HckrNews (First visit) All HN frontpage stories in chronological order One of the Most Popular Games on the Planet 29 53 7mo +2d kotaku.com/grow-a-garden-roblox-5-million-active-users-record-pc-1851781824 1The Verse Calculus: A Core Calculus for Functional Logic Programming [pdf] 17 48 7mo +3h simon.peytonjones.org/assets/pdfs/verse-March23.pdf 2Is America headed for an age of dumb phones? 49 31 7mo +13m businessinsider.com/appstinence-movement-tech-lovers-dumping-smartphones-age-of-dumb-phones-2025-5 3An Almost Pointless Exercise in GPU Optimization 3 85 7mo +3d blog.speechmatics.com/pointless-gpu-optimization-exercise 4Scientific conferences are leaving the US amid border fears 390 414 7mo +43m nature.com/articles/d41586-025-01636-5 5Why old games never die, but new ones do 317 291 7mo +42m pleromanonx86.wordpress.com/2025/05/06/why-old-games-never-die-but-new-ones-do 6The Last Nomads 6 24 7mo +2d thedial.world/articles/news/issue-28/georgia-adjara-highlands-nomads 7Using the Apple ][+ with the RetroTink-5X 18 52 7mo +22m nicole.express/2025/apple-ii-more-like-apple-5x.html 8Show HN: 1 min workouts for people who sit all day 83 146 7mo +49m shortreps.com 9The Logistics of Road War in the Wasteland 43 98 7mo +41m acoup.blog/2025/05/23/collections-the-logistics-of-road-war-in-the-wasteland 10Is Astrophotography Without Tracking Possible? (2022) 24 36 7mo +3d astroimagery.com/astrophotography/heres-how-to-do-astrophotography-without-tracking 11Reinvent the Wheel 216 586 7mo +3m endler.dev/2025/reinvent-the-wheel 12Tachy0n: The Last 0day Jailbreak 41 260 7mo +14m blog.siguza.net/tachy0n 13Solving the mystery of a dinosaur mass grave at the 'River of Death' 5 24 7mo +3d bbc.com/news/articles/c0k3x8lmje1o 14Please Fund More Science (2020) 67 72 7mo +1h blog.samaltman.com/please-fund-more-science 15Lone coder cracks 50-year puzzle to find Boggle's top-scoring board 37 176 7mo +1h ft.com/content/0ab64ced-1ed1-466d-acd3-78510d10c3a1 16Use ramoops for logging under Linux (2021) 2 17 7mo +2h embear.ch/posts/using-ramoops 17Bloom's two sigma problem (2020) 1 8 7mo +26m nintil.com/bloom-sigma 18What I discovered when I asked Amazon to tell me everything Alexa had heard 48 68 7mo +38m theguardian.com/technology/2025/may/24/what-i-discovered-when-i-asked-amazon-to-tell-me-everything-alexa-had-heard 19Exposed Industrial Control Systems and Honeypots in the Wild [pdf] 1 57 7mo +1h gsmaragd.github.io/publications/EuroSP2025-ICS/EuroSP2025-ICS.pdf 20Bash implementation of Tabloid, the clickbait programming language 1 21 7mo +30m github.com/notweerdmonk/tabloid.bash 21voyage-3.5 and voyage-3.5-lite: improved quality for a new retrieval frontier 6 32 7mo +2d blog.voyageai.com/2025/05/20/voyage-3-5 22Peer Programming with LLMs, for Senior+ Engineers 91 202 7mo +4h pmbanugo.me/blog/peer-programming-with-llms 23I used o3 to find a remote zeroday in the Linux SMB implementation 214 635 7mo +3h sean.heelan.io/2025/05/22/how-i-used-o3-to-find-cve-2025-37899-a-remote-zeroday-vulnerability-in-the-linux-kernels-smb-implementation 24The Decline of Usability: Revisited (2023) 77 95 7mo +3d datagubbe.se/usab2 25It is time to stop teaching frequentism to non-statisticians (2012) 99 92 7mo +22m arxiv.org/abs/1201.2590 26Please don't upload my code to GitHub 21 33 7mo +11m nogithub.codeberg.page 27Live facial recognition cameras may become 'commonplace' as police use soars 140 163 7mo +24m theguardian.com/technology/2025/may/24/police-live-facial-recognition-cameras-england-and-wales 28AI can't even fix a simple bug – but sure, let's fire engineers 139 99 7mo +4m nmn.gl/blog/ai-scam 29Trellis (YC W24) Is Hiring founding SDR to help automate healthcare paperwork 0 1 7mo +7s ycombinator.com/companies/trellis/jobs/7Ru1X1P-founding-sdr 30AI, Heidegger, and Evangelion 83 164 7mo +2h fakepixels.substack.com/p/ai-heidegger-and-evangelion 31Will the AI backlash spill into the streets? 