HckrNews (First visit) All HN frontpage stories in chronological order GTK Krell Monitors 35 91 8mo +2d gkrellm.srcbox.net 1Comparing floating-point numbers (2012) 3 26 8mo +2d randomascii.wordpress.com/2012/02/25/comparing-floating-point-numbers-2012-edition 2Show HN: Easel – Code multiplayer games like singleplayer 43 92 8mo +1d easel.games/about 3Initialization in C++ is bonkers (2017) 240 186 8mo +40m blog.tartanllama.xyz/initialization-is-bonkers 4A leap year check in three instructions 161 419 8mo +3m hueffner.de/falk/blog/a-leap-year-check-in-three-instructions.html 5Dolphin whistle decoders win $100k interspecies communication prize 3 34 8mo +17m theguardian.com/world/2025/may/15/us-scientists-who-deciphered-dolphin-whistles-win-prize-for-animal-communication 6ML-Enhanced Code Completion Improves Developer Productivity (2022) 4 21 8mo +2d research.google/blog/ml-enhanced-code-completion-improves-developer-productivity 7Stack Overflow is almost dead 239 130 8mo +43m blog.pragmaticengineer.com/stack-overflow-is-almost-dead 8Old and Small Technology 9 29 8mo +1h complete.org/old-and-small-technology 9Stop using REST for state synchronization (2024) 29 58 8mo +3h mbid.me/posts/stop-using-rest-for-state-synchronization 10A Tale of a Trailing Dot (2022) 6 31 8mo +2d daniel.haxx.se/blog/2022/05/12/a-tale-of-a-trailing-dot 11Tek – A music making program for 24-bit Unicode terminals 23 166 8mo +17m codeberg.org/unspeaker/tek 12Refactoring Clojure 31 94 8mo +45m orsolabs.com/post/refactoring-clojure-1 13The unreasonable effectiveness of an LLM agent loop with tool use 312 430 8mo +17m sketch.dev/blog/agent-loop 14The Scalar Select Anti-Pattern 7 44 8mo +23h matklad.github.io/2025/05/14/scalar-select-aniti-pattern.html 15Radiance Contrasts at Possible Lunar Water Ice Exposures Seen by ShadowCam 0 11 8mo +2d iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/PSJ/adb8d1 16October the First Is Too Late 11 23 8mo +7m gwern.net/fiction/october 17The current state of TLA⁺ development 37 138 8mo +22m ahelwer.ca/post/2025-05-15-tla-dev-status 18Improving Naval Ship Acquisition 125 71 8mo +1h construction-physics.com/p/fixing-naval-ship-acquisition 19Dr. Dobb's Journal interviews Jef Raskin (1986) 77 89 8mo +31m computeradsfromthepast.substack.com/p/dr-dobbs-journal-interviews-jef-raskin 20Baby is healed with first personalized gene-editing treatment 504 1199 8mo +1h nytimes.com/2025/05/15/health/gene-editing-personalized-rare-disorders.html 21“The Mind in the Wheel” lays out a new foundation for the science of mind 86 124 8mo +34m experimental-history.com/p/new-paradigm-for-psychology-just 22Windsurf SWE-1: Our First Frontier Models 58 183 8mo +14m windsurf.com/blog/windsurf-wave-9-swe-1 23ChatGPT could never get a PhD in geography 25 18 8mo +2d garymarcus.substack.com/p/chatgpt-blows-mapmaking-101 24Harvard Law paid $27 for a copy of Magna Carta. It's an original 143 192 8mo +9m nytimes.com/2025/05/15/world/europe/harvard-law-magna-carta-original.html 25I don't like NumPy 204 478 8mo +2h dynomight.net/numpy 26Rust 1.0, ten years later 0 13 8mo +3m steveklabnik.com/writing/rust-ten-years-later 27Ports that are blocked by browsers (2023) 10 48 8mo +2d keenformatics.com/ports-that-are-blocked-by-browsers 28High Available Mosquitto MQTT on Kubernetes 4 4 8mo +20m raymii.org/s/tutorials/High_Available_Mosquitto_MQTT_Broker_on_Kubernetes.html 29Demystifying Ruby: It's all about threads (2024) 6 77 8mo +3h blog.papey.fr/post/07-demystifying-ruby-01 30NASA's Voyager 1 Revives Backup Thrusters Before Command Pause 1 12 8mo +2m jpl.nasa.gov/news/nasas-voyager-1-revives-backup-thrusters-before-command-pause 31ARB Assembly Shader Programming (2023) 2 23 8mo +2h mid.net.ua/posts/glarbasm.html 32Show HN: Undetectag, track stolen items with AirTag 98 112 8mo +1h undetectag.com 33Researchers establish fundamental limit on how light bosonic dark matter can be 3 17 8mo +27m phys.org/news/2025-05-fundamental-limit-bosonic-dark.html 34Fetii (YC S22) Is Hiring 0 1 8mo +13s ycombinator.com/companies/fetii/jobs/QDjleWs-senior-operations-manager-fetii 35Model Organisms Are Not Static 14 42 8mo +1h asimov.press/p/model-organisms-are-not-static 36Onfim's world: Child