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12:33

6.9.25 | LLMs illustrated by pelicans, Kagi hits 50k...

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2025/06/09

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 bicycleshttps://simonwillison.net/2025/Jun/6/six-months-in-llms/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44215352Kagi Reaches 50k Usershttps://kagi.com/stats?stat=membershttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44221450Building supercomputers for autocrats probably isn't good for

12:06

6.8.25 | Bill Atkinson has died, Washington Post...

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2025/06/08

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Jun 8, 2025.Bill Atkinson has diedhttps://daringfireball.net/linked/2025/06/07/bill-atkinson-riphttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44210606Washington Post's Privacy Tip: Stop Using Chrome, Delete Meta Apps (and Yandex)https://tech.slashdot.org/story/25/06/07/035249/washington-posts-privacy-tip-stop-using-chrome-delete-metas-apps-and-yandexhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44210689Getting Past

11:08

6.7.25 | Tax code causing tech layoffs, Meta's...

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2025/06/07

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 layoffshttps://qz.com/tech-layoffs-tax-code-trump-section-174-microsoft-meta-1851783502https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44180533Meta: Shut down your invasive AI Discover feedhttps://www.mozillafoundation.org/en/campaigns/meta-shut-down-your-invasive-ai-discover-feed-now/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44201872How we decreased GitLab repo backup times from 48

11:46

6.6.25 | YouTube warns against self-hosting media,...

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2025/06/06

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 YouTubehttps://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2025/self-hosting-your-own-media-considered-harmfulhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44197932The impossible predicament of the death newtshttps://crookedtimber.org/2025/06/05/occasional-paper-the-impossible-predicament-of-the-death-newts/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44191620Show HN: Air Lab – A portable and open air

11:42

6.5.25 | OpenAI opposes court order on ChatGPT logs,...

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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 chatshttps://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=44185913FFmpeg merges WebRTC supporthttps://git.ffmpeg.org/gitweb/ffmpeg.git/commit/167e343bbe75515a80db8ee72ffa0c607c944a00https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44182186IRS Direct File on

12:12

6.4.25 | Deep learning praised, fact checking...

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2025/06/04

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 ignoredhttps://rachel.fast.ai/posts/2025-06-04-enzyme-ml-fails/index.htmlhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44174965Covert Web-to-App Tracking via Localhost on Androidhttps://localmess.github.io/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44169115DiffX – Next-Generation Extensible Diff Formathttps://diffx.org/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44176737Merlin Bird

10:26

6.3.25 | AI skeptics are irrational, Cloudflare...

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2025/06/03

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Jun 3, 2025.My AI skeptic friends are all nutshttps://fly.io/blog/youre-all-nuts/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44163063Cloudlflare builds OAuth with Claude and publishes all the promptshttps://github.com/cloudflare/workers-oauth-provider/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44159166Show HN: Kan.bn – An open-source alterative to Trellohttps://github.com/kanbn/kanhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44157177Show HN: Onlook –

11:33

6.2.25 | Root shell on credit card terminal,...

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2025/06/02

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Jun 2, 2025.Root shell on a credit card terminalhttps://stefan-gloor.ch/yomani-hackhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44150803Cinematography of “Andor”https://www.pushing-pixels.org/2025/05/20/cinematography-of-andor-interview-with-christophe-nuyens.htmlhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44149718The Visual World of 'Samurai

11:54

6.1.25 | Precision Clock Mk IV, Progressive JSON, A...

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2025/06/01

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Jun 1, 2025.Precision Clock Mk IVhttps://mitxela.com/projects/precision_clock_mk_ivhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44144750Progressive JSONhttps://overreacted.io/progressive-json/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44147945A Lean companion to Analysis Ihttps://terrytao.wordpress.com/2025/05/31/a-lean-companion-to-analysis-i/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44145517RenderFormer: Neural rendering of triangle meshes with global

12:46

5.31.25 | Photos inside instruments, AI hype and...

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2025/05/31

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on May 31, 2025.Photos taken inside musical instrumentshttps://www.dpreview.com/photography/5400934096/probe-lenses-and-focus-stacking-the-secrets-to-incredible-photos-taken-inside-instrumentshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44139626The ‘white-collar bloodbath’ is all part of the AI hype machinehttps://www.cnn.com/2025/05/30/business/anthropic-amodei-ai-jobs-nightcaphttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44136117Systems Correctness

11:33

5.30.25 | WeatherStar 4000+ simulates Weather...

