569
197
Push Ifs Up and Fors Down
https://matklad.github.io/2023/11/15/push-ifs-up-and-fors-down.html
1 year ago
492
228
Proton threatens to quit Switzerland over new surveillance law
https://www.techradar.com/vpn/vpn-privacy-security/we-would-be-less-confidential-than-google-proton-threatens-to-quit-switzerland-over-new-surveillance-law
442
46
Mystical
https://suberic.net/~dmm/projects/mystical/README.html
358
253
If nothing is curated, how do we find things
https://tadaima.bearblog.dev/if-nothing-is-curated-how-do-we-find-things/
356
218
AniSora: Open-source anime video generation model
https://komiko.app/video/AniSora
343
73
O2 VoLTE: locating any customer with a phone call
https://mastdatabase.co.uk/blog/2025/05/o2-expose-customer-location-call-4g/
329
234
JavaScript's New Superpower: Explicit Resource Management
https://v8.dev/features/explicit-resource-management
261
74
How to have the browser pick a contrasting color in CSS
https://webkit.org/blog/16929/contrast-color/
246
148
Dead Stars Don’t Radiate
https://johncarlosbaez.wordpress.com/2025/05/17/dead-stars-dont-radiate-and-shrink/
237
165
Pyrefly: A new type checker and IDE experience for Python
https://engineering.fb.com/2025/05/15/developer-tools/introducing-pyrefly-a-new-type-checker-and-ide-experience-for-python/
225
55
Palette lighting tricks on the Nintendo 64
https://30fps.net/pages/palette-lighting-tricks-n64/
196
35
Wow@Home – Network of Amateur Radio Telescopes
https://phl.upr.edu/wow/outreach
195
54
My favourite fonts to use with LaTeX (2022)
https://www.lfe.pt/latex/fonts/typography/2022/11/21/latex-fonts-part1.html
66
XTool – Cross-platform Xcode replacement
https://github.com/xtool-org/xtool
214
A kernel developer plays with Home Assistant
https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/1017720/7155ecb9602e9ef2/
187
63
Catalog of Novel Operating Systems
https://github.com/prathyvsh/os-catalog
65
Directory of MCP Servers
https://github.com/chatmcp/mcpso
152
45
The Lost Japanese ROM of the Macintosh Plus
https://www.journaldulapin.com/2025/05/17/the-lost-japanese-rom-of-the-macintosh-plus-which-isnt-lost-anymore/
146
84
Show HN: I built a knife steel comparison tool
https://new.knife.day/blog/knife-steel-comparisons/all
143
Procolored printer drivers contained malware
https://www.neowin.net/news/this-printer-company-served-you-malware-for-months-and-dismissed-it-as-false-positives/
140
116
LLMs are more persuasive than incentivized human persuaders
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.09662
139
61
A man who visited every country in the world without boarding a plane (2023)
https://www.theguardian.com/travel/2023/aug/16/take-the-high-road-the-man-who-visited-every-country-in-the-world-without-boarding-a-plane
16
Understanding Transformers via N-gram Statistics
https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.12034
138
7
132
Withnail and I (2001)
https://www.criterion.com/current/posts/122-withnail-and-i
115
92
Behind Silicon Valley and the GOP’s campaign to ban state AI laws
https://www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/de-democratizing-ai
FreeBASIC is a free/open source BASIC compiler for Windows DOS and Linux
https://freebasic.net/
130
Federal agencies continue terminating all funding to Harvard
https://arstechnica.com/science/2025/05/feds-continue-effort-to-defund-research-at-harvard/
111
5
Implementing a RISC-V Hypervisor
https://seiya.me/blog/riscv-hypervisor
110
Compiling OCaml to the TI-84 CE Calculator
https://farlow.dev/2025/05/17/ocaml-on-calculator
108
52
Wacom drawing tablets track the name of every application you open (2020)
https://robertheaton.com/2020/02/05/wacom-drawing-tablets-track-name-of-every-application-you-open/
