top 20 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

Material 3 Expressive

https://design.google/library/expressive-material-design-google-research

1 year ago

PDF to Text, a challenging problem

https://www.marginalia.nu/log/a_119_pdf/

1 year ago

In a high-stress work environment, prioritize relationships

https://wqtz.bearblog.dev/high-stress-job-relationships/

1 year ago

Git Bug: Distributed, Offline-First Bug Tracker Embedded in Git, with Bridges

https://github.com/git-bug/git-bug

1 year ago

What were the MS-DOS programs that the moricons.dll icons were intended for?

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20250507-00/?p=111157

1 year ago

Working on complex systems: What I learned working at Google

https://www.thecoder.cafe/p/complex-systems

1 year ago

Why are banks still getting authentication so wrong?

https://jamal.haba.sh/its-2025-why-are-banks-still-getting-authentication-so-wrong/

1 year ago

Nextcloud cries foul over Google Play Store app rejection

https://www.theregister.com/2025/05/13/nextcloud_play_store_complaint/

1 year ago

Type-constrained code generation with language models

https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.09246

1 year ago

Airbnb is in midlife crisis mode

https://www.wired.com/story/airbnb-is-in-midlife-crisis-mode-reinvention-app-services/

1 year ago