6.21.25 | YouTube's anti-adblock measures, Phoenix.new for remote AI runtime, Samsung embeds IronSource spyware on phones

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This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Jun 21, 2025.YouTube's new anti-adblock measureshttps://iter.ca/post/yt-adblock/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44329712Phoenix.new – Remote AI Runtime for Phoenixhttps://fly.io/blog/phoenix-new-the-remote-ai-runtime/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44328326Samsung Embeds IronSource Spyware App on Phones Across WANAhttps://smex.org/open-letter-to-samsung-end-forced-israeli-app-installations-in-the-wana-region/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44334167Harper – an open-source alternative to Grammarlyhttps://writewithharper.comhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44331362Show HN: Nxtscape – an open-source agentic browserhttps://github.com/nxtscape/nxtscapehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44329457AbsenceBench: Language models can't tell what's missinghttps://arxiv.org/abs/2506.11440https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44332699Visualizing environmental costs of war in Hayao Miyazaki's Nausicaähttps://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=44328598Oklo, 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-reactorhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44326145College baseball, venture capital, and the long maybehttps://bcantrill.dtrace.org/2025/06/15/college-baseball-venture-capital-and-the-long-maybe/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44290992Alpha Centaurihttps://www.filfre.net/2025/06/alpha-centauri/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44329600