105 34 7mo +12m gabrielweinberg.com/p/will-the-ai-backlash-spill-into-the 32Show HN: F2 – Cross-Platform CLI Batch Renaming Tool 24 117 7mo +17m github.com/ayoisaiah/f2 33Far – Sublime Inspired Find and Replace 21 44 7mo +3d github.com/ibilalkayy/far 34From Hosts.txt to Modern Internet Infrastructure 3 9 7mo +15m axonshield.com/from-hoststxt-to-modern-internet-infrastructure 35DIY Cybersickness Remedies 30 29 7mo +2h spectrum.ieee.org/diy-cybersickness-remedies 36You’re a little company, now act like one (2009) 61 289 7mo +37m longform.asmartbear.com/little-company 37Prompt Driven Development: What I learnt vibe coding a project in the real world 1 7 7mo +17m capgemini.github.io/ai/prompt-driven-development 38Vintner making wine in Catalonia since 1870 may have to move to higher altitudes 1 6 7mo +26m theguardian.com/business/2025/may/17/top-winemaker-spanish-vineyards-climate-crisis-familia-torres 39Good Writing 306 299 7mo +1m paulgraham.com/goodwriting.html 40Terminator: Hasta La Vista, Shell 5 13 7mo +2d github.com/steipete/Terminator 41DumPy: NumPy except it's OK if you're dum 57 170 7mo +3h dynomight.net/dumpy 42Don't "buy" e-books from Oxford University Press 18 35 7mo +21m kelar.org/~bandali/2025/05/20/no-oup.html 43What even is a small language model now? 75 109 7mo +3d jigsawstack.com/blog/what-even-is-a-small-language-model-now--ai 44Show HN: SuperUtilsPlus – A Modern Alternative to Lodash 73 89 7mo +22m github.com/dhaxor/super-utils-plus 45The legacy of the iconic Nakagin capsule tower 27 91 7mo +5m designboom.com/architecture/moma-nakagin-capsule-tower-exhibition-many-lives-museum-modern-art-new-york-05-23-2025 46Microsoft-backed UK tech unicorn Builder.ai collapses into insolvency 133 158 7mo +40m ft.com/content/9fdb4e2b-93ea-436d-92e5-fa76ee786caa 47Show HN: Rotary Phone Dial Linux Kernel Driver 49 334 7mo +3m gitlab.com/sephalon/rotary_dial_kmod 48The Xenon Death Flash: How a Camera Nearly Killed the Raspberry Pi 2 85 230 7mo +56m magnus919.com/2025/05/the-xenon-death-flash-how-a-camera-nearly-killed-the-raspberry-pi-2 49Alone and Adrift in the Pacific 11 66 7mo +3d theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2025/06/commercial-fisherman-shipwreck/682580 50[dead] ? 16 7mo +3h hhs.gov 51Tariffs in American History 232 146 7mo +1h imprimis.hillsdale.edu/tariffs-in-american-history 52Hong Kong's Famous Bamboo Scaffolding Hangs on (For Now) 61 203 7mo +22m nytimes.com/2025/05/24/world/asia/hongkong-bamboo-scaffolding.html 53PubSub and RPC with dynamic types in Rust 0 7 7mo +16m jakobmeier.ch/blogging/Untapped-Rust.html 54Show HN: Lnk – Git-native dotfiles manager 55 74 7mo +17m github.com/yarlson/lnk 55Autopsy of an LHC Beam Dump 7 54 7mo +3d home.cern/news/news/accelerators/autopsy-lhc-beam-dump 5699% of AI Startups Will Be Dead by 2026 – Here's Why 23 24 7mo +33m skooloflife.medium.com/99-of-ai-startups-will-be-dead-by-2026-heres-why-bfc974edd968 57Google's new AI video tool floods internet with real-looking clips 13 16 7mo +44m axios.com/2025/05/23/google-ai-videos-veo-3 58KVMs with DisplayPort and USB over USB-C 5 21 7mo +2d