The best of Hacker News - June 7, 2025

1.
The time bomb in the tax code that's fueling mass tech layoffs

694 points

2.
How we decreased GitLab repo backup times from 48 hours to 41 minutes

379 points

3.
A year of funded FreeBSD development

217 points

4.
Researchers develop ‘transparent paper’ as alternative to plastics

213 points

5.
Odyc.js – A tiny JavaScript library for narrative games

197 points

6.
A masochist's guide to web development

192 points

7.
Sandia turns on brain-like storage-free supercomputer

166 points

8.
The Illusion of Thinking: Understanding the Limitations of Reasoning LLMs [pdf]

142 points

9.
Falsehoods programmers believe about aviation

119 points

10.
Highly efficient matrix transpose in Mojo

87 points

11.
I Read All of Cloudflare's Claude-Generated Commits

75 points

12.
Medieval Africans had a unique process for purifying gold with glass (2019)

74 points

13.
Show HN: AI game animation sprite generator

60 points

14.
What “working” means in the era of AI apps

56 points

15.
Workhorse LLMs: Why Open Source Models Dominate Closed Source for Batch Tasks

50 points

16.
Sharing everything I could understand about gradient noise

32 points

17.
Why are smokestacks so tall?

31 points

18.
Getting Past Procrastination

24 points

19.
Weebly is decaying

19 points

20.
Tesla AI VP Milan Kovac Resigns After 9 Years Leading FSD and Optimus Projects

6 points

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