The Best Hacker News Posts of June 2025
We track 1,007 stories from June 2025, averaging 270 points each. github.com was the most linked source, with 90 stories. Together they drew 166,096 comments, 165 per story on average.
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My AI skeptic friends are all nuts
fly.io · tabletcorry · 2 Jun 2025
2.4k pts
2.8k comments
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Self-hosting your own media considered harmful according to YouTube
jeffgeerling.com · DavideNL · 6 Jun 2025
1.6k pts
760 comments
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Bill Atkinson has died
daringfireball.net · romanhn · 7 Jun 2025
1.6k pts
273 comments
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The time bomb in the tax code that's fueling mass tech layoffs
qz.com · booleanbetrayal · 4 Jun 2025
1.6k pts
948 comments
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Show HN: I'm an airline pilot – I built interactive graphs/globes of my flights
jameshard.ing · jamesharding · 27 Jun 2025
1.5k pts
197 comments
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Andrej Karpathy: Software in the era of AI [video]
youtube.com · sandslash · 19 Jun 2025
1.5k pts
783 comments
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IDF officers ordered to fire at unarmed crowds near Gaza food distribution sites
haaretz.com · ahmetcadirci25 · 28 Jun 2025
1.5k pts
1.1k comments
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Honda conducts successful launch and landing of experimental reusable rocket
global.honda · LorenDB · 17 Jun 2025
1.4k pts
422 comments
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Frequent reauth doesn't make you more secure
tailscale.com · ingve · 12 Jun 2025
1.3k pts
516 comments
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A receipt printer cured my procrastination
laurieherault.com · laurieherault · 12 Jun 2025
1.3k pts
603 comments
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U.S. bombs Iranian nuclear sites
bbc.co.uk · mattcollins · 22 Jun 2025
1.2k pts
3.8k comments
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Mechanical Watch: Exploded View
fellerts.no · fellerts · 22 Jun 2025
1.2k pts
134 comments
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OpenAI slams court order to save all ChatGPT logs, including deleted chats
arstechnica.com · ColinWright · 4 Jun 2025
1.1k pts
932 comments
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The Grug Brained Developer (2022)
grugbrain.dev · smartmic · 17 Jun 2025
1.1k pts
578 comments
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YouTube's new anti-adblock measures
iter.ca · smitop · 20 Jun 2025
991 pts
1.3k comments
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More on Apple's Trust-Eroding 'F1 the Movie' Wallet Ad
daringfireball.net · dotcoma · 29 Jun 2025
977 pts
639 comments
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The last six months in LLMs, illustrated by pelicans on bicycles
simonwillison.net · swyx · 8 Jun 2025
962 pts
234 comments
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Magistral — the first reasoning model by Mistral AI
mistral.ai · meetpateltech · 10 Jun 2025
941 pts
424 comments
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If the moon were only 1 pixel: A tediously accurate solar system model (2014)
joshworth.com · sdoering · 13 Jun 2025
936 pts
261 comments
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The new skill in AI is not prompting, it's context engineering
philschmid.de · robotswantdata · 30 Jun 2025
915 pts
518 comments
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JavaScript Trademark Update
deno.com · thebeardisred · 28 Jun 2025
890 pts
355 comments
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Cloudlflare builds OAuth with Claude and publishes all the prompts
github.com · gregorywegory · 2 Jun 2025
889 pts
529 comments
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FFmpeg merges WebRTC support
git.ffmpeg.org · Sean-Der · 4 Jun 2025
877 pts
199 comments
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Apple announces Foundation Models and Containerization frameworks, etc
apple.com · thm · 9 Jun 2025
860 pts
489 comments
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If you are useful, it doesn't mean you are valued
betterthanrandom.substack.com · weltview · 2 Jun 2025
850 pts
354 comments
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Working on databases from prison
turso.tech · dvektor · 16 Jun 2025
849 pts
534 comments
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Samsung embeds IronSource spyware app on phones across WANA
smex.org · the-anarchist · 21 Jun 2025
846 pts
480 comments
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Root shell on a credit card terminal
stefan-gloor.ch · stgl · 1 Jun 2025
840 pts
251 comments
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Show HN: Workout.cool – Open-source fitness coaching platform
github.com · surgomat · 18 Jun 2025
827 pts
233 comments
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Writing toy software is a joy
blog.jsbarretto.com · bundie · 24 Jun 2025
820 pts
313 comments
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MCP: An (Accidentally) Universal Plugin System
worksonmymachine.substack.com · Stwerner · 28 Jun 2025
808 pts
350 comments
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Research suggests Big Bang may have taken place inside a black hole
port.ac.uk · zaik · 11 Jun 2025
771 pts
603 comments
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Containerization is a Swift package for running Linux containers on macOS
github.com · gok · 9 Jun 2025
769 pts
409 comments
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uv: An extremely fast Python package and project manager, written in Rust
github.com · chirau · 23 Jun 2025
753 pts
336 comments
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IRS Direct File on GitHub
chrisgiven.com · nickthegreek · 4 Jun 2025
744 pts
318 comments
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OpenAI charges by the minute, so speed up your audio
george.mand.is · georgemandis · 25 Jun 2025
740 pts
228 comments
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Apple introduces a universal design across platforms
apple.com · meetpateltech · 9 Jun 2025
738 pts
1.2k comments
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US-backed Israeli company's spyware used to target European journalists
apnews.com · 01-_- · 12 Jun 2025
734 pts
385 comments
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Show HN: Unregistry – “docker push” directly to servers without a registry
github.com · psviderski · 18 Jun 2025
726 pts
164 comments
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Engineered Addictions
masonyarbrough.substack.com · echollama · 28 Jun 2025
720 pts
451 comments
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WhatsApp introduces ads in its app
nytimes.com · greenburger · 16 Jun 2025
713 pts
1k comments
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Marines being mobilized in response to LA protests
cnn.com · sapphicsnail · 9 Jun 2025
707 pts
1.7k comments
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I convinced HP's board to buy Palm and watched them kill it
philmckinney.substack.com · AndrewDucker · 13 Jun 2025
687 pts
497 comments
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A proposal to restrict sites from accessing a users’ local network
github.com · doener · 4 Jun 2025
680 pts
376 comments
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I made my VM think it has a CPU fan
wbenny.github.io · todsacerdoti · 29 Jun 2025
679 pts
188 comments
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Proton joins suit against Apple for practices that harm developers and consumers
proton.me · moose44 · 30 Jun 2025
673 pts
637 comments
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How to post when no one is reading
jeetmehta.com · j4mehta · 2 Jun 2025
670 pts
252 comments
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Xfinity using WiFi signals in your house to detect motion
xfinity.com · bearsyankees · 30 Jun 2025
668 pts
501 comments
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Quarkdown: A modern Markdown-based typesetting system
github.com · asicsp · 3 Jun 2025
668 pts
273 comments
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A new pyramid-like shape always lands the same side up
quantamagazine.org · robinhouston · 25 Jun 2025
656 pts
158 comments
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Resurrecting a dead torrent tracker and finding 3M peers
kianbradley.com · k-ian · 17 Jun 2025
655 pts
203 comments
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Harper – an open-source alternative to Grammarly
writewithharper.com · ReadCarlBarks · 20 Jun 2025
645 pts
162 comments
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Fun with uv and PEP 723
cottongeeks.com · deepakjois · 24 Jun 2025
640 pts
227 comments
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Phoenix.new – Remote AI Runtime for Phoenix
fly.io · wut42 · 20 Jun 2025
639 pts
272 comments
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