rubenerd.com/kvms-with-displayport-and-usb-over-usb-c 59Online Text to Diagram Tools 6 40 7mo +53m xosh.org/text-to-diagram 60Building a Bank (With DDD, Microservices, and Autonomous Teams) 2 9 7mo +12m youtube.com/watch?v=pVqroDdYWMo 61My Epic, 40-Year Dungeons and Dragons Odyssey 0 10 7mo +26m timharford.com/2024/11/my-epic-40-year-dungeons-dragons-odyssey 62Ask HN: Selling software to company I work for as an employee 55 58 7mo +2d 63Idiocracy 25 87 7mo +24m en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idiocracy 64Faulty 120W charger analysis (Anker GAN Prime) [video] 70 77 7mo +2d youtube.com/watch?v=-JV5VGO55-I 65Jupiter was formerly twice its current size, had a much stronger magnetic field 74 127 7mo +2d phys.org/news/2025-05-jupiter-current-size-stronger-magnetic.html 66A boy who came back: the near-death, and changed life, of my son Max 5 50 7mo +17m theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2025/may/24/the-boy-who-came-back-the-near-death-and-changed-life-of-my-son-max 67A Pregnancy Souvenir: Cells That Are Not Your Own (2015) 5 24 7mo +4m nytimes.com/2015/09/15/science/a-pregnancy-souvenir-cells-that-are-not-your-own.html 68Ask HN: Go deep into AI/LLMs or just use them as tools? 133 184 7mo +14m 69A Comedian Saves a Model Railroad with Purchase of a New Jersey Home 12 53 7mo +3d wsj.com/lifestyle/model-railroad-james-murray-ac709a96 70Valve takes another step toward making SteamOS a true Windows competitor 145 140 7mo +1h arstechnica.com/gaming/2025/05/valve-adds-steamos-compatible-game-label-as-it-prepares-to-expand-beyond-steam-deck 71Stuff I Learned at Carta 47 77 7mo +4h lethain.com/stuff-learned-at-carta 72Not causal chains, but interactions and adaptations 3 16 7mo +3d surfingcomplexity.blog/2025/05/19/not-causal-chains-but-interactions-and-adaptations 73How to Make a Living as a Writer 114 172 7mo +25m thewalrus.ca/how-to-make-a-living-as-a-writer 74Diary: J. 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Coetzee, (1) Mother Tongue 7 22 7mo +3d books.substack.com/p/diary-j-m-coetzee-1-mother-tongue 75Show HN: SweepIQ – A simple AI tool to help you learn more, faster 17 37 7mo +1h sweepiq.com 76Show HN: Embedo – Word Equation Puzzle Game 8 13 7mo +1d 77Boeing reaches deal to avoid prosecution over deadly 737 MAX crashes 15 30 7mo +32m cnbc.com/2025/05/23/boeing-737-max-crashes-doj.html 78Why Algebraic Effects? 196 289 7mo +4m antelang.org/blog/why_effects 79Planet squeezed in between two stars 7 26 7mo +1d arstechnica.com/science/2025/05/planet-found-orbiting-backward-between-two-stars 80Show HN: Web Apps for Python Devs with Auto-Generated UI 14 36 7mo +1h davia.ai 81Show HN: HNRelevant – Add a "related" section to Hacker News 30 120 7mo +55m github.com/imdj/HNRelevant 82Startup enables 100-year bridges with corrosion-resistant steel 58 36 7mo +2d news.mit.edu/2025/allium-engineering-enables-100-year-bridges-corrosion-resistant-steel-0520 83The Way of Code: The Timeless Art of Vibe Coding 40 56 7mo +1h thewayofcode.com 84Modification of acetaminophen to reduce liver toxicity and enhance drug efficacy 146 227 7mo +24m societyforscience.org/regeneron-sts/2025-student-finalists/chloe-lee 85Show HN: High-resolution surface analysis with Lidar data 10 66 7mo +2d github.com/r-follador/delta-relief 86Rork – Build any cross-platform mobile app, fast 9 14 7mo +2h rork.com 87A Bead Too Far: Rethinking Global Connections Before Columbus 14 64 7mo +10h peterfrankopan.substack.com/p/a-bead-too-far-rethinking-global 88 More... 2025.05.23