6.4.25 | Deep learning praised, fact checking overlooked, covert Android tracking, DiffX extensible format

Hacker News Highlights

Jun 04, 2025•12 min•Ep. 133

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Episode description

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Jun 4, 2025.

Deep learning gets the glory, deep fact checking gets ignored
https://rachel.fast.ai/posts/2025-06-04-enzyme-ml-fails/index.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44174965

Covert Web-to-App Tracking via Localhost on Android
https://localmess.github.io/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44169115

DiffX – Next-Generation Extensible Diff Format
https://diffx.org/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44176737

Merlin Bird ID
https://merlin.allaboutbirds.org/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44176829

Brain aging shows nonlinear transitions, suggesting a midlife "critical window"
https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2416433122
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44175905

Precious Plastic is in trouble
https://www.preciousplastic.com//news/problems-in-precious-plastic
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44175773

The Small World of English
https://www.inotherwords.app/linguabase/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44170968

Ask HN: Has anybody built search on top of Anna's Archive?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44176514

A deep dive into self-improving AI and the Darwin-Gödel Machine
https://richardcsuwandi.github.io/blog/2025/dgm/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44174856

Binary Wordle
https://wordle.chengeric.com/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44176825

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