artists in history 7 37 8mo +1m resobscura.substack.com/p/onfims-world-medieval-child-artists 37Walmart is preparing to welcome its next customer: the AI shopping agent 70 65 8mo +38m wsj.com/articles/walmart-is-preparing-to-welcome-its-next-customer-the-ai-shopping-agent-6659ef18 38The Fastest Way yet to Color Graphs 16 62 8mo +2d quantamagazine.org/the-fastest-way-yet-to-color-graphs-20250512 39I've never been so conflicted about a technology 116 57 8mo +50m marcjenkins.co.uk/conflicted-about-ai 40Gateway Books: The lessons of a defunct canon 19 24 8mo +2m thepointmag.com/examined-life/gateway-books 41Launch HN: Tinfoil (YC X25): Verifiable Privacy for Cloud AI 100 142 8mo +2m 42The Internet's Favorite Sex Researcher 4 8 8mo +4m theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/02/aella-internet-sex-researcher/681813 43[dead] ? 14 8mo +8m trophy.so 44Coinbase says hackers bribed staff to steal customer data, demanding $20M ransom 487 408 8mo +1m cnbc.com/2025/05/15/coinbase-says-hackers-bribed-staff-to-steal-customer-data-and-are-demanding-20-million-ransom.html 45An Update on Fresh 61 74 8mo +20m deno.com/blog/an-update-on-fresh 46They Were Identical 'Twinnies' Who Charmed Orwell, Camus and More 1 8 8mo +3d nytimes.com/2025/05/04/books/review/the-dazzling-paget-sisters-ariane-bankes.html 47Wavelet Trees: An Introduction (2011) 16 55 8mo +1m alexbowe.com/wavelet-trees 48California sent residents' personal health data to LinkedIn 111 183 8mo +28m themarkup.org/pixel-hunt/2025/04/28/how-california-sent-residents-personal-health-data-to-linkedin 49A Rust API Inspired by Python, Powered by Serde 26 57 8mo +3d ohadravid.github.io/posts/2025-05-serde-reflect 50Microsoft Lays Off TypeScript Compiler Veteran Ron Buckton 7 29 8mo +47s outlookbusiness.com/corporate/microsoft-lays-off-typescript-veteran-ron-buckton-amid-6000-job-cut-restructuring 51How we made billing backendless 41 42 8mo +4m useautumn.com/blog/backendless 52My 2025 high-end Linux PC 9 25 8mo +10m michael.stapelberg.ch/posts/2025-05-15-my-2025-high-end-linux-pc 53Show HN: Min.js style compression of tech docs for LLM context 52 175 8mo +15m github.com/marv1nnnnn/llm-min.txt 54My Engineering Craft Regressed 73 122 8mo +42m lemmy.ml/post/30100312 55A Tiny Boltzmann Machine 46 258 8mo +4m eoinmurray.info/boltzmann-machine 56Malicious compliance by booking an available meeting room 364 372 8mo +24m clientserver.dev/p/malicious-compliance-by-booking-an 57Forget IPs: using cryptography to verify bot and agent traffic 26 79 8mo +20m blog.cloudflare.com/web-bot-auth 58Pathfinding 45 153 8mo +1h juhrjuhr.itch.io/deep-space-exploitation/devlog/945428/9-pathfinding 59Lua for Elixir 77 210 8mo +2d davelucia.com/blog/lua-elixir 60Show HN: Real-Time Gaussian Splatting 51 141 8mo +7m github.com/axbycc/LiveSplat 61CarPlay Ultra, the next generation of CarPlay, begins rolling out today 106 64 8mo +36m apple.com/newsroom/2025/05/carplay-ultra-the-next-generation-of-carplay-begins-rolling-out-today 62Show HN: Kudos.wiki – Discover the best movies on Wikipedia 6 17 8mo +3h kudos.wiki 63The untold story of how Shopify killed DEI 27 13 8mo +22m thelogic.co/news/the-big-read/shopify-dei-build-native-build-black 64Experts say Silicon Valley prioritizes products over safety, AI research 4 14 8mo +10m cnbc.com/2025/05/14/meta-google-openai-artificial-intelligence-safety.html 65CFPB Kills Rule to Shield Americans from Data Brokers 4 20 8mo +29m wired.com/story/cfpb-quietly-kills-rule-to-shield-americans-from-data-brokers 66Clearly Incorrect 26 40 8mo +3d quarter--mile.com/Clearly-Incorrect 67They Paid $3,500 for Apple's Vision Pro. A Year Later, It Still Hurts 67 40 8mo +17m wsj.com/tech/they-paid-3-500-for-apples-vision-pro-a-year-later-it-still-hurts-496de341 68Netflix will show generative AI ads midway through streams in 2026 83 49 8mo +50m arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/05/netflix-will-show-generative-ai-ads-midway-through-streams-in-2026 69Moving Forth: a series on writing Forth kernels 11 69 8mo +6h bradrodriguez.com/papers/index.html 70PermitFlow (YC W22) Is Hiring Senior/Staff Engineers in NYC 0 1 8mo +12s jobs.ashbyhq.com/permitflow?departmentId=d33195eb-8978-4439-abc6-5a8a072de808 71In the US, a rotating detonation rocket engine takes flight 72 112 8mo +14m arstechnica.com/space/2025/05/venus-aerospace-flies-its-rotating-detonation-rocket-engine-for-the-first-time 72[dead] ? 