top 50% hacker news stories for 2025-05-10

A critical look at MCP

https://raz.sh/blog/2025-05-02_a_critical_look_at_mcp

1 year ago

Vision Now Available in Llama.cpp

https://github.com/ggml-org/llama.cpp/blob/master/docs/multimodal.md

1 year ago

A simple 16x16 dot animation from simple math rules

https://tixy.land

1 year ago

Observations from people-watching

https://skincontact.substack.com/p/21-observations-from-people-watching

1 year ago

US vs. Google amicus curiae brief of Y Combinator in support of plaintiffs [pdf]

https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.dcd.223205/gov.uscourts.dcd.223205.1300.1.pdf

1 year ago

Gmail to SQLite

https://github.com/marcboeker/gmail-to-sqlite

1 year ago

RPG in a Box

https://rpginabox.com/

1 year ago

The Deathbed Fallacy (2018)

https://www.hjorthjort.xyz/2018/02/21/the-deathbed-fallacy.html

1 year ago

Ash Framework – Model your domain, derive the rest

https://ash-hq.org/

1 year ago

Interferometer Device Sees Text from a Mile Away

https://physics.aps.org/articles/v18/99

1 year ago

Address of Pope Leo XIV to the College of Cardinals

https://www.vatican.va/content/leo-xiv/en/speeches/2025/may/documents/20250510-collegio-cardinalizio.html

1 year ago

For $595, you get what nobody else can give you for twice the price (1982) [pdf]

https://s3data.computerhistory.org/brochures/commodore.commodore64.1982.102646264.pdf

1 year ago

'We Currently Have No Container Ships,' Seattle Port Says

https://www.newsweek.com/seattle-port-says-no-container-ships-tariffs-2069464

1 year ago

WebGL Water (2010)

https://madebyevan.com/webgl-water/

1 year ago

Sierpiński Triangle? In My Bitwise and?

https://lcamtuf.substack.com/p/sierpinski-triangle-in-my-bitwise

1 year ago

LTXVideo 13B AI video generation

https://ltxv.video/

1 year ago

Microsoft Teams will soon block screen capture during meetings

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/microsoft/microsoft-teams-will-soon-block-screen-capture-during-meetings/

1 year ago

Continuous glucose monitors reveal variable glucose responses to the same meals

https://examine.com/research-feed/study/1jjKq1/

1 year ago

Brandon's Semiconductor Simulator

https://brandonli.net/semisim/

1 year ago

Failed Soviet Venus lander Kosmos 482 crashes to Earth after 53 years in orbit

https://www.space.com/space-exploration/launches-spacecraft/failed-soviet-venus-lander-kosmos-482-crashes-to-earth-after-53-years-in-orbit

1 year ago

Embracer Games Archive is preserving 75000 video games and needs contributions

https://embracergamesarchive.com/

1 year ago

Slow software for a burning world

https://bonfirenetworks.org/posts/slow_software_for_a_burning_world/

1 year ago

Reverse engineering the 386 processor's prefetch queue circuitry

http://www.righto.com/2025/05/386-prefetch-circuitry-reverse-engineered.html

1 year ago

'It cannot provide nuance': UK experts warn AI therapy chatbots are not safe

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/may/07/experts-warn-therapy-ai-chatbots-are-not-safe-to-use

1 year ago

Membrane: Media Framework for Elixir

https://membrane.stream/

1 year ago

A Typical Workday at a Japanese Hardware Tool Store [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A98jyfB5mws

1 year ago

Writing N-body gravity simulations code in Python

https://alvinng4.github.io/grav_sim/5_steps_to_n_body_simulation/

1 year ago

Sam Altman Wants Your Eyeball

https://www.privacyguides.org/articles/2025/05/10/sam-altman-wants-your-eyeball/

1 year ago

The cult of doing business

https://www.commonwealmagazine.org/calvert-work-entrepreneur-ethic-baker-review-job

1 year ago

15 Years of Shader Minification

https://www.ctrl-alt-test.fr/2025/15-years-of-shader-minification/

1 year ago

Comparison of C/POSIX standard library implementations for Linux

https://www.etalabs.net/compare_libcs.html

1 year ago

The History and Legacy of Visual Basic

https://retool.com/visual-basic

1 year ago

Europe launches program to lure scientists away from the US

https://es.wired.com/articulos/europa-lanza-iniciativa-para-atraer-talento-cientifico-tras-recortes-en-ee-uu

