top 50% hacker news stories for 2025-05-29

WeatherStar 4000+: Weather Channel Simulator

https://weatherstar.netbymatt.com/

1 year ago

Human coders are still better than LLMs

https://antirez.com/news/153

1 year ago

US Trade Court finds Trump tariffs illegal

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-05-28/trump-s-global-tariffs-blocked-by-us-trade-court

1 year ago

FLUX.1 Kontext

https://bfl.ai/models/flux-kontext

1 year ago

Show HN: I wrote a modern Command Line Handbook

https://commandline.stribny.name/

1 year ago

Gurus of 90s Web Design: Zeldman, Siegel, Nielsen

https://cybercultural.com/p/web-design-1997/

1 year ago

Show HN: Onlook – Open-source, visual-first Cursor for designers

https://github.com/onlook-dev/onlook

1 year ago

Run a C# file directly using dotnet run app.cs

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/dotnet/announcing-dotnet-run-app/

1 year ago

Show HN: Typed-FFmpeg 3.0–Typed Interface to FFmpeg and Visual Filter Editor

https://github.com/livingbio/typed-ffmpeg

1 year ago

Airlines are charging solo passengers higher fares than groups

https://thriftytraveler.com/news/airlines/airlines-charging-solo-travelers-higher-fares/

1 year ago

I'm starting a social club to solve the male loneliness epidemic

https://wave3.social

1 year ago

Learning C3

https://alloc.dev/2025/05/29/learning_c3

1 year ago

A new generation of Tailscale access controls

https://tailscale.com/blog/grants-ga

1 year ago

Nova: A JavaScript and WebAssembly engine written in Rust

https://trynova.dev/

1 year ago

Reverse engineering of Linear's sync engine

https://github.com/wzhudev/reverse-linear-sync-engine

1 year ago

HeidiSQL Available Also for Linux

https://www.heidisql.com/forum.php?t=44068

1 year ago

Oxfordshire clock still keeping village on time after 500 years

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cz70p0qevlro

1 year ago

Google is using AI to censor independent websites like mine

https://travellemming.com/perspectives/ftc-letter-google-censors-indie-publishers-with-ai/

1 year ago

Open-sourcing circuit tracing tools

https://www.anthropic.com/research/open-source-circuit-tracing

1 year ago

EasyTier – P2P mesh VPN written in Rust using Tokio

https://easytier.cn/en/

1 year ago

When Fine-Tuning Makes Sense: A Developer's Guide

https://getkiln.ai/blog/why_fine_tune_LLM_models_and_how_to_get_started

1 year ago

What works (and doesn't) selling formal methods

https://www.galois.com/articles/what-works-and-doesnt-selling-formal-methods

1 year ago

I started a little math club in Bangalore

https://teachyourselfmath.app/club

1 year ago

Show HN: I made a Zero-config tool to visualize your code

https://staying.fun/en

1 year ago

Putting Rigid Bodies to Rest

https://twitter.com/keenanisalive/status/1925225500659658999

1 year ago

Edamagit: Magit for VSCode

https://github.com/kahole/edamagit

1 year ago

The flip phone web: browsing with the original Opera Mini

https://www.spacebar.news/the-flip-phone-web-browsing-with-the-original-opera-mini/

1 year ago

RSyncUI – A SwiftUI based macOS GUI for rsync

https://github.com/rsyncOSX/RsyncUI

1 year ago

Java Virtual Threads Ate My Memory: A Web Crawler's Tale of Speed vs. Memory

https://dariobalinzo.medium.com/virtual-threads-ate-my-memory-a-web-crawlers-tale-of-speed-vs-memory-a92fc75085f6

1 year ago

ClickHouse raises $350M Series C

https://clickhouse.com/blog/clickhouse-raises-350-million-series-c-to-power-analytics-for-ai-era

1 year ago

California has got good at building giant batteries

https://www.economist.com/united-states/2025/05/22/california-has-got-really-good-at-building-giant-batteries

