HckrNews (First visit) All HN frontpage stories in chronological order Google Gemini has the worst LLM API 174 194 8mo +1h venki.dev/notes/google-gemini-is-bad 1Why I Am Not Going to Buy a Computer (1987) [pdf] 143 192 8mo +1h classes.matthewjbrown.net/teaching-files/philtech/berry-computer.pdf 2Gorgeous-GRUB: collection of decent community-made GRUB themes 122 438 8mo +44m github.com/Jacksaur/Gorgeous-GRUB 3Ensure public interface reliability: Tracking API compatibility for Android 1 9 8mo +3d revenuecat.com/blog/engineering/binary-compatability 4When flat rate movers won't answer your calls 308 389 8mo +2h aphyr.com/posts/381-when-flat-rate-movers-wont-answer-your-calls 5FAA offering more incentives as air traffic controller shortage worsens 118 78 8mo +10m ktla.com/news/travel/faa-offering-more-incentives-as-air-traffic-controller-shortage-worsens 6The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Multiple Dispatch in Julia (2019) 3 22 8mo +1h youtube.com/watch?v=kc9HwsxE1OY 7Numerical Linear Algebra Class in Julia TUM 8 142 8mo +1h venkovic.github.io/NLA-for-CS-and-IE.html 8Tell HN: TIL about Not By AI, A Badge you can add if your work is "human made" 8 14 8mo +1h notbyai.fyi 9Creating the Commodore 64: The Engineers' Story 7 93 8mo +3d spectrum.ieee.org/commodore-64 10Why do econ journalists keep making this basic mistake? 11 33 8mo +47m noahpinion.blog/p/why-do-econ-journalists-keep-making 11Understanding-j: An introduction to the J programming language that gets to the 19 57 8mo +35m github.com/bugsbugsbux/understanding-j 12Legendary Bose Magic Carpet Suspension Is Finally Going Global 179 268 8mo +3d thedrive.com/news/legendary-bose-magic-carpet-suspension-is-finally-going-global 13Helpcare AI (YC F24) Is Hiring 0 1 8mo +7s docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScpzOyP_mk3muEpbKrnW8UTZB_yP5SJwjbeT8_6A6fhdvpJCg/viewform?usp=preview 14DuckDB is probably the most important geospatial software of the last decade 157 477 8mo +1h dbreunig.com/2025/05/03/duckdb-is-the-most-impactful-geospatial-software-in-a-decade.html 15You sent the message, but did you write it? 70 70 8mo +40m davidduncan.substack.com/p/you-sent-the-message-but-did-you 16Ghosts and Dolls 7 14 8mo +1d thelampmagazine.com/issues/issue-27/ghosts-and-dolls 17Ask HN: Anyone else roll eyes at startups that went from "X" to "AI-powered X"? 49 65 8mo +14m 18Federal Court Halts Dismantling of Federal Library Agency in ALA Lawsuit 0 81 8mo +7m ala.org/news/2025/05/federal-court-halts-dismantling-federal-library-agency-ala-lawsuit 19Spain-Portugal blackouts: what happened 59 56 8mo +21m theconversation.com/spain-portugal-blackouts-what-actually-happened-and-what-can-iberia-and-europe-learn-from-it-255666 20We fell out of love with Next.js and back in love with Ruby on Rails 489 500 8mo +51m hardcover.app/blog/part-1-how-we-fell-out-of-love-with-next-js-and-back-in-love-with-ruby-on-rails-inertia-js 21Lessons from Building a Translator App That Beats Google Translate and DeepL 36 70 8mo +3d dingyu.me/blog/lessons-translator-app-beats-google-translate-deepl 22Show HN: Free, in-browser PDF editor 165 754 8mo +49m breezepdf.com 23Deadly Screwworm Parasite's Comeback Threatens Texas Cattle, US Beef Supply 178 127 8mo +15m bloomberg.comhttp://www./news/features/2025-05-02/deadly-screwworm-parasite-s-comeback-threatens-texas-cattle-us-beef-supply 24MathML with Pandoc 9 56 8mo +1h leancrew.com/all-this/2025/05/mathml-with-pandoc 25RethinkDNS Resolver That