HckrNews (First visit) All HN frontpage stories in chronological order [dead] ? 5 8mo +41m shubhanshu.com 1GitDroid: A third party Android app manager for apps uploaded to GitHub releases 67 131 8mo +33m github.com/TechnicJelle/GitDroid 2Medical journals hit with threatening letters from Justice Department 13 33 8mo +43m npr.org/sections/shots-health-news/2025/05/02/nx-s1-5374993/medical-journals-hit-with-threatening-letters-from-justice-department 3Achieving Human Level Competitive Robot Table Tennis 48 110 8mo +1d sites.google.com/view/competitive-robot-table-tennis/home?pli=1 4Show HN: Kinematic Hand Skeleton Optimization in Jax 0 19 8mo +1h github.com/rerun-io/pi0-lerobot/tree/hand-kinematic-fitting 5Normalizing Ratings 50 49 8mo +21h hopefullyintersting.blogspot.comhttp:///2025/05/normalizing-ratings.html 6Visualizations that show how true "based on a true story" movies are 10 13 8mo +25m informationisbeautiful.net/visualizations/based-on-a-true-true-story 7Derivation and Intuition behind Poisson distribution 31 104 8mo +23h antaripasaha.notion.site/Derivation-and-Intuition-behind-Poisson-distribution-1255314a56398062bf9dd9049fb1c396 8OneText (YC W23) Is Hiring a DevOps/DBA Lead Engineer 0 1 8mo +15s 9Doom GPU Flame Graphs 30 105 8mo +1d brendangregg.com/blog/2025-05-01/doom-gpu-flame-graphs.html 10VR Design Unpacked: The secret to Beat Saber's fun 84 107 8mo +46m roadtovr.com/beat-saber-instructed-motion-until-you-fall-inside-xr-design 11Old Soviet Venus descent craft nearing Earth reentry 277 399 8mo +28m leonarddavid.com/old-soviet-venus-descent-craft-nearing-earth-reentry 12The Impossible Contradictions of Mark Twain 23 49 8mo +22m newyorker.com/magazine/2025/05/05/mark-twain-ron-chernow-book-review 13A proof of concept tool to verify estimates 21 82 8mo +8m terrytao.wordpress.com/2025/05/01/a-proof-of-concept-tool-to-verify-estimates 14Elm Test Distributions 15 37 8mo +1d martin.janiczek.cz/2025/05/01/elm-test-distributions.html 15Blocking surprising master regulator of immunity eradicates liver tumors in mice 2 17 8mo +1h med.stanford.edu/news/all-news/2025/04/epo-tumors.html 16Driverless semis have started running regular longhaul routes 343 165 8mo +23m cnn.com/2025/05/01/business/first-driverless-semis-started-regular-routes 17Show HN: I built a synthesizer based on 3D physics 121 489 8mo +3m anukari.com 18Rams is a documentary portrait of Dieter Rams (2018) 19 71 8mo +16m hustwit.com/rams 19Tortoise Mode vs. Hare Mode 2 32 8mo +1d autodidacts.io/tortoise-mode 20Show HN: Blast – Fast, multi-threaded serving engine for web browsing AI agents 63 143 8mo +2m github.com/stanford-mast/blast 21The History of Album Art 21 104 8mo +10m matthewstrom.com/writing/album-art 22When Americana doesn't mean American 77 65 8mo +16h deeprootsmag.org/2017/09/18/over-there-when-americana-doesnt-mean-american 23Building Burstables: CPU slicing with cgroups 23 129 8mo +17m ubicloud.com/blog/building-burstables-cpu-slicing-with-cgroups 24Toma (YC W24) Is Hiring Engs #3-4 (AI for Automotive) 0 1 8mo +15s ycombinator.com/companies/toma/jobs 25Anthropic Development Partner Program 8 26 8mo +1h support.anthropic.com/en/articles/11174108-about-the-development-partner-program 26Universal Antivenom May Grow Out of Man Who Let Snakes Bite Him 100s of Times 20 41 8mo +6m nytimes.com/2025/05/02/health/snakes-universal-antivenom-tim-friede.html 27Show HN: Exhibit and Site on Mechanisms for Students 6 27 8mo +7m mechanical-library.org 28Show HN: GPT-2 implemented using graphics shaders 25 225 8mo +55m github.com/nathan-barry/gpt2-webgl 29Expanding on what we missed with sycophancy 275 248 8mo +56m openai.com/index/expanding-on-sycophancy 30Why our waistlines expand in middle age: aging stem cells shift into overdrive 131 82 8mo +38m medicalxpress.com/news/2025-04-waistlines-middle-age-aging-stem.html 31Git Commands That Cover 90% of a Developer's Daily Workflow 18 28 8mo +30m jsdev.space/15-git-commands 32The language brain matters more for programming than the math brain? (2020) 437 408 8mo +31m massivesci.com/articles/programming-math-language-python-women-in-science 33Lessons from Harlem 13 39 8mo +1h theamericanscholar.org/lessons-from-harlem 