top 50% hacker news stories for 2025-05-02

Technical analysis of the Signal clone used by Trump officials

https://micahflee.com/tm-sgnl-the-obscure-unofficial-signal-app-mike-waltz-uses-to-text-with-trump-officials/

2 weeks ago

806 upvotes – 339 comments

How to live an intellectually rich life

https://utsavmamoria.substack.com/p/how-to-live-an-intellectually-rich

2 weeks ago

591 upvotes – 323 comments

Show HN: I built a synthesizer based on 3D physics

https://anukari.com

2 weeks ago

511 upvotes – 123 comments

Apple App Store guidelines remove ban on encouraging external payments in US

https://developer.apple.com/app-store/review/guidelines/

2 weeks ago

463 upvotes – 346 comments

Third party cookies must be removed

https://w3ctag.github.io/web-without-3p-cookies/

2 weeks ago

451 upvotes – 228 comments

The language brain matters more for programming than the math brain? (2020)

https://massivesci.com/articles/programming-math-language-python-women-in-science/

2 weeks ago

415 upvotes – 445 comments

Old Soviet Venus descent craft nearing Earth reentry

https://www.leonarddavid.com/old-soviet-venus-descent-craft-nearing-earth-reentry/

2 weeks ago

406 upvotes – 281 comments

“Fewer Users” Warning Hurting Specialized and New Apps

https://support.google.com/googleplay/android-developer/thread/330114530/fewer-users-warning-hurting-specialized-and-new-apps-need-answers?hl=en

2 weeks ago

403 upvotes – 244 comments

Corporation for Public Broadcasting Statement Regarding Executive Order

https://cpb.org/pressroom/Corporation-Public-Broadcasting-Statement-Regarding-Executive-Order-Public-Media

2 weeks ago

392 upvotes – 560 comments

Suno v4.5

https://suno.com/explore/

2 weeks ago

390 upvotes – 280 comments

Irish privacy watchdog hits TikTok with €530M fine over data transfers to China

https://apnews.com/article/tiktok-ireland-european-union-data-privacy-regulation-d386ec74becc716905d7f686d6a448e2

2 weeks ago

360 upvotes – 237 comments

Mike Waltz Accidentally Reveals App Govt Uses to Archive Signal Messages

https://www.404media.co/mike-waltz-accidentally-reveals-obscure-app-the-government-is-using-to-archive-signal-messages/

2 weeks ago

312 upvotes – 125 comments

Don't watermark your legal PDFs with purple dragons in suits

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/05/dont-watermark-your-legal-pdfs-with-purple-dragons-in-suits/

2 weeks ago

282 upvotes – 282 comments

Just redesigned my personal site with a TTY-style interface

https://www.abdisa.me/

2 weeks ago

271 upvotes – 120 comments

Expanding on what we missed with sycophancy

https://openai.com/index/expanding-on-sycophancy/

2 weeks ago

250 upvotes – 278 comments

xAI dev leaks API key for private SpaceX, Tesla LLMs

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2025/05/xai-dev-leaks-api-key-for-private-spacex-tesla-llms/

2 weeks ago

244 upvotes – 71 comments

Evidence of controversial Planet 9 uncovered in sky surveys taken 23 years apart

https://www.space.com/astronomy/solar-system/evidence-of-controversial-planet-9-uncovered-in-sky-surveys-taken-23-years-apart

2 weeks ago

241 upvotes – 248 comments

Bloom Filters

https://eli.thegreenplace.net/2025/bloom-filters/

2 weeks ago

240 upvotes – 77 comments

Show HN: GPT-2 implemented using graphics shaders

https://github.com/nathan-barry/gpt2-webgl

2 weeks ago

228 upvotes – 25 comments

What I've learned from jj

https://zerowidth.com/2025/what-ive-learned-from-jj/

2 weeks ago

217 upvotes – 136 comments

Show HN: I taught AI to commentate Pong in real time

https://github.com/pncnmnp/xpong

2 weeks ago

207 upvotes – 52 comments

Driverless semis have started running regular longhaul routes

https://www.cnn.com/2025/05/01/business/first-driverless-semis-started-regular-routes

2 weeks ago

167 upvotes – 350 comments

The Cannae Problem

https://www.joanwestenberg.com/the-cannae-problem/

2 weeks ago

164 upvotes – 106 comments

Show HN: OSle – A 510 bytes OS in x86 assembly

https://github.com/shikaan/osle

2 weeks ago

160 upvotes – 32 comments

A Common Lisp jq replacement

https://world-playground-deceit.net/blog/2025/03/a-common-lisp-jq-replacement.html

2 weeks ago

155 upvotes – 57 comments

Show HN: Blast – Fast, multi-threaded serving engine for web browsing AI agents

https://github.com/stanford-mast/blast

2 weeks ago

145 upvotes – 66 comments

Sea snail teeth top Kevlar, titanium as strongest material (2015)

https://www.cbc.ca/radio/asithappens/as-it-happens-thursday-edition-1.2963357/sea-snail-teeth-top-kevlar-titanium-as-world-s-strongest-material-1.2963549

