HckrNews (First visit) All HN frontpage stories in chronological order [dead] ? 21 8mo +26m frontiersin.org 1LLMs are making me dumber 80 69 8mo +11m vvvincent.me/llms-are-making-me-dumber 2Migrating to Postgres 269 238 8mo +1h engineering.usemotion.com/migrating-to-postgres-3c93dff9c65d 3Getting Started with Celtic Coins – Crude and Barbarous, or Just Different? 24 69 8mo +3d collectingancientcoins.co.uk/getting-started-with-celtic-coins-crude-and-barbarous-or-just-different 4[dead] ? 42 8mo +2m bbc.co.uk 5Hegel 2.0: The imaginary history of ternary computing (2018) 7 58 8mo +2d cabinetmagazine.org/issues/65/weatherby.php 6Variadic Switch 10 45 8mo +1d pydong.org/posts/variadic-switch 7Finding Beauty and Truth in Mundane Occurrences 2 18 8mo +1d quantamagazine.org/finding-beauty-and-truth-in-mundane-occurrences-20250509 8StackAI (YC W23) Is Hiring Pydantic and FastAPI Wizard 0 1 8mo +21s ycombinator.com/companies/stackai/jobs/8nYnmlN-backend-engineer 9We Made CUDA Optimization Suck Less 26 46 8mo +1d rightnowai.co 10Show HN: Semantic Calculator (king-man+woman=?) 172 172 8mo +3m calc.datova.ai 11Perverse incentives of vibe coding 227 201 8mo +20m fredbenenson.medium.com/the-perverse-incentives-of-vibe-coding-23efbaf75aee 12Show HN: Muscle-Mem, a behavior cache for AI agents 51 214 8mo +8m github.com/pig-dot-dev/muscle-mem 13TwoFold (2f), CLI text expander/template engine 1 17 8mo +3d github.com/ShinyTrinkets/twofold.ts 14David Hilbert's radio address (2014) 6 36 8mo +4m old.maa.org/press/periodicals/convergence/david-hilberts-radio-address 15Various Things in MetaPost (2019) 5 41 8mo +11m habr.com/en/articles/454376 16The pigeon whistle: A defining sound of old Beijing (2019) 12 23 8mo +7m chinatoday.com.cnhttp://www./ctenglish/2018/cs/201911/t20191129_800186426.html 17They expect us to keep changing 5 9 8mo +3m benv.ca/blog/posts/they-expect-us-to-keep-changing 18An accessibility update – GTK Development Blog 17 66 8mo +1d blog.gtk.org/2025/05/12/an-accessibility-update 19Beyond the Wrist: Debugging RSI 24 40 8mo +4m debugyourpain.org/docs/main_posts/understand/debugging_rsi 20Grok answers unrelated queries with long paragraphs about "white genocide" 113 265 8mo +22m twitter.com/grok/status/1922651218595439063 21Smalltalk-78 Xerox NoteTaker in-browser emulator 50 92 8mo +51m smalltalkzoo.thechm.org/users/bert/Smalltalk-78.html 22The overlooked masterpiece full of coded messages about World War One 7 24 8mo +2d bbc.com/culture/article/20250423-the-masterpiece-full-of-coded-messages-about-ww1 23Artie (YC S23) Is Hiring a Senior Product Marketing Manager (SF) 0 1 8mo +17s ycombinator.com/companies/artie/jobs/sOFeWnv-senior-product-marketing-manager 24DeepMind unveils general-purpose science AI 3 48 8mo +52m nature.com/articles/d41586-025-01523-z 25Ask HN: How are you cleaning and transforming data before imports/uploads? 33 36 8mo +8m 26Our narrative prison 142 179 8mo +2m aeon.co/essays/why-does-every-film-and-tv-series-seem-to-have-the-same-plot 27Git Bug: Distributed, Offline-First Bug Tracker Embedded in Git, with Bridges 104 306 8mo +1d github.com/git-bug/git-bug 28Uber to introduce fixed-route shuttles in major US cities 422 176 8mo +32m techcrunch.com/2025/05/14/uber-to-introduce-fixed-route-shuttles-in-major-us-cities-other-ways-to-save 29A server that wasn't meant to exist 138 390 8mo +18m it-notes.dragas.net/2025/05/13/the_server_that_wasnt_meant_to_exist 30Launch HN: Jazzberry (YC X25) – AI agent for finding bugs 33 46 8mo +2m 31A farewell to Ada with null (1992) 4 12 8mo +44m web.elastic.org/~fche/mirrors/old-usenet/ada-with-null 32Show HN: Lumier – Run macOS VMs in a Docker 52 154 8mo +17m github.com/trycua/cua/tree/main/libs/lumier 33AlphaEvolve: A Gemini-powered coding agent for designing advanced algorithms 258 992 8mo +16m