1 year ago

Simple programming language with offline usable browser IDE

https://tiki.li/apps/tut_learn.html?v=2505e

1 year ago

Ovld – Efficient and featureful multiple dispatch for Python

https://github.com/breuleux/ovld

1 year ago

US cancels funding for Moderna bird flu vaccine

https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/us-cancels-more-700-million-funding-moderna-bird-flu-vaccine-2025-05-28/

1 year ago

Notes on Tunisia

https://mattlakeman.org/2025/05/29/notes-on-tunisia/

1 year ago

Untrusted chatbot AI between you & the internet is a disaster waiting to happen

https://macwright.com/2025/05/29/putting-an-untrusted-chat-layer-is-a-disaster

1 year ago

Nitrogen Triiodide (2016)

https://www.fourmilab.ch/documents/chemistry/NI3/

1 year ago

A Song of “Full Self-Driving”

https://www.thebulwark.com/p/elon-musk-self-driving-fsd-tesla-tony-stark-michael-scott

1 year ago

A Pokémon battle simulation engine

https://github.com/pkmn/engine

1 year ago

The MAHA report cites studies that don't exist

https://www.notus.org/health-science/make-america-healthy-again-report-citation-errors

1 year ago

I taught my 3-year-old to read like a 9-year-old

https://www.theintrinsicperspective.com/p/how-i-taught-my-3-year-old-to-read

1 year ago

The Future of Comments Is Lies, I Guess

https://aphyr.com/posts/388-the-future-of-comments-is-lies-i-guess

1 year ago

Snake on a Globe

https://engaging-data.com/snake-globe/

1 year ago

The Maid Who Restored Charles II

https://www.historytoday.com/archive/feature/maid-who-restored-charles-ii

1 year ago

Show HN: A new programming language inspired by Go, no LLVM

https://github.com/nature-lang/nature

1 year ago

The Atomic Airplane

https://whatisnuclear.com/the-story-of-the-atomic-airplane.html

1 year ago

Nobel Laureate Daron Acemoglu: Don't Believe the AI Hype

https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/ai-productivity-boom-forecasts-countered-by-theory-and-data-by-daron-acemoglu-2024-05

1 year ago

A man who sailed round the world with a chicken (2019)

https://www.theguardian.com/global/2019/apr/21/why-did-the-chicken-cross-the-globe-french-sailor-guirec-soudee-monique

1 year ago

Net-Negative Cursor

https://lukasatkinson.de/2025/net-negative-cursor/

1 year ago

Show HN: A Implementation of Alpha Zero for Chess in MLX

https://github.com/koogle/mlx-playground/tree/main/chesszero

1 year ago

What every programmer should know about how CPUs work – Matt Godbolt [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-HNpim5x-IE

1 year ago

SQL Workbench – Republicans not welcome

https://www.sql-workbench.eu/

1 year ago

Show HN: MCP Defender – OSS AI Firewall for Protecting MCP in Cursor/Claude etc

https://mcpdefender.com

1 year ago

Show HN: I compressed 10k PDFs into a 1.4GB video for LLM memory

https://github.com/Olow304/memvid

1 year ago

Caffeine induces age-dependent brain complexity and criticality during sleep

https://www.nature.com/articles/s42003-025-08090-z

1 year ago

Civil War in 3D: Stereographs from the New-York Historical Society (2015)

https://www.nyhistory.org/blogs/civil-war-in-3d-stereographs-from-the-new-york-historical-society

1 year ago

Handover.ai – Knowledge transfer made easy

https://www.handover.ai/

1 year ago

Making maps with noise functions (2022)

https://www.redblobgames.com/maps/terrain-from-noise/

1 year ago

Derek Muller confronts PFAS "forever chemicals" in his own blood

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-youtube-star-derek-muller-of-veritasium-is-challenging-scientific/

1 year ago