Archive
May 2025
- Why we still can't stop plagiarism in undergraduate computer science (2018)
- Precision Clock Mk IV
- The Rise of the Japanese Toilet
- Ask HN: Anyone making a living from a paid API?
- My five-year experiment with UTC
- The wake effect: As wind farms expand, some can ‘steal’ each others’ wind
- Investment Risk Is Highest for Nuclear Power Plants, Lowest for Solar
- Consider Knitting
- GUIs are built at least 2.5 times
- Using lots of little tools to aggressively reject the bots
- Beware of Fast-Math
- I made a chair
- How Georgists Valued land in the 1900's
- Web dev is still fun if you want it to be
- Ask HN: How do I learn practical electronic repair?
- AI Responses May Include Mistakes
- Learn touch typing – it's worth it
- Valkey Turns One: Community fork of Redis
- Silicon Valley finally has a big electronics retailer again: Micro Center opens
- Surprisingly fast AI-generated kernels we didn't mean to publish yet
- Cap: Lightweight, modern open-source CAPTCHA alternative using proof-of-work
- When will M&S take online orders again?
- What's working for YC companies since the AI boom
- The ‘white-collar bloodbath’ is all part of the AI hype machine
- MinIO Removes Web UI Features from Community Version, Pushes Users to Paid Plans
- Microsandbox: Virtual Machines that feel and perform like containers
- Systems Correctness Practices at Amazon Web Services
- The Darwin Gödel Machine: AI that improves itself by rewriting its own code
- Ask HN: What is the best LLM for consumer grade hardware?
- AI is not our future
- What Happens When AI-Generated Lies Are More Compelling Than the Truth?
- Modern C++ – RAII
- Buttplug MCP
- Limits to Growth was right about collapse
- U.S. sanctions cloud provider 'Funnull' as top source of 'pig butchering' scams
- I'm starting a social club to solve the male loneliness epidemic
- The Future of Comments Is Lies, I Guess
- California has got good at building giant batteries
- Sam Altman and Jony Ive Will Force A.I. Into Your Life
- Airlines are charging solo passengers higher fares than groups
- FLUX.1 Kontext
- Human coders are still better than LLMs
- WeatherStar 4000+: Weather Channel Simulator
- ClickHouse raises $350M Series C
- Show HN: I wrote a modern Command Line Handbook
- Learning C3
- Google is using AI to censor independent websites like mine
- A Song of “Full Self-Driving”
- Gurus of 90s Web Design: Zeldman, Siegel, Nielsen
- Run a C# file directly using dotnet run app.cs
- US Trade Court finds Trump tariffs illegal
- Long live American Science and Surplus
- What does “Undecidable” mean, anyway
- Prohibition and ice cream in the US Navy
- Deepseek R1-0528
- Show HN: Every problem and solution in Beyond Cracking the Coding Interview
- Revenge of the Chickenized Reverse-Centaurs
- Show HN: I rewrote my Mac Electron app in Rust
- Japan Post launches 'digital address' system
- Compiler Explorer and the promise of URLs that last forever
- Getting a Cease and Desist from Waffle House
- xAI to pay telegram $300M to integrate Grok into the chat app
- Mullvad Leta
- De-anonymization attacks against the privacy coin XMR
- The Blowtorch Theory: A new model for structure formation in the universe
- The Who Cares Era
- Why Good Ideas Die Quietly and Bad Ideas Go Viral
- My website is ugly because I made it
- AI: Accelerated Incompetence
- Microsoft is starting to open Windows Update up to any third-party app
- Driverless Semi Trucks Are Here, with Little Regulation and Big Promises
- Cory Doctorow on how we lost the internet
- Why are 2025/05/28 and 2025-05-28 different days in JavaScript?
- Another way electric cars clean the air: study says brake dust reduced by 83%
- As a developer, my most important tools are a pen and a notebook
- The Polymarket users betting on when Jesus will return
- Global high-performance proof-of-stake blockchain with erasure coding
- Starship Flight 9 booster explodes on impact [video]
- Show HN: My LLM CLI tool can run tools now, from Python code or plugins
- They used Xenon to climb Everest in days – is it the future of mountaineering?
- Why the original Macintosh had a screen resolution of 512×324
- US pauses new student visa interviews as it mulls expanding social media vetting
- I salvaged $6k of luxury items discarded by Duke students
- Why is everybody knitting chickens?
