top 20 hacker news stories for 2025-05-11

Plain Vanilla Web

https://plainvanillaweb.com/index.html

1 year ago

Leaving Google

https://www.airs.com/blog/archives/670

1 year ago

One-Click RCE in Asus's Preinstalled Driver Software

https://mrbruh.com/asusdriverhub/

1 year ago

Car companies are in a billion-dollar software war

https://insideevs.com/features/759153/car-companies-software-companies/

1 year ago

I built a native Windows Todo app in pure C (278 KB, no frameworks)

https://github.com/Efeckc17/simple-todo-c

1 year ago

Why Bell Labs Worked

https://1517.substack.com/p/why-bell-labs-worked

1 year ago

In 2025, venture capital can't pretend everything is fine any more

https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/05/03/in-2025-venture-capital-cant-pretend-everything-is-fine-any-more/

1 year ago

Build iOS Apps on Linux and Windows

https://forums.swift.org/t/xtool-cross-platform-xcode-replacement-build-ios-apps-on-linux-and-more/79803

1 year ago

Scraperr – A Self Hosted Webscraper

https://github.com/jaypyles/Scraperr

1 year ago

Klarna changes its AI tune and again recruits humans for customer service

https://www.customerexperiencedive.com/news/klarna-reinvests-human-talent-customer-service-AI-chatbot/747586/

1 year ago

High-school shop students attract skilled-trades job offers

https://www.wsj.com/lifestyle/careers/skilled-trades-high-school-recruitment-fd9f8257

1 year ago

Title of work deciphered in sealed Herculaneum scroll via digital unwrapping

https://www.finebooksmagazine.com/fine-books-news/title-work-deciphered-sealed-herculaneum-scroll-digital-unwrapping

1 year ago

Fandom sells gaming media brand Giant Bomb to long-term staff

https://about.fandom.com/news/fandom-sells-giant-bomb-to-independent-creators

1 year ago

Dotless Domains

https://lab.avl.la/dotless/

1 year ago

The Epochalypse Project

https://epochalypse-project.org/

1 year ago

DNS piracy blocking orders: Google, Cloudflare, and OpenDNS respond differently

https://torrentfreak.com/dns-piracy-blocking-orders-google-cloudflare-and-opendns-respond-differently-250511/

1 year ago

Burrito Now, Pay Later

https://enterprisevalue.substack.com/p/burrito-now-pay-later

1 year ago

LSP client in Clojure in 200 lines of code

https://vlaaad.github.io/lsp-client-in-200-lines-of-code

1 year ago

Fan Service

https://flak.tedunangst.com/post/fan-service

1 year ago

ToyDB rewritten: a distributed SQL database in Rust, for education

https://github.com/erikgrinaker/toydb

1 year ago