top 50% hacker news stories for 2025-06-25

Gemini CLI

https://blog.google/technology/developers/introducing-gemini-cli-open-source-ai-agent/

1 year ago

OpenAI charges by the minute, so speed up your audio

https://george.mand.is/2025/06/openai-charges-by-the-minute-so-make-the-minutes-shorter/

1 year ago

A new pyramid-like shape always lands the same side up

https://www.quantamagazine.org/a-new-pyramid-like-shape-always-lands-the-same-side-up-20250625/

1 year ago

Thnickels

https://thick-coins.net/?_bhlid=8a5736885893b7837e681aa73f890b9805a4673e

1 year ago

A new PNG spec

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

1 year ago

Define policy forbidding use of AI code generators

https://github.com/qemu/qemu/commit/3d40db0efc22520fa6c399cf73960dced423b048

1 year ago

-2000 Lines of code (2004)

https://www.folklore.org/Negative_2000_Lines_Of_Code.html

1 year ago

What Problems to Solve (1966)

http://genius.cat-v.org/richard-feynman/writtings/letters/problems

1 year ago

Microsoft Edit

https://github.com/microsoft/edit

1 year ago

Games run faster on SteamOS than Windows 11, Ars testing finds

https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2025/06/games-run-faster-on-steamos-than-windows-11-ars-testing-finds/

1 year ago

Puerto Rico's Solar Microgrids Beat Blackout

https://spectrum.ieee.org/puerto-rico-solar-microgrids

1 year ago

Getting ready to issue IP address certificates

https://community.letsencrypt.org/t/getting-ready-to-issue-ip-address-certificates/238777

1 year ago

Build and Host AI-Powered Apps with Claude – No Deployment Needed

https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-powered-artifacts

1 year ago

Libxml2's "no security embargoes" policy

https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/1025971/73f269ad3695186d/

1 year ago

Reading NFC Passport Chips in Linux

https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2025/06/reading-nfc-passport-chips-in-linux/

1 year ago

Better Auth, by a self-taught Ethiopian dev, raises $5M from Peak XV, YC

https://techcrunch.com/2025/06/25/this-self-taught-ethiopian-dev-built-an-authentication-tool-and-got-into-yc/

1 year ago

America’s incarceration rate is in decline

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/06/prisoner-populations-are-plummeting/683310/

1 year ago

Iroh: A library to establish direct connection between peers

https://github.com/n0-computer/iroh

1 year ago

Show HN: Scream to Unlock – Blocks social media until you scream “I'm a loser”

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44375761

1 year ago

MCP in LM Studio

https://lmstudio.ai/blog/lmstudio-v0.3.17

1 year ago

The Hollow Men of Hims

https://www.alexkesin.com/p/the-hollow-men-of-hims

1 year ago

The Offline Club

https://www.theoffline-club.com

1 year ago

Managing time when time doesn't exist

https://multiverseemployeehandbook.com/blog/temporal-resources-managing-time-when-time-doesnt-exist/

1 year ago

Microsoft Dependency Has Risks

https://blog.miloslavhomer.cz/p/microsoft-dependency-has-risks

1 year ago

Lyon Drops Microsoft to Boost Digital Sovereignty

https://digitrendz.blog/newswire/business/19813/lyon-drops-microsoft-office-to-boost-digital-sovereignty/

1 year ago

Build an iOS app on Linux or Windows

https://xtool.sh/tutorials/xtool/first-app/

1 year ago

The Fairphone (Gen. 6)

https://shop.fairphone.com/the-fairphone-gen-6

1 year ago

Few Americans pay for news when they encounter paywalls

https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2025/06/24/few-americans-pay-for-news-when-they-encounter-paywalls/

1 year ago

Web Embeddable Common Lisp

https://turtleware.eu/static/paste/wecl-test-gl/main.html

1 year ago

Bot or human? Creating an invisible Turing test for the internet

https://research.roundtable.ai/proof-of-human/

1 year ago

Is Lovable getting monetization wrong?

https://getlago.substack.com/p/lovable-makes-60m-in-6-monthsbut

1 year ago

Second study finds Uber used opaque algorithm to dramatically boost profits

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/jun/25/second-study-finds-uber-used-opaque-algorithm-to-dramatically-boost-profits

1 year ago

How renewables are saving Texans billions

https://www.theclimatebrink.com/p/how-renewables-are-saving-texans

1 year ago

Third places and neighborhood entrepreneurship (2024)

https://www.nber.org/papers/w32604

1 year ago

Community Is Motivation on Tap

https://alanwu.xyz/posts/community/

1 year ago

Foreign Scammers Use U.S. Banks to Fleece Americans

https://www.propublica.org/article/pig-butchering-scam-cybercrime-us-banks-money-laundering

