Hacker News Highlights

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Jun 21, 2025.

YouTube's new anti-adblock measures
https://iter.ca/post/yt-adblock/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44329712

Phoenix.new – Remote AI Runtime for Phoenix
https://fly.io/blog/phoenix-new-the-remote-ai-runtime/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44328326

Samsung Embeds IronSource Spyware App on Phones Across WANA
https://smex.org/open-letter-to-samsung-end-forced-israeli-app-installations-in-the-wana-region/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44334167

Harper – an open-source alternative to Grammarly
https://writewithharper.com
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44331362

Show HN: Nxtscape – an open-source agentic browser
https://github.com/nxtscape/nxtscape
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44329457

AbsenceBench: Language models can't tell what's missing
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.11440
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44332699

Visualizing environmental costs of war in Hayao Miyazaki's Nausicaä
https://jgeekstudies.org/2025/06/20/wilted-lands-and-wounded-worlds-visualizing-environmental-costs-of-war-in-hayao-miyazakis-nausicaa-of-the-valley-of-the-wind/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44328598

Oklo, the Earth's Two-billion-year-old only Known Natural Nuclear Reactor (2018)
https://www.iaea.org/newscenter/news/meet-oklo-the-earths-two-billion-year-old-only-known-natural-nuclear-reactor
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44326145

College baseball, venture capital, and the long maybe
https://bcantrill.dtrace.org/2025/06/15/college-baseball-venture-capital-and-the-long-maybe/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44290992

Alpha Centauri
https://www.filfre.net/2025/06/alpha-centauri/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44329600