a registry

https://github.com/psviderski/unregistry

1 year ago

New US visa rules will force foreign students to unlock social media profiles

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jun/18/social-media-student-visa-screening

1 year ago

Scrappy – Make little apps for you and your friends

https://pontus.granstrom.me/scrappy/

1 year ago

My iPhone 8 Refuses to Die: Now It's a Solar-Powered Vision OCR Server

https://terminalbytes.com/iphone-8-solar-powered-vision-ocr-server/

1 year ago

Airpass – Easily overcome WiFi time limits

https://airpass.tiagoalves.me/

1 year ago

Websites are tracking you via browser fingerprinting

https://engineering.tamu.edu/news/2025/06/websites-are-tracking-you-via-browser-fingerprinting.html

1 year ago

How to negotiate your salary package

https://www.complexsystemspodcast.com/episodes/how-to-negotiate-your-salary-package/

1 year ago

MiniMax-M1 open-weight, large-scale hybrid-attention reasoning model

https://github.com/MiniMax-AI/MiniMax-M1

1 year ago

Bento: A Steam Deck in a Keyboard

https://github.com/lunchbox-computer/bento

1 year ago

P-Hacking in Startups

https://briefer.cloud/blog/posts/p-hacking/

1 year ago

Using Microsoft's New CLI Text Editor on Ubuntu

https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/06/microsoft-edit-text-editor-ubuntu

1 year ago

Homomorphically Encrypting CRDTs

https://jakelazaroff.com/words/homomorphically-encrypted-crdts/

1 year ago

Framework Laptop 12 review

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/06/framework-laptop-12-review-im-excited-to-see-what-the-2nd-generation-looks-like/

1 year ago

I counted all of the yurts in Mongolia using machine learning

https://monroeclinton.com/counting-all-yurts-in-mongolia/

1 year ago

Is there a half-life for the success rates of AI agents?

https://www.tobyord.com/writing/half-life

1 year ago

Andrej Karpathy's talk on the future of the industry

https://www.donnamagi.com/articles/karpathy-yc-talk

1 year ago

The unreasonable effectiveness of fuzzing for porting programs

https://rjp.io/blog/2025-06-17-unreasonable-effectiveness-of-fuzzing

1 year ago

Unexpected security footguns in Go's parsers

https://blog.trailofbits.com/2025/06/17/unexpected-security-footguns-in-gos-parsers/

1 year ago

Show HN: Lstr – A modern, interactive tree command written in Rust

https://github.com/bgreenwell/lstr

1 year ago

Terpstra Keyboard

http://terpstrakeyboard.com/web-app/keys.htm

1 year ago

The Missing 11th of the Month (2015)

https://drhagen.com/blog/the-missing-11th-of-the-month/

1 year ago

Writing documentation for AI: best practices

https://docs.kapa.ai/improving/writing-best-practices

1 year ago

Denmark's Archaeology Experiment Is Paying Off in Gold and Knowledge

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/denmark-let-amateurs-dig-for-treasure-and-it-paid-off/

1 year ago

MCP Specification – version 2025-06-18 changes

https://modelcontextprotocol.io/specification/2025-06-18/changelog

1 year ago

Remote MCP Support in Claude Code

https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-code-remote-mcp?campaignId=13926158&source=i_email&medium=email&content=Oct2024AnalysisTool&messageTypeId=140367

1 year ago

Locally hosting an internet-connected server

https://mjg59.dreamwidth.org/72095.html

1 year ago

PWM flicker: Invisible light that's harming our health?

https://caseorganic.medium.com/the-invisible-light-thats-harming-our-health-and-how-we-can-light-things-better-d3916de90521

1 year ago

Game Hacking – Valve Anti-Cheat (VAC)

https://codeneverdies.github.io/posts/gh-2/

1 year ago

Type Inference Zoo

https://zoo.cuichen.cc/

1 year ago

Largest Wildlife Bridge Spanning 10 Lanes of CA 101 Is Nearly Complete

https://www.thedrive.com/news/worlds-largest-wildlife-bridge-spanning-10-lanes-of-101-freeway-is-nearly-complete

