Hacker News on Saturday, 21 June 2025

U.S. bombs Iranian nuclear sites(bbc.co.uk)

1100 points by mattcollins 1 year ago | 3239 comments

BBC News live coverage page on US airstrikes against Iranian nuclear sites, with Tehran warning of 'everlasting consequences'.

Samsung embeds IronSource spyware app on phones across WANA(smex.org)

779 points by the-anarchist 1 year ago | 440 comments

SMEX open letter urging Samsung to stop pre-installing the ironSource AppCloud bloatware app on Galaxy phones sold in West Asia and North Africa.

Microsoft suspended the email account of an ICC prosecutor at The Hague(nytimes.com)

464 points by blinding-streak 1 year ago | 306 comments

New York Times article on Microsoft suspending the email account of an International Criminal Court prosecutor amid US sanctions; the capture shows a captcha page.

uBlock Origin Lite Beta for Safari iOS(testflight.apple.com)

378 points by Squarex 1 year ago | 114 comments

Apple TestFlight invitation page for joining the beta of uBlock Origin Lite, an MV3-based declarative content blocker, on Safari for iOS.

Tell HN: Beware confidentiality agreements that act as lifetime non competes

359 points by throwarayes 1 year ago | 226 comments

A Tell HN post warning that broad IP confidentiality agreements, backed by the inevitable disclosure doctrine, can function as lifetime non-compete clauses.

MCP is eating the world(stainless.com)

300 points by emschwartz 1 year ago | 197 comments

Delta Chat is a decentralized and secure messenger app(delta.chat)

289 points by Bluestein 1 year ago | 177 comments

U.S. strikes Iran's nuclear facilities(axios.com)

245 points by Liwink 1 year ago | 369 comments

LaborBerlin: State-of-the-Art 16mm Projector(filmlabs.org)

206 points by audionerd 1 year ago | 34 comments

Sega mistakenly reveals sales numbers of popular games(gematsu.com)

195 points by kelt 1 year ago | 183 comments

Scaling our observability platform by embracing wide events and replacing OTel(clickhouse.com)

193 points by valyala 1 year ago | 95 comments

'Gwada negative': French scientists find new blood type in woman(lemonde.fr)

170 points by spidersouris 1 year ago | 65 comments

AI is ushering in a 'tiny team' era(bloomberg.com)

157 points by kjhughes 1 year ago | 139 comments

Cosmoe: BeOS Class Library on Top of Wayland(cosmoe.org)

157 points by Bogdanp 1 year ago | 61 comments

Show HN: We moved from AWS to Hetzner, saved 90%, kept ISO 27001 with Ansible(medium.com)

150 points by sksjvsla 1 year ago | 75 comments

First methane-powered sea spiders found crawling on the ocean floor(cnn.com)

147 points by bookofjoe 1 year ago | 70 comments

Ocarina of Time Randomizer(ootrandomizer.com)

146 points by nickswalker 1 year ago | 48 comments

Signal – An Ethical Replacement for WhatsApp(greenstarsproject.org)

137 points by miles 1 year ago | 142 comments

Tiny Undervalued Hardware Companions (2024)(vermaden.wordpress.com)

127 points by zdw 1 year ago | 25 comments

Requiem for a Solar Plant(7goldfish.com)

118 points by akkartik 1 year ago | 96 comments

Bill Atkinson: Polaroids Showing the Evolution of the Lisa GUI [video](youtube.com)

116 points by zdw 1 year ago | 34 comments

Balatro for the Nintendo E-Reader(mattgreer.dev)

108 points by arantius 1 year ago | 22 comments

AllTracker: Efficient Dense Point Tracking at High Resolution(alltracker.github.io)

95 points by lnyan 1 year ago | 10 comments

Augmented Vertex Block Descent (AVBD)(graphics.cs.utah.edu)

79 points by bobajeff 1 year ago | 6 comments

Behind the scenes: Redpanda Cloud's response to the GCP outage(redpanda.com)

73 points by eatonphil 1 year ago | 32 comments

Agentic Misalignment: How LLMs could be insider threats(anthropic.com)

70 points by helloplanets 1 year ago | 64 comments

Mapping LLMs over excel saved my passion for game dev(danieltan.weblog.lol)

68 points by danieltanfh95 1 year ago | 19 comments

Transparent Ambition(take.surf)

