Hacker News on Friday, 20 June 2025

YouTube's new anti-adblock measures(iter.ca)

851 points by smitop 1 year ago | 1169 comments

A blog post explaining YouTube's A/B-tested anti-adblock measures such as fake buffering, and a uBlock Origin filter written to partially avoid them.

Phoenix.new – Remote AI Runtime for Phoenix(fly.io)

602 points by wut42 1 year ago | 256 comments

Fly.io blog post announcing Phoenix.new, a remote AI runtime and coding agent for building Elixir Phoenix applications in the browser.

Harper – an open-source alternative to Grammarly(writewithharper.com)

551 points by ReadCarlBarks 1 year ago | 145 comments

Homepage for Harper, an open-source grammar checker offered as a Chrome extension, an Obsidian plugin, and a VS Code plugin.

Hurl: Run and test HTTP requests with plain text(github.com)

410 points by flykespice 1 year ago | 97 comments

GitHub repository for Hurl, an open-source command-line tool by Orange for running and testing HTTP requests defined in plain text files.

New Linux udisks flaw lets attackers get root on major Linux distros(bleepingcomputer.com)

336 points by smig0 1 year ago | 227 comments

BleepingComputer news article about a udisks vulnerability that lets attackers gain root privileges on major Linux distributions.

Python can run Mojo now(koaning.io)

310 points by cantdutchthis 1 year ago | 145 comments

AbsenceBench: Language models can't tell what's missing(arxiv.org)

307 points by JnBrymn 1 year ago | 78 comments

Show HN: Nxtscape – an open-source agentic browser(github.com)

291 points by felarof 1 year ago | 189 comments

Plastic bag bans and fees reduce harmful bag litter on shorelines(science.org)

248 points by miles 1 year ago | 160 comments

Visualizing environmental costs of war in Hayao Miyazaki's Nausicaä(jgeekstudies.org)

244 points by zdw 1 year ago | 65 comments

How Cloudflare blocked a monumental 7.3 Tbps DDoS attack(blog.cloudflare.com)

236 points by methuselah_in 1 year ago | 137 comments

Congestion pricing in Manhattan is a predictable success(economist.com)

230 points by edward 1 year ago | 362 comments

EU Eyes Ditching Microsoft Azure for France's OVHcloud(euractiv.com)

215 points by doener 1 year ago | 142 comments

Mbake – A Makefile formatter and linter, that only took 50 years(github.com)

212 points by rainmans 1 year ago | 100 comments

Learn Makefiles(makefiletutorial.com)

204 points by dsego 1 year ago | 105 comments

Asterinas: A new Linux-compatible kernel project(lwn.net)

192 points by howtofly 1 year ago | 64 comments

Oklo, the Earth's Two-billion-year-old only Known Natural Nuclear Reactor (2018)(iaea.org)

187 points by keepamovin 1 year ago | 103 comments

I will do anything to end homelessness except build more homes (2018)(mcsweeneys.net)

178 points by 2color 1 year ago | 167 comments

Break Up Big Tech: Civil Society Declaration(peoplevsbig.tech)

171 points by janandonly 1 year ago | 128 comments

Alpha Centauri(filfre.net)

167 points by doppp 1 year ago | 54 comments

Open source can't coordinate?(matklad.github.io)

156 points by LorenDB 1 year ago | 181 comments

Rocknix is an immutable Linux distribution for handheld gaming devices(rocknix.org)

153 points by PaulHoule 1 year ago | 51 comments

The FPGA turns 40(adiuvoengineering.com)

150 points by voxadam 1 year ago | 91 comments

Meta announces Oakley smart glasses(theverge.com)

142 points by jmsflknr 1 year ago | 280 comments

A Deep Dive into Solid Queue for Ruby on Rails(blog.appsignal.com)

138 points by fbuilesv 1 year ago | 44 comments

Wiki Radio: The thrilling sound of random Wikipedia(monkeon.co.uk)

137 points by if-curious 1 year ago | 29 comments

Rolling the ladder up behind us(xeiaso.net)

134 points by techknowlogick 1 year ago | 131 comments

The JAWS shark is public domain(ironicsans.ghost.io)

