HckrNews (First visit) All HN frontpage stories in chronological order Observations from people-watching 223 436 8mo +1h skincontact.substack.com/p/21-observations-from-people-watching 1Alan Kay did not invent objects (2019) 28 24 8mo +3d hillelwayne.com/post/alan-kay 2Why the Apple II Didn't Support Lowercase Letters (2020) 72 130 8mo +57m vintagecomputing.com/index.php/archives/2833/why-the-apple-ii-didnt-support-lowercase-letters 3Show HN: LoopMix128 – Fast C PRNG (.46ns), 2^128 Period, BigCrush/PractRand Pass 34 74 8mo +45m github.com/danielcota/LoopMix128 4Eagle Hunters of Kyrgyzstan 22 52 8mo +3d magazine.atavist.com/the-eagle-hunters-of-kyrgyzstan-world-nomad-games 5Address of Pope Leo XIV to the College of Cardinals 210 253 8mo +2h vatican.va/content/leo-xiv/en/speeches/2025/may/documents/20250510-collegio-cardinalizio.html 6Sierpiński Triangle? In My Bitwise and? 58 213 8mo +14m lcamtuf.substack.com/p/sierpinski-triangle-in-my-bitwise 7Everyone Is Cheating Their Way Through College 11 22 8mo +31m msn.com/en-us/news/technology/everyone-is-cheating-their-way-through-college/ar-AA1EjCRk 8Show HN: Xenolab – Rasp Pi monitor for my pet carnivourus plants 53 130 8mo +38m github.com/blackrabbit17/xenolab 9Show HN: PLAttice, for assembling structures much larger than the 3D printer bed 6 24 8mo +52m zachfred.in/projects/plattice/plattice.html 10LLMs for Materials and Chemistry: 34 Real-World Examples 1 15 8mo +2d arxiv.org/abs/2505.03049 11For $595, you get what nobody else can give you for twice the price (1982) [pdf] 146 248 8mo +2h s3data.computerhistory.org/brochures/commodore.commodore64.1982.102646264.pdf 12Email Forwarding for Your Domain 43 59 8mo +1h mailwip.com 13AI is draining water from areas that need it most 41 58 8mo +56m bloomberg.com/graphics/2025-ai-impacts-data-centers-water-data 14Adventures in Imbalanced Learning and Class Weight 8 49 8mo +2d andersource.devhttp:///2025/05/05/imbalanced-learning.html 15Microsoft Teams will soon block screen capture during meetings 330 206 8mo +16m bleepingcomputer.com/news/microsoft/microsoft-teams-will-soon-block-screen-capture-during-meetings 16The Price of Remission 90 88 8mo +2d propublica.org/article/revlimid-price-cancer-celgene-drugs-fda-multiple-myeloma 17Pakistani Govt shares game footage as real military action 10 27 8mo +48m ukdefencejournal.org.uk/pakistani-govt-shares-game-footage-as-real-military-action 18Even Tesla's Insurance Arm Is Getting Wrecked 104 77 8mo +40m insideevs.com/news/759156/tesla-insurance-loss-higher-average 19DOGE Is Bringing Back a Deadly Disease 20 78 8mo +7m theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/05/doge-silicosis-prevention/682745 20Update turns Google Gemini into a prude, breaking apps for trauma survivors 78 69 8mo +15m theregister.com/2025/05/08/google_gemini_update_prevents_disabling 21Unique Games Conjecture 2 26 8mo +1h en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unique_games_conjecture 22Lead Bullets (2011) 6 28 8mo +2h a16z.com/lead-bullets 23Building Local-First Flutter Apps with Riverpod, Drift, and PowerSync 25 40 8mo +3d dinkomarinac.dev/building-local-first-flutter-apps-with-riverpod-drift-and-powersync 24Simon Willison's first blog on LLMs (2022) 2 17 8mo +17m simonwillison.net/2022/May/31/a-datasette-tutorial-written-by-gpt-3 25Show HN: Sprigman – Pac-Man Recreated in a Limited Tile Based JavaScript Engine 6 19 8mo +2d sprig.hackclub.com/share/X4EGvOFk1q8FroEPCj1G 26'We Currently Have No Container Ships,' Seattle Port Says 154 231 8mo +1h newsweek.com/seattle-port-says-no-container-ships-tariffs-2069464 27Weave (YC W25) is hiring a founding engineer 0 1 8mo +19s ycombinator.com/companies/weave-3/jobs 28Sam Altman Wants Your Eyeball 158 151 