top 50% hacker news stories for 2025-05-03

Show HN: Free, in-browser PDF editor

https://breezepdf.com

2 years ago

791 upvotes – 182 comments

Accountability Sinks

https://250bpm.substack.com/p/accountability-sinks

2 years ago

623 upvotes – 392 comments

We fell out of love with Next.js and back in love with Ruby on Rails

https://hardcover.app/blog/part-1-how-we-fell-out-of-love-with-next-js-and-back-in-love-with-ruby-on-rails-inertia-js

2 years ago

523 upvotes – 519 comments

Why Archers Didn't Volley Fire

https://acoup.blog/2025/05/02/collections-why-archers-didnt-volley-fire/

2 years ago

513 upvotes – 318 comments

DuckDB is probably the most important geospatial software of the last decade

https://www.dbreunig.com/2025/05/03/duckdb-is-the-most-impactful-geospatial-software-in-a-decade.html

2 years ago

491 upvotes – 165 comments

Buffett to step down following six-decade run atop Berkshire

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-05-03/warren-buffett-to-step-down-from-berkshire-hathaway-at-year-end

2 years ago

460 upvotes – 413 comments

Gorgeous-GRUB: collection of decent community-made GRUB themes

https://github.com/Jacksaur/Gorgeous-GRUB

2 years ago

458 upvotes – 123 comments

Time saved by AI offset by new work created, study suggests

https://arstechnica.com/ai/2025/05/time-saved-by-ai-offset-by-new-work-created-study-suggests/

2 years ago

448 upvotes – 446 comments

When flat rate movers won't answer your calls

https://aphyr.com/posts/381-when-flat-rate-movers-wont-answer-your-calls

2 years ago

393 upvotes – 311 comments

Why can't HTML alone do includes?

https://frontendmasters.com/blog/seeking-an-answer-why-cant-html-alone-do-includes/

2 years ago

390 upvotes – 356 comments

Minimum Viable Blog

https://ostwilkens.se/blog/setting-up-blog

2 years ago

358 upvotes – 169 comments

Run LLMs on Apple Neural Engine (ANE)

https://github.com/Anemll/Anemll

2 years ago

286 upvotes – 123 comments

“An independent journalist” who won't remain nameless

https://www.thehandbasket.co/p/independent-journalism-legacy-media-credit

2 years ago

259 upvotes – 104 comments

Why I stopped angel investing after 15 years, and what I'm doing instead

https://halletecco.substack.com/p/why-i-stopped-angel-investing-after

2 years ago

256 upvotes – 194 comments

QModem 4.51 Source Code

https://github.com/AaronFriel/qmodem-4.51

2 years ago

214 upvotes – 75 comments

Google Gemini has the worst LLM API

https://venki.dev/notes/google-gemini-is-bad

2 years ago

203 upvotes – 188 comments

Connomore64: Cycle exact emulation of the C64 using parallel microcontrollers

https://github.com/c1570/Connomore64

2 years ago

201 upvotes – 30 comments

Why I Am Not Going to Buy a Computer (1987) [pdf]

https://classes.matthewjbrown.net/teaching-files/philtech/berry-computer.pdf

2 years ago

201 upvotes – 143 comments

I put sheet music into smart glasses [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j36u2i7PKKE

2 years ago

200 upvotes – 67 comments

N8n – Flexible AI workflow automation for technical teams

https://n8n.io/

2 years ago

195 upvotes – 99 comments

Understanding Memory Management, Part 5: Fighting with Rust

https://educatedguesswork.org/posts/memory-management-5/

2 years ago

147 upvotes – 103 comments

Numerical Linear Algebra Class in Julia TUM

https://venkovic.github.io/NLA-for-CS-and-IE.html

2 years ago

145 upvotes – 8 comments

The US has approved CRISPR pigs for food

https://www.technologyreview.com/2025/05/02/1116059/the-us-approves-crispr-pigs-for-food/

2 years ago

142 upvotes – 160 comments

How LWN is faring in 2025

https://lwn.net/Articles/1019217/

2 years ago

133 upvotes – 23 comments

Deadly Screwworm Parasite's Comeback Threatens Texas Cattle, US Beef Supply

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2025-05-02/deadly-screwworm-parasite-s-comeback-threatens-texas-cattle-us-beef-supply

