top 50% hacker news stories for 2025-06-27

Show HN: I'm an airline pilot – I built interactive graphs/globes of my flights

https://jameshard.ing/pilot

1 year ago

US Supreme Court limits federal judges' power to block Trump orders

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jun/27/trump-supreme-court-birthright-citizenship-scotus

1 year ago

XSLT – Native, zero-config build system for the Web

https://github.com/pacocoursey/xslt

1 year ago

JWST reveals its first direct image discovery of an exoplanet

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/james-webb-space-telescope-reveals-its-first-direct-image-discovery-of-an-exoplanet-180986886/

1 year ago

Project Vend: Can Claude run a small shop? (And why does that matter?)

https://www.anthropic.com/research/project-vend-1

1 year ago

Touching the back wall of the Apple store

https://blog.lauramichet.com/touching-the-back-wall-of-the-apple-store/

1 year ago

SymbolicAI: A neuro-symbolic perspective on LLMs

https://github.com/ExtensityAI/symbolicai

1 year ago

Qwen VLo: From “Understanding” the World to “Depicting” It

https://qwenlm.github.io/blog/qwen-vlo/

1 year ago

10 Years of Pomological Watercolors

https://parkerhiggins.net/2025/04/10-years-of-pomological-watercolors/

1 year ago

Learn OCaml

https://ocaml-sf.org/learn-ocaml-public/#activity=exercises

1 year ago

Show HN: Zenta – Mindfulness for Terminal Users

https://github.com/e6a5/zenta

1 year ago

Copilot Chat in VS Code is now open source

https://github.com/microsoft/vscode-copilot-chat

1 year ago

Weird Expressions in Rust

https://www.wakunguma.com/blog/rust-weird-expr

1 year ago

The Plot of the Phantom, a text adventure that took 40 years to finish

https://scottandrew.com/blog/2025/06/you-can-now-play-plot-of-the-phantom-the-text-adventure-game/

1 year ago

New proof dramatically compresses space needed for computation

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/new-proof-dramatically-compresses-space-needed-for-computation/

1 year ago

Biomolecular shifts occur in our 40s and 60s (2024)

https://med.stanford.edu/news/all-news/2024/08/massive-biomolecular-shifts-occur-in-our-40s-and-60s--stanford-m.html

1 year ago

Normalizing Flows Are Capable Generative Models

https://machinelearning.apple.com/research/normalizing-flows

1 year ago

Parameterized types in C using the new tag compatibility rule

https://nullprogram.com/blog/2025/06/26/

1 year ago

The Effect of Noise on Sleep

https://www.empirical.health/blog/effect-of-noise-on-sleep/

1 year ago

Show HN: Sink – Sync any directory with any device on your local network

https://github.com/sirbread/sink

1 year ago

Ask HN: Is anyone else just done with the industry?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44393304

1 year ago

Denmark to tackle deepfakes by giving people copyright to their own features

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/jun/27/deepfakes-denmark-copyright-law-artificial-intelligence

1 year ago

Rust in the Linux kernel: part 2

https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/1025232/fbb2d90d084368e3/

1 year ago

Transmitting data via ultrasound without any special equipment

https://halcy.de/blog/2025/06/27/transmitting-data-via-ultrasound-without-any-special-equipment/

1 year ago

DeepSeek R2 launch stalled as CEO balks at progress

https://www.reuters.com/world/china/deepseek-r2-launch-stalled-ceo-balks-progress-information-reports-2025-06-26/

1 year ago

A brief history of children sent through the mail (2016)

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/brief-history-children-sent-through-mail-180959372/

1 year ago

A lumberjack created more than 200 sculptures in Wisconsin's Northwoods

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/travel/when-a-lumberjacks-imagination-ran-wild-he-created-more-than-200-sculptures-in-wisconsins-northwoods-180986840/

1 year ago

When Did Nature Burst into Vivid Color?

https://www.quantamagazine.org/when-did-nature-burst-into-vivid-color-20250627/

1 year ago

Microsoft is moving antivirus providers out of the Windows kernel

https://www.theverge.com/news/692637/microsoft-windows-kernel-antivirus-changes

1 year ago

Jane Austen's Boldest Novel Is Also Her Least Understood

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/27/books/review/jane-austen-mansfield-park.html

1 year ago

US Supreme Court Upholds Texas Porn ID Law

https://www.wired.com/story/us-supreme-court-porn-age-verification-decision-2025/

