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Hacker News Highlights

6.6.25 | YouTube warns against self-hosting media, death newts face an impossible predicament, Air Lab introduces a portable air quality measuring device

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Jun 6, 2025.

Self-hosting your own media considered harmful according to YouTube
https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2025/self-hosting-your-own-media-considered-harmful
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44197932

The impossible predicament of the death newts
https://crookedtimber.org/2025/06/05/occasional-paper-the-impossible-predicament-of-the-death-newts/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44191620

Show HN: Air Lab – A portable and open air quality measuring device
https://networkedartifacts.com/airlab/simulator
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44189329

Autonomous drone defeats human champions in racing first
https://www.tudelft.nl/en/2025/lr/autonomous-drone-from-tu-delft-defeats-human-champions-in-historic-racing-first
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44184900

Apple Notes Will Gain Markdown Export at WWDC, and, I Have Thoughts
https://daringfireball.net/linked/2025/06/04/apple-notes-markdown
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44191558

Eleven v3
https://elevenlabs.io/v3
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44194521

LLMs and Elixir: Windfall or Deathblow?
https://www.zachdaniel.dev/p/llms-and-elixir-windfall-or-deathblow
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44186496

parrot.live
https://github.com/hugomd/parrot.live
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44186536

I do not remember my life and it's fine
https://aethermug.com/posts/i-do-not-remember-my-life-and-it-s-fine
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44196576

Show HN: ClickStack – Open-source Datadog alternative by ClickHouse and HyperDX
https://github.com/hyperdxio/hyperdx
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44194082

22 hours ago

11 minutes

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6.5.25 | OpenAI opposes court order on ChatGPT logs, FFmpeg adds WebRTC support, IRS Direct File available on GitHub

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Jun 5, 2025.

OpenAI slams court order to save all ChatGPT logs, including deleted chats
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/06/openai-says-court-forcing-it-to-save-all-chatgpt-logs-is-a-privacy-nightmare/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44185913

FFmpeg merges WebRTC support
https://git.ffmpeg.org/gitweb/ffmpeg.git/commit/167e343bbe75515a80db8ee72ffa0c607c944a00
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44182186

IRS Direct File on GitHub
https://chrisgiven.com/2025/05/direct-file-on-github/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44182356

Why I wrote the BEAM book
https://happihacking.com/blog/posts/2025/why_I_wrote_theBEAMBook/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44179257

Cursor 1.0
https://www.cursor.com/en/changelog/1-0
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44185256

A proposal to restrict sites from accessing a users’ local network
https://github.com/explainers-by-googlers/local-network-access
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44183799

Tesla seeks to guard crash data from public disclosure
https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/musks-tesla-seeks-guard-crash-data-public-disclosure-2025-06-04/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44186780

The iPhone 15 Pro’s Depth Maps
https://tech.marksblogg.com/apple-iphone-15-pro-depth-map-heic.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44183591

Prompt engineering playbook for programmers
https://addyo.substack.com/p/the-prompt-engineering-playbook-for
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44182188

Apple Notes Expected to Gain Markdown Support in iOS 26
https://www.macrumors.com/2025/06/04/apple-notes-rumored-markdown-support-ios-26/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44183923

1 day ago

11 minutes

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6.4.25 | Deep learning praised, fact checking overlooked, covert Android tracking, DiffX extensible format

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Jun 4, 2025.

Deep learning gets the glory, deep fact checking gets ignored
https://rachel.fast.ai/posts/2025-06-04-enzyme-ml-fails/index.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44174965

Covert Web-to-App Tracking via Localhost on Android
https://localmess.github.io/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44169115

DiffX – Next-Generation Extensible Diff Format
https://diffx.org/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44176737

Merlin Bird ID
https://merlin.allaboutbirds.org/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44176829

Brain aging shows nonlinear transitions, suggesting a midlife "critical window"
https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2416433122
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44175905

Precious Plastic is in trouble
https://www.preciousplastic.com//news/problems-in-precious-plastic
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44175773

The Small World of English
https://www.inotherwords.app/linguabase/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44170968

Ask HN: Has anybody built search on top of Anna's Archive?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44176514

A deep dive into self-improving AI and the Darwin-Gödel Machine
https://richardcsuwandi.github.io/blog/2025/dgm/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44174856

Binary Wordle
https://wordle.chengeric.com/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44176825

2 days ago

12 minutes

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6.3.25 | AI skeptics are irrational, Cloudflare creates OAuth with Claude, Kan.bn is an open-source Trello alternative

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Jun 3, 2025.