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2025/05/30

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on May 30, 2025.WeatherStar 4000+: Weather Channel Simulatorhttps://weatherstar.netbymatt.com/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44127109Human coders are still better than LLMshttps://antirez.com/news/153https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44127739FLUX.1 Kontexthttps://bfl.ai/models/flux-kontexthttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44128322Show HN: I wrote a modern Command Line

12:04

5.29.25 | Rewrote Mac Electron app in Rust, Japan...

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2025/05/29

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 Rusthttps://desktopdocs.com/?v=2025https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44118023Japan Post launches 'digital address' systemhttps://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2025/05/27/companies/japan-post-digital-address/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44117779Compiler Explorer and the promise of URLs that last

12:07

5.28.25 | Square Theory, hawk uses traffic signals...

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2025/05/28

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on May 28, 2025.Square Theoryhttps://aaronson.org/blog/square-theoryhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44107942How a hawk learned to use traffic signals to hunt more successfullyhttps://www.frontiersin.org/news/2025/05/23/street-smarts-hawk-use-traffic-signals-huntinghttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44105965Show HN: My LLM CLI tool can run tools now, from Python code or

11:52

5.27.25 | CSS Minecraft, Hacker News uses Common...

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2025/05/27

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on May 27, 2025.CSS Minecrafthttps://benjaminaster.com/css-minecraft/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44100148Hacker News now runs on top of Common Lisphttps://lisp-journey.gitlab.io/blog/hacker-news-now-runs-on-top-of-common-lisp/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44099006Owls in Towelshttps://owlsintowels.org/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44101349A new class of materials that can passively harvest water from

11:52

5.26.25 | Claude 4 System Card, Amazon coders liken...

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2025/05/26

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on May 26, 2025.Claude 4 System Cardhttps://simonwillison.net/2025/May/25/claude-4-system-card/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44085920At Amazon, some coders say their jobs have begun to resemble warehouse workhttps://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/25/business/amazon-ai-coders.htmlhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44087150Open Source Society University – Path to a free self-taught education in

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5.25.25 | o3 finds Linux SMB zeroday, Reinvent the...

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2025/05/25

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 implementationhttps://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=44081338Reinvent the Wheelhttps://endler.dev/2025/reinvent-the-wheel/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44083467Scientific conferences are leaving the US amid border

10:51

5.24.25 | Postgres IDE for VS Code, Find Your People,...

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2025/05/24

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on May 24, 2025.Postgres IDE in VS Codehttps://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/adforpostgresql/announcing-a-new-ide-for-postgresql-in-vs-code-from-microsoft/4414648https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44073588Find Your Peoplehttps://foundersatwork.posthaven.com/find-your-peoplehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44074017How to live on $432 a month in

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5.23.25 | Claude 4, Mozilla shutting down Pocket and...

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2025/05/23

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on May 23, 2025.Claude 4https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-4https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44063703Mozilla to shut down Pocket and Fakespothttps://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/future-of-pockethttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44063662That fractal that's been up on my wall for yearshttps://chriskw.xyz/2025/05/21/Fractal/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44063248Improving performance of rav1d video

12:35

5.22.25 | OpenAI acquires Jony Ive's AI startup,...

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2025/05/22

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on May 22, 2025.OpenAI to buy AI startup from Jony Ivehttps://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-05-21/openai-to-buy-apple-veteran-jony-ive-s-ai-device-startup-in-6-5-billion-dealhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44053518Devstralhttps://mistral.ai/news/devstralhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44051733Gemini Diffusionhttps://simonwillison.net/2025/May/21/gemini-diffusion/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44057820For algorithms, a

12:06

5.21.25 | Veo 3 and Imagen 4 for filmmaking, Deep...

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2025/05/21

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 Flowhttps://blog.google/technology/ai/generative-media-models-io-2025/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44044043Deep Learning Is Applied Topologyhttps://theahura.substack.com/p/deep-learning-is-applied-topologyhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44041738My new hobby: watching AI slowly drive Microsoft employees

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