HckrNews (First visit) All HN frontpage stories in chronological order What “working” means in the era of AI apps 79 107 7mo +1h a16z.com/revenue-benchmarks-ai-apps 1Higher education is shockingly right-wing 23 20 7mo +27m drafts.interfluidity.com/2023/03/01/higher-education-is-shockingly-right-wing/index.html 2[dead] ? 13 7mo +41m jeffgeerling.com 3Medieval Africans had a unique process for purifying gold with glass (2019) 91 132 7mo +13m atlasobscura.com/articles/medieval-african-gold 4Researchers develop ‘transparent paper’ as alternative to plastics 272 427 7mo +38m japannews.yomiuri.co.jp/science-nature/technology/20250605-259501 5How many trees are there in the North American boreal forest? 3 17 7mo +2h nsojournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ecog.07677 6A leaderless NASA faces its biggest-ever cuts 65 69 7mo +4h economist.com/science-and-technology/2025/06/04/a-leaderless-nasa-faces-its-biggest-ever-cuts 7600 Miles from the North Pole on a boat. My Starlink Mini is at 171 mbit/s 11 15 7mo +15m old.reddit.com/r/Starlink/comments/1l0im21/currently_about_600_miles_from_the_north_pole_on 8Smalltalk, Haskell and Lisp 57 122 7mo +53m storytotell.org/smalltalk-haskell-and-lisp 9Supreme Court allows DOGE to access social security data 120 163 7mo +19m nbcnews.com/politics/supreme-court/supreme-court-trump-doge-social-security-data-access-elon-musk-rcna206515 10Supreme Court Gives Doge Access to Social Security Data 80 134 7mo +50m bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-06-06/supreme-court-gives-doge-access-to-social-security-data 11DNS traffic spiked as Musk–Trump clash boosted Truth Social (+268%) and X (+20%) 25 30 7mo +18m twitter.com/CloudflareRadar/status/1931023755083456867 12Onyx (YC W24) – AI Assistants for Work Hiring Founding AE 0 1 7mo +5s ycombinator.com/companies/onyx/jobs/Gm0Hw6L-founding-account-executive 13The Illusion of Thinking: Strengths and limitations of reasoning models [pdf] 242 404 7mo +2h ml-site.cdn-apple.com/papers/the-illusion-of-thinking.pdf 14Online sports betting: As you do well, they cut you off 135 145 7mo +24m doc.searls.com/2025/05/21/online-sports-betting-is-for-losers 15Workhorse LLMs: Why Open Source Models Dominate Closed Source for Batch Tasks 34 110 7mo +2h sutro.sh/blog/workhorse-llms-why-open-source-models-win-for-batch-tasks 16A Rippling Townhouse Facade by Alex Chinneck Takes a Seat in a London Square 20 24 7mo +1h thisiscolossal.com/2025/05/alex-chinneck-a-week-at-the-knees 17United States Digital Service Origins 86 155 7mo +35m usdigitalserviceorigins.org 18A year of funded FreeBSD development 122 373 7mo +41m daemonology.net/blog/2025-06-06-A-year-of-funded-FreeBSD.html 19Show HN: AI game animation sprite generator 113 154 7mo +46m godmodeai.cloud/ai-sprite-generator 20[dead] ? 11 7mo +14m theregister.com 21Highly efficient matrix transpose in Mojo 62 125 7mo +12m veitner.bearblog.dev/highly-efficient-matrix-transpose-in-mojo 22The time bomb in the tax code that's fueling mass tech layoffs 912 1473 7mo +2d qz.com/tech-layoffs-tax-code-trump-section-174-microsoft-meta-1851783502 23Wendelstein 7-X sets new fusion record 66 196 7mo +3d heise.de/en/news/Wendelstein-7-X-sets-new-fusion-record-10422955.html 24SaaS is just vendor lock-in with better branding 128 209 7mo +28m rwsdk.com/blog/saas-is-just-vendor-lock-in-with-better-branding 25Series C and scale 67 91 7mo +54m cursor.com/en/blog/series-c 26Great Question (YC W21) Is Hiring a Director of Customer Success 0 1 7mo +10s ycombinator.com/companies/great-question/jobs/fYB5UKu-director-of-customer-success 27Exploring AI Integrations with Adobe Photoshop, InDesign and Premiere Pro 6 16 7mo +2h mikechambers.com/blog/post/2025-06-06-exploring-ai-integration-with-adobe-photoshop-indesign-and-premiere-pro 28Researchers find a way to make the HIV virus visible within white blood cells 34 210 7mo +21m theguardian.com/global-development/2025/jun/05/breakthrough-in-search-for-hiv-cure-leaves-researchers-overwhelmed 29[deleted] 0 7mo +31s ycombinator.com 30[dead] ? 