HckrNews (First visit) All HN frontpage stories in chronological order An appeal to companies doing AI 56 79 8mo +3m soatok.blog/2025/05/04/tech-companies-apparently-do-not-understand-why-we-dislike-ai 1Reconstructing dopamine's link to reward (2024) 3 16 8mo +2d thetransmitter.org/dopamine/reconstructing-dopamines-link-to-reward 2An Enterprise-Level Retrieval-Augmented Generation System 1 6 8mo +17m comfyai.app/article/llm-applications/enterprise-level-rag-hands-on-practice-II 3Helmdar: 3D Scanning Brooklyn on Rollerblades 25 140 8mo +31m owentrueblood.com/blog/2025/05/04/helmdar 4Cyborg cicadas play Pachelbel's Canon 27 44 8mo +1d arstechnica.com/science/2025/05/cyborg-cicadas-play-pachelbels-canon 5Tech hiring slows, unemployment rises, jobs report shows 6 25 8mo +21m computerworld.com/article/3976643/tech-hiring-slows-unemployment-rises-jobs-report-shows.html 6Graceful Shutdown in Go: Practical Patterns 59 238 8mo +53m victoriametrics.com/blog/go-graceful-shutdown/index.html 7Show HN: Driverless print server for legacy printers, profit goes to open-source 38 182 8mo +4h printserver.ink 8Ask HN: Hackathons feel fake now 125 198 8mo +1h 9Thunderscope update: My take: Why open source is better 27 116 8mo +3d crowdsupply.com/eevengers/thunderscope/updates/revving-up-for-production 10The New Control Society 23 29 8mo +46m thenewatlantis.com/publications/the-new-control-society 11Why Archers Didn't Volley Fire 307 496 8mo +1d acoup.blog/2025/05/02/collections-why-archers-didnt-volley-fire 12Technical analysis of the Signal clone used by Trump officials 320 780 8mo +1d micahflee.com/tm-sgnl-the-obscure-unofficial-signal-app-mike-waltz-uses-to-text-with-trump-officials 13KaiPod Learning (YC S21) Is Hiring VP of Engineering 0 1 8mo +34s ycombinator.com/companies/kaipod-learning/jobs/Bs3H9uB-vp-of-engineering 14A Trade Breakdown 6 12 8mo +44m lynalden.com/may-2025-newsletter 15Typed Lisp, a Primer 64 135 8mo +3h alhassy.com/TypedLisp.html 16The Merovingians: 'Do-Nothing Kings'? 2 10 8mo +1d historytoday.com/archive/feature/merovingians-do-nothing-kings 17Why are there no thunderstorms in the UK? 28 18 8mo +35m onepotscience.com/why-are-there-no-thunderstorms-in-the-uk 18'Dangerous nonsense': AI-authored books about ADHD for sale on Amazon 24 55 8mo +45m theguardian.com/technology/2025/may/04/dangerous-nonsense-ai-authored-books-about-adhd-for-sale-on-amazon 19LLMs as Unbiased Oracles 26 34 8mo +1h jazzberry.ai/blog/test-generation-as-the-foundation 20NASA Proposal Would Shift Agency's Focus Away from Space Science 6 25 8mo +15m nytimes.com/2025/05/02/us/politics/trump-budget-nasa-cuts.html 21The complicated business of electing a Doge 46 89 8mo +24m theballotboy.com/electing-the-doge 22I'd rather read the prompt 831 1369 8mo +10m claytonwramsey.com/blog/prompt 23Reading Zanzibar 2 27 8mo +1d macwright.com/2025/05/02/reading-zanzibar 24How Riot Games is fighting the war against video game hackers 148 59 8mo +35m techcrunch.com/2025/05/03/how-riot-games-is-fighting-the-war-against-video-game-hackers 25Orders of Infinity 15 79 8mo +1h terrytao.wordpress.com/2025/05/04/orders-of-infinity 26AI code is legacy code? 165 164 8mo +1h text-incubation.com/AI+code+is+legacy+code+from+day+one 27Distributed Continuous GPU Profiling 2 12 8mo +2d zymtrace.com/article/zero-friction-gpu-profiler 