- Square Theory
- Pyrefly vs. Ty: Comparing Python's two new Rust-based type checkers
- Why Cline doesn't index your codebase
- DuckLake is an integrated data lake and catalog format
- Dr John C. Clark, a scientist who disarmed atomic bombs twice
- How a hawk learned to use traffic signals to hunt more successfully
- BGP handling bug causes widespread internet routing instability
- Making C and Python Talk to Each Other
- The Myth of Developer Obsolescence
- Show HN: Lazy Tetris
- The UI future is colourful and dimensional
- Yes-rs: A fast, memory-safe rewrite of the classic Unix yes command
- Power Failure: The downfall of General Electric
- Trying to teach in the age of the AI homework machine
- Britain's police are restricting speech in worrying ways
- Lossless video compression using Bloom filters
- CSS Minecraft
- Duolingo CEO tries to walk back AI-first comments, fails
- TSMC bets on unorthodox optical tech
- Hacker News now runs on top of Common Lisp
- I think it's time to give Nix a chance
- Cloudflare CEO: Football piracy blocks will claim lives
- German court sends VW execs to prison over Dieselgate scandal
- Google is burying the web alive
- GitHub MCP exploited: Accessing private repositories via MCP
- A new class of materials that can passively harvest water from air
- Sleep apnea pill shows striking success in large clinical trial
- The truth about soft plastic recycling points at supermarkets
- Lieferando.de has captured 5.7% of restaurant related domain names
- Ask HN: Anyone struggling to get value out of coding LLMs?
- GitHub issues is almost the best notebook in the world
- Google shared my phone number
- A thought on JavaScript "proof of work" anti-scraper systems
- Ten years of JSON Web Token and preparing for the future
- Ask HN: What are you working on? (May 2025)
- Chomsky on what ChatGPT is good for (2023)
- Open Source Society University – Path to a free self-taught education in CS
- The Newark airport crisis
- Denmark to raise retirement age to 70
- Can a corporation be pardoned?
- Lottie is an open format for animated vector graphics
- What If We Had Bigger Brains? Imagining Minds Beyond Ours
- There was a time when the US government built homes for working-class Americans
- Wrench Attacks: Physical attacks targeting cryptocurrency users (2024) [pdf]
- At Amazon, some coders say their jobs have begun to resemble warehouse work
- The Ingredients of a Productive Monorepo
- Is TfL losing the battle against heat on the Victoria line?
- Dependency injection frameworks add confusion
- Death of Michael Ledeen, maker of the phony case for the invasion of Iraq
- Claude 4 System Card
- CAPTCHAs are over (in ticketing)
- Scientific conferences are leaving the US amid border fears
- Why old games never die, but new ones do
- Reinvent the Wheel
- It is time to stop teaching frequentism to non-statisticians (2012)
- Live facial recognition cameras may become 'commonplace' as police use soars
- AI can't even fix a simple bug – but sure, let's fire engineers
- Will the AI backlash spill into the streets?
- Good Writing
- The Hobby Computer Culture
- Semicolons bring the drama; that's why I love them
- I used o3 to find a remote zeroday in the Linux SMB implementation
- Microsoft-backed UK tech unicorn Builder.ai collapses into insolvency
- Tariffs in American History
- Ask HN: Go deep into AI/LLMs or just use them as tools?
- Valve takes another step toward making SteamOS a true Windows competitor
- How to Make a Living as a Writer
- Why Algebraic Effects?
- Modification of acetaminophen to reduce liver toxicity and enhance drug efficacy
- Root for your friends
- Big banks explore venturing into crypto world together with joint stablecoin
- Alberta separatism push roils Canada
- How to live on $432 a month in America
- Find Your People
- The metre originated in the French Revolution
- MCP is the coming of Web 2.0 2.0
- Postgres IDE in VS Code
- Why I no longer have an old-school cert on my HTTPS site
- OpenAI: Scaling PostgreSQL to the Next Level
- Ask HN: What projects do you donate to?
- College English majors can't read
- America is in danger of experiencing an academic brain drain
- John Carmack talk at Upper Bound 2025
- The copilot delusion
- The Future of Flatpak
- How to cheat at settlers by loading the dice (2017)
- Trump administration halts Harvard's ability to enroll international students
- The "AI 2027" Scenario: How realistic is it?
