top 50% hacker news stories for 2025-05-01

Redis is open source again

https://antirez.com/news/151

1 year ago

Apple violated antitrust ruling, judge finds

https://www.wsj.com/tech/apple-violated-antitrust-ruling-federal-judge-finds-66b85957

1 year ago

Judge rules Apple executive lied under oath, makes criminal contempt referral

https://www.thebignewsletter.com/p/judge-rules-apple-executive-lied

1 year ago

Office is too slow, so Microsoft is making it load at Windows startup

https://www.pcworld.com/article/2651749/office-is-too-slow-so-microsoft-is-making-it-load-at-windows-startup.html

1 year ago

Claude Integrations

https://www.anthropic.com/news/integrations

1 year ago

Starting July 1, academic publishers can't paywall NIH-funded research

https://www.nih.gov/about-nih/who-we-are/nih-director/statements/accelerating-access-research-results-new-implementation-date-2024-nih-public-access-policy

1 year ago

A faster way to copy SQLite databases between computers

https://alexwlchan.net/2025/copying-sqlite-databases/

1 year ago

108B Pixel Scan of Johannes Vermeer's Girl with a Pearl Earring

https://www.hirox-europe.com/gigapixel/girl-with-a-pearl-earring/

1 year ago

International Workers' Day

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Workers%27_Day

1 year ago

New Study: Waymo is reducing serious crashes and making streets safer

https://waymo.com/blog/2025/05/waymo-making-streets-safer-for-vru

1 year ago

We identified a North Korean hacker who tried to get a job

https://blog.kraken.com/news/how-we-identified-a-north-korean-hacker

1 year ago

Anubis saved our websites from a DDoS attack

https://fabulous.systems/posts/2025/05/anubis-saved-our-websites-from-a-ddos-attack/

1 year ago

An interview question that will protect you from North Korean fake workers

https://www.theregister.com/2025/04/29/north_korea_worker_interview_questions/

1 year ago

Linkwarden: FOSS self-hostable bookmarking with AI-tagging and page archival

https://linkwarden.app/

1 year ago

Running Qwen3 on your macbook, using MLX, to vibe code for free

https://localforge.dev/blog/running-qwen3-macbook-mlx

1 year ago

The Gang Has a Mid-Life Crisis

https://chris-martin.org/2025/the-gang-has-a-mid-life-crisis

1 year ago

When ChatGPT broke the field of NLP: An oral history

https://www.quantamagazine.org/when-chatgpt-broke-an-entire-field-an-oral-history-20250430/

1 year ago

Oxide’s compensation model: how is it going?

https://oxide.computer/blog/oxides-compensation-model-how-is-it-going

1 year ago

Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2025)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43858554

1 year ago

Strings Just Got Faster

https://inside.java/2025/05/01/strings-just-got-faster/

1 year ago

The Brief Origins of May Day

https://archive.iww.org/history/library/misc/origins_of_mayday/

1 year ago

Dopamine signals when a fear can be forgotten

https://picower.mit.edu/news/dopamine-signals-when-fear-can-be-forgotten

1 year ago

Deno's Decline

https://dbushell.com/2025/04/28/denos-decline/

1 year ago

Show HN: Roons – Mechanical Computer Kit

https://whomtech.com/show-hn/

1 year ago

Arizona laptop farmer pleads guilty for funneling $17M to Kim Jong Un

https://www.theregister.com/2025/02/12/arizona_woman_laptop_farm_guilty/

1 year ago

RFK Jr. rejects cornerstone of health science: Germ theory

https://arstechnica.com/health/2025/04/rfk-jr-s-anti-vaccine-stance-is-rooted-in-a-disbelief-in-germ-theory/

1 year ago

Julia Parsons, U.S. Navy Code Breaker During World War II, Dies at 104

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/30/world/julia-parsons-dead.html

1 year ago

Wyze pays $255k of tariffs on $167k of floodlights

https://twitter.com/WyzeCam/status/1917662183036706849

1 year ago

Llasa: Llama-Based Speech Synthesis

https://llasatts.github.io/llasatts/

1 year ago

Vanguard 50-year anniversary CEO letter

https://corporate.vanguard.com/content/corporatesite/us/en/corp/articles/of-investor-by-investor-for-investor-since-1975.html

1 year ago

Owen Le Blanc: creator of the first Linux distribution

https://lwn.net/Articles/1017846/

1 year ago

The future of solar doesn't track the sun

https://terraformindustries.wordpress.com/2025/04/29/the-future-of-solar-doesnt-track-the-sun/

1 year ago

Trust Me, I'm Local: Chrome Extensions, MCP, and the Sandbox Escape

https://blog.extensiontotal.com/trust-me-im-local-chrome-extensions-mcp-and-the-sandbox-escape-1875a0ee4823

