top 50% hacker news stories for 2025-05-06

The curse of knowing how, or; fixing everything

https://notashelf.dev/posts/curse-of-knowing

1 year ago

Show HN: Clippy – 90s UI for local LLMs

https://felixrieseberg.github.io/clippy/

1 year ago

Gemini 2.5 Pro Preview

https://developers.googleblog.com/en/gemini-2-5-pro-io-improved-coding-performance/

1 year ago

OpenAI reaches agreement to buy Windsurf for $3B

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-05-06/openai-reaches-agreement-to-buy-startup-windsurf-for-3-billion

1 year ago

Claude's system prompt is over 24k tokens with tools

https://github.com/asgeirtj/system_prompts_leaks/blob/main/claude.txt

1 year ago

Matt Godbolt sold me on Rust by showing me C++

https://www.collabora.com/news-and-blog/blog/2025/05/06/matt-godbolt-sold-me-on-rust-by-showing-me-c-plus-plus/

1 year ago

India launches attack on 9 sites in Pakistan and Pakistani Jammu and Kashmir

https://www.reuters.com/world/india/india-launches-attack-9-sites-pakistan-pakistan-occupied-jammu-kashmir-2025-05-06/

1 year ago

Curl: We still have not seen a valid security report done with AI help

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/danielstenberg_hackerone-curl-activity-7324820893862363136-glb1

1 year ago

VVVVVV Source Code

https://github.com/TerryCavanagh/VVVVVV

1 year ago

Launch HN: Exa (YC S21) – The web as a database

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43906841

1 year ago

Sneakers (1992) – 4K makeover sourced from the original camera negative

https://www.blu-ray.com/movies/Sneakers-4K-Blu-ray/343185/

1 year ago

An appeal to Apple from Anukari

https://anukari.com/blog/devlog/an-appeal-to-apple

1 year ago

Getting things “done” in large tech companies

https://www.seangoedecke.com/getting-things-done/

1 year ago

NSA spied through Angry Birds, other apps: report (2014)

https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/nsa-spied-through-angry-birds-other-apps-report-flna2d12006530

1 year ago

Nnd – a TUI debugger alternative to GDB, LLDB

https://github.com/al13n321/nnd

1 year ago

Four years of running a SaaS in a competitive market

https://maxrozen.com/on-four-years-running-saas-competitive-market

1 year ago

TeleMessage, used by Trump officials, can access plaintext chat logs

https://micahflee.com/despite-misleading-marketing-israeli-company-telemessage-used-by-trump-officials-can-access-plaintext-chat-logs/

1 year ago

Bloat is still software's biggest vulnerability (2024)

https://spectrum.ieee.org/lean-software-development

1 year ago

Google has most of my email because it has all of yours (2014)

https://mako.cc/copyrighteous/google-has-most-of-my-email-because-it-has-all-of-yours

1 year ago

Accents in latent spaces: How AI hears accent strength in English

https://accent-strength.boldvoice.com/

1 year ago

Critical CSS

https://critical-css-extractor.kigo.studio/

1 year ago

When Abandoned Mines Collapse

https://practical.engineering/blog/2025/5/6/when-abandoned-mines-collapse

1 year ago

New studies offer insight into Lyme disease’s treatment, lingering symptoms

https://news.northwestern.edu/stories/2025/04/taking-the-bite-out-of-lyme-disease/

1 year ago

Memory-safe sudo to become the default in Ubuntu

https://trifectatech.org/blog/memory-safe-sudo-to-become-the-default-in-ubuntu/

1 year ago

How to harden GitHub Actions

https://www.wiz.io/blog/github-actions-security-guide

1 year ago

Show HN: Sheet Music in Smart Glasses

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43906442

1 year ago

Inheritance was invented as a performance hack (2021)

https://catern.com/inheritance.html

1 year ago

iOS Kindle app now has a ‘get book’ button after changes to App Store rules

https://www.theverge.com/news/661719/amazon-app-ios-apple-iphone-ipad-kindle-buy-books

