top 50% hacker news stories for 2025-05-09

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

637 upvotes – 300 comments

LegoGPT: Generating Physically Stable and Buildable Lego

https://avalovelace1.github.io/LegoGPT/

1 year ago

596 upvotes – 136 comments

Business books are entertainment, not strategic tools

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

1 year ago

593 upvotes – 255 comments

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

570 upvotes – 767 comments

Rust’s dependencies are starting to worry me

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

1 year ago

424 upvotes – 570 comments

Sofie: open-source web based system for automating live TV news production

https://nrkno.github.io/sofie-core/

1 year ago

378 upvotes – 53 comments

WASM 2.0

https://www.w3.org/TR/wasm-core-2/

1 year ago

332 upvotes – 139 comments

Show HN: Hyvector – A fast and modern SVG editor

https://www.hyvector.com

1 year ago

331 upvotes – 93 comments

21 GB/s CSV Parsing Using SIMD on AMD 9950X

https://nietras.com/2025/05/09/sep-0-10-0/

1 year ago

322 upvotes – 169 comments

Starlink User Terminal Teardown

https://www.darknavy.org/blog/a_first_glimpse_of_the_starlink_user_ternimal/

1 year ago

306 upvotes – 114 comments

DOGE engineer's credentials found in past public leaks from info-stealer malware

https://arstechnica.com/security/2025/05/doge-software-engineers-computer-infected-by-info-stealing-malware/

1 year ago

293 upvotes – 163 comments

Itter.sh – Micro-Blogging via Terminal

https://www.itter.sh/

1 year ago

289 upvotes – 73 comments

Open Hardware Ethernet Switch project, part 1

https://serd.es/2025/05/08/Switch-project-pt1.html

1 year ago

275 upvotes – 36 comments

How friction is being redistributed in today's economy

https://kyla.substack.com/p/the-most-valuable-commodity-in-the

1 year ago

252 upvotes – 116 comments

Man 'Disappeared' by ICE Was on El Salvador Flight Manifest, Hacked Data Shows

https://www.404media.co/man-disappeared-by-ice-was-on-el-salvador-flight-manifest-hacked-data-shows/

1 year ago

248 upvotes – 111 comments

CryptPad: An Alternative to the Google Suite

https://cryptpad.org/

1 year ago

239 upvotes – 94 comments

Show HN: Aberdeen – An elegant approach to reactive UIs

https://aberdeenjs.org/

1 year ago

224 upvotes – 129 comments

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

218 upvotes – 178 comments

Amazon's Vulcan Robots Now Stow Items Faster Than Humans

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

1 year ago

209 upvotes – 283 comments

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

207 upvotes – 187 comments

Audiobookshelf: Self-hosted audiobook and podcast server

https://www.audiobookshelf.org/

1 year ago

207 upvotes – 97 comments

Dead Reckoning

https://www.damninteresting.com/dead-reckoning/

1 year ago

190 upvotes – 62 comments

What’s new in Swift 6.2

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

1 year ago

185 upvotes – 247 comments

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

184 upvotes – 273 comments

A Formal Analysis of Apple's iMessage PQ3 Protocol [pdf]

https://www.usenix.org/system/files/conference/usenixsecurity25/sec25cycle1-prepub-595-linker.pdf

1 year ago

161 upvotes – 134 comments

Fleurs du Mal

https://fleursdumal.org

1 year ago

161 upvotes – 59 comments

Launch HN: Nao Labs (YC X25) – Cursor for Data

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43938607

1 year ago

158 upvotes – 64 comments

Odin, a pragmatic C alternative with a Go flavour

http://bitshifters.cc/2025/05/04/odin.html

1 year ago

144 upvotes – 128 comments

Past, present, and future of Sorbet type syntax

https://blog.jez.io/history-of-sorbet-syntax/

1 year ago

136 upvotes – 89 comments

Why 536 was 'the worst year to be alive' (2018)

https://www.science.org/content/article/why-536-was-worst-year-be-alive

1 year ago

127 upvotes – 68 comments

The dark side of account bans

https://madelinemiller.dev/blog/dark-side-account-bans/

1 year ago

127 upvotes – 113 comments

Implementing a Struct of Arrays

https://brevzin.github.io/c++/2025/05/02/soa/

1 year ago

126 upvotes – 50 comments

How to avoid P hacking

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-01246-1

1 year ago

116 upvotes – 87 comments

Usenix ATC Announcement

https://www.usenix.org/blog/usenix-atc-announcement

1 year ago

113 upvotes – 12 comments

Updated rate limits for unauthenticated requests

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

1 year ago

108 upvotes – 177 comments

Show HN: Oliphaunt – A native Mastodon client for macOS

https://testflight.apple.com/join/Epq1P3Cw

1 year ago

105 upvotes – 39 comments

The Beam

https://www.erlang-solutions.com/blog/the-beam-erlangs-virtual-machine/

1 year ago

105 upvotes – 24 comments

NASA study reveals Venus crust surprise

https://science.nasa.gov/science-research/astromaterials/nasa-study-reveals-venus-crust-surprise/

