top 50% hacker news stories for 2025-05-28

The Who Cares Era

https://dansinker.com/posts/2025-05-23-who-cares/

1 year ago

Show HN: I rewrote my Mac Electron app in Rust

https://desktopdocs.com/?v=2025

1 year ago

My website is ugly because I made it

https://goodinternetmagazine.com/my-website-is-ugly-because-i-made-it/

1 year ago

Japan Post launches 'digital address' system

https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2025/05/27/companies/japan-post-digital-address/

1 year ago

As a developer, my most important tools are a pen and a notebook

https://hamatti.org/posts/as-a-developer-my-most-important-tools-are-a-pen-and-a-notebook/

1 year ago

Deepseek R1-0528

https://huggingface.co/deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-R1-0528

1 year ago

Show HN: AutoThink – Boosts local LLM performance with adaptive reasoning

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44112326

1 year ago

Long live American Science and Surplus

https://milwaukeerecord.com/city-life/long-live-american-science-surplus-which-needs-your-help/

1 year ago

Mullvad Leta

https://leta.mullvad.net

1 year ago

Getting a Cease and Desist from Waffle House

https://www.jack.bio/blog/wafflehouse

1 year ago

Compiler Explorer and the promise of URLs that last forever

https://xania.org/202505/compiler-explorer-urls-forever

1 year ago

The Polymarket users betting on when Jesus will return

https://ericneyman.wordpress.com/2025/03/24/will-jesus-christ-return-in-an-election-year/

1 year ago

xAI to pay telegram $300M to integrate Grok into the chat app

https://techcrunch.com/2025/05/28/xai-to-invest-300m-in-telegram-integrate-grok-into-app/

1 year ago

AI: Accelerated Incompetence

https://www.slater.dev/accelerated-incompetence/

1 year ago

Compiling a neural net to C for a speedup

https://slightknack.dev/blog/difflogic/

1 year ago

A toy RTOS inside Super Mario Bros. using emulator save states

https://prettygoodblog.com/p/what-threads-are-part-2

1 year ago

Show HN: Icepi Zero – The FPGA Raspberry Pi Zero Equivalent

https://github.com/cheyao/icepi-zero

1 year ago

AtomVM, the Erlang virtual machine for IoT devices

https://www.atomvm.org

1 year ago

Show HN: Tesseral – Open-Source Auth

https://github.com/tesseral-labs/tesseral

1 year ago

De-anonymization attacks against the privacy coin XMR

https://monero.forex/is-monero-totally-private-a-comprehensive-analysis-of-de-anonymization-attacks-against-the-privacy-coin/

1 year ago

AI video you can watch and interact with, in real-time

https://experience.odyssey.world

1 year ago

The Blowtorch Theory: A new model for structure formation in the universe

https://theeggandtherock.com/p/the-blowtorch-theory-a-new-model

1 year ago

A visual exploration of vector embeddings

http://blog.pamelafox.org/2025/05/a-visual-exploration-of-vector.html

1 year ago

Revenge of the Chickenized Reverse-Centaurs

https://pluralistic.net/2022/04/17/revenge-of-the-chickenized-reverse-centaurs/

1 year ago

HTAP is Dead

https://www.mooncake.dev/blog/htap-is-dead

1 year ago

LLM codegen go brrr – Parallelization with Git worktrees and tmux

https://www.skeptrune.com/posts/git-worktrees-agents-and-tmux/

1 year ago

What does “Undecidable” mean, anyway

https://buttondown.com/hillelwayne/archive/what-does-undecidable-mean-anyway/

1 year ago

Cory Doctorow on how we lost the internet

https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/1021871/4bec46993258f6b7/

1 year ago

Show HN: Every problem and solution in Beyond Cracking the Coding Interview

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44118174

1 year ago

Atomics and Concurrency

https://redixhumayun.github.io/systems/2024/01/03/atomics-and-concurrency.html

1 year ago

Why are 2025/05/28 and 2025-05-28 different days in JavaScript?

