top 50% hacker news stories for 2025-06-19

Andrej Karpathy: Software in the era of AI [video]

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

1 year ago

The Zed Debugger Is Here

https://zed.dev/blog/debugger

1 year ago

Show HN: I wrote a new BitTorrent tracker in Elixir

https://github.com/Dahrkael/ExTracker

1 year ago

Guess I'm a rationalist now

https://scottaaronson.blog/?p=8908

1 year ago

Compiling LLMs into a MegaKernel: A path to low-latency inference

https://zhihaojia.medium.com/compiling-llms-into-a-megakernel-a-path-to-low-latency-inference-cf7840913c17

1 year ago

TI to invest $60B to manufacture foundational semiconductors in the U.S.

https://www.ti.com/about-ti/newsroom/news-releases/2025/texas-instruments-plans-to-invest-more-than--60-billion-to-manufacture-billions-of-foundational-semiconductors-in-the-us.html

1 year ago

End of 10: Upgrade your old Windows 10 computer to Linux

https://endof10.org/

1 year ago

SpaceX Starship 36 Anomaly

https://twitter.com/NASASpaceflight/status/1935548909805601020

1 year ago

What would a Kubernetes 2.0 look like

https://matduggan.com/what-would-a-kubernetes-2-0-look-like/

1 year ago

Show HN: Claude Code Usage Monitor – real-time tracker to dodge usage cut-offs

https://github.com/Maciek-roboblog/Claude-Code-Usage-Monitor

1 year ago

Elliptic Curves as Art

https://elliptic-curves.art/

1 year ago

Juneteenth in Photos

https://texashighways.com/travel-news/the-history-of-juneteenth-in-photos/

1 year ago

Show HN: A DOS-like hobby OS written in Rust and x86 assembly

https://github.com/krustowski/rou2exOS

1 year ago

Giant, all-seeing telescope is set to revolutionize astronomy

https://www.science.org/content/article/giant-all-seeing-telescope-set-revolutionize-astronomy

1 year ago

Cataphract: Medieval-fantasy roleplaying wargame, in the Black-Sea C. 1300

https://samsorensen.blot.im/cataphracts-design-diary-1

1 year ago

Curved-Crease Sculpture

https://erikdemaine.org/curved/

1 year ago

2048 with only 64 bits of state

https://github.com/izabera/bitwise-challenge-2048

1 year ago

Estrogen: A Trip Report

https://smoothbrains.net/posts/2025-06-15-estrogen.html

1 year ago

Mathematicians hunting prime numbers discover infinite new pattern

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/mathematicians-hunting-prime-numbers-discover-infinite-new-pattern-for/

1 year ago

In praise of “normal” engineers

https://charity.wtf/2025/06/19/in-praise-of-normal-engineers/

1 year ago

Literate programming tool for any language

https://github.com/zyedidia/Literate

1 year ago

From LLM to AI Agent: What's the Real Journey Behind AI System Development?

https://www.codelink.io/blog/post/ai-system-development-llm-rag-ai-workflow-agent

1 year ago

Show HN: EnrichMCP – A Python ORM for Agents

https://github.com/featureform/enrichmcp

1 year ago

Base44 sells to Wix for $80M cash

https://techcrunch.com/2025/06/18/6-month-old-solo-owned-vibe-coder-base44-sells-to-wix-for-80m-cash/

1 year ago

I feel open source has turned into two worlds

https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/tech/OpenSourceTwoWorlds

1 year ago

Dr. Demento Announces Retirement After 55-Year Radio Career

https://sopghreporter.com/2025/06/01/dr-demento-announces-retirement/

1 year ago

We’ve had a Denisovan skull since the 1930s, only nobody knew

https://arstechnica.com/science/2025/06/the-controversial-dragon-man-skull-was-a-denisovan/

1 year ago

Why do we need DNSSEC?

https://howdnssec.works/why-do-we-need-dnssec/

1 year ago

How OpenElections uses LLMs

https://thescoop.org/archives/2025/06/09/how-openelections-uses-llms/index.html

1 year ago

It's true, “we” don't care about accessibility on Linux

https://tesk.page/2025/06/18/its-true-we-dont-care-about-accessibility-on-linux/

1 year ago

Homegrown Closures for Uxn

https://krzysckh.org/b/Homegrown-closures-for-uxn.html

1 year ago

Show HN: A color name API that maps hex to the closest human-readable name

https://meodai.github.io/color-name-api/

1 year ago

I was surprised by how simple an allocator is

https://tgmatos.github.io/allocators-are-for-monkeys-with-typewriters/

1 year ago

Sunsonic 986-II – A Thai Famicom clone with keyboard and mini CRT built-in

https://mastodon.gamedev.place/@pikuma/114711138512697712

1 year ago

Show HN: I'm building an app to replace Overleaf and Notion

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44317242

1 year ago

Axolotls May Hold the Key to Regrowing Limbs

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/axolotls-may-hold-the-key-to-regrowing-limbs-and-scientists-are-unraveling-their-secrets-to-help-humans-do-the-same-180986781/

1 year ago

How Close to Black Mirror Are We?

https://www.howclosetoblackmirror.com/

1 year ago

Debunking NIST's calculation of the Kyber-512 security level (2023)

https://blog.cr.yp.to/20231003-countcorrectly.html

1 year ago

Double-Entry Ledgers: The Missing Primitive in Modern Software

https://www.pgrs.net/2025/06/17/double-entry-ledgers-missing-primitive-in-modern-software/

1 year ago

Posit floating point numbers: thin triangles and other tricks (2019)

http://marc-b-reynolds.github.io/math/2019/02/06/Posit1.html

1 year ago

Contra Ptacek's Terrible Article on AI

https://ludic.mataroa.blog/blog/contra-ptaceks-terrible-article-on-ai/

1 year ago

The Nyanja new PC-Engine/TurboGrafx 16-bit console game in development

https://sarupro.itch.io/thenyanja

1 year ago

How My Reporting on the Columbia Protests Led to My Deportation

https://www.newyorker.com/news/the-lede/how-my-reporting-on-the-columbia-protests-led-to-my-deportation

1 year ago

Geochronology supports LGM age for human tracks at White Sands, New Mexico

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adv4951

1 year ago

On memes, mimetic desire, and why it's always that deep

https://caitlynclark.substack.com/p/deeping-it-manifesto

1 year ago

Brain activity much lower when using AI chatbots, MIT boffins find

https://www.theregister.com/2025/06/18/is_ai_changing_our_brains/

1 year ago

The Scheme That Broke the Texas Lottery

https://www.newyorker.com/news/letter-from-the-southwest/the-scheme-that-broke-the-texas-lottery

1 year ago