5 8mo +3d urtech.ca 73Tesla has yet to start testing its robotaxi without driver weeks before launch 107 54 8mo +23m electrek.co/2025/05/14/tesla-yet-start-testing-robotaxi-service-without-driver-weeks-before-launch 74How Qatar Bought America 7 28 8mo +23m thefp.com/p/how-qatar-bought-america 75UK becomes fastest-growing G7 economy 16 11 8mo +16m apnews.com/article/uk-economy-growth-g7-reeves-2d7b9761e53d3d490c3181a1fa89651b 76[dead] ? 20 8mo +27m apnews.com 77Fast machines, slow machines (2023) 67 105 8mo +1d jmmv.dev/2023/06/fast-machines-slow-machines.html 78XAI's Grok suddenly can't stop bringing up "white genocide" in South Africa 72 219 8mo +14m arstechnica.com/ai/2025/05/xais-grok-suddenly-cant-stop-bringing-up-white-genocide-in-south-africa 79The 'invisible crew' who have 35 seconds to prevent a Eurovision blunder 53 58 8mo +39m bbc.com/news/articles/c1e679vn6yqo 80GM's new turbo engine rewrites the rules of torque control-and locks out tuners 58 34 8mo +2d carsandhorsepower.com/featured/gm-s-new-turbo-engine-patent-could-rewrite-the-rules-of-torque-control-and-lock-out-tuners-for-good 81[dead] ? 11 8mo +2h github.com 82Lightweight open source reCaptcha alternative 70 112 8mo +1d github.com/altcha-org/altcha 83Doom song on the Oldest Digital Computer in America [video] 13 50 8mo +3d youtube.com/watch?v=no0CkQk7id0 84EU ruling: tracking-based advertising [...] across Europe has no legal basis 170 225 8mo +40m iccl.ie/digital-data/eu-ruling-tracking-based-advertising-by-google-microsoft-amazon-x-across-europe-has-no-legal-basis 85EA Pushes Full Return to Office, Effectively Ends Remote Hiring 49 37 8mo +1h ign.com/articles/ea-pushes-full-return-to-office-effectively-ends-remote-hiring 86Tiptap (YC S23) Is Hiring 0 1 8mo +3s ycombinator.com/companies/tiptap/jobs/1S8DTcM-growth-manager 87Critical Warning for External Purchases in Apple App Store 59 68 8mo +11m mjtsai.com/blog/2025/05/14/critical-warning-for-external-purchases-in-app-store 88Working on complex systems: What I learned working at Google 142 285 8mo +1d thecoder.cafe/p/complex-systems 89[dead] ? 34 8mo +25m arstechnica.com 90Intelligence on Earth Evolved Independently at Least Twice 4 6 8mo +3d wired.com/story/intelligence-evolved-at-least-twice-in-vertebrate-animals 91Self-hostable webhook tester in go 15 76 8mo +1d testwebhook.xyz 92Internet Artifacts 139 677 8mo +1d neal.fun/internet-artifacts 93AI is like hyperprocessed foods for learning 21 24 8mo +1h blindsidenetworks.com/ai-is-like-hyperprocessed-food-for-learning 94Human 266 716 8mo +6m quarter--mile.com/Human 95Why agency and cognition are fundamentally not computational 31 26 8mo +1h frontiersin.org/journals/psychology/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2024.1362658/full 96LLMs get lost in multi-turn conversation 250 370 8mo +17m arxiv.org/abs/2505.06120 97Python lib generates its code on-the-fly based on usage 89 246 8mo +3d github.com/cofob/autogenlib 98When the Ground Thaws (2018) [pdf] 4 10 8mo +1d static1.squarespace.com/static/5eba1f61b311ac0566822d5c/t/5f9902b77170ec769cc8f263/1603863229261/Alexis+Bonogofsky%C2%A0+_+highdesertjournal.pdf 99MicroPython v1.25.0 25 101 8mo +10m github.com/micropython/micropython/releases/tag/v1.25.0 100Show HN: YapCards (iOS) – Voice-driven flashcards with AI feedback 8 20 8mo +8m 101Internet Scrabble Club (2002-) 24 55 8mo +3d isc.ro 102NASA Stennis's first open source software 32 78 8mo +1d nasa.gov/centers-and-facilities/stennis/stennis-first-open-source-software 103Copaganda: How Police and the Media Manipulate Our News 63 182 8mo +26m teenvogue.com/story/copaganda-when-the-police-and-the-media-manipulate-our-news 104UnitedHealth Group is under criminal investigation for possible Medicare fraud 9 46 8mo +9m wsj.com/us-news/unitedhealth-medicare-fraud-investigation-df80667f 105Tentative tree planting 'decades overdue' in sweltering Athens 0 10 8mo +28m phys.org/news/2025-04-tentative-tree-decades-overdue-sweltering.html 106 More... 2025.05.14