Hacker News Highlights

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Jun 8, 2025.

Bill Atkinson has died
https://daringfireball.net/linked/2025/06/07/bill-atkinson-rip
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44210606

Washington Post's Privacy Tip: Stop Using Chrome, Delete Meta Apps (and Yandex)
https://tech.slashdot.org/story/25/06/07/035249/washington-posts-privacy-tip-stop-using-chrome-delete-metas-apps-and-yandex
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44210689

Getting Past Procrastination
https://spectrum.ieee.org/getting-past-procastination
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44207095

Convert photos to Atkinson dithering
https://gazs.github.io/canvas-atkinson-dither/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44212446

My experiment living in a tent in Hong Kong's jungle
https://corentin.trebaol.com/Blog/8.+The+Homelessness+Experiment
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44210736

Joining Apple Computer (2018)
https://www.folklore.org/Joining_Apple_Computer.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44212441

Low-Level Optimization with Zig
https://alloc.dev/2025/06/07/zig_optimization
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44208060

Self-Host and Tech Independence: The Joy of Building Your Own
https://www.ssp.sh/blog/self-host-self-independence/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44211273

Why We're Moving on from Nix
https://blog.railway.com/p/introducing-railpack
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44208968

What was Radiant AI, anyway?
https://blog.paavo.me/radiant-ai/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44209497