6.18.25 | Honda's reusable rocket launch, The Grug Brained Developer, reviving a torrent tracker with 3M peers
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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 rockethttps://global.honda/en/topics/2025/c_2025-06-17ceng.htmlhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44300102The Grug Brained Developer (2022)https://grugbrain.dev/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44303542Resurrecting a dead torrent tracker and finding 3M peershttps://kianbradley.com/2025/06/15/resurrecting-a-dead-tracker.htmlhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44301686Building Effective AI Agentshttps://www.anthropic.com/engineering/building-effective-agentshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44301809Making 2.5 Flash and 2.5 Pro GA, and introducing Gemini 2.5 Flash-Litehttps://blog.google/products/gemini/gemini-2-5-model-family-expands/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44300717Bzip2 crate switches from C to 100% Rusthttps://trifectatech.org/blog/bzip2-crate-switches-from-c-to-rust/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44303361Now might be the best time to learn software developmenthttps://substack.com/home/post/p-165655726https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44299979Scrappy - make little apps for you and your friendshttps://pontus.granstrom.me/scrappy/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44306859What Google Translate can tell us about vibecodinghttps://ingrids.space/posts/what-google-translate-can-tell-us-about-vibecoding/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44302870Why JPEGs still rule the web (2024)https://spectrum.ieee.org/jpeg-image-format-historyhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44299970