- We’ll be ending web hosting for your apps on Glitch
- Claude 4
- Mozilla to shut down Pocket and Fakespot
- I Built My Own Audio Player
- Sorry, grads: Entry-level tech jobs are getting wiped out
- Improving performance of rav1d video decoder
- BYD Beats Tesla in Europe for First Time with 169% Sales Surge
- Planetfall
- Ancient law requires a bale of straw to hang from Charing Cross rail bridge
- Why does Debian change software?
- The scientific “unit” we call the decibel
- ChatGPT Is a Gimmick
- Kotlin-Lsp: Kotlin Language Server and Plugin for Visual Studio Code
- Getting a paper accepted
- Gemini Diffusion
- I have tinnitus. I don't recommend it
- Rocky Linux 10 Will Support RISC-V
- For algorithms, a little memory outweighs a lot of time
- An upgraded dev experience in Google AI Studio
- LLM function calls don't scale; code orchestration is simpler, more effective
- OpenAI to buy AI startup from Jony Ive
- By default, Signal doesn't recall
- The Era of the Business Idiot
- Ask HN: How to Make Friendster Great?
- ZEUS – A new two-petawatt laser facility at the University of Michigan
- Discord Unveiled: A Comprehensive Dataset of Public Communication (2015-2024)
- Devstral
- Why walking is the most underrated form of exercise (2017)
- A South Korean grand master on the art of the perfect soy sauce
- Roto: A Compiled Scripting Language for Rust
- Watching AI drive Microsoft employees insane
- Mermaid: Generation of diagrams like flowcharts or sequence diagrams from text
- On File Formats
- The WinRAR approach
- Instagram Addiction
- Google AI Ultra
- Red Programming Language
- Gemma 3n preview: Mobile-first AI
- Veo 3 and Imagen 4, and a new tool for filmmaking called Flow
- Show HN: A Tiling Window Manager for Windows, Written in Janet
- Show HN: 90s.dev – Game maker that runs on the web
- OpenAI Codex hands-on review
- Deep Learning Is Applied Topology
- Why does the U.S. always run a trade deficit?
- Reports of Deno's Demise Have Been Greatly Exaggerated
- AI's energy footprint
- The behavior of LLMs in hiring decisions: Systemic biases in candidate selection
- Finland announces migration of its rail network to international gauge
- Making video games (without an engine) in 2025
- AI in my plasma physics research didn’t go the way I expected
- What are people doing? Live-ish estimates based on global population dynamics
- DDoSecrets publishes 410 GB of heap dumps, hacked from TeleMessage
- Is-even-ai – Check if a number is even using the power of AI
- Have I Been Pwned 2.0
- Jules: An asynchronous coding agent
- FCC Chair Brendan Carr is letting ISPs merge–as long as they end DEI programs
- CERN gears up to ship antimatter across Europe
- Claude Code SDK
- Microsoft's ICC blockade: digital dependence comes at a cost
- Writing into Uninitialized Buffers in Rust
- Why did U.S. wages stagnate for 20 years?
- Dilbert creator Scott Adams says he will die soon from same cancer as Joe Biden
- Edit is now open source
- GitHub Copilot Coding Agent
- xAI's Grok 3 comes to Microsoft Azure
- The Windows Subsystem for Linux is now open source
- European Investment Bank to inject €70B in European tech
- 23andMe Sells Gene-Testing Business to DNA Drug Maker Regeneron
- Zod 4
- Launch HN: Better Auth (YC X25) – Authentication Framework for TypeScript
- Is Winter Coming? (2024)
- Don't guess my language
- Side projects I've built since 2009
- Germany drops opposition to nuclear power in rapprochement with France
- A lost decade chasing distributed architectures for data analytics?
- Tallest Wooden Wind Turbine
- Linguists find proof of sweeping language pattern once deemed a 'hoax'
- What makes a good engineer also makes a good engineering organization (2024)
- When a team is too big
- The principles of database design, or, the Truth is out there
- Show HN: Job board aggregator for best paying remote SWE jobs in the U.S.
- Gemini figured out my nephew’s name
- An Efilist Just Bombed a Fertility Clinic. Was This Bound to Happen?
