Hacker News on Tuesday, 3 June 2025

Quarkdown: A modern Markdown-based typesetting system(github.com)

592 points by asicsp 1 year ago | 247 comments

GitHub repository for Quarkdown, an extended Markdown-based typesetting system for producing presentations, articles, and books.

Deep learning gets the glory, deep fact checking gets ignored(rachel.fast.ai)

549 points by chmaynard 1 year ago | 134 comments

Rachel Thomas blog post on how a high-profile Nature paper using a Transformer to predict enzyme functions contained many errors that received far less attention than the original result.

Covert Web-to-App Tracking via Localhost on Android(localmess.github.io)

437 points by sebastian_z 1 year ago | 290 comments

Disclosure site describing how Meta and Yandex apps on Android listened on localhost ports to link mobile web browsing to app user identities.

EU Commission refuses to disclose authors behind its mass surveillance proposal(old.reddit.com)

343 points by nickslaughter02 1 year ago | 205 comments

Reddit r/europe discussion thread about the EU Commission refusing to disclose who authored its mass surveillance (chat control) proposal.

(On | No) Syntactic Support for Error Handling(go.dev)

329 points by henrikhorluck 1 year ago | 436 comments

Go Blog post by Robert Griesemer discussing proposals for syntactic support for error handling in Go and the team's decision on whether to pursue them.

Builder.ai Collapses: $1.5B 'AI' Startup Exposed as 'Indians'(ibtimes.co.uk)

295 points by healsdata 1 year ago | 192 comments

Precious Plastic is in trouble(preciousplastic.com)

291 points by diggan 1 year ago | 195 comments

AI makes the humanities more important, but also weirder(resobscura.substack.com)

258 points by findhorn 1 year ago | 270 comments

Ukraine's autonomous killer drones defeat electronic warfare(spectrum.ieee.org)

255 points by rbanffy 1 year ago | 271 comments

Covert Web-to-App Tracking via Localhost on Android(localmess.github.io)

242 points by todsacerdoti 1 year ago | 62 comments

Brain aging shows nonlinear transitions, suggesting a midlife "critical window"(pnas.org)

225 points by derbOac 1 year ago | 93 comments

Swift at Apple: Migrating the Password Monitoring Service from Java(swift.org)

205 points by fidotron 1 year ago | 161 comments

Wendelstein 7-X sets new fusion record(heise.de)

184 points by doener 1 year ago | 48 comments

A deep dive into self-improving AI and the Darwin-Gödel Machine(richardcsuwandi.github.io)

178 points by hardmaru 1 year ago | 62 comments

Show HN: AirAP AirPlay server – AirPlay to an iOS Device(github.com)

176 points by neon443 1 year ago | 27 comments

Show HN: I wrote a Java decompiler in pure C language(github.com)

153 points by neocanable 1 year ago | 82 comments

The Metamorphosis of Prime Intellect (1994)(localroger.com)

147 points by lawrenceyan 1 year ago | 67 comments

The Small World of English(inotherwords.app)

147 points by michaeld123 1 year ago | 66 comments

Vision Language Models Are Biased(vlmsarebiased.github.io)

138 points by taesiri 1 year ago | 109 comments

Show HN: Ephe – A minimalist open-source Markdown paper for today(github.com)

131 points by unvalley 1 year ago | 50 comments

Meta pauses mobile port tracking tech on Android after researchers cry foul(theregister.com)

107 points by coloneltcb 1 year ago | 16 comments

Mapping latitude and longitude to country, state, or city(austinhenley.com)

102 points by azhenley 1 year ago | 44 comments

Changing Directions(jacobian.org)

90 points by speckx 1 year ago | 31 comments

Destination: Jupiter(clarkesworldmagazine.com)

86 points by AndrewLiptak 1 year ago | 35 comments

Show HN: Controlling 3D models with voice and hand gestures(github.com)

84 points by getToTheChopin 1 year ago | 18 comments

Plutonium Mountain: The 17-year mission to guard remains of Soviet nuclear tests(belfercenter.org)

78 points by jmillikin 1 year ago | 44 comments

There should be no Computer Art (1971)(dam.org)

76 points by glimshe 1 year ago | 117 comments

Show HN: Localize React apps without rewriting code(github.com)

