HckrNews (First visit) All HN frontpage stories in chronological order Privacy implications of browsers’ (mis)implementations of Widevine EME (2023) 80 116 6mo +1h hal.science/hal-04179324v1/document 1OpenAI wins $200M U.S. defense contract 275 312 6mo +1h cnbc.com/2025/06/16/openai-wins-200-million-us-defense-contract.html 2OpenAI and Microsoft tensions are reaching a boiling point 38 107 6mo +2h wsj.com/tech/ai/openai-and-microsoft-tensions-are-reaching-a-boiling-point-4981c44f 3What happens when clergy take psilocybin 541 346 6mo +35m nautil.us/clergy-blown-away-by-psilocybin-1217112 4Denmark tests unmanned robotic sailboat fleet 8 56 6mo +1h apnews.com/article/denmark-robot-sailboats-baltic-sea-bfa31c98cf7c93320115c0ad0e6908c5 5Snorting the AGI with Claude Code 243 323 6mo +10h kadekillary.work/blog/#2025-06-16-snorting-the-agi-with-claude-code 6Blaze (YC S24) Is Hiring 0 1 6mo +5s ycombinator.com/companies/blaze-2/jobs/dzNmNuw-junior-software-engineer 7Show HN: Chawan TUI web browser 66 379 6mo +5m chawan.net/news/chawan-0-2-0.html 8Show HN: Nexus.js - Fabric.js for 3D 28 90 6mo +18m punk.cam/lab/nexus 9Retrobootstrapping Rust for some reason 50 142 6mo +4m graydon2.dreamwidth.org/317484.html 10Breaking Quadratic Barriers: A Non-Attention LLM for Ultra-Long Context Horizons 23 70 6mo +1h arxiv.org/abs/2506.01963 11Open-Source RISC-V: Energy Efficiency of Superscalar, Out-of-Order Execution 29 106 6mo +2h arxiv.org/abs/2505.24363 12Transparent peer review to be extended to all of Nature's research papers 77 123 6mo +10m nature.com/articles/d41586-025-01880-9 13Show HN: Canine – A Heroku alternative built on Kubernetes 122 314 6mo +30m github.com/czhu12/canine 14Scientists genetically engineer a lethal mosquito STD to combat malaria 54 47 6mo +35m newatlas.com/biology/genetically-engineered-lethal-mosquito-std-combat-malaria 15Dull Men’s Club 128 238 6mo +35m theguardian.com/society/2025/jun/09/meet-the-members-of-the-dull-mens-club-some-of-them-would-bore-the-ears-off-you 16[deleted] 0 6mo +3h github.com 17Novo Nordisk will lose billions because it didn't pay a couple hundred dollars 3 13 6mo +5m marketwatch.com/story/the-story-of-how-novo-nordisk-will-lose-billions-because-it-didnt-pay-a-couple-of-hundred-dollars-bcef7c01 18Meta ignores RFC 2920; ZuckMail can't send mail to servers running OpenSMTPD 9 35 6mo +43m marc.info/?l=openbsd-misc&m=174990790228139&w=2 19[dead] ? 10 6mo +13m medium.com 20Getting free internet on a cruise, saving $170 190 141 6mo +12m angad.me 21Use Copilot Agent Mode in Visual Studio (Preview) 14 28 6mo +9h learn.microsoft.com/en-us/visualstudio/ide/copilot-agent-mode?view=vs-2022 22Japan builds near $700M fund to lure foreign academic talent 10 28 6mo +29m theregister.com/2025/06/16/japan_has_a_yen_for 23Sincerity Wins the War 28 61 6mo +32m wheresyoured.at/sic 24Adding public transport data to Transitous 2 63 7mo +2d volkerkrause.eu/2025/06/14/transitous-adding-data.html 25Income Inequality Depresses Support for Higher Minimum Wages [pdf] 96 35 6mo +1h apa.org/pubs/journals/releases/xge-xge0001772.pdf 26OpenTelemetry for Go: Measuring overhead costs 39 128 6mo +1h coroot.com/blog/opentelemetry-for-go-measuring-the-overhead 27The Renegade Richard Foreman 6 15 6mo +40s yalereview.org/article/jennifer-krasinski-richard-foreman 28Goodbye Dark, Inc. – Welcome Darklang, Inc 11 42 6mo +1h blog.darklang.com/goodbye-dark-inc-welcome-darklang-inc 29Darklang Goes Open Source 80 162 6mo +30m blog.darklang.com/darklang-goes-open-source 30This is nuts. When’s the crash? 14 20 6mo +18m ft.com/content/80019dab-78ab-4dbd-b6c5-a54ce953532f 31Object personification in autism: This paper will be sad if you don't read (2018) 108 115 6mo +10m pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30101594 32Quantum mechanics provide truly random numbers on demand 59 35 7mo +2d phys.org/news/2025-06-quantum-mechanics-random-demand.html 33How the first electric grid was built 0 23 6mo +1h worksinprogress.news/p/how-the-worlds-first-electric-grid 34Benzene at 200 105 237 6mo +1m chemistryworld.com/opinion/benzene-at-200/4021504.article 35ZjsComponent: A Pragmatic Approach to Reusable UI Fragments for Web Development 59 75 6mo +8m arxiv.org/abs/2506.11016 36Mathematical Illustrations: A Manual of Geometry and PostScript 25 61 6mo +43m personal.math.ubc.ca/~cass/graphics/text/www 37Show HN: dk – A script runner and cross-compiler, written in OCaml 9 60 6mo +4m diskuv.com/dk/help/latest 38Mechanisms for Detection and Repair of Puncture Damage in Soft Robotics [pdf] 0 23 7mo +2d smr.unl.edu/papers/Krings_et_al-2025-ICRA.pdf 39WhatsApp adds ads to the status screen 2 