606
1040
First American pope elected and will be known as Pope Leo XIV
https://www.cnn.com/world/live-news/new-pope-conclave-day-two-05-08-25
11 months ago
678
656
My new deadline: 20 years to give away virtually all my wealth
https://www.gatesnotes.com/home/home-page-topic/reader/n20-years-to-give-away-virtually-all-my-wealth
483
398
High tariffs become 'real' with our first $36K bill
https://blog.adafruit.com/2025/05/08/high-tariffs-become-real-with-our-first-36k-bill/
530
372
Ask HN: What are good high-information density UIs (screenshots, apps, sites)?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43925732
291
356
Google to back three new nuclear projects
https://www.esgtoday.com/google-to-back-three-new-advanced-nuclear-projects/
948
343
Void: Open-source Cursor alternative
https://github.com/voideditor/void
1209
292
From: Steve Jobs. "Great idea, thank you."
https://blog.hayman.net/2025/05/06/from-steve-jobs-great-idea.html
234
277
A flat pricing subscription for Claude Code
https://support.anthropic.com/en/articles/11145838-using-claude-code-with-your-max-plan
310
263
Microservices are a tax your startup probably can't afford
https://nexo.sh/posts/microservices-for-startups/
123
186
My stackoverflow question was closed so here's a blog post about CoreWCF
https://richardcocks.github.io/2025-05-08-CoreWCF.html
104
177
More people are getting tattoos removed
https://www.gq.com/story/why-is-everyone-getting-their-tattoos-removed
154
152
Trump's NIH axed research grants even after a judge blocked the cuts
https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-nih-cuts-transgender-research-grants
232
142
Progress toward fusion energy gain as measured against the Lawson criteria
https://www.fusionenergybase.com/articles/continuing-progress-toward-fusion-energy-breakeven-and-gain-as-measured-against-the-lawson-criteria
139
136
Ask HN: How much better are AI IDEs vs. copy pasting into chat apps?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43922759
126
133
How the US built 5k ships in WWII
https://www.construction-physics.com/p/how-the-us-built-5000-ships-in-wwii
336
125
Mycoria is an open and secure overlay network that connects all participants
https://mycoria.org/
115
116
Static as a Server
https://overreacted.io/static-as-a-server/
127
We have reached the "severed fingers and abductions" stage of crypto revolution
https://arstechnica.com/security/2025/05/we-have-reached-the-severed-fingers-and-abductions-stage-of-the-crypto-revolution/
83
110
Why do LLMs have emergent properties?
https://www.johndcook.com/blog/2025/05/08/why-do-llms-have-emergent-properties/
532
105
Reservoir Sampling
https://samwho.dev/reservoir-sampling/
Ask HN: What are good high-information density UIs (screenshots, apps, sites)?