1 year ago

'I found your dad': The mystery of a missing climber

https://www.espn.com/olympics/story/_/id/44690603/bill-stampfl-missing-climber-peru-huascaran

1 year ago

You could just choose optimism

https://quarter--mile.com/You-Could-Just-Choose-Optimism

1 year ago

AI code review: Should the author be the reviewer?

https://www.greptile.com/blog/ai-code-reviews-conflict

1 year ago

Phi-4 Reasoning Models

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/one-year-of-phi-small-language-models-making-big-leaps-in-ai/

1 year ago

Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (May 2025)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43858552

1 year ago

Company built its own rail terminal in NYC to avoid relying on trucks

https://www.fastcompany.com/91324241/this-company-built-an-entire-rail-terminal-in-queens-to-avoid-relying-on-trucks

1 year ago

Show HN: Kubetail – Real-time log search for Kubernetes

https://github.com/kubetail-org/kubetail

1 year ago

Towards the Cutest Neural Network

https://kevinlynagh.com/towards-the-cutest-neural-network/

1 year ago

The term "vegetative electron microscopy" keeps showing up in scientific papers

https://www.sciencealert.com/a-strange-phrase-keeps-turning-up-in-scientific-papers-but-why

1 year ago

Mac app launches slowed by malware scan (2024)

https://lapcatsoftware.com/articles/2024/2/3.html

1 year ago

Thunderscope update: My take: Why open source is better

https://www.crowdsupply.com/eevengers/thunderscope/updates/revving-up-for-production

1 year ago

Achieving Human Level Competitive Robot Table Tennis

https://sites.google.com/view/competitive-robot-table-tennis/home?pli=1

1 year ago

NSF stops awarding new grants and funding existing ones

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-01396-2

1 year ago

Google Wallet launches new age and identity verification features (ZK proofs)

https://blog.google/products/google-pay/google-wallet-age-identity-verifications/

1 year ago

Doom GPU Flame Graphs

https://www.brendangregg.com/blog/2025-05-01/doom-gpu-flame-graphs.html

1 year ago

Derivation and Intuition behind Poisson distribution

https://antaripasaha.notion.site/Derivation-and-Intuition-behind-Poisson-distribution-1255314a56398062bf9dd9049fb1c396

1 year ago

Urtext: The Python plaintext library for people who've tried everything else

https://urtext.co/

1 year ago

Depictions of the Milky Way found in ancient Egyptian imagery

https://phys.org/news/2025-04-depictions-milky-ancient-egyptian-imagery.html

1 year ago

Millihertz 5 Mechanical Computer (2022)

https://www.srimech.com/MHZ5.html

1 year ago

Milwaukee police considering trading mugshots for facial recognition tech

https://www.jsonline.com/story/news/crime/2025/04/25/milwaukee-police-considering-trading-mugshots-for-facial-recognition-tech/83084223007/

1 year ago

A senior Apple exec could be jailed in Epic case

https://9to5mac.com/2025/05/01/a-senior-apple-exec-could-be-jailed-in-epic-case-its-time-to-end-this-disaster/

1 year ago

C++26: more constexpr in the standard library

https://www.sandordargo.com/blog/2025/04/30/cpp26-constexpr-library-changes

1 year ago

Microsoft gets twitchy over talk of Europe's tech independence

https://www.theregister.com/2025/04/30/microsoft_getting_nervous_about_europes/

1 year ago

Two publishers and three authors fail to understand what "vibe coding" means

https://simonwillison.net/2025/May/1/not-vibe-coding/

1 year ago

Are you the same person you used to be? (2022)

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2022/10/10/are-you-the-same-person-you-used-to-be-life-is-hard-the-origins-of-you

1 year ago

Fivetran to acquire Census

https://www.fivetran.com/blog/why-fivetran-and-census-are-joining-forces

1 year ago

What New Orleans Taught Me

https://commonedge.org/what-new-orleans-taught-me/

1 year ago

Show HN: Hyperparam: OSS tools for exploring datasets locally in the browser

https://hyperparam.app/about/opensource

1 year ago

Why Is the Kiwi's Egg So Big?

https://www.audubon.org/magazine/why-kiwis-egg-so-big

1 year ago

A new sign that AI is competing with college grads?

https://www.theatlantic.com/economy/archive/2025/04/job-market-youth/682641/

1 year ago

A competing theory to 'dark energy' suggests universe has different time zones

https://www.cbc.ca/radio/quirks/dark-energy-time-zones-1.7465116

1 year ago

Game preservationists say Switch2 GameKey Cards are disheartening but inevitable

https://www.videogameschronicle.com/news/game-preservationists-say-switch-2-game-key-cards-are-disheartening-but-inevitable/

1 year ago

RFK Jr.'S HHS Orders Lab Studying Deadly Infectious Diseases to Stop Research

https://www.wired.com/story/hhs-niaid-irf-ebola-disease-research-stop/

1 year ago