HckrNews (First visit) All HN frontpage stories in chronological order Show HN: I built a 7-day calendar app – no months or years, just the next 7 days 31 45 8mo +45m weeklong.life 1Analyzing Modern Nvidia GPU Cores 36 175 8mo +9m arxiv.org/abs/2503.20481 2How Kim Jong Il Kidnapped a Director, Made a Cult Hit Godzilla Knockoff (2015) 35 73 8mo +2d vanityfair.com/hollywood/2015/04/pulgasari-north-korea-cult-hit 3A militarized conspiracy theorist group believes radars are 'weather weapons' 17 26 8mo +15m cnn.com/2025/05/05/weather/weather-weapons-nws-radar-attack 4Why it is (nearly) impossible that we live in a simulation 81 26 8mo +56m arxiv.org/abs/2504.08461 5Air traffic controllers couldn't see or talk to planes in Newark failure 15 37 8mo +2m cnbc.com/2025/05/05/air-traffic-controllers-newark-airport-delays.html 6“An independent journalist” who won't remain nameless 99 258 8mo +2d thehandbasket.co/p/independent-journalism-legacy-media-credit 72025 Pulitzer Prizes 6 36 8mo +14m pulitzer.org/prize-winners-by-year/2025 8Dreariness Index (2015) 30 30 8mo +1h us-climate.blogspot.comhttp:///2015/03/dreary-weather.html 9[dead] ? 6 8mo +18m peaked.substack.com 10Automatically add missing "async/await" keywords to your TypeScript code 7 7 8mo +2d github.com/stanNthe5/typescript-autoawait 11Replacing Kubernetes with systemd (2024) 364 429 8mo +28m blog.yaakov.online/replacing-kubernetes-with-systemd 12Databricks in talks to acquire startup Neon for about $1B 164 199 8mo +51m upstartsmedia.com/p/scoop-databricks-talks-to-acquire-neon 13Flies in the evidence room: Inside Belgium's rotting Justice Palace 5 28 8mo +2d ft.com/content/0b72735a-b587-4dd3-a1ac-2805c89f5d2f 14Show HN: Real-time AI Voice Chat at ~500ms Latency 225 506 8mo +2m github.com/KoljaB/RealtimeVoiceChat 15Possibly a Serious Possibility 121 253 8mo +23m kucharski.substack.com/p/possibly-a-serious-possibility 16The Uncanny Mirror: AI, Self-Doubt, and the Limits of Reflection 22 23 8mo +3d lucidnonsense.net/p/the-uncanny-mirror 17[dead] ? 7 8mo +7m wsj.com 18Kate and Python Language Server 11 77 8mo +2d akselmo.dev/posts/kate-python-lsp 19Show HN: Tkintergalactic - Declarative Tcl/Tk UI Library for Python 10 86 8mo +25m github.com/leontrolski/tkintergalactic 20Distributed server for social and realtime games and apps 2 30 8mo +1h github.com/heroiclabs/nakama 21Evolving OpenAI's Structure 666 595 8mo +4m openai.com/index/evolving-our-structure 22The Creative Power of Constraints 9 31 8mo +14m arun.is/blog/creative-power-constraints 23You can now directly sync Postgres with Redis 11 21 8mo +2d github.com/redfly-ai-org/redfly.ai 24As an experienced LLM user, I don't use generative LLMs often 205 380 8mo +5m minimaxir.com/2025/05/llm-use 25Show HN: Journelly for iOS: like tweeting but for your eyes only (in plain text) 61 80 8mo +1d xenodium.com/journelly-like-tweeting-but-for-your-eyes-only 26Show HN: TextQuery – Query CSV, JSON, XLSX Files with SQL 57 156 8mo +3m textquery.app 27You can't git clone a team 110 114 8mo +2h virtualize.sh/blog/you-cant-git-clone-a-team 28Instant (YC S22) Is Hiring a Founding TypeScript Engineer 0 1 8mo +31s instantdb.com/hiring/ts-hacker 29Dimension 126 Contains Twisted Shapes, Mathematicians Prove 82 142 8mo +1h quantamagazine.org/dimension-126-contains-strangely-twisted-shapes-mathematicians-prove-20250505 30Tuning Timbre Spectrum Scale 4 39 8mo +5m sethares.engr.wisc.edu/ttss.html 31How are cyber criminals rolling in 2025? 