Hacker News Highlights

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on May 15, 2025.AlphaEvolve: A Gemini-powered coding agent for designing advanced algorithmshttps://deepmind.google/discover/blog/alphaevolve-a-gemini-powered-coding-agent-for-designing-advanced-algorithms/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43985489What is HDR, anyway?https://www.lux.camera/what-is-hdr/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43983871A server that wasn't meant to existhttps://it-notes.dragas.net/2025/05/13/the_server_that_wasnt_meant_to_exist/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43985971Databricks acquires Neonhttps://www.databricks.com/blog/databricks-neonhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43982777Changes since congestion pricing started in New Yorkhttps://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/05/11/upshot/congestion-pricing.htmlhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43971515Humanhttps://quarter--mile.com/Humanhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43991396How to Build a Smartwatch: Picking a Chiphttps://ericmigi.com/blog/how-to-build-a-smartwatch-picking-a-chip/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43981680LLMs get lost in multi-turn conversationhttps://arxiv.org/abs/2505.06120https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43991256Git Bug: Distributed, Offline-First Bug Tracker Embedded in Git, with Bridgeshttps://github.com/git-bug/git-bughttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43971620Interferometer Device Sees Text from a Mile Awayhttps://physics.aps.org/articles/v18/99https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43945733

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on May 14, 2025.The world could run on older hardware if software optimization was a priorityhttps://twitter.com/ID_AA_Carmack/status/1922100771392520710https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43971464Multiple security issues in GNU Screenhttps://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2025/05/12/1https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43971716Branch Privilege Injection: Exploiting branch predictor race conditionshttps://comsec.ethz.ch/research/microarch/branch-privilege-injection/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43974891The great displacement is already well underway?https://shawnfromportland.substack.com/p/the-great-displacement-is-alreadyhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43963434Google is building its own DeX: First look at Android's Desktop Modehttps://www.androidauthority.com/android-desktop-mode-leak-3550321/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43973395PDF to Text, a challenging problemhttps://www.marginalia.nu/log/a_119_pdf/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43973721Flattening Rust’s learning curvehttps://corrode.dev/blog/flattening-rusts-learning-curve/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43978435Bus stops here: Shanghai lets riders design their own routeshttps://www.sixthtone.com/news/1017072https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43980845Type-constrained code generation with language modelshttps://arxiv.org/abs/2504.09246https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43978357Launch HN: Miyagi (YC W25) turns YouTube videos into online, interactive courseshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43972425

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on May 13, 2025.The Barbicanhttps://arslan.io/2025/05/12/barbican-estate/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43964136Firefox moves to GitHubhttps://github.com/mozilla-firefox/firefoxhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43969827A community-led fork of Organic Mapshttps://www.comaps.app/news/2025-05-12/3/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43961908Can you trust that permission pop-up on macOS?https://wts.dev/posts/tcc-who/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43966089FastVLM: Efficient vision encoding for vision language modelshttps://github.com/apple/ml-fastvlmhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43968897University of Texas-led team solves a big problem for fusion energyhttps://news.utexas.edu/2025/05/05/university-of-texas-led-team-solves-a-big-problem-for-fusion-energy/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43962148Ruby 3.5 Feature: Namespace on readhttps://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/21311https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43962770Reviving a modular cargo bike design from the 1930shttps://www.core77.com/posts/136773/Reviving-a-Modular-Cargo-Bike-Design-from-the-1930shttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43963397Air Traffic Controlhttps://computer.rip/2025-05-11-air-traffic-control.htmlhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43958562RIP Usenix ATChttps://bcantrill.dtrace.org/2025/05/11/rip-usenix-atc/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43964827

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on May 12, 2025.Plain Vanilla Webhttps://plainvanillaweb.com/index.htmlhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43954896One-Click RCE in Asus's Preinstalled Driver Softwarehttps://mrbruh.com/asusdriverhub/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43951588A simple 16x16 dot animation from simple math ruleshttps://tixy.landhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43942881Car companies are in a billion-dollar software warhttps://insideevs.com/features/759153/car-companies-software-companies/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43955525Writing an LLM from scratch, part 13 – attention heads are dumbhttps://www.gilesthomas.com/2025/05/llm-from-scratch-13-taking-stock-part-1-attention-heads-are-dumbhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43931366Lazarus Release 4.0https://forum.lazarus.freepascal.org/index.php?topic=71050.0https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43913414Title of work deciphered in sealed Herculaneum scroll via digital unwrappinghttps://www.finebooksmagazine.com/fine-books-news/title-work-deciphered-sealed-herculaneum-scroll-digital-unwrappinghttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43953883The most valuable commodity in the world is frictionhttps://kyla.substack.com/p/the-most-valuable-commodity-in-thehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43933091Why Bell Labs Workedhttps://1517.substack.com/p/why-bell-labs-workedhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43957010High-school shop students attract skilled-trades job offershttps://www.wsj.com/lifestyle/careers/skilled-trades-high-school-recruitment-fd9f8257https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43954488