34The Chromium Security Paradox 3 8 8mo +2h island.io/blog/the-chromium-security-paradox 35The un-celebrity president: Jimmy Carter shuns riches, lives modestly (2018) 49 66 8mo +32m washingtonpost.com/news/national/wp/2018/08/17/feature/the-un-celebrity-president-jimmy-carter-shuns-riches-lives-modestly-in-his-georgia-hometown 36Settling the File Structure Debate 17 24 8mo +2h muhammedsari.me/settling-the-file-structure-debate 37The Female Gaze 36 28 8mo +20m maryharrington.co.uk/p/the-female-gaze 38Grand Theft Auto VI Is Now Coming May 26, 2026 53 46 8mo +15m rockstargames.com/newswire/article/258aa538o412ok/grand-theft-auto-vi-is-now-coming-may-26-2026 39“Fewer Users” Warning Hurting Specialized and New Apps 234 392 8mo +1h support.google.com/googleplay/android-developer/thread/330114530/fewer-users-warning-hurting-specialized-and-new-apps-need-answers?hl=en 40Grand Theft Auto VI gets pushed back to May 26, 2026 21 18 8mo +1h arstechnica.com/gaming/2025/05/gta-vi-will-miss-2025-after-all-new-target-is-may-26-2026 41Autism evaluations are being canceled over fears about a national registry 5 14 8mo +37m statnews.com/2025/05/01/autism-registry-fears-hurt-diagnosis-screening-parents-cancel-autism-evaluations 42Show HN: A motherfucking app (does one thing, under 300 LOC) 28 26 8mo +17m adnjoo.github.io/motherfuckingapp 43[dead] ? 7 8mo +10m youtube.com 44Opinion: Is a split imminent? – Synadia demands NATS back from the CNCF 3 12 8mo +10m heise.de/en/opinion/Opinion-Is-a-split-imminent-Synadia-demands-NATS-back-from-the-CNCF-10366963.html 45Clair Obscur Metacritic user score 60 58 8mo +3m metacritic.com/game/clair-obscur-expedition-33/user-reviews 46Suno v4.5 272 384 8mo +33m suno.com/explore 47Corporation for Public Broadcasting Statement Regarding Executive Order 550 389 8mo +2m cpb.org/pressroom/Corporation-Public-Broadcasting-Statement-Regarding-Executive-Order-Public-Media 48Webflow makes GSAP 100% free – plus more updates 41 134 8mo +2h webflow.com/blog/gsap-becomes-free 49Converting a Git repo from tabs to spaces (2016) 102 47 8mo +26m eev.ee/blog/2016/06/04/converting-a-git-repo-from-tabs-to-spaces 50The Cannae Problem 101 160 8mo +20m joanwestenberg.com/the-cannae-problem 51Mathematician solves algebra's oldest problem using intriguing number sequences 50 51 8mo +29m phys.org/news/2025-05-mathematician-algebra-oldest-problem-intriguing.amp 52A Common Lisp jq replacement 56 154 8mo +39m world-playground-deceit.net/blog/2025/03/a-common-lisp-jq-replacement.html 53Taxes and fees not included: T-Mobile's latest price lock is nearly meaningless 60 43 8mo +10m arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/04/taxes-and-fees-not-included-t-mobiles-latest-price-lock-is-nearly-meaningless 54Crawlers impact the operations of the Wikimedia projects 65 115 8mo +18m diff.wikimedia.org/2025/04/01/how-crawlers-impact-the-operations-of-the-wikimedia-projects 55AfD classified as extreme-right by German intelligence 90 69 8mo +28m bbc.com/news/articles/cwy6zk9wkrdo 56Microsoft Announces Xbox Console Price Hike, Xbox Games to Cost $80 30 19 8mo +31m kotaku.com/microsoft-xbox-series-x-s-price-increase-may-2025-1851778615 57How to live an intellectually rich life 316 566 8mo +1h utsavmamoria.substack.com/p/how-to-live-an-intellectually-rich 58Altair at 50: Remembering the first Personal Computer 60 110 8mo +45m goto10retro.com/p/altair-at-50-remembering-the-first 59Meta's Reality Labs Has Now Lost over $60B Since 2020 114 69 8mo +35m meta.slashdot.org/story/25/05/01/206224/metas-reality-labs-has-now-lost-over-60-billion-since-2020 60Vatican Observatory 52 125 8mo +3h vaticanobservatory.org/telescopes/va 61Bundle Python with the z/OS base system 0 5 8mo +2h ibm-z-hardware-and-operating-systems.ideas.ibm.com/ideas/ZOS-I-3993 62Apple App Store guidelines remove ban on encouraging external payments in US 339 454 8mo +2h developer.apple.com/app-store/review/guidelines 63De minimis: US small parcels loophole closes pushing up Shein, Temu prices 134 93 8mo +23m bbc.com/news/articles/cwy79j2n7d4o 64Link Out for In-App Purchases 11 33 8mo +5h docs.stripe.com/mobile/digital-goods 65The Miscalculations of Covid School Closures 19 12 8mo +1h newyorker.com/books/under-review/the-miscalculations-of-covid-small-school-closures 66[dead] ? 