6.28.25 | Airline pilot creates flight graphs, Facebook uses private photos for AI, user deletes second brain

Hacker News Highlights

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Jun 28, 2025.

Show HN: I'm an airline pilot – I built interactive graphs/globes of my flights
https://jameshard.ing/pilot
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44396518

Facebook is starting to feed its AI with private, unpublished photos
https://www.theverge.com/meta/694685/meta-ai-camera-roll
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44401406

I deleted my second brain
https://www.joanwestenberg.com/p/i-deleted-my-second-brain
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44402470

James Webb Space Telescope reveals its first direct image of an exoplanet
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/james-webb-space-telescope-reveals-its-first-direct-image-discovery-of-an-exoplanet-180986886/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44398756

IDF officers ordered to fire at unarmed crowds near Gaza food distribution sites
https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2025-06-27/ty-article-magazine/.premium/idf-soldiers-ordered-to-shoot-deliberately-at-unarmed-gazans-waiting-for-humanitarian-aid/00000197-ad8e-de01-a39f-ffbe33780000
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44402896

10 Years of Pomological Watercolors
https://parkerhiggins.net/2025/04/10-years-of-pomological-watercolors/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44397168

Qwen VLo: From “Understanding” the World to “Depicting” It
https://qwenlm.github.io/blog/qwen-vlo/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44397124

SymbolicAI: A neuro-symbolic perspective on LLMs
https://github.com/ExtensityAI/symbolicai
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44399234

Weird Expressions in Rust
https://www.wakunguma.com/blog/rust-weird-expr
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44397367

Learn OCaml
https://ocaml-sf.org/learn-ocaml-public/#activity=exercises
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44400025