28Critical Program Reading (1975) [video] 6 33 8mo +26m youtube.com/watch?v=7hdJQkn8rtA 29Regrets: Actors who sold AI avatars stuck in Black Mirror-esque dystopia 2 11 8mo +5m arstechnica.com/ai/2025/04/regrets-actors-who-sold-ai-avatars-stuck-in-black-mirror-esque-dystopia 30The World Of dBASE (1984) [video] 0 6 8mo +10m youtube.com/watch?v=bYU3CQomE5M 31Design for 3D-Printing 196 792 8mo +20m blog.rahix.de/design-for-3d-printing 32Minimal Linux Bootloader (2018) 26 87 8mo +1h raw.githubusercontent.com/Stefan20162016/linux-insides-code/master/bootloader.asm 33Feather: A Rust web framework that does not use async 47 42 8mo +1h github.com/BersisSe/feather 34Load-Store Conflicts 5 114 8mo +33m zeux.io/2025/05/03/load-store-conflicts 35The Unofficial Ruby Usage Guide 1 16 8mo +2d caliban.org/ruby/rubyguide.shtml 36Hightouch (YC S19) Is Hiring 0 1 8mo +16s ycombinator.com/companies/hightouch/jobs/kIoY0yH-machine-learning-engineer-ai-decisioning 37The Debian testing/trixie release on amd64 is now reproducible for over 95% 3 35 8mo +1h micronews.debian.org/2025/1746302888.html 38Dummy's Guide to Modern LLM Sampling 36 224 8mo +24m rentry.co/samplers 39[dead] ? 14 8mo +39m sustainability-times.com 40Sanctum || A pq-safe and sandboxed VPN daemon 4 28 8mo +2d github.com/jorisvink/sanctum 41Show HN: EZ-TRAK Satellite Hand Tracking Suite 11 40 8mo +5m github.com/benb0jangles/EzTrak 42Reverse-Engineering Cluely, the Invisible Cheating App 3 8 8mo +21m prathit.vercel.app/blog/reverse-engineering-cluely 43Why Flatpak apps use so much disk space on Linux 144 77 8mo +41m ostechnix.com/why-flatpak-apps-use-so-much-disk-space 44Nevermind, an album on major chords 105 120 8mo +2h farina00.github.io/essays/nevermind 45Show HN: MP3 File Editor for Bulk Processing 17 28 8mo +16h cjmapp.net 46The Speed of VITs and CNNs 23 72 8mo +2d lucasb.eyer.be/articles/vit_cnn_speed.html 47Tippy Coco: A Free, Open-Source Game Inspired by Slime Volleyball 16 70 8mo +3h tippycoco.com 48El Paso Is Having Its Dustiest Year Since the Actual Dust Bowl 2 14 8mo +24m gizmodo.com/el-paso-is-having-its-dustiest-year-since-the-actual-dust-bowl-2000596987 49Codd's Cellular Automaton 4 21 8mo +3d en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Codd%27s_cellular_automaton 50A Texan who built an empire of ecstasy 151 142 8mo +39m texasmonthly.com/news-politics/ecstasy-starck-club-drugs-eighties-dallas 51Woman missing for more than 60 years found 'alive and well' 5 13 8mo +21m news.sky.com/story/woman-missing-for-more-than-60-years-found-alive-and-well-13361368 52TScale – Distributed training on consumer GPUs 27 129 8mo +25m github.com/Foreseerr/TScale 53AI-driven robot installs nearly 10k solar modules in Australia 8 29 8mo +19m renewablesnow.com/news/ai-driven-robot-installs-nearly-10-000-solar-modules-in-australia-1274232 54In kids, EEG monitoring of consciousness safely reduces anesthetic use 85 139 8mo +3d news.mit.edu/2025/kids-eeg-monitoring-consciousness-safely-reduces-anesthetic-use-0429 55'Bizarro World' (2007) 9 65 8mo +18m archive.boston.com/news/globe/magazine/articles/2007/08/19/bizarro_world 56Switch to a tiling-window-manager TODAY 17 15 8mo +2h github.com/uint23/sxwm 57Lilith and Modula-2 10 65 8mo +45m astrobe.com/Modula2 58Evidence of controversial Planet 9 uncovered in sky surveys taken 23 years apart 239 240 8mo +1d space.com/astronomy/solar-system/evidence-of-controversial-planet-9-uncovered-in-sky-surveys-taken-23-years-apart 59An Alabama landline that keeps ringing 103 332 8mo +5m oxfordamerican.org/oa-now/the-alabama-landline-that-keeps-ringing 60A visual feast of galaxies, from infrared to X-ray 3 78 8mo +1d esa.int/ESA_Multimedia/Images/2025/04/A_visual_feast_of_galaxies_from_infrared_to_X-ray 61[dead] ? 