- KDE is finally getting a native virtual machine manager called “Karton”
- France Endorses UN Open Source Principles
- Building my own solar power system
- Show HN: Vaev – A browser engine built from scratch (It renders google.com)
- $30 Homebrew Automated Blinds Opener (2024)
- Ditching Obsidian and building my own
- Show HN: I modeled the Voynich Manuscript with SBERT to test for structure
- What do wealthy people buy, that ordinary people know nothing about? (2015)
- Apple card disabled my iCloud, App Store, and Apple ID accounts (2021)
- InventWood is about to mass-produce wood that's stronger than steel
- Spaced repetition systems have gotten better
- Crypto has become the ultimate swamp asset
- Show HN: Chat with 19 years of HN
- Experts have it easy (2024)
- GM Is Pushing Hard to Tank California's EV Mandate
- AniSora: Open-source anime video generation model
- Federal agencies continue terminating all funding to Harvard
- LLMs are more persuasive than incentivized human persuaders
- Dead Stars Don’t Radiate
- If nothing is curated, how do we find things
- Proton threatens to quit Switzerland over new surveillance law
- Pyrefly: A new type checker and IDE experience for Python
- Static Types Are for Perfectionists
- Push Ifs Up and Fors Down
- JavaScript's New Superpower: Explicit Resource Management
- A kernel developer plays with Home Assistant
- Will AI systems perform poorly due to AI-generated material in training data?
- Moody’s strips U.S. of triple-A credit rating
- Getting AI to write good SQL
- Thoughts on thinking
- MIT asks arXiv to withdraw preprint of paper on AI and scientific discovery
- I'm Peter Roberts, immigration attorney, who does work for YC and startups. AMA
- A Research Preview of Codex
- Show HN: Visual flow-based programming for Erlang, inspired by Node-RED
- Java at 30: Interview with James Gosling
- Sci-Net
- Ground control to Major Trial
- Grok's white genocide fixation caused by 'unauthorized modification'
- After months of coding with LLMs, I'm going back to using my brain
- Apple Blocks Fortnite's Return to iOS App Store, Epic Claims
- The average workday increased during the pandemic’s early weeks (2020)
- The first year of free-threaded Python
- Run GitHub Actions locally
- BuyMeACoffee silently dropped support for many countries (2024)
- The Awful German Language (1880)
- Remarks on AI from NZ
- Teal – A statically-typed dialect of Lua
- A leap year check in three instructions
- Initialization in C++ is bonkers (2017)
- Stack Overflow is almost dead
- The unreasonable effectiveness of an LLM agent loop with tool use
- Harvard Law paid $27 for a copy of Magna Carta. It's an original
- Improving Naval Ship Acquisition
- Baby is healed with first personalized gene-editing treatment
- Launch HN: Tinfoil (YC X25): Verifiable Privacy for Cloud AI
- I don't like NumPy
- Coinbase says hackers bribed staff to steal customer data, demanding $20M ransom
- I've never been so conflicted about a technology
- California sent residents' personal health data to LinkedIn
- New research reveals the strongest solar event ever detected, in 12350 BC
- Malicious compliance by booking an available meeting room
- CarPlay Ultra, the next generation of CarPlay, begins rolling out today
- Tesla has yet to start testing its robotaxi without driver weeks before launch
- Japan's IC cards are weird and wonderful
- Project Verona: Fearless Concurrency for Python
- EU ruling: tracking-based advertising [...] across Europe has no legal basis
- Human
- LLMs get lost in multi-turn conversation
- Migrating to Postgres
- Show HN: Semantic Calculator (king-man+woman=?)
- Perverse incentives of vibe coding
- Grok answers unrelated queries with long paragraphs about "white genocide"
- Our narrative prison
- A server that wasn't meant to exist
- Uber to introduce fixed-route shuttles in major US cities
- Coding without a laptop: Two weeks with AR glasses and Linux on Android
- AlphaEvolve: A Gemini-powered coding agent for designing advanced algorithms
- SMS 2FA is not just insecure, it's also hostile to mountain people
- The A.I. Radiologist Will Not Be with You Soon
- What is HDR, anyway?