8mo +37m privacyguides.org/articles/2025/05/10/sam-altman-wants-your-eyeball 29Reverse engineering the 386 processor's prefetch queue circuitry 51 168 8mo +21m righto.comhttp://www./2025/05/386-prefetch-circuitry-reverse-engineered.html 30'It cannot provide nuance': UK experts warn AI therapy chatbots are not safe 201 163 8mo +49m theguardian.com/technology/2025/may/07/experts-warn-therapy-ai-chatbots-are-not-safe-to-use 31People Who Hype Cursor Usually Lack Technical Skills 49 65 8mo +2h en.smallyu.net/2025/04/12/People%20Who%20Hype%20Cursor%20Usually%20Lack%20Technical%20Skills 32[dead] ? 26 8mo +35m newatlas.com 33Prolog's Eternal September (2017) 90 86 8mo +2d storytotell.org/prologs-eternal-september 34A critical look at MCP 325 603 8mo +1h raz.sh/blog/2025-05-02_a_critical_look_at_mcp 35Show HN: Code Claude Code 25 117 8mo +1h github.com/RVCA212/codesys 36Comparison of C/POSIX standard library implementations for Linux 55 138 8mo +58m etalabs.net/compare_libcs.html 37Farewell to Lee Gold's Alarums and Excursions 2 11 8mo +32m chaosium.com/blogout-of-the-suitcase-54-farewell-to-lee-golds-alarums-excursions 38Quantum Visions, an exhibition combining quantum physics and contemporary art 0 4 8mo +1d tabakalera.eus/en/visiones-cuanticas 39US vs. Google amicus curiae brief of Y Combinator in support of plaintiffs [pdf] 931 409 8mo +17m storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.dcd.223205/gov.uscourts.dcd.223205.1300.1.pdf 40Fixrleak: Fixing Java Resource Leaks with GenAI 23 22 8mo +3d uber.com/en-IL/blog/fixrleak-fixing-java-resource-leaks-with-genai 41The Dave and Busters Anomaly 4 5 8mo +55m searchengine.show/the-dave-and-busters-anomaly 42There's a national egg crisis, and one company is making a lot of money 22 32 8mo +13m wsj.com/business/egg-prices-shortage-cal-maine-foods-f53286b3 43React Three Ecosystem 55 123 8mo +28m react-three.org 44QueryLeaf: SQL for Mongo 16 23 8mo +1d github.com/beekeeper-studio/queryleaf 45Industry groups are not happy about the imminent demise of Energy Star 109 86 8mo +27m insideclimatenews.org/news/08052025/energy-star-program-could-be-eliminated-by-trump-administration 46Henry James's family tried to keep him in the closet (2016) 23 16 8mo +15m theguardian.com/books/2016/feb/20/colm-toibin-how-henry-james-family-tried-to-keep-him-in-the-closet 47Embracer Games Archive is preserving 75000 video games and needs contributions 89 183 8mo +1h embracergamesarchive.com 48The cult of doing business 125 151 8mo +12m commonwealmagazine.org/calvert-work-entrepreneur-ethic-baker-review-job 49Radxa Orion O6 brings Arm to the midrange PC (with caveats) 66 89 8mo +30m jeffgeerling.com/blog/2025/radxa-orion-o6-brings-arm-midrange-pc 50Sunlight: A certificate transparency implementation built for scalability, ease 2 13 8mo +57m letsencrypt.org/2024/03/14/introducing-sunlight 51The Deathbed Fallacy (2018) 143 280 8mo +2h hjorthjort.xyz/2018/02/21/the-deathbed-fallacy.html 52Intel: Winning and Losing 101 106 8mo +59m abortretry.fail/p/intel-winning-and-losing 53LTXVideo 13B AI video generation 63 215 8mo +10m ltxv.video 54Loss of dance and infant-directed song among the Northern Aché 10 74 8mo +3d cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(25)00447-6 55The Fallacy of Techno-Feudalism (2024) 72 52 8mo +37m petrapalusova.com/articles/tech-platforms-digital-economy-techno-feudalism 56Spanish Shipwreck Reveals Evidence of Earliest Known Pet Cats to Arrive in US 50 55 8mo +2d smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/spanish-shipwreck-reveals-evidence-of-earliest-known-pet-cats-to-arrive-in-the-united-states-180986560 57In praise of grobi for auto-configuring X11 monitors 41 74 8mo +3h