HckrNews (First visit) All HN frontpage stories in chronological order ⚙ The value isn't in the code (2022) 76 139 7mo +10m jonayre.uk/blog/2022/10/30/the-real-value-isnt-in-the-code 1What makes a good engineer also makes a good engineering organization (2024) 132 327 7mo +1d moxie.org/2024/09/23/a-good-engineer.html 2“ZLinq”, a Zero-Allocation LINQ Library for .NET 88 266 7mo +13m neuecc.medium.com/zlinq-a-zero-allocation-linq-library-for-net-1bb0a3e5c749 3High Levels of Arsenic Found in Rice Sold Across the U.S. 12 11 7mo +4m delish.com/food-news/a64801080/arsenic-in-rice-new-study 4Semantic search engine for ArXiv, biorxiv and medrxiv 31 146 7mo +24m arxivxplorer.com 5Our Journey Through Linux/Unix Landscapes 17 19 7mo +56m blog.kalvad.com/our-journey-through-linux-unix-landscapes 6A disk is a bunch of bits (2023) 6 35 8mo +3d cyberdemon.org/2023/07/19/bunch-of-bits.html 7Creating Lighting in a 2D Game 2 8 7mo +10m dorf-rts.com/dev-blog/normal-maps-and-lighting 8Show HN: A Simple Server to Match Long/Lat to a TimeZone 27 48 7mo +3m github.com/LittleGreenViper/LGV_TZ_Lookup 9Show HN: I made IP-to-Geo location data library for developers 7 9 7mo +40m ip2geo.framer.website 10Project Mariner – Browser-Based AI Agent 0 12 7mo +12m deepmind.google/models/project-mariner 11Photos in a Similar Style Aren't Copyright-Infringing–Woodland vs. Lil Nas X 11 31 7mo +30m blog.ericgoldman.org/archives/2025/05/photos-in-a-similar-style-arent-copyright-infringing-woodland-v-lil-nas-x.htm 12My favourite fonts to use with LaTeX (2022) 51 192 8mo +3d lfe.pt/latex/fonts/typography/2022/11/21/latex-fonts-part1.html 13Show HN: Bricks – One Click Dashboards from Your Data Using AI 12 23 7mo +1h app.thebricks.com/sign-up 14Litestream: Revamped 95 446 7mo +3m fly.io/blog/litestream-revamped 15Gemma 3n preview: Mobile-first AI 155 435 7mo +1h developers.googleblog.com/en/introducing-gemma-3n 16ChatGPT Helps Students Feign ADHD: An Analogue Study on AI-Assisted Coaching 46 44 7mo +2h link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12207-025-09538-7 17Animations Using Math Editor 2 17 8mo +3d luiscristovao.github.io/CSS-Animation-Engine/crazy_animations/game.html 18Red Programming Language 125 206 7mo +1h red-lang.org/p/about.html 19Google AI Ultra 326 313 7mo +47m blog.google/products/google-one/google-ai-ultra 20The NSA Selector 79 298 7mo +37m github.com/wenzellabs/the_NSA_selector 21On-device small language models with multimodality, RAG, and Function Calling 1 14 7mo +24m developers.googleblog.com/en/google-ai-edge-small-language-models-multimodality-rag-function-calling 22Gail Wellington, former Commodore executive, has died 50 104 8mo +2d legacy.com/us/obituaries/name/gail-wellington-obituary?id=58418580 23Gemma 3n preview: Mobile-first AI 1 128 7mo +20m developers.googleblog.com/en/introducing-gemma-3n 24Effort and Challenges in Building Embedded Audio DSP Software Across Platforms 6 20 7mo +1d switchboard.audio/hub/building-embedded-audio-dsp 25Veo 3 and Imagen 4, and a new tool for filmmaking called Flow 518 810 7mo +2m blog.google/technology/ai/generative-media-models-io-2025 26The Last Letter 33 84 7mo +1m aeon.co/essays/how-the-last-letters-of-the-condemned-can-teach-us-how-to-live 27The Dawn of Nvidia's Technology 73 186 7mo +4m blog.dshr.org/2025/05/the-dawn-of-nvidias-technology.html 28Ashby (YC W19) Is Hiring Engineering Managers 0 1 7mo +27s ashbyhq.com/careers?utm_source=hn&ashby_jid=933570bc-a3d6-4fcc-991d-dc399c53a58a 29Google is giving Amazon a leg up in digital book sales 76 108 8mo +3d washingtonpost.com/technology/2025/05/16/google-amazon-ebooks-apps 30Show HN: Olelo Foil - NACA Airfoil Sim 19 35 7mo +6m foil.olelohonua.com 31Show HN: Juvio – UV Kernel for Jupyter 26 112 7mo +5m github.com/OKUA1/juvio 32Robin: A multi-agent system for automating scientific discovery 19 148 7mo +17m arxiv.org/abs/2505.13400 33Teachable Machine 12 72 7mo +15m teachablemachine.withgoogle.com 34Microsoft-backed Builder.ai enters insolvency proceedings 4 26 7mo +30m