top 10 hacker news stories for 2025-05-09

NSF faces shake-up as officials abolish its 37 divisions

https://www.science.org/content/article/exclusive-nsf-faces-radical-shake-officials-abolish-its-37-divisions

1 year ago

Rust’s dependencies are starting to worry me

https://vincents.dev/blog/rust-dependencies-scare-me/?

1 year ago

ALICE detects the conversion of lead into gold at the LHC

https://www.home.cern/news/news/physics/alice-detects-conversion-lead-gold-lhc

1 year ago

Amazon's Vulcan Robots Now Stow Items Faster Than Humans

https://spectrum.ieee.org/amazon-stowing-robots

1 year ago

Era of U.S. dollar may be winding down

https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2025/05/era-of-u-s-dollar-may-be-winding-down/

1 year ago

Business books are entertainment, not strategic tools

https://theorthagonist.substack.com/p/why-reading-business-books-is-a-waste

1 year ago

What’s new in Swift 6.2

https://www.hackingwithswift.com/articles/277/whats-new-in-swift-6-2

1 year ago

All BART trains were stopped due to ‘computer networking problem’

https://www.kqed.org/news/12039472/bart-shuts-down-entire-train-service-due-to-computer-networking-problem

1 year ago

Data manipulations alleged in study that paved way for Microsoft's quantum chip

https://www.science.org/content/article/data-manipulations-alleged-study-paved-way-microsoft-s-quantum-chip

1 year ago

Updated rate limits for unauthenticated requests

https://github.blog/changelog/2025-05-08-updated-rate-limits-for-unauthenticated-requests/

1 year ago