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

2 days ago

1380 upvotes – 1068 comments

JavaScript Trademark Update

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

2 days ago

878 upvotes – 341 comments

MCP: An (Accidentally) Universal Plugin System

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

2 days ago

786 upvotes – 344 comments

Engineered Addictions

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

2 days ago

694 upvotes – 439 comments

I deleted my second brain

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

2 days ago

563 upvotes – 342 comments

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

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

3 days ago

506 upvotes – 367 comments

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/

2 days ago

303 upvotes – 27 comments

Solving `Passport Application` with Haskell

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

2 days ago

301 upvotes – 124 comments

US Defense Department will stop providing satellite weather data

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

2 days ago

295 upvotes – 152 comments

The Death of the Middle-Class Musician

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

2 days ago

291 upvotes – 685 comments

BusyBeaver(6) Is Quite Large

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

2 days ago

270 upvotes – 215 comments

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

2 days ago

253 upvotes – 385 comments

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

2 days ago

198 upvotes – 56 comments

An Indoor Beehive in My Bedroom Wall

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

2 days ago

181 upvotes – 97 comments

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

2 days ago

170 upvotes – 21 comments

Is being bilingual good for your brain?

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

2 days ago

162 upvotes – 171 comments

No One Is in Charge at the US Copyright Office

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

2 days ago

154 upvotes – 110 comments

Sirius: A GPU-native SQL engine

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

2 days ago

140 upvotes – 19 comments

2025 ARRL Field Day

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

2 days ago

131 upvotes – 38 comments

Parsing JSON in Forty Lines of Awk

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

2 days ago

125 upvotes – 59 comments

Use Plaintext Email (2019)

https://useplaintext.email/

2 days ago

117 upvotes – 112 comments

Group of investors represented by YouTuber Perifractic buys Commodore

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

2 days ago

104 upvotes – 51 comments

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

2 days ago

98 upvotes – 49 comments

Finding Peter Putnam

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

2 days ago

93 upvotes – 67 comments

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/

2 days ago

91 upvotes – 16 comments

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

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

3 days ago

80 upvotes – 82 comments

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

https://getvet.sh

2 days ago

80 upvotes – 37 comments

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

3 days ago

78 upvotes – 31 comments

ZeQLplus: Terminal SQLite Database Browser

https://github.com/ZetloStudio/ZeQLplus

2 days ago

78 upvotes – 14 comments

History of Cycling Maps

https://cyclemaps.blogspot.com/

2 days ago

77 upvotes – 9 comments

Meta Spends $14B to Hire a Single Guy

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

2 days ago

73 upvotes – 71 comments

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/

2 days ago

68 upvotes – 64 comments

Programming as Theory Building: Why Senior Developers Are More Valuable

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

3 days ago

67 upvotes – 14 comments
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