The best of Hacker News - June 4, 2025

1.
Deep learning gets the glory, deep fact checking gets ignored

372 points

2.
Covert Web-to-App Tracking via Localhost on Android

348 points

3.
Brain aging shows nonlinear transitions, suggesting a midlife "critical window"

147 points

4.
Precious Plastic is in trouble

136 points

5.
The Small World of English

127 points

6.
DiffX – Next-Generation Extensible Diff Format

104 points

7.
A deep dive into self-improving AI and the Darwin-Gödel Machine

102 points

8.
Show HN: Ephe – A minimalist open-source Markdown paper for today

81 points

9.
Merlin Bird ID

81 points

10.
Destination: Jupiter

74 points

11.
Ask HN: Has anybody built search on top of Anna's Archive?

52 points

12.
Binary Wordle

35 points

13.
New study casts doubt on the likelihood of Milky Way collision with Andromeda

25 points

14.
A critical look at NetBSD’s installer

20 points

15.
Standard Completions

18 points

16.
Barrelfish OS Architecture Overview (2013) [pdf]

17 points

17.
Consider Knitting

16 points

18.
Show HN: Hacker News historic upvote and score data

13 points

19.
An illustrated guide to Amazon VPCs

10 points

20.
Patched (YC S24) Is Hiring SWEs in Singapore

1 points

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