HckrNews (First visit) All HN frontpage stories in chronological order Bell's 1881 Metal detector 0 30 8mo +3d scitechantiques.comhttp://www./belldiscovery 1Doctors Warn Accountants of Private-Equity Drain on Quality: You Could Be Next 54 50 8mo +45m wsj.com/articles/doctors-warn-accountants-of-private-equity-drain-on-quality-you-could-be-next-1be0f0fd 2A 'Trump Card Visa' Is Already Showing Up in Immigration Forms 44 48 8mo +12m wired.com/story/doge-trump-gold-visa-program-immigration 3Show HN: Picostrap5 A free bootstrap-based WordPress theme on GitHub 2 8 8mo +1h github.com/livecanvas-team/picostrap5 4The Reverse Turing Test Game 7 26 8mo +1d reverse-turing.netlify.app 5Pakistani firm shipped fentanyl analogs, scams to us 45 105 8mo +8m krebsonsecurity.com/2025/05/pakistani-firm-shipped-fentanyl-analogs-scams-to-us 6June Huh dropped out to become a poet, now he’s won a Fields Medal (2022) 137 217 8mo +55m quantamagazine.org/june-huh-high-school-dropout-wins-the-fields-medal-20220705 7Foundation DB Record Layer SQL API 70 134 8mo +39m foundationdb.github.io/fdb-record-layer/SQL_Reference.html 8A cycle-accurate IBM PC emulator in your web browser 25 153 8mo +3d martypc.net/?mount=fd:0:Area%205150%20(Compo%20Version).img 9OpenAI for Countries 196 160 8mo +36m openai.com/global-affairs/openai-for-countries 10'I paid for the whole GPU, I am going to use the whole GPU' 44 151 8mo +11m modal.com/blog/gpu-utilization-guide 11GovEagle (YC W23) Is Hiring 0 1 8mo +30s ycombinator.com/companies/goveagle/jobs/ogNRCkd-platform-engineering-contractor-short-term 12Protein-slayer drugs could beat some of the cruellest cancers 0 25 8mo +1h nature.com/articles/d41586-025-01350-2 13My TV Remote Stopped Working So I Made My Own 4 11 8mo +24m thestockpot.net/videos/theeverythingremote 14After an Arizona man was shot, an AI video of him addresses his killer in court 3 10 8mo +11m npr.org/2025/05/07/g-s1-64640/ai-impact-statement-murder-victim 15Hunting down a C memory leak in a Go program (2021) 1 11 8mo +7m medium.com/zendesk-engineering/hunting-down-a-c-memory-leak-in-a-go-program-2d08b24b617d 16El Cono: The mysterious sacred 'pyramid' hidden deep in the Amazon rainforest 20 56 8mo +3d livescience.com/planet-earth/geology/el-cono-the-mysterious-sacred-pyramid-hidden-deep-in-the-amazon-rainforest 17Mac Themes Garden 77 220 8mo +39m damien.zone/introducing-mac-themes-garden 18Web search on the Anthropic API 61 269 8mo +1m anthropic.com/news/web-search-api 19How to Average in Prolog (2017) 23 71 8mo +19m storytotell.org/how-to-average-in-prolog 20Proposal: Add bare metal support to Go 20 83 8mo +27m github.com/golang/go/issues/73608 21Vagus Nerve Stimulation Erases PTSD: Study 76 136 8mo +25m neurosciencenews.com/vagus-nerve-stimulation-ptsd-28818 22RSC for Astro Developers 22 43 8mo +1d overreacted.io/rsc-for-astro-developers 23A new hairlike electrode for long-term, high-quality EEG monitoring 14 57 8mo +1d psu.edu/news/research/story/future-brain-activity-monitoring-may-look-strand-hair 24RybbitL Open source Google Analytics replacement 155 350 8mo +42m github.com/rybbit-io/rybbit 25Samsung is paying $350M for audio brands B&W, Denon, Marantz and Polk 322 214 8mo +34m engadget.com/audio/samsung-is-paying-350-million-for-audio-brands-bowers--wilkins-denon-marantz-and-polk-131514754.html 26Ty: A fast Python type checker and language server 286 879 8mo +24m github.com/astral-sh/ty 27Three Chapters at Cloudflare: Programmer to CTO to Board of Directors 27 148 8mo +8m blog.cloudflare.com/en-us/three-chapters-at-cloudflare-programmer-to-cto-to-board-of-directors 28Social AI companions pose unacceptable risks to teens and children under 18 45 57 