1 year ago

Show HN: Luna Rail – Treating night trains as a spatial optimization problem

https://luna-rail.com/en/home-2

1 year ago

Fang, the CLI Starter Kit

https://github.com/charmbracelet/fang

1 year ago

Your Brain on ChatGPT

https://www.media.mit.edu/projects/your-brain-on-chatgpt/overview/

1 year ago

Revisiting Minsky's Society of Mind in 2025

https://suthakamal.substack.com/p/revisiting-minskys-society-of-mind

1 year ago

Show HN: I built a tensor library from scratch in C++/CUDA

https://github.com/nirw4nna/dsc

1 year ago

Chromium Switching from Ninja to Siso

https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/g/chromium-dev/c/v-WOvWUtOpg

1 year ago

Low-Temperature Additive Manufacturing of Glass

https://www.ll.mit.edu/research-and-development/advanced-technology/microsystems-prototyping-foundry/low-temperature

1 year ago

Yes I Will Read Ulysses Yes

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2025/07/zachary-leader-richard-ellmann-james-joyce-review/682907/

1 year ago

Building agents using streaming SQL queries

https://www.morling.dev/blog/this-ai-agent-should-have-been-sql-query/

1 year ago

The Bethesda Declaration

https://www.science.org/content/blog-post/bethesda-declaration

1 year ago

The bad boy of bar charts: William Playfair (2023)

https://blog.engora.com/2023/05/the-bad-boy-of-bar-charts-william.html

1 year ago

Sam Altman says Meta offered OpenAI staffers $100M bonuses

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-06-17/altman-says-meta-offered-openai-staffers-100-million-bonuses

1 year ago

OpenSERDES – Open Hardware Serializer/Deserializer (SerDes) in Verilog (2020)

https://github.com/SparcLab/OpenSERDES

1 year ago

Compiler for the B Programming Language

https://github.com/tsoding/b

1 year ago

Fundamental Problems of Lisp, the Cons Cell (2024)

http://xahlee.info/comp/lisp_cons_problem.html

1 year ago

In-Memory C++ Leap in Blockchain Analysis

https://caudena.com/the-in-memory-c-leap-in-blockchain-analysis/

1 year ago

Every Google &udm=? in the world (2024)

https://serpapi.com/blog/every-google-udm-in-the-world/

1 year ago

US FDA approves Gilead's twice-yearly injection for HIV prevention

https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/us-fda-approves-gileads-twice-yearly-injection-hiv-prevention-2025-06-18/

1 year ago

Zed Debugger

https://zed.dev/debugger

1 year ago

Compact representations for arrays in Lua [pdf]

https://sol.sbc.org.br/index.php/sblp/article/view/30252/30059

1 year ago

Why I Won't Use AI

https://agentultra.com/blog/why-i-wont-use-ai/index.html

1 year ago

Student Visa Applicants Must Set Social-Media Accts to "Public" State Dept Says

https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/student-visa-applicants-must-set-social-media-accounts-to-public-state-department-says-ff71bdd5

1 year ago

Dancing Naked on the Head of a Pin: The Early History of Microphotography

https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/dancing-naked-on-the-head-of-a-pin

1 year ago

Reasoning by Superposition: A Perspective on Chain of Continuous Thought

https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.12514

1 year ago

Your Brain on ChatGPT: Accumulation of Cognitive Debt When Using an AI Assistant

https://fermatslibrary.com/s/your-brain-on-chatgpt-accumulation-of-cognitive-debt-when-using-an-ai-assistant-for-essay-writing-task

1 year ago

What is the most realistic submarine movie? (2019)

https://www.usni.org/magazines/proceedings/2019/october/what-most-realistic-submarine-movie-ever-made

1 year ago

Grokking NAT and packet mangling in Linux

https://vivekn.dev/blog/grokking-nat-and-packet-mangling-in-linux

1 year ago