deepmind.google/discover/blog/alphaevolve-a-gemini-powered-coding-agent-for-designing-advanced-algorithms 34Updated rate limits for unauthenticated requests 170 108 8mo +5d github.blog/changelog/2025-05-08-updated-rate-limits-for-unauthenticated-requests 35Show HN: CSV GB+ by Data.olllo – Open and Process CSVs Locally 22 51 8mo +3m apps.microsoft.com/detail/9pfcrwp46v22?hl=en-US&gl=US 36Sequencing for Value 3 15 8mo +2d engineering.blueberrypediatrics.blog/sequencing-for-value 37Robot chefs take over at South Korea's highway restaurants, to mixed reviews 15 35 8mo +1h restofworld.org/2025/robot-chefs-south-korea-restaurants 38Abundance Starts with Mobility 18 32 8mo +3h abstraction.substack.com/p/abundance-starts-with-mobility 39The cryptography behind passkeys 260 270 8mo +3h blog.trailofbits.com/2025/05/14/the-cryptography-behind-passkeys 40Changes since congestion pricing started in New York 689 432 8mo +1d nytimes.com/interactive/2025/05/11/upshot/congestion-pricing.html 41ESP WebRTC Solution Release v1.0 1 11 8mo +10m github.com/espressif/esp-webrtc-solution/releases/tag/v1.0.0 42FlowG – Distributed Systems without raft (part 2) 4 20 8mo +2h david-delassus.medium.com/distributed-systems-without-raft-part-2-81ca31eae4db 43Show HN: Sam TTS – Recreates the classic Microsoft SAM voice in the browser 8 15 8mo +7h samtts.com 44The A.I. Radiologist Will Not Be with You Soon 204 116 8mo +1h nytimes.com/2025/05/14/technology/ai-jobs-radiologists-mayo-clinic.html 45[dead] ? 30 8mo +58m arstechnica.com 46Entrepreneurial Spawning from Remote Work 1 4 8mo +4m nber.org/papers/w33774 47[dead] ? 7 8mo +20m youtube.com 48Making my app worse because of macOS privacy protections 2 7 8mo +2m lapcatsoftware.com/articles/2025/5/3.html 49Breaking the Sound Barrier Part I: Fuzzing CoreAudio with Mach Messages 1 49 8mo +3d googleprojectzero.blogspot.com/2025/05/breaking-sound-barrier-part-i-fuzzing.html 50Developers, don't despair, big tech and AI hype is off the rails again 30 48 8mo +4h cicero.sh/forums/thread/developers-don-t-despair-big-tech-and-ai-hype-is-off-the-rails-again-000007 51U.S. nuclear base hidden under Greenland's ice for decades 80 147 8mo +9m wsj.com/world/greenland-us-camp-century-nuclear-base-91e8abea 52SMS 2FA is not just insecure, it's also hostile to mountain people 313 400 8mo +2m blog.stillgreenmoss.net/sms-2fa-is-not-just-insecure-its-also-hostile-to-mountain-people 53US brain drain: the scientists seeking jobs abroad amid assault on research 4 12 8mo +17m nature.com/articles/d41586-025-01489-y 54What is HDR, anyway? 331 772 8mo +39m lux.camera/what-is-hdr 55Mazda DMCA Takedown of Open Source Home Assistant App 1 40 8mo +39m consumerrights.wiki/Mazda_DMCA_takedown_of_Open_Source_Home_Assistant_App 56How the economics of multitenancy work 44 181 8mo +13m blacksmith.sh/blog/the-economics-of-operating-a-ci-cloud 57Updated rate limits for unauthenticated requests 1 13 8mo +21m github.blog/changelog/2025-05-08-updated-rate-limits-for-unauthenticated-requests 58Biological Organisation as Closure of Constraints 0 5 8mo +2d sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0022519315001009 59Interferometer Device Sees Text from a Mile Away 61 262 8mo +3d physics.aps.org/articles/v18/99 60E-COM: The $40M USPS project to send email on paper 123 117 8mo +9m buttondown.com/blog/the-e-com-story 61Show HN: acmsg (automated commit message generator) 19 15 8mo +1h github.com/quinneden/acmsg 62The Future Is Too Expensive – A New Theory on Collapsing Birth Rates 220 72 8mo +14m medium.com/@hectorchu1/the-future-is-too-expensive-a-new-theory-of-why-people-arent-having-kids-c3eca581c491 63Designing Cities for Families 80 38 8mo +2d bloomberg.com/features/designing-cities-for-families 64$20K Bounty Offered for Optimizing Rust Code in Rav1d AV1 Decoder 101 116 8mo +2h