2 weeks ago

140 upvotes – 61 comments

Webflow makes GSAP 100% free – plus more updates

https://webflow.com/blog/gsap-becomes-free

2 weeks ago

135 upvotes – 42 comments

GitDroid: A third party Android app manager for apps uploaded to GitHub releases

https://github.com/TechnicJelle/GitDroid

2 weeks ago

131 upvotes – 67 comments

Building Burstables: CPU slicing with cgroups

https://www.ubicloud.com/blog/building-burstables-cpu-slicing-with-cgroups

2 weeks ago

129 upvotes – 23 comments

Vatican Observatory

https://www.vaticanobservatory.org/telescopes/va/

2 weeks ago

126 upvotes – 53 comments

Felix86: Run x86-64 programs on RISC-V Linux

https://felix86.com/

2 weeks ago

126 upvotes – 32 comments

Reflecting on a Year of Gamedev in Zig

https://bgthompson.codeberg.page/blog/one-year-zig-gamedev-reflections/

2 weeks ago

118 upvotes – 120 comments

Crawlers impact the operations of the Wikimedia projects

https://diff.wikimedia.org/2025/04/01/how-crawlers-impact-the-operations-of-the-wikimedia-projects/

2 weeks ago

115 upvotes – 66 comments

I built a pixel art editor after playing Octopath Traveler II

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43865960

2 weeks ago

115 upvotes – 48 comments

ePub-utils: A Python library and CLI tool for inspecting ePub from the terminal

https://github.com/ernestofgonzalez/epub-utils

2 weeks ago

114 upvotes – 10 comments

Altair at 50: Remembering the first Personal Computer

https://www.goto10retro.com/p/altair-at-50-remembering-the-first

2 weeks ago

111 upvotes – 60 comments

The History of Album Art

https://matthewstrom.com/writing/album-art/

2 weeks ago

109 upvotes – 22 comments

VR Design Unpacked: The secret to Beat Saber's fun

https://www.roadtovr.com/beat-saber-instructed-motion-until-you-fall-inside-xr-design/

2 weeks ago

109 upvotes – 84 comments

The Totalitarian Buddhist Who Beat SIM City (2010)

https://www.vice.com/en/article/the-totalitarian-buddhist-who-beat-sim-city/

2 weeks ago

99 upvotes – 25 comments

De minimis: US small parcels loophole closes pushing up Shein, Temu prices

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cwy79j2n7d4o

2 weeks ago

93 upvotes – 136 comments

Chrome Origin Trial: Device Bound Session Credentials

https://developer.chrome.com/blog/dbsc-origin-trial

2 weeks ago

85 upvotes – 80 comments

A proof of concept tool to verify estimates

https://terrytao.wordpress.com/2025/05/01/a-proof-of-concept-tool-to-verify-estimates/

2 weeks ago

85 upvotes – 23 comments

Quebec refuses to reinvest in Lion Electric

https://www.thecanadianpressnews.ca/politics/quebec-raises-doubts-about-electrification-as-it-refuses-to-reinvest-in-lion-electric/article_db74eea8-2ec8-5d06-b965-7ea97dd99751.html

2 weeks ago

83 upvotes – 95 comments

Why our waistlines expand in middle age: aging stem cells shift into overdrive

https://medicalxpress.com/news/2025-04-waistlines-middle-age-aging-stem.html

2 weeks ago

82 upvotes – 133 comments

Kate and Python Language Server

https://akselmo.dev/posts/kate-python-lsp/

2 weeks ago

79 upvotes – 12 comments

A visual feast of galaxies, from infrared to X-ray

https://www.esa.int/ESA_Multimedia/Images/2025/04/A_visual_feast_of_galaxies_from_infrared_to_X-ray

2 weeks ago

78 upvotes – 3 comments

The Speed of VITs and CNNs

https://lucasb.eyer.be/articles/vit_cnn_speed.html

2 weeks ago

74 upvotes – 23 comments

Rams is a documentary portrait of Dieter Rams (2018)

https://www.hustwit.com/rams

2 weeks ago

71 upvotes – 19 comments

AfD classified as extreme-right by German intelligence

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cwy6zk9wkrdo

2 weeks ago

70 upvotes – 92 comments

Meta's Reality Labs Has Now Lost over $60B Since 2020

https://meta.slashdot.org/story/25/05/01/206224/metas-reality-labs-has-now-lost-over-60-billion-since-2020

2 weeks ago

69 upvotes – 115 comments

DotnetSnes: Library allowing to use C# to create SNES ROMs

https://github.com/KallDrexx/DotnetSnes

2 weeks ago

68 upvotes – 17 comments

The un-celebrity president: Jimmy Carter shuns riches, lives modestly (2018)

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/national/wp/2018/08/17/feature/the-un-celebrity-president-jimmy-carter-shuns-riches-lives-modestly-in-his-georgia-hometown/

2 weeks ago

67 upvotes – 49 comments

When Americana doesn't mean American

https://deeprootsmag.org/2017/09/18/over-there-when-americana-doesnt-mean-american/

2 weeks ago

65 upvotes – 80 comments

Clair Obscur Metacritic user score

https://www.metacritic.com/game/clair-obscur-expedition-33/user-reviews/

2 weeks ago

62 upvotes – 64 comments

Fast(er) regular expression engines in Ruby

https://serpapi.com/blog/faster-regular-expression-engines-in-ruby/

2 weeks ago

60 upvotes – 6 comments
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