6.9.25 | LLMs illustrated by pelicans, Kagi hits 50k users, supercomputers for autocrats threaten democracy

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Jun 9, 2025.The last six months in LLMs, illustrated by pelicans on bicycleshttps://simonwillison.net/2025/Jun/6/six-months-in-llms/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44215352Kagi Reaches 50k Usershttps://kagi.com/stats?stat=membershttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44221450Building supercomputers for autocrats probably isn't good for democracyhttps://helentoner.substack.com/p/supercomputers-for-autocratshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44219519FSE meets the FBIhttps://blog.freespeechextremist.com/blog/fse-vs-fbi.htmlhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44220860Why Android can't use CDC Ethernet (2023)https://jordemort.dev/blog/why-android-cant-use-cdc-ethernet/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44219405Self-hosted x86 back end is now default in debug modehttps://ziglang.org/devlog/2025/#2025-06-08https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44219857Tracking Copilot vs. Codex vs. Cursor vs. Devin PR Performancehttps://aavetis.github.io/ai-pr-watcher/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44188839Administering immunotherapy in the morning seems to matter. Why?https://www.owlposting.com/p/the-time-of-day-that-immunotherapyhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44217876Gaussian integration is coolhttps://rohangautam.github.io/blog/chebyshev_gauss/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44215603My first attempt at iOS app developmenthttps://mgx.me/my-first-attempt-at-ios-app-developmenthttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44188214