top 50% hacker news stories for 2025-05-07

Ty: A fast Python type checker and language server

https://github.com/astral-sh/ty

1 year ago

Zed: High-performance AI Code Editor

https://zed.dev/blog/fastest-ai-code-editor

1 year ago

CLion Is Now Free for Non-Commercial Use

https://blog.jetbrains.com/clion/2025/05/clion-is-now-free-for-non-commercial-use/

1 year ago

Waiting for Postgres 18: Accelerating Disk Reads with Asynchronous I/O

https://pganalyze.com/blog/postgres-18-async-io

1 year ago

Unity’s Open-Source Double Standard: the ban of VLC

https://mfkl.github.io/2024/01/10/unity-double-oss-standards.html

1 year ago

Mistral ships Le Chat – enterprise AI assistant that can run on prem

https://mistral.ai/news/le-chat-enterprise

1 year ago

So Much Blood

https://dynomight.net/blood/

1 year ago

RybbitL Open source Google Analytics replacement

https://github.com/rybbit-io/rybbit

1 year ago

My quest to make motorcycle riding that tad bit safer

https://gill.net.in/posts/my-quest-to-make-motorcycle-riding-safer/

1 year ago

Lazarus Release 4.0

https://forum.lazarus.freepascal.org/index.php?topic=71050.0

1 year ago

Web search on the Anthropic API

https://www.anthropic.com/news/web-search-api

1 year ago

Create and edit images with Gemini 2.0 in preview

https://developers.googleblog.com/en/generate-images-gemini-2-0-flash-preview/

1 year ago

EPA Plans to Shut Down the Energy Star Program

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/06/climate/epa-energy-star-eliminated.html

1 year ago

Show HN: eInk optimized manga with Kindle Comic Converter (+Kobo/ReMarkable)

https://github.com/ciromattia/kcc

1 year ago

Jury orders NSO to pay $167M for hacking WhatsApp users

https://arstechnica.com/security/2025/05/jury-orders-nso-to-pay-167-million-for-hacking-whatsapp-users/

1 year ago

Mac Themes Garden

https://damien.zone/introducing-mac-themes-garden/

1 year ago

Internet Roadtrip: Vote to steer

https://neal.fun/internet-roadtrip/

1 year ago

June Huh dropped out to become a poet, now he’s won a Fields Medal (2022)

https://www.quantamagazine.org/june-huh-high-school-dropout-wins-the-fields-medal-20220705/

1 year ago

Samsung is paying $350M for audio brands B&W, Denon, Marantz and Polk

https://www.engadget.com/audio/samsung-is-paying-350-million-for-audio-brands-bowers--wilkins-denon-marantz-and-polk-131514754.html

1 year ago

Private Japanese lunar lander enters orbit around moon ahead of a June touchdown

https://phys.org/news/2025-05-private-japanese-lunar-lander-orbit.html

1 year ago

Yggdrasil is an experimental compact routing scheme that is fully decentralised

https://yggdrasil-network.github.io/about.html

1 year ago

Ghost students are creating problems for California colleges

https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/ghost-students-creating-problem-calif-colleges-20311708.php

1 year ago

OpenAI for Countries

https://openai.com/global-affairs/openai-for-countries/

1 year ago

'I paid for the whole GPU, I am going to use the whole GPU'

https://modal.com/blog/gpu-utilization-guide

1 year ago

The State of SSL Stacks

https://www.haproxy.com/blog/state-of-ssl-stacks

1 year ago

Three Chapters at Cloudflare: Programmer to CTO to Board of Directors

https://blog.cloudflare.com/en-us/three-chapters-at-cloudflare-programmer-to-cto-to-board-of-directors/

1 year ago

Getting Older Isn't What You Think

https://www.katycowan.co.uk/blog/getting-old

1 year ago

Detect and crash Chromium bots

https://blog.castle.io/detect-and-crash-chromium-bots-with-one-weird-trick-bots-hate-it/

1 year ago

Vagus Nerve Stimulation Erases PTSD: Study

https://neurosciencenews.com/vagus-nerve-stimulation-ptsd-28818/

1 year ago

Foundation DB Record Layer SQL API

https://foundationdb.github.io/fdb-record-layer/SQL_Reference.html

1 year ago

Everyone is cheating their way through college

https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/openai-chatgpt-ai-cheating-education-college-students-school.html