1 year ago

Interstellar Flight: Perspectives and Patience

https://www.centauri-dreams.org/2025/06/25/interstellar-flight-perspectives-and-patience/

1 year ago

Authors hit by bad reviews on Goodreads before review copies are even circulated

https://www.thebookseller.com/news/authors-hit-by-bad-reviews-on-goodreads-before-review-copies-are-even-circulated

1 year ago

Jane Street Boss Says He Was Duped into Funding AK-47s for Coup

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-06-25/jane-street-s-rob-granieri-says-he-was-duped-into-funding-south-sudan-coup-plot

1 year ago

Web Translator API

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Translator

1 year ago

What LLMs Know About Their Users

https://www.schneier.com/

1 year ago

Gemini CLI: your open-source AI agent

https://blog.google/technology/developers/introducing-gemini-cli/

1 year ago

Ask HN: Anyone using augmented reality, VR, glasses, helmets etc. in industry?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44378271

1 year ago

Framework Laptop 12 press reviews are live and Framework Laptop 13 in-stock

https://frame.work/blog/framework-laptop-12-press-reviews-are-live-and-framework-laptop-13-in-stock

1 year ago

Deep Down the Rabbit Hole: Bash, OverlayFS, and a 30-Year-Old Surprise

https://sigma-star.at/blog/2025/06/deep-down-the-rabbit-hole-bash-overlayfs-and-a-30-year-old-surprise/

1 year ago

Improving River Simulation

https://undiscoveredworlds.blogspot.com/2025/04/improving-river-simulation.html

1 year ago

Show HN: AGL a toy language that compiles to Go

https://github.com/alaingilbert/agl

1 year ago

Sequence and first differences together list all positive numbers exactly once

https://oeis.org/A005228

1 year ago

AI more likely to create 'yes-men on servers' than any scientific breakthroughs

https://fortune.com/2025/06/20/hugging-face-thomas-wolf-ai-yes-men-on-servers-no-scientific-breakthroughs/

1 year ago

Sourcehut Moving to Europe

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44375655

1 year ago

Infrastructure at Roblox

https://corp.roblox.com/newsroom/2025/06/roblox-infrastructure-supporting-record-breaking-games

1 year ago

New projects contribute to digital commons

https://nlnet.nl/news/2025/20250624-announcement-grants-CommonsFund.html

1 year ago

After successfully entering Earth's atmosphere, a European spacecraft is lost

https://arstechnica.com/space/2025/06/a-european-spacecraft-company-flies-its-vehicle-then-loses-it-after-reentry/

1 year ago

AlphaGenome: AI for Better Understanding the Genome

https://deepmind.google/discover/blog/alphagenome-ai-for-better-understanding-the-genome/

1 year ago

Bazzite would shut down if Fedora goes ahead with removing 32-bit

https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/06/bazzite-would-shut-down-if-fedora-goes-ahead-with-removing-32-bit/

1 year ago

CUDA Ray Tracing 2x Faster Than RTX: My CUDA Ray Tracing Journey

https://karimsayedre.github.io/RTIOW.html

1 year ago

How to Write Compelling Release Announcements

https://refactoringenglish.com/chapters/release-announcements/

1 year ago

Information has been permanently deleted, for small values of permanently

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20250625-01/?p=111308

1 year ago

LLMs Bring New Nature of Abstraction

https://martinfowler.com/articles/2025-nature-abstraction.html

1 year ago

Bunker Busters probably failed to penetrate Iranian concrete

https://www.popularmechanics.com/military/weapons/a65172594/ultra-strong-concrete-stops-bunker-busting-bombs/

1 year ago

California's Corporate Cover-Up Act Is a Privacy Nightmare

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/06/californias-corporate-cover-act-privacy-nightmare

1 year ago

Tesla sales decline in Europe for fifth straight month as rivals gain ground

https://www.timeslive.co.za/motoring/news/2025-06-25-tesla-sales-decline-in-europe-for-fifth-straight-month-as-rivals-gain-ground/

1 year ago

NSF getting kicked out of headquarters by HUD

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-06-25/hud-plans-to-move-operations-from-washington-to-virginia

1 year ago

Brit politicians question Fujitsu's continued role in public sector contracts

https://www.theregister.com/2025/06/25/fujitsu_public_sector_contracts/

1 year ago