top 50% hacker news stories for 2025-06-26

AlphaGenome: AI for better understanding the genome

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

1 year ago

Introducing Gemma 3n

https://developers.googleblog.com/en/introducing-gemma-3n-developer-guide/

1 year ago

Alternative Layout System

https://alternativelayoutsystem.com/scripts/#same-sizer

1 year ago

US economy shrank 0.5% in the first quarter, worse than earlier estimates

https://apnews.com/article/economy-tariffs-trump-gdp-shrink-86d1f15e66c646ac4ce88ffc0a956942

1 year ago

Launch HN: Issen (YC F24) – Personal AI language tutor

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44387828

1 year ago

Why is the Rust compiler so slow?

https://sharnoff.io/blog/why-rust-compiler-slow

1 year ago

Snow - Classic Macintosh emulator

https://snowemu.com/

1 year ago

LLM code generation may lead to an erosion of trust

https://jaysthoughts.com/aithoughts1

1 year ago

The first non-opoid painkiller

https://www.worksinprogress.news/p/the-first-non-opioid-painkiller

1 year ago

The time is right for a DOM templating API

https://justinfagnani.com/2025/06/26/the-time-is-right-for-a-dom-templating-api/

1 year ago

Starcloud can’t put a data centre in space at $8.2M in one Starship

https://angadh.com/space-data-centers-1

1 year ago

A.I. Is Homogenizing Our Thoughts

https://www.newyorker.com/culture/infinite-scroll/ai-is-homogenizing-our-thoughts

1 year ago

I fought in Ukraine and here's why FPV drones kind of suck

https://warontherocks.com/2025/06/i-fought-in-ukraine-and-heres-why-fpv-drones-kind-of-suck/

1 year ago

Revisiting Knuth's “Premature Optimization” Paper

https://probablydance.com/2025/06/19/revisiting-knuths-premature-optimization-paper/

1 year ago

Matrix v1.15

https://matrix.org/blog/2025/06/26/matrix-v1.15-release/

1 year ago

The Book of Shaders (2015)

https://thebookofshaders.com/

1 year ago

Learnings from building AI agents

https://www.cubic.dev/blog/learnings-from-building-ai-agents

1 year ago

Show HN: I built an AI dataset generator

https://github.com/metabase/dataset-generator

1 year ago

AI Is Dehumanization Technology

https://thedabbler.patatas.ca/pages/ai-is-dehumanization-technology.html

1 year ago

Lateralized sleeping positions in domestic cats

https://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(25)00507-X?_returnURL=https%3A%2F%2Flinkinghub.elsevier.com%2Fretrieve%2Fpii%2FS096098222500507X%3Fshowall%3Dtrue

1 year ago

Show HN: Magnitude – Open-source AI browser automation framework

https://github.com/magnitudedev/magnitude

1 year ago

FLUX.1 Kontext [Dev] – Open Weights for Image Editing

https://bfl.ai/announcements/flux-1-kontext-dev

1 year ago

A glob of 99M-year-old amber trapped a zombie fungus erupting from a fly

https://www.cnn.com/2025/06/24/science/amber-insect-zombie-fungi-fossil

1 year ago

Apptainer: Application Containers for Linux

https://apptainer.org/

1 year ago

Kea 3.0, our first LTS version

https://www.isc.org/blogs/kea-3-0/

1 year ago

I built an ADHD app with interactive coping tools, noise mixer and self-test

https://www.adhdhelp.app/en

1 year ago

Muvera: Making multi-vector retrieval as fast as single-vector search

https://research.google/blog/muvera-making-multi-vector-retrieval-as-fast-as-single-vector-search/

1 year ago

Games That Weren't: Preserving Cancelled and Unreleased Video Game History

https://www.gamesthatwerent.com/

1 year ago

Robots that learn

https://openai.com/index/robots-that-learn/

1 year ago

Ultrasound toothbrush promises painless checks for hidden gum problems

https://phys.org/news/2025-06-ultrasound-toothbrush-painless-hidden-gum.html

1 year ago

Apple announces App Store changes in the EU

https://9to5mac.com/2025/06/26/apple-announces-sweeping-app-store-changes-in-the-eu/

1 year ago

Why Go Rocks for Building a Lua Interpreter

https://www.zombiezen.com/blog/2025/06/why-go-rocks-for-building-lua-interpreter/

1 year ago

Memory safety is table stakes

https://www.usenix.org/publications/loginonline/memory-safety-merely-table-stakes

1 year ago

A Review of Aerospike Nozzles: Current Trends in Aerospace Applications

https://www.mdpi.com/2226-4310/12/6/519

1 year ago

Senators reintroduce App Store bill to rein in 'gatekeeper power'

https://9to5mac.com/2025/06/25/senators-reintroduce-app-store-bill-to-rein-in-gatekeeper-power-in-the-app-economy/

1 year ago

What UI first distinguished radio buttons from checkboxes with circles/squares?

https://retrocomputing.stackexchange.com/questions/31806/what-ui-first-distinguished-radio-buttons-from-checkboxes-with-circles-and-squar

1 year ago

Abusing copyright strings to trick SW into thinking it's running competitor's PC

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20250624-00/?p=111299

1 year ago

Save your disk, write files directly into RAM with /dev/shm

https://hiandrewquinn.github.io/til-site/posts/save-your-disk-write-files-directly-into-ram-with-dev-shm/

1 year ago

Shifts in diatom and dinoflagellate biomass in the North Atlantic over 6 decades

https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0323675

1 year ago

Access BMC UART on Supermicro X11SSH

https://github.com/zarhus/zarhusbmc/discussions/3

1 year ago

As AI kills search traffic, Google launches Offerwall to boost publisher revenue

https://techcrunch.com/2025/06/26/as-ai-kills-search-traffic-google-launches-offerwall-to-boost-publisher-revenue/

1 year ago

Philadelphia Transit System Votes to Cut Service by 45%, Hike Fares

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-06-26/philly-transit-system-votes-to-cut-service-by-45-hike-fares

1 year ago

The Perils of 'Design Thinking'

https://www.theatlantic.com/books/archive/2025/06/invention-of-design-maggie-gram-book-review/683302/

1 year ago

Gemini Users: We're Going to Look at Your Texts Whether You Like It or Not

https://gizmodo.com/google-to-gemini-users-were-going-to-look-at-your-texts-whether-you-like-it-or-not-2000620141

1 year ago

Ticket-Driven Development: The Fastest Way to Go Nowhere

https://thecynical.dev/posts/ticket-driven-development/

1 year ago

Tennis Scorigami

https://www.tennis-scorigami.com/

1 year ago

RSS Server Side Reader

https://matklad.github.io/2025/06/26/rssssr.html

1 year ago

Show HN: I built a daily sunlight tracker

https://www.lumehealth.io/products

1 year ago

Show HN: A different kind of AI Video generation

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44383086

1 year ago

The European wood pigeon helped me appreciate its omnipresent city cousins

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/24/magazine/pigeons-city-nature.html

1 year ago

Blender 5.0 Introducing HDR Support on Linux with Vulkan and Wayland

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Blender-5.0-HDR-Linux-Wayland

1 year ago