top 50% hacker news stories for 2025-06-20

YouTube's new anti-adblock measures

https://iter.ca/post/yt-adblock/

1 year ago

Harper – an open-source alternative to Grammarly

https://writewithharper.com

1 year ago

Phoenix.new – Remote AI Runtime for Phoenix

https://fly.io/blog/phoenix-new-the-remote-ai-runtime/

1 year ago

Hurl: Run and test HTTP requests with plain text

https://github.com/Orange-OpenSource/hurl

1 year ago

New Linux udisks flaw lets attackers get root on major Linux distros

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/linux/new-linux-udisks-flaw-lets-attackers-get-root-on-major-linux-distros/

1 year ago

Python can run Mojo now

https://koaning.io/posts/giving-mojo-a-spin/

1 year ago

AbsenceBench: Language models can't tell what's missing

https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.11440

1 year ago

Show HN: Nxtscape – an open-source agentic browser

https://github.com/nxtscape/nxtscape

1 year ago

I will do anything to end homelessness except build more homes (2018)

https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/i-will-do-anything-to-end-homelessness-except-build-more-homes

1 year ago

Congestion pricing in Manhattan is a predictable success

https://www.economist.com/united-states/2025/06/19/congestion-pricing-in-manhattan-is-a-predictable-success

1 year ago

Infinite Mac OS X

https://blog.persistent.info/2025/03/infinite-mac-os-x.html

1 year ago

EU Eyes Ditching Microsoft Azure for France's OVHcloud

https://www.euractiv.com/section/tech/news/scoop-commission-eyes-ditching-microsoft-azure-for-frances-ovhcloud-over-digital-sovereignty-fears/

1 year ago

Learn Makefiles

https://makefiletutorial.com/

1 year ago

How Cloudflare blocked a monumental 7.3 Tbps DDoS attack

https://blog.cloudflare.com/defending-the-internet-how-cloudflare-blocked-a-monumental-7-3-tbps-ddos/

1 year ago

Plastic bag bans and fees reduce harmful bag litter on shorelines

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adp9274

1 year ago

Visualizing environmental costs of war in Hayao Miyazaki's Nausicaä

https://jgeekstudies.org/2025/06/20/wilted-lands-and-wounded-worlds-visualizing-environmental-costs-of-war-in-hayao-miyazakis-nausicaa-of-the-valley-of-the-wind/

1 year ago

Mbake – A Makefile formatter and linter, that only took 50 years

https://github.com/EbodShojaei/bake

1 year ago

Asterinas: A new Linux-compatible kernel project

https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/1022920/ad60263cd13c8a13/

1 year ago

Alpha Centauri

https://www.filfre.net/2025/06/alpha-centauri/

1 year ago

Oklo, the Earth's Two-billion-year-old only Known Natural Nuclear Reactor (2018)

https://www.iaea.org/newscenter/news/meet-oklo-the-earths-two-billion-year-old-only-known-natural-nuclear-reactor

1 year ago

Rolling the ladder up behind us

https://xeiaso.net/blog/2025/rolling-ladder-behind-us/

1 year ago

Break Up Big Tech: Civil Society Declaration

https://peoplevsbig.tech/break-up-big-tech-civil-society-declaration/

1 year ago

Open source can't coordinate?

https://matklad.github.io/2025/05/20/open-source-cant-coordinate.html

1 year ago

BYD begins testing solid-state EV batteries in the Seal

https://electrek.co/2025/06/20/byd-tests-solid-state-batteries-seal-ev-with-1000-miles-range/

1 year ago

Meta announces Oakley smart glasses

https://www.theverge.com/news/690133/meta-oakley-hstn-ai-glasses-price-date

1 year ago

The FPGA turns 40

https://www.adiuvoengineering.com/post/the-fpga-turns-40

1 year ago

A Deep Dive into Solid Queue for Ruby on Rails

https://blog.appsignal.com/2025/06/18/a-deep-dive-into-solid-queue-for-ruby-on-rails.html

1 year ago

Rocknix is an immutable Linux distribution for handheld gaming devices

https://rocknix.org/

1 year ago

Wiki Radio: The thrilling sound of random Wikipedia

https://www.monkeon.co.uk/wikiradio/

1 year ago

JavaScript broke the web (and called it progress)

https://www.jonoalderson.com/conjecture/javascript-broke-the-web-and-called-it-progress/