My AI skeptic friends are all nuts
https://fly.io/blog/youre-all-nuts/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44163063

Cloudlflare builds OAuth with Claude and publishes all the prompts
https://github.com/cloudflare/workers-oauth-provider/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44159166

Show HN: Kan.bn – An open-source alterative to Trello
https://github.com/kanbn/kan
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44157177

Show HN: Onlook – Open-source, visual-first Cursor for designers
https://github.com/onlook-dev/onlook
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44127653

Show HN: A toy version of Wireshark (student project)
https://github.com/lixiasky/vanta
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44159758

Show HN: I build one absurd web project every month
https://absurd.website
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44162363

Quarkdown: A modern Markdown-based typesetting system
https://github.com/iamgio/quarkdown
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44167592

AI makes the humanities more important, but also weirder
https://resobscura.substack.com/p/ai-makes-the-humanities-more-important
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44166102

ThorVG: Super Lightweight Vector Graphics Engine
https://www.thorvg.org/about
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44157406

Younger generations less likely to have dementia, study suggests
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2025/jun/02/younger-generations-less-likely-dementia-study
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44160012

3 days ago

10 minutes

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6.2.25 | Root shell on credit card terminal, Cinematography of "Andor," Visual world of 'Samurai Jack'

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Jun 2, 2025.

Root shell on a credit card terminal
https://stefan-gloor.ch/yomani-hack
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44150803

Cinematography of “Andor”
https://www.pushing-pixels.org/2025/05/20/cinematography-of-andor-interview-with-christophe-nuyens.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44149718

The Visual World of 'Samurai Jack'
https://animationobsessive.substack.com/p/the-visual-world-of-samurai-jack
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44154032

How to post when no one is reading
https://www.jeetmehta.com/posts/thrive-in-obscurity
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44155746

LibriVox
https://librivox.org/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44153738

I made a chair
https://milofultz.com/2025-05-27-i-made-a-chair.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44142259

When Fine-Tuning Makes Sense: A Developer's Guide
https://getkiln.ai/blog/why_fine_tune_LLM_models_and_how_to_get_started
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44129495

HeidiSQL Available Also for Linux
https://www.heidisql.com/forum.php?t=44068
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44125793

If you are useful, it doesn't mean you are valued
https://betterthanrandom.substack.com/p/if-you-are-useful-it-doesnt-mean
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44156935

The Rise of Judgement over Technical Skill
https://notsocommonthoughts.com/blog/ai-and-judgement/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44153732

4 days ago

11 minutes

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6.1.25 | Precision Clock Mk IV, Progressive JSON, A Lean companion to Analysis I

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Jun 1, 2025.

Precision Clock Mk IV
https://mitxela.com/projects/precision_clock_mk_iv
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44144750

Progressive JSON
https://overreacted.io/progressive-json/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44147945

A Lean companion to Analysis I
https://terrytao.wordpress.com/2025/05/31/a-lean-companion-to-analysis-i/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44145517

RenderFormer: Neural rendering of triangle meshes with global illumination
https://microsoft.github.io/renderformer/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44148524

Oniux: Kernel-level Tor isolation for any Linux app
https://blog.torproject.org/introducing-oniux-tor-isolation-using-linux-namespaces/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44146830

YOLO-World: Real-Time Open-Vocabulary Object Detection
https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.17270
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44146858

Show HN: Patio – Rent tools, learn DIY, reduce waste
https://patio.so
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44147803

CCD co-inventor George E. Smith dies at 95
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/science/george-e-smith-dead.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44146619

New adaptive optics shows details of our star's atmosphere
https://nso.edu/press-release/new-adaptive-optics-shows-stunning-details-of-our-stars-atmosphere/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44147573

Father Ted Kilnettle Shrine Tape Dispenser
https://stephencoyle.net/kilnettle
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44148853

5 days ago

11 minutes

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5.31.25 | Photos inside instruments, AI hype and white-collar layoffs, AWS systems correctness practices

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on May 31, 2025.

