top 50% 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

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

Wise refuses to let us access our $60k AUD

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

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

Uber to introduce fixed-route shuttles in major US cities

https://techcrunch.com/2025/05/14/uber-to-introduce-fixed-route-shuttles-in-major-us-cities-other-ways-to-save/

1 year ago

Show HN: Semantic Calculator (king-man+woman=?)

https://calc.datova.ai

1 year ago

Show HN: Lumier – Run macOS VMs in a Docker

https://github.com/trycua/cua/tree/main/libs/lumier

1 year ago

Coding agent in 94 lines of Ruby

https://radanskoric.com/articles/coding-agent-in-ruby

1 year ago

U.S. nuclear base hidden under Greenland's ice for decades

https://www.wsj.com/world/greenland-us-camp-century-nuclear-base-91e8abea

1 year ago

New high-quality hash measures 71GB/s on M4

https://github.com/Nicoshev/rapidhash

1 year ago

Replicube: A puzzle game about writing code to create shapes

https://store.steampowered.com/app/3401490/Replicube/

1 year ago

Espanso – Cross-Platform Text Expander Written in Rust

https://github.com/espanso/espanso

1 year ago

$20K Bounty Offered for Optimizing Rust Code in Rav1d AV1 Decoder

https://www.memorysafety.org/blog/rav1d-perf-bounty/

1 year ago

E-COM: The $40M USPS project to send email on paper

https://buttondown.com/blog/the-e-com-story

1 year ago

The A.I. Radiologist Will Not Be with You Soon

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/14/technology/ai-jobs-radiologists-mayo-clinic.html

1 year ago

Show HN: Turn any workflow diagram into compilable, running and stateful code

https://workflows.diagrid.io/

1 year ago

ARMv9 Architecture Helps Lift Arm to New Financial Heights

https://www.nextplatform.com/2025/05/12/armv9-architecture-helps-lift-arm-to-new-financial-heights/

1 year ago

Bike-mounted sensor could boost the mapping of safe cycling routes

https://newatlas.com/bicycles/proxicycle-bicycle-sensor-safe-cycling-routes/

1 year ago

Show HN: Easel – Code multiplayer games like singleplayer

https://easel.games/about

1 year ago

Smalltalk-78 Xerox NoteTaker in-browser emulator

https://smalltalkzoo.thechm.org/users/bert/Smalltalk-78.html

1 year ago

How can traditional British TV survive the US streaming giants

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cx2enydkew3o

1 year ago

UK's Ancient Tree Inventory

https://ati.woodlandtrust.org.uk/

1 year ago

DeepSeek’s founder is threatening US dominance in AI race

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2025-05-13/deepseek-races-after-chatgpt-as-china-s-ai-industry-soars

1 year ago

The Future Is Too Expensive – A New Theory on Collapsing Birth Rates

https://medium.com/@hectorchu1/the-future-is-too-expensive-a-new-theory-of-why-people-arent-having-kids-c3eca581c491

1 year ago

“Streaming vs. Batch” Is a Wrong Dichotomy, and I Think It's Confusing

https://www.morling.dev/blog/streaming-vs-batch-wrong-dichotomy/

1 year ago

LLMs are making me dumber

https://vvvincent.me/llms-are-making-me-dumber/

1 year ago

Mice grow bigger brains when given this stretch of human DNA

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-01515-z

1 year ago

How the humble chestnut traced the rise and fall of the Roman Empire

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20250513-what-chestnuts-reveal-about-the-roman-empire

1 year ago

You can no longer browse open source code on GitHub without logging in first

https://github.com/orgs/community/discussions/159123

1 year ago