2 years ago

129 upvotes – 180 comments

I turned a 40 year old Apple Mouse into a speech to text button

https://workshop.cjpais.com/projects/handy-m0100

2 years ago

120 upvotes – 53 comments

We know a little more about Amazon's satellites

https://arstechnica.com/space/2025/05/we-finally-know-a-little-more-about-amazons-super-secret-satellites/

2 years ago

112 upvotes – 113 comments

RethinkDNS Resolver That Deploys to CF Workers, Deno Deploy, Fastly, Fly.io

https://github.com/serverless-dns/serverless-dns

2 years ago

106 upvotes – 20 comments

Show HN: Use Third Party LLM API in JetBrains AI Assistant

https://github.com/Stream29/ProxyAsLocalModel

2 years ago

102 upvotes – 40 comments

Bethesda Thinks Fan Remaster of Oblivion Is 'Very Special' and Supports It

https://kotaku.com/bethesda-oblivion-remastered-skyblivion-mod-support-1851778773

2 years ago

101 upvotes – 88 comments

Why I ever wrote Clojure

https://thesoftwarephilosopher.com/blog/2025-05-03-why-i-ever-wrote-clojure.html

2 years ago

89 upvotes – 50 comments

Carolina Eyck, renowned superstar of the theremin

https://www.smh.com.au/culture/music/even-this-modern-maestro-won-t-touch-the-world-s-weirdest-instrument-20250417-p5lsms.html

2 years ago

88 upvotes – 62 comments

Federal Court Halts Dismantling of Federal Library Agency in ALA Lawsuit

https://www.ala.org/news/2025/05/federal-court-halts-dismantling-federal-library-agency-ala-lawsuit

2 years ago

83 upvotes – 0 comments

Closures in Tcl

https://world-playground-deceit.net/blog/2024/10/tcl-closures.html

2 years ago

82 upvotes – 32 comments

FAA offering more incentives as air traffic controller shortage worsens

https://ktla.com/news/travel/faa-offering-more-incentives-as-air-traffic-controller-shortage-worsens/

2 years ago

81 upvotes – 121 comments

Speedrunning and Modding the Incredibles: Rise of the Underminer

https://farlow.dev/2025/05/02/rotu

2 years ago

78 upvotes – 7 comments

Ghost in the machine? Legend of the 'haunted' N64 video game cartridge

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20250501-the-haunted-video-game-that-traumatised-the-web

2 years ago

77 upvotes – 14 comments

Semantic unit testing: test code without executing it

https://www.alexmolas.com/2025/04/09/semantic-unit-testing.html

2 years ago

75 upvotes – 71 comments

How Kim Jong Il Kidnapped a Director, Made a Cult Hit Godzilla Knockoff (2015)

https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2015/04/pulgasari-north-korea-cult-hit

2 years ago

73 upvotes – 35 comments

You sent the message, but did you write it?

https://davidduncan.substack.com/p/you-sent-the-message-but-did-you

2 years ago

72 upvotes – 71 comments

Ask HN: Anyone else roll eyes at startups that went from "X" to "AI-powered X"?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43881396

2 years ago

72 upvotes – 49 comments

Censorship concerns rise over Texas bill; Abilene bookstore pushes back

https://www.bigcountryhomepage.com/news/censorship-concerns-rise-over-texas-bill-abilene-bookstore-pushes-back/

2 years ago

68 upvotes – 48 comments

Burning Mao

https://granta.com/burning-mao/

2 years ago

64 upvotes – 57 comments

Understanding-j: An introduction to the J programming language that gets to the

https://github.com/bugsbugsbux/understanding-j

2 years ago

62 upvotes – 19 comments

Circuitpainter: Create PCBs using a simplfiied graphics language

https://github.com/Blinkinlabs/circuitpainter

2 years ago

61 upvotes – 10 comments

MathML with Pandoc

https://leancrew.com/all-this/2025/05/mathml-with-pandoc/

2 years ago

58 upvotes – 11 comments

Source code for the unofficial Signal app used by Trump officials

https://micahflee.com/heres-the-source-code-for-the-unofficial-signal-app-used-by-trump-officials/

2 years ago

56 upvotes – 5 comments

Spain-Portugal blackouts: what happened

https://theconversation.com/spain-portugal-blackouts-what-actually-happened-and-what-can-iberia-and-europe-learn-from-it-255666

2 years ago

56 upvotes – 62 comments

VMOS – Virtual Android on Android

https://www.vmos.com/

2 years ago

53 upvotes – 22 comments
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