Photos taken inside musical instruments
https://www.dpreview.com/photography/5400934096/probe-lenses-and-focus-stacking-the-secrets-to-incredible-photos-taken-inside-instruments
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44139626

The ‘white-collar bloodbath’ is all part of the AI hype machine
https://www.cnn.com/2025/05/30/business/anthropic-amodei-ai-jobs-nightcap
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44136117

Systems Correctness Practices at Amazon Web Services
https://cacm.acm.org/practice/systems-correctness-practices-at-amazon-web-services/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44135638

Microsandbox: Virtual Machines that feel and perform like containers
https://github.com/microsandbox/microsandbox
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44135977

Beating Google's kernelCTF PoW using AVX512
https://anemato.de/blog/kctf-vdf
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44137715

Surprisingly fast AI-generated kernels we didn't mean to publish yet
https://crfm.stanford.edu/2025/05/28/fast-kernels.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44139454

Silicon Valley finally has a big electronics retailer again: Micro Center opens
https://www.microcenter.com/site/mc-news/article/micro-center-santa-clara-photos.aspx
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44140378

Valkey Turns One: Community fork of Redis
https://www.gomomento.com/blog/valkey-turns-one-how-the-community-fork-left-redis-in-the-dust/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44140379

The Darwin Gödel Machine: AI that improves itself by rewriting its own code
https://sakana.ai/dgm/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44135369

Show HN: Icepi Zero – The FPGA Raspberry Pi Zero Equivalent
https://github.com/cheyao/icepi-zero
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44115853

6 days ago

12 minutes

Hacker News Highlights

5.30.25 | WeatherStar 4000+ simulates Weather Channel, human coders outperform LLMs, FLUX.1 Kontext

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on May 30, 2025.

WeatherStar 4000+: Weather Channel Simulator
https://weatherstar.netbymatt.com/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44127109

Human coders are still better than LLMs
https://antirez.com/news/153
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44127739

FLUX.1 Kontext
https://bfl.ai/models/flux-kontext
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44128322

Show HN: I wrote a modern Command Line Handbook
https://commandline.stribny.name/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44126612

The radix 2^51 trick (2017)
https://www.chosenplaintext.ca/articles/radix-2-51-trick.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44132673

I'm starting a social club to solve the male loneliness epidemic
https://wave3.social
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44131513

Buttplug MCP
https://github.com/ConAcademy/buttplug-mcp
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44133706

Practical SDR: Getting started with software-defined radio
https://nostarch.com/practical-sdr
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44131984

Why is everybody knitting chickens?
https://ironicsans.ghost.io/why-is-everybody-knitting-chickens/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44108139

Making C and Python Talk to Each Other
https://leetarxiv.substack.com/p/making-c-and-python-talk-to-each
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44105746

1 week ago

11 minutes

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5.29.25 | Rewrote Mac Electron app in Rust, Japan Post launches digital address system, Compiler Explorer promises lasting URLs

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on May 29, 2025.

Show HN: I rewrote my Mac Electron app in Rust
https://desktopdocs.com/?v=2025
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44118023

Japan Post launches 'digital address' system
https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2025/05/27/companies/japan-post-digital-address/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44117779

Compiler Explorer and the promise of URLs that last forever
https://xania.org/202505/compiler-explorer-urls-forever
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44117722

Long live American Science and Surplus
https://milwaukeerecord.com/city-life/long-live-american-science-surplus-which-needs-your-help/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44120507

Compiling a neural net to C for a speedup
https://slightknack.dev/blog/difflogic/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44118373

Show HN: Porting Terraria and Celeste to WebAssembly
https://velzie.rip/blog/celeste-wasm
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44101175