michael.stapelberg.ch/posts/2025-05-10-grobi-x11-monitor-autoconfig 58CT scans show cigarettes are harder on the lungs than marijuana 100 30 8mo +1h healthimaging.com/topics/medical-imaging/computed-tomography-ct/ct-scans-dont-lie-cigarettes-are-harder-lungs-marijuana 59How much information is in DNA? 65 87 8mo +1d dynomight.substack.com/p/dna 60Cosmos 482 Descent Craft tracker 7 35 8mo +33m astria.tacc.utexas.eduhttp:///AstriaGraph 61Detect and crash Chromium bots 47 144 8mo +2d blog.castle.io/detect-and-crash-chromium-bots-with-one-weird-trick-bots-hate-it 62Why should I care? Or why punks are correct and old wise philosophers are wrong 26 33 8mo +1h abuseofnotation.github.io/moral-law 63Ash (Almquist Shell) Variants 3 67 8mo +56m in-ulm.de/~mascheck/various/ash 64After 16 years, we're renewing the StackOverflow Brand 78 60 8mo +29m meta.stackexchange.com/questions/408823/after-16-years-we-re-renewing-the-brand 65As Bright as a Feather: Ostriches, Home Dyeing, and the Global Plume Trade 0 4 8mo +2d publicdomainreview.org/essay/bright-as-a-feather 66Europe launches program to lure scientists away from the US 180 136 8mo +1h es.wired.com/articulos/europa-lanza-iniciativa-para-atraer-talento-cientifico-tras-recortes-en-ee-uu 67A simple 16x16 dot animation from simple math rules 94 488 8mo +4h tixy.land 68Slow software for a burning world 93 170 8mo +35m bonfirenetworks.org/posts/slow_software_for_a_burning_world 69Not a three-year-old chimney sweep (2022) 68 125 8mo +10m fakehistoryhunter.net/2022/07/26/not-a-3-year-old-chimney-sweep 70Running Windows.exe on a Linux Brain: The Sysadmin's Guide to Neurodivergence 0 10 8mo +3d leantime.io/running-windows-exe-on-a-linux-brain-the-sysadmins-guide-to-neurodivergence 71Gmail to SQLite 112 331 8mo +1h github.com/marcboeker/gmail-to-sqlite 72Private Japanese lunar lander enters orbit around moon ahead of a June touchdown 66 212 8mo +2d phys.org/news/2025-05-private-japanese-lunar-lander-orbit.html 73The Screamer – A yell-on yell-off light 15 35 8mo +1d rulethepla.net/the-screamer 74Algebraic Effects: Another mistake carried through to perfection? 10 28 8mo +1h kjosib.github.io/Counterpoint/effects.html 756502 Illegal Opcodes in the Siemens PC 100 Assembly Manual 1 45 8mo +1d pagetable.com/?p=1798 76Vision Now Available in Llama.cpp 102 535 8mo +23m github.com/ggml-org/llama.cpp/blob/master/docs/multimodal.md 77[dead] ? 36 8mo +37m developer.apple.com 78Our Slack is dead. Long live Zulip 21 42 8mo +1h changelog.com/posts/our-slack-is-dead-long-live-zulip 79Internet Roadtrip: Vote to steer 36 219 8mo +2d neal.fun/internet-roadtrip 80Stratolaunch Successfully Completes Reusable Hypersonic Flight and Recovery 13 63 8mo +2d stratolaunch.com/news/stratolaunch-successfully-completes-reusable-hypersonic-flight-and-recovery-with-talon-a2-vehicle 81Six Days in the Dark 64 44 8mo +3h tonyyo11.github.io/posts/Six-Days-in-the-Dark 82Fighting unwanted notifications with machine learning in Chrome 42 31 8mo +1d blog.chromium.org/2025/05/fighting-unwanted-notifications-with.html 83Charles Bukowski, William Burroughs, and the Computer (2009) 22 91 8mo +14m realitystudio.org/bibliographic-bunker/charles-bukowski-william-burroughs-and-the-computer 84Memory Safety Features in Zig 4 11 8mo +1h gencmurat.com/en/posts/memory-safety-features-in-zig 85Bento gets a makeover 11 13 8mo +1d warpstreamlabs.github.io/bento 86Brandon's Semiconductor Simulator 28 187 8mo +6m brandonli.net/semisim 87PlainBudget – Minimalist Plain Text Budgeting 30 94 8mo +1h plainbudget.com 88WebGL Water (2010) 63 218 8mo +16m madebyevan.com/webgl-water 89Some novelists are becoming video game writers and vice-versa 74 60 8mo +2d theguardian.com/games/2025/apr/30/novelists-video-game-writers 90 More... 2025.05.09