HckrNews (First visit) All HN frontpage stories in chronological order Federal agencies continue terminating all funding to Harvard 125 115 8mo +21m arstechnica.com/science/2025/05/feds-continue-effort-to-defund-research-at-harvard 1“Streaming vs. Batch” Is a Wrong Dichotomy, and I Think It's Confusing 42 68 8mo +3d morling.dev/blog/streaming-vs-batch-wrong-dichotomy 2Why Are There So Many 'Alternative Devices' All of a Sudden? 59 55 8mo +9h theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2025/05/alternative-device-fair/682837 3FreeBASIC is a free/open source BASIC compiler for Windows DOS and Linux 42 113 8mo +33m freebasic.net 4The Lost Japanese ROM of the Macintosh Plus 45 149 8mo +7m journaldulapin.com/2025/05/17/the-lost-japanese-rom-of-the-macintosh-plus-which-isnt-lost-anymore 5Bike-mounted sensor could boost the mapping of safe cycling routes 62 95 8mo +3d newatlas.com/bicycles/proxicycle-bicycle-sensor-safe-cycling-routes 6Unspoken Currency of Office Politics: Leverage and Sanction Between Coworkers 16 86 8mo +1h graphthinking.blogspot.com/2025/05/leverage-and-sanction-between-coworkers.html 7Google Chrome data leakage bug confirmed as actively exploited 1 15 8mo +2m scworld.com/news/google-chrome-bug-that-could-leak-sensitive-info-actively-exploited 8Remembering IBM Researcher Dick Garwin 1 17 8mo +3d research.ibm.com/blog/richard-garwin-obituary 9Jamie Lee Curtis publicly shamed Mark Zuckerberg to remove a deepfaked ad 4 20 8mo +9m engadget.com/social-media/jamie-lee-curtis-publicly-shamed-mark-zuckerberg-to-remove-a-deepfaked-ad-225448916.html 10New York Bans Smartphones in Schools, Joining National Movement 9 21 8mo +40m nytimes.com/2025/04/29/nyregion/nyc-schools-cellphone-ban.html 11Understanding Transformers via N-gram Statistics 16 132 8mo +1h arxiv.org/abs/2407.12034 12[dead] ? 17 8mo +3d gearmusk.com 13Starship Troopers Revolutionize Warfighting 55 39 8mo +1h perfectingequilibrium.substack.com/p/starship-troopers-revolutionize-warfighting 14Xata: Postgres at scale, with copy-on-write branching and anonymization 16 45 8mo +2h xata.io/blog/xata-postgres-with-data-branching-and-pii-anonymization 15LLMs are more persuasive than incentivized human persuaders 114 138 8mo +49m arxiv.org/abs/2505.09662 16Espanso – Cross-Platform Text Expander Written in Rust 36 129 8mo +3d github.com/espanso/espanso 17Directory of MCP Servers 61 183 8mo +1h github.com/chatmcp/mcpso 18A library of words: Discovering Roget's Thesaurus (2023) 13 45 8mo +2d austinkleon.substack.com/p/a-library-of-words 19Wacom drawing tablets track the name of every application you open (2020) 51 107 8mo +29m robertheaton.com/2020/02/05/wacom-drawing-tablets-track-name-of-every-application-you-open 20We fall for fake health information – and how it spreads faster than facts 9 26 8mo +32m theconversation.com/why-we-fall-for-fake-health-information-and-how-it-spreads-faster-than-facts-250718 21UK hospitals doubt Palantir utility: We'd 'lose functionality rather than gain' 2 17 8mo +3m theregister.com/2025/05/16/nhs_hospitals_palantir 22Racket – the Language-Oriented Programming Language – 8.17 is now available 3 45 8mo +1h blog.racket-lang.org/2025/05/racket-v8-17.html 23A Simulation in C++ of Joseph Weizenbaum's 1966 Eliza 6 33 8mo +2h github.com/anthay/ELIZA 24Gnosis Evolve MCP for Claude Desktop 2 18 8mo +2h github.com/kordless/gnosis-evolve/blob/main/README.md 25Lufthansa plane flown by autopilot after pilot faints in cockpit 49 54 8mo +1h scmp.com/news/world/europe/article/3310779/lufthansa-plane-flown-autopilot-after-pilot-faints-cockpit 26Largest database of nanosatellites, over 4400 nanosats and CubeSats 1 12 8mo +1h nanosats.eu 27OCaml Web Development: Essential Tools and Libraries in 2025 4 26 8mo +23m tarides.com/blog/2025-05-15-ocaml-web-development-essential-tools-and-libraries-in-2025 28Coding without a laptop: Two weeks with AR glasses and Linux on Android 372 987 8mo +3d holdtherobot.com/blog/2025/05/11/linux-on-android-with-ar-glasses 29NASA Observes First Visible-Light Auroras at Mars 6 34 8mo +3d jpl.nasa.gov/news/nasa-observes-first-visible-light-auroras-at-mars 30Mystical 45 422 8mo +58m suberic.net/~dmm/projects/mystical/README.html 31O2 VoLTE: locating any customer with a phone call 73 338 8mo +5h