top 50% hacker news stories for 2025-05-20

Veo 3 and Imagen 4, and a new tool for filmmaking called Flow

https://blog.google/technology/ai/generative-media-models-io-2025/

2 years ago

DDoSecrets publishes 410 GB of heap dumps, hacked from TeleMessage

https://micahflee.com/ddosecrets-publishes-410-gb-of-heap-dumps-hacked-from-telemessages-archive-server/

2 years ago

Making video games (without an engine) in 2025

https://noelberry.ca/posts/making_games_in_2025/

2 years ago

Deep Learning Is Applied Topology

https://theahura.substack.com/p/deep-learning-is-applied-topology

2 years ago

Finland announces migration of its rail network to international gauge

https://yle.fi/a/74-20161606

2 years ago

Litestream: Revamped

https://fly.io/blog/litestream-revamped/

2 years ago

Gemma 3n preview: Mobile-first AI

https://developers.googleblog.com/en/introducing-gemma-3n/

2 years ago

AI in my plasma physics research didn’t go the way I expected

https://www.understandingai.org/p/i-got-fooled-by-ai-for-science-hypeheres

2 years ago

Show HN: 90s.dev – Game maker that runs on the web

https://90s.dev/blog/finally-releasing-90s-dev.html

2 years ago

The emoji problem (2022)

https://artofproblemsolving.com/community/c2532359h2760821_the_emoji_problem__part_i?srsltid=AfmBOor9TbMq_A7hGHSJGfoWaa2HNzducSYZu35d_LFlCSNLXpvt-pdS

2 years ago

Why does the U.S. always run a trade deficit?

https://libertystreeteconomics.newyorkfed.org/2025/05/why-does-the-u-s-always-run-a-trade-deficit/

2 years ago

Google AI Ultra

https://blog.google/products/google-one/google-ai-ultra/

2 years ago

AI's energy footprint

https://www.technologyreview.com/2025/05/20/1116327/ai-energy-usage-climate-footprint-big-tech/

2 years ago

The NSA Selector

https://github.com/wenzellabs/the_NSA_selector

2 years ago

Show HN: A Tiling Window Manager for Windows, Written in Janet

https://agent-kilo.github.io/jwno/

2 years ago

A simple search engine from scratch

https://bernsteinbear.com/blog/simple-search/

2 years ago

What are people doing? Live-ish estimates based on global population dynamics

https://humans.maxcomperatore.com/

2 years ago

“ZLinq”, a Zero-Allocation LINQ Library for .NET

https://neuecc.medium.com/zlinq-a-zero-allocation-linq-library-for-net-1bb0a3e5c749

2 years ago

Reports of Deno's Demise Have Been Greatly Exaggerated

https://deno.com/blog/greatly-exaggerated

2 years ago

The Red Programming Language

https://www.red-lang.org/p/about.html

2 years ago

The behavior of LLMs in hiring decisions: Systemic biases in candidate selection

https://davidrozado.substack.com/p/the-strange-behavior-of-llms-in-hiring

2 years ago

The Dawn of Nvidia's Technology

https://blog.dshr.org/2025/05/the-dawn-of-nvidias-technology.html

2 years ago

OpenAI Codex hands-on review

https://zackproser.com/blog/openai-codex-review

2 years ago

Clojuring the web application stack: Meditation One

https://www.evalapply.org/posts/clojure-web-app-from-scratch/index.html

2 years ago

Robin: A multi-agent system for automating scientific discovery

https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.13400

2 years ago

Semantic search engine for ArXiv, biorxiv and medrxiv

https://arxivxplorer.com/

2 years ago

The value isn't in the code (2022)

