top 50% hacker news stories for 2025-06-22

U.S. bombs Iranian nuclear sites

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/ckg3rzj8emjt

1 year ago

Mechanical Watch: Exploded View

https://fellerts.no/projects/epoch.html

1 year ago

Git Notes: Git's coolest, most unloved­ feature (2022)

https://tylercipriani.com/blog/2022/11/19/git-notes-gits-coolest-most-unloved-feature/

1 year ago

I wrote my PhD Thesis in Typst

https://fransskarman.com/phd_thesis_in_typst.html

1 year ago

Writing a basic Linux device driver when you know nothing about Linux drivers

https://crescentro.se/posts/writing-drivers/

1 year ago

TPU Deep Dive

https://henryhmko.github.io/posts/tpu/tpu.html

1 year ago

Klein Bottle Amazon Brand Hijacking (2021)

https://www.kleinbottle.com/Amazon_Brand_Hijacking.html

1 year ago

LibRedirect – Redirects popular sites to alternative privacy-friendly frontends

https://libredirect.github.io

1 year ago

Using Home Assistant, adguard home and an $8 smart outlet to avoid brain rot

https://www.romanklasen.com/blog/beating-brainrot-by-button/

1 year ago

U.S. strikes Iran's nuclear facilities

https://www.axios.com/2025/06/21/us-strike-iran-nuclear-israel-trump

1 year ago

Show HN: Lego Island Playable in the Browser

https://isle.pizza

1 year ago

How fast are Linux pipes anyway? (2022)

https://mazzo.li/posts/fast-pipes.html

1 year ago

Radio Garden

https://radio.garden/?2025

1 year ago

The cultural decline of literary fiction

https://oyyy.substack.com/p/the-cultural-decline-of-literary

1 year ago

Engineer creates ad block for the real world with augmented reality glasses

https://www.tomshardware.com/maker-stem/engineer-creates-ad-block-for-the-real-world-with-augmented-reality-glasses-no-more-products-or-branding-in-your-everyday-life

1 year ago

AGI is Mathematically Impossible 2: When Entropy Returns

https://philarchive.org/archive/SCHAIM-14

1 year ago

Show HN: Report idling vehicles in NYC (and get a cut of the fines) with AI

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/idle-reporter-for-nyc-dep/id6747315971

1 year ago

Sound As Pure Form: Music Language Inspired by Supercollider, APL, and Forth

https://github.com/lfnoise/sapf

1 year ago

Using an $8 smart outlet to avoid brainrot

https://www.neilchen.co/blog/kasa

1 year ago

Finding a billion factorials in 60 ms with SIMD

https://codeforces.com/blog/entry/143279

1 year ago

GOP omnibus bill would sell off USPS's EVs

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2025/06/21/trump-usps-trucks-taxes/

1 year ago

The probability of a hash collision (2022)

https://kevingal.com/blog/collisions.html

1 year ago

Canal Boat Simulator

https://jacobfilipp.com/boat/

1 year ago

Denmark Is Switching to Linux

https://www.pcgamer.com/software/operating-systems/denmark-is-switching-to-linux/

1 year ago

Why do all browsers' user agents start with "Mozilla/"? (2008)

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1114254/why-do-all-browsers-user-agents-start-with-mozilla

1 year ago

Show HN: I'm a doctor and built a responsive breathing app for anxiety and sleep

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/lungy-breathing-exercises/id1545223887

1 year ago

Wait, Why Is Israel Allowed to Have Nukes?

https://www.currentaffairs.org/news/wait-why-is-israel-allowed-to-have-nukes

1 year ago

Harry Brearley, the creator of stainless steel (2016)

https://nautil.us/the-father-of-modern-metal-235939/

1 year ago

Show HN: A Tool to Summarize Kenya's Parliament with Rust, Whisper, and LLMs

https://github.com/c12i/bunge-bits

1 year ago

Ask HN: How to regain the ability to read with focus and learn

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44346359

1 year ago

Avoiding the Global Lobotomy

https://www.jdemeta.net/p/avoiding-the-global-lobotomy

1 year ago

The AIpocalypse is here for web sites as search referrals plunge

https://www.theregister.com/2025/06/22/ai_search_starves_publishers/

1 year ago

Hawaii Highways

http://www.hawaiihighways.com/

1 year ago

The Art of Hanakami, or Flower-Petal Folding

https://origamiusa.org/thefold/article/art-hanakami-or-flower-petal-folding

1 year ago

Announcing the Clippy feature freeze

https://blog.rust-lang.org/inside-rust/2025/06/21/announcing-the-clippy-feature-freeze/

1 year ago

Playing First Contact in Eclipse, a 3-Day Sci-Fi Larp

https://mssv.net/2025/06/15/playing-first-contact-in-eclipse-a-spectacular-3-day-sci-fi-larp/

1 year ago