76
Google is giving Amazon a leg up in digital book sales
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2025/05/16/google-amazon-ebooks-apps/
106
50
Gail Wellington, former Commodore executive, has died
https://www.legacy.com/us/obituaries/name/gail-wellington-obituary?id=58418580
103
The longest train journey is epic – but nobody's ever taken it
https://bigthink.com/strange-maps/portugal-to-singapore-train/
12
Open Problems in Computational geometry
https://topp.openproblem.net/
89
3
The Japanese method of creating forests comes to Mexico
https://english.elpais.com/climate/2025-05-17/miyawaki-in-nezahualcoyotl-the-japanese-method-of-creating-forests-comes-to-mexico.html
88
Unspoken Currency of Office Politics: Leverage and Sanction Between Coworkers
https://graphthinking.blogspot.com/2025/05/leverage-and-sanction-between-coworkers.html
85
62
Ask HN: Conversational AI to Learn a Language
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44012549
81
24
Show HN: Merliot – plugging physical devices into LLMs
https://github.com/merliot/hub
78
9
Production tests: a guidebook for better systems and more sleep
https://martincapodici.com/2025/05/13/production-tests-a-guidebook-for-better-systems-and-more-sleep/
25
Patience too cheap to meter
https://www.seangoedecke.com/patience-too-cheap-to-meter/
70
22
Google worried it couldn't control how Israel uses Project Nimbus, files reveal
https://theintercept.com/2025/05/12/google-nimbus-israel-military-ai-human-rights/
20
Life before the web – Running a Startup in the 1980's (2016)
https://blog.zamzar.com/2016/07/13/life-before-the-web-running-a-startup-in-the-1980s/
69
Transformer neural net learns to run Conway's Game of Life just from examples
https://sidsite.com/posts/life-transformer/
67
23
OBNC – Oberon-07 Compiler
https://miasap.se/obnc/
98
You do not need NixOS on the desktop
https://aruarian.dance/blog/you-do-not-need-nixos/
59
6
Programming in Martin-Lof's Type Theory: An Introduction (1990)
https://www.cse.chalmers.se/research/group/logic/book/
58
4
Science funding was already way too low
https://gabrielweinberg.com/p/science-funding-was-already-way-too
Google reverses course after blocking Nextcloud Files app
https://www.neowin.net/news/google-reverses-course-after-blocking-nextcloud-files-app/
56
11
The Dezyne Programming Language
https://dezyne.org/dezyne/manual/dezyne/dezyne.html
8
MIT paper on AI for materials research found to be fraudulent
https://thebsdetector.substack.com/p/ai-materials-and-fraud-oh-my
MinorMiner: We turn your kid's maths homework into Bitcoin
https://robertheaton.com/minor-miner/
Why Are There So Many 'Alternative Devices' All of a Sudden?
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2025/05/alternative-device-fair/682837/
51
Lufthansa plane flown by autopilot after pilot faints in cockpit
https://www.scmp.com/news/world/europe/article/3310779/lufthansa-plane-flown-autopilot-after-pilot-faints-cockpit
42
Don't Use ISO/IEC 14977:1996 Extended Backus-Naur Form (EBNF) (2023)
https://dwheeler.com/essays/dont-use-iso-14977-ebnf.html
49
Harmonic: Modern Android client for Hacker News
https://github.com/SimonHalvdansson/Harmonic-HN
47
Ugly infrastructure: Why can't we have nice things?
https://jordanwtaylor2.substack.com/p/ugly-infrastructure-why-cant-we-have
Racket – the Language-Oriented Programming Language – 8.17 is now available
https://blog.racket-lang.org/2025/05/racket-v8-17.html
13
Show HN: Fahmatrix – A Lightweight, Pandas-Like DataFrame Library for Java
https://github.com/moustafa-nasr/fahmatrix
Xata: Postgres at scale, with copy-on-write branching and anonymization
https://xata.io/blog/xata-postgres-with-data-branching-and-pii-anonymization
