top 50% hacker news stories for 2025-06-24

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

A new PNG spec

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

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

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

Writing toy software is a joy

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

1 year ago

Ancient X11 scaling technology

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

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

A federal judge sides with Anthropic in lawsuit over training AI on books

https://techcrunch.com/2025/06/24/a-federal-judge-sides-with-anthropic-in-lawsuit-over-training-ai-on-books-without-authors-permission/

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

Microplastics shed by food packaging are contaminating our food, study finds

https://www.cnn.com/2025/06/24/health/microplastics-food-packaging-study-wellness

1 year ago

Berkshire Hathaway Now Pays 5% of All Corporate Income Taxes in America

https://www.barchart.com/story/news/33003534/warren-buffetts-berkshire-hathaway-now-pays-5-of-all-corporate-income-taxes-in-america

1 year ago

Early US Intel assessment suggests strikes on Iran did not destroy nuclear sites

https://www.cnn.com/2025/06/24/politics/intel-assessment-us-strikes-iran-nuclear-sites

1 year ago

Can your terminal do emojis? How big?

https://dgl.cx/2025/06/can-your-terminal-do-emojis

1 year ago

The bitter lesson is coming for tokenization

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

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

The economics behind "Basic Economy" – A masterclass in price discrimination

https://blog.getjetback.com/the-economics-behind-basic-economy-a-masterclass-in-price-discrimination/

1 year ago

Microsoft's big lie: Your computer is fine, and you don't need to buy a new one

https://technical.ly/civic-news/windows-11-upgrade-myth-old-pcs-still-work/

1 year ago

Microsoft extends free Windows 10 security updates into 2026

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/06/microsoft-extends-free-windows-10-security-updates-into-2026-with-strings-attached/

1 year ago

iPhone customers upset by Apple Wallet ad pushing F1 movie

https://techcrunch.com/2025/06/24/iphone-customers-upset-by-apple-wallet-ad-pushing-f1-movie/

1 year ago

Korean students seek 'digital undertakers' amid US visa social media screening

https://www.koreaherald.com/article/10515737

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

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

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

SourceHut moves business operations from US to Europe

https://lists.sr.ht/~sircmpwn/sr.ht-dev/patches/60282

1 year ago

The United States has lower life expectancy than most similarly wealthy nations

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-01969-1

1 year ago

Harvard hired researcher to uncover slavery ties, fires him for finding slaves

https://www.theguardian.com/news/2025/jun/21/harvard-slavery-decendants-of-the-enslaved

1 year ago

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

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

1 year ago

US safety regulators contact Tesla over erratic robotaxis

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cg75zv4gny2o

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

The German automotive industry wants to develop open-source software together

https://www.vda.de/en/press/press-releases/2025/250624_PM_Automotive_industry_signs_Memorandum_of_Understanding

1 year ago

Tell HN: Meta developer account suspended

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44363262

1 year ago

Central Park hits temp record last seen in 1888

https://www.cnn.com/2025/06/23/weather/heat-dome-midwest-east-coast-climate

1 year ago

Basic Facts about GPUs

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

1 year ago

Excalidraw+ Is Now SoC 2 Certified

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

1 year ago

Atuin – Magical Shell History

https://atuin.sh

1 year ago

Show HN: Do you know RGB?

https://maxwellito.github.io/do-you-know-rgb/

1 year ago

Lossless LLM 3x Throughput Increase by LMCache

https://github.com/LMCache/LMCache

1 year ago

Nordic Semiconductor Acquires Memfault

https://www.nordicsemi.com/Nordic-news/2025/06/Nordic-Semiconductor-acquires-Memfault

1 year ago

Show HN: Autumn – Open-source infra over Stripe

https://github.com/useautumn/autumn

1 year ago

Why Engineers Hate Their Managers (and What to Do About It)

https://terriblesoftware.org/2025/06/24/why-engineers-hate-their-managers-and-what-to-do-about-it/

1 year ago

Solving LinkedIn Queens Using Haskell

https://imiron.io/post/linkedin-queens/

1 year ago

Show HN: Comparator - I built a free, open-source app to compare job offers

https://comparator-one.vercel.app/

1 year ago

New Firefox Add-On Policies

https://blog.mozilla.org/addons/2025/06/23/updated-add-on-policies-simplified-clarified/

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

Marble Blast

https://marbleblast.vaniverse.io/

1 year ago

bootc-image-builder: Build your entire OS from a Containerfile

https://github.com/osbuild/bootc-image-builder

1 year ago

Show HN: I built an under-the-door fan duct to lower bedroom CO2

https://www.lepekhin.com/2025/06/22/DIY-Door-Fan-to-Fix-My-Groggy-Mornings

1 year ago

A New Kind of Computer (April 2025)

https://lightmatter.co/blog/a-new-kind-of-computer/

1 year ago

A Mysterious Website I Stumbled Upon

https://www.sbnation.com/a/17776-football

1 year ago

Circular Microcomputers embedded and powered by repurposed smartphone components

https://citronics.eu/

1 year ago

Containers are available in public beta for simple, and programmable compute

https://blog.cloudflare.com/containers-are-available-in-public-beta-for-simple-global-and-programmable/

1 year ago

c4wa – C compiler for Web Assembly

https://github.com/kign/c4wa

1 year ago

Breakthrough cancer test predicts whether chemotherapy will work

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/06/23/cancer-test-predicts-whether-chemotherapy-will-work/

1 year ago

Show HN: Oasis – An open-source, 3D-printed smart terrarium

https://github.com/justbuchanan/oasis

1 year ago

A short history of web bots and bot detection techniques

https://sinja.io/blog/bot-or-not

1 year ago

Reinforcement learning, explained with a minimum of math and jargon

https://www.understandingai.org/p/reinforcement-learning-explained

1 year ago

Retrieval Augmented Generation Based on SQLite

https://github.com/ggozad/haiku.rag

1 year ago

London's largest ancient Roman fresco is “most difficult jigsaw puzzle”

https://www.thisiscolossal.com/2025/06/mola-liberty-roman-fresco/

1 year ago