Hacker News Highlights

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Jun 18, 2025.

Honda conducts successful launch and landing of experimental reusable rocket
https://global.honda/en/topics/2025/c_2025-06-17ceng.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44300102

The Grug Brained Developer (2022)
https://grugbrain.dev/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44303542

Resurrecting a dead torrent tracker and finding 3M peers
https://kianbradley.com/2025/06/15/resurrecting-a-dead-tracker.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44301686

Building Effective AI Agents
https://www.anthropic.com/engineering/building-effective-agents
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44301809

Making 2.5 Flash and 2.5 Pro GA, and introducing Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite
https://blog.google/products/gemini/gemini-2-5-model-family-expands/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44300717

Bzip2 crate switches from C to 100% Rust
https://trifectatech.org/blog/bzip2-crate-switches-from-c-to-rust/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44303361

Now might be the best time to learn software development
https://substack.com/home/post/p-165655726
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44299979

Scrappy - make little apps for you and your friends
https://pontus.granstrom.me/scrappy/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44306859

What Google Translate can tell us about vibecoding
https://ingrids.space/posts/what-google-translate-can-tell-us-about-vibecoding/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44302870

Why JPEGs still rule the web (2024)
https://spectrum.ieee.org/jpeg-image-format-history
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44299970