Deploys to CF Workers, Deno Deploy, Fastly, Fly.io 19 103 8mo +30m github.com/serverless-dns/serverless-dns 26Buffett to step down following six-decade run atop Berkshire 401 446 8mo +6m bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-05-03/warren-buffett-to-step-down-from-berkshire-hathaway-at-year-end 27Some thoughts on how control over web content works 9 22 8mo +1d rachelbythebay.com/w/2025/05/01/content 28Understanding transaction visibility in PostgreSQL clusters with read replicas 1 20 8mo +21m aws.amazon.com/blogs/database/understanding-transaction-visibility-in-postgresql-clusters-with-read-replicas 29Burning Mao 57 63 8mo +6m granta.com/burning-mao 30[dead] ? 5 8mo +4m nytimes.com 31The Craft 001: A conversation about craft, code, and freedom with Neal Agarwal 1 45 8mo +18h workingtheorys.com/p/the-craft-neal-agarwal 32Stellar Sleep (YC S23) is hiring a product engineer in SF 0 1 8mo +16s ycombinator.com/companies/stellar-sleep/jobs/Yb9IzAW-founding-product-engineer 33Why I ever wrote Clojure 50 89 8mo +2h thesoftwarephilosopher.com/blog/2025-05-03-why-i-ever-wrote-clojure.html 34Bethesda Thinks Fan Remaster of Oblivion Is 'Very Special' and Supports It 80 96 8mo +1h kotaku.com/bethesda-oblivion-remastered-skyblivion-mod-support-1851778773 35Vuntra City 15 37 8mo +3h vuntracity.com 36How LWN is faring in 2025 23 132 8mo +7m lwn.net/Articles/1019217 37Show HN: I made a toast that shows what visitors are doing in real-time 28 9 8mo +1d proofybubble.com 38Vibe Coding Is Overrated 87 45 8mo +2h transitions.substack.com/p/vibe-coding-is-overrated 39QModem 4.51 Source Code 74 211 8mo +32m github.com/AaronFriel/qmodem-4.51 40Where do scientists think this is all going? 57 39 8mo +14m quantamagazine.org/where-do-scientists-think-this-is-all-going-20250430 41Run LLMs on Apple Neural Engine (ANE) 121 279 8mo +28m github.com/Anemll/Anemll 42Censorship concerns rise over Texas bill; Abilene bookstore pushes back 48 68 8mo +9m bigcountryhomepage.com/news/censorship-concerns-rise-over-texas-bill-abilene-bookstore-pushes-back 43The US has approved CRISPR pigs for food 155 139 8mo +44m technologyreview.com/2025/05/02/1116059/the-us-approves-crispr-pigs-for-food 44'I found your dad': The mystery of a missing climber 70 143 8mo +1d espn.com/olympics/story/_/id/44690603/bill-stampfl-missing-climber-peru-huascaran 45A memory of the nineteen nineties (1997) 8 49 8mo +23m web.archive.org/web/20100329052253/https://www.theatlantic.com/past/docs/issues/97nov/teller.htm 46Google can train search AI with web content even with opt-out 13 30 8mo +17m bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-05-03/google-can-train-search-ai-with-web-content-even-after-opt-out 47Why I stopped angel investing after 15 years, and what I'm doing instead 193 253 8mo +1h halletecco.substack.com/p/why-i-stopped-angel-investing-after 48N8n – Flexible AI workflow automation for technical teams 95 190 8mo +11m n8n.io 49Closures in Tcl 32 82 8mo +1h world-playground-deceit.net/blog/2024/10/tcl-closures.html 50Show HN: Pipask – safer pip without compromising convenience 37 52 8mo +42m github.com/feynmanix/pipask 51Why can't HTML alone do includes? 