memorysafety.org/blog/rav1d-perf-bounty 65UK's Ancient Tree Inventory 65 89 8mo +30m ati.woodlandtrust.org.uk 66Databricks to Buy Startup Neon for $1B 3 15 8mo +20m wsj.com/articles/databricks-to-buy-startup-neon-for-1-billion-fdded971 67Databricks acquires Neon 220 379 8mo +26m databricks.com/blog/databricks-neon 68Vircadia, a Bun and PostgreSQL-powered reactivity layer for games 16 12 8mo +3d vircadia.com 69The recently lost file upload feature in the Nextcloud app for Android 165 404 8mo +2h nextcloud.com/blog/nextcloud-android-file-upload-issue-google 70How to Build a Smartwatch: Picking a Chip 120 301 8mo +1h ericmigi.com/blog/how-to-build-a-smartwatch-picking-a-chip 71Simplifying the Ethereum Layer 1 3 9 8mo +3d vitalik.eth.limo/general/2025/05/03/simplel1.html 72AI Hallucination in Filings, 14th-Largest US Law Firm: $31K in Sanctions 1 25 8mo +1h reason.com/volokh/2025/05/13/ai-hallucination-in-filings-involving-14th-largest-u-s-law-firm-lead-to-31k-in-sanctions 73VPN firm says it didn't know customers had lifetime subscriptions, cancels them 30 44 8mo +1h arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/05/vpn-firm-says-it-didnt-know-customers-had-lifetime-subscriptions-cancels-them 74Ash Framework – Model your domain, derive the rest 119 275 8mo +3d ash-hq.org 75Wise refuses to let us access our $60k AUD 141 180 8mo +26m hey.paris/posts/wise 76[deleted] 0 8mo +16s raycast.com 77You can no longer browse open source code on GitHub without logging in first 10 57 8mo +35m github.com/orgs/community/discussions/159123 78EM-LLM: Human-Inspired Episodic Memory for Infinite Context LLMs 10 113 8mo +3d github.com/em-llm/EM-LLM-model 79Writing that changed how I think about programming languages 59 440 8mo +1h bernsteinbear.com/blog/pl-writing 80Show HN: Mycelium 8 40 8mo +3d github.com/mycweb/mycelium 81Bus stops here: Shanghai lets riders design their own routes 353 485 8mo +16m sixthtone.com/news/1017072 82ChatGPT may be polite, but it's not cooperating with you 7 23 8mo +26m theguardian.com/technology/ng-interactive/2025/may/13/chatgpt-ai-big-tech-cooperation 83RPG in a Box 77 315 8mo +3d rpginabox.com 84Mipmap selection in too much detail 25 98 8mo +2d pema.dev/2025/05/09/mipmaps-too-much-detail 85How “The Great Gatsby” took over high school 182 73 8mo +13h newyorker.com/books/page-turner/how-the-great-gatsby-took-over-high-school 86Replicube: A puzzle game about writing code to create shapes 30 135 8mo +1h store.steampowered.com/app/3401490/Replicube 87I failed a take-home assignment from Kagi Search 353 280 8mo +29m bloggeroo.dev/articles/202504031434 88Show HN: I’ve built an IoT device to let my family know when I’m in a meeting 77 116 8mo +2d nullonerror.org/2025/05/11/i-have-built-an-iot-device-to-let-my-family-know-when-i-am-in-a-meeting 89DeepSeek’s founder is threatening US dominance in AI race 73 89 8mo +31m bloomberg.com/news/features/2025-05-13/deepseek-races-after-chatgpt-as-china-s-ai-industry-soars 90Airbnb is in midlife crisis mode 545 238 8mo +5h wired.com/story/airbnb-is-in-midlife-crisis-mode-reinvention-app-services 91A visual history of the safety pin 11 32 8mo +2d museumofeverydaylife.org/current-exhibitions/a-visual-history-of-the-safety-pin 92Less meat is nearly always better than sustainable meat 58 25 8mo +43m ourworldindata.org/less-meat-or-sustainable-meat 93Fingers wrinkle the same way every time they’re in the water too long 71 175 8mo +48m binghamton.edu/news/story/5547/do-your-fingers-wrinkle-the-same-way-every-time-youre-in-the-water-too-long-new-research-says-yes 94Map of Palaeohispanic Coins and Inscriptions 1 23 8mo +10m hesperia.ucm.eshttp:///consulta_hesperia/mapas.php 95When graphic design saves lives 4 32 8mo +3d news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2025/05/when-graphic-design-saves-lives 96 More... 2025.05.13