1 year ago

Strain gauge made out of PCB

https://github.com/vapetrov/PCB_strain_gauge

1 year ago

WeightWatchers files bankruptcy

https://www.wsj.com/articles/weightwatchers-files-bankruptcy-to-adapt-to-chemically-induced-weight-loss-future-a63aa8ac

1 year ago

Show HN: US Routing – Python library for fast local routing in the US

https://github.com/ivanbelenky/us-routing

1 year ago

OpenSearch 3.0 Released

https://opensearch.org/blog/opensearch-3-0-enhances-vector-database-performance/

1 year ago

Pakistani firm shipped fentanyl analogs, scams to us

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2025/05/pakistani-firm-shipped-fentanyl-analogs-scams-to-us/

1 year ago

Mississippi Can't Possibly Have Good Schools

https://www.educationdaly.us/p/mississippi-cant-possibly-have-good

1 year ago

Richest 10 Percent Responsible for Two-Thirds of Warming

https://e360.yale.edu/digest/worlds-richest-10-percent-responsible-for-two-thirds-of-warming

1 year ago

Reverse Engineering "DNA Sequences" in the Lost World: Jurassic Park Video Game

https://32bits.substack.com/p/under-the-microscope-the-lost-world

1 year ago

Proposal: Add bare metal support to Go

https://github.com/golang/go/issues/73608

1 year ago

VMware perpetual license holders receive cease-and-desist letters from Broadcom

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/05/broadcom-sends-cease-and-desist-letters-to-subscription-less-vmware-users/

1 year ago

Crowd Sourcing Broken QR Codes

https://www.humanqr.com/news/qr-code-not-scanning-well-try-to-help/

1 year ago

Sandy Bridge-era motherboard gets M.2 SSD boot support 12 years after launch

https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/motherboards/sandy-bridge-era-motherboard-gains-m-2-ssd-boot-support-12-years-after-launch-first-new-bios-in-a-decade-for-decommissioned-motherboard

1 year ago

Loss of dance and infant-directed song among the Northern Aché

https://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(25)00447-6

1 year ago

Engineers develop wearable heart attack detection technology

https://medicalxpress.com/news/2025-04-wearable-heart-technology.html

1 year ago

How to Average in Prolog (2017)

https://storytotell.org/how-to-average-in-prolog

1 year ago

Medium Is the New Large

https://mistral.ai/news/mistral-medium-3

1 year ago

Telling Lies: Bowie and Online Music Distribution in 1996

https://cybercultural.com/p/online-music-distribution-1996/

1 year ago

Rage of the Oligarchs Naomi Klein: 'What They Want Is Absolutely Everything

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/naomi-klein-trump-musk-thiel-oligarchs-climate-science-1235330780/

1 year ago

Tariffs Killed Arduboy

https://community.arduboy.com/t/tariffs-killed-arduboy/12675

1 year ago

Stratolaunch Successfully Completes Reusable Hypersonic Flight and Recovery

https://www.stratolaunch.com/news/stratolaunch-successfully-completes-reusable-hypersonic-flight-and-recovery-with-talon-a2-vehicle/

1 year ago

Some novelists are becoming video game writers and vice-versa

https://www.theguardian.com/games/2025/apr/30/novelists-video-game-writers

1 year ago

Show HN: Sneakers (1992) in Your Terminal

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43916333

1 year ago

Agentic Editing in Zed

https://zed.dev/blog/fastest-ai-code-editor?e=60

1 year ago

Social AI companions pose unacceptable risks to teens and children under 18

https://www.commonsensemedia.org/ai-ratings/social-ai-companions

1 year ago

Migrating a JavaScript Project from Prettier and ESLint to BiomeJS

https://blog.appsignal.com/2025/05/07/migrating-a-javascript-project-from-prettier-and-eslint-to-biomejs.html

1 year ago

Zuckerberg's Grand Vision: Most of Your Friends Will Be AI

https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/mark-zuckerberg-ai-digital-future-0bb04de7

1 year ago

Spanish Shipwreck Reveals Evidence of Earliest Known Pet Cats to Arrive in US

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/spanish-shipwreck-reveals-evidence-of-earliest-known-pet-cats-to-arrive-in-the-united-states-180986560/

1 year ago