8mo +4m commonsensemedia.org/ai-ratings/social-ai-companions 29Stringly Typed 68 40 8mo +3d stefanjudis.com/blog/stringly-typed 30Tariffs Killed Arduboy 24 64 8mo +4m community.arduboy.com/t/tariffs-killed-arduboy/12675 31Asyncio Demystified: Rebuilding It from Scratch One Yield at a Time 1 16 8mo +9m dev.indooroutdoor.io/asyncio-demystified-rebuilding-it-from-scratch-one-yield-at-a-time 32Mistral ships Le Chat – enterprise AI assistant that can run on prem 155 494 8mo +2h mistral.ai/news/le-chat-enterprise 33Create and edit images with Gemini 2.0 in preview 100 251 8mo +1h developers.googleblog.com/en/generate-images-gemini-2-0-flash-preview 34Getting Older Isn't What You Think 228 145 8mo +25m katycowan.co.uk/blog/getting-old 35Motion (YC W20) Is Hiring a Senior Engineers 0 1 8mo +18s jobs.ashbyhq.com/motion/4f5f6a29-3af0-4d79-99a4-988ff7c5ba05?utm_source=hn 36Show HN: 100.st – Dev utilities I built for format conversions and encoding 22 33 8mo +2d 100.st 37Ghost students are creating problems for California colleges 202 160 8mo +31m sfgate.com/bayarea/article/ghost-students-creating-problem-calif-colleges-20311708.php 38OpenSearch 3.0 Released 29 107 8mo +35m opensearch.org/blog/opensearch-3-0-enhances-vector-database-performance 39Telling Lies: Bowie and Online Music Distribution in 1996 61 69 8mo +15m cybercultural.com/p/online-music-distribution-1996 40How three years at McKinsey shaped my second startup 176 152 8mo +3d blog.zactownsend.com/know-your-enemy-how-three-years-at-mckinsey-shaped-my-second-startup 41Show HN: eInk optimized manga with Kindle Comic Converter (+Kobo/ReMarkable) 49 237 8mo +6m github.com/ciromattia/kcc 42Waiting for Postgres 18: Accelerating Disk Reads with Asynchronous I/O 151 560 8mo +31m pganalyze.com/blog/postgres-18-async-io 43WeightWatchers files bankruptcy 332 109 8mo +15m wsj.com/articles/weightwatchers-files-bankruptcy-to-adapt-to-chemically-induced-weight-loss-future-a63aa8ac 44Polycompiler: Merge Python and JavaScript code into one file that runs in both 16 67 8mo +3d github.com/EvanZhouDev/polycompiler 45Mississippi Can't Possibly Have Good Schools 214 103 8mo +6m educationdaly.us/p/mississippi-cant-possibly-have-good 46Perfect Random Floating-Point Numbers 60 114 8mo +2d specbranch.com/posts/fp-rand 47So Much Blood 205 436 8mo +3h dynomight.net/blood 48Real ID now required in US after nearly 20 years of delays 13 17 8mo +9m theguardian.com/us-news/2025/may/07/real-id-domestic-flights 49My quest to make motorcycle riding that tad bit safer 375 306 8mo +2h gill.net.in/posts/my-quest-to-make-motorcycle-riding-safer 50Richest 10 Percent Responsible for Two-Thirds of Warming 82 102 8mo +46m e360.yale.edu/digest/worlds-richest-10-percent-responsible-for-two-thirds-of-warming 51U.S. Jury Orders NSO Group to Pay $168M in WhatsApp Spyware Case 1 23 8mo +12m techoreon.com/us-jury-nso-group-pay-whatsapp-168-million-spyware 52Everyone Is Cheating Their Way Through College 167 110 8mo +34m nymag.com/intelligencer/article/openai-chatgpt-ai-cheating-education-college-students-school.html 53Zed: High-performance AI Code Editor 414 715 8mo +6h zed.dev/blog/fastest-ai-code-editor 54Jargonic Sets New SOTA for Japanese ASR 4 19 8mo +38m aiola.ai/blog/jargonic-japanese-asr 55Agentic Editing in Zed 1 14 8mo +2h zed.dev/agentic 56Using tests as a debugging tool for logic errors 15 38 8mo +28m qodo.ai/blog/java-unit-testing-how-to-use-tests-as-a-debugging-tool-for-logic-errors 57Zuckerberg's Grand Vision: Most of Your Friends Will Be AI 107 55 8mo +2m wsj.com/tech/ai/mark-zuckerberg-ai-digital-future-0bb04de7 58Unity’s Open-Source Double Standard: the ban of VLC 158 525 8mo +11m