top 50% hacker news stories for 2025-06-29

More on Apple's Trust-Eroding 'F1 the Movie' Wallet Ad

https://daringfireball.net/2025/06/more_on_apples_trust-eroding_f1_the_movie_wallet_ad

1 year ago

I made my VM think it has a CPU fan

https://wbenny.github.io/2025/06/29/i-made-my-vm-think-it-has-a-cpu-fan.html

1 year ago

YouTube No Translation

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-GB/firefox/addon/youtube-no-translation/

1 year ago

Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (June 2025)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44416093

1 year ago

Many ransomware strains will abort if they detect a Russian keyboard installed (2021)

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2021/05/try-this-one-weird-trick-russian-hackers-hate/

1 year ago

Show HN: Octelium – FOSS Alternative to Teleport, Cloudflare, Tailscale, Ngrok

https://github.com/octelium/octelium

1 year ago

★ 3.7k Go AGPL-3.0

The $25k car is going extinct?

https://media.hubspot.com/why-the-25000-car-is-going-extinct

1 year ago

Loss of key US satellite data could send hurricane forecasting back 'decades'

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jun/28/noaa-cuts-hurricane-forecasting-climate

1 year ago

Using the Internet without IPv4 connectivity

https://jamesmcm.github.io/blog/no-ipv4/

1 year ago

Bloom Filters by Example

https://llimllib.github.io/bloomfilter-tutorial/

1 year ago

We accidentally solved robotics by watching 1M hours of YouTube

https://ksagar.bearblog.dev/vjepa/

1 year ago

Personal care products disrupt the human oxidation field

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.ads7908

1 year ago

Nearly 20% of cancer drugs defective in four African nations

https://www.dw.com/en/nearly-20-of-cancer-drugs-defective-in-4-african-nations/a-73062221

1 year ago

Tools I love: mise(-en-place)

https://blog.vbang.dk/2025/06/29/tools-i-love-mise/

1 year ago

Event – Fast, In-Process Event Dispatcher

https://github.com/kelindar/event

1 year ago

★ 559 Go MIT

Finding a former Australian prime minister’s passport number on Instagram (2020)

https://mango.pdf.zone/finding-former-australian-prime-minister-tony-abbotts-passport-number-on-instagram/

1 year ago

Error handling in Rust

https://felix-knorr.net/posts/2025-06-29-rust-error-handling.html

1 year ago

List is a monad

https://alexyorke.github.io//2025/06/29/a-list-is-a-monad/

1 year ago

Tesla sales drop for fifth month in a row in Europe

https://abcnews.go.com/Business/wireStory/europeans-angry-musk-buying-cars-tesla-sales-drop-123203026

1 year ago

China Dominates 44% of Visible Fishing Activity Worldwide

https://oceana.org/press-releases/china-dominates-44-of-visible-fishing-activity-worldwide/

1 year ago

The Unsustainability of Moore's Law

https://bzolang.blog/p/the-unsustainability-of-moores-law

1 year ago

Cell Towers Can Double as Cheap Radar Systems for Ports and Harbors (2014)

https://spectrum.ieee.org/cell-tower-signals-can-improve-port-security

1 year ago

The Evolution of Caching Libraries in Go

https://maypok86.github.io/otter/blog/cache-evolution/

1 year ago

The Zen of Quakerism (2016)

https://www.friendsjournal.org/the-zen-of-quakerism/

1 year ago

Anticheat Update Tracking

https://not-matthias.github.io/posts/anticheat-update-tracking/

1 year ago

A proof-of-concept neural brain implant providing speech

https://arstechnica.com/science/2025/06/a-neural-brain-implant-provides-near-instantaneous-speech/

1 year ago

The Medley Interlisp Project: Reviving a Historical Software System [pdf]

https://interlisp.org/documentation/young-ccece2025.pdf

1 year ago

Genetic code enables zebrafish to mend damaged organs

https://www.caltech.edu/about/news/genetic-code-enables-zebrafish-to-mend-damaged-organs

