top 50% hacker news stories for 2025-05-23

Postgres IDE in VS Code

https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/adforpostgresql/announcing-a-new-ide-for-postgresql-in-vs-code-from-microsoft/4414648

1 year ago

Find Your People

https://foundersatwork.posthaven.com/find-your-people

1 year ago

John Carmack talk at Upper Bound 2025

https://twitter.com/ID_AA_Carmack/status/1925710474366034326

1 year ago

How to live on $432 a month in America

https://shagbark.substack.com/p/how-to-live-on-432-a-month-in-america

1 year ago

Root for your friends

https://josephthacker.com/personal/2025/05/13/root-for-your-friends.html

1 year ago

Why I no longer have an old-school cert on my HTTPS site

https://rachelbythebay.com/w/2025/05/22/ssl/

1 year ago

The copilot delusion

https://deplet.ing/the-copilot-delusion/

1 year ago

Ask HN: What projects do you donate to?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44071321

1 year ago

MCP is the coming of Web 2.0 2.0

https://www.anildash.com//2025/05/20/mcp-web20-20/

1 year ago

Remote Prompt Injection in Gitlab Duo Leads to Source Code Theft

https://www.legitsecurity.com/blog/remote-prompt-injection-in-gitlab-duo

1 year ago

How I ended up flying for Yemen's national airline – and survived

https://www.pprune.org/terms-endearment/653181-yemenia-expat-contract-full-info.html

1 year ago

OpenAI: Scaling PostgreSQL to the Next Level

https://www.pixelstech.net/article/1747708863-openai%3a-scaling-postgresql-to-the-next-level

1 year ago

Show HN: hcker.news – an ergonomic, timeline-based Hacker News front page

https://hcker.news

1 year ago

Caesar's Last Breath

https://charliesabino.com/caesars-last-breath/

1 year ago

Now you can watch the Internet Archive preserve documents in real time

https://www.theverge.com/news/672682/internet-archive-microfiche-lo-fi-beats-channel

1 year ago

Writing A Job Runner (In Elixir) (Again) (10 years later)

https://github.com/notactuallytreyanastasio/genstage_tutorial_2025/blob/main/README.md

1 year ago

Show HN: DoubleMemory – more efficient local-first read-it-later app

https://doublememory.com

1 year ago

Show HN: I built a more productive way to manage AI chats

https://contextch.at

1 year ago

Show HN: Genetic Boids Web Simulation

https://attentionmech.github.io/genetic-boids/

1 year ago

The world of Japan's PC-98 computer

https://strangecomforts.com/the-strange-world-of-japans-pc-98-computer/

1 year ago

Positional preferences, order effects, prompt sensitivity undermine AI judgments

https://www.cip.org/blog/llm-judges-are-unreliable

1 year ago

Remembering Alasdair MacIntyre

https://www.wordonfire.org/articles/remembering-alasdair-macintyre-1929-2025/

1 year ago

Beyond Semantics: Unreasonable Effectiveness of Reasonless Intermediate Tokens

https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.13775

1 year ago

Attention Wasn't All We Needed

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

1 year ago

The metre originated in the French Revolution

https://www.abc.net.au/news/science/2025-05-20/metre-treaty-anniversary-metric-system-measurement-metrology/105302024

1 year ago

KumoRFM: A Foundation Model for In-Context Learning on Relational Data

https://kumo.ai/company/news/kumo-relational-foundation-model/

1 year ago

UndoDB – The interactive time travel debugger for Linux C/C++ for debugging

https://undo.io/

1 year ago

How Does Claude 4 Think? – Sholto Douglas and Trenton Bricken

https://www.dwarkesh.com/p/sholto-trenton-2

1 year ago

A Formal Proof of Complexity Bounds on Diophantine Equations

https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.16963

1 year ago

A 2030 Morning Routine

https://www.marginalia.nu/log/a_120_morning_routine_2030/

1 year ago

Silly job interview questions in Haskell

https://chrispenner.ca/posts/interview

1 year ago

Rock, paper, scissors showdown

https://luduxia.com/showdown/

1 year ago

Alberta separatism push roils Canada

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/22/world/canada/alberta-separatism-referendum.html

1 year ago

Types of optical systems in a lens designer's toolbox (2020)

https://www.pencilofrays.com/lens-design-forms/

1 year ago

Big banks explore venturing into crypto world together with joint stablecoin

https://www.wsj.com/finance/banking/crypto-stablecoin-big-banks-a841059e

1 year ago

Emacs dired-mode as a file manager

https://lynn.sh/guix-emacs-file-manager.html

1 year ago

Graduate Student Solves Classic Problem About the Limits of Addition

https://www.quantamagazine.org/graduate-student-solves-classic-problem-about-the-limits-of-addition-20250522/

1 year ago

College English majors can't read

https://kittenbeloved.substack.com/p/college-english-majors-cant-read

1 year ago

Lockheed Martin and IBM combine quantum computing with HPC in new research

https://www.ibm.com/quantum/blog/lockheed-martin-sqd

1 year ago

CRDTs #2: Turtles All the Way Down

https://jhellerstein.github.io/blog/crdt-turtles/

1 year ago

Into The Tunnel: The secret life of wind tunnels

https://jordanwtaylor2.substack.com/p/into-the-tunnel

1 year ago

Show HN: Samchika – A Java Library for Fast, Multithreaded File Processing

https://github.com/MayankPratap/Samchika

1 year ago

Trump Threatens 25% Tariffs on Apple If iPhones Not Made in US

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-05-23/trump-threatens-25-tariffs-on-apple-if-iphones-not-made-in-us

1 year ago

A Bead Too Far: Rethinking Global Connections Before Columbus

https://peterfrankopan.substack.com/p/a-bead-too-far-rethinking-global

1 year ago

America is in danger of experiencing an academic brain drain

https://www.economist.com/science-and-technology/2025/05/21/america-is-in-danger-of-experiencing-an-academic-brain-drain

1 year ago

Ask HN: Is anyone else burnt out on AI?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44077330

1 year ago

Japan and the Birth of Modern Shipbuilding

https://www.construction-physics.com/p/how-japan-invented-modern-shipbuilding

1 year ago

Comparing Docusaurus and Starlight and why we made the switch

https://glasskube.dev/blog/distr-docs/

1 year ago

Sesame Scheme: Unintended Consequences of Allergen Food Labeling

https://www.choicesmagazine.org/choices-magazine/submitted-articles/unintended-consequences-of-allergen-food-labeling

1 year ago

New method for creating large 3D models of urban areas is faster and cheaper

https://techxplore.com/news/2025-05-action-movies-urban-method-large.html

1 year ago

Google's AI Mode is 'the definition of theft,' publishers say

https://9to5google.com/2025/05/22/google-ai-mode-theft-publisher-opt-out-controls/

1 year ago

Realtek's $10 tiny 10GbE NIC will hit motherboards soon

https://www.tomshardware.com/networking/realteks-usd10-tiny-10gbe-network-adapter-is-coming-to-motherboards-later-this-year

1 year ago

Ask HN: What HN posts inspired or changed your perspective the most?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44069690

1 year ago

Show HN: GetStack.dev – Track GitHub open-source trends

https://getstack.dev

1 year ago

Avoiding becoming the lone dependency peg with load-bearing anime

https://xeiaso.net/blog/2025/avoiding-becoming-peg-dependency/

1 year ago

Making Postgres Distributed with FoundationDB

https://fabianlindfors.se/blog/making-postgres-distributed/

1 year ago

A 10x Faster TypeScript with Anders Hejlsberg [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UJfF3-13aFo

1 year ago