HckrNews (First visit) All HN frontpage stories in chronological order 32 bits that changed microprocessor design 51 133 7mo +36m spectrum.ieee.org/bellmac-32-ieee-milestone 1Stargate and the AI Industrial Revolution 18 21 7mo +1h davefriedman.substack.com/p/stargate-and-the-ai-industrial-revolution 2Faster Firewalls with Bpfilter 1 22 7mo +1h lwn.net/Articles/1017705 3Airport for DuckDB 28 140 7mo +3d airport.query.farm 4“Secret Mall Apartment,” a Protest for Place 69 101 7mo +55m modernagejournal.com/secret-mall-apartment-a-protest-for-place/251023 5Developers spend most of their time figuring the system out 4 22 7mo +3d lepiter.io/feenk/developers-spend-most-of-their-time-figuri-7aj1ocjhe765vvlln8qqbuhto 6Show HN: Defuddle, an HTML-to-Markdown alternative to Readability 66 395 7mo +1m github.com/kepano/defuddle 7The Next Abstraction 20 44 7mo +3h substack.com/inbox/post/164096497 8Show HN: Hsdlib – A C Library for Vector Similarity with SIMD Acceleration 0 38 7mo +3d 9Engineers and AI: ramblings of a small startup founder 3 15 7mo +50m labadal.com/blogs/ruminations/engineers-and-ai.html 10The Annotated Kolmogorov-Arnold Network (Kan) 2 35 7mo +33m alexzhang13.github.io/blog/2024/annotated-kan 11Trade Secrecy in Willy Wonka's Chocolate Factory (2009) 21 50 7mo +2m papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1430463 12When good pseudorandom numbers go bad 37 71 7mo +3d blog.djnavarro.net/posts/2025-05-18_multivariate-normal-sampling-floating-point 13It's So Over 6 18 7mo +13m itssoover.online 14Async from scratch 3: Pinned against the wall 0 44 7mo +34m natkr.com/2025-05-22-async-from-scratch-3 15Is Philosophy Still Useful in the Age of Science? 4 5 7mo +22m write.as/two-colours/as-someone-interested-in-pursuing-a-philosophy-phd-there-are-many-things-to 16Problems in AI alignment: A scale model 43 47 7mo +39m muldoon.cloud/2025/05/22/alignment.html 17Trump administration halts Harvard's ability to enroll international students 1001 879 7mo +2h nytimes.com/2025/05/22/us/politics/trump-harvard-international-students.html 18Show HN: rtcollector - A modular, RedisTimeSeries-native observability agent 0 9 7mo +3m github.com/xe-nvdk/rtcollector 19[dead] ? 14 7mo +14m nymag.com 20Research Uncovers Parthenon Spectacular Lighting Effects for Athena in Antiquity 3 30 7mo +3d arkeonews.net/research-uncovers-the-parthenons-spectacular-lighting-effects-for-athena-in-antiquity 21We’ll be ending web hosting for your apps on Glitch 131 209 7mo +2h blog.glitch.com/post/changes-are-coming-to-glitch 22Does Earth have two high-tide bulges on opposite sides? (2014) 89 290 7mo +17m physics.stackexchange.comhttp:///questions/121830/does-earth-really-have-two-high-tide-bulges-on-opposite-sides 23Practicing graphical debugging using visualizations of the Hilbert curve 1 34 7mo +21m akkartik.name/debugUIs.html 24Kangaroo: A flash cache optimized for tiny objects (2021) 1 21 7mo +5m engineering.fb.com/2021/10/26/core-infra/kangaroo 25Poireau: A Sampling Allocation Debugger 2 13 7mo +3d github.com/backtrace-labs/poireau 26How to cheat at settlers by loading the dice (2017) 115 147 7mo +7m izbicki.me/blog/how-to-cheat-at-settlers-of-catan-by-loading-the-dice-and-prove-it-with-p-values.html 27Loading Pydantic models from JSON without running out of memory 44 128 7mo +7m pythonspeed.com/articles/pydantic-json-memory 28Show HN: Pi Co-pilot – Evaluation of AI apps made easy 6 32 7mo +5h withpi.ai 29The "AI 2027" Scenario: How realistic is it? 212 129 7mo +11m garymarcus.substack.com/p/the-ai-2027-scenario-how-realistic 30Traditional and Neural Order-Independent Transparency 0 8 7mo +3d tobias-franke.eu/publications/tsopouridis25tnoit/index.html 31[dead] ? 