The Best Hacker News Posts of June 2025

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Tell HN: Help restore the tax deduction for software dev in the US (Section 174) dang · 9 Jun 2025

2.4k pts 907 comments

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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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GCP Outage status.cloud.google.com · thanhhaimai · 12 Jun 2025

1.5k pts 494 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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Gemini CLI blog.google · sync · 25 Jun 2025

1.4k pts 788 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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Jemalloc Postmortem jasone.github.io · jasone · 13 Jun 2025

801 pts 233 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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A new PNG spec programmax.net · bluedel · 24 Jun 2025

672 pts 602 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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Chatterbox TTS github.com · pinter69 · 11 Jun 2025

670 pts 188 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