Endangered classic Mac plastic color returns as 3D-printer filament (❄️ Score: 152+ in 4 days)
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Ars Technica
Endangered classic Mac plastic color returns as 3D-printer filament
Mac fan paid $900 to color-match iconic Apple beige-gray “Platinum” plastic for everyone.
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Finding Shawn Mendes (2019) (Score: 150+ in 6 hours)
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Unexpected Values
Finding Shawn Mendes
In this day and age, celebrities have a lot of influence over our politics. Garthwaite and Moore estimated that Oprah Winfrey’s endorsement of Barack Obama in 2008 netted him an extra 1 milli…
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I used AI-powered calorie counting apps, and they were even worse than expected (Score: 150+ in 14 hours)
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Lifehacker
I Used AI-Powered Calorie Counting Apps, and They Were Even Worse Than I Expected
The promise of AI-powered calorie counting is efficiency—snap and go, no manual entry required. But my experience revealed a different reality. I spent considerable time correcting ingredient identifications, adjusting portion sizes, and second-guessing the…
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Startup Equity 101 (❄️ Score: 150+ in 4 days)
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Quarter--Mile
Startup Equity 101 — Quarter Mile
Startup Equity 101 I am writing this essay because I believe that money is both useful and worth thinking as little as possible about. No one I know joins a...
Omnimax (Score: 150+ in 17 hours)
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Computers Are Bad
>>> 2025-06-08 Omnimax (PDF)
In a previous life, I worked for a location-based entertainment company, part of a huge team of people developing a location for Las Vegas, Nevada. It was COVID, a rough time for location-based anything, and things were delayed more than usual. Coworkers…
Forests offset warming more than thought: study (Score: 150+ in 9 hours)
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University of California, Riverside
Does planting trees really help cool the planet?
Replanting forests can cool the planet even more than some scientists once believed, especially in the tropics. But even if every tree lost since the mid-19th century is replanted, the total effect won’t cancel out human-generated warming.
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Building an AI server on a budget (❄️ Score: 150+ in 3 days)
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information gain
Building an AI Server on a Budget ($1.3K) | information gain
A detailed walkthrough of how I built my own AI server from scratch, with a budget of $1.3K.
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Riding high in Germany on the world's oldest suspended railway (Score: 151+ in 15 hours)
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the Guardian
Riding high in Germany on the world’s oldest suspended railway
Still gliding above the town on an overhead track 125 years after it was built, the charming Schwebebahn in Wuppertal has lost none of its magic
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LLMs are cheap (🔥 Score: 154+ in 3 hours)
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www.snellman.net
LLMs are cheap
A lot of people think LLMs are expensive to operate. That was true a couple of years ago, but these people haven't updated their views after an approximately 1000x reduction in prices over two years.
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What happens when people don't understand how AI works (Score: 157+ in 18 hours)
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The Atlantic
What Happens When People Don’t Understand How AI Works
Despite what tech CEOs might say, large language models are not smart in any recognizably human sense of the word.
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Bruteforcing the phone number of any Google user (🔥 Score: 150+ in 1 hour)
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brutecat.com
Bruteforcing the phone number of any Google user
From rate limits to no limits: How IPv6's massive address space and a crafty botguard bypass left every Google user's phone number vulnerable
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Maintaining an Android app in Google Play Store is a lot of work (Score: 150+ in 1 day)
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ashishb.net
Maintaining an Android app is a lot of work
Lessons on maintaining a hobby Android app
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Tell HN: Help restore the tax deduction for software dev in the US (Section 174) (🔥 Score: 180+ in 41 minutes)
Link: https://readhacker.news/c/6vQJB
Companies building software in the US were hit hard a few years ago when the IRS stopped allowing tax deduction of software dev expenses. Now they have to be amortized over several years.
HN has had many discussions about this, including The time bomb in the tax code that's fueling mass tech layoffs - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44180533 - (927 comments) a few days ago. Other threads are listed at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44203869.