1 year ago

FTC rule on unfair or deceptive fees to take effect on May 12

https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/news/press-releases/2025/05/ftc-rule-unfair-or-deceptive-fees-take-effect-may-12-2025

1 year ago

FTC bans hidden fees for live events and short-term rentals, effective May 12

https://techcrunch.com/2025/05/05/ftc-bans-hidden-fees-for-live-events-and-short-term-rentals-effective-may-12/

1 year ago

DoorDash to acquire Deliveroo

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/05/06/doordash-to-buy-uk-food-delivery-firm-deliveroo-in-3point9-billion-deal.html

1 year ago

Brush (Bo(u)rn(e) RUsty SHell) a POSIX and Bash-Compatible Shell in Rust

https://github.com/reubeno/brush

1 year ago

The DEA is now abandoning body cameras

https://www.propublica.org/article/drug-enforcement-administration-ends-body-camera-program-trump

1 year ago

OpenAI reaches agreement to buy Windsurf for around $3B

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-05-06/openai-reaches-agreement-to-buy-startup-windsurf-for-3-billion

1 year ago

Cuttlefish 'talk' with their arms, study reveals

https://scienceblog.com/wildscience/2025/05/06/cuttlefish-talk-with-their-arms-study-reveals/

1 year ago

Design and evaluation of a parrot-to-parrot video-calling system (2023)

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/scientists-taught-pet-parrots-to-video-call-each-other-and-the-birds-loved-it-180982041/

1 year ago

Mass spectrometry method identifies pathogens within minutes instead of days

https://phys.org/news/2025-05-mass-spectrometry-method-pathogens-minutes.html

1 year ago

Show HN: Plexe – ML Models from a Prompt

https://github.com/plexe-ai/plexe

1 year ago

Alignment is not free: How model upgrades can silence your confidence signals

https://www.variance.co/post/alignment-is-not-free-how-a-model-silenced-our-confidence-signals

1 year ago

Is Planet Nine Alone in the Outer System?

https://www.centauri-dreams.org/2025/05/06/is-planet-nine-alone-in-the-outer-system/

1 year ago

The Turkish İ Problem and Why You Should Care (2012)

https://haacked.com/archive/2012/07/05/turkish-i-problem-and-why-you-should-care.aspx/

1 year ago

ACE-Step: A step towards music generation foundation model

https://github.com/ace-step/ACE-Step

1 year ago

Propositions as Types (2014) [pdf]

https://homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/wadler/papers/propositions-as-types/propositions-as-types.pdf

1 year ago

Show HN: Whippy Term - GUI terminal for embedded development (Linux and Windows)

https://whippyterm.com

1 year ago

MTerrain: Optimized terrain system and editor for Godot

https://github.com/mohsenph69/Godot-MTerrain-plugin

1 year ago

RIP Skype

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/blog/2025/02/28/the-next-chapter-moving-from-skype-to-microsoft-teams/

1 year ago

Math Machine – A notebook will show your kid how far they have travelled

https://kidswholovemath.substack.com/p/math-machine

1 year ago

Sutton and Barto book implementation

https://github.com/ivanbelenky/RL

1 year ago

AI focused on brain regions recreates what you're looking at (2024)

https://www.newscientist.com/article/2438107-mind-reading-ai-recreates-what-youre-looking-at-with-amazing-accuracy/

1 year ago

"Night of the Living Dead" accidentally became public domain (2019)

https://screenrant.com/night-living-dead-movie-public-domain-copyright-accident/

1 year ago

Malaya's Timeless Design

https://www.linyangchen.com/Philately

1 year ago

Preparing for when the machine stops

https://idiallo.com/blog/when-the-machine-stops

1 year ago

Open WebUI changed license from BSD-3 to Open WebUI license with CLA

https://docs.openwebui.com/license/

1 year ago

Show HN: Feedsmith — Fast parser & generator for RSS, Atom, OPML feed namespaces

https://github.com/macieklamberski/feedsmith

1 year ago

Show HN: Outpost – OSS infra for outbound webhooks and event destinations

https://github.com/hookdeck/outpost

1 year ago