HckrNews (First visit) All HN frontpage stories in chronological order ⚙ Should I Block ICMP? 89 120 7mo +17m shouldiblockicmp.comhttp:// 1London’s water pumps: Where strange history flows freely (2024) 0 31 7mo +3d londonist.com/london/features/london-s-water-pump 2ITXPlus: A ITX Sized Macintosh Plus Logicboard Reproduction 31 123 7mo +57m 68kmla.org/bb/index.php?threads/itxplus-a-itx-sized-macintosh-plus-logicboard-reproduction.49715 3The Machine Stops (1909) 34 131 7mo +1h standardebooks.org/ebooks/e-m-forster/short-fiction/text/the-machine-stops 4µPC: Scaling Predictive Coding to 100 Layer Networks 0 29 7mo +2h arxiv.org/abs/2505.13124 5Making iText's table rendering faster 5 32 7mo +2d kb.itextpdf.com/itext/how-i-made-pdf-table-rendering-faster 6Rocky Linux 10 Will Support RISC-V 126 194 7mo +1h rockylinux.org/news/rockylinux-support-for-riscv 7A16Z Speedrun 12 27 8mo +3d speedrun.a16z.com 8Sorcerer (YC S24) Is Hiring a Lead Hardware Design Engineer 0 1 7mo +29s jobs.ashbyhq.com/sorcerer/6beb70de-9956-49b7-8e28-f48ea39efac6 9Show HN: Confidential computing for high-assurance RISC-V embedded systems 9 99 7mo +5m github.com/IBM/ACE-RISCV 10It’s So Over, We’re So Back: Doomer Techno-Optimism (2024) 27 36 7mo +16m americanaffairsjournal.org/2025/05/its-so-over-were-so-back-doomer-techno-optimism 11[dead] ? 6 7mo +3d lww.com 12The EPA Isn't Killing Diesel–Tuners Are Killing Their Own Credibility 14 11 7mo +1m carsandhorsepower.com/featured/why-diesel-tuners-are-the-biggest-hypocrites-in-the-car-scene 13Show HN: ClipJS – Edit your videos from a PC or phone 76 144 7mo +4m clipjs.vercel.app 14For algorithms, a little memory outweighs a lot of time 132 334 7mo +13m quantamagazine.org/for-algorithms-a-little-memory-outweighs-a-lot-of-time-20250521 15Newfound Mechanism Rewires Cellular Energy Processing for Drastic Weight Loss 5 15 7mo +4m nyulangone.org/news/newfound-mechanism-rewires-cellular-energy-processing-drastic-weight-loss 16Ratatoi is a C libary that wraps stdlib's strtol (as atoi does), but it's evil. 40 30 7mo +39m github.com/rept0id/ratatoi 17Show HN: Representing Agents as MCP Servers 16 56 7mo +2h github.com/lastmile-ai/mcp-agent/tree/main/examples/mcp_agent_server 18Show HN: Test your license plate identification skills 14 25 7mo +34m shub.club/games/good-or-bad-plate 19Possible new dwarf planet found in our solar system 99 158 7mo +38m minorplanetcenter.net/mpec/K25/K25K47.html 20An upgraded dev experience in Google AI Studio 109 190 7mo +1h developers.googleblog.com/en/google-ai-studio-native-code-generation-agentic-tools-upgrade 21Show HN: Appwrite Sites – the open-source vercel alternative 22 44 7mo +2d appwrite.io/blog/post/announcing-appwrite-sites 22The curious tale of Bhutan's playable record postage stamps (2015) 20 119 7mo +15m thevinylfactory.com/features/the-curious-tale-of-bhutans-playable-record-postage-stamps 23All That Glitters 6 32 7mo +2m magazine.atavist.com/all-that-glitters-jona-rechnitz-lawsuit-jadelle-jewelry-coba-ethereummax-mayweather 24Python Tooling at Scale: LlamaIndex’s Monorepo Overhaul 10 35 7mo +1h llamaindex.ai/blog/python-tooling-at-scale-llamaindex-s-monorepo-overhaul 25Building (Open Source) Custom Dashboards Is Harder Than You Think 0 31 7mo +51m langfuse.com/blog/2025-05-21-customizable-dashboards 26Harnessing the Universal Geometry of Embeddings 39 117 7mo +12m arxiv.org/abs/2505.12540 27Understanding the Go Scheduler 26 176 7mo +3d nghiant3223.github.io/2025/04/15/go-scheduler.html 28Visualizing entire Chromium include graph 4 67 7mo +2h blog.bkryza.com/posts/visualizing-chromium-include-graph 29By default, Signal doesn't recall 475 561 7mo +1h signal.org/blog/signal-doesnt-recall 30Gilded Fish: Illustrations of Histoire naturelle des dorades de la Chine c.1780 0 14 7mo +1m publicdomainreview.org/collection/chinese-fishes 31LLM function calls don't scale; code orchestration is simpler, more effective 99 279 7mo +21m jngiam.bearblog.dev/mcp-large-data 32Storefront Web Components 46 158 7mo +29m shopify.dev/docs/api/storefront-web-components 33The Era of the Business Idiot 126 112 7mo +51m wheresyoured.at/the-era-of-the-business-idiot 34Devstral 141 680 7mo +2h mistral.ai/news/devstral 35ZEUS – A new two-petawatt laser facility at the University of Michigan 105 123 7mo +1h news.engin.umich.edu/2025/05/the-us-has-a-new-most-powerful-laser 36Collaborative Text Editing Without CRDTs or OT 78 276 7mo +6m mattweidner.com/2025/05/21/text-without-crdts.html 37OpenAI to buy AI startup from Jony Ive 1111 811 7mo +4m bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-05-21/openai-to-buy-apple-veteran-jony-ive-s-ai-device-startup-in-6-5-billion-deal 38What Is the Difference Between a Block, a Proc, and a Lambda in Ruby? (2013) 52 84 7mo +2d blog.awaxman.com/what-is-the-difference-between-a-block-a-proc-and-a-lambda-in-ruby 39Show HN: Trendly AI – Trend detection across 42 languages 17 32 7mo +2h trendlyai.com 40Harper (YC W25) Is Hiring Applied AI / AI Context Engineers and Data Scientist 0 1 7mo +4s ycombinator.com/companies/harper/jobs 41Ask HN: How to Make Friendster Great? 134 91 7mo +24m 42Introducing the Llama Startup Program 69 187 7mo +28m ai.meta.com/blog/llama-startup-program/?_fb_noscript=1 43Model Context Protocol (MCP) Course 1 8 7mo +18m huggingface.co/learn/mcp-course/unit0/introduction 44Mitochondria Are More Than Powerhouses–They're the Motherboard of the Cell 48 103 7mo +6m scientificamerican.com/article/why-mitochondria-are-more-like-a-motherboard-than-the-powerhouse-of-the-cell 45Launch HN: SIM Studio (YC X25) – Figma-Like Canvas for Agent Workflows 32 53 7mo +17m 46Gender bias towards women entrepreneurs by VCs – a randomized response survey 4 16 7mo +7m tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13691066.2025.2493049 47What if Making Cartoons Becomes 90% Cheaper? 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