1 year ago

ICE test train reaches speeds of up to 405.0 km/h

https://www.deutschebahn.com/de/presse/pressestart_zentrales_uebersicht/ICE-Testzug-faehrt-bis-zu-405-0-km-h-und-sammelt-wichtige-Erkenntnisse-fuer-den-Hochgeschwindigkeitsverkehr-13428394

1 year ago

Blackwell: Nvidia's GPU

https://chipsandcheese.com/p/blackwell-nvidias-massive-gpu

1 year ago

Implementing fast TCP fingerprinting with eBPF

https://halb.it/posts/ebpf-fingerprinting-1/

1 year ago

AI slop security reports submitted to curl

https://gist.github.com/bagder/07f7581f6e3d78ef37dfbfc81fd1d1cd

1 year ago

All Good Editors Are Pirates: In Memory of Lewis H. Lapham

https://www.laphamsquarterly.org/roundtable/all-good-editors-are-pirates

1 year ago

America's Coming Smoke Epidemic

https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2025/06/wildfire-smoke-epidemic/683343/

1 year ago

Earth is trapping much more heat than climate models forecast

https://theconversation.com/earth-is-trapping-much-more-heat-than-climate-models-forecast-and-the-rate-has-doubled-in-20-years-258822

1 year ago

Generative AI's failure to induce robust models of the world

https://garymarcus.substack.com/p/generative-ais-crippling-and-widespread

1 year ago

Europe approves first saliva-based contraceptive – no pill required

https://thenextweb.com/news/europe-approves-first-saliva-based-contraceptive-no-pill-required

1 year ago

Commodore acquired for a 'low seven figure' price – CEO from retro community

https://www.tomshardware.com/video-games/retro-gaming/commodore-acquired-for-a-low-seven-figure-price-new-acting-ceo-comes-from-the-retro-community

1 year ago

Swearing as a Response to Pain: Assessing Effects of Novel Swear Words

https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/psychology/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2020.00723/full

1 year ago

EU to ban carry-on baggage fees

https://www.bbc.com/travel/article/20250627-the-big-change-affecting-european-travel

1 year ago

Google Gemini is about to control your messages and calls, even if you say no

https://www.laptopmag.com/ai/gemini-phone-access-update

1 year ago

Unhooking from Amazon Ebooks

https://remysharp.com/2025/06/29/unhooking-from-amazon-ebooks

1 year ago

Public Lands Sell-Off Is Struck from the GOP Policy Bill

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/28/climate/public-lands-sell-off-dropped-mike-lee.html

1 year ago

G7 agrees to exempt U.S. multinationals from global minimum tax

https://www.thehindu.com/news/international/g7-agrees-to-exempt-us-multinationals-from-global-minimum-tax/article69749671.ece

1 year ago

Bitcoin's Security Budget Issue: Problems, Solutions and Myths Debunked

https://budget.day/

1 year ago

The Titanic’s Best Lifeboat

https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/632-the-titanics-best-lifeboat/

1 year ago

Murderland: Crime and Bloodlust in the Time of Serial Killers

https://www.newyorker.com/books/under-review/did-lead-poisoning-create-a-generation-of-serial-killers

1 year ago

The AI Backlash Keeps Growing Stronger

https://www.wired.com/story/generative-ai-backlash/

1 year ago

Show HN: A modern C++20 AI SDK (GPT‑4o, Claude 3.5, tool‑calling)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44412726

1 year ago

Bulgaria to Adopt the Euro

https://www.euronews.com/business/2025/06/05/bulgaria-to-adopt-the-euro-how-do-countries-join-the-eurozone

1 year ago

Show HN: A tool to benchmark LLM APIs (OpenAI, Claude, local/self-hosted)

https://llmapitest.com/

1 year ago

Shenzhou-20 astronauts complete second spacewalk to enhance Tiangong station

https://spacenews.com/chinas-shenzhou-20-astronauts-complete-second-spacewalk-to-enhance-tiangong-space-station/

1 year ago

Magnetic Tape Storage Technology: usage, history, and future outlook

https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3708997

1 year ago

Tell HN: (dictionary|thesaurus).reference.com is now a spam site

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44415289

1 year ago