6.7.25 | Tax code causing tech layoffs, Meta's invasive AI feed concerns, GitLab backup time reduced significantly
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 hours to 41 minuteshttps://about.gitlab.com/blog/2025/06/05/how-we-decreased-gitlab-repo-backup-times-from-48-hours-to-41-minutes/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44201975Researchers develop ‘transparent paper’ as alternative to plasticshttps://japannews.yomiuri.co.jp/science-nature/technology/20250605-259501/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44205282A year of funded FreeBSD developmenthttps://www.daemonology.net/blog/2025-06-06-A-year-of-funded-FreeBSD.htmlhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44204224Falsehoods programmers believe about aviationhttps://flightaware.engineering/falsehoods-programmers-believe-about-aviation/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44205590A masochist's guide to web developmenthttps://sebastiano.tronto.net/blog/2025-06-06-webdev/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44200895Odyc.js – A tiny JavaScript library for narrative gameshttps://odyc.devhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44200866The Illusion of Thinking: Understanding the Limitations of Reasoning LLMs [pdf]https://ml-site.cdn-apple.com/papers/the-illusion-of-thinking.pdfhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44203562Sandia turns on brain-like storage-free supercomputerhttps://blocksandfiles.com/2025/06/06/sandia-turns-on-brain-like-storage-free-supercomputer/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44201812
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6.6.25 | YouTube warns against self-hosting media, death newts face an impossible predicament, Air Lab introduces a portable air quality measuring device
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 quality measuring devicehttps://networkedartifacts.com/airlab/simulatorhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44189329Autonomous drone defeats human champions in racing firsthttps://www.tudelft.nl/en/2025/lr/autonomous-drone-from-tu-delft-defeats-human-champions-in-historic-racing-firsthttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44184900Apple Notes Will Gain Markdown Export at WWDC, and, I Have Thoughtshttps://daringfireball.net/linked/2025/06/04/apple-notes-markdownhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44191558Eleven v3https://elevenlabs.io/v3https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44194521LLMs and Elixir: Windfall or Deathblow?https://www.zachdaniel.dev/p/llms-and-elixir-windfall-or-deathblowhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44186496parrot.livehttps://github.com/hugomd/parrot.livehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44186536I do not remember my life and it's finehttps://aethermug.com/posts/i-do-not-remember-my-life-and-it-s-finehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44196576Show HN: ClickStack – Open-source Datadog alternative by ClickHouse and HyperDXhttps://github.com/hyperdxio/hyperdxhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44194082
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6.5.25 | OpenAI opposes court order on ChatGPT logs, FFmpeg adds WebRTC support, IRS Direct File available on GitHub
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 GitHubhttps://chrisgiven.com/2025/05/direct-file-on-github/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44182356Why I wrote the BEAM bookhttps://happihacking.com/blog/posts/2025/why_I_wrote_theBEAMBook/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44179257Cursor 1.0https://www.cursor.com/en/changelog/1-0https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44185256A proposal to restrict sites from accessing a users’ local networkhttps://github.com/explainers-by-googlers/local-network-accesshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44183799Tesla seeks to guard crash data from public disclosurehttps://www.reuters.com/legal/government/musks-tesla-seeks-guard-crash-data-public-disclosure-2025-06-04/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44186780The iPhone 15 Pro’s Depth Mapshttps://tech.marksblogg.com/apple-iphone-15-pro-depth-map-heic.htmlhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44183591Prompt engineering playbook for programmershttps://addyo.substack.com/p/the-prompt-engineering-playbook-forhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44182188Apple Notes Expected to Gain Markdown Support in iOS 26https://www.macrumors.com/2025/06/04/apple-notes-rumored-markdown-support-ios-26/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44183923
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6.4.25 | Deep learning praised, fact checking overlooked, covert Android tracking, DiffX extensible format
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 IDhttps://merlin.allaboutbirds.org/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44176829Brain aging shows nonlinear transitions, suggesting a midlife "critical window"https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2416433122https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44175905Precious Plastic is in troublehttps://www.preciousplastic.com//news/problems-in-precious-plastichttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44175773The Small World of Englishhttps://www.inotherwords.app/linguabase/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44170968Ask HN: Has anybody built search on top of Anna's Archive?https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44176514A deep dive into self-improving AI and the Darwin-Gödel Machinehttps://richardcsuwandi.github.io/blog/2025/dgm/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44174856Binary Wordlehttps://wordle.chengeric.com/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44176825
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6.3.25 | AI skeptics are irrational, Cloudflare creates OAuth with Claude, Kan.bn is an open-source Trello alternative
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 – Open-source, visual-first Cursor for designershttps://github.com/onlook-dev/onlookhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44127653Show HN: A toy version of Wireshark (student project)https://github.com/lixiasky/vantahttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44159758Show HN: I build one absurd web project every monthhttps://absurd.websitehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44162363Quarkdown: A modern Markdown-based typesetting systemhttps://github.com/iamgio/quarkdownhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44167592AI makes the humanities more important, but also weirderhttps://resobscura.substack.com/p/ai-makes-the-humanities-more-importanthttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44166102ThorVG: Super Lightweight Vector Graphics Enginehttps://www.thorvg.org/abouthttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44157406Younger generations less likely to have dementia, study suggestshttps://www.theguardian.com/society/2025/jun/02/younger-generations-less-likely-dementia-studyhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44160012
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