mfkl.github.io/2024/01/10/unity-double-oss-standards.html 59CLion Is Now Free for Non-Commercial Use 378 611 8mo +23m blog.jetbrains.com/clion/2025/05/clion-is-now-free-for-non-commercial-use 60Rage of the Oligarchs Naomi Klein: 'What They Want Is Absolutely Everything 18 64 8mo +7m rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/naomi-klein-trump-musk-thiel-oligarchs-climate-science-1235330780 61Migrating a JavaScript Project from Prettier and ESLint to BiomeJS 61 55 8mo +2h blog.appsignal.com/2025/05/07/migrating-a-javascript-project-from-prettier-and-eslint-to-biomejs.html 62Sandy Bridge-era motherboard gets M.2 SSD boot support 12 years after launch 42 74 8mo +13m tomshardware.com/pc-components/motherboards/sandy-bridge-era-motherboard-gains-m-2-ssd-boot-support-12-years-after-launch-first-new-bios-in-a-decade-for-decommissioned-motherboard 63Agentic Editing in Zed 2 58 8mo +2h zed.dev/blog/fastest-ai-code-editor?e=60 64Simulating, Detecting and Responding to S3 Ransomware Attacks 0 16 8mo +1d raphabot.com/articles/simulating-detecting-and-responding-s3-ransomware 65Time Between The Lines: how memory access affects performance (2015) 3 11 8mo +2d bitbashing.io/memory-performance.html 66I built an AI code review agent in a few hours, here's what I learned 1 12 8mo +14h sourcebot.dev/blog/review-agent-learnings 67A coherent European/non-US cloud strategy 37 43 8mo +1h berthub.eu/articles/posts/a-coherent-non-us-cloud-strategy 68Cuttlefish 'talk' with their arms, study reveals 101 144 8mo +19h scienceblog.com/wildscience/2025/05/06/cuttlefish-talk-with-their-arms-study-reveals 69WebMonkeys: parallel GPU programming in JavaScript (2016) 26 115 8mo +2d github.com/VictorTaelin/WebMonkeys 70Tabular (YC S24) Is Hiring 0 1 8mo +20s ycombinator.com/companies/tabular/jobs/7V7rXlS-founding-engineer 71Loving 21st century gaming like an 18th century furniture expert 3 27 8mo +1d kimimithegameeatingshemonster.com/2023/04/26/loving-21st-century-gaming-like-an-18th-century-furniture-expert 72(ab?)using Node module hooks to speed up development 16 38 8mo +1d immaculata.dev/blog/hacking-nodejs-modules.html 73docker2exe: Convert a Docker image to an executable 90 141 8mo +1d github.com/rzane/docker2exe 74DuoBook: Generate bilingual stories to learn any language 78 95 8mo +2d duobook.co 75More NIH workers laid off, including cuts at the National Cancer Institute 1 23 8mo +24m fiercebiotech.com/biotech/250-more-nih-workers-laid-including-cuts-national-cancer-institute 76Inside an architect's 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arstechnica.com/security/2025/05/jury-orders-nso-to-pay-167-million-for-hacking-whatsapp-users 85India launches attack on 9 sites in Pakistan and Pakistani Jammu and Kashmir 611 484 8mo +4h reuters.com/world/india/india-launches-attack-9-sites-pakistan-pakistan-occupied-jammu-kashmir-2025-05-06 86Can Speed Radar Measure Music? [video] 2 16 8mo +2d youtube.com/watch?v=CA79t0bYAjw 87Bloat is still software's biggest vulnerability (2024) 210 256 8mo +57m spectrum.ieee.org/lean-software-development 88Claude's system prompt is over 24k tokens with tools 330 612 8mo +3h github.com/asgeirtj/system_prompts_leaks/blob/main/claude.txt 89The DEA is now abandoning body cameras 63 163 8mo +46m propublica.org/article/drug-enforcement-administration-ends-body-camera-program-trump 90U.S. Orders Intelligence Agencies to Step Up Spying on Greenland 15 36 8mo +9m wsj.com/world/greenland-spying-us-intelligence-809c4ef2 91FTC bans hidden fees for live events and short-term rentals, effective May 12 4 184 8mo +24m techcrunch.com/2025/05/05/ftc-bans-hidden-fees-for-live-events-and-short-term-rentals-effective-may-12 92 More... 2025.05.06