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

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 ignoredhttps://rachel.fast.ai/posts/2025-06-04-enzyme-ml-fails/index.htmlhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44174965Covert Web-to-App Tracking via Localhost on Androidhttps://localmess.github.io/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44169115DiffX – Next-Generation Extensible Diff Formathttps://diffx.org/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44176737Merlin Bird IDhttps://merlin.allaboutbirds.org/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44176829Brain aging shows nonlinear transitions, suggesting a midlife "critical window"https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2416433122https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44175905Precious Plastic is in troublehttps://www.preciousplastic.com//news/problems-in-precious-plastichttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44175773The Small World of Englishhttps://www.inotherwords.app/linguabase/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44170968Ask HN: Has anybody built search on top of Anna's Archive?https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44176514A deep dive into self-improving AI and the Darwin-Gödel Machinehttps://richardcsuwandi.github.io/blog/2025/dgm/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44174856Binary Wordlehttps://wordle.chengeric.com/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44176825