top 50% hacker news stories for 2025-06-28

IDF officers ordered to fire at unarmed crowds near Gaza food distribution sites

https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2025-06-27/ty-article-magazine/.premium/idf-soldiers-ordered-to-shoot-deliberately-at-unarmed-gazans-waiting-for-humanitarian-aid/00000197-ad8e-de01-a39f-ffbe33780000

1 year ago

JavaScript Trademark Update

https://deno.com/blog/deno-v-oracle4

1 year ago

MCP: An (Accidentally) Universal Plugin System

https://worksonmymachine.substack.com/p/mcp-an-accidentally-universal-plugin

1 year ago

Engineered Addictions

https://masonyarbrough.substack.com/p/engineered-addictions

1 year ago

I built something that changed my friend group's social fabric

https://blog.danpetrolito.xyz/i-built-something-that-changed-my-friend-gro-social-fabric/

1 year ago

I deleted my second brain

https://www.joanwestenberg.com/p/i-deleted-my-second-brain

1 year ago

Facebook is asking to use Meta AI on photos you haven’t yet shared

https://www.theverge.com/meta/694685/meta-ai-camera-roll

1 year ago

Solving `Passport Application` with Haskell

https://jameshaydon.github.io/passport/

1 year ago

We ran a Unix-like OS on our home-built CPU with a home-built C compiler (2020)

https://fuel.edby.coffee/posts/how-we-ported-xv6-os-to-a-home-built-cpu-with-a-home-built-c-compiler/

1 year ago

The Death of the Middle-Class Musician

https://thewalrus.ca/the-death-of-the-middle-class-musician/

1 year ago

US Defense Department will stop providing satellite weather data

https://text.npr.org/nx-s1-5446120

1 year ago

BusyBeaver(6) Is Quite Large

https://scottaaronson.blog/?p=8972

1 year ago

Schizophrenia is the price we pay for minds poised near the edge of a cliff

https://www.psychiatrymargins.com/p/schizophrenia-is-the-price-we-pay

1 year ago

Unheard works by Erik Satie to premiere 100 years after his death

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2025/jun/26/unheard-works-by-erik-satie-to-premiere-100-years-after-his-death

1 year ago

People Keep Inventing Prolly Trees

https://www.dolthub.com/blog/2025-06-03-people-keep-inventing-prolly-trees/

1 year ago

An Indoor Beehive in My Bedroom Wall

https://www.keepingbackyardbees.com/an-indoor-beehive-zbwz1810zsau/

1 year ago

Life of an inference request (vLLM V1): How LLMs are served efficiently at scale

https://www.ubicloud.com/blog/life-of-an-inference-request-vllm-v1

1 year ago

Is being bilingual good for your brain?

https://www.economist.com/science-and-technology/2025/06/27/is-being-bilingual-good-for-your-brain

1 year ago

No One Is in Charge at the US Copyright Office

https://www.wired.com/story/us-copyright-office-chaos-doge/

1 year ago

Sirius: A GPU-native SQL engine

https://github.com/sirius-db/sirius

1 year ago

2025 ARRL Field Day

https://www.arrl.org/field-day

1 year ago

Parsing JSON in Forty Lines of Awk

https://akr.am/blog/posts/parsing-json-in-forty-lines-of-awk

1 year ago

Use Plaintext Email (2019)

https://useplaintext.email/

1 year ago

Graph Theory Applications in Video Games

https://utk.claranguyen.me/talks.php?id=videogames

1 year ago

Soldier’s wrist purse discovered at Roman legionary camp

https://www.heritagedaily.com/2025/06/soldiers-wrist-purse-discovered-at-roman-legionary-camp/155513

1 year ago

Group of investors represented by YouTuber Perifractic buys Commodore

https://www.amiga-news.de/en/news/AN-2025-06-00123-EN.html

1 year ago

Memory Safe Languages: Reducing Vulnerabilities in Modern Software Development [pdf]

https://media.defense.gov/2025/Jun/23/2003742198/-1/-1/0/CSI_MEMORY_SAFE_LANGUAGES_REDUCING_VULNERABILITIES_IN_MODERN_SOFTWARE_DEVELOPMENT.PDF

1 year ago

Show HN: I made a 2D game engine in Dart

https://bullseye2d.org/

1 year ago

Finding Peter Putnam

https://nautil.us/finding-peter-putnam-1218035/

1 year ago

Why Do Swallows Fly to the Korean DMZ?

https://www.sapiens.org/culture/korean-dmz-estuary-politics-war-borders-diaspora/

1 year ago

Facebook is asking to use Meta AI on photos you haven’t yet shared

https://techcrunch.com/2025/06/27/facebook-is-asking-to-use-meta-ai-on-photos-in-your-camera-roll-you-havent-yet-shared/

1 year ago

Show HN: Vet – A tool for safely running remote shell scripts

https://getvet.sh

1 year ago

ZeQLplus: Terminal SQLite Database Browser

https://github.com/ZetloStudio/ZeQLplus

1 year ago

An Introduction to Tribalism for the Modern World That Has Forgotten It

https://sustainableviews.substack.com/p/an-introduction-to-tribalism-for

1 year ago

Why does Kars4Kids sends most of its money to one town in New Jersey? (2023)

https://www.mossplanet.news/p/why-does-kars4kids-sends-most-of

1 year ago

Restoring a ZX Spectrum+ Toastrack

https://celso.io/posts/2025/06/28/toastrack/

1 year ago

History of Cycling Maps

https://cyclemaps.blogspot.com/

1 year ago

Meta Spends $14B to Hire a Single Guy

https://theahura.substack.com/p/tech-things-meta-spends-14b-to-hire

1 year ago

The Great Illusion: When We Believed BeOS Would Save the World

https://www.desktoponfire.com/haiku_inc/782/the-great-illusion-when-we-believed-beos-would-save-the-world-and-maybe-it-was-right/

1 year ago

Programming as Theory Building: Why Senior Developers Are More Valuable

https://cekrem.github.io/posts/programming-as-theory-building-naur/

1 year ago

People Are Being Involuntarily Committed After Spiraling into ChatGPT Psychosis

https://futurism.com/commitment-jail-chatgpt-psychosis

1 year ago

Sinaloa cartel used phone data and surveillance cameras to find FBI informants

https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/sinaloa-cartel-hacked-phones-surveillance-cameras-find-fbi-informants-doj-says-2025-06-27/

1 year ago

H1-B visas hurt one type of worker and exploit another

https://www.sanders.senate.gov/op-eds/h1-b-visas-hurt-one-type-of-worker-and-exploit-another-this-mess-must-be-fixed/

1 year ago

Abstraction boundaries are optimization boundaries

https://blog.snork.dev/posts/abstraction-boundaries-are-optimization-boundaries.html

1 year ago

Untangling Lifetimes: The Arena Allocator

https://www.rfleury.com/p/untangling-lifetimes-the-arena-allocator

1 year ago

Republican governors oppose 10-year moratorium on state AI laws in GOP tax bill

https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2025/06/27/congress/gop-govs-urge-thune-to-nix-ai-moratorium-00430083

1 year ago

Jane Street's sneaky retention tactic

https://www.economist.com/finance-and-economics/2025/06/26/jane-streets-sneaky-retention-tactic

1 year ago