top 50% 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

I learned Snobol and then wrote a toy Forth

https://ratfactor.com/snobol/

1 year ago

Insurers launch cover for losses caused by AI chatbot errors

https://www.ft.com/content/1d35759f-f2a9-46c4-904b-4a78ccc027df

1 year ago

Why are coffee stains darker at the edges?

https://www.why.is/svar.php?id=5513

1 year ago

I hacked my clock to control my focus

https://www.paepper.com/blog/posts/how-i-hacked-my-clock-to-control-my-focus.md/

1 year ago

An online exhibition of pretty software bugs

https://glitchgallery.org/

1 year ago

Show HN: I’ve built an IoT device to let my family know when I’m in a meeting

https://nullonerror.org/2025/05/11/i-have-built-an-iot-device-to-let-my-family-know-when-i-am-in-a-meeting/

1 year ago

2024 sea level 'report cards' map futures of U.S. coastal communities

https://news.wm.edu/2025/05/06/2024-sea-level-report-cards-map-futures-of-u-s-coastal-communities/

1 year ago

JEP 515: Ahead-of-Time Method Profiling

https://openjdk.org/jeps/515

1 year ago

Mipmap selection in too much detail

https://pema.dev/2025/05/09/mipmaps-too-much-detail/

1 year ago

Gonzalo Guerrero

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gonzalo_Guerrero

1 year ago

A Rust Documentation Ecosystem Review

https://www.harudagondi.space/blog/rust-documentation-ecosystem-review/

1 year ago

Booting the RP2350 from UART

https://pfister.dev/blog/2025/rp2350-uart-bl.html

1 year ago

Absolute Zero: Reinforced Self-Play Reasoning with Zero Data

https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.03335

1 year ago

Show HN: I’m 16 years old and working on my first startup, a study app

https://www.notiv.app/

1 year ago

Applications of Classical Physics

http://pmaweb.caltech.edu/Courses/ph136/yr2012/

1 year ago

Ask HN: What will tech employment look like in 10 years?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43953092

1 year ago

Why not object capability languages?

https://blog.plan99.net/why-not-capability-languages-a8e6cbdf9682

1 year ago

Show HN: GlassFlow – OSS streaming dedup and joins from Kafka to ClickHouse

https://github.com/glassflow/clickhouse-etl

1 year ago

An $18M grant would have drastically reduced food waste. Then the EPA cut it

https://grist.org/food-and-agriculture/trump-epa-community-change-grants-program-food-waste/

1 year ago

Getting Started with Celtic Coins – Crude and Barbarous, or Just Different?

https://collectingancientcoins.co.uk/getting-started-with-celtic-coins-crude-and-barbarous-or-just-different/

1 year ago

The surgeon who used F1 pitstop techniques to save lives of babies

https://www.thetimes.com/sport/formula-one/article/professor-martin-elliott-interview-surgeon-f1-pitstops-babies-ferrari-j3sbkjssk

1 year ago

US Copyright Office: Generative AI Training [pdf]

https://www.copyright.gov/ai/Copyright-and-Artificial-Intelligence-Part-3-Generative-AI-Training-Report-Pre-Publication-Version.pdf

1 year ago

Elizabeth Holmes's partner raises millions for blood-testing startup

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/may/11/elizabeth-holmes-partner-blood-testing-startup

1 year ago

Tufts graduate student Rümeysa Öztürk released from immigration detention

https://www.npr.org/2025/05/09/nx-s1-5393055/tufts-student-rumeysa-ozturk-ordered-freed-from-immigration-detention

1 year ago