top 20 hacker news stories for 2025-05-14

AlphaEvolve: A Gemini-powered coding agent for designing advanced algorithms

https://deepmind.google/discover/blog/alphaevolve-a-gemini-powered-coding-agent-for-designing-advanced-algorithms/

1 year ago

Coding without a laptop: Two weeks with AR glasses and Linux on Android

https://holdtherobot.com/blog/2025/05/11/linux-on-android-with-ar-glasses/

1 year ago

What is HDR, anyway?

https://www.lux.camera/what-is-hdr/

1 year ago

Bus stops here: Shanghai lets riders design their own routes

https://www.sixthtone.com/news/1017072

1 year ago

Writing that changed how I think about programming languages

https://bernsteinbear.com/blog/pl-writing/

1 year ago

The recently lost file upload feature in the Nextcloud app for Android

https://nextcloud.com/blog/nextcloud-android-file-upload-issue-google/

1 year ago

SMS 2FA is not just insecure, it's also hostile to mountain people

https://blog.stillgreenmoss.net/sms-2fa-is-not-just-insecure-its-also-hostile-to-mountain-people

1 year ago

A server that wasn't meant to exist

https://it-notes.dragas.net/2025/05/13/the_server_that_wasnt_meant_to_exist/

1 year ago

Databricks acquires Neon

https://www.databricks.com/blog/databricks-neon

1 year ago

How to Build a Smartwatch: Picking a Chip

https://ericmigi.com/blog/how-to-build-a-smartwatch-picking-a-chip/

1 year ago

I failed a take-home assignment from Kagi Search

https://bloggeroo.dev/articles/202504031434

1 year ago

The cryptography behind passkeys

https://blog.trailofbits.com/2025/05/14/the-cryptography-behind-passkeys/

1 year ago

Grok answers unrelated queries with long paragraphs about "white genocide"

https://twitter.com/grok/status/1922651218595439063

1 year ago

Migrating to Postgres

https://engineering.usemotion.com/migrating-to-postgres-3c93dff9c65d

1 year ago

Show HN: Muscle-Mem, a behavior cache for AI agents

https://github.com/pig-dot-dev/muscle-mem

1 year ago

Perverse incentives of vibe coding

https://fredbenenson.medium.com/the-perverse-incentives-of-vibe-coding-23efbaf75aee

1 year ago

How the economics of multitenancy work

https://www.blacksmith.sh/blog/the-economics-of-operating-a-ci-cloud

1 year ago

Our narrative prison

https://aeon.co/essays/why-does-every-film-and-tv-series-seem-to-have-the-same-plot

1 year ago

Wise refuses to let us access our $60k AUD

https://hey.paris/posts/wise/

1 year ago

Copaganda: How Police and the Media Manipulate Our News

https://www.teenvogue.com/story/copaganda-when-the-police-and-the-media-manipulate-our-news

1 year ago