techcrunch.com/2025/05/20/once-worth-over-1b-microsoft-backed-builder-ai-is-running-out-of-money 35Hypervisor as a Library 2 54 7mo +10h seiya.me/blog/hypervisor-as-a-library 36GPU-Driven Clustered Forward Renderer 28 113 7mo +3m logdahl.net/p/gpu-driven 37The Fractured Entangled Representation Hypothesis 22 57 7mo +2m github.com/akarshkumar0101/fer 38Production tests: a guidebook for better systems and more sleep 9 74 8mo +3d martincapodici.com/2025/05/13/production-tests-a-guidebook-for-better-systems-and-more-sleep 39Launch HN: Opusense (YC X25) – AI assistant for construction inspectors on site 19 33 7mo +8m 40OpenAI Codex hands-on review 120 165 7mo +1h zackproser.com/blog/openai-codex-review 41If an AI agent can't figure out how your API works, neither can your users 52 97 7mo +46m stytch.com/blog/if-an-ai-agent-cant-figure-out-how-your-api-works-neither-can-your-users 42Show HN: A Tiling Window Manager for Windows, Written in Janet 103 288 7mo +3m agent-kilo.github.io/jwno 43Show HN: 90s.dev – Game maker that runs on the web 111 346 7mo +4m 90s.dev/blog/finally-releasing-90s-dev.html 44Show HN: Astra – a new js2exe compiler 32 60 7mo +3m github.com/astracompiler/cli 45RepoRoulette: Randomly sample repositories from GitHub 3 22 8mo +2d github.com/gojiplus/reporoulette 46The Lisp in the Cellar: Dependent types that live upstairs [pdf] 19 86 7mo +38m zenodo.org/records/15424968 47CRLF Injection in `–proxy-header` allows extra HTTP headers (CWE-93) 16 11 7mo +2h hackerone.com/reports/3133379 48LLM-D: Kubernetes-Native Distributed Inference 15 119 7mo +1h llm-d.ai/blog/llm-d-announce 49Deep Learning Is Applied Topology 180 494 7mo +2m theahura.substack.com/p/deep-learning-is-applied-topology 50Experts Have It Easy 1 16 8mo +3d boydkane.com/essays/experts 51Ogmo – free, open source, 2D level editor 11 83 7mo +6m ogmo-editor-3.github.io 52Poll: How often do you bathe? 79 36 7mo +22m 53Firewalls and BIOS's and Coreboot (2020) 6 16 7mo +51m hagensieker.com/2020/11/08/firewalls-and-bioss-and-coreboot 54Compiling OCaml to the TI-84 CE Calculator 5 108 8mo +2d farlow.dev/2025/05/17/ocaml-on-calculator 55What happened to American manufacturing is not unusual 19 18 7mo +22m blog.waldrn.com/p/what-happened-to-american-manufacturing 56Show HN: Text to 3D simulation on a map (does history pretty well) 48 70 7mo +49m mused.com/map 57Show HN: JavaFactory – IntelliJ plugin to generate Java code 26 44 7mo +41m github.com/JavaFactoryPluginDev/javafactory-plugin 58Show HN: Output – An AI Agent That Controls Your Computer (Mac and Windows) 14 15 7mo +1h theoutput.co 59Exploring an Extreme Wealth Line 8 8 7mo +13m neweconomics.org/2025/01/exploring-an-extreme-wealth-line 60Austin's Reign as a Tech Hub Might Be Coming to an End 25 24 7mo +18m wsj.com/articles/austins-reign-as-a-tech-hub-might-be-coming-to-an-end-02836bc3 61Linguists find proof of sweeping language pattern once deemed a 'hoax' 136 130 7mo +1d scientificamerican.com/article/linguists-find-proof-of-sweeping-language-pattern-once-deemed-a-hoax 62Why does the U.S. always run a trade deficit? 767 316 7mo +8m libertystreeteconomics.newyorkfed.org/2025/05/why-does-the-u-s-always-run-a-trade-deficit 63[dead] ? 11 7mo +5m theintellectualist.com 64Can Sam Altman Be Trusted with the Future? 13 19 7mo +4m newyorker.com/books/under-review/can-sam-altman-be-trusted-with-the-future 65Reports of Deno's Demise Have Been Greatly Exaggerated 200 221 7mo +13m deno.com/blog/greatly-exaggerated 66Metal – stealth browser for enterprise automations 14 9 7mo +50m metalsecurity.io 67Show HN: AnydocAI – Every file exists as all file types 67 22 8mo +3d anydocai.com 68AI's energy footprint 340 307 7mo +31m technologyreview.com/2025/05/20/1116327/ai-energy-usage-climate-footprint-big-tech 69The emoji problem (2022) 62 330 7mo +7m artofproblemsolving.com/community/c2532359h2760821_the_emoji_problem__part_i?srsltid=AfmBOor9TbMq_A7hGHSJGfoWaa2HNzducSYZu35d_LFlCSNLXpvt-pdS 70A simple search engine from scratch 59 284 7mo +23m bernsteinbear.com/blog/simple-search 71The behavior of LLMs in hiring decisions: Systemic