1209
292
From: Steve Jobs. "Great idea, thank you."
https://blog.hayman.net/2025/05/06/from-steve-jobs-great-idea.html
1 year ago
948
343
Void: Open-source Cursor alternative
https://github.com/voideditor/void
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
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
532
105
Reservoir Sampling
https://samwho.dev/reservoir-sampling/
530
372
Ask HN: What are good high-information density UIs (screenshots, apps, sites)?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43925732
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/
351
67
Writing an LLM from scratch, part 13 – attention heads are dumb
https://www.gilesthomas.com/2025/05/llm-from-scratch-13-taking-stock-part-1-attention-heads-are-dumb
336
125
Mycoria is an open and secure overlay network that connects all participants
https://mycoria.org/
310
263
Microservices are a tax your startup probably can't afford
https://nexo.sh/posts/microservices-for-startups/
308
69
Using NASA’s SMAP satellite to detect L-band interference
https://radioandnukes.substack.com/p/how-dare-you-transmit-at-14-ghz
291
356
Google to back three new nuclear projects
https://www.esgtoday.com/google-to-back-three-new-advanced-nuclear-projects/
259
78
Show HN: Using eBPF to see through encryption without a proxy
https://github.com/qpoint-io/qtap
234
277
A flat pricing subscription for Claude Code
https://support.anthropic.com/en/articles/11145838-using-claude-code-with-your-max-plan
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
215
2
Chicago native Cardinal Prevost elected pope, takes name Leo XIV
https://catholicreview.org/chicago-native-cardinal-prevost-elected-pope-takes-name-leo-xiv/
189
104
Notes on rolling out Cursor and Claude Code
https://ghiculescu.substack.com/p/nobody-codes-here-anymore
164
68
Fui: C library for interacting with the framebuffer in a TTY context
https://github.com/martinfama/fui
160
74
How to start a school with your friends
https://prigoose.substack.com/p/how-to-start-a-university
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
139
136
Ask HN: How much better are AI IDEs vs. copy pasting into chat apps?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43922759
133
24
Absolute Zero Reasoner
https://andrewzh112.github.io/absolute-zero-reasoner/
132
65
Stability by Design
https://potetm.com/devtalk/stability-by-design.html
127
116
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/
126
How the US built 5k ships in WWII
https://www.construction-physics.com/p/how-the-us-built-5000-ships-in-wwii
Egyptologist uncovers hidden messages on Paris’s iconic obelisk
https://news.artnet.com/art-world/hidden-messages-paris-luxor-obelisk-2636508
39
Making PyPI's test suite faster
https://blog.trailofbits.com/2025/05/01/making-pypis-test-suite-81-faster/
124
54
An Introduction to Solid Queue for Ruby on Rails
https://blog.appsignal.com/2025/05/07/an-introduction-to-solid-queue-for-ruby-on-rails.html
123
186
My stackoverflow question was closed so here's a blog post about CoreWCF
https://richardcocks.github.io/2025-05-08-CoreWCF.html
17
Podfox: First Container-Aware Browser
https://val.packett.cool/blog/podfox/
115
Static as a Server
https://overreacted.io/static-as-a-server/
177
More people are getting tattoos removed
https://www.gq.com/story/why-is-everyone-getting-their-tattoos-removed
98
I can’t understand Apple’s Critical Alert policy (2023)
https://jhan.bearblog.dev/i-cant-understand-apples-critical-alert-policy/
94
59
Monitoring my Minecraft server with OpenTelemetry and Prometheus
https://www.dash0.com/blog/monitoring-minecraft-with-opentelemetry
90
4
Ink and Algorithms: Techniques, tools and the craft of pen plotting
https://penplotter.art/
89
How much information is in DNA?
https://dynomight.substack.com/p/dna
66
Huawei unveils laptop running self-developed HarmonyOS as Windows licence expire
https://www.scmp.com/tech/big-tech/article/3309569/huawei-unveils-first-laptop-running-self-developed-harmonyos-windows-licence-expires
93
The Price of Remission
https://www.propublica.org/article/revlimid-price-cancer-celgene-drugs-fda-multiple-myeloma
88
61
Prepare your apps for Google Play's 16 KB page size compatibility requirement
https://android-developers.googleblog.com/2025/05/prepare-play-apps-for-devices-with-16kb-page-size.html
87
Prolog's Eternal September (2017)
https://storytotell.org/prologs-eternal-september
83
110
Why do LLMs have emergent properties?
https://www.johndcook.com/blog/2025/05/08/why-do-llms-have-emergent-properties/
37
Optimizing My Hacker News Experience
https://reorientinglife.substack.com/p/optimizing-my-hacker-news-experience
19
A brief history of the numeric keypad
https://www.doc.cc/articles/a-brief-history-of-the-numeric-keypad
72
16
Block Diffusion: Interpolating Autoregressive and Diffusion Language Models
https://m-arriola.com/bd3lms/
71
18
Uber's Shower Gate Scandal
https://www.teamblind.com/post/ubers-shower-gate-scandal-KpqjYBkP
8
When Suno covers my song (very useful) – a study with variations
http://rochus-keller.ch/?p=1350
23
Arduino is at work to make bio-based PCBs
https://blog.arduino.cc/2025/04/22/arduino-is-at-work-to-make-bio-based-pcbs/
70
52
Dart added support for cross-compilation
https://dart.dev/tools/dart-compile#cross-compilation-exe
Globalization did not hollow out the American middle class
https://www.noahpinion.blog/p/globalization-did-not-hollow-out
63
29
Yes, the Apple II MouseCard IRQ is synced to the VBL
https://www.colino.net/wordpress/en/archives/2025/05/08/yes-the-apple-ii-mousecard-irq-is-synced-to-the-vbl/
28
Will protein design tools solve the snake antivenom shortage?
https://www.owlposting.com/p/will-protein-design-tools-solve-the
57
31
DNA is maybe 60-750MB of data
https://dynomight.net/dna/
56
IPinfo started offering free unlimited country-level geolocation and ASN details
https://ipinfo.io/lite
Adaptive Hashing
https://quotenil.com/adaptive-hashing.html
51
22
Brokk: AI for Large Codebases
https://brokk.ai
Linux drops support for 486 and early Pentium CPUs: 20 years after Microsoft
https://www.zdnet.com/article/linux-drops-support-for-486-and-early-pentium-processors-20-years-after-microsoft/