https://brandondong.github.io/blog/javascript_dates/

1 year ago

High-quality OLED displays now enabling integrated thin and multichannel audio

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2025/05/250521125055.htm

1 year ago

Anthropic launches a voice mode for Claude

https://techcrunch.com/2025/05/27/anthropic-launches-a-voice-mode-for-claude/

1 year ago

CheerpJ 4.1: Java in the browser, now supporting Java 17 (preview)

https://labs.leaningtech.com/blog/cheerpj-4.1

1 year ago

Microsoft is starting to open Windows Update up to any third-party app

https://www.theverge.com/news/675446/microsoft-windows-update-all-apps-orchestration-platform

1 year ago

DWARF as a Shared Reverse Engineering Format

https://lief.re/blog/2025-05-27-dwarf-editor/

1 year ago

Another way electric cars clean the air: study says brake dust reduced by 83%

https://electrek.co/2025/05/27/another-way-electric-cars-clean-the-air-study-says-brake-dust-reduced-by-83/

1 year ago

Webb telescope helps refine Hubble constant

https://phys.org/news/2025-05-webb-telescope-refines-hubble-constant.html

1 year ago

Ask HN: Tired of all the AI, what other cool tech is out there?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44118130

1 year ago

Prohibition and ice cream in the US Navy

https://www.oldsaltblog.com/2025/05/how-ice-cream-replaced-booze-in-the-us-navy-2/

1 year ago

How to run cron jobs in Postgres without extra infrastructure

https://wasp.sh/blog/2025/05/28/how-to-run-cron-jobs-in-postgress-without-extra-infrastructure

1 year ago

Ray Tracing in J

https://idle.nprescott.com/2020/ray-tracing-in-j.html

1 year ago

Show HN: Voiden – a free, offline, Git-native API Client

https://voiden.md

1 year ago

Doge Days

https://sahillavingia.com/doge

1 year ago

Theory of Stupidity [pdf]

https://www.onthewing.org/user/Bonhoeffer%20-%20Theory%20of%20Stupidity.pdf

1 year ago

On eval in dynamic languages generally and in Racket specifically (2011)

https://blog.racket-lang.org/2011/10/on-eval-in-dynamic-languages-generally.html

1 year ago

The mysterious Gobi wall uncovered

https://phys.org/news/2025-05-secrets-mysterious-gobi-wall-uncovered.html

1 year ago

Why Good Ideas Die Quietly and Bad Ideas Go Viral

https://www.newyorker.com/books/under-review/why-good-ideas-die-quietly-and-bad-ideas-go-viral

1 year ago

Show HN: Loodio 2 – A Simple Rechargable Bathroom Privacy Device

https://loodio.com/

1 year ago

Turn a Tesla into a mapping vehicle with Mapillary

https://blog.mapillary.com/update/2020/12/09/map-with-your-tesla.html

1 year ago

Designing Pareto-optimal RAG workflows with syftr

https://www.datarobot.com/blog/pareto-optimized-ai-workflows-syftr/

1 year ago

A privilege escalation from Chrome extensions (2023)

https://0x44.xyz/blog/cve-2023-4369/

1 year ago

I am disappointed in the AI discourse

https://steveklabnik.com/writing/i-am-disappointed-in-the-ai-discourse/

1 year ago

The 'Man-Eater' Screwworm Is Coming

https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2025/05/screwworms-outbreak-united-states/682925/

1 year ago

Texas' annual reading test adjusted difficulty yearly, masking improvement

https://theconversation.com/texas-annual-reading-test-adjusted-its-difficulty-every-year-masking-whether-students-are-improving-244159

1 year ago

Unhappy Meals (2007)

https://michaelpollan.com/articles-archive/unhappy-meals/

1 year ago

Launch HN: MindFort (YC X25) – AI agents for continuous pentesting

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44117465

1 year ago

Show HN: Smart Silence – Remind your iPhone to stay quiet in quiet places

https://testflight.apple.com/join/47CJ31VK

1 year ago

The Illusion of Causality in Charts

https://filwd.substack.com/p/the-illusion-of-causality-in-charts

1 year ago