1 year ago

The JAWS shark is public domain

https://ironicsans.ghost.io/how-the-jaws-shark-became-public-domain/

1 year ago

FedFlix — Public Domain Stock Footage Library

https://public.resource.org/ntis.gov/index.html

1 year ago

Tuxracer.js play Tux Racer in the browser

https://github.com/ebbejan/tux-racer-js

1 year ago

Show HN: Inspect and extract files from MSI installers directly in your browser

https://pymsi.readthedocs.io/en/latest/msi_viewer.html

1 year ago

Klong: A Simple Array Language

https://t3x.org/klong/

1 year ago

AMD's Freshly-Baked MI350: An Interview with the Chief Architect

https://chipsandcheese.com/p/amds-freshly-baked-mi350-an-interview

1 year ago

How to Design Programs 2nd Ed (2024)

https://htdp.org

1 year ago

Is mathematics mostly chaos or mostly order?

https://www.quantamagazine.org/is-mathematics-mostly-chaos-or-mostly-order-20250620/

1 year ago

Jürgen Schmidhuber:the Father of Generative AI Without Turing Award

http://www.jazzyear.com/article_info.html?id=1352

1 year ago

How malicious AI swarms can threaten democracy

https://osf.io/preprints/osf/qm9yk_v2

1 year ago

US Army Appoints Palantir, Meta, OpenAI Execs as Lt. Colonels

https://thegrayzone.com/2025/06/18/palantir-execs-appointed-colonels/

1 year ago

Kilauea volcano errupts, lava more than 1k feet high [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oG5zz9Sjw3E

1 year ago

Smartphones: Parts of Our Minds? Or Parasites?

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00048402.2025.2504070

1 year ago

Show HN: SnapQL – Desktop app to query Postgres with AI

https://github.com/NickTikhonov/snap-ql

1 year ago

Minimal Boolean Formulas (2011)

https://research.swtch.com/boolean

1 year ago

Show HN: Ts-SSH – SSH over Tailscale without running the daemon

https://github.com/derekg/ts-ssh

1 year ago

AI is going to hack Jira

https://thoughtfuleng.substack.com/p/ai-is-going-to-hack-jira

1 year ago

Career advice, or something like it

https://brooker.co.za/blog/2025/06/20/career.html

1 year ago

Tell me about your favorite tree (a slow-web proposal)

https://nannnsss.omg.lol/2025/tell-me-about-your-favorite-tree/

1 year ago

How would a passing gravitational wave look or feel? (2017)

https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/338912/how-would-a-passing-gravitational-wave-look-or-feel

1 year ago

'Dragon prince' dinosaur discovery 'rewrites' T.rex family tree

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cy8dzv3vp5jo

1 year ago

I ported pigz from Unix to Windows

https://blog.kowalczyk.info/article/4/how-i-ported-pigz-from-unix-to-windows.html

1 year ago

Adobe Project Indigo is a new photo app from former Pixel camera engineers

https://www.engadget.com/apps/adobe-project-indigo-is-a-new-photo-app-from-former-pixel-camera-engineers-213453207.html

1 year ago

Cracovians: The Twisted Twins of Matrices

https://marcinciura.wordpress.com/2025/06/20/cracovians-the-twisted-twins-of-matrices/

1 year ago

Homotopy Equivalences

https://bartoszmilewski.com/2025/06/20/weak-homotopy-equivalences/

1 year ago

Show HN: Tool to Automatically Create Organized Commits for PRs

https://github.com/edverma/git-smart-squash

1 year ago

Svalboard: Datahand Lives

https://svalboard.com/

1 year ago

ASUSpicious Flaw – Users' Information Exposed Since 2022

https://mrbruh.com/asus_p2/

1 year ago

Our crisis is not loneliness but human beings becoming invisible

https://aeon.co/essays/our-crisis-is-not-loneliness-but-human-beings-becoming-invisible

1 year ago

Show HN: Pickaxe – A TypeScript library for building AI agents

https://github.com/hatchet-dev/pickaxe

1 year ago

Minimal auto-differentiation engine in Rust

https://github.com/e3ntity/nanograd

1 year ago

Fix "pulsing" sensation when charging MacBook

https://old.reddit.com/r/apple/comments/1lgaw7m/psa_if_when_charging_your_macbook_you_get_a/

1 year ago

New dating for White Sands footprints confirms controversial theory

https://arstechnica.com/science/2025/06/study-confirms-white-sands-footprints-are-23000-years-old/

1 year ago

Amoeba: A distributed operating system for the 1990s (1990) [pdf]

https://www.cs.cornell.edu/home/rvr/papers/Amoeba1990s.pdf

1 year ago

Drinks in glass bottles contain more microplastics than those in other container

https://www.anses.fr/en/content/drinks-glass-bottles-contain-more-microplastics-those-other-containers

1 year ago

The Tandy Corporation

https://www.abortretry.fail/p/the-tandy-corporation-part-1

1 year ago

NASA Scientists Find Ties Between Earth's Oxygen and Magnetic Field

https://science.nasa.gov/earth/earth-oxygen-magnetic-field-linked/

1 year ago