- E-COM: The $40M USPS project to send email on paper
- The Future Is Too Expensive – A New Theory on Collapsing Birth Rates
- The cryptography behind passkeys
- Databricks acquires Neon
- $20K Bounty Offered for Optimizing Rust Code in Rav1d AV1 Decoder
- How to Build a Smartwatch: Picking a Chip
- Wise refuses to let us access our $60k AUD
- How can traditional British TV survive the US streaming giants
- The recently lost file upload feature in the Nextcloud app for Android
- Bus stops here: Shanghai lets riders design their own routes
- I failed a take-home assignment from Kagi Search
- Flattening Rust’s learning curve
- Type-constrained code generation with language models
- Starcloud
- Dusk OS
- Android and Wear OS are getting a redesign
- Airbnb is in midlife crisis mode
- Why are banks still getting authentication so wrong?
- Show HN: HelixDB – Open-source vector-graph database for AI applications (Rust)
- Material 3 Expressive
- GOP sneaks decade-long AI regulation ban into spending bill
- Branch Privilege Injection: Exploiting branch predictor race conditions
- OpenAI's Stargate project struggling to get off the ground, due to tariffs
- PDF to Text, a challenging problem
- Google is building its own DeX: First look at Android's Desktop Mode
- Why I'm resigning from the National Science Foundation
- How “The Great Gatsby” took over high school
- In a high-stress work environment, prioritize relationships
- Launch HN: Miyagi (YC W25) turns YouTube videos into online, interactive courses
- AI Is Like a Crappy Consultant
- Internet Artifacts
- Conspiracy theorists can be deprogrammed
- One hundred and one rules of effective living
- Multiple security issues in GNU Screen
- Git Bug: Distributed, Offline-First Bug Tracker Embedded in Git, with Bridges
- What were the MS-DOS programs that the moricons.dll icons were intended for?
- Changes since congestion pricing started in New York
- The world could run on older hardware if software optimization was a priority
- Working on complex systems: What I learned working at Google
- Nextcloud cries foul over Google Play Store app rejection
- Ask HN: How are you acquiring your first hundred users?
- Odin: A programming language made for me
- Mozilla Firefox – Official GitHub repo
- What if humanity forgot how to make CPUs?
- A conversation about AI for science with Jason Pruet
- Can you trust that permission pop-up on macOS?
- HealthBench – An evaluation for AI systems and human health
- I hacked a dating app (and how not to treat a security researcher)
- Traffic Fatalities Are a Choice
- The Barbican
- Embeddings are underrated (2024)
- The great displacement is already well underway?
- Reviving a modular cargo bike design from the 1930s
- Just use HTML
- Ruby 3.5 Feature: Namespace on read
- Paul McCartney, Elton John and other creatives demand AI comes clean on scraping
- The FTC puts off enforcing its 'click-to-cancel' rule
- A crypto founder faked his death. We found him alive at his dad's house
- University of Texas-led team solves a big problem for fusion energy
- A community-led fork of Organic Maps
- US Copyright Office found AI companies breach copyright. Its boss was fired
- Universe expected to decay in 10⁷⁸ years, much sooner than previously thought
- Ask HN: Cursor or Windsurf?
- I ruined my vacation by reverse engineering WSC
- The Academic Pipeline Stall: Why Industry Must Stand for Academia
- Air Traffic Control
- Avoiding AI is hard – but our freedom to opt out must be protected
- Why Bell Labs Worked
- Burrito Now, Pay Later
- 2024 sea level 'report cards' map futures of U.S. coastal communities
- Car companies are in a billion-dollar software war
- Klarna changes its AI tune and again recruits humans for customer service
- Plain Vanilla Web
- I built a native Windows Todo app in pure C (278 KB, no frameworks)
- High-school shop students attract skilled-trades job offers
- DNS piracy blocking orders: Google, Cloudflare, and OpenDNS respond differently
- In 2025, venture capital can't pretend everything is fine any more
- Title of work deciphered in sealed Herculaneum scroll via digital unwrapping
- Ask HN: What will tech employment look like in 10 years?