There's currently a major effort to get this change reversed. One of the people working on it is YC's Luther Lowe (https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=itsluther). Luther has been organizing YC alumni to urge lawmakers to support this reversal. I asked him if we could do that on Hacker News too. He said yes—hence this thread :)
If you're a US taxpayer and if you agree that software dev expenses should be deductible like they used to be, please sign this letter to the relevant committee members: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1DkRGeef2e_tU2xf3TyEyd2JLlmZ....
(If you're not a US person, please don't sign the letter, since lawmakers will only listen to feedback from taxpayers and we don't want to dilute the signal.)
I'm sure not everyone here agrees with us—HN is a big community, there's no total agreement on anything—but this issue has as close to a community consensus as HN gets, so I think it makes sense to add our voices too.
Luther will be around to answer questions and hopefully HN can contribute to getting this done!
Link: https://readhacker.news/c/6vQJB
Companies building software in the US were hit hard a few years ago when the IRS stopped allowing tax deduction of software dev expenses. Now they have to be amortized over several years.
HN has had many discussions about this, including The time bomb in the tax code that's fueling mass tech layoffs - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44180533 - (927 comments) a few days ago. Other threads are listed at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44203869.
There's currently a major effort to get this change reversed. One of the people working on it is YC's Luther Lowe (https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=itsluther). Luther has been organizing YC alumni to urge lawmakers to support this reversal. I asked him if we could do that on Hacker News too. He said yes—hence this thread :)
If you're a US taxpayer and if you agree that software dev expenses should be deductible like they used to be, please sign this letter to the relevant committee members: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1DkRGeef2e_tU2xf3TyEyd2JLlmZ....
(If you're not a US person, please don't sign the letter, since lawmakers will only listen to feedback from taxpayers and we don't want to dilute the signal.)
I'm sure not everyone here agrees with us—HN is a big community, there's no total agreement on anything—but this issue has as close to a community consensus as HN gets, so I think it makes sense to add our voices too.
Luther will be around to answer questions and hopefully HN can contribute to getting this done!
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Apple Announces Foundation Models and Containerization frameworks, etc. (🔥 Score: 164+ in 1 hour)
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Apple Newsroom
Apple supercharges its tools and technologies for developers
Apple announced new technologies and enhancements to its developer tools to help developers create more beautiful, intelligent, and engaging apps.
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Apple introduces a universal design across platforms (🔥 Score: 156+ in 2 hours)
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Apple Newsroom
Apple introduces a delightful and elegant new software design
Apple previewed a new software design, crafted with Liquid Glass, that makes apps and system experiences more expressive and delightful.
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AI Angst (Score: 151+ in 10 hours)
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ongoing by Tim Bray
AI Angst
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Curate your shell history (❄️ Score: 150+ in 3 days)
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Benjamin Esham
Curate your shell history
You can make your shell history more useful by removing the typos and false starts.
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Discovering a JDK Race Condition, and Debugging It in 30 Minutes with Fray (❄️ Score: 150+ in 2 days)
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Ao Li
Discovering a JDK Race Condition, and Debugging it in 30 Minutes with Fray
Discovering a JDK Race Condition, and Debugging it in 30 Minutes with Fray I’ve been adding more integration tests for Fray recently. To ensure Fray can handle different scenarios, I wrote many creative test cases. Many of them passed as expected, while some…
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Containerization is a Swift package for running Linux containers on macOS (🔥 Score: 160+ in 1 hour)
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GitHub
GitHub - apple/containerization: Containerization is a Swift package for running Linux containers on macOS.
Containerization is a Swift package for running Linux containers on macOS. - apple/containerization
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RFK Jr. ousts entire CDC vaccine advisory committee (🔥 Score: 154+ in 1 hour)
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AP News
RFK Jr. ousts entire CDC vaccine advisory committee
Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has removed every member of a scientific committee that advises the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on how to use vaccines.
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