mastdatabase.co.uk/blog/2025/05/o2-expose-customer-location-call-4g 32Moment of heart's formation captured in images for first time 18 87 8mo +3d theguardian.com/science/2025/may/13/heart-cells-mouse-embryo-science-research 33Hwacha: Ancient Korea Invented a Rocket Launcher in the 15th Century 3 10 8mo +33m utubepublisher.in/2025/05/Hwacha-weapon.html 34Show HN: I built a knife steel comparison tool 84 141 8mo +45m new.knife.day/blog/knife-steel-comparisons/all 35A brief history of Mac architecture transitions 1 6 8mo +8h eclecticlight.co/2025/05/17/a-brief-history-of-architecture-transitions 36Dead Stars Don’t Radiate 142 242 8mo +2m johncarlosbaez.wordpress.com/2025/05/17/dead-stars-dont-radiate-and-shrink 37The longest train journey is epic – but nobody's ever taken it 44 101 8mo +18m bigthink.com/strange-maps/portugal-to-singapore-train 38Best open source LLMs for Enterprise 1 10 8mo +22m enterprisebot.ai/blog/the-best-open-source-llms-for-enterprise 39Switch to EU 3 10 8mo +12m switch-to.eu/en 40No One Can Explain Why Planes Stay in the Air (2020) 22 12 8mo +23m scientificamerican.com/video/no-one-can-explain-why-planes-stay-in-the-air 41How to have the browser pick a contrasting color in CSS 73 258 8mo +1h webkit.org/blog/16929/contrast-color 42Mr. Secretary, Reclassify the Statin 14 20 8mo +38m alexkesin.com/p/mr-secretary-reclassify-the-statin 43How I fixed the infamous Basilisk II Windows “Black Screen” bug in 2013 10 78 8mo +2d downtowndougbrown.com/2025/05/how-i-fixed-the-infamous-basilisk-ii-windows-black-screen-bug-in-2013 44Proton threatens to quit Switzerland over new surveillance law 210 479 8mo +1h techradar.com/vpn/vpn-privacy-security/we-would-be-less-confidential-than-google-proton-threatens-to-quit-switzerland-over-new-surveillance-law 45Insurance for AI: Easier Said Than Done 19 48 8mo +3d loeber.substack.com/p/24-insurance-for-ai-easier-said-than 46If nothing is curated, how do we find things 247 347 8mo +23m tadaima.bearblog.dev/if-nothing-is-curated-how-do-we-find-things 47Energy drinks linked to rise in colorectal and blood cancer 30 38 8mo +1h thenightly.com.au/society/health/doctors-issue-urgent-warning-over-cancer-causing-energy-drink-ingredient-taurine-c-18699404 48How Cory Arcangel Recovered Late Artist Michel Majerus's Digital Legacy 5 13 8mo +2d newyorker.com/culture/infinite-scroll/how-cory-arcangel-recovered-a-late-artists-digital-legacy 49Steepest Descent Density Control for Compact 3D Gaussian Splatting 0 29 8mo +1h arxiv.org/abs/2505.05587 50FDA Clears First Blood Test to Diagnose Alzheimer's 7 20 8mo +1h bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-05-16/fda-approves-first-blood-test-to-diagnose-alzheimer-s-disease 51MIT paper on AI for materials research found to be fraudulent 8 54 8mo +4h thebsdetector.substack.com/p/ai-materials-and-fraud-oh-my 52Palette lighting tricks on the Nintendo 64 53 221 8mo +1m 30fps.net/pages/palette-lighting-tricks-n64 53Chapter 2: Serializability Theory (1987 Concurrency Control Book) 0 32 8mo +2d muratbuffalo.blogspot.comhttp:///2025/05/chapter-2-serializability-theory.html 54OBNC – Oberon-07 Compiler 23 67 8mo +1h miasap.se/obnc 55Pyrefly: A new type checker and IDE experience for Python 160 231 8mo +1h engineering.fb.com/2025/05/15/developer-tools/introducing-pyrefly-a-new-type-checker-and-ide-experience-for-python 56Life before the web – Running a Startup in the 1980's (2016) 7 40 8mo +4h blog.zamzar.com/2016/07/13/life-before-the-web-running-a-startup-in-the-1980s 57Focus Is Relaxing 0 4 8mo +6m afarah.info/public/blog/focus/index.html?_r=hn 58Laser-Induced Graphene from Commercial Inks and Dyes 6 31 8mo +2d advanced.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/advs.202412167 59The Japanese method of creating forests comes to Mexico 3 88 8mo +25m english.elpais.com/climate/2025-05-17/miyawaki-in-nezahualcoyotl-the-japanese-method-of-creating-forests-comes-to-mexico.html 60Moody's downgrades United States credit rating 3 16 8mo +39m cnbc.com/2025/05/16/moodys-downgrades-united-states-credit-rating-on-increase-in-government-debt.html 61Push Ifs Up and Fors Down 196 547 8mo +3h matklad.github.io/2023/11/15/push-ifs-up-and-fors-down.html 62You do not need NixOS on the desktop 94 62 8mo +4h aruarian.dance/blog/you-do-not-need-nixos 63No-boom supersonic