news, !paper / hn digest   2025-06-20

1271 Frequent reauth doesn't make you more secure / tailscale.com / 518
1247 A receipt printer cured my procrastination / laurieherault.com / 599
939 Magistral — the first reasoning model by Mistral AI / mistral.ai / 424
933 If the moon were only 1 pixel: A tediously accurate solar system model (2014) / joshworth.com / 261
798 Jemalloc Postmortem / jasone.github.io / 235
770 Research suggests Big Bang may have taken place inside a black hole / port.ac.uk / 604
731 US-backed Israeli company's spyware used to target European journalists / apnews.com / 382
683 I convinced HP's board to buy Palm and watched them kill it / philmckinney.substack.com / 495
668 Chatterbox TTS / github.com/resemble-ai / 188
614 How I program with agents / crawshaw.io / 294
580 Launch HN: Vassar Robotics (YC X25) – $219 robot arm that learns new skills / news.ycombinator.com / 219
507 Waymo rides cost more than Uber or Lyft and people are paying anyway / techcrunch.com / 886
480 I have reimplemented Stable Diffusion 3.5 from scratch in pure PyTorch / github.com/yousef-rafat / 77
468 Meta invests $14.3B in Scale AI to kick-start superintelligence lab / nytimes.com / 477
420 Rendering Crispy Text on the GPU / osor.io / 131
416 Show HN: I made a 3D printed VTOL drone / tsungxu.com / 144
391 Endometriosis is an interesting disease / owlposting.com / 277
388 iPhone 11 emulation done in QEMU / github.com/ChefKissInc / 33
377 Show HN: Spark, An advanced 3D Gaussian Splatting renderer for Three.js / sparkjs.dev / 86
366 Microsoft Office migration from Source Depot to Git / danielsada.tech / 276
351 Menstrual tracking app data is gold mine for advertisers that risks women safety / cam.ac.uk / 382
343 Seven replies to the viral Apple reasoning paper and why they fall short / garymarcus.substack.com / 312
328 TimeGuessr / timeguessr.com / 64
312 Show HN: Tritium – The Legal IDE in Rust / tritium.legal / 168
311 OxCaml - a set of extensions to the OCaml programming language. / oxcaml.org / 118
297 Plants hear their pollinators, and produce sweet nectar in response / cbc.ca / 66
289 OpenAI o3-pro / help.openai.com / 199
287 Rust compiler performance / kobzol.github.io / 259
283 Maximizing Battery Storage Profits via High-Frequency Intraday Trading / arxiv.org / 268
273 Solar Orbiter gets world-first views of the Sun's poles / esa.int / 28
250 The Army’s Newest Recruits: Tech Execs From Meta, OpenAI and More / wsj.com / 191
249 I will do anything to end homelessness except build more homes (2018) / mcsweeneys.net / 352
244 Peano arithmetic is enough, because Peano arithmetic encodes computation / math.stackexchange.com / 139
244 Self-Adapting Language Models / arxiv.org / 75
236 Phoenix.new – Remote AI Runtime for Phoenix / fly.io / 113
235 A dark adtech empire fed by fake CAPTCHAs / krebsonsecurity.com / 119
232 Learn Makefiles / makefiletutorial.com / 118
223 SIMD-friendly algorithms for substring searching (2016) / 0x80.pl / 35
218 Why Koreans ask what year you were born / bryanhogan.com / 358
218 Q-learning is not yet scalable / seohong.me / 48
216 Last fifty years of integer linear programming: Recent practical advances (2024) / inria.hal.science / 82
216 Implementing Logic Programming / btmc.substack.com / 77
214 Infinite Grid of Resistors / mathpages.com / 109
213 Show HN: A “Course” as an MCP Server / mastra.ai / 32
209 First thoughts on o3 pro / latent.space / 237
204 Student discovers fungus predicted by Albert Hoffman / wvutoday.wvu.edu / 152
198 Helion: A modern fast paced Doom FPS engine in C# / github.com/Helion-Engine / 67
192 Congestion pricing in Manhattan is a predictable success / economist.com / 288
192 Fine-tuning LLMs is a waste of time / codinginterviewsmadesimple.substack.com / 88
190 Break Up Big Tech: Civil Society Declaration / peoplevsbig.tech / 153
174 The Many Sides of Erik Satie / thereader.mitpress.mit.edu / 44
173 Cray versus Raspberry Pi / aardvark.co.nz / 130
173 Inside the Apollo “8-Ball” FDAI (Flight Director / Attitude Indicator) / righto.com / 39
171 Asterinas: A new Linux-compatible kernel project / lwn.net / 61
166 Quantum Computation Lecture Notes (2022) / math.mit.edu / 48
162 The curious case of shell commands, or how "this bug is required by POSIX" (2021) / notes.volution.ro / 125
152 Faster, easier 2D vector rendering [video] / youtube.com / 43
152 Show HN: McWig – A modal, Vim-like text editor written in Go / github.com/firstrow / 27
146 Chicken Eyeglasses / en.wikipedia.org / 76
137 Show HN: Eyesite – Experimental website combining computer vision and web design / blog.andykhau.com / 25
136 JavaScript broke the web (and called it progress) / jonoalderson.com / 152
136 Lessons from That 1834 Landscape Gardening Guidebook / fi-le.net / 26
135 Unsupervised Elicitation of Language Models / arxiv.org / 24
135 Text-to-LoRA: Hypernetwork that generates task-specific LLM adapters (LoRAs) / github.com/SakanaAI / 17
133 AMD's AI Future Is Rack Scale 'Helios' / morethanmoore.substack.com / 82
130 Filedb: Disk-based key-value store inspired by Bitcask / github.com/rajivharlalka / 14
128 Debunking HDR [video] / yedlin.net / 74
128 Oklo, the Earth's Two-billion-year-old only Known Natural Nuclear Reactor (2018) / iaea.org / 45
125 When random people give money to random other people (2017) / quomodocumque.wordpress.com / 88
124 How to Build Conscious Machines / osf.io / 145
124 The international standard for identifying postal items / akpain.net / 27
123 Show HN: High End Color Quantizer / github.com/big-nacho / 34
121 100 years of Zermelo's axiom of choice: What was the problem with it? (2006) / research.mietek.io / 129
117 Meta announces Oakley smart glasses / theverge.com / 209
116 The hunt for Marie Curie's radioactive fingerprints in Paris / bbc.com / 97
112 Show HN: DIY virtual HDMI monitor using "AR" glasses / github.com/mgschwan / 79
112 Cure Dolly's Japanese Grammar Lessons / kellenok.github.io / 29
109 Meta-analysis of three different notions of software complexity / typesanitizer.com / 19
106 OpenPlanetData – Free Daily Planet OSM PBF and GOL Indexed Snapshots / openplanetdata.com / 14
105 Chemical knowledge and reasoning of large language models vs. chemist expertise / nature.com / 79
105 Virtual cells / udara.io / 18
102 Wrong ways to use the databases, when the pendulum swung too far / luu.io / 103
102 Visualizing environmental costs of war in Hayao Miyazaki's Nausicaä / jgeekstudies.org / 34
101 Me an' Algernon – grappling with (temporary) cognitive decline / tidyfirst.substack.com / 75
101 Using computers more freely and safely (2023) / akkartik.name / 22
100 Reflections on Sudoku, or the Impossibility of Systematizing Thought / rjp.io / 66

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