Hacker News Weekly

Weekly Hacker News for the 7 days ending 2025-06-28

The 20 highest-rated articles on Hacker News in the 7 days ending June 28, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Weekly are:

• U.S. bombs Iranian nuclear sites
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• Git Notes: Git's coolest, most unloved­ feature (2022)
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• Mechanical Watch: Exploded View
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• I wrote my PhD Thesis in Typst
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• Backyard Coffee and Jazz in Kyoto
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• How I use my terminal
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• Vera C. Rubin Observatory first images
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• uv: An extremely fast Python package and project manager, written in Rust
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• A new PNG spec
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• Writing toy software is a joy
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• Fun with uv and PEP 723
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• Thnickels
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• A new PNG spec
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• Gemini CLI
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• OpenAI charges by the minute, so speed up your audio
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• -2000 Lines of code (2004)
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• A new pyramid-like shape always lands the same side up
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• AlphaGenome: AI for better understanding the genome
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• Show HN: I'm an airline pilot – I built interactive graphs/globes of my flights
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• IDF officers ordered to fire at unarmed crowds near Gaza food distribution sites
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Weekly Hacker News for the 7 days ending 2025-06-21

The 20 highest-rated articles on Hacker News in the 7 days ending June 21, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Weekly are:

• Waymo rides cost more than Uber or Lyft and people are paying anyway
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• I have reimplemented Stable Diffusion 3.5 from scratch in pure PyTorch
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• Why SSL was renamed to TLS in late 90s (2014)
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• Start your own Internet Resiliency Club
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• Working on databases from prison
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• WhatsApp introduces ads in its app
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• Honda conducts successful launch and landing of experimental reusable rocket
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• Resurrecting a dead torrent tracker and finding 3M peers
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• Building Effective AI Agents
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• The Grug Brained Developer (2022)
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• Show HN: Workout.cool – Open-source fitness coaching platform
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• My iPhone 8 Refuses to Die: Now It's a Solar-Powered Vision OCR Server
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• Show HN: Unregistry – “docker push” directly to servers without a registry
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• Andrej Karpathy: Software in the era of AI [video]
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• The Zed Debugger Is Here
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• Phoenix.new – Remote AI Runtime for Phoenix
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• YouTube's new anti-adblock measures
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• Harper – an open-source alternative to Grammarly
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• Samsung embeds IronSource spyware app on phones across WANA
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• Microsoft suspended the email account of an ICC prosecutor at The Hague
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Weekly Hacker News for the 7 days ending 2025-06-14

The 20 highest-rated articles on Hacker News in the 7 days ending June 14, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Weekly are:

• The last six months in LLMs, illustrated by pelicans on bicycles
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• Bruteforcing the phone number of any Google user
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• Tell HN: Help restore the tax deduction for software dev in the US (Section 174)
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• Apple introduces a universal design across platforms
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• Apple announces Foundation Models and Containerization frameworks, etc
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• Containerization is a Swift package for running Linux containers on macOS
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• Marines being mobilized in response to LA protests
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• Magistral — the first reasoning model by Mistral AI
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• OpenAI dropped the price of o3 by 80%
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• Launch HN: Vassar Robotics (YC X25) – $219 robot arm that learns new skills
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• Research suggests Big Bang may have taken place inside a black hole
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• Chatterbox TTS
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• Congratulations on creating the one billionth repository on GitHub
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• A receipt printer cured my procrastination
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• US-backed Israeli company's spyware used to target European journalists
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• GCP Outage
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• Frequent reauth doesn't make you more secure
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• Jemalloc Postmortem
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• If the moon were only 1 pixel: A tediously accurate solar system model (2014)
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• I convinced HP's board to buy Palm and watched them kill it
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Weekly Hacker News for the 7 days ending 2025-06-07

The 20 highest-rated articles on Hacker News in the 7 days ending June 07, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Weekly are:

• Progressive JSON
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• Root shell on a credit card terminal
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• How to post when no one is reading
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• If you are useful, it doesn't mean you are valued
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• Cloudlflare builds OAuth with Claude and publishes all the prompts
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• My AI skeptic friends are all nuts
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• Quarkdown: A modern Markdown-based typesetting system
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• Deep learning gets the glory, deep fact checking gets ignored
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• Merlin Bird ID
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• Why I wrote the BEAM book
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• The time bomb in the tax code that's fueling mass tech layoffs
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• FFmpeg merges WebRTC support
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• IRS Direct File on GitHub
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• A proposal to restrict sites from accessing a users’ local network
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• Cursor 1.0
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• OpenAI slams court order to save all ChatGPT logs, including deleted chats
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• The impossible predicament of the death newts
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• Self-hosting your own media considered harmful according to YouTube
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• How we decreased GitLab repo backup times from 48 hours to 41 minutes
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• Bill Atkinson has died
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Weekly Hacker News for the 7 days ending 2025-05-31

The 20 highest-rated articles on Hacker News in the 7 days ending May 31, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Weekly are:

• I used o3 to find a remote zeroday in the Linux SMB implementation
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• Reinvent the Wheel
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• Claude 4 System Card
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• At Amazon, some coders say their jobs have begun to resemble warehouse work
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• Open Source Society University – Path to a free self-taught education in CS
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• GitHub MCP exploited: Accessing private repositories via MCP
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• German court sends VW execs to prison over Dieselgate scandal
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• Hacker News now runs on top of Common Lisp
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• CSS Minecraft
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• Owls in Towels
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• Square Theory
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• Show HN: My LLM CLI tool can run tools now, from Python code or plugins
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• My website is ugly because I made it
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• The Who Cares Era
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• Show HN: I rewrote my Mac Electron app in Rust
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• WeatherStar 4000+: Weather Channel Simulator
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• Human coders are still better than LLMs
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• FLUX.1 Kontext
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• The ‘white-collar bloodbath’ is all part of the AI hype machine
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• Photos taken inside musical instruments
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