This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Jun 15, 2025. I have reimplemented Stable Diffusion 3.5 from scratch in pure PyTorch https://github.com/yousef-rafat/miniDiffusion https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44276476 Waymo rides cost more than Uber or Lyft and people are paying anyway https://techcrunch.com/2025/06/12/waymo-rides-cost…

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Jun 14, 2025. If the moon were only 1 pixel: A tediously accurate solar system model (2014) https://joshworth.com/dev/pixelspace/pixelspace_solarsystem.html https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44266828 I convinced HP's board to buy Palm and watched them kill it https://philmckinney.substack.com…

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Jun 13, 2025. A receipt printer cured my procrastination https://www.laurieherault.com/articles/a-thermal-receipt-printer-cured-my-procrastination https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44256499 Frequent reauth doesn't make you more secure https://tailscale.com/blog/frequent-reath-security https:/…

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Jun 12, 2025. Research suggests Big Bang may have taken place inside a black hole https://www.port.ac.uk/news-events-and-blogs/blogs/space-cosmology-and-the-universe/what-if-the-big-bang-wasnt-the-beginning-our-research-suggests-it-may-have-taken-place-inside-a-black-hole https://news.ycombinato…

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Jun 11, 2025. Magistral — the first reasoning model by Mistral AI https://mistral.ai/news/magistral https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44236997 Launch HN: Vassar Robotics (YC X25) – $219 robot arm that learns new skills https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44240302 OpenAI dropped the price of …

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Jun 10, 2025. Tell HN: Help restore the tax deduction for software dev in the US (Section 174) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44226145 Apple announces Foundation Models and Containerization frameworks, etc https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2025/06/apple-supercharges-its-tools-and-technologies…

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Jun 9, 2025. The last six months in LLMs, illustrated by pelicans on bicycles https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jun/6/six-months-in-llms/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44215352 Kagi Reaches 50k Users https://kagi.com/stats?stat=members https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44221450 Building s…

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Jun 8, 2025. Bill Atkinson has died https://daringfireball.net/linked/2025/06/07/bill-atkinson-rip https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44210606 Washington Post's Privacy Tip: Stop Using Chrome, Delete Meta Apps (and Yandex) https://tech.slashdot.org/story/25/06/07/035249/washington-posts-privac…

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Jun 7, 2025. The time bomb in the tax code that's fueling mass tech layoffs https://qz.com/tech-layoffs-tax-code-trump-section-174-microsoft-meta-1851783502 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44180533 Meta: Shut down your invasive AI Discover feed https://www.mozillafoundation.org/en/campaigns…

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Jun 6, 2025. Self-hosting your own media considered harmful according to YouTube https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2025/self-hosting-your-own-media-considered-harmful https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44197932 The impossible predicament of the death newts https://crookedtimber.org/2025/06/05/…

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Jun 5, 2025. OpenAI slams court order to save all ChatGPT logs, including deleted chats https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/06/openai-says-court-forcing-it-to-save-all-chatgpt-logs-is-a-privacy-nightmare/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44185913 FFmpeg merges WebRTC support https://git…

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Jun 4, 2025. Deep learning gets the glory, deep fact checking gets ignored https://rachel.fast.ai/posts/2025-06-04-enzyme-ml-fails/index.html https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44174965 Covert Web-to-App Tracking via Localhost on Android https://localmess.github.io/ https://news.ycombinator.co…

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Jun 3, 2025. My AI skeptic friends are all nuts https://fly.io/blog/youre-all-nuts/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44163063 Cloudlflare builds OAuth with Claude and publishes all the prompts https://github.com/cloudflare/workers-oauth-provider/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44159166…

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Jun 2, 2025. Root shell on a credit card terminal https://stefan-gloor.ch/yomani-hack https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44150803 Cinematography of “Andor” https://www.pushing-pixels.org/2025/05/20/cinematography-of-andor-interview-with-christophe-nuyens.html https://news.ycombinator.com/item?…

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Jun 1, 2025. Precision Clock Mk IV https://mitxela.com/projects/precision_clock_mk_iv https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44144750 Progressive JSON https://overreacted.io/progressive-json/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44147945 A Lean companion to Analysis I https://terrytao.wordpress.co…

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on May 31, 2025. Photos taken inside musical instruments https://www.dpreview.com/photography/5400934096/probe-lenses-and-focus-stacking-the-secrets-to-incredible-photos-taken-inside-instruments https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44139626 The ‘white-collar bloodbath’ is all part of the AI hype ma…

