top 20 hacker news stories for 2025-06-24

Writing toy software is a joy

https://blog.jsbarretto.com/post/software-is-joy

1 year ago

A new PNG spec

https://www.programmax.net/articles/png-is-back/

1 year ago

Fun with uv and PEP 723

https://www.cottongeeks.com/articles/2025-06-24-fun-with-uv-and-pep-723

1 year ago

Man 'refused entry into US' as border control catch him with bald JD Vance meme

https://www.dublinlive.ie/news/world-news/man-refused-entry-us-border-31925059

1 year ago

Starship: A minimal, fast, and customizable prompt for any shell

https://starship.rs/

1 year ago

PlasticList – Plastic Levels in Foods

https://www.plasticlist.org/

1 year ago

Finding a 27-year-old easter egg in the Power Mac G3 ROM

https://www.downtowndougbrown.com/2025/06/finding-a-27-year-old-easter-egg-in-the-power-mac-g3-rom/

1 year ago

Basic Facts about GPUs

https://damek.github.io/random/basic-facts-about-gpus/

1 year ago

ChatGPT's enterprise success against Copilot fuels OpenAI/Microsoft rivalry

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-06-24/chatgpt-vs-copilot-inside-the-openai-and-microsoft-rivalry

1 year ago

The bitter lesson is coming for tokenization

https://lucalp.dev/bitter-lesson-tokenization-and-blt/

1 year ago

National Archives at College Park, MD, will become a restricted federal facility

https://www.archives.gov/college-park

1 year ago

XBOW, an autonomous penetration tester, has reached the top spot on HackerOne

https://xbow.com/blog/top-1-how-xbow-did-it/

1 year ago

Ancient X11 scaling technology

https://flak.tedunangst.com/post/forbidden-secrets-of-ancient-X11-scaling-technology-revealed

1 year ago

FICO to incorporate buy-now-pay-later loans into credit scores

https://www.axios.com/2025/06/23/fico-credit-scores-bnpl-buy-now-pay-later

1 year ago

The NO FAKES act has changed, and it's worse

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/06/no-fakes-act-has-changed-and-its-so-much-worse

1 year ago

Switching Pip to Uv in a Dockerized Flask / Django App

https://nickjanetakis.com/blog/switching-pip-to-uv-in-a-dockerized-flask-or-django-app

1 year ago

Excalidraw+ Is Now SoC 2 Certified

https://plus.excalidraw.com/blog/excalidraw-soc2

1 year ago

Subsecond: A runtime hotpatching engine for Rust hot-reloading

https://docs.rs/subsecond/0.7.0-alpha.1/subsecond/index.html

1 year ago

Gemini Robotics On-Device brings AI to local robotic devices

https://deepmind.google/discover/blog/gemini-robotics-on-device-brings-ai-to-local-robotic-devices/

1 year ago

How to Think About Time in Programming

https://shanrauf.com/archive/how-to-think-about-time-in-programming

1 year ago