biases in candidate selection 181 191 7mo +41m davidrozado.substack.com/p/the-strange-behavior-of-llms-in-hiring 72Precomputing Transparency Order in 3D 3 14 8mo +2d jacobdoescode.com/2025/05/18/precomputing-transparency-order-in-3d 73Mary Queen of Scots Channel Anamorphosis, a 3D Simulation 1 11 8mo +2d charlespetzold.com/blog/2025/05/Mary-Queen-of-Scots-Channel-Anamorphosis-A-3D-Simulation.html 74Center for AI Safety's new spokesperson suggests „burning down labs" 25 14 7mo +25m twitter.com/drtechlash/status/1924639190958199115 75Finland announces migration of its rail network to international gauge 444 455 7mo +26m yle.fi/a/74-20161606 76Questioning Representational Optimism in Deep Learning 7 46 7mo +1h github.com/akarshkumar0101/fer 77The Entropy of Thought: Why Our Minds Gravitate Toward Divided Realities 5 16 7mo +22m victoranastasiu.medium.com/the-entropy-of-thought-why-our-minds-gravitate-toward-divided-realities-7ce43c83b785 78I trapped an AI model inside an art installation [video] 2 30 7mo +6m youtube.com/watch?v=7fNYj0EXxMs 79Solving physics-based initial value problems with unsupervised machine learning 8 27 8mo +3d link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevE.111.055302 80Ask HN: Do people actually pay for small web tools? 65 57 8mo +2d 81Cleo, the mathematician that tricked Stack Exchange 9 68 7mo +1h en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cleo_(mathematician) 82Making video games (without an engine) in 2025 242 556 7mo +45m noelberry.ca/posts/making_games_in_2025 83Experimentation Matters: Why Nuenki isn't using pairwise evaluations 0 6 8mo +3d nuenki.app/blog/experimentation_matters_why_we_arent_using_pairwise 84AI in my plasma physics research didn’t go the way I expected 289 361 7mo +51m understandingai.org/p/i-got-fooled-by-ai-for-science-hypeheres 85U.S. banks are sitting on $500B worth of unrealized losses 2 15 7mo +18m investorsobserver.com/news/rising-stock-prices-wont-fix-this-u-s-banks-are-sitting-on-500b-worth-of-unrealized-losses 86Solving the local optima problem – NQueens 3 11 8mo +3d github.com/Dpbm/n-rainhas/blob/main/readme-en.md 87Biff – a batteries-included web framework for Clojure 23 133 7mo +1h biffweb.com 88Ann, the Small Annotation Server 11 76 7mo +1h mccd.space/posts/design-pitch-ann 89It's Breathtaking How Fast AI Is Screwing Up the Education System 67 61 7mo +17m gizmodo.com/its-breathtaking-how-fast-ai-is-screwing-up-the-education-system-2000603100 90A man who visited every country in the world without boarding a plane (2023) 61 138 8mo +2d theguardian.com/travel/2023/aug/16/take-the-high-road-the-man-who-visited-every-country-in-the-world-without-boarding-a-plane 91Show HN: A free, privacy preserving, archive of public Discord servers 64 66 7mo +39m searchcord.io 92Ask HN: When will managers be replaced by AI? 83 59 7mo +39m 93What are people doing? Live-ish estimates based on global population dynamics 101 279 7mo +55m humans.maxcomperatore.com 94Old Growth Wood 13 37 7mo +1h brenthull.com/article/old-growth-wood 95I let lasers power my smart home – and I don't want to go back 18 26 8mo +2d theverge.com/tech/663899/wi-charge-alfred-smart-lock-wireless-power-review 96Memory Consistency Models: A Tutorial 5 57 7mo +51m jamesbornholt.com/blog/memory-models 97A shower thought turned into a Collatz visualization 25 134 7mo +20m abstractnonsense.com/collatz 98DDoSecrets publishes 410 GB of heap dumps, hacked from TeleMessage 185 660 7mo +30m micahflee.com/ddosecrets-publishes-410-gb-of-heap-dumps-hacked-from-telemessages-archive-server 99Patience too cheap to meter 25 76 8mo +2d seangoedecke.com/patience-too-cheap-to-meter 100Microbes in Gowanus teach lessons on fighting industrial pollution 6 25 8mo +3d engineering.nyu.edu/news/microbes-brooklyn-superfund-site-teach-lessons-fighting-industrial-pollution 101Is-even-ai – Check if a number is even using the power of AI 158 300 7mo +28m npmjs.com/package/is-even-ai 102Terraform MCP Server 20 103 7mo +1h github.com/hashicorp/terraform-mcp-server 103 More... 2025.05.19