91 261 8mo +1h vin01.github.io/piptagole/cybcecrime/security/cybersecurity/2025/05/05/state-cyber-security.html 32Emergent Misalignment: Narrow Finetuning Can Produce Broadly Misaligned LLMs 29 54 8mo +3d emergent-misalignment.com 33Show HN: Klavis AI – Open-source MCP integration for AI applications 50 77 8mo +24m github.com/Klavis-AI/klavis 34No Instagram, no privacy 108 126 8mo +28m blog.wouterjanleys.com/blog/no-instagram-no-privacy 35FastAPI Cloud: deploying FastAPI apps with just a single command 5 16 8mo +2m fastapicloud.com/blog/fastapi-cloud-by-the-same-team-behind-fastapi 36The Beauty of Having a Pi-Hole (2024) 201 316 8mo +3h den.dev/blog/pihole 37Digitization Complete for World-Renowned Franco Novacco Map Collection 1 26 8mo +1d newberry.org/news/digitization-complete-for-world-renowned-franco-novacco-map-collection 38Show HN: VectorVFS, your filesystem as a vector database 136 266 8mo +3m vectorvfs.readthedocs.io/en/latest 39Geometrically understanding calculus of inverse functions (2023) 5 126 8mo +4m tobylam.xyz/2023/11/27/inverse-functions-legendre-part-1 40[dead] ? 7 8mo +4m medicalxpress.com 41Cursor hits $9B valuation 181 111 8mo +32m ft.com/content/a7b34d53-a844-4e69-a55c-b9dee9a97dd2 42A Tektronix TDS 684B Oscilloscope Uses CCD Analog Memory 64 108 8mo +6m tomverbeure.github.io/2025/05/04/TDS684B-CCD-Memory.html 43The Death of Daydreaming 261 664 8mo +2h afterbabel.com/p/on-the-death-of-daydreaming 44History of “Adventure” for the Atari 2600 24 107 8mo +37m atariarchive.org/blog/adventure-march-1980 45Circuitpainter: Create PCBs using a simplfiied graphics language 10 60 8mo +2d github.com/Blinkinlabs/circuitpainter 46Show HN: Bracket – selfhosted tournament system 35 151 8mo +1m github.com/evroon/bracket 47SpaceX pushed "sniper" theory with the feds 51 99 8mo +38m arstechnica.com/space/2025/05/spacex-pushed-sniper-theory-with-the-feds-far-more-than-is-publicly-known 48[dead] ? 20 8mo +4m theguardian.com 49I decided to pay off a school’s lunch debt 847 568 8mo +1d huffpost.com/entry/utah-school-lunch-debt-relief-free-student-meals_n_681258fbe4b03207b5ba49fa 50Judge said Meta illegally used books to build its AI 335 395 8mo +2h wired.com/story/meta-lawsuit-copyright-hearing-artificial-intelligence 51Jiga (YC W21) Is Hiring Engineers 0 1 8mo +4s workatastartup.com/companies/jiga 52V.S. Naipaul: The Grief and the Glory 10 66 8mo +13h granta.com/vs-naipaul-the-grief-and-the-glory 53DNSanity: Quickly validate DNS servers at scale 0 18 8mo +4h github.com/nil0x42/dnsanity 54Internet usage pattern during power outage in Spain and Portugal 107 108 8mo +11m blog.akamai-mpulse.com/blog/2025-05-03-iberian-power-outage 55How we saved time (and money) on continuous integration 0 10 8mo +22m datawrapper.de/blog/ci-workflow-efficiency-improvements 56Gandi March 9, 2025 incident postmortem 51 41 8mo +1h news.gandi.net/en/2025/03/gandi-incident-on-march-9-2025 57Ever wondered why Gmail search fails to find text you're sure is present? 12 26 8mo +10m emaildiscussions.com/showthread.php?p=639860#post639860 58The Design of Compact Elastic Binary Trees (Cebtree) 0 34 8mo +3h wtarreau.blogspot.comhttp:///2025/03/on-design-of-compact-elastic-binary.html 59Fuzzy images are our first look at Amazon's super-secret satellites 6 36 8mo +2d arstechnica.com/space/2025/05/we-finally-know-a-little-more-about-amazons-super-secret-satellites 60Management Habits Burning Out Your Best Engineers 19 18 8mo +7m techleaderslaunchpad.com/resources/blog/9-management-habits-quietly-burning-out-your-best-engineers 61Product Purgatory: When they love it but still don't buy 2 