134 points by MBCook 1 year ago | 28 comments

BYD begins testing solid-state EV batteries in the Seal(electrek.co)

127 points by toomuchtodo 1 year ago | 142 comments

Tuxracer.js play Tux Racer in the browser(github.com)

119 points by retro_guy 1 year ago | 36 comments

FedFlix — Public Domain Stock Footage Library(public.resource.org)

118 points by bookofjoe 1 year ago | 9 comments

Learn you Galois fields for great good (2023)(xorvoid.com)

116 points by signa11 1 year ago | 21 comments

AMD's Freshly-Baked MI350: An Interview with the Chief Architect(chipsandcheese.com)

114 points by pella 1 year ago | 64 comments

Klong: A Simple Array Language(t3x.org)

110 points by tosh 1 year ago | 60 comments

Show HN: Inspect and extract files from MSI installers directly in your browser(pymsi.readthedocs.io)

109 points by rmast 1 year ago | 19 comments

Is mathematics mostly chaos or mostly order?(quantamagazine.org)

95 points by baruchel 1 year ago | 58 comments

Minimal Boolean Formulas (2011)(research.swtch.com)

95 points by mcyc 1 year ago | 19 comments

How to Design Programs 2nd Ed (2024)(htdp.org)

94 points by AbuAssar 1 year ago | 21 comments

JavaScript broke the web (and called it progress)(jonoalderson.com)

93 points by Bogdanp 1 year ago | 97 comments

Kilauea volcano errupts, lava more than 1k feet high [video](youtube.com)

90 points by asix66 1 year ago | 40 comments

Show HN: SnapQL – Desktop app to query Postgres with AI(github.com)

88 points by nicktikhonov 1 year ago | 55 comments

Malicious AI swarms can threaten democracy(osf.io)

88 points by anigbrowl 1 year ago | 89 comments

US Army Appoints Palantir, Meta, OpenAI Execs as Lt. Colonels(thegrayzone.com)

79 points by technologesus 1 year ago | 72 comments

Tell me about your favorite tree (a slow-web proposal)(nannnsss.omg.lol)

78 points by surprisetalk 1 year ago | 64 comments

Show HN: Ts-SSH – SSH over Tailscale without running the daemon(github.com)

78 points by i8code 1 year ago | 26 comments

Smartphones: Parts of Our Minds? Or Parasites?(tandfonline.com)

78 points by cratermoon 1 year ago | 33 comments

Jürgen Schmidhuber：the Father of Generative AI Without Turing Award(jazzyear.com)

77 points by kleiba 1 year ago | 47 comments

AI is going to hack Jira(thoughtfuleng.substack.com)

76 points by mooreds 1 year ago | 56 comments

'Dragon prince' dinosaur discovery 'rewrites' T.rex family tree(bbc.com)

75 points by gmays 1 year ago | 31 comments

How would a passing gravitational wave look or feel?(physics.stackexchange.com)

73 points by ynoxinul 1 year ago | 19 comments

I ported pigz from Unix to Windows(blog.kowalczyk.info)

72 points by speckx 1 year ago | 31 comments

Adobe Project Indigo is a new photo app from former Pixel camera engineers(engadget.com)

71 points by bookofjoe 1 year ago | 55 comments

Show HN: Tool to Automatically Create Organized Commits for PRs(github.com)

68 points by edverma2 1 year ago | 39 comments

Career advice, or something like it(brooker.co.za)

66 points by SchwKatze 1 year ago | 32 comments

Cracovians: The Twisted Twins of Matrices(marcinciura.wordpress.com)

66 points by mci 1 year ago | 29 comments

Homotopy Equivalences(bartoszmilewski.com)

64 points by ibobev 1 year ago | 14 comments

The Tandy Corporation(abortretry.fail)

61 points by rbanffy 1 year ago | 39 comments

Svalboard: Datahand Lives(svalboard.com)

60 points by morganvenable 1 year ago | 25 comments

Minimal auto-differentiation engine in Rust(github.com)

60 points by lschneider 1 year ago | 6 comments

ASUSpicious Flaw – Users' Information Exposed Since 2022(mrbruh.com)

57 points by MrBruh 1 year ago | 7 comments