top 20 hacker news stories for 2025-05-16

Thoughts on thinking

https://dcurt.is/thinking

1 year ago

Ground control to Major Trial

https://virtualize.sh/blog/ground-control-to-major-trial/

1 year ago

A Research Preview of Codex

https://openai.com/index/introducing-codex/

1 year ago

Getting AI to write good SQL

https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/databases/techniques-for-improving-text-to-sql

1 year ago

MIT asks arXiv to withdraw preprint of paper on AI and scientific discovery

https://economics.mit.edu/news/assuring-accurate-research-record

1 year ago

After months of coding with LLMs, I'm going back to using my brain

https://albertofortin.com/writing/coding-with-ai

1 year ago

Ollama's new engine for multimodal models

https://ollama.com/blog/multimodal-models

1 year ago

BuyMeACoffee silently dropped support for many countries (2024)

https://zverok.space/blog/2024-08-08-bmac-snafu.html

1 year ago

NASA keeps ancient Voyager 1 spacecraft alive with Hail Mary thruster fix

https://www.theregister.com/2025/05/15/voyager_1_survives_with_thruster_fix/

1 year ago

Moody’s strips U.S. of triple-A credit rating

https://www.ft.com/content/e456ea34-c6ad-43fe-abe9-d4ce781c07b4

1 year ago

The first year of free-threaded Python

https://labs.quansight.org/blog/free-threaded-one-year-recap

1 year ago

Sci-Net

https://sci-hub.se/sci-net

1 year ago

Run GitHub Actions locally

https://github.com/nektos/act

1 year ago

Show HN: KVSplit – Run 2-3x longer contexts on Apple Silicon

https://github.com/dipampaul17/KVSplit

1 year ago

I'm Peter Roberts, immigration attorney, who does work for YC and startups. AMA

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44006381

1 year ago

Java at 30: Interview with James Gosling

https://thenewstack.io/java-at-30-the-genius-behind-the-code-that-changed-tech/

1 year ago

Show HN: Visual flow-based programming for Erlang, inspired by Node-RED

https://github.com/gorenje/erlang-red

1 year ago

Teal – A statically-typed dialect of Lua

https://teal-language.org/

1 year ago

Ollama violating llama.cpp license for over a year

https://github.com/ollama/ollama/issues/3185

1 year ago

X X^t can be faster

https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.09814

1 year ago