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on May 30, 2025. WeatherStar 4000+: Weather Channel Simulator https://weatherstar.netbymatt.com/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44127109 Human coders are still better than LLMs https://antirez.com/news/153 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44127739 FLUX.1 Kontext https://bfl.ai/models/flux…

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on May 29, 2025. Show HN: I rewrote my Mac Electron app in Rust https://desktopdocs.com/?v=2025 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44118023 Japan Post launches 'digital address' system https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2025/05/27/companies/japan-post-digital-address/ https://news.ycombinator.…

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on May 28, 2025. Square Theory https://aaronson.org/blog/square-theory https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44107942 How a hawk learned to use traffic signals to hunt more successfully https://www.frontiersin.org/news/2025/05/23/street-smarts-hawk-use-traffic-signals-hunting https://news.ycombinato…

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on May 27, 2025. CSS Minecraft https://benjaminaster.com/css-minecraft/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44100148 Hacker News now runs on top of Common Lisp https://lisp-journey.gitlab.io/blog/hacker-news-now-runs-on-top-of-common-lisp/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44099006 Owls in Towe…

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on May 26, 2025. Claude 4 System Card https://simonwillison.net/2025/May/25/claude-4-system-card/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44085920 At Amazon, some coders say their jobs have begun to resemble warehouse work https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/25/business/amazon-ai-coders.html https://news.…

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on May 25, 2025. I used o3 to find a remote zeroday in the Linux SMB implementation https://sean.heelan.io/2025/05/22/how-i-used-o3-to-find-cve-2025-37899-a-remote-zeroday-vulnerability-in-the-linux-kernels-smb-implementation/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44081338 Reinvent the Wheel https:/…

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on May 24, 2025. Postgres IDE in VS Code https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/adforpostgresql/announcing-a-new-ide-for-postgresql-in-vs-code-from-microsoft/4414648 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44073588 Find Your People https://foundersatwork.posthaven.com/find-your-people https://news.y…

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on May 23, 2025. Claude 4 https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-4 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44063703 Mozilla to shut down Pocket and Fakespot https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/future-of-pocket https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44063662 That fractal that's been up on my wall for yea…

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on May 22, 2025. OpenAI to buy AI startup from Jony Ive https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-05-21/openai-to-buy-apple-veteran-jony-ive-s-ai-device-startup-in-6-5-billion-deal https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44053518 Devstral https://mistral.ai/news/devstral https://news.ycombinator.co…

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on May 21, 2025. Veo 3 and Imagen 4, and a new tool for filmmaking called Flow https://blog.google/technology/ai/generative-media-models-io-2025/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44044043 Deep Learning Is Applied Topology https://theahura.substack.com/p/deep-learning-is-applied-topology https:/…

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on May 20, 2025. The Windows Subsystem for Linux is now open source https://blogs.windows.com/windowsdeveloper/2025/05/19/the-windows-subsystem-for-linux-is-now-open-source/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44031385 Zod 4 https://zod.dev/v4 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44030850 Have I B…

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on May 18, 2025. Coding without a laptop: Two weeks with AR glasses and Linux on Android https://holdtherobot.com/blog/2025/05/11/linux-on-android-with-ar-glasses/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43985513 Mystical https://suberic.net/~dmm/projects/mystical/README.html https://news.ycombinator.…

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on May 17, 2025. Push Ifs Up and Fors Down https://matklad.github.io/2023/11/15/push-ifs-up-and-fors-down.html https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44013157 JavaScript's New Superpower: Explicit Resource Management https://v8.dev/features/explicit-resource-management https://news.ycombinator.com/it…

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on May 16, 2025. Baby is healed with first personalized gene-editing treatment https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/15/health/gene-editing-personalized-rare-disorders.html https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43997636 The unreasonable effectiveness of an LLM agent loop with tool use https://sketch.dev/b…

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on May 15, 2025. AlphaEvolve: A Gemini-powered coding agent for designing advanced algorithms https://deepmind.google/discover/blog/alphaevolve-a-gemini-powered-coding-agent-for-designing-advanced-algorithms/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43985489 What is HDR, anyway? https://www.lux.camera/…

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on May 14, 2025. The world could run on older hardware if software optimization was a priority https://twitter.com/ID_AA_Carmack/status/1922100771392520710 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43971464 Multiple security issues in GNU Screen https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2025/05/12/1 h…

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on May 13, 2025. The Barbican https://arslan.io/2025/05/12/barbican-estate/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43964136 Firefox moves to GitHub https://github.com/mozilla-firefox/firefox https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43969827 A community-led fork of Organic Maps https://www.comaps.app/news…

