Hacker News on Monday, 16 June 2025

Working on databases from prison(turso.tech)

785 points by dvektor 1 year ago | 491 comments

Turso blog post by Preston Thorpe describing how he came to work on database software while incarcerated, part 2 of his story.

WhatsApp introduces ads in its app(nytimes.com)

644 points by greenburger 1 year ago | 864 comments

New York Times article about WhatsApp introducing advertisements in its messaging app; the capture shows a bot-blocking page.

Start your own Internet Resiliency Club(bowshock.nl)

536 points by todsacerdoti 1 year ago | 299 comments

A quick-start guide to forming a volunteer Internet Resiliency Club that uses LoRa radios and Meshtastic to communicate and restore connectivity during outages.

Show HN: Chawan TUI web browser(chawan.net)

363 points by shiomiru 1 year ago | 64 comments

Release announcement for Chawan 0.2.0, a terminal-based TUI web browser written in Nim, with download links and packaging dependency notes.

What happens when clergy take psilocybin(nautil.us)

333 points by bookofjoe 1 year ago | 493 comments

Nautilus article on a decade-old study, now published, in which clergy members took psilocybin and reported profound religious experiences.

Nanonets-OCR-s – OCR model that transforms documents into structured markdown(huggingface.co)

326 points by PixelPanda 1 year ago | 72 comments

Hugging Face model card for Nanonets-OCR-s, a 3.75B-parameter image-to-markdown OCR model built on Qwen2.5-VL that converts documents into structured markdown.

Generative AI coding tools and agents do not work for me(blog.miguelgrinberg.com)

316 points by nomdep 1 year ago | 371 comments

Show HN: Canine – A Heroku alternative built on Kubernetes(github.com)

295 points by czhu12 1 year ago | 117 comments

Snorting the AGI with Claude Code(kadekillary.work)

290 points by beigebrucewayne 1 year ago | 183 comments

OpenAI wins $200M U.S. defense contract(cnbc.com)

279 points by erikrit 1 year ago | 239 comments

Benzene at 200(chemistryworld.com)

230 points by Brajeshwar 1 year ago | 103 comments

Dull Men’s Club(theguardian.com)

216 points by herbertl 1 year ago | 119 comments

Accumulation of cognitive debt when using an AI assistant for essay writing task(arxiv.org)

209 points by stephen_g 1 year ago | 114 comments

College baseball, venture capital, and the long maybe(bcantrill.dtrace.org)

170 points by bcantrill 1 year ago | 121 comments

The Matrix (1999) Filming Locations – Shot-for-Shot – Sydney, Australia [video](youtube.com)

144 points by keepamovin 1 year ago | 91 comments

Darklang Goes Open Source(blog.darklang.com)

143 points by stachudotnet 1 year ago | 66 comments

Getting Started Strudel(strudel.cc)

142 points by rcarmo 1 year ago | 50 comments

Getting free internet on a cruise, saving $170(angad.me)

123 points by humanperhaps 1 year ago | 175 comments

Retrobootstrapping Rust for some reason(graydon2.dreamwidth.org)

123 points by romac 1 year ago | 43 comments

OpenTelemetry for Go: Measuring overhead costs(coroot.com)

119 points by openWrangler 1 year ago | 38 comments

Salesforce study finds LLM agents flunk CRM and confidentiality tests(theregister.com)

115 points by rntn 1 year ago | 60 comments

A brief, incomplete, and mostly wrong history of robotics(generalrobots.substack.com)

112 points by Bogdanp 1 year ago | 62 comments

Transparent peer review to be extended to all of Nature's research papers(nature.com)

108 points by rntn 1 year ago | 58 comments

DNA floating in the air tracks wildlife, viruses, even drugs(sciencedaily.com)

104 points by karlperera 1 year ago | 76 comments

Privacy implications of browsers’ (mis)implementations of Widevine EME (2023)(hal.science)

101 points by exceptione 1 year ago | 57 comments

The drawbridges come up: the dream of a interconnected context ecosystem is over(dbreunig.com)

99 points by dbreunig 1 year ago | 54 comments

Open-Source RISC-V: Energy Efficiency of Superscalar, Out-of-Order Execution(arxiv.org)

93 points by PaulHoule 1 year ago | 27 comments

Octobass(atlasobscura.com)

