top 50% 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

Show HN: HelixDB – Open-source vector-graph database for AI applications (Rust)

https://github.com/HelixDB/helix-db/

1 year ago

Why I'm resigning from the National Science Foundation

https://time.com/7285045/resigning-national-science-foundation-library-congress/

1 year ago

Launch HN: Miyagi (YC W25) turns YouTube videos into online, interactive courses

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43972425

1 year ago

Odin: A programming language made for me

https://zylinski.se/posts/a-programming-language-for-me/

1 year ago

Lua for Elixir

https://davelucia.com/blog/lua-elixir

1 year ago

MCP: An in-depth introduction

https://www.speakeasy.com/mcp/mcp-tutorial

1 year ago

It Awaits Your Experiments

https://www.rifters.com/crawl/?p=11511

1 year ago

Dusk OS

https://duskos.org/

1 year ago

Build real-time knowledge graph for documents with LLM

https://cocoindex.io/blogs/knowledge-graph-for-docs/

1 year ago

Fingers wrinkle the same way every time they’re in the water too long

https://www.binghamton.edu/news/story/5547/do-your-fingers-wrinkle-the-same-way-every-time-youre-in-the-water-too-long-new-research-says-yes

1 year ago

Rustls Server-Side Performance

https://www.memorysafety.org/blog/rustls-server-perf/

1 year ago

Náhuatl and Mayan Language Renaissance Occurring in Mexico

https://yucatanmagazine.com/mayan-language-renaissance/

1 year ago

Starcloud

https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/starcloud

1 year ago

Show HN: Basecoat – shadcn/UI components, no React required

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43971688

1 year ago

Microsoft is Cutting 3% of All Workers

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/05/13/microsoft-is-cutting-3percent-of-workers-across-the-software-company.html

1 year ago

Lock-Free Rust: How to Build a Rollercoaster While It's on Fire

https://yeet.cx/blog/lock-free-rust/

1 year ago

Y Combinator says Google is a monopolist, no comment about its OpenAI ties

https://techcrunch.com/2025/05/13/y-combinator-says-google-is-a-monopolist-that-has-stunted-the-startup-ecosystem/

1 year ago

TransMLA: Multi-head latent attention is all you need

https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.07864

1 year ago

Anti-Personnel Computing (2023)

https://erratique.ch/writings/anti-personnel-computing

1 year ago

As US vuln-tracking falters, EU enters with its own security bug database

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

1 year ago

One hundred and one rules of effective living

https://mitchhorowitz.substack.com/p/101-rules-of-effective-living

1 year ago

GOP sneaks decade-long AI regulation ban into spending bill

https://arstechnica.com/ai/2025/05/gop-sneaks-decade-long-ai-regulation-ban-into-spending-bill/

1 year ago

Lightweight open source reCaptcha alternative

https://github.com/altcha-org/altcha

1 year ago

OpenTelemetry protocol with Apache Arrow

https://opentelemetry.io/blog/2025/otel-arrow-phase-2/

1 year ago

Using obscure graph theory to solve programming languages problems

https://reasonablypolymorphic.com/blog/solving-lcsa/

1 year ago

Fast machines, slow machines (2023)

https://jmmv.dev/2023/06/fast-machines-slow-machines.html

1 year ago

Don't unwrap options: There are better ways (2024)

https://corrode.dev/blog/rust-option-handling-best-practices/

1 year ago

OpenAI's Stargate project struggling to get off the ground, due to tariffs

https://techcrunch.com/2025/05/12/openais-stargate-project-reportedly-struggling-to-get-off-the-ground-thanks-to-tariffs/

1 year ago

AI Is Like a Crappy Consultant

https://lukekanies.com/writing/ai-is-like-a-crappy-consultant/

1 year ago

Show HN: A5

https://github.com/felixpalmer/a5

1 year ago

FedRAMP 20x – One Month in and Moving Fast

https://www.fedramp.gov/2025-04-24-fedramp-20x-one-month-in-and-moving-fast/

1 year ago

GTK Krell Monitors

https://gkrellm.srcbox.net/

1 year ago

Trial by Fire: The crash of Aeroflot flight 1492

https://admiralcloudberg.medium.com/trial-by-fire-the-crash-of-aeroflot-flight-1492-ee61cebcf6ec

1 year ago

Returning to My Roots in Hardware

https://dancrimp.nz/2025/03/31/hardware/

1 year ago

Moment of heart's formation captured in images for first time

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2025/may/13/heart-cells-mouse-embryo-science-research

1 year ago

How the United States Gave Up Being a Science Superpower

https://steveblank.com/2025/05/13/how-the-united-states-became-a-science-superpower-and-how-quickly-it-could-crumble/

1 year ago

Persuasion methods for engineering managers

https://newsletter.manager.dev/p/5-powerful-persuasion-methods-for

1 year ago

NASA Stennis's first open source software

https://www.nasa.gov/centers-and-facilities/stennis/stennis-first-open-source-software/

1 year ago

How “The Great Gatsby” took over high school

https://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/how-the-great-gatsby-took-over-high-school

1 year ago

Twitch star HasanAbi says he was detained, questioned by border agents

https://www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/2025/05/12/hasan-piker-detained-border-agents-twitch/

1 year ago

Comma 3X: Initial Impressions

https://beesbuzz.biz/blog/14719-Comma-3X-Initial-impressions

1 year ago

Self-hostable webhook tester in go

https://testwebhook.xyz

1 year ago

Binary Formats Are Better Than JSON in Browsers

https://adamfaulkner.github.io/binary_formats_are_better_than_json_in_browsers.html

1 year ago

Zinc Microcapacitors Are the Best of Both Worlds

https://spectrum.ieee.org/zinc-microcapacitor

1 year ago

TheForger's Win32 API Tutorial

https://winprog.org/tutorial/

1 year ago

Terence Tao started a YouTube channel

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCCGfqB7qtWIktmPyf5UMcbw

1 year ago

Transformer: The Deep Chemistry of Life and Death

https://nick-lane.net/books/transformer-the-deep-chemistry-of-life-and-death/

1 year ago

Tower Defense: Cache Control

https://www.jasonthorsness.com/26

1 year ago

Ask HN: How do you store the knowledge gained in a day?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43976045

1 year ago

An accessibility update – GTK Development Blog

https://blog.gtk.org/2025/05/12/an-accessibility-update/

1 year ago