7 8mo +8m chatgpt.com 67The Totalitarian Buddhist Who Beat SIM City (2010) 25 98 8mo +25m vice.com/en/article/the-totalitarian-buddhist-who-beat-sim-city 68Irish privacy watchdog hits TikTok with €530M fine over data transfers to China 234 357 8mo +6m apnews.com/article/tiktok-ireland-european-union-data-privacy-regulation-d386ec74becc716905d7f686d6a448e2 69The Bayeux Tapestry with knobs on: what do its 93 es tell us? 3 7 8mo +1h historyextra.com/period/medieval/bayeux-tapestry-penis-why-norman-conquest-battle-hastings-william-conqueror 70Just redesigned my personal site with a TTY-style interface 114 270 8mo +2h abdisa.me 71What I've learned from jj 127 209 8mo +1h zerowidth.com/2025/what-ive-learned-from-jj 72Break It Down: A man tries to calculate what love costs (1983) [audio] 8 17 8mo +1d thisamericanlife.org/88/numbers/act-five-1 73RustAssistant: Using LLMs to Fix Compilation Errors in Rust Code 93 141 8mo +1d microsoft.com/en-us/research/publication/rustassistant-using-llms-to-fix-compilation-errors-in-rust-code 74Show HN: OSle – A 510 bytes OS in x86 assembly 32 157 8mo +1h github.com/shikaan/osle 75New species of methane-producing archaea discovered in the human gut 28 68 8mo +1d phys.org/news/2025-04-microbiologists-species-methane-archaea-human.html 76Bloom Filters 75 233 8mo +2h eli.thegreenplace.net/2025/bloom-filters 77Owen Le Blanc: creator of the first Linux distribution 33 157 8mo +19h lwn.net/Articles/1017846 78Don't watermark your legal PDFs with purple dragons in suits 272 277 8mo +22m arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/05/dont-watermark-your-legal-pdfs-with-purple-dragons-in-suits 79Reflecting on a Year of Gamedev in Zig 116 115 8mo +2h bgthompson.codeberg.page/blog/one-year-zig-gamedev-reflections 80Zoho halts $700M semiconductor plan 54 56 8mo +6m semiconductorsinsight.com/zoho-halts-700-million-semiconductor-plan 81AI suggestions make writing more generic, Western 70 54 8mo +1d news.cornell.edu/stories/2025/04/ai-suggestions-make-writing-more-generic-western 82xAI dev leaks API key for private SpaceX, Tesla LLMs 67 240 8mo +2h krebsonsecurity.com/2025/05/xai-dev-leaks-api-key-for-private-spacex-tesla-llms 83Fast(er) regular expression engines in Ruby 6 59 8mo +3h serpapi.com/blog/faster-regular-expression-engines-in-ruby 84Chariot and Saucer 4 9 8mo +1d jewishreviewofbooks.com/american-jewry/18531/chariot-and-saucer 85Quebec refuses to reinvest in Lion Electric 94 79 8mo +12m thecanadianpressnews.ca/politics/quebec-raises-doubts-about-electrification-as-it-refuses-to-reinvest-in-lion-electric/article_db74eea8-2ec8-5d06-b965-7ea97dd99751.html 86USPS law enforcement assists 'mass deportation' effort, sources and records show 10 38 8mo +8m washingtonpost.com/business/2025/04/29/usps-immigration-trump-deportations 87Liverpool's title win has completed a mysterious Fibonacci sequence 55 112 8mo +1d bbc.com/future/article/20250425-the-fibonacci-sequence-hidden-in-liverpool-fcs-premier-league-football-title 88Chrome Origin Trial: Device Bound Session Credentials 80 84 8mo +11m developer.chrome.com/blog/dbsc-origin-trial 89Show HN: CapOS – A responsibility-gated OS stack with signed process execution 4 4 8mo +12m zenodo.org/communities/xtothepowerofinfinity/records 90The Anti-Capitalist Case for Standards 55 27 8mo +31m thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/the-anti-capitalist-case-for-standards 91Third party cookies must be removed 227 447 8mo +49m w3ctag.github.io/web-without-3p-cookies 92Offline-First with CouchDB and PouchDB in 2025 22 66 8mo +1d neighbourhood.ie/blog/2025/03/26/offline-first-with-couchdb-and-pouchdb-in-2025 93Mike Waltz Accidentally Reveals App Govt Uses to Archive Signal Messages 125 307 8mo +7m 404media.co/mike-waltz-accidentally-reveals-obscure-app-the-government-is-using-to-archive-signal-messages 94Felix86: Run x86-64 programs on RISC-V Linux 31 125 8mo +48m felix86.com 95Building Private Processing for AI Tools on WhatsApp 17 26 8mo +1d engineering.fb.com/2025/04/29/security/whatsapp-private-processing-ai-tools 96 More... 2025.05.01