89 points by keepamovin 1 year ago | 23 comments

Object personification in autism: This paper will be sad if you don't read (2018)(pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)

87 points by oliverkwebb 1 year ago | 84 comments

Extracting memorized pieces of books from open-weight language models(arxiv.org)

84 points by fzliu 1 year ago | 86 comments

Show HN: Nexus.js - Fabric.js for 3D(punk.cam)

78 points by ges 1 year ago | 23 comments

3D printable 6" f/5 compact travel telescope model(printables.com)

76 points by chantepierre 1 year ago | 37 comments

NesDev.org – A community of homebrew game devs for NES and other retro consoles(nesdev.org)

70 points by ibobev 1 year ago | 5 comments

Should we design for iffy internet?(bytes.zone)

65 points by surprisetalk 1 year ago | 38 comments

Tesla blows past stopped school bus and hits kid-sized dummies in FSD tests(engadget.com)

64 points by ndsipa_pomu 1 year ago | 41 comments

ZjsComponent: A Pragmatic Approach to Reusable UI Fragments for Web Development(arxiv.org)

64 points by lelanthran 1 year ago | 45 comments

Breaking Quadratic Barriers: A Non-Attention LLM for Ultra-Long Context Horizons(arxiv.org)

59 points by PaulHoule 1 year ago | 23 comments

Show HN: dk – A script runner and cross-compiler, written in OCaml(diskuv.com)

59 points by beckford 1 year ago | 8 comments

OpenAI and Microsoft tensions are reaching a boiling point(wsj.com)

59 points by jmsflknr 1 year ago | 13 comments

USDA Pomological Watercolors(search.nal.usda.gov)

52 points by m_fayer 1 year ago | 10 comments

George Orwell's 1984 and How Power Manufactures Truth(openculture.com)

47 points by colinprince 1 year ago | 34 comments

Battle to eradicate invasive pythons in Florida achieves milestone(phys.org)

45 points by wglb 1 year ago | 39 comments

Mathematical Illustrations: A Manual of Geometry and PostScript(personal.math.ubc.ca)

43 points by Bogdanp 1 year ago | 18 comments

How the BIC Cristal ballpoint pen became ubiquitous(openculture.com)

42 points by janandonly 1 year ago | 80 comments

The Ecosystem Dynamics That Can Make or Break an Invasion(quantamagazine.org)

42 points by rbanffy 1 year ago | 0 comments

The Hewlett-Packard Archive(hparchive.com)

41 points by joebig 1 year ago | 12 comments

Denmark tests unmanned robotic sailboat fleet(apnews.com)

40 points by domofutu 1 year ago | 8 comments

Cmapv2: A high performance, concurrent map(github.com)

39 points by sirgallo 1 year ago | 15 comments

Sincerity Wins the War(wheresyoured.at)

36 points by treadump 1 year ago | 15 comments

Scientists genetically engineer a lethal mosquito STD to combat malaria(newatlas.com)

35 points by burnt-resistor 1 year ago | 25 comments

Why Claude's Comment Paper Is a Poor Rebuttal(victoramartinez.com)

35 points by vectorhacker 1 year ago | 37 comments

Show HN: Socket-call – Call socket.io events like normal JavaScript functions(github.com)

34 points by bperel 1 year ago | 13 comments

Show HN: TrendFi – I built AI trading signals that self-optimize(trend.fi)

30 points by wolfman1 1 year ago | 36 comments

Citizen science illuminates the nature of city lights(nature.com)

29 points by ptrsrtp 1 year ago | 2 comments

DropZap World – My falling block game with lasers, released after years of work(apps.apple.com)

27 points by amichail 1 year ago | 10 comments

“Don’t mock what you don't own” in 5 minutes (2022)(hynek.me)

23 points by JNRowe 1 year ago | 13 comments

Show HN: VS Code extension to share code snippets instantly(snippetshare.dev)

23 points by petermukha 1 year ago | 15 comments

String Interpolation in C++ Using Glaze Stencil/Mustache(stephenberry.github.io)

23 points by npalli 1 year ago | 0 comments

League of Professional System Administrators Board to Dissolve Organization(lopsa.org)

22 points by pabs3 1 year ago | 3 comments

Income Inequality Depresses Support for Higher Minimum Wages [pdf](apa.org)

20 points by PaulHoule 1 year ago | 29 comments