22 7mo +17m arstechnica.com 31See how a dollar would have grown over the past 94 years [pdf] 131 69 7mo +8m newyorklifeinvestments.com/assets/documents/education/investing-essentials-growthofadollar.pdf 32Silicon Valley aghast at the Musk-Trump divorce 68 46 7mo +8m ft.com/content/df15f13d-310f-47a5-89ed-330a6a379068 334-7-8 Breathing 109 275 7mo +45m breathbelly.com/exercises/4-7-8-breathing 34Ask HN: Any good tools for viewing congressional bills? 40 105 7mo +10m 35Why Bell Labs Worked 52 86 7mo +24m 1517.substack.com/p/why-bell-labs-worked 36Free Gaussian Primitives at Anytime Anywhere for Dynamic Scene Reconstruction 12 70 7mo +34m zju3dv.github.io/freetimegs 37Sandia turns on brain-like storage-free supercomputer 89 218 7mo +26m blocksandfiles.com/2025/06/06/sandia-turns-on-brain-like-storage-free-supercomputer 38Too Many Open Files 108 167 7mo +30m mattrighetti.com/2025/06/04/too-many-files-open 39How we decreased GitLab repo backup times from 48 hours to 41 minutes 238 567 7mo +6m about.gitlab.com/blog/2025/06/05/how-we-decreased-gitlab-repo-backup-times-from-48-hours-to-41-minutes 40OpenAI is retaining all ChatGPT logs "indefinitely." Here's who's affected 54 119 7mo +27m arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/06/openai-confronts-user-panic-over-court-ordered-retention-of-chatgpt-logs 41Apple warns Australia against joining EU in mandating iPhone app sideloading 49 59 7mo +24m neowin.net/news/apple-warns-australia-against-joining-eu-in-mandating-iphone-app-sideloading 42Meta: Shut down your invasive AI Discover feed 221 524 7mo +14m mozillafoundation.org/en/campaigns/meta-shut-down-your-invasive-ai-discover-feed-now 43VPN providers in France ordered to block pirate sports IPTV 97 114 7mo +2m torrentfreak.com/major-vpn-providers-ordered-to-block-pirate-sports-streaming-sites-250516 44Self-reported race, ethnicity don't match genetic ancestry in the U.S.: study 278 106 7mo +18m science.org/content/article/race-ethnicity-don-t-match-genetic-ancestry-according-large-u-s-study 45[dead] ? 7 7mo +24m blacklight.dev 46Curate your shell history 76 146 7mo +1h esham.io/2025/05/shell-history 47An Interactive Guide to Rate Limiting 46 153 7mo +5m blog.sagyamthapa.com.np/interactive-guide-to-rate-limiting 48Top researchers leave Intel to build startup with 'the biggest, baddest CPU' 134 163 7mo +50m oregonlive.com/silicon-forest/2025/06/top-researchers-leave-intel-to-build-startup-with-the-biggest-baddest-cpu.html 49The Coleco Adam Computer 28 49 7mo +4h dfarq.homeip.net/coleco-adam-computer 50How to (actually) send DTMF on Android without being the default call app 33 57 7mo +2h edm115.dev/blog/2025/01/22/how-to-send-dtmf-on-android 51ThornWalli/web-workbench: Old operating system as homepage 7 36 7mo +2h github.com/ThornWalli/web-workbench 52Odyc.js – A tiny JavaScript library for narrative games 51 243 7mo +22m odyc.dev 53A masochist's guide to web development 48 280 7mo +18m sebastiano.tronto.net/blog/2025-06-06-webdev 54Small Programs and Languages 45 116 7mo +21m ratfactor.com/cards/pl-small 55Dystopian tales of that time when I sold out to Google 196 249 7mo +22m wordsmith.social/elilla/deep-in-mordor-where-the-shadows-lie-dystopian-stories-of-my-time-as-a-googler 56Teenage Engineering lets you pick the price for their OP-1f 5 7 7mo +8m teenage.engineering 57MBA Harvard Feels Undervalued 1 8 7mo +36m old.reddit.com/r/MBA/comments/1l3dscm/comment/mw02rnr 58Being fat is a trap 352 159 7mo +18m federicopereiro.com/fat-trap 59Editing astrophotography 11 24 7mo +1h astroimagery.com/techniques/post-processing/how-to-edit-astrophotography-with-ease 60Doge Developed Error-Prone AI Tool to "Munch" Veterans Affairs Contracts 114 151 7mo +52m propublica.org/article/trump-doge-veterans-affairs-ai-contracts-health-care 61What you need to know about EMP weapons 197 167 7mo +1h aardvark.co.nz/daily/2025/0606.shtml 62Weaponizing Dependabot: Pwn Request at its finest 54 106 7mo +1h boostsecurity.io/blog/weaponizing-dependabot-pwn-request-at-its-finest 63Deepnote (YC