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on May 10, 2025.ALICE detects the conversion of lead into gold at the LHChttps://www.home.cern/news/news/physics/alice-detects-conversion-lead-gold-lhchttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43937214Sofie: open-source web based system for automating live TV news productionhttps://nrkno.github.io/sofie-core/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43936408Business books are entertainment, not strategic toolshttps://theorthagonist.substack.com/p/why-reading-business-books-is-a-wastehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43940747Show HN: Hyvector – A fast and modern SVG editorhttps://www.hyvector.comhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4393539421 GB/s CSV Parsing Using SIMD on AMD 9950Xhttps://nietras.com/2025/05/09/sep-0-10-0/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43936592Itter.sh – Micro-Blogging via Terminalhttps://www.itter.sh/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43936884Vision Now Available in Llama.cpphttps://github.com/ggml-org/llama.cpp/blob/master/docs/multimodal.mdhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43943047What’s new in Swift 6.2https://www.hackingwithswift.com/articles/277/whats-new-in-swift-6-2https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43940539WebGL Water (2010)https://madebyevan.com/webgl-water/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43942149

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on May 9, 2025.From: Steve Jobs. "Great idea, thank you."https://blog.hayman.net/2025/05/06/from-steve-jobs-great-idea.htmlhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43929724Void: Open-source Cursor alternativehttps://github.com/voideditor/voidhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43927926First American pope elected and will be known as Pope Leo XIVhttps://www.cnn.com/world/live-news/new-pope-conclave-day-two-05-08-25https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43927856Reservoir Samplinghttps://samwho.dev/reservoir-sampling/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43928315LegoGPT: Generating Physically Stable and Buildable Legohttps://avalovelace1.github.io/LegoGPT/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43933891Progress toward fusion energy gain as measured against the Lawson criteriahttps://www.fusionenergybase.com/articles/continuing-progress-toward-fusion-energy-breakeven-and-gain-as-measured-against-the-lawson-criteriahttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43927337When Abandoned Mines Collapsehttps://practical.engineering/blog/2025/5/6/when-abandoned-mines-collapsehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43908261A flat pricing subscription for Claude Codehttps://support.anthropic.com/en/articles/11145838-using-claude-code-with-your-max-planhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43931409Starlink User Terminal Teardownhttps://www.darknavy.org/blog/a_first_glimpse_of_the_starlink_user_ternimal/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43933452How to start a school with your friendshttps://prigoose.substack.com/p/how-to-start-a-universityhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43930397

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on May 8, 2025.Ty: A fast Python type checker and language serverhttps://github.com/astral-sh/tyhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43918484Waiting for Postgres 18: Accelerating Disk Reads with Asynchronous I/Ohttps://pganalyze.com/blog/postgres-18-async-iohttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43916577Mistral ships Le Chat – enterprise AI assistant that can run on premhttps://mistral.ai/news/le-chat-enterprisehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43916098So Much Bloodhttps://dynomight.net/blood/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43913751Open source Google Analytics replacementhttps://github.com/rybbit-io/rybbithttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43918620My quest to make motorcycle riding that tad bit saferhttps://gill.net.in/posts/my-quest-to-make-motorcycle-riding-safer/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43914235Web search on the Anthropic APIhttps://www.anthropic.com/news/web-search-apihttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43920188Show HN: eInk optimized manga with Kindle Comic Converter (+Kobo/ReMarkable)https://github.com/ciromattia/kcchttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43916956Create and edit images with Gemini 2.0 in previewhttps://developers.googleblog.com/en/generate-images-gemini-2-0-flash-preview/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43917461Mac Themes Gardenhttps://damien.zone/introducing-mac-themes-garden/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43919868

