1259
698
After 6 years, I'm over GraphQL
https://bessey.dev/blog/2024/05/24/why-im-over-graphql/
2 years ago
777
395
Don't DRY Your Code Prematurely
https://testing.googleblog.com/2024/05/dont-dry-your-code-prematurely.html
766
167
Show HN: ChatGPT UI for rabbit holes
https://delve.a9.io/
720
604
I got tired of hearing that YC fired Sam, so here's what actually happened
https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1796107666265108940
685
183
Show HN: Every mountain, building and tree shadow mapped for any date and time
https://shademap.app
630
197
How actors remember their lines
https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/how-actors-remember-their-lines/
450
128
I love my wife. My wife is dead (1946)
https://lettersofnote.com/2012/02/15/i-love-my-wife-my-wife-is-dead/
418
196
FrankenPHP: Modern PHP App Server
https://frankenphp.dev/
378
154
Unexpected anti-patterns for engineering leaders
https://review.firstround.com/unexpected-anti-patterns-for-engineering-leaders-lessons-from-stripe-uber-carta/
355
157
The Pumpkin Eclipse
https://blog.lumen.com/the-pumpkin-eclipse/
327
84
I run a software book club
https://notes.eatonphil.com/2025-05-30-how-i-run-book-clubs.html
302
169
“Imprecise” language models are smaller, speedier, and nearly as accurate
https://spectrum.ieee.org/1-bit-llm
257
90
Ask HN: I have many PDFs – what is the best local way to leverage AI for search?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40528192
249
57
Better RAG Results with Reciprocal Rank Fusion and Hybrid Search
https://www.assembled.com/blog/better-rag-results-with-reciprocal-rank-fusion-and-hybrid-search
240
263
What We're Working on in Firefox
https://blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/heres-what-were-working-on-in-firefox/
228
105
Armor from Mycenaean Greece turns out to have been effective
https://arstechnica.com/science/2024/05/researchers-get-modern-marines-to-test-ancient-greek-armor/
215
60
How some good corporate engineering blogs are written (2020)
https://danluu.com/corp-eng-blogs/
212
55
Meaningful Nonsense: How I generate sentences
https://www.amygoodchild.com/blog/meaningful-nonsense-sentences
191
95
Stuck at sea for years, a sailor's plight highlights a surge in ship abandonment
https://apnews.com/article/abandoned-seafarers-labor-unpaid-wages-oceans-83ad0a42debbaf67c18373393fcea753
189
323
You Can Thank Private Equity for That Enormous Doctor's Bill
https://www.wsj.com/health/healthcare/you-can-thank-private-equity-for-that-enormous-doctors-bill-3a2fc90b
187
102
PyPy has been working for me for several years now
https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/python/PyPyQuietlyWorking
48
Show HN: I built a tiny-VPS friendly RSS aggregator and reader
https://github.com/0x2E/fusion
185
28
SVG Gobbler – Find, optimize, edit, and export SVGs
https://github.com/rossmoody/svg-gobbler
178
46
Geometry for Entertainment (1950)
https://archive.org/details/yakov-perelman-geometry-for-entertainment-mir-titles-2024
175
115
"My Bike Is Everything to Me"
https://kottke.org/24/05/my-bike-is-everything-to-me
161
45
Show HN: I made a pixel art editor for Windows desktop
https://www.lightcube.art/
255
Jury finds Donald Trump guilty on all 34 counts at hush money trial
https://www.reuters.com/legal/jurors-begin-second-day-deliberations-trump-hush-money-trial-2024-05-30/
151
A crazy experience losing Apple earbuds in a remote town in Chile
https://twitter.com/joshwhiton/status/1796222090216886682
150
35
EU doubles down on penalising privacy-friendly and encrypted messaging services
https://www.patrick-breyer.de/en/leak-eu-governments-double-down-on-penalising-privacy-friendly-and-encrypted-messaging-services-with-chat-control-bulk-scanning-orders/
148
James Webb Space Telescope Finds Most Distant Known Galaxy
https://blogs.nasa.gov/webb/2024/05/30/nasas-james-webb-space-telescope-finds-most-distant-known-galaxy/
64
Cybercriminals pose as "helpful" Stack Overflow users to push malware
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/cybercriminals-pose-as-helpful-stack-overflow-users-to-push-malware/
144
72
'Operation Endgame' Hits Malware Delivery Platforms
https://krebsonsecurity.com/2024/05/operation-endgame-hits-malware-delivery-platforms/
140
31
What's Next for Kagi?