1 year ago

105 upvotes – 103 comments

In the Network of the Conclave

https://www.unibocconi.it/en/news/network-conclave

1 year ago

103 upvotes – 74 comments

New Tool: lsds – List All Linux Block Devices and Settings in One Place

https://tanelpoder.com/posts/lsds-list-linux-block-devices-and-their-config/

1 year ago

101 upvotes – 20 comments

37signals Says Goodbye to AWS: Full S3 Migration and $10M in Projected Savings

https://systemadministration.net/37signals-says-goodbye-to-aws-full-s3-migration-and-10m-in-projected-savings/

1 year ago

101 upvotes – 54 comments

USPTO refuses Tesla Robotaxi trademark as "merely descriptive"

https://arstechnica.com/cars/2025/05/robotaxi-and-cybercab-are-too-unoriginal-to-trademark-uspto-tells-tesla/

1 year ago

98 upvotes – 80 comments

Google Doc Templates for Startups

https://www.templatesbypaul.com/

1 year ago

97 upvotes – 14 comments

PlainBudget – Minimalist Plain Text Budgeting

https://plainbudget.com/

1 year ago

96 upvotes – 31 comments

eBPF Mystery: When is IPv4 not IPv4? When it's pretending to be IPv6

https://blog.gripdev.xyz/2025/05/06/ebpf-mystery-when-is-ipv4-not-ipv4-when-its-ipv6/

1 year ago

95 upvotes – 34 comments

Show HN: A backend agnostic Ruby framework for building reactive desktop apps

https://codeberg.org/skinnyjames/hokusai

1 year ago

92 upvotes – 34 comments

The Linux Kernel's PGP Web of Trust

https://blog.kleine-koenig.org/ukl/the-linux-kernels-pgp-web-of-trust.html

1 year ago

90 upvotes – 19 comments

Former Supreme Court justice David Souter has died

https://www.npr.org/2025/05/09/g-s1-65326/justice-david-souter-dies

1 year ago

86 upvotes – 46 comments

How to (actually) prove it – New Frontiers of Mathematics and Computing in Lean

https://kirancodes.me/posts/log-how-to-prove-it-maths.html

1 year ago

81 upvotes – 17 comments

Dasung Paperlike 13K is a 13.3 inch E Ink color monitor

https://liliputing.com/dasung-paperlike-13k-is-a-13-3-inch-e-ink-color-monitor-crowdfunding/

1 year ago

78 upvotes – 58 comments

Inventing the Adventure Game (1984)

http://www.warrenrobinett.com/inventing_adventure/

1 year ago

74 upvotes – 11 comments

Revisiting Image Maps

https://css-tricks.com/revisiting-image-maps/

1 year ago

74 upvotes – 21 comments

Social drinking also a well-worn path to alcohol use disorder

https://news.illinois.edu/review-social-drinking-also-a-well-worn-path-to-alcohol-use-disorder/

1 year ago

71 upvotes – 82 comments

Show HN: Hyper – Standards-first React alternative

https://nuejs.org/blog/standards-first-react-alternative/

1 year ago

70 upvotes – 85 comments

Trump administration "looking at" suspending habeas corpus

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/05/09/trump-deportation-habeas-corpus-miller.html

1 year ago

64 upvotes – 15 comments

Show HN: BlenderQ – A TUI for managing multiple Blender renders

https://github.com/KyleTryon/BlenderQ

1 year ago

64 upvotes – 6 comments

Linear Programming for Fun and Profit

https://modal.com/blog/resource-solver

1 year ago

62 upvotes – 15 comments

How async/await works in Python (2021)

https://tenthousandmeters.com/blog/python-behind-the-scenes-12-how-asyncawait-works-in-python/

1 year ago

61 upvotes – 7 comments

Show HN: Hydra (YC W22) – Serverless Analytics on Postgres

https://www.hydra.so/

1 year ago

60 upvotes – 33 comments

6502 Illegal Opcodes in the Siemens PC 100 Assembly Manual (1980)

https://www.pagetable.com/?p=1798

1 year ago

58 upvotes – 47 comments

Hollow Core Fiber (HCF)

https://www.holightoptic.com/what-is-hollow-core-fiber-hcf%ef%bc%9f/

1 year ago

58 upvotes – 34 comments

The Acid King (2001)

https://www.rollingstone.com/feature/acid-lsd-king-william-leonard-pickard-prison-pete-wilkinson-184390/

1 year ago

58 upvotes – 48 comments

Catholic church to excommunicate priests for following new US state law

https://www.newsweek.com/catholic-church-excommunicate-priests-following-new-us-state-law-2069039

1 year ago

56 upvotes – 96 comments

Apple Turnover

https://hypercritical.co/2025/05/09/apple-turnover

1 year ago

53 upvotes – 8 comments

Alephic Writing Style Guide

https://www.alephic.com/company/writing

1 year ago

52 upvotes – 45 comments

Detecting if an expression is constant in C

https://nrk.neocities.org/articles/c-constexpr-macro#detecting-if-an-expression-is-constant-in-c

1 year ago

49 upvotes – 14 comments
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