HckrNews (First visit) All HN frontpage stories in chronological order Reverse-engineering Fujitsu M7MU RELC hardware compression 2 40 8mo +1d op-co.de/blog/posts/fujitsu_relc_compression 1Show HN: Whippy Term - GUI terminal for embedded development (Linux and Windows) 13 93 8mo +7m whippyterm.com 2Sutton and Barto book implementation 9 78 8mo +8m github.com/ivanbelenky/RL 3Some Thoughts on LCP eBook DRM 0 11 8mo +1h shkspr.mobi/blog/2025/03/some-thoughts-on-lcp-ebook-drm 4Understanding effective type Aliasing in C [pdf] 13 51 8mo +1d open-std.org/JTC1/SC22/WG14/www/docs/n3519.pdf 5My dream thermostat (2024) 68 48 8mo +1m leontrolski.github.io/thermostat.html 6Old Timey Code and Old Timey Mono Fonts 33 185 8mo +2d github.com/dse/old-timey-mono-font 7ACE-Step: A step towards music generation foundation model 53 107 8mo +31m github.com/ace-step/ACE-Step 8Continue (YC S23) is hiring software engineers in San Francisco 0 1 8mo +30s ycombinator.com/companies/continue/jobs/smcxRnM-software-engineer 9Scientists discover new way to convert corn waste to low-cost sugar for biofuel 16 37 8mo +52m news.wsu.edu/press-release/2025/05/06/scientists-discover-a-new-way-to-convert-corn-waste-into-low-cost-sugar-for-biofuel 10iOS Kindle app now has a ‘get book’ button after changes to App Store rules 181 187 8mo +16m theverge.com/news/661719/amazon-app-ios-apple-iphone-ipad-kindle-buy-books 11DoorDash to acquire Deliveroo 372 178 8mo +14h cnbc.com/2025/05/06/doordash-to-buy-uk-food-delivery-firm-deliveroo-in-3point9-billion-deal.html 12Transform DOCX into LLM-ready data 5 13 8mo +1d contextgem.dev/converters/docx.html 13Preparing for when the machine stops 49 73 8mo +25m idiallo.com/blog/when-the-machine-stops 14TeleMessage, used by Trump officials, can access plaintext chat logs 74 254 8mo +10m micahflee.com/despite-misleading-marketing-israeli-company-telemessage-used-by-trump-officials-can-access-plaintext-chat-logs 15The Tragic Story Behind the Infamous '4 Children for Sale' Photograph (2023) 5 21 8mo +2d allthatsinteresting.com/4-children-for-sale 16Will supercapacitors come to AI's rescue? 65 50 8mo +27m spectrum.ieee.org/supercapacitor-2671883490 17GenAI-Accelerated TLA+ Challenge 16 35 8mo +1h foundation.tlapl.us/challenge/index.html 18Brush (Bo(u)rn(e) RUsty SHell) a POSIX and Bash-Compatible Shell in Rust 89 159 8mo +25m github.com/reubeno/brush 19ChatGPT's hallucination problem is getting worse and nobody understands why 9 13 8mo +7m pcgamer.com/software/ai/chatgpts-hallucination-problem-is-getting-worse-according-to-openais-own-tests-and-nobody-understands-why 20Show HN: Feedsmith — Fast parser & generator for RSS, Atom, OPML feed namespaces 9 68 8mo +7m github.com/macieklamberski/feedsmith 21PDF generation now available in beta in Grok Studio 0 6 8mo +3m twitter.com/grok/status/1919797270670967006 22You Might Not Know What a Deleted Truck Is, but You've Probably Seen One 1 15 8mo +10m jalopnik.com/1846880/truck-deleted-meaning 23Matt Godbolt sold me on Rust by showing me C++ 638 592 8mo +7m collabora.com/news-and-blog/blog/2025/05/06/matt-godbolt-sold-me-on-rust-by-showing-me-c-plus-plus 24Is Planet Nine Alone in the Outer System? 62 117 8mo +26m centauri-dreams.org/2025/05/06/is-planet-nine-alone-in-the-outer-system 25DoomArena: A Framework for Testing AI Agents Against Evolving Security Threats 2 9 8mo +1h arxiv.org/abs/2504.14064 26OpenAI reaches agreement to buy Windsurf for $3B 566 650 8mo +16h bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-05-06/openai-reaches-agreement-to-buy-startup-windsurf-for-3-billion 27Curl: We still have not seen a valid security report done with AI help 238 440 8mo +13m linkedin.com/posts/danielstenberg_hackerone-curl-activity-7324820893862363136-glb1 28Infants and Babies can become pitch-perfect with early exposure to certain music 4 6 8mo +50m babymusic.ai/methodology 29Show HN: Reverse Pac-Man 47 72 8mo +1d reverse-pacman.staticrun.app/index 30Launch HN: Exa (YC S21) – The web as a database 131 401 8mo +4m 31Show HN: Sheet Music in Smart Glasses 24 201 8mo +1m 32Turning into Turing (2022) 1 29 8mo +17h jk-keller.com/o__o/rotational_growth 33Show HN: Plexe – ML Models from a Prompt 45 124 8mo +1m github.com/plexe-ai/plexe 34Gemini 2.5 Pro Preview 682 689 8mo +12m developers.googleblog.com/en/gemini-2-5-pro-io-improved-coding-performance 35Show HN: Clippy – 90s UI for local LLMs 266 1091 8mo +12m felixrieseberg.github.io/clippy 36Sign in with Apple" broke after update–losing data for a third of users 18 37 8mo +28m aso.dev/blog/apple-sign-in 37[dead] ? 10 8mo +20m reuters.com 38Show HN: Outpost – OSS infra for outbound webhooks and event destinations 8 65 8mo +1h github.com/hookdeck/outpost 39The Inchtuthil Nail Hoard 27 80 8mo +1d scottishhistory.org/articles/the-inchtuthil-nail-hoard 40Accents in latent spaces: How AI hears accent strength in English 126 242 8mo +23m accent-strength.boldvoice.com 41MTerrain: Optimized terrain system and editor for Godot 9 90 8mo +55m github.com/mohsenph69/Godot-MTerrain-plugin 42Oregon State University's Open Source Lab Is Running on Fumes 7 52 8mo +53m theregister.com/2025/05/02/osl_short_of_money 43Nnd – a TUI debugger alternative to GDB, LLDB 83 272 8mo +13m github.com/al13n321/nnd 44WWII Aircraft Recognition Posters 3 17 8mo +26m store.pacificwarmuseum.org/products/wwii-aircraft-recognition-posters 45Vibe Coding Is Fun–But Vibe Refactoring Pays the Bills 52 62 8mo +27m dawidmakowski.com/en/2025/04/vibe-coding-is-fun-but-vibe-refactoring-pays-the-bills 46New studies offer insight into Lyme disease’s treatment, lingering symptoms 152 219 8mo +1h news.northwestern.edu/stories/2025/04/taking-the-bite-out-of-lyme-disease 47Memory-safe sudo to become the default in Ubuntu 267 219 8mo +2h trifectatech.org/blog/memory-safe-sudo-to-become-the-default-in-ubuntu 48I so hate the phrase "vibe coding" 65 58 8mo +40m artiss.blog/2025/03/i-so-hate-the-phrase-vibe-coding 49Achieving 11M IOPS and 66 GiB/s IO on a Single Threadripper Workstation (2021) 0 16 8mo +2h tanelpoder.com/posts/11m-iops-with-10-ssds-on-amd-threadripper-pro-workstation 50Hey, let's fire all the devs and replace them with AI (2023) 9 8 8mo +9m mdwdotla.medium.com/hey-lets-fire-all-the-devs-and-replace-them-with-ai-8a0c3011d12 51How Texas Made the Old West Even Wilder and Bloodier 92 37 8mo +17h texasmonthly.com/being-texan/gunfighters-old-west-wilder-bloodier 52OpenAI reaches agreement to buy Windsurf for around $3B 2 155 8mo +1m bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-05-06/openai-reaches-agreement-to-buy-startup-windsurf-for-3-billion 53Show HN: AnuDB– Backed on RocksDB, 279x Faster Than SQLite in Parallel Workloads 13 22 8mo +2h github.com/hash-anu/AnuDB 54Design and evaluation of a parrot-to-parrot video-calling system (2023) 71 135 8mo +1h smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/scientists-taught-pet-parrots-to-video-call-each-other-and-the-birds-loved-it-180982041 55Propositions as Types (2014) [pdf] 74 107 8mo +33m homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/wadler/papers/propositions-as-types/propositions-as-types.pdf 56Getting things “done” in large tech companies 213 307 8mo +51m seangoedecke.com/getting-things-done 57Sea snail teeth top Kevlar, titanium as strongest material (2015) 60 138 8mo +3d cbc.ca/radio/asithappens/as-it-happens-thursday-edition-1.2963357/sea-snail-teeth-top-kevlar-titanium-as-world-s-strongest-material-1.2963549 58RK3588 – Implementing a Vectorscope for processing video in real time 10 55 8mo +3d jas-hacks.blogspot.comhttp:///2025/05/rk3588-implementing-vectorscope-for.html 59[dead] ? 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