top 50% 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

Storefront Web Components

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

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

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

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

https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.00627

1 year ago

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

https://clipjs.vercel.app/

1 year ago

The Machine Stops (1909)

https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/e-m-forster/short-fiction/text/the-machine-stops

1 year ago

The Curious Case of the Pygmy Nuthatch

https://slate.com/culture/2025/05/birds-movies-charlies-angels-2000-pygmy-nuthatch.html

1 year ago

Ask HN: How do you promote your personal projects with a limited budget?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44051755

1 year ago

Jupiter was formerly twice its current size, had a much stronger magnetic field

https://phys.org/news/2025-05-jupiter-current-size-stronger-magnetic.html

1 year ago

ZEUS – A new two-petawatt laser facility at the University of Michigan

https://news.engin.umich.edu/2025/05/the-us-has-a-new-most-powerful-laser/

1 year ago

The WinRAR approach

https://basicappleguy.com/basicappleblog/the-winrar-approach

1 year ago

ITXPlus: A ITX Sized Macintosh Plus Logicboard Reproduction

https://68kmla.org/bb/index.php?threads/itxplus-a-itx-sized-macintosh-plus-logicboard-reproduction.49715/

1 year ago

Harnessing the Universal Geometry of Embeddings

https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.12540

1 year ago

The curious tale of Bhutan's playable record postage stamps (2015)

https://thevinylfactory.com/features/the-curious-tale-of-bhutans-playable-record-postage-stamps/

1 year ago

Should I Block ICMP?

http://shouldiblockicmp.com/

1 year ago

The Era of the Business Idiot

https://www.wheresyoured.at/the-era-of-the-business-idiot/

1 year ago

Things that have a bigger impact than coding assistants

https://codemanship.wordpress.com/2025/05/21/five-boring-things-that-have-a-bigger-impact-than-a-i-coding-assistants-on-dev-team-productivity/

1 year ago

What even is a small language model now?

https://jigsawstack.com/blog/what-even-is-a-small-language-model-now--ai

1 year ago

'Turbocharged' Mitochondria Power Birds' Epic Migratory Journeys

https://www.quantamagazine.org/turbocharged-mitochondria-power-birds-epic-migratory-journeys-20250519/

1 year ago

EU startups fail because their press refuses to hype them up

https://twitter.com/RnaudBertrand/status/1925029185052917791

1 year ago

Convolutions, Polynomials and Flipped Kernels

https://eli.thegreenplace.net/2025/convolutions-polynomials-and-flipped-kernels/

1 year ago

Overview of the Ada Computer Language Competition (1979)

https://iment.com/maida/computer/redref/

1 year ago

Mitochondria Are More Than Powerhouses–They're the Motherboard of the Cell

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/why-mitochondria-are-more-like-a-motherboard-than-the-powerhouse-of-the-cell/

1 year ago

Show HN: Confidential computing for high-assurance RISC-V embedded systems

https://github.com/IBM/ACE-RISCV

1 year ago

Nvidia pushes further into cloud with GPU marketplace

https://www.wsj.com/articles/nvidia-pushes-further-into-cloud-with-gpu-marketplace-4fba6bdd

1 year ago

Satellites Spotting Depth

https://tech.marksblogg.com/depth-anything-v2-maxar-ai-detection.html

1 year ago

Ask HN: How to Make Friendster Great?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44053119

1 year ago

The Decline of Usability: Revisited (2023)

https://datagubbe.se/usab2/

1 year ago

A Secret Trove of Rare Guitars Heads to the Met

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/05/26/a-secret-trove-of-rare-guitars-heads-to-the-met

1 year ago

Show HN: AI Baby Monitor – local Video-LLM that beeps when safety rules break

https://github.com/zeenolife/ai-baby-monitor

1 year ago

An Almost Pointless Exercise in GPU Optimization

https://blog.speechmatics.com/pointless-gpu-optimization-exercise

1 year ago

Faulty 120W charger analysis (Anker GAN Prime) [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-JV5VGO55-I

1 year ago

Lune: Standalone Luau Runtime

https://github.com/lune-org/lune

1 year ago

New tools and features in the Responses API

https://openai.com/index/new-tools-and-features-in-the-responses-api

1 year ago

Visualizing entire Chromium include graph

https://blog.bkryza.com/posts/visualizing-chromium-include-graph/

1 year ago

Building an agentic image generator that improves itself

https://simulate.trybezel.com/research/image_agent

1 year ago

Space is not a wall: toward a less architectural level design

https://www.blog.radiator.debacle.us/2025/05/space-is-not-wall-toward-less.html

1 year ago

Show HN: High-resolution surface analysis with Lidar data

https://github.com/r-follador/delta-relief

1 year ago

We Should Let a Lottery Decide Our Government (2019)

https://thewalrus.ca/why-we-should-let-a-lottery-decide-our-government/

1 year ago

Treasury Yields Soar as Ballooning U.S. Deficit Worries Wall Street

https://www.investopedia.com/treasury-yields-soar-as-ballooning-us-deficit-worries-wall-street-11739473

1 year ago

Show HN: Kraa.io – Markdown editor for notes, blogs, chats

https://kraa.io

1 year ago

Ask HN: Selling software to company I work for as an employee

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44050009

1 year ago

Show HN: Representing Agents as MCP Servers

https://github.com/lastmile-ai/mcp-agent/tree/main/examples/mcp_agent_server

1 year ago

How we made our OCR code more accurate

https://pieces.app/blog/how-we-made-our-optical-character-recognition-ocr-code-more-accurate

1 year ago

Show HN: apply.coop - Matching people with jobs that fit their values & passions

https://apply.coop

1 year ago

Why Property Testing Finds Bugs Unit Testing Does Not (2021)

https://buttondown.com/hillelwayne/archive/why-property-testing-finds-bugs-unit-testing-does/

1 year ago

Launch HN: Sim Studio (YC X25) – Figma-like canvas for agent workflows

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44052766

1 year ago

Show HN: Evolved.lua – An Evolved Entity Component System for Lua

https://github.com/BlackMATov/evolved.lua

1 year ago

Goethe's Faustian Life

https://www.commonwealmagazine.org/goethe-mitchell-wilson-faust-johann-biography

1 year ago

Google shows off Android XR smart glasses with in-lens display

https://www.macrumors.com/2025/05/20/google-android-xr-smart-glasses/

1 year ago

Magnus Carlsen forced into a draw by more than 143000 people playing against him

https://apnews.com/article/chess-magnus-carlsen-match-world-freestyle-grandmaster-963a977765fa02d05a14d701666dfcd7

1 year ago

Disabling kernel functions in your process (2009)

https://chadaustin.me/2009/03/disabling-functions/

1 year ago