It's 2025-06-17. What's happening?

HACKER NEWS

Honda conducts successful launch and landing of experimental reusable rocket | comment
The Grug Brained Developer (2022) | comment
Resurrecting a dead torrent tracker and finding 3M peers | comment
Making 2.5 Flash and 2.5 Pro GA, and introducing Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite | comment
Building Effective AI Agents | comment
Brad Lander detained by masked federal agents inside immigration court | comment
Iran asks its people to delete WhatsApp from their devices | comment
Tell HN: Help restore the tax deduction for software dev in the US (Section 174) | comment
GCP Outage | comment
Frequent reauth doesn't make you more secure | comment
Marines being mobilized in response to LA protests | comment
Apple announces Foundation Models and Containerization frameworks, etc | comment
US-backed Israeli company's spyware used to target European journalists | comment
I convinced HP's board to buy Palm and watched them kill it | comment
Apple introduces a universal design across platforms | comment
Congratulations on creating the one billionth repository on GitHub | comment
Start your own Internet Resiliency Club | comment
Research suggests Big Bang may have taken place inside a black hole | comment
macOS Tahoe brings a new disk image format | comment
FSE meets the FBI | comment
If the moon were only 1 pixel: A tediously accurate solar system model (2014) | comment
We’re secretly winning the war on cancer | comment
A receipt printer cured my procrastination | comment
Rendering Crispy Text on the GPU | comment
OpenAI dropped the price of o3 by 80% | comment
Launch HN: Vassar Robotics (YC X25) – $219 robot arm that learns new skills | comment
Containerization is a Swift package for running Linux containers on macOS | comment
Cloudflare was down | comment
Successful people set constraints rather than chasing goals | comment
Air India flight to London crashes in Ahmedabad with more than 240 onboard | comment

HACKER NEWS WEEKLY

GCP Outage | comment
Self-hosting your own media considered harmful according to YouTube | comment
Bill Atkinson has died | comment
Frequent reauth doesn't make you more secure | comment
FFmpeg merges WebRTC support | comment
Marines being mobilized in response to LA protests | comment
Apple announces Foundation Models and Containerization frameworks, etc | comment
US-backed Israeli company's spyware used to target European journalists | comment
I convinced HP's board to buy Palm and watched them kill it | comment
Apple introduces a universal design across platforms | comment
IRS Direct File on GitHub | comment
Kagi Reaches 50k Users | comment
After court order, OpenAI is now preserving all ChatGPT user logs | comment
Meta: Shut down your invasive AI Discover feed | comment
Merlin Bird ID | comment
Brian Wilson has died | comment
Congratulations on creating the one billionth repository on GitHub | comment
Start your own Internet Resiliency Club | comment
Research suggests Big Bang may have taken place inside a black hole | comment
The Right to Repair Is Law in Washington State | comment
macOS Tahoe brings a new disk image format | comment
FSE meets the FBI | comment
If the moon were only 1 pixel: A tediously accurate solar system model (2014) | comment
How we decreased GitLab repo backup times from 48 hours to 41 minutes | comment
We’re secretly winning the war on cancer | comment
A receipt printer cured my procrastination | comment
The last six months in LLMs, illustrated by pelicans on bicycles | comment
Rendering Crispy Text on the GPU | comment
Gemini-2.5-pro-preview-06-05 | comment
Danish Ministry Replaces Windows and Microsoft Office with Linux and LibreOffice | comment
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