top 50% hacker news stories for 2025-05-04

I'd rather read the prompt

https://claytonwramsey.com/blog/prompt/

1 year ago

Design for 3D-Printing

https://blog.rahix.de/design-for-3d-printing/

1 year ago

I decided to pay off a school’s lunch debt

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/utah-school-lunch-debt-relief-free-student-meals_n_681258fbe4b03207b5ba49fa

1 year ago

An Alabama landline that keeps ringing

https://oxfordamerican.org/oa-now/the-alabama-landline-that-keeps-ringing

1 year ago

What went wrong with wireless USB

http://oldvcr.blogspot.com/2025/05/what-went-wrong-with-wireless-usb.html

1 year ago

On Not Carrying a Camera – Cultivating memories instead of snapshots

https://hedgehogreview.com/issues/after-neoliberalism/articles/on-not-carrying-a-camera

1 year ago

Graceful Shutdown in Go: Practical Patterns

https://victoriametrics.com/blog/go-graceful-shutdown/index.html

1 year ago

Matrix-vector multiplication implemented in off-the-shelf DRAM for Low-Bit LLMs

https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.23817

1 year ago

Dummy's Guide to Modern LLM Sampling

https://rentry.co/samplers

1 year ago

Ask HN: Hackathons feel fake now

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43889502

1 year ago

Oberon Pi

http://pascal.hansotten.com/niklaus-wirth/project-oberon/oberon-pi/

1 year ago

The Signal clone the Trump admin uses was hacked

https://www.404media.co/the-signal-clone-the-trump-admin-uses-was-hacked/

1 year ago

Old Timey Code and Old Timey Mono Fonts

https://github.com/dse/old-timey-mono-font

1 year ago

Show HN: Driverless print server for legacy printers, profit goes to open-source

https://printserver.ink/

1 year ago

People are losing loved ones to AI-fueled spiritual fantasies

https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/ai-spiritual-delusions-destroying-human-relationships-1235330175/

1 year ago

Brian Eno's Theory of Democracy

https://www.programmablemutter.com/p/brian-enos-theory-of-democracy

1 year ago

AI code is legacy code?

https://text-incubation.com/AI+code+is+legacy+code+from+day+one

1 year ago

Why does Switzerland have so many bunkers?

https://www.thedial.world/articles/news/issue-27/switzerland-civilian-bunkers

1 year ago

A cycle-accurate IBM PC emulator in your web browser

https://martypc.net/?mount=fd:0:Area%205150%20(Compo%20Version).img

1 year ago

How three years at McKinsey shaped my second startup

https://blog.zactownsend.com/know-your-enemy-how-three-years-at-mckinsey-shaped-my-second-startup

1 year ago

A Texan who built an empire of ecstasy

https://www.texasmonthly.com/news-politics/ecstasy-starck-club-drugs-eighties-dallas/

1 year ago

Helmdar: 3D Scanning Brooklyn on Rollerblades

https://owentrueblood.com/blog/2025/05/04/helmdar/

1 year ago

Typed Lisp, a Primer

https://alhassy.com/TypedLisp.html

1 year ago

TScale – Distributed training on consumer GPUs

https://github.com/Foreseerr/TScale

1 year ago

Nevermind, an album on major chords

https://farina00.github.io/essays/nevermind/

1 year ago

Load-Store Conflicts

https://zeux.io/2025/05/03/load-store-conflicts/

1 year ago

Pascal for Small Machines

http://pascal.hansotten.com/

1 year ago

WebMonkeys: parallel GPU programming in JavaScript (2016)

https://github.com/VictorTaelin/WebMonkeys

1 year ago

Perfect Random Floating-Point Numbers

https://specbranch.com/posts/fp-rand/

1 year ago

DuoBook: Generate bilingual stories to learn any language

https://duobook.co

1 year ago

A Survey of AI Agent Protocols

https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.16736

1 year ago

The complicated business of electing a Doge

https://www.theballotboy.com/electing-the-doge

1 year ago

Minimal Linux Bootloader (2018)

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Stefan20162016/linux-insides-code/master/bootloader.asm

1 year ago

Orders of Infinity

https://terrytao.wordpress.com/2025/05/04/orders-of-infinity/

1 year ago

Show HN: Journelly for iOS: like tweeting but for your eyes only (in plain text)

https://xenodium.com/journelly-like-tweeting-but-for-your-eyes-only

1 year ago

An appeal to companies doing AI

https://soatok.blog/2025/05/04/tech-companies-apparently-do-not-understand-why-we-dislike-ai/

1 year ago

Why Flatpak apps use so much disk space on Linux

https://ostechnix.com/why-flatpak-apps-use-so-much-disk-space/

1 year ago

Tippy Coco: A Free, Open-Source Game Inspired by Slime Volleyball

https://tippycoco.com/

1 year ago

Programmers Guide to the AMIBIOS (1993) [pdf]

http://bitsavers.org/pdf/americanMegatrends/Programmers_Guide_to_the_AMIBIOS_1993.pdf

1 year ago

Polycompiler: Merge Python and JavaScript code into one file that runs in both

https://github.com/EvanZhouDev/polycompiler

1 year ago

V.S. Naipaul: The Grief and the Glory

https://granta.com/vs-naipaul-the-grief-and-the-glory/

1 year ago

'Bizarro World' (2007)

https://archive.boston.com/news/globe/magazine/articles/2007/08/19/bizarro_world/

1 year ago

Lilith and Modula-2

https://astrobe.com/Modula2/

1 year ago

How Riot Games is fighting the war against video game hackers

https://techcrunch.com/2025/05/03/how-riot-games-is-fighting-the-war-against-video-game-hackers/

1 year ago

El Cono: The mysterious sacred 'pyramid' hidden deep in the Amazon rainforest

https://www.livescience.com/planet-earth/geology/el-cono-the-mysterious-sacred-pyramid-hidden-deep-in-the-amazon-rainforest

1 year ago

A PostgreSQL planner semi-join gotcha with CTE, LIMIT, and RETURNING

https://www.shayon.dev/post/2025/119/a-postgresql-planner-gotcha-with-ctes-delete-and-limit/

1 year ago

'Dangerous nonsense': AI-authored books about ADHD for sale on Amazon

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/may/04/dangerous-nonsense-ai-authored-books-about-adhd-for-sale-on-amazon

1 year ago

Ancient DNA from the green Sahara reveals ancestral North African lineage

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-025-08793-7

1 year ago

Anyon_e: A highly integrated, high end, open source laptop

https://github.com/byrantech/laptop

1 year ago

Switch bouncing reference traces for a variety of different switches

https://github.com/gsuberland/switch_bouncing

1 year ago