A toy RTOS inside Super Mario Bros. using emulator save states
https://prettygoodblog.com/p/what-threads-are-part-2
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44120241

Show HN: Typed-FFmpeg 3.0–Typed Interface to FFmpeg and Visual Filter Editor
https://github.com/livingbio/typed-ffmpeg
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44123098

Visualize and debug Rust programs with a new lens
https://firedbg.sea-ql.org/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44086429

Show HN: Tesseral – Open-Source Auth
https://github.com/tesseral-labs/tesseral
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44117059

1 week ago

12 minutes

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5.28.25 | Square Theory, hawk uses traffic signals for hunting, LLM CLI tool runs tools from Python or plugins

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

Square Theory
https://aaronson.org/blog/square-theory
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44107942

How a hawk learned to use traffic signals to hunt more successfully
https://www.frontiersin.org/news/2025/05/23/street-smarts-hawk-use-traffic-signals-hunting
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44105965

Show HN: My LLM CLI tool can run tools now, from Python code or plugins
https://simonwillison.net/2025/May/27/llm-tools/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44110584

Show HN: Lazy Tetris
https://lazytetris.com/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44103839

Pyrefly vs. Ty: Comparing Python's two new Rust-based type checkers
https://blog.edward-li.com/tech/comparing-pyrefly-vs-ty/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44107655

BGP handling bug causes widespread internet routing instability
https://blog.benjojo.co.uk/post/bgp-attr-40-junos-arista-session-reset-incident
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44105796

Show HN: AutoThink – Boosts local LLM performance with adaptive reasoning
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44112326

LumoSQL
https://lumosql.org/src/lumosql/doc/trunk/README.md
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44105619

The Level Design Book
https://book.leveldesignbook.com
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44086973

The Ingredients of a Productive Monorepo
https://blog.swgillespie.me/posts/monorepo-ingredients/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44086917

1 week ago

12 minutes

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5.27.25 | CSS Minecraft, Hacker News uses Common Lisp, Owls in Towels

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on May 27, 2025.

CSS Minecraft
https://benjaminaster.com/css-minecraft/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44100148

Hacker News now runs on top of Common Lisp
https://lisp-journey.gitlab.io/blog/hacker-news-now-runs-on-top-of-common-lisp/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44099006

Owls in Towels
https://owlsintowels.org/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44101349

A new class of materials that can passively harvest water from air
https://blog.seas.upenn.edu/penn-engineers-discover-a-new-class-of-materials-that-passively-harvest-water-from-air/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44097144

TIL: timeout in Bash scripts
https://heitorpb.github.io/bla/timeout/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44096395

Lossless video compression using Bloom filters
https://github.com/ross39/new_bloom_filter_repo/blob/main/README.md
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44100179

Show HN: PgDog – Shard Postgres without extensions
https://github.com/pgdogdev/pgdog
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44099187

Trying to teach in the age of the AI homework machine
https://www.solarshades.club/p/dispatch-from-the-trenches-of-the
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44100677

GitHub MCP exploited: Accessing private repositories via MCP
https://invariantlabs.ai/blog/mcp-github-vulnerability
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44097390

TSMC bets on unorthodox optical tech
https://spectrum.ieee.org/microled-optical-chiplet
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44099407

1 week ago

11 minutes

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5.26.25 | Claude 4 System Card, Amazon coders liken jobs to warehouse work, Open Source Society University offers free CS education

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on May 26, 2025.

Claude 4 System Card
https://simonwillison.net/2025/May/25/claude-4-system-card/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44085920

At Amazon, some coders say their jobs have begun to resemble warehouse work
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/25/business/amazon-ai-coders.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44087150

Open Source Society University – Path to a free self-taught education in CS
https://github.com/ossu/computer-science
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44089150

Google Shared My Phone Number
https://danq.me/2025/05/21/google-shared-my-phone-number/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44094270

Lottie is an open format for animated vector graphics
https://lottie.github.io/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44088216

Ask HN: What are you working on? (May 2025)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44090387

Plwm – An X11 window manager written in Prolog
https://github.com/Seeker04/plwm
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44089424

Ten years of JSON Web Token and preparing for the future
https://self-issued.info/?p=2708
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44092102

Design Pressure: The Invisible Hand That Shapes Your Code
https://hynek.me/talks/design-pressure/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44087844

Writing your own CUPS printer driver in 100 lines of Python (2018)
https://behind.pretix.eu/2018/01/20/cups-driver/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44088682

1 week ago

11 minutes

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5.25.25 | o3 finds Linux SMB zeroday, Reinvent the Wheel, US scientific conferences leaving due to border fears

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on May 25, 2025.