8 6mo +17m techcrunch.com/2025/06/16/whatsapp-is-adding-ads-to-the-status-screen 40Salesforce study finds LLM agents flunk CRM and confidentiality tests 87 145 6mo +22m theregister.com/2025/06/16/salesforce_llm_agents_benchmark 41WhatsApp introduces ads in its app 991 693 6mo +19m nytimes.com/2025/06/16/technology/whatsapp-ads.html 42A Framework for Characterizing Emergent Conflict Between Non-Coordinating Agents [pdf] 3 23 7mo +2d paperclipmaximizer.ai/Unaware_Adversaries.pdf 43Working on databases from prison 530 835 6mo +39m turso.tech/blog/working-on-databases-from-prison 44Show HN: Socket-call – Call socket.io events like normal JavaScript functions 17 44 6mo +1h github.com/bperel/socket-call 45LLM Chat via SSH 24 37 7mo +2d github.com/ccbikai/ssh-ai-chat 46[dead] ? 8 6mo +21m 47Infracost (YC W21) is hiring software engineers (GMT+2 to GMT-6) 0 1 6mo +14s infracost.io/join-the-team 48Changes to the Kubernetes Slack 28 33 6mo +1h kubernetes.dev/blog/2025/06/16/changes-to-kubernetes-slack-2025 49Maya Blue: Unlocking the Mysteries of an Ancient Pigment 17 79 7mo +2d mexicolore.co.uk/maya/home/maya-blue-unlocking-the-mysteries-of-an-ancient-pigment 50Show HN: Zeekstd – Rust Implementation of the ZSTD Seekable Format 46 213 7mo +14h github.com/rorosen/zeekstd 51The long afterlife of a literary classic 1 18 7mo +2d thecritic.co.uk/the-long-afterlife-of-a-literary-classic 52How the BIC Cristal ballpoint pen became ubiquitous 131 70 6mo +10m openculture.com/2025/06/how-the-bic-cristal-ballpoint-pen-became-the-most-successful-product-in-history.html 53Tesla blows past stopped school bus and hits kid-sized dummies in FSD tests 159 147 6mo +17m engadget.com/transportation/tesla-blows-past-stopped-school-bus-and-hits-kid-sized-dummies-in-full-self-driving-tests-183756251.html 54The Illusion of Thinking: A Reality Check on AI Reasoning 18 21 6mo +3m leotsem.com/blog/the-illusion-of-thinking 55[dead] ? 4 6mo +14m 56Hyperspectral scans of historical pigments and painting reconstructions 2 36 7mo +3d github.com/rubenwiersma/painting_tools 57Why Claude's Comment Paper Is a Poor Rebuttal 71 50 6mo +7h victoramartinez.com/posts/why-claudes-comment-paper-is-a-poor-rebuttal 58Occurences of swearing in the Linux kernel source code over time 261 177 7mo +2d vidarholen.net/contents/wordcount/#fuck*,shit*,damn*,idiot*,retard*,crap* 59Start your own Internet Resiliency Club 339 573 6mo +19m bowshock.nl/irc 60Solving LinkedIn Queens with APL 18 54 7mo +1d pitr.ca/2025-06-14-queens 61Unprecedented optical clock network lays groundwork for redefining the second 13 23 7mo +3d phys.org/news/2025-06-unprecedented-optical-clock-network-lays.html 62NesDev.org – A community of homebrew game devs for NES and other retro consoles 7 79 6mo +1h nesdev.org 63Nanonets-OCR-s – OCR model that transforms documents into structured markdown 77 354 6mo +7m huggingface.co/nanonets/Nanonets-OCR-s 64Being a Force Multiplier 13 20 7mo +3d substack.com/home/post/p-165651243 65Is gravity just entropy rising? Long-shot idea gets another look 278 303 6mo +4h quantamagazine.org/is-gravity-just-entropy-rising-long-shot-idea-gets-another-look-20250613 66[dead] ? 8 7mo +1d medium.com 67Accumulation of cognitive debt when using an AI assistant for essay writing task 377 332 6mo +1h arxiv.org/abs/2506.08872 68The Hewlett-Packard Archive 30 55 6mo +2h hparchive.com 69Random Walk: A Modern Introduction (2010) [pdf] 7 48 7mo +3d math.uchicago.edu/~lawler/srwbook.pdf 70Jokes and Humour in the Public Android API 167 285 6mo +3h voxelmanip.se/2025/06/14/jokes-and-humour-in-the-public-android-api 71[dead] ? 11 7mo +1d ghuntley.com 72Meta's Llama 3.1 can recall 42 percent of the first Harry Potter book 1 35 6mo +49m understandingai.org/p/metas-llama-31-can-recall-42-percent 73Let's Talk About ChatGPT-Induced Spiritual Psychosis 87 92 6mo +3h default.blog/p/lets-talk-about-chatgpt-induced-spiritual 74League of Professional System Administrators - Board to Dissolve Organization 12 41 6mo +28m lopsa.org/blog/13510205 75Lisp-stat: Lisp environment for statistical computing 25 107 7mo +1d lisp-stat.dev/about 76Real-time CO2 monitoring without batteries or external power 33 132 6mo +3h news.kaist.ac.kr/newsen/html/news/?mode=V&mng_no=47450 77DARPA program sets distance record for power beaming 106 149 6mo +2h darpa.mil/news/2025/darpa-program-distance-record-power-beaming 78Chemical knowledge and reasoning of large language models vs. chemist expertise 79 105 7mo +1d nature.com/articles/s41557-025-01815-x 79Coding agents have crossed a chasm 31 29 6mo +1h blog.singleton.io/posts/2025-06-14-coding-agents-cross-a-chasm 80 More... 2025.06.15