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

The Death of Daydreaming

https://www.afterbabel.com/p/on-the-death-of-daydreaming

1 year ago

Evolving OpenAI's Structure

https://openai.com/index/evolving-our-structure/

1 year ago

Show HN: Real-time AI Voice Chat at ~500ms Latency

https://github.com/KoljaB/RealtimeVoiceChat

1 year ago

Replacing Kubernetes with systemd (2024)

https://blog.yaakov.online/replacing-kubernetes-with-systemd/

1 year ago

The vocal effects of Daft Punk

https://bjango.com/articles/daftpunkvocaleffects/

1 year ago

Judge said Meta illegally used books to build its AI

https://www.wired.com/story/meta-lawsuit-copyright-hearing-artificial-intelligence/

1 year ago

As an experienced LLM user, I don't use generative LLMs often

https://minimaxir.com/2025/05/llm-use/

1 year ago

How linear regression works intuitively and how it leads to gradient descent

https://briefer.cloud/blog/posts/least-squares/

1 year ago

The Beauty of Having a Pi-Hole (2024)

https://den.dev/blog/pihole/

1 year ago

Show HN: My AI Native Resume

https://ai.jakegaylor.com/

1 year ago

AI Meets WinDBG

https://svnscha.de/posts/ai-meets-windbg/

1 year ago

Show HN: VectorVFS, your filesystem as a vector database

https://vectorvfs.readthedocs.io/en/latest/

1 year ago

How are cyber criminals rolling in 2025?

https://vin01.github.io/piptagole/cybcecrime/security/cybersecurity/2025/05/05/state-cyber-security.html

1 year ago

Possibly a Serious Possibility

https://kucharski.substack.com/p/possibly-a-serious-possibility

1 year ago

Modern LaTeX

https://github.com/mrkline/modern-latex

1 year ago

How Obama’s BlackBerry got secured (2013)

https://www.electrospaces.net/2013/04/how-obamas-blackberry-got-secured.html

1 year ago

Trump announces 100% tariffs on movies ‘produced in foreign lands’

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/may/04/trump-tariffs-foreign-movies

1 year ago

AWS Built a Security Tool. It Introduced a Security Risk

https://www.token.security/blog/aws-built-a-security-tool-it-introduced-a-security-risk

1 year ago

Databricks in talks to acquire startup Neon for about $1B

https://www.upstartsmedia.com/p/scoop-databricks-talks-to-acquire-neon

1 year ago

Analyzing Modern Nvidia GPU Cores

https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.20481

1 year ago

Show HN: TextQuery – Query CSV, JSON, XLSX Files with SQL

https://textquery.app/

1 year ago

Pixels in Islamic Art: Square Kufic Calligraphy (2020)

https://uwithumlaut.wordpress.com/2020/07/24/pixels-in-islamic-art-square-kufic-calligraphy/

1 year ago

Show HN: Bracket – selfhosted tournament system

https://github.com/evroon/bracket

1 year ago

Unparalleled Misalignments

https://rickiheicklen.com/unparalleled-misalignments.html

1 year ago

Heat stress mitigation by trees and shelters at bus stops

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S136192092500063X

1 year ago

Dimension 126 Contains Twisted Shapes, Mathematicians Prove

https://www.quantamagazine.org/dimension-126-contains-strangely-twisted-shapes-mathematicians-prove-20250505/

1 year ago

docker2exe: Convert a Docker image to an executable

https://github.com/rzane/docker2exe

1 year ago

No Instagram, no privacy

https://blog.wouterjanleys.com/blog/no-instagram-no-privacy/

1 year ago

Geometrically understanding calculus of inverse functions (2023)

https://tobylam.xyz/2023/11/27/inverse-functions-legendre-part-1

1 year ago

You can't git clone a team

https://virtualize.sh/blog/you-cant-git-clone-a-team/

1 year ago

Cursor hits $9B valuation

https://www.ft.com/content/a7b34d53-a844-4e69-a55c-b9dee9a97dd2

1 year ago

Apple Shortcuts is falling into "the automation gap"

https://sixcolors.com/link/2025/03/shortcuts-is-falling-into-the-automation-gap/

1 year ago

A Tektronix TDS 684B Oscilloscope Uses CCD Analog Memory

https://tomverbeure.github.io/2025/05/04/TDS684B-CCD-Memory.html

1 year ago

Internet usage pattern during power outage in Spain and Portugal

https://blog.akamai-mpulse.com/blog/2025-05-03-iberian-power-outage/

1 year ago

History of “Adventure” for the Atari 2600

https://www.atariarchive.org/blog/adventure-march-1980/

1 year ago

Bootstrapping Lisp in a Boot Sector

https://github.com/jart/sectorlisp

1 year ago

SpaceX pushed "sniper" theory with the feds

https://arstechnica.com/space/2025/05/spacex-pushed-sniper-theory-with-the-feds-far-more-than-is-publicly-known/

1 year ago

Mathematical Problem Solving

https://www.cip.ifi.lmu.de/~grinberg/t/20f/

1 year ago

Driving Compilers (2023)

https://fabiensanglard.net/dc/index.php

1 year ago

EU to ban anonymous crypto accounts and privacy coins by 2027

https://cointelegraph.com/news/eu-crypto-ban-anonymous-privacy-tokens-2027

1 year ago

Faster sorting with SIMD CUDA intrinsics (2024)

https://winwang.blog/posts/bitonic-sort/

1 year ago

Extending a Language – Writing Powerful Macros in Scheme

https://mnieper.github.io/scheme-macros/README.html

1 year ago

Show HN: Tkintergalactic - Declarative Tcl/Tk UI Library for Python

https://github.com/leontrolski/tkintergalactic

1 year ago

Phoenician culture spread mainly through cultural exchange

https://www.mpg.de/24574685/0422-evan-phoenician-culture-spread-mainly-through-cultural-exchange-150495-x

1 year ago

TeleMessage, a modified Signal clone used by US govt. officials, has been hacked

https://techcrunch.com/2025/05/05/telemessage-a-modified-signal-clone-used-by-us-govt-officials-has-been-hacked/

1 year ago

Show HN: CodeCafé – A real-time collaborative code editor in the browser

https://github.com/mrktsm/codecafe

1 year ago

The Inchtuthil Nail Hoard

https://www.scottishhistory.org/articles/the-inchtuthil-nail-hoard/

1 year ago

Show HN: Klavis AI – Open-source MCP integration for AI applications

https://github.com/Klavis-AI/klavis

1 year ago

Zombieverter: Open source VCU for reusing salvage EV components

https://openinverter.org/wiki/ZombieVerter_VCU

1 year ago

Show HN: Reverse Pac-Man

https://reverse-pacman.staticrun.app/index

1 year ago

Docs like code in basic terms

https://deborahwrites.com/blog/docs-like-code-basic-intro/

1 year ago

Finding a Bug in Chromium

https://bou.ke/blog/chromium-bug/

1 year ago

Using Coalton to implement a quantum compiler (2022)

https://coalton-lang.github.io/20220906-quantum-compiler/

1 year ago

The birth of AI poker? Letters from the 1984 WSOP

https://www.poker.org/latest-news/the-birth-of-ai-poker-letters-from-the-1984-wsop-a4v2W4N4X3EP/

1 year ago

Understanding effective type Aliasing in C [pdf]

https://www.open-std.org/JTC1/SC22/WG14/www/docs/n3519.pdf

1 year ago

Effects of repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation on sleep bruxism

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC4822180/

1 year ago

Imagineers defend new Walt Disney robot

https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/articles/keeps-walt-alive-medium-pioneered-170000117.html

1 year ago