1 year ago

Structuring Arrays with Algebraic Shapes

https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/3736112.3736141

1 year ago

nimbme – Nim bare-metal environment

https://github.com/mikra01/nimbme

1 year ago

PJ5 TTL CPU

https://pj5cpu.wordpress.com/

1 year ago

Brad Woods Digital Garden

https://garden.bradwoods.io

1 year ago

The Power and Beauty of Incrementalism

https://supernuclear.substack.com/p/the-power-and-beauty-of-incrementalism

1 year ago

So you want to serialize some DER?

https://alexgaynor.net/2025/jun/20/serialize-some-der/

1 year ago

Show HN: Open-Source International Space Station Tracker ESP32/Arduino for $20

https://github.com/GuitarML/SpaceStationTracker

1 year ago

Modelling API rate limits as diophantine inequalities

https://vivekn.dev/blog/rate-limit-diophantine

1 year ago

Judge rejects Meta's claim that torrenting is “irrelevant” in AI copyright case

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/06/judge-rejects-metas-claim-that-torrenting-is-irrelevant-in-ai-copyright-case/

1 year ago

Cross-Compiling Common Lisp for Windows

https://www.fosskers.ca/en/blog/cl-windows

1 year ago

The 90% Gravity Problem: Why We Tend to Quit Right Before the Finish Line

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44394506

1 year ago

My Lights Run on Bash

https://kramkow.ski/article/2025/06/27/my_lights_run_on_bash.html

1 year ago

Slightly better named character reference tokenization than Chrome, Safari, FF

https://www.ryanliptak.com/blog/better-named-character-reference-tokenization/

1 year ago

Data Centers, Temperature, and Power

https://www.backblaze.com/blog/data-centers-temperature-and-power/

1 year ago

New EU rules on digital accessibility to come into force

https://www.rte.ie/news/technology/2025/0627/1520552-digital-accessibility/

1 year ago

Apple Will Transition from the CTF to the CTC for EU Businesses

https://developer.apple.com/news/?id=awedznci

1 year ago

How to leave the house

https://buttondown.com/monteiro/archive/how-to-leave-the-house/

1 year ago

Most ints are not floats

https://www.johndcook.com/blog/2025/06/27/most-ints-are-not-floats/

1 year ago

Multi-Stage Programming with Splice Variables

https://tsung-ju.org/icfp25/

1 year ago

Blazing Matrix Products

https://panadestein.github.io/blog/posts/mp.html

1 year ago

New Process Uses Microbes to Create Valuable Materials from Urine

https://newscenter.lbl.gov/2025/06/17/new-process-uses-microbes-to-create-valuable-materials-from-urine/

1 year ago

The Monster Inside ChatGPT

https://www.wsj.com/opinion/the-monster-inside-chatgpt-safety-training-ai-alignment-796ac9d3

1 year ago

Android phones could soon warn you of "Stingrays" snooping on your communicatio

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/06/future-android-phones-could-warn-you-about-data-stealing-fake-cell-towers/

1 year ago

Life Expectancy in Europe Compared to the US

https://old.reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/comments/1lih4a0/oc_life_expectancy_in_europe_compared_to_the_us/

1 year ago

The year of EU Linux desktop may come: digital sovereignty begins at the desktop

https://www.theregister.com/2025/06/27/the_european_union_linux_desktop/

1 year ago

Uv and Ray: Pain-Free Python Dependencies in Clusters

https://www.anyscale.com/blog/uv-ray-pain-free-python-dependencies-in-clusters

1 year ago

UK to buy F-35As that can't be refueled from RAF tankers

https://www.theregister.com/2025/06/26/uk_f_35a_refuel_hitch/

1 year ago

Show HN: A Python Language Server, Mypy-compatible

https://zubanls.com/

1 year ago

Supreme Court limits nationwide injunctions in birthright citizenship order

https://www.npr.org/2025/06/27/nx-s1-5435786/scotus-birthright-citizenship-universal-injunctions

1 year ago

Salesforce CEO Claims Half of the Company's Work Is Now Done by AI

https://gizmodo.com/salesforce-ceo-claims-half-of-the-companys-work-is-now-done-by-ai-2000620730

1 year ago

Theoretical Analysis of Positional Encodings in Transformer Models

https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.06398

1 year ago

Some thoughts on my first YC Demo Day

https://billchambers.me/articles/yc-demo-day-spring-25/

1 year ago