https://blog.kagi.com/what-is-next-for-kagi
139
A seventh-grader student found a beautiful proof to Thales' Theorem (2002)
https://www.cut-the-knot.org/pythagoras/ThalesTheorem.shtml
136
108
I connected Windows XP to the Internet; it was fine
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40528117
131
30
Building a Reactor
https://www.usnc.com/core-build/
127
8
NASA Releases New High-Quality, Near Real-Time Air Quality Data
https://www.nasa.gov/missions/tempo/nasa-releases-new-high-quality-near-real-time-air-quality-data/
125
111
Is Target selling its excess inventory on eBay and Poshmark?
https://www.modernretail.co/technology/is-target-selling-its-excess-inventory-on-ebay-poshmark/
122
40
Zig's new CLI progress bar explained
https://andrewkelley.me/post/zig-new-cli-progress-bar-explained.html
113
69
2023 planetary heat uptake from termination shock of inadvertent geoengineering?
https://www.nature.com/articles/s43247-024-01442-3
112
23
I added some optimizations to my compiler that turns Lisp into JavaScript
https://healeycodes.com/lisp-compiler-optimizations
110
World-first tooth-regrowing drug will be given to humans in September
https://newatlas.com/medical/tooth-regrowing-human-trial/
109
15
'Smart' antibiotic can kill deadly bacteria while sparing the microbiome
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-01566-8
70
Steam's Last Stand
https://technicshistory.com/2024/05/30/coda-steams-last-stand/
106
80
Ask HN: How can we open-source a 7 year old SaaS codebase and build a community?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40524292
16
Physicists Puzzle over Emergence of Electron Aggregates
https://www.quantamagazine.org/physicists-puzzle-over-emergence-of-strange-electron-aggregates-20240529/
Raivo OTP just deleted all tokens after update and is now asking for money
https://github.com/raivo-otp/ios-application/issues
101
25
“Moveable Type” to end 17-year run in The New York Times’s lobby
https://www.nytco.com/press/moveable-type-to-end-17-year-run-in-the-new-york-timess-lobby/
38
Asqi: A codebase explorer designed to help navigate and understand Git projects
https://dev.asqi.io/
98
Disrupting deceptive uses of AI by covert influence operations
https://openai.com/index/disrupting-deceptive-uses-of-AI-by-covert-influence-operations/
12
Arduino FDX-B (animal ID chip) reader built from discrete components
https://github.com/decrazyo/fdxb
2
Sam Altman's constant lies created toxic culture, reveals OpenAI ex-Board member
https://www.thenews.com.pk/latest/1194787-sam-altmans-constant-lies-created-toxic-culture-reveals-openais-ex-board-member
87
14
Orion – From idea to launch in 45 days
https://www.lux.camera/orion-from-idea-to-launch-in-45-days/
86
10
Mesh Spreadsheet: A data and code editor that feels like a spreadsheet
https://github.com/chrispsn/mesh-spreadsheet
123
Windows 11 disabled all ways to get around Auto Restarts. Is there a workaround?
https://superuser.com/questions/1843873/windows-11-seems-to-have-disabled-all-ways-to-get-around-auto-update-restarts-i
83
56
Java Language Update – a look at where the language is going by Brian Goetz
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bKwzONOGLxs
81
20
Stripe closed our account and refuses to migrate our data to another processor
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40529033
77
103
Transmission of Mental Disorders in Adolescent Peer Networks
https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamapsychiatry/fullarticle/2818735
4
Distributed Snapshots: Chandy-Lamport Protocol
https://blog.fponzi.me/2024-05-30-distributed-snapshots.html
33
Washing machine chime scandal shows how absurd YouTube copyright abuse can get
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2024/05/washing-machine-chime-scandal-shows-how-absurd-youtube-copyright-abuse-can-get/
68
9
SBCL: New in Version 2.4.5
http://sbcl.org/all-news.html?2.4.5#2.4.5
66
67
Sotomayor writes 9-0 opinion supporting NRA in First Amendment case [pdf]
https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/23pdf/22-842_6kg7.pdf
65
49
Google Console closed testing requirements are awful
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40520051