https://jonayre.uk/blog/2022/10/30/the-real-value-isnt-in-the-code/

2 years ago

A shower thought turned into a Collatz visualization

https://abstractnonsense.com/collatz/

2 years ago

Biff – a batteries-included web framework for Clojure

https://biffweb.com

2 years ago

Gemma 3n preview: Mobile-first AI

https://developers.googleblog.com/en/introducing-gemma-3n/

2 years ago

Instagram Addiction

https://blog.greg.technology/2025/05/19/on-instagram-addiction.html

2 years ago

LLM-D: Kubernetes-Native Distributed Inference

https://llm-d.ai/blog/llm-d-announce

2 years ago

Show HN: Juvio – UV Kernel for Jupyter

https://github.com/OKUA1/juvio

2 years ago

GPU-Driven Clustered Forward Renderer

https://logdahl.net/p/gpu-driven

2 years ago

If an AI agent can't figure out how your API works, neither can your users

https://stytch.com/blog/if-an-ai-agent-cant-figure-out-how-your-api-works-neither-can-your-users/

2 years ago

The Lisp in the Cellar: Dependent types that live upstairs [pdf]

https://zenodo.org/records/15424968

2 years ago

The Last Letter

https://aeon.co/essays/how-the-last-letters-of-the-condemned-can-teach-us-how-to-live

2 years ago

Ogmo – free, open source, 2D level editor

https://ogmo-editor-3.github.io/

2 years ago

Ann, the Small Annotation Server

https://mccd.space/posts/design-pitch-ann/

2 years ago

Microsoft blocked the email account of Chief Prosecutor of the ICC

https://www.heise.de/en/news/Criminal-Court-Microsoft-s-email-block-a-wake-up-call-for-digital-sovereignty-10387383.html

2 years ago

Teachable Machine

https://teachablemachine.withgoogle.com/

2 years ago

Show HN: Text to 3D simulation on a map (does history pretty well)

https://mused.com/map/

2 years ago

Show HN: A free, privacy preserving, archive of public Discord servers

https://searchcord.io

2 years ago

Allow us to block Copilot-generated issues (and PRs) from our own repositories

https://github.com/orgs/community/discussions/159749

2 years ago

Cleo, the mathematician that tricked Stack Exchange

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cleo_(mathematician)

2 years ago

Gemini 2.5: Our most intelligent models are getting even better

https://blog.google/technology/google-deepmind/google-gemini-updates-io-2025/

2 years ago

Alone and Adrift in the Pacific

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2025/06/commercial-fisherman-shipwreck/682580/

2 years ago

It's Breathtaking How Fast AI Is Screwing Up the Education System

https://gizmodo.com/its-breathtaking-how-fast-ai-is-screwing-up-the-education-system-2000603100

2 years ago

Gemini Diffusion

https://deepmind.google/models/gemini-diffusion/

2 years ago

Show HN: Astra – a new js2exe compiler

https://github.com/astracompiler/cli

2 years ago

Ask HN: When will managers be replaced by AI?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44037195

2 years ago

The Fractured Entangled Representation Hypothesis

https://github.com/akarshkumar0101/fer

2 years ago

Quantum Picturalism

https://quantuminpictures.org/

2 years ago

Memory Consistency Models: A Tutorial

https://jamesbornholt.com/blog/memory-models/

2 years ago

Visual Studio Code: Text Buffer Reimplementation (2018)

https://code.visualstudio.com/blogs/2018/03/23/text-buffer-reimplementation

2 years ago

Autopsy of an LHC Beam Dump

https://home.cern/news/news/accelerators/autopsy-lhc-beam-dump

2 years ago

Hypervisor as a Library

https://seiya.me/blog/hypervisor-as-a-library

2 years ago

Gamers Nexus to open an investigation into Nvidia's shady business tactics

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UChIs72whgZI9w6d6FhwGGHA/community?lb=UgkxRu3y8tmPdsRBVuru4Fe-ExTFS0GD0I1m

2 years ago

A Comedian Saves a Model Railroad with Purchase of a New Jersey Home

https://www.wsj.com/lifestyle/model-railroad-james-murray-ac709a96

2 years ago

Show HN: A Simple Server to Match Long/Lat to a TimeZone

https://github.com/LittleGreenViper/LGV_TZ_Lookup

2 years ago