top 20 hacker news stories for 2025-05-21

Watching AI drive Microsoft employees insane

https://old.reddit.com/r/ExperiencedDevs/comments/1krttqo/my_new_hobby_watching_ai_slowly_drive_microsoft/

1 year ago

OpenAI to buy AI startup from Jony Ive

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-05-21/openai-to-buy-apple-veteran-jony-ive-s-ai-device-startup-in-6-5-billion-deal

1 year ago

Devstral

https://mistral.ai/news/devstral

1 year ago

By default, Signal doesn't recall

https://signal.org/blog/signal-doesnt-recall/

1 year ago

For algorithms, a little memory outweighs a lot of time

https://www.quantamagazine.org/for-algorithms-a-little-memory-outweighs-a-lot-of-time-20250521/

1 year ago

Animated Factorization (2012)

http://www.datapointed.net/visualizations/math/factorization/animated-diagrams/

1 year ago

Collaborative Text Editing Without CRDTs or OT

https://mattweidner.com/2025/05/21/text-without-crdts.html

1 year ago

LLM function calls don't scale; code orchestration is simpler, more effective

https://jngiam.bearblog.dev/mcp-large-data/

1 year ago

Mermaid: Generation of diagrams like flowcharts or sequence diagrams from text

https://github.com/mermaid-js/mermaid

1 year ago

A South Korean grand master on the art of the perfect soy sauce

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/may/21/without-time-there-is-no-flavour-a-south-korean-grand-master-on-the-art-of-the-perfect-soy-sauce

1 year ago

An upgraded dev experience in Google AI Studio

https://developers.googleblog.com/en/google-ai-studio-native-code-generation-agentic-tools-upgrade/

1 year ago

Rocky Linux 10 Will Support RISC-V

https://rockylinux.org/news/rockylinux-support-for-riscv

1 year ago

Introducing the Llama Startup Program

https://ai.meta.com/blog/llama-startup-program/?_fb_noscript=1

1 year ago

I have tinnitus. I don't recommend it

https://blog.greg.technology/2025/05/20/tinnitus.html

1 year ago

Roto: A Compiled Scripting Language for Rust

https://blog.nlnetlabs.nl/introducing-roto-a-compiled-scripting-language-for-rust/

1 year ago

Storefront Web Components

https://shopify.dev/docs/api/storefront-web-components

1 year ago

Possible new dwarf planet found in our solar system

https://www.minorplanetcenter.net/mpec/K25/K25K47.html

1 year ago

On File Formats

https://solhsa.com/oldernews2025.html#ON-FILE-FORMATS

1 year ago

Show HN: ClipJS – Edit your videos from a PC or phone

https://clipjs.vercel.app/

1 year ago

Discord Unveiled: A Comprehensive Dataset of Public Communication (2015-2024)

https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.00627

1 year ago