1 year ago

Why the Apple II Didn't Support Lowercase Letters (2020)

https://www.vintagecomputing.com/index.php/archives/2833/why-the-apple-ii-didnt-support-lowercase-letters

1 year ago

Show HN: Xenolab – Rasp Pi monitor for my pet carnivourus plants

https://github.com/blackrabbit17/xenolab

1 year ago

Not a three-year-old chimney sweep (2022)

https://fakehistoryhunter.net/2022/07/26/not-a-3-year-old-chimney-sweep/

1 year ago

React Three Ecosystem

https://www.react-three.org/

1 year ago

Show HN: Code Claude Code

https://github.com/RVCA212/codesys

1 year ago

EM-LLM: Human-Inspired Episodic Memory for Infinite Context LLMs

https://github.com/em-llm/EM-LLM-model

1 year ago

Intel: Winning and Losing

https://www.abortretry.fail/p/intel-winning-and-losing

1 year ago

Garbage collection of object storage at scale

https://www.warpstream.com/blog/taking-out-the-trash-garbage-collection-of-object-storage-at-massive-scale

1 year ago

US Government considering suspending habeas corpus

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c0qgz18glljo

1 year ago

Charles Bukowski, William Burroughs, and the Computer (2009)

https://realitystudio.org/bibliographic-bunker/charles-bukowski-william-burroughs-and-the-computer/

1 year ago

Radxa Orion O6 brings Arm to the midrange PC (with caveats)

https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2025/radxa-orion-o6-brings-arm-midrange-pc

1 year ago

Industry groups are not happy about the imminent demise of Energy Star

https://insideclimatenews.org/news/08052025/energy-star-program-could-be-eliminated-by-trump-administration/

1 year ago

Why GADTs matter for performance (2015)

https://blog.janestreet.com/why-gadts-matter-for-performance/

1 year ago

Coffee for people who don't like coffee

https://ostwilkens.se/blog/coffee

1 year ago

DOGE Is Bringing Back a Deadly Disease

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/05/doge-silicosis-prevention/682745/

1 year ago

Show HN: Codigo – The Programming Language Repository

https://codigolangs.com

1 year ago

Even Tesla's Insurance Arm Is Getting Wrecked

https://insideevs.com/news/759156/tesla-insurance-loss-higher-average/

1 year ago

Has anyone coined the term “fast tech” yet?

https://chaos.social/@gsuberland/114485304658708399

1 year ago

Show HN: LoopMix128 – Fast C PRNG (.46ns), 2^128 Period, BigCrush/PractRand Pass

https://github.com/danielcota/LoopMix128

1 year ago

In praise of grobi for auto-configuring X11 monitors

https://michael.stapelberg.ch/posts/2025-05-10-grobi-x11-monitor-autoconfig/

1 year ago

I Want to Love Linux. It Doesn't Love Me Back

https://fireborn.mataroa.blog/blog/i-want-to-love-linux-it-doesnt-love-me-back-post-1-built-for-control-but-not-for-people/

1 year ago

Ash (Almquist Shell) Variants

https://www.in-ulm.de/~mascheck/various/ash/

1 year ago

Update turns Google Gemini into a prude, breaking apps for trauma survivors

https://www.theregister.com/2025/05/08/google_gemini_update_prevents_disabling/

1 year ago

A tool to verify estimates, II: a flexible proof assistant

https://terrytao.wordpress.com/2025/05/09/a-tool-to-verify-estimates-ii-a-flexible-proof-assistant/

1 year ago

People Who Hype Cursor Usually Lack Technical Skills

https://en.smallyu.net/2025/04/12/People%20Who%20Hype%20Cursor%20Usually%20Lack%20Technical%20Skills/

1 year ago

Unity is threatening to revoke licenses of developers with flawed data

https://old.reddit.com/r/gamedev/comments/1kiyh0m/unity_is_threatening_to_revoke_all_licenses_for/

1 year ago

After 16 years, we're renewing the StackOverflow Brand

https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/408823/after-16-years-we-re-renewing-the-brand

1 year ago

Email Forwarding for Your Domain

https://mailwip.com

1 year ago