7 8mo +1h voxdazz.com 62Oberon Pi 39 205 8mo +1h pascal.hansotten.comhttp:///niklaus-wirth/project-oberon/oberon-pi 63Anatomy of a 'zombie' volcano: Investigating the cause of unrest inside Uturuncu 2 6 8mo +3d sciencedaily.com/releases/2025/04/250428220444.htm 64Show HN: I taught AI to commentate Pong in real time 52 203 8mo +1d github.com/pncnmnp/xpong 65Switch bouncing reference traces for a variety of different switches 23 51 8mo +1h github.com/gsuberland/switch_bouncing 66Britain's Latest True Crime Thriller: Who Killed the Sycamore Tree? 43 23 8mo +1d wsj.com/world/uk/sycamore-gap-tree-cut-down-criminal-investigation-9b52cf3a 67Predictions from the METR AI scaling graph are based on a flawed premise 25 49 8mo +16m garymarcus.substack.com/p/the-latest-ai-scaling-graph-and-why 68Elvish – Scripting language and interactive shell 57 79 8mo +3d github.com/elves/elvish 69Single day Firebase bill for $100k 14 23 8mo +26m serverlesshorrors.com/all/firebase-100k 70Show HN: Open-source sound effects and react library to spice up your website 10 21 8mo +3d reactsounds.com 71Jewels linked to Buddha remains go to auction, sparking ethical debate 7 19 8mo +34m bbc.com/news/articles/ckg2elg3zxyo 72Brian Eno's Theory of Democracy 235 173 8mo +23m programmablemutter.com/p/brian-enos-theory-of-democracy 73I built a pixel art editor after playing Octopath Traveler II 47 113 8mo +2d 74ChatGPT as Economics Tutor: Capabilities and Limitations 0 13 8mo +2h econpapers.repec.orgEconPapers.repec.org/paper/briuobdis/25_2f786.htm 75[dead] ? 11 8mo +28m en.wikipedia.org 76DotnetSnes: Library allowing to use C# to create SNES ROMs 17 67 8mo +1d github.com/KallDrexx/DotnetSnes 77A Survey of AI Agent Protocols 62 91 8mo +27m arxiv.org/abs/2504.16736 78A simple Common Lisp web app 21 62 8mo +3d scotto.me/blog/a-simple-common-lisp-web-app 79A PostgreSQL planner semi-join gotcha with CTE, LIMIT, and RETURNING 50 57 8mo +1h shayon.dev/post/2025/119/a-postgresql-planner-gotcha-with-ctes-delete-and-limit 80Programmers Guide to the AMIBIOS (1993) [pdf] 18 68 8mo +22m bitsavers.orghttp:///pdf/americanMegatrends/Programmers_Guide_to_the_AMIBIOS_1993.pdf 81What went wrong with wireless USB 210 328 8mo +9m oldvcr.blogspot.comhttp:///2025/05/what-went-wrong-with-wireless-usb.html 82The economic impact of Oman's rose season 0 15 8mo +1d omanobserver.om/article/1153780/magazine/the-correspondent-the-economic-impact-of-omans-rose-season 83Pascal for Small Machines 24 116 8mo +37m pascal.hansotten.comhttp:// 84MCP Is Mostly Bullshit 5 10 8mo +5m medium.com/thoughts-on-machine-learning/mcp-is-mostly-bullshit-a42e59a09b04 85Vygotsky's Zone of Proximal Development 10 15 8mo +59m simplypsychology.org/zone-of-proximal-development.html 86Metagenomics test saves woman's sight after mystery infection 79 204 8mo +3d bbc.co.uk/news/articles/czx45vze0vyo 87[dead] ? 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