- Show HN: I’m 16 years old and working on my first startup, a study app
- One-Click RCE in Asus's Preinstalled Driver Software
- Leaving Google
- Dotless Domains
- Ireland given two months to implement hate speech laws or face action from EU
- Fandom sells gaming media brand Giant Bomb to long-term staff
- The History and Legacy of Visual Basic
- Observations from people-watching
- Microsoft Teams will soon block screen capture during meetings
- Address of Pope Leo XIV to the College of Cardinals
- Even Tesla's Insurance Arm Is Getting Wrecked
- For $595, you get what nobody else can give you for twice the price (1982) [pdf]
- Sam Altman Wants Your Eyeball
- 'We Currently Have No Container Ships,' Seattle Port Says
- 'It cannot provide nuance': UK experts warn AI therapy chatbots are not safe
- A critical look at MCP
- US vs. Google amicus curiae brief of Y Combinator in support of plaintiffs [pdf]
- Failed Soviet Venus lander Kosmos 482 crashes to Earth after 53 years in orbit
- Coffee for people who don't like coffee
- Ash Framework – Model your domain, derive the rest
- The cult of doing business
- Industry groups are not happy about the imminent demise of Energy Star
- Intel: Winning and Losing
- The Deathbed Fallacy (2018)
- CT scans show cigarettes are harder on the lungs than marijuana
- Continuous glucose monitors reveal variable glucose responses to the same meals
- Europe launches program to lure scientists away from the US
- Gmail to SQLite
- Vision Now Available in Llama.cpp
- Zig: A new direction for low-level programming?
- Era of U.S. dollar may be winding down
- Business books are entertainment, not strategic tools
- What’s new in Swift 6.2
- NASA study reveals Venus crust surprise
- Odin, a pragmatic C alternative with a Go flavour
- Man 'Disappeared' by ICE Was on El Salvador Flight Manifest, Hacked Data Shows
- All BART trains were stopped due to ‘computer networking problem’
- ALICE detects the conversion of lead into gold at the LHC
- Updated rate limits for unauthenticated requests
- 21 GB/s CSV Parsing Using SIMD on AMD 9950X
- Show HN: Aberdeen – An elegant approach to reactive UIs
- NSF faces shake-up as officials abolish its 37 divisions
- Data manipulations alleged in study that paved way for Microsoft's quantum chip
- Amazon's Vulcan Robots Now Stow Items Faster Than Humans
- Rust’s dependencies are starting to worry me
- WASM 2.0
- DOGE engineer's credentials found in past public leaks from info-stealer malware
- The dark side of account bans
- LegoGPT: Generating Physically Stable and Buildable Lego
- Starlink User Terminal Teardown
- A Formal Analysis of Apple's iMessage PQ3 Protocol [pdf]
- How friction is being redistributed in today's economy
- A flat pricing subscription for Claude Code
- How the US built 5k ships in WWII
- Why do LLMs have emergent properties?
- From: Steve Jobs. "Great idea, thank you."
- Static as a Server
- Reservoir Sampling
- More people are getting tattoos removed
- Void: Open-source Cursor alternative
- Notes on rolling out Cursor and Claude Code
- First American pope elected and will be known as Pope Leo XIV
- High tariffs become 'real' with our first $36K bill
- Progress toward fusion energy gain as measured against the Lawson criteria
- My new deadline: 20 years to give away virtually all my wealth
- Trump's NIH axed research grants even after a judge blocked the cuts
- Google to back three new nuclear projects
- Microservices are a tax your startup probably can't afford
- Ask HN: What are good high-information density UIs (screenshots, apps, sites)?
- My stackoverflow question was closed so here's a blog post about CoreWCF
- Egyptologist uncovers hidden messages on Paris’s iconic obelisk
- Mycoria is an open and secure overlay network that connects all participants
- We have reached the "severed fingers and abductions" stage of crypto revolution
- Ask HN: How much better are AI IDEs vs. copy pasting into chat apps?
