721
438
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https://dcurt.is/thinking
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526
191
Ground control to Major Trial
https://virtualize.sh/blog/ground-control-to-major-trial/
511
450
A Research Preview of Codex
https://openai.com/index/introducing-codex/
501
358
Getting AI to write good SQL
https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/databases/techniques-for-improving-text-to-sql
386
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MIT asks arXiv to withdraw preprint of paper on AI and scientific discovery
https://economics.mit.edu/news/assuring-accurate-research-record
365
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https://albertofortin.com/writing/coding-with-ai
353
84
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https://ollama.com/blog/multimodal-models
343
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BuyMeACoffee silently dropped support for many countries (2024)
https://zverok.space/blog/2024-08-08-bmac-snafu.html
342
88
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/
320
Moody’s strips U.S. of triple-A credit rating
https://www.ft.com/content/e456ea34-c6ad-43fe-abe9-d4ce781c07b4
291
290
The first year of free-threaded Python
https://labs.quansight.org/blog/free-threaded-one-year-recap
276
120
Sci-Net
https://sci-hub.se/sci-net
273
133
Run GitHub Actions locally
https://github.com/nektos/act
272
40
Show HN: KVSplit – Run 2-3x longer contexts on Apple Silicon
https://github.com/dipampaul17/KVSplit
257
452
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https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44006381
253
423
Java at 30: Interview with James Gosling
https://thenewstack.io/java-at-30-the-genius-behind-the-code-that-changed-tech/
243
102
Show HN: Visual flow-based programming for Erlang, inspired by Node-RED
https://github.com/gorenje/erlang-red
229
173
Teal – A statically-typed dialect of Lua
https://teal-language.org/
68
Ollama violating llama.cpp license for over a year
https://github.com/ollama/ollama/issues/3185
201
60
X X^t can be faster
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.09814
199
157
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https://www.theverge.com/news/668220/grok-white-genocide-south-africa-xai-unauthorized-modification-employee
198
473
The Awful German Language (1880)
https://faculty.georgetown.edu/jod/texts/twain.german.html
195
42
ClojureScript 1.12.42
https://clojurescript.org/news/2025-05-16-release
181
113
Remarks on AI from NZ
https://nealstephenson.substack.com/p/remarks-on-ai-from-nz
166
35
Evolution of Rust Compiler Errors
https://kobzol.github.io/rust/rustc/2025/05/16/evolution-of-rustc-errors.html
132
91
I was a Theranos whistleblower. Here's what I think Elizabeth Holmes is up to
https://www.statnews.com/2025/05/15/theranos-whistleblower-tyler-shultz-commentary-elizabeth-holmes-billy-evans-haemanthus-startup/
123
17
Leeks and Leaks
https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2025/05/16/leeks-and-leaks/
112
The average workday increased during the pandemic’s early weeks (2020)
https://www.library.hbs.edu/working-knowledge/you-re-right-you-are-working-longer-and-attending-more-meetings
139
Apple Blocks Fortnite's Return to iOS App Store, Epic Claims
https://www.macrumors.com/2025/05/16/apple-blocks-fortnite-return-to-ios-app-store/
116
Ed Smylie, Who Saved the Apollo 13 Crew with Duct Tape, Dies at 95
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/16/science/space/ed-smylie-dead.html
115
142
Will AI systems perform poorly due to AI-generated material in training data?
https://cacm.acm.org/news/the-collapse-of-gpt/
85
British naval dominance during the age of sail
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/YE4XsvSFJiZkWFtFE/explaining-british-naval-dominance-during-the-age-of-sail
105
37
Show HN: A platform to find tech conferences, discounts, and ticket giveaways
https://www.tech.tickets/
101
59
Sitting for a long time shrinks your brain even if you exercise
https://alz-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/alz.70157
92
23
Cracked – Method chaining/CSS-style selector web audio library
https://github.com/billorcutt/i_dropped_my_phone_the_screen_cracked
Comparing Parallel Functional Array Languages: Programming and Performance
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.08906
Show HN: SQL-tString a t-string SQL builder in Python
https://github.com/pgjones/sql-tstring
81
1
Coinbase 8K SEC filing for breach
https://www.sec.gov/ix?doc=/Archives/edgar/data/1679788/000167978825000094/coin-20250514.htm
77
38
Beyond Text: On-Demand UI Generation for Better Conversational Experiences
https://blog.fka.dev/blog/2025-05-16-beyond-text-only-ai-on-demand-ui-generation-for-better-conversational-experiences/
76
31
Show HN: Rv, a Package Manager for R
https://github.com/A2-ai/rv
44
The Magic Hours: The Films and Hidden Life of Terrence Malick
https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v47/n09/david-thomson/cool-tricking
74
54
Meta Battles an 'Epidemic of Scams' as Criminals Flood Instagram and Facebook
https://www.wsj.com/tech/meta-fraud-facebook-instagram-813363c8
72
8
Rivers
https://www.futilitycloset.com/2025/05/15/rivers/
71
Show HN: Solidis – Tiny TS Redis client, no deps, for serverless
https://github.com/vcms-io/solidis
69
Show HN: Workflow Use – Deterministic, self-healing browser automation (RPA 2.0)
https://github.com/browser-use/workflow-use
63
The Problem with Teens Isn't Smartphones–It's Their Families
https://grimoiremanor.substack.com/p/the-problem-with-teens-isnt-smartphones
67
Huawei is spamming open source community for its Harmony ecosystem (See Comment)
https://github.com/search?q=%22Proposal+for+OpenHarmony+Adaptation+of%22&type=issues
61
Letsencrypt will kill SMTP server auth following Chrome CA policy change
https://social.wildeboer.net/@jwildeboer/114516238307785904
The accuracy of weather forecasts
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-05-16/weather-forecast-accuracy-bom/105297540
25
The fastest Postgres inserts
https://docs.hatchet.run/blog/fastest-postgres-inserts
58
30
British ICC chief prosecutor lost access to email and has bank accounts frozen
https://www.lbc.co.uk/world-news/british-icc-chief-prosecutor-lost-email-bank-accounts-frozen-trump-sanctions/
55
Font Activations: A Note on the Type
https://robhorning.substack.com/p/font-activations
51
11
New 'Superdiffusion' Proof Probes the Mysterious Math of Turbulence
https://www.quantamagazine.org/new-superdiffusion-proof-probes-the-mysterious-math-of-turbulence-20250516/
50
9
Postman is logging all your secrets and environment variables
https://anonymousdata.medium.com/postman-is-logging-all-your-secrets-and-environment-variables-9c316e92d424
49
Ask HN: Facing unemployment – what now?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44008554
48
22
Update on an incident that happened with our Grok response bot on X yesterday
https://twitter.com/xai/status/1923183620606619649