top 50% hacker news stories for 2025-05-22

Claude 4

https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-4

1 year ago

Mozilla to shut down Pocket and Fakespot

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/future-of-pocket

1 year ago

Trump administration halts Harvard's ability to enroll international students

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/22/us/politics/trump-harvard-international-students.html

1 year ago

Gemini Diffusion

https://simonwillison.net/2025/May/21/gemini-diffusion/

1 year ago

The scientific “unit” we call the decibel

https://lcamtuf.substack.com/p/decibels-are-ridiculous

1 year ago

That fractal that's been up on my wall for years

https://chriskw.xyz/2025/05/21/Fractal/

1 year ago

Show HN: Defuddle, an HTML-to-Markdown alternative to Readability

https://github.com/kepano/defuddle

1 year ago

Planetfall

https://somethingaboutmaps.wordpress.com/2025/05/20/planetfall/

1 year ago

The Future of Flatpak

https://lwn.net/Articles/1020571/

1 year ago

Improving performance of rav1d video decoder

https://ohadravid.github.io/posts/2025-05-rav1d-faster/

1 year ago

Does Earth have two high-tide bulges on opposite sides? (2014)

http://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/121830/does-earth-really-have-two-high-tide-bulges-on-opposite-sides

1 year ago

I Built My Own Audio Player

https://nexo.sh/posts/why-i-built-a-native-mp3-player-in-swiftui/

1 year ago

Why does Debian change software?

https://blog.liw.fi/posts/2025/why-debian-changes/

1 year ago

Display any CSV file as a searchable, filterable, pretty HTML table

https://github.com/derekeder/csv-to-html-table

1 year ago

Fast Allocations in Ruby 3.5

https://railsatscale.com/2025-05-21-fast-allocations-in-ruby-3-5/

1 year ago

You can choose tools that make you happy

https://borretti.me/article/you-can-choose-tools-that-make-you-happy

1 year ago

Getting a paper accepted

https://maxwellforbes.com/posts/how-to-get-a-paper-accepted/

1 year ago

We’ll be ending web hosting for your apps on Glitch

https://blog.glitch.com/post/changes-are-coming-to-glitch/

1 year ago

Show HN: SQLite JavaScript - extend your database with JavaScript

https://github.com/sqliteai/sqlite-js

1 year ago

Trading with Claude, and writing your own MCP server

https://dangelov.com/blog/trading-with-claude/

1 year ago

Kotlin-Lsp: Kotlin Language Server and Plugin for Visual Studio Code

https://github.com/Kotlin/kotlin-lsp

1 year ago

Lisping at JPL (2002)

https://flownet.com/gat/jpl-lisp.html

1 year ago

MCP explained without hype or fluff

https://blog.nilenso.com/blog/2025/05/12/mcp-explained-without-hype-or-fluff/

1 year ago

Sketchy Calendar

https://www.inkandswitch.com/ink/notes/sketchy-calendar/

1 year ago

How to cheat at settlers by loading the dice (2017)

https://izbicki.me/blog/how-to-cheat-at-settlers-of-catan-by-loading-the-dice-and-prove-it-with-p-values.html

1 year ago

Ancient law requires a bale of straw to hang from Charing Cross rail bridge

https://www.ianvisits.co.uk/articles/ancient-law-requires-a-bale-of-hay-to-hang-from-charing-cross-rail-bridge-81318/

1 year ago

U.S. Spy Agencies–One-Stop Shop to Buy Your Personal Data

https://theintercept.com/2025/05/22/intel-agencies-buying-data-portal-privacy/

1 year ago

32 bits that changed microprocessor design

https://spectrum.ieee.org/bellmac-32-ieee-milestone

1 year ago

Loading Pydantic models from JSON without running out of memory

https://pythonspeed.com/articles/pydantic-json-memory/

1 year ago

The "AI 2027" Scenario: How realistic is it?

https://garymarcus.substack.com/p/the-ai-2027-scenario-how-realistic

1 year ago

Adventures in Symbolic Algebra with Model Context Protocol

https://www.stephendiehl.com/posts/computer_algebra_mcp/

1 year ago

1,145 pull requests per day

https://saile.it/1145-pull-requests-per-day/

1 year ago

ChatGPT Is a Gimmick

https://hedgehogreview.com/web-features/thr/posts/chatgpt-is-a-gimmick

1 year ago

Contacts let you see in the dark with your eyes closed

https://scitechdaily.com/from-sci-fi-to-superpower-these-contacts-let-you-see-in-the-dark-with-your-eyes-closed/

1 year ago

“Secret Mall Apartment,” a Protest for Place

https://modernagejournal.com/secret-mall-apartment-a-protest-for-place/251023/

1 year ago

Sorry, grads: Entry-level tech jobs are getting wiped out

https://sfstandard.com/2025/05/20/silicon-valley-white-collar-recession-entry-level/

1 year ago

Direct TLS can speed up your connections

https://marc-bowes.com/postgres-direct-tls.html

1 year ago

In the past year my illustration business has dropped more half

https://reverentgeek.com/ai-really-is-taking-my-job/

1 year ago

Whippet GC notes on Guile, heuristics, and heap growth

https://wingolog.org/archives/2025/05/22/whippet-lab-notebook-guile-heuristics-and-heap-growth

1 year ago

Launch HN: WorkDone (YC X25) – AI Audit of Medical Charts

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44063000

1 year ago

Koog, a Kotlin-based framework to build and run Al agents in idiomatic Kotlin

https://github.com/JetBrains/koog

1 year ago

JEP 519: Compact Object Headers

https://openjdk.org/jeps/519

1 year ago

Strengths and limitations of diffusion language models

https://www.seangoedecke.com/limitations-of-text-diffusion-models/

1 year ago

"Microsoft has simply given us no other option," Signal blocks Windows Recall

https://arstechnica.com/security/2025/05/signal-resorts-to-weird-trick-to-block-windows-recall-in-desktop-app/

1 year ago

Near-infrared spatiotemporal color vision enabled by upconversion contact lenses

https://www.cell.com/cell/fulltext/S0092-8674(25)00454-4

1 year ago

BYD Beats Tesla in Europe for First Time with 169% Sales Surge

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-05-22/byd-beats-tesla-in-europe-for-first-time-with-169-sales-surge

1 year ago

Show HN: Curved Space Shader in Three.js (via 4D sphere projection)

https://github.com/bntre/CurvedSpaceShader

1 year ago

3 Years of Remote Work

https://www.brendangregg.com/blog/2025-05-22/3-years-of-extremely-remote-work.html

1 year ago

Tales from Mainframe Modernization

https://oppi.li/posts/tales_from_mainframe_modernization/

1 year ago

Dijkstra on Ada

https://craftofcoding.wordpress.com/2014/04/16/dijkstra-on-ada/

1 year ago

Show HN: DockFlow – Switch between multiple macOS Dock layouts instantly

https://dockflow.appitstudio.com/

1 year ago

Violating memory safety with Haskell's value restriction

https://welltypedwit.ch/posts/value-restriction

1 year ago

The Philosophy of Byung-Chul Han (2020)

https://newintrigue.com/2020/06/29/the-philosophy-of-byung-chul-han/

1 year ago

Show HN: I created an tool that creates interactive product demos in 2 minutes

https://snapdemo.io/

1 year ago

Microsoft blocks emails that contain 'Palestine' after employee protests

https://www.theverge.com/tech/672312/microsoft-block-palestine-gaza-email

1 year ago