12 7mo +24m osohq.com 32Microsoft-backed Builder.ai collapsed after finding potentially bogus sales 9 30 7mo +14m ft.com/content/926f4969-fda7-4e78-b106-4888c8704bda 33Mozilla to shut down Pocket and Fakespot 722 1174 7mo +41m support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/future-of-pocket 34Show HN: DockFlow – Switch between multiple macOS Dock layouts instantly 45 65 7mo +2m dockflow.appitstudio.com 35Ice Theft in Antarctica 28 11 7mo +51m nautil.us/ice-theft-in-antarctica-1210083 36Benchmarking Crimes Meet Formal Verification 6 37 7mo +3d microkerneldude.org/2025/04/27/benchmarking-crimes-meet-formal-verification 37Claude 4 1149 1976 7mo +36s anthropic.com/news/claude-4 38What Sam Altman told OpenAI about the device he's making with Jony Ive 84 35 7mo +2h wsj.com/tech/ai/what-sam-altman-told-openai-about-the-secret-device-hes-making-with-jony-ive-f1384005 39Near-infrared spatiotemporal color vision enabled by upconversion contact lenses 43 65 7mo +26m cell.com/cell/fulltext/S0092-8674(25)00454-4 40That fractal that's been up on my wall for years 38 551 7mo +4m chriskw.xyz/2025/05/21/Fractal 41Social media platforms: what's wrong, and what's next 57 44 7mo +52m scottgoci.com/social-media-platforms-whats-wrong-and-whats-next 42MCP explained without hype or fluff 68 162 7mo +12m blog.nilenso.com/blog/2025/05/12/mcp-explained-without-hype-or-fluff 43A South Korean grand master on the art of the perfect soy sauce 167 210 7mo +1d theguardian.com/world/2025/may/21/without-time-there-is-no-flavour-a-south-korean-grand-master-on-the-art-of-the-perfect-soy-sauce 44Launch HN: WorkDone (YC X25) – AI Audit of Medical Charts 58 75 7mo +5m 45Free-Threaded Python Library Compatibility Checker 7 36 7mo +2h ft-checker.com 46Show HN: Whenish – Plan Group Events in iMessages 56 40 7mo +1m apps.apple.com/us/app/whenish/id6745035749 47GodAmp: Reimplementation of Winamp 2.9 in Godot, with cross-platform support 9 30 7mo +1h github.com/Dowsley/GodAmp 48I Built My Own Audio Player 185 288 7mo +59m nexo.sh/posts/why-i-built-a-native-mp3-player-in-swiftui 49U.S. Spy Agencies–One-Stop Shop to Buy Your Personal Data 69 137 7mo +25m theintercept.com/2025/05/22/intel-agencies-buying-data-portal-privacy 50Show HN: Infinite Hagakure 13 28 7mo +46m hagakure.space 51Next Password Could Be Stored in Plastic 5 8 7mo +19m spectrum.ieee.org/plastic-data-storage 52The Philosophy of Byung-Chul Han (2020) 26 58 7mo +1h newintrigue.com/2020/06/29/the-philosophy-of-byung-chul-han 53Mini-satellite paves the way for quantum messaging anywhere on Earth 25 28 7mo +3d nature.com/articles/d41586-025-00581-7 54Sorry, grads: Entry-level tech jobs are getting wiped out 209 95 7mo +52m sfstandard.com/2025/05/20/silicon-valley-white-collar-recession-entry-level 55Fast Allocations in Ruby 3.5 66 262 7mo +2m railsatscale.com/2025-05-21-fast-allocations-in-ruby-3-5 56Adventures in Symbolic Algebra with Model Context Protocol 30 118 7mo +2m stephendiehl.com/posts/computer_algebra_mcp 57Everything’s a bug (or an issue) 27 64 7mo +3d bozemanpass.com/everythings-a-bug-or-an-issue 58Show HN: SQLite JavaScript - extend your database with JavaScript 54 193 7mo +2m github.com/sqliteai/sqlite-js 59Show HN: Forge – Secure, Multi-Tenant GitHub Actions Runners on K8s or EC2 5 13 7mo +3d github.com/cisco-open/forge 60Show HN: Curved Space Shader in Three.js (via 4D sphere projection) 23 68 7mo +1h