20 8mo +45m longform.asmartbear.com/purgatory 62AWS Built a Security Tool. It Introduced a Security Risk 80 207 8mo +4m token.security/blog/aws-built-a-security-tool-it-introduced-a-security-risk 63The vocal effects of Daft Punk 111 425 8mo +51m bjango.com/articles/daftpunkvocaleffects 64Effects of repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation on sleep bruxism 5 53 8mo +18m pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC4822180 65TLA+ creator Leslie Lamport: 'Programmers need abstractions' 0 46 8mo +2d thenewstack.io/tla-creator-leslie-lamport-programmers-need-abstractions 66Show HN: CodeCafé – A real-time collaborative code editor in the browser 11 77 8mo +2h github.com/mrktsm/codecafe 67Trump announces 100% tariffs on movies ‘produced in foreign lands’ 485 211 8mo +52m theguardian.com/us-news/2025/may/04/trump-tariffs-foreign-movies 68Ghost in the machine? Legend of the 'haunted' N64 video game cartridge 14 77 8mo +1d bbc.com/future/article/20250501-the-haunted-video-game-that-traumatised-the-web 69EU to ban anonymous crypto accounts and privacy coins by 2027 123 92 8mo +1h cointelegraph.com/news/eu-crypto-ban-anonymous-privacy-tokens-2027 70A 1903 Proposal to Preserve the Dead in Glass Cubes 26 34 8mo +2d hyperallergic.com/406959/preserving-the-dead-in-glass 71Towards the Cutest Neural Network 24 120 8mo +3d kevinlynagh.com/towards-the-cutest-neural-network 72Space Invaders on your wrist: the glory years of Casio video game watches 8 40 8mo +2d theguardian.com/games/2025/may/02/space-invaders-casio-video-game-watches 73Apple Shortcuts is falling into "the automation gap" 79 108 8mo +7m sixcolors.com/link/2025/03/shortcuts-is-falling-into-the-automation-gap 74Visualising home sun exposure with Rhino 4 17 8mo +3d ostwilkens.se/blog/sun-coverage 75Modern LaTeX 208 243 8mo +28m github.com/mrkline/modern-latex 76Semantic unit testing: test code without executing it 70 75 8mo +1d alexmolas.com/2025/04/09/semantic-unit-testing.html 77AI Meets WinDBG 59 285 8mo +6m svnscha.de/posts/ai-meets-windbg 78Unparalleled Misalignments 31 145 8mo +3h rickiheicklen.com/unparalleled-misalignments.html 79Driving Compilers (2023) 28 92 8mo +2h fabiensanglard.net/dc/index.php 80Mines: A simple mine puzzle game inspired by classic minesweeper 13 22 8mo +3d stefan-oltmann.de/mines 81Urtext: The Python plaintext library for people who've tried everything else 54 100 8mo +3d urtext.co 82Show HN: My AI Native Resume 194 296 8mo +49m ai.jakegaylor.com 83The Once and Future Genius 0 9 8mo +1d literaryreview.co.uk/the-once-future-genius 84Matrix-vector multiplication implemented in off-the-shelf DRAM for Low-Bit LLMs 53 223 8mo +2h arxiv.org/abs/2503.23817 85I turned a 40 year old Apple Mouse into a speech to text button 52 120 8mo +2d workshop.cjpais.com/projects/handy-m0100 86Censoring Social Media 7 29 8mo +2h tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/2025/04/28/Censoring-Social-Media 87A Hyper-Catalan Series Solution to Polynomial Equations, and the Geode 10 26 8mo +2d tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00029890.2025.2460966#d1e523 88People are losing loved ones to AI-fueled spiritual fantasies 160 176 8mo +24m rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/ai-spiritual-delusions-destroying-human-relationships-1235330175 89On Not Carrying a Camera – Cultivating memories instead of snapshots 313 293 8mo +39m hedgehogreview.com/issues/after-neoliberalism/articles/on-not-carrying-a-camera 90[dead] ? 17 8mo +6m micahflee.com 91 More... 2025.05.04