I used o3 to find a remote zeroday in the Linux SMB implementation
https://sean.heelan.io/2025/05/22/how-i-used-o3-to-find-cve-2025-37899-a-remote-zeroday-vulnerability-in-the-linux-kernels-smb-implementation/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44081338

Reinvent the Wheel
https://endler.dev/2025/reinvent-the-wheel/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44083467

Scientific conferences are leaving the US amid border fears
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-01636-5
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44084017

Show HN: Rotary Phone Dial Linux Kernel Driver
https://gitlab.com/sephalon/rotary_dial_kmod
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44080803

Good Writing
https://paulgraham.com/goodwriting.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44081586

Tachy0n: The Last 0day Jailbreak
https://blog.siguza.net/tachy0n/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44083388

The Xenon Death Flash: How a Camera Nearly Killed the Raspberry Pi 2
https://magnus919.com/2025/05/the-xenon-death-flash-how-a-camera-nearly-killed-the-raspberry-pi-2/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44080533

Hong Kong's Famous Bamboo Scaffolding Hangs on (For Now)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/24/world/asia/hongkong-bamboo-scaffolding.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44080549

Why old games never die, but new ones do
https://pleromanonx86.wordpress.com/2025/05/06/why-old-games-never-die-but-new-ones-do/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44083917

Peer Programming with LLMs, for Senior+ Engineers
https://pmbanugo.me/blog/peer-programming-with-llms
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44081081

1 week ago

12 minutes

Hacker News Highlights

5.24.25 | Postgres IDE for VS Code, Find Your People, Living on $432 a month in America

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on May 24, 2025.

Postgres IDE in VS Code
https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/adforpostgresql/announcing-a-new-ide-for-postgresql-in-vs-code-from-microsoft/4414648
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44073588

Find Your People
https://foundersatwork.posthaven.com/find-your-people
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44074017

How to live on $432 a month in America
https://shagbark.substack.com/p/how-to-live-on-432-a-month-in-america
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44074340

Root for your friends
https://josephthacker.com/personal/2025/05/13/root-for-your-friends.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44077533

Mermaid: Generation of diagrams like flowcharts or sequence diagrams from text
https://github.com/mermaid-js/mermaid
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44049619

Modification of acetaminophen to reduce liver toxicity and enhance drug efficacy
https://www.societyforscience.org/regeneron-sts/2025-student-finalists/chloe-lee/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44077850

Why Algebraic Effects?
https://antelang.org/blog/why_effects/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44078434

Caesar's Last Breath
https://charliesabino.com/caesars-last-breath/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44073185

Show HN: DoubleMemory – more efficient local-first read-it-later app
https://doublememory.com
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44075451

1 week ago

10 minutes

Hacker News Highlights

5.23.25 | Claude 4, Mozilla shutting down Pocket and Fakespot, long-admired fractal on wall

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on May 23, 2025.

Claude 4
https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-4
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44063703

Mozilla to shut down Pocket and Fakespot
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/future-of-pocket
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44063662

That fractal that's been up on my wall for years
https://chriskw.xyz/2025/05/21/Fractal/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44063248

Improving performance of rav1d video decoder
https://ohadravid.github.io/posts/2025-05-rav1d-faster/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44061160

Show HN: Defuddle, an HTML-to-Markdown alternative to Readability
https://github.com/kepano/defuddle
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44067409

The Future of Flatpak
https://lwn.net/Articles/1020571/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44068400