github.com/bntre/CurvedSpaceShader 61Strengths and limitations of diffusion language models 7 71 7mo +2h seangoedecke.com/limitations-of-text-diffusion-models 62Robert Musil Forgotten Plays Inspired His Greatest Work of Fiction 6 17 7mo +59m lithub.com/the-austrian-writer-whose-forgotten-plays-inspired-his-greatest-work-of-fiction 63Improving performance of rav1d video decoder 114 298 7mo +19m ohadravid.github.io/posts/2025-05-rav1d-faster 64New Privacy Principles for a more trustworthy web 0 11 7mo 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we made our OCR code more accurate 46 58 7mo +1d pieces.app/blog/how-we-made-our-optical-character-recognition-ocr-code-more-accurate 72Some Life Lessons from VAX/VMS (2013) 8 29 7mo +46m davewentzel.com/content/some-life-lessons-from-vax-vms 73Ancient law requires a bale of straw to hang from Charing Cross rail bridge 143 143 7mo +1h ianvisits.co.uk/articles/ancient-law-requires-a-bale-of-hay-to-hang-from-charing-cross-rail-bridge-81318 74Planetfall 103 347 7mo +33m somethingaboutmaps.wordpress.com/2025/05/20/planetfall 75When a team is too big 142 121 7mo +3d blog.alexewerlof.com/p/when-a-team-is-too-big 76JEP 519: Compact Object Headers 10 72 7mo +13m openjdk.org/jeps/519 77Hotspot: Linux `perf` GUI for performance analysis 17 114 7mo +2d github.com/KDAB/hotspot 78Why does Debian change software? 204 276 7mo +43m blog.liw.fi/posts/2025/why-debian-changes 79ChatGPT Is a Gimmick 155 114 7mo +3h hedgehogreview.com/web-features/thr/posts/chatgpt-is-a-gimmick 80Single RGB camera turns your palm into a keyboard for mixed reality interaction 9 10 7mo +2d blog.arduino.cc/2025/05/09/a-single-rgb-camera-turns-your-palm-into-a-keyboard-for-mixed-reality-interaction 81Direct TLS can speed up your connections 47 91 7mo +54m marc-bowes.com/postgres-direct-tls.html 82The scientific “unit” we call the decibel 485 630 7mo +1h lcamtuf.substack.com/p/decibels-are-ridiculous 83Ancient reptile footprints are rewriting the history of when animals evolved 7 32 7mo +3d apnews.com/article/oldest-reptile-footprints-australia-963e3c38c8d5782e7ac20f5405f15f89 84Inigo Quilez: computer graphics, mathematics, shaders, fractals, demoscene 29 345 7mo +3d iquilezles.org/articles 85Dijkstra on Ada 47 65 7mo +3h craftofcoding.wordpress.com/2014/04/16/dijkstra-on-ada 86A lost decade chasing distributed architectures for data analytics? 109 214 7mo +2d duckdb.org/2025/05/19/the-lost-decade-of-small-data.html 87Indian police trying to read minds of suspects, over neuroscientists' objections 4 20 7mo +23m science.org/content/article/indian-police-are-trying-read-minds-suspects-over-neuroscientists-objections 88Kotlin-Lsp: Kotlin Language Server and Plugin for Visual Studio Code 117 169 7mo +1h github.com/Kotlin/kotlin-lsp 89Aligning LLM Choice to Your Use Case: An Expert's Guide 0 8 7mo +36m oblivus.com/blog/choosing-the-right-llm 90Material 3 Expressive 55 54 7mo +2d m3.material.io/blog/building-with-m3-expressive 91CPanel's IPv6 Overhaul 8 36 7mo +2h blog.apnic.net/2025/05/21/cpanels-ipv6-overhaul 92In the past year my illustration business has dropped more half 75 86 7mo +49m reverentgeek.com/ai-really-is-taking-my-job 93Did Akira Nishitani Lie in the 1994 Capcom vs. Data East Lawsuit? 4 40 7mo +2d thrillingtalesofoldvideogames.com/blog/akira-nishitani-capcom-data-east-lawsuit 94Getting a paper accepted 126 217 7mo +47m maxwellforbes.com/posts/how-to-get-a-paper-accepted 95Building software on top of large language models 0 36 7mo +5m 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