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on May 12, 2025. Plain Vanilla Web https://plainvanillaweb.com/index.html https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43954896 One-Click RCE in Asus's Preinstalled Driver Software https://mrbruh.com/asusdriverhub/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43951588 A simple 16x16 dot animation from simple math …

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on May 10, 2025. ALICE detects the conversion of lead into gold at the LHC https://www.home.cern/news/news/physics/alice-detects-conversion-lead-gold-lhc https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43937214 Sofie: open-source web based system for automating live TV news production https://nrkno.github.io/…

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on May 9, 2025. From: Steve Jobs. "Great idea, thank you." https://blog.hayman.net/2025/05/06/from-steve-jobs-great-idea.html https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43929724 Void: Open-source Cursor alternative https://github.com/voideditor/void https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43927926 First Ame…

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on May 8, 2025. Ty: A fast Python type checker and language server https://github.com/astral-sh/ty https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43918484 Waiting for Postgres 18: Accelerating Disk Reads with Asynchronous I/O https://pganalyze.com/blog/postgres-18-async-io https://news.ycombinator.com/item?i…

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on May 7, 2025. Show HN: Clippy – 90s UI for local LLMs https://felixrieseberg.github.io/clippy/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43905942 Gemini 2.5 Pro Preview https://developers.googleblog.com/en/gemini-2-5-pro-io-improved-coding-performance/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43906018 Ope…

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on May 6, 2025. Evolving OpenAI's Structure https://openai.com/index/evolving-our-structure/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43897772 The vocal effects of Daft Punk https://bjango.com/articles/daftpunkvocaleffects/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43893601 Show HN: Real-time AI Voice Chat …

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on May 5, 2025. I'd rather read the prompt https://claytonwramsey.com/blog/prompt/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43888803 Design for 3D-Printing https://blog.rahix.de/design-for-3d-printing/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43888117 An Alabama landline that keeps ringing https://oxfordam…

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on May 4, 2025. Show HN: Free, in-browser PDF editor https://breezepdf.com https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43880962 We fell out of love with Next.js and back in love with Ruby on Rails https://hardcover.app/blog/part-1-how-we-fell-out-of-love-with-next-js-and-back-in-love-with-ruby-on-rails-in…

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on May 3, 2025. Show HN: I built a synthesizer based on 3D physics https://anukari.com https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43873074 Old Soviet Venus descent craft nearing Earth reentry https://www.leonarddavid.com/old-soviet-venus-descent-craft-nearing-earth-reentry/ https://news.ycombinator.com/i…

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on May 2, 2025. Redis is open source again https://antirez.com/news/151 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43859446 Judge rules Apple executive lied under oath, makes criminal contempt referral https://www.thebignewsletter.com/p/judge-rules-apple-executive-lied https://news.ycombinator.com/item?i…

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on May 1, 2025. Someone at YouTube needs glasses https://jayd.ml/2025/04/30/someone-at-youtube-needs-glasses.html https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43846487 Apple violated antitrust ruling, judge finds https://www.wsj.com/tech/apple-violated-antitrust-ruling-federal-judge-finds-66b85957 https://…

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Apr 30, 2025. I use zip bombs to protect my server https://idiallo.com/blog/zipbomb-protection https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43826798 Firefox tab groups are here https://blog.mozilla.org/en/firefox/tab-groups-community/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43834101 Only Teslas exempt from…

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Apr 29, 2025. Widespread power outage in Spain and Portugal https://www.bbc.com/news/live/c9wpq8xrvd9t https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43819791 Show HN: I built a hardware processor that runs Python https://www.runpyxl.com/gpio https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43820228 Qwen3: Think deep…

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Apr 28, 2025. Internet in a Box https://internet-in-a-box.org/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43814433 How a single line of code could brick your iPhone https://rambo.codes/posts/2025-04-24-how-a-single-line-of-code-could-brick-your-iphone https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43814360 Busi…

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Apr 27, 2025. Watching o3 guess a photo's location is surreal, dystopian and entertaining https://simonwillison.net/2025/Apr/26/o3-photo-locations/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43803243 An end to all this prostate trouble? https://yarchive.net/blog/prostate/ https://news.ycombinator.com/…

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Apr 26, 2025. A $20k American-made electric pickup with no paint, no stereo, no screen https://www.theverge.com/electric-cars/655527/slate-electric-truck-price-paint-radio-bezos https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43794284 Wikipedia’s nonprofit status questioned by D.C. U.S. attorney https://ww…

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Apr 25, 2025. I wrote to the address in the GPLv2 license notice (2022) https://code.mendhak.com/gpl-v2-address-letter/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43781888 OpenAI releases image generation in the API https://openai.com/index/image-generation-api/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43…