I Built My Own Audio Player
https://nexo.sh/posts/why-i-built-a-native-mp3-player-in-swiftui/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44062227

Fast Allocations in Ruby 3.5
https://railsatscale.com/2025-05-21-fast-allocations-in-ruby-3-5/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44062160

Does Earth have two high-tide bulges on opposite sides? (2014)
http://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/121830/does-earth-really-have-two-high-tide-bulges-on-opposite-sides
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44065458

John Carmack talk at Upper Bound 2025 – slides and notes
https://twitter.com/ID_AA_Carmack/status/1925710474366034326
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44070042

2 weeks ago

12 minutes

Hacker News Highlights

5.22.25 | OpenAI acquires Jony Ive's AI startup, Devstral, Gemini Diffusion

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on May 22, 2025.

OpenAI to buy AI startup from Jony Ive
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-05-21/openai-to-buy-apple-veteran-jony-ive-s-ai-device-startup-in-6-5-billion-deal
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44053518

Devstral
https://mistral.ai/news/devstral
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44051733

Gemini Diffusion
https://simonwillison.net/2025/May/21/gemini-diffusion/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44057820

For algorithms, a little memory outweighs a lot of time
https://www.quantamagazine.org/for-algorithms-a-little-memory-outweighs-a-lot-of-time-20250521/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44055347

Animated Factorization (2012)
http://www.datapointed.net/visualizations/math/factorization/animated-diagrams/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44051958

Collaborative Text Editing Without CRDTs or OT
https://mattweidner.com/2025/05/21/text-without-crdts.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44053560

LLM function calls don't scale; code orchestration is simpler, more effective
https://jngiam.bearblog.dev/mcp-large-data/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44053744

Decibels Are Ridiculous
https://lcamtuf.substack.com/p/decibels-are-ridiculous
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44058778

CERN gears up to ship antimatter across Europe
https://arstechnica.com/science/2025/05/cern-gears-up-to-ship-antimatter-across-europe/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44033711

An upgraded dev experience in Google AI Studio
https://developers.googleblog.com/en/google-ai-studio-native-code-generation-agentic-tools-upgrade/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44054185

2 weeks ago

12 minutes

Hacker News Highlights

5.21.25 | Veo 3 and Imagen 4 for filmmaking, Deep Learning in Applied Topology, AI driving Microsoft employees insane

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on May 21, 2025.

Veo 3 and Imagen 4, and a new tool for filmmaking called Flow
https://blog.google/technology/ai/generative-media-models-io-2025/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44044043

Deep Learning Is Applied Topology
https://theahura.substack.com/p/deep-learning-is-applied-topology
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44041738

My new hobby: watching AI slowly drive Microsoft employees insane
https://old.reddit.com/r/ExperiencedDevs/comments/1krttqo/my_new_hobby_watching_ai_slowly_drive_microsoft/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44050152

Gemma 3n preview: Mobile-first AI
https://developers.googleblog.com/en/introducing-gemma-3n/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44044199

Litestream: Revamped
https://fly.io/blog/litestream-revamped/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44045292

Show HN: 90s.dev – Game maker that runs on the web
https://90s.dev/blog/finally-releasing-90s-dev.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44042371

The NSA Selector
https://github.com/wenzellabs/the_NSA_selector
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44044459

Why does the U.S. always run a trade deficit?
https://libertystreeteconomics.newyorkfed.org/2025/05/why-does-the-u-s-always-run-a-trade-deficit/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44040407

Show HN: A Tiling Window Manager for Windows, Written in Janet
https://agent-kilo.github.io/jwno/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44042490

AI's energy footprint
https://www.technologyreview.com/2025/05/20/1116327/ai-energy-usage-climate-footprint-big-tech/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44039808

2 weeks ago

12 minutes

Hacker News Highlights

5.20.25 | Windows Subsystem for Linux open source, Zod 4, Have I Been Pwned 2.0

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on May 20, 2025.