76 points by maxpr 1 year ago | 58 comments

Fun with Futex(blog.fredrb.com)

75 points by ingve 1 year ago | 20 comments

Ask HN: Options for One-Handed Typing

72 points by Townley 1 year ago | 76 comments

Did "Big Oil" Sell Us on a Recycling Scam?(daily.jstor.org)

70 points by cratermoon 1 year ago | 42 comments

NYC Drivers Who Run Red Lights Get Tickets. E-Bike Riders Get Court Dates(nytimes.com)

68 points by bookofjoe 1 year ago | 36 comments

Claude has learned how to jailbreak Cursor(forum.cursor.com)

68 points by sarnowski 1 year ago | 32 comments

Claude Code Is My Computer(steipete.me)

67 points by behnamoh 1 year ago | 42 comments

When the sun dies, could life survive on the Jupiter ocean moon Europa?(space.com)

65 points by amichail 1 year ago | 93 comments

IT workers struggling in New Zealand's tight job market(rnz.co.nz)

64 points by MarcoDewey 1 year ago | 70 comments

Polish engineer creates postage stamp-sized 1980s Atari computer(arstechnica.com)

63 points by dangle1 1 year ago | 1 comments

Can adults grow new brain cells?(livescience.com)

60 points by bookofjoe 1 year ago | 22 comments

The Shape of the Essay Field(paulgraham.com)

58 points by luisb 1 year ago | 37 comments

CVE-2024-47081: Netrc credential leak in PSF requests library(seclists.org)

52 points by jupenur 1 year ago | 18 comments

Show HN: PinSend – Share text between devices using a PIN(P2P, no login)(pinsend.app)

51 points by avovsya 1 year ago | 33 comments

New study casts doubt on the likelihood of Milky Way collision with Andromeda(durham.ac.uk)

49 points by layer8 1 year ago | 55 comments

Show HN: An Alfred workflow to open GCP services and browse resources within(github.com)

49 points by dineshgowda24 1 year ago | 11 comments

Updates to Windows for the Digital Markets Act(blogs.windows.com)

48 points by nixass 1 year ago | 36 comments

Where in the world are babies at the lowest risk of dying?(ourworldindata.org)

47 points by kamaraju 1 year ago | 39 comments

GenAI Is Our Polyester(culture.ghost.io)

44 points by todsacerdoti 1 year ago | 17 comments

Human Brain Cells on Chip for Sale – First biocomputing platform hits the market(spectrum.ieee.org)

44 points by mdp2021 1 year ago | 22 comments

Yoshua Bengio Launches LawZero: A New Nonprofit Advancing Safe-by-Design AI(lawzero.org)

42 points by WillieCubed 1 year ago | 25 comments

Don't just check errors, handle them gracefully (2016)(dave.cheney.net)

42 points by anttiharju 1 year ago | 31 comments

KDE for Windows 10 Exiles – Upgrade your software, not your computer(kde.org)

41 points by jlpcsl 1 year ago | 23 comments

AWS forms EU-based cloud unit as customers fret(theregister.com)

40 points by rntn 1 year ago | 35 comments

Poison Pill: Is the killer behind 1982 Tylenol poisonings still on the loose?(trulyadventure.us)

38 points by TMWNN 1 year ago | 39 comments

Gemini in Chrome(gemini.google)

36 points by aru 1 year ago | 38 comments

Stop Over-Thinking AI Subscriptions – Peter Steinberger(steipete.me)

32 points by hboon 1 year ago | 33 comments

How much do language models memorize?(arxiv.org)

32 points by mhmmmmmm 1 year ago | 0 comments

Mario Kart designers had to rethink everything to make it open world(theverge.com)

30 points by Tomte 1 year ago | 53 comments

Show HN: Gradle plugin for faster Java compiles(github.com)

29 points by sgammon 1 year ago | 23 comments

The initial version of the /etc./magic file used by the file(1) command(retrocomputing.stackexchange.com)

28 points by SeenNotHeard 1 year ago | 8 comments

Rsync's defaults are not always enough(rachelbythebay.com)

28 points by rcarmo 1 year ago | 36 comments

The Fannie and Freddie Stakes Are High(bloomberg.com)

22 points by feross 1 year ago | 5 comments