flights could slide through US skies soon 44 34 8mo +16m theregister.com/2025/05/17/faa_supersonic_law 64IM-2's Imperfect Landing Due to Altimeter Interference 4 15 8mo +2d spacepolicyonline.com/news/im-2s-imperfect-landing-due-to-altimeter-interference-south-pole-lighting-conditions 65Open Problems in Computational geometry 12 92 8mo +2h topp.openproblem.net 66MinorMiner: We turn your kid's maths homework into Bitcoin 11 55 8mo +1h robertheaton.com/minor-miner 67Oracle VM VirtualBox – VM Escape via VGA Device 47 91 8mo +1d github.com/google/security-research/security/advisories/GHSA-qx2m-rcpc-v43v 68Transformer neural net learns to run Conway's Game of Life just from examples 35 69 8mo +1h sidsite.com/posts/life-transformer 69Why Moderna Merged Its Tech and HR Departments 55 38 8mo +3d wsj.com/articles/why-moderna-merged-its-tech-and-hr-departments-95318c2a 70What I Know About Cleaning and Seasoning Cast-Iron Skillets (2021) 4 18 8mo +52m americastestkitchen.com/articles/3615-how-to-clean-and-season-cast-iron-skillets 71Implementing a RISC-V Hypervisor 5 111 8mo +2h seiya.me/blog/riscv-hypervisor 72Popcorn: Run Elixir in WASM 27 141 8mo +1d popcorn.swmansion.com 73GlobalWafers to invest 4B dollars in wafer manufacturing in the USA 4 9 8mo +19m tomshardware.com/tech-industry/semiconductors/globalwafers-to-invest-usd4-billion-into-u-s-chip-manufacturing-after-opening-texas-plant 74Publisher: The Malloy Semantic Model Server 0 19 8mo +2h github.com/malloydata/publisher 75A Critical Look at "A Critical Look at MCP." 13 33 8mo +31m docs.mcp.run/blog/2025/05/16/mcp-implenda-est 76Identifying almost any x86 CPU (2004) 1 16 8mo +46m web.archive.orghttp:///web/20040604002243/http://debs.future.easyspace.com/Programming/OS/cpuid.txt 77Catalog of Novel Operating Systems 62 186 8mo +1h github.com/prathyvsh/os-catalog 78[dead] ? 5 8mo +1h openai-codex.dev 79Fixrleak: Fixing Java Resource Leaks with GenAI 15 17 8mo +3d uber.com/blog/fixrleak-fixing-java-resource-leaks-with-genai 80JavaScript's New Superpower: Explicit Resource Management 230 326 8mo +1h v8.dev/features/explicit-resource-management 81Japan's IC cards are weird and wonderful 291 347 8mo +1d aruarian.dance/blog/japan-ic-cards 82Hunting extreme microbes that redefine the limits of life 2 33 8mo +2d nature.com/articles/d41586-025-01464-7 83How can traditional British TV survive the US streaming giants 302 88 8mo +2d bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cx2enydkew3o 84Show HN: Fahmatrix – A Lightweight, Pandas-Like DataFrame Library for Java 13 46 8mo +4m github.com/moustafa-nasr/fahmatrix 85GitHub Models API now available 1 14 8mo +22m github.blog/changelog/2025-05-15-github-models-api-now-available 86The Joys of Discovering the Roman Underground 18 30 8mo +1d smithsonianmag.com/travel/the-joys-of-discovering-the-roman-underground-from-the-colosseum-to-whats-beneath-the-trevi-foundation-180986626 87A kernel developer plays with Home Assistant 7 138 8mo +1h lwn.net/SubscriberLink/1017720/7155ecb9602e9ef2 88Behind Silicon Valley and the GOP’s campaign to ban state AI laws 92 115 8mo +1h bloodinthemachine.com/p/de-democratizing-ai 89Google worried it couldn't control how Israel uses Project Nimbus, files reveal 20 69 8mo +3h theintercept.com/2025/05/12/google-nimbus-israel-military-ai-human-rights 90Big Tech takes a harder line against worker activism, political dissent 2 37 8mo +41m washingtonpost.com/technology/2025/05/16/silicon-valley-workers-dissent-employment-layoffs-whistleblowers 91The Airplane 'Barf Bag' Is a Genius Invention Most People Never Think About 6 7 8mo +3d theautopian.com/the-airplane-barf-bag-is-a-genius-invention-most-people-never-think-about-and-using-one-blew-my-mind 92Postman for MCP 10 31 8mo +43m usetexture.com/## 93Wow@Home – Network of Amateur Radio Telescopes 33 194 8mo +44m phl.upr.edu/wow/outreach 94[dead] ? 18 8mo +32m kokoroai.org 95XTool – Cross-platform Xcode replacement 64 194 8mo +14m github.com/xtool-org/xtool 96Show HN: Roast My Dish – AI roasts your food photos with brutal honesty 9 17 8mo +1h roastmydish.online 97New high-quality hash measures 71GB/s on M4 52 146 8mo +2d github.com/Nicoshev/rapidhash 98A kernel developer plays with Home Assistant 210 190 8mo +24m 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