- June Huh dropped out to become a poet, now he’s won a Fields Medal (2022)
- OpenAI for Countries
- RybbitL Open source Google Analytics replacement
- Ty: A fast Python type checker and language server
- Samsung is paying $350M for audio brands B&W, Denon, Marantz and Polk
- Getting Older Isn't What You Think
- Create and edit images with Gemini 2.0 in preview
- Ghost students are creating problems for California colleges
- Waiting for Postgres 18: Accelerating Disk Reads with Asynchronous I/O
- WeightWatchers files bankruptcy
- Mistral ships Le Chat – enterprise AI assistant that can run on prem
- Mississippi Can't Possibly Have Good Schools
- Zuckerberg's Grand Vision: Most of Your Friends Will Be AI
- Everyone is cheating their way through college
- Unity’s Open-Source Double Standard: the ban of VLC
- CLion Is Now Free for Non-Commercial Use
- My quest to make motorcycle riding that tad bit safer
- So Much Blood
- Lazarus Release 4.0
- Zed: High-performance AI Code Editor
- EPA Plans to Shut Down the Energy Star Program
- Jury orders NSO to pay $167M for hacking WhatsApp users
- Bloat is still software's biggest vulnerability (2024)
- iOS Kindle app now has a ‘get book’ button after changes to App Store rules
- India launches attack on 9 sites in Pakistan and Pakistani Jammu and Kashmir
- Claude's system prompt is over 24k tokens with tools
- Launch HN: Exa (YC S21) – The web as a database
- Gemini 2.5 Pro Preview
- Show HN: Clippy – 90s UI for local LLMs
- Accents in latent spaces: How AI hears accent strength in English
- Cuttlefish 'talk' with their arms, study reveals
- New studies offer insight into Lyme disease’s treatment, lingering symptoms
- Memory-safe sudo to become the default in Ubuntu
- Getting things “done” in large tech companies
- Inheritance was invented as a performance hack (2021)
- NSA spied through Angry Birds, other apps: report (2014)
- FTC rule on unfair or deceptive fees to take effect on May 12
- The Turkish İ Problem and Why You Should Care (2012)
- DoorDash to acquire Deliveroo
- Sneakers (1992) – 4K makeover sourced from the original camera negative
- The curse of knowing how, or; fixing everything
- An appeal to Apple from Anukari
- Critical CSS
- Google has most of my email because it has all of yours (2014)
- OpenAI reaches agreement to buy Windsurf for $3B
- Replacing Kubernetes with systemd (2024)
- Show HN: Real-time AI Voice Chat at ~500ms Latency
- Databricks in talks to acquire startup Neon for about $1B
- Possibly a Serious Possibility
- Evolving OpenAI's Structure
- As an experienced LLM user, I don't use generative LLMs often
- Heat stress mitigation by trees and shelters at bus stops
- No Instagram, no privacy
- Show HN: VectorVFS, your filesystem as a vector database
- How linear regression works intuitively and how it leads to gradient descent
- You can't git clone a team
- Cursor hits $9B valuation
- Internet usage pattern during power outage in Spain and Portugal
- The Death of Daydreaming
- The Beauty of Having a Pi-Hole (2024)
- Judge said Meta illegally used books to build its AI
- The vocal effects of Daft Punk
- Trump announces 100% tariffs on movies ‘produced in foreign lands’
- EU to ban anonymous crypto accounts and privacy coins by 2027
- Modern LaTeX
- Show HN: My AI Native Resume
- People are losing loved ones to AI-fueled spiritual fantasies
- On Not Carrying a Camera – Cultivating memories instead of snapshots
- Ask HN: Hackathons feel fake now
- I'd rather read the prompt
- How Riot Games is fighting the war against video game hackers
- AI code is legacy code?
- Design for 3D-Printing
- Why Flatpak apps use so much disk space on Linux
- How three years at McKinsey shaped my second startup
- A Texan who built an empire of ecstasy
- Nevermind, an album on major chords
- An Alabama landline that keeps ringing
- I decided to pay off a school’s lunch debt
- Brian Eno's Theory of Democracy
- What went wrong with wireless USB
- Why does Switzerland have so many bunkers?
- Gorgeous-GRUB: collection of decent community-made GRUB themes
- FAA offering more incentives as air traffic controller shortage worsens
- Google Gemini has the worst LLM API
- Why I Am Not Going to Buy a Computer (1987) [pdf]
- Understanding Memory Management, Part 5: Fighting with Rust
- When flat rate movers won't answer your calls
- DuckDB is probably the most important geospatial software of the last decade
- “An independent journalist” who won't remain nameless
- Deadly Screwworm Parasite's Comeback Threatens Texas Cattle, US Beef Supply
- We fell out of love with Next.js and back in love with Ruby on Rails
- Buffett to step down following six-decade run atop Berkshire
- Show HN: Free, in-browser PDF editor
- Run LLMs on Apple Neural Engine (ANE)
- The US has approved CRISPR pigs for food
- Why I stopped angel investing after 15 years, and what I'm doing instead
- Time saved by AI offset by new work created, study suggests
- Why can't HTML alone do includes?
- We know a little more about Amazon's satellites
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