Hacker Newsroom for 25 June recaps major Hacker News stories, moving through bunny dns, google workspace cli, openai custom chip, spellcheck squiggles.

1. Bunny DNS

The next story is Bunny. net making Bunny DNS free, dropping DNS query fees and including DNS hosting for up to 500 domains, while still keeping its standard $1 per month account minimum.

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2. Google Workspace CLI

The next story is a viral X post from former Google engineer Justin Poehnelt, who says he was fired after creating the Google Workspace CLI, an unofficial tool that quickly drew thousands of users and GitHub stars. In the post, he argues the tool unnerved Workspace leadership during the shift toward AI agents, especially because Google had announced an official Workspace CLI just two days before his termination.

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3. OpenAI Custom Chip

The next story is OpenAI unveiling its first custom chip, Jalapeno, a Broadcom-built inference accelerator that the TechCrunch article says is aimed at cutting the cost and power draw of serving models rather than replacing Nvidia for training. The article frames it as OpenAI pushing deeper down the stack, saying early tests show better performance per watt and arguing that cheaper real-time inference could matter as much as model quality for products like Codex.

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4. Spellcheck Squiggles

The next story is a remembrance of Tony Krueger, the Word engineer credited with turning spell-check from a blocking batch feature into the now-ubiquitous red and green squiggles under mistakes, a small interface decision that spread far beyond Microsoft Word. On Hacker News, the reaction was a mix of affection for an invisible but universal UI invention and skepticism about whether Microsoft really did it first.

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5. Jerrys Map

The next story is Jerry's Map, a project documenting Jerry Gretzinger's imaginary city, a hand-built map he started in 1963 and has expanded into more than 4,000 panels, with each revision guided by a custom deck of instruction cards that mixes chance with deliberate craft. Hacker News largely loved the obsessive scale and patience of it, and a lot of the discussion treated it as a welcome antidote to algorithmic, instant-output culture.

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6. German Company Setup

The next story is about a founder who says setting up a German company cost about 9,600 euros, took 152 days, and still left him unable to send an invoice because his VAT ID has not arrived. The post argues that Germany has turned incorporation into a chain of legal, notary, court, tax, and software dependencies that all bill founders promptly while delaying the basic ability to do business.

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That's it for today, I hope this is going to help you build some cool things.