350 384 8mo +1h frontendmasters.com/blog/seeking-an-answer-why-cant-html-alone-do-includes 52The unusual mathematics that gives rose petals their shape 9 20 8mo +1d nature.com/articles/d41586-025-01394-4 53Computational Limit of Life May Be Billion Times Higher Than Assumed 14 22 8mo +26m popularmechanics.com/science/a64612958/computation-limit-biology 54Time saved by AI offset by new work created, study suggests 434 435 8mo +24m arstechnica.com/ai/2025/05/time-saved-by-ai-offset-by-new-work-created-study-suggests 55What New Orleans Taught Me 55 79 8mo +1d commonedge.org/what-new-orleans-taught-me 56Show HN: Use Third Party LLM API in JetBrains AI Assistant 39 99 8mo +1h github.com/Stream29/ProxyAsLocalModel 57Speedrunning and Modding the Incredibles: Rise of the Underminer 7 77 8mo +1h farlow.dev/2025/05/02/rotu 58PScientists reveal how bats learn to identify which prey is safe to eat 6 25 8mo +1d phys.org/news/2025-04-palatable-poisonous-scientists-reveal-prey.html 59Two-phase chip cooling with manifold-capillary structures enables 10⁵ COP 10 22 8mo +1d sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2666386425001195 60'Unparalleled' snake antivenom made from man bitten 200 times 5 34 8mo +50m bbc.com/news/articles/cr5d0l7el36o 61Minimum Viable Blog 166 356 8mo +37m ostwilkens.se/blog/setting-up-blog 62We know a little more about Amazon's satellites 111 110 8mo +3m arstechnica.com/space/2025/05/we-finally-know-a-little-more-about-amazons-super-secret-satellites 63The Design Evolution of Mailboxes 2 13 8mo +1d core77.com/posts/136597/The-Design-Evolution-of-Mailboxes 64The future of solar doesn't track the sun 140 152 8mo +1d terraformindustries.wordpress.com/2025/04/29/the-future-of-solar-doesnt-track-the-sun 65Accountability Sinks 387 605 8mo +51m 250bpm.substack.com/p/accountability-sinks 66The number of new apartments is at a 50-year high, but states expect a slowdown 86 38 8mo +25m oregoncapitalchronicle.com/2025/05/02/the-number-of-new-apartments-is-at-a-50-year-high-but-states-expect-a-slowdown 67Open-source AI platform for ear-based sensing applications 14 60 8mo +1d open-earable.teco.edu 68The Algebra of Patterns (Extended Version) 1 23 8mo +2h arxiv.org/abs/2504.18920 69London's National Gallery buys mysterious altarpiece for $20m 62 59 8mo +1d theartnewspaper.com/2025/05/01/national-gallery-buys-mysterious-altarpiece-for-20m 70The end of compounded GLP-1 drugs leaves many patients in a ‘lose-lose’ position 64 38 8mo +1d statnews.com/2025/04/29/compounded-glp-1-drugs-patients-seek-semaglutide-alternatives-wegovy-zepbound-mounjaro 71Creating Bluey: Tales from the Art Director - Chapter 3 1 10 8mo +1h substack.com/home/post/p-160238071 72Connomore64: Cycle exact emulation of the C64 using parallel microcontrollers 30 200 8mo +5m github.com/c1570/Connomore64 73Depictions of the Milky Way found in ancient Egyptian imagery 42 97 8mo +1d phys.org/news/2025-04-depictions-milky-ancient-egyptian-imagery.html 74Creating Bluey: Tales from the Art Director 102 246 8mo +5d substack.com/home/post/p-160039885 75I put sheet music into smart glasses [video] 65 192 8mo +1h youtube.com/watch?v=j36u2i7PKKE 76Exchange Fund Investor Defers $388K Taxes, Comes Out $278K Ahead Amid Volatility 4 11 8mo +3h usecache.com/companion/erics-journey-how-cache-helped-protect-wealth-as-the-market-turned 77Why Is the Kiwi's Egg So Big? 50 76 8mo +1d audubon.org/magazine/why-kiwis-egg-so-big 78ePub-utils: A Python library and CLI tool for inspecting ePub from the terminal 9 113 8mo +2h github.com/ernestofgonzalez/epub-utils 79You could just choose optimism 99 143 8mo +1d quarter--mile.com/You-Could-Just-Choose-Optimism 80Autonomous trucks in Texas, no safety driver 2 42 8mo +1d axios.com/2025/05/01/autonomous-vehicles-trucks-aurora-texas-pastries 81 More... 2025.05.02