top 10 hacker news stories for 2025-05-13

Mozilla Firefox – Official GitHub repo

https://github.com/mozilla-firefox/firefox

1 year ago

The world could run on older hardware if software optimization was a priority

https://twitter.com/ID_AA_Carmack/status/1922100771392520710

1 year ago

Internet Artifacts

https://neal.fun/internet-artifacts/

1 year ago

Ask HN: How are you acquiring your first hundred users?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43970837

1 year ago

Flattening Rust’s learning curve

https://corrode.dev/blog/flattening-rusts-learning-curve/

1 year ago

Google is building its own DeX: First look at Android's Desktop Mode

https://www.androidauthority.com/android-desktop-mode-leak-3550321/

1 year ago

Changes since congestion pricing started in New York

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/05/11/upshot/congestion-pricing.html

1 year ago

Branch Privilege Injection: Exploiting branch predictor race conditions

https://comsec.ethz.ch/research/microarch/branch-privilege-injection/

1 year ago

Multiple security issues in GNU Screen

https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2025/05/12/1

1 year ago

FastVLM: Efficient vision encoding for vision language models

https://github.com/apple/ml-fastvlm

1 year ago