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on May 7, 2025.Show HN: Clippy – 90s UI for local LLMshttps://felixrieseberg.github.io/clippy/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43905942Gemini 2.5 Pro Previewhttps://developers.googleblog.com/en/gemini-2-5-pro-io-improved-coding-performance/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43906018OpenAI reaches agreement to buy Windsurf for $3Bhttps://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-05-06/openai-reaches-agreement-to-buy-startup-windsurf-for-3-billionhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43900877Matt Godbolt sold me on Rust by showing me C++https://www.collabora.com/news-and-blog/blog/2025/05/06/matt-godbolt-sold-me-on-rust-by-showing-me-c-plus-plus/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43907820Launch HN: Exa (YC S21) – The web as a databasehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43906841India launches attack on 9 sites in Pakistan and Pakistani Jammu and Kashmirhttps://www.reuters.com/world/india/india-launches-attack-9-sites-pakistan-pakistan-occupied-jammu-kashmir-2025-05-06/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43909430Claude's system prompt is over 24k tokens with toolshttps://github.com/asgeirtj/system_prompts_leaks/blob/main/claude.txthttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43909409VVVVVV Source Codehttps://github.com/TerryCavanagh/VVVVVVhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43910681Nnd – a TUI debugger alternative to GDB, LLDBhttps://github.com/al13n321/nndhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43905185Accents in latent spaces: How AI hears accent strength in Englishhttps://accent-strength.boldvoice.com/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43905299

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on May 6, 2025.Evolving OpenAI's Structurehttps://openai.com/index/evolving-our-structure/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43897772The vocal effects of Daft Punkhttps://bjango.com/articles/daftpunkvocaleffects/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43893601Show HN: Real-time AI Voice Chat at ~500ms Latencyhttps://github.com/KoljaB/RealtimeVoiceChathttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43899028I decided to pay off a school’s lunch debthttps://www.huffpost.com/entry/utah-school-lunch-debt-relief-free-student-meals_n_681258fbe4b03207b5ba49fahttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43885101As an experienced LLM user, I don't use generative LLMs oftenhttps://minimaxir.com/2025/05/llm-use/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43897320Replacing Kubernetes with systemd (2024)https://blog.yaakov.online/replacing-kubernetes-with-systemd/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43899236The Beauty of Having a Pi-Hole (2024)https://den.dev/blog/pihole/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43894175Show HN: VectorVFS, your filesystem as a vector databasehttps://vectorvfs.readthedocs.io/en/latest/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43896011How are cyber criminals rolling in 2025?https://vin01.github.io/piptagole/cybcecrime/security/cybersecurity/2025/05/05/state-cyber-security.htmlhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43896188Possibly a Serious Possibilityhttps://kucharski.substack.com/p/possibly-a-serious-possibilityhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43898380

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on May 5, 2025.I'd rather read the prompthttps://claytonwramsey.com/blog/prompt/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43888803Design for 3D-Printinghttps://blog.rahix.de/design-for-3d-printing/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43888117An Alabama landline that keeps ringinghttps://oxfordamerican.org/oa-now/the-alabama-landline-that-keeps-ringinghttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43886243Why Archers Didn't Volley Firehttps://acoup.blog/2025/05/02/collections-why-archers-didnt-volley-fire/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43877644Evidence of controversial Planet 9 uncovered in sky surveys taken 23 years aparthttps://www.space.com/astronomy/solar-system/evidence-of-controversial-planet-9-uncovered-in-sky-surveys-taken-23-years-aparthttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43874641Technical analysis of TM SGNL, the unofficial Signal app Trump officials usedhttps://micahflee.com/tm-sgnl-the-obscure-unofficial-signal-app-mike-waltz-uses-to-text-with-trump-officials/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43875476Dummy's Guide to Modern LLM Samplinghttps://rentry.co/samplershttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43887637Oberon Pihttp://pascal.hansotten.com/niklaus-wirth/project-oberon/oberon-pi/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43885478Graceful Shutdown in Go: Practical Patternshttps://victoriametrics.com/blog/go-graceful-shutdown/index.htmlhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43889610On Not Carrying a Camera – Cultivating memories instead of snapshotshttps://hedgehogreview.com/issues/after-neoliberalism/articles/on-not-carrying-a-camerahttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43890525