S19) is hiring engineers to build an AI-powered data notebook 0 1 7mo +31s deepnote.com/join-us 64Swift and the Cute 2d game framework: Setting up a project with CMake 84 98 7mo +27m layer22.com/swift-and-cute-framework-setting-up-a-project-with-cmake 65Freight rail fueled a new luxury overnight train startup 120 84 7mo +2h freightwaves.com/news/how-freight-rail-fueled-a-new-luxury-overnight-train-startup 66Czech Republic: Petition for open source in public administration 30 190 7mo +1h portal.gov.cz/e-petice/1205-petice-za-povinne-zverejneni-zdrojovych-kodu-softwaru-pouzitych-ve-verejne-sprave 67AMD Radeon 8050S “Strix Halo” Linux Graphics Performance Review 38 71 7mo +51m phoronix.com/review/amd-radeon-8050s-graphics 68Fuzzer Blind Spots: Meet Jepsen 1 40 7mo +14m tigerbeetle.com/blog/2025-06-06-fuzzer-blind-spots-meet-jepsen 69The X.Org Server just got forked (announcing XLibre) 135 79 7mo +44m github.com/X11Libre/xserver/commits/xlibre/prepare 70Jepsen: TigerBeetle 0.16.11 85 238 7mo +20m jepsen.io/analyses/tigerbeetle-0.16.11 71Aether: A CMS That Gets Out of Your Way 33 46 7mo +3h lebcit.github.io/post/meet-aether-a-cms-that-actually-gets-out-of-your-way 72Infomaniak comes out in support of controversial Swiss encryption law 101 188 7mo +33m tomsguide.com/computing/vpns/infomaniak-breaks-rank-and-comes-out-in-support-of-controversial-swiss-encryption-law 73Digital Minister wants open standards and open source as guiding principle 57 67 7mo +2h heise.de/en/news/Digital-Minister-wants-open-standards-and-open-source-as-guiding-principle-10414632.html 74Homeless but self taught full stack developer 26 22 7mo +2h 75Google confirms more ads on your paid YouTube Premium Lite soon 90 60 7mo +1h neowin.net/news/google-confirms-more-ads-on-your-paid-youtube-premium-lite-soon 76A maths proof that is only true in Japan 77 75 7mo +6m newscientist.com/article/2482461-the-bizarre-story-of-a-maths-proof-that-is-only-true-in-japan 77How much energy does it take to think? 70 83 7mo +2h quantamagazine.org/how-much-energy-does-it-take-to-think-20250604 78Second ispace craft has probably crash-landed on Moon 10 16 7mo +1h nature.com/articles/d41586-025-01751-3 79Twenty Years of TiddlyWiki (2024) 12 27 7mo +18m tiddlywiki.com/#History%20of%20TiddlyWiki:HelloThere%20%5B%5BQuick%20Start%5D%5D%20%5B%5BFind%20Out%20More%5D%5D%20%5B%5BHistory%20of%20TiddlyWiki%5D%5D%20%5B%5BTiddlyWiki%20on%20the%20Web%5D%5D%20%5B%5BTestimonials%20and%20Reviews%5D%5D%20GettingStarted%20Community 80[dead] ? 20 7mo +25m bsky.app 81Self-hosting your own media considered harmful according to YouTube 739 1597 7mo +20m jeffgeerling.com/blog/2025/self-hosting-your-own-media-considered-harmful 82Building an AI server on a budget 40 67 7mo +1h informationga.in/blog/building-an-ai-server-on-a-budget 83Open Source Distilling 41 82 7mo +2h opensourcedistilling.com 84Data centers are building their own gas power plants in Texas 10 16 7mo +20m texastribune.org/2025/06/05/texas-data-centers-gas-power-plants-ai 85I am an audience, first and foremost 1 8 7mo +31m ratsfromrocks.substack.com/p/i-am-an-audience-first-and-foremost 86Defending adverbs exuberantly if conditionally 52 86 7mo +6h countercraft.substack.com/p/defending-adverbs-exuberantly-if 87How we’re responding to The NYT’s data demands in order to protect user privacy 309 279 7mo +1h openai.com/index/response-to-nyt-data-demands 88I made a search engine worse than Elasticsearch (2024) 24 137 7mo +7h softwaredoug.com/blog/2024/08/06/i-made-search-worse-elasticsearch 89Test Postgres in Python Like SQLite 52 155 7mo +45m github.com/wey-gu/py-pglite 90Show HN: Lambduck, a Functional Programming Brainfuck 27 70 7mo +1h imjakingit.github.io/lambduck 91I do not remember my life and it's fine 218 291 7mo +1h aethermug.com/posts/i-do-not-remember-my-life-and-it-s-fine 92Anthropic co-founder on cutting access to Windsurf 106 110 7mo +6m techcrunch.com/2025/06/05/anthropic-co-founder-on-cutting-access-to-windsurf-it-would-be-odd-for-us-to-sell-claude-to-openai 93 More... 2025.06.05