64 points by goranmoomin 1 year ago | 39 comments

ARIA, the UK's Bet to Build Scientific Revolutions(asimov.press)

63 points by almost-exactly 1 year ago | 46 comments

US Congress is making more than 250M acres of public lands available for sale(wilderness.org)

61 points by surprisetalk 1 year ago | 27 comments

Developing a Retro-Roguelike Game for Multiple Platforms in C(retrogamecoders.com)

61 points by ingve 1 year ago | 7 comments

Show HN: MMOndrian(mmondrian.com)

60 points by neural_thing 1 year ago | 34 comments

Apple typewriter ban memo (2020)(writingball.blogspot.com)

56 points by rafaepta 1 year ago | 38 comments

People instantly decide whether to trust a product based on design(andrewcoyle.com)

54 points by coyleandrew 1 year ago | 19 comments

Record DDoS pummels site with once-unimaginable 7.3Tbps of junk traffic(arstechnica.com)

51 points by Brajeshwar 1 year ago | 31 comments

BYOK – Bring Your Own Keyboard(byok.io)

50 points by kevinbluer 1 year ago | 39 comments

A brief history of hardware epidemics(eclecticlight.co)

40 points by ingve 1 year ago | 18 comments

Texas Sheriffs Crack Bitcoin ATM with Power Tools to Retrieve $32,000(decrypt.co)

40 points by croes 1 year ago | 39 comments

Hyprland Premium(account.hypr.land)

36 points by DaSHacka 1 year ago | 25 comments

2025 Alonzo Church Award: Paul Blain Levy for Call-by-Push-Value (CBPV)(siglog.org)

35 points by matt_d 1 year ago | 6 comments

Don't Read This If You Have a Security Clearance (2023)(theatlantic.com)

29 points by greyface- 1 year ago | 15 comments

Show HN: To-Userscript: Chrome Extension to Userscript Converter(github.com)

27 points by explosion-s 1 year ago | 3 comments

Discovering Programming at the Darkest Point in My Life(h5law.com)

27 points by dvektor 1 year ago | 3 comments

Researchers using the same data and hypothesis arrive at different conclusions (2022)(pnas.org)

25 points by like_any_other 1 year ago | 5 comments

The Cult of Personality and Its Consequences(en.wikipedia.org)

21 points by handfuloflight 1 year ago | 5 comments

Honeywell H316 Kitchen Computer (2023)(kbd.news)

21 points by glimshe 1 year ago | 7 comments

Higher: Favourite Haskell type classes for Rust (2023)(github.com)

19 points by Bogdanp 1 year ago | 2 comments

You say 'silo' as if it were a bad thing(hollisrobbinsanecdotal.substack.com)

17 points by HR01 1 year ago | 1 comments

PyTorch Reshaping with None(blog.detorch.xyz)

15 points by demirbey05 1 year ago | 0 comments

Publishing a Docker Container for MS Edit to the GitHub Container Registry(til.simonwillison.net)

13 points by chmaynard 1 year ago | 5 comments

East German cities offer free stays to fight depopulation(dw.com)

13 points by toomuchtodo 1 year ago | 8 comments

French 'merveilleux-scientifique' fiction reframed reality(aeon.co)

12 points by rbanffy 1 year ago | 1 comments

War Powers Resolution(en.wikipedia.org)

12 points by handfuloflight 1 year ago | 1 comments

See Jane 128 by Arktronics run (ft. Magic Desk, 3-Plus-1 and the Thomson MO5)(oldvcr.blogspot.com)

11 points by classichasclass 1 year ago | 0 comments

The Mathematics of Juggling [video](youtube.com)

11 points by surprisetalk 1 year ago | 0 comments

Astronomers locate universe's 'missing' matter in the largest cosmic structures(space.com)

9 points by pseudolus 1 year ago | 0 comments

Legendary Sound Blaster ISA sound card gets a driver update 30 years later(tomshardware.com)

7 points by miles 1 year ago | 0 comments

Long Covid destroys teenage lungs in ways doctors never saw(rollingout.com)

7 points by lnyan 1 year ago | 1 comments

Controversial Plant Propagation Hack That Has Gardeners Divided(bhg.com)

7 points by Bluestein 1 year ago | 0 comments

Of Course ML Has Monads (2011)(existentialtype.wordpress.com)

6 points by Bogdanp 1 year ago | 2 comments