The best of Hacker News - June 15, 2025

1.
I have reimplemented Stable Diffusion 3.5 from scratch in pure PyTorch

370 points

2.
Waymo rides cost more than Uber or Lyft and people are paying anyway

299 points

3.
Seven replies to the viral Apple reasoning paper and why they fall short

247 points

4.
Solar Orbiter gets world-first views of the Sun's poles

204 points

5.
Last fifty years of integer linear programming: Recent practical advances

182 points

6.
Inside the Apollo “8-Ball” FDAI (Flight Director / Attitude Indicator)

137 points

7.
Infinite Grid of Resistors

126 points

8.
Unsupervised Elicitation of Language Models

125 points

9.
Cray versus Raspberry Pi

75 points

10.
Chicken Eyeglasses

73 points

11.
Q-learning is not yet scalable

73 points

12.
Clinical knowledge in LLMs does not translate to human interactions

68 points

13.
Wrong ways to use the databases, when the pendulum swung too far

53 points

14.
AMD's AI Future Is Rack Scale 'Helios'

48 points

15.
Have a damaged painting? Restore it in just hours with an AI-generated "mask"

47 points

16.
Infineon security microcontroller flaw enabled extraction of TPM secret keys

35 points

17.
Fixing the mechanics of my bullet chess

23 points

18.
Iconic icons to showcase your skills

11 points

19.
Breaking My Security Assignments

8 points

20.
Dance Captcha

4 points

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