The Windows Subsystem for Linux is now open source
https://blogs.windows.com/windowsdeveloper/2025/05/19/the-windows-subsystem-for-linux-is-now-open-source/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44031385

Zod 4
https://zod.dev/v4
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44030850

Have I Been Pwned 2.0
https://www.troyhunt.com/have-i-been-pwned-2-0-is-now-live/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44035158

GitHub Copilot Coding Agent
https://github.blog/changelog/2025-05-19-github-copilot-coding-agent-in-public-preview/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44031432

DDoSecrets publishes 410 GB of heap dumps, hacked from TeleMessage
https://micahflee.com/ddosecrets-publishes-410-gb-of-heap-dumps-hacked-from-telemessages-archive-server/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44036647

Claude Code SDK
https://docs.anthropic.com/en/docs/claude-code/sdk
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44032777

Jules: An Asynchronous Coding Agent
https://jules.google/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44034918

Game theory illustrated by an animated cartoon game
https://ncase.me/trust/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44031535

Run GitHub Actions locally
https://github.com/nektos/act
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44003184

Launch HN: Better Auth (YC X25) – Authentication Framework for TypeScript
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44030492

2 weeks ago

11 minutes

Hacker News Highlights

5.18.25 | AR glasses and Linux on Android, Mystical, O2 VoLTE customer location

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on May 18, 2025.

Coding without a laptop: Two weeks with AR glasses and Linux on Android
https://holdtherobot.com/blog/2025/05/11/linux-on-android-with-ar-glasses/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43985513

Mystical
https://suberic.net/~dmm/projects/mystical/README.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44016037

O2 VoLTE: locating any customer with a phone call
https://mastdatabase.co.uk/blog/2025/05/o2-expose-customer-location-call-4g/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44014046

If nothing is curated, how do we find things
https://tadaima.bearblog.dev/if-nothing-is-curated-how-do-we-find-things/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44015144

Dead Stars Don’t Radiate
https://johncarlosbaez.wordpress.com/2025/05/17/dead-stars-dont-radiate-and-shrink/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44015872

AniSora: Open-source anime video generation model
https://komiko.app/video/AniSora
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44017913

How to have the browser pick a contrasting color in CSS
https://webkit.org/blog/16929/contrast-color/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44015367

Directory of MCP Servers
https://github.com/chatmcp/mcpso
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44016336

The Lost Japanese ROM of the Macintosh Plus
https://www.journaldulapin.com/2025/05/17/the-lost-japanese-rom-of-the-macintosh-plus-which-isnt-lost-anymore/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44017692

FreeBASIC is a free/open source BASIC compiler for Windows DOS and Linux
https://freebasic.net/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44017592

2 weeks ago

12 minutes

Hacker News Highlights

5.17.25 | Push Ifs Up, JavaScript's Explicit Resource Management, Japan's IC Cards

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on May 17, 2025.

Push Ifs Up and Fors Down
https://matklad.github.io/2023/11/15/push-ifs-up-and-fors-down.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44013157

JavaScript's New Superpower: Explicit Resource Management
https://v8.dev/features/explicit-resource-management
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44012227

Japan's IC cards are weird and wonderful
https://aruarian.dance/blog/japan-ic-cards/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43993711

MCP: An in-depth introduction
https://www.speakeasy.com/mcp/mcp-tutorial
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43972334

XTool – Cross-platform Xcode replacement
https://github.com/xtool-org/xtool
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44011515

Wow@Home – Network of Amateur Radio Telescopes
https://phl.upr.edu/wow/outreach
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44011489

Palette lighting tricks on the Nintendo 64
https://30fps.net/pages/palette-lighting-tricks-n64/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44014587

A kernel developer plays with Home Assistant
https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/1017720/7155ecb9602e9ef2/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44011381

"We would be less confidential than Google" Proton threatens to quit Switzerland
https://www.techradar.com/vpn/vpn-privacy-security/we-would-be-less-confidential-than-google-proton-threatens-to-quit-switzerland-over-new-surveillance-law
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44014808

Pyrefly: A new type checker and IDE experience for Python
https://engineering.fb.com/2025/05/15/developer-tools/introducing-pyrefly-a-new-type-checker-and-ide-experience-for-python/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44013913

2 weeks ago

11 minutes