top 50% hacker news stories for 2025-05-30

Photos taken inside musical instruments

https://www.dpreview.com/photography/5400934096/probe-lenses-and-focus-stacking-the-secrets-to-incredible-photos-taken-inside-instruments

1 year ago

The ‘white-collar bloodbath’ is all part of the AI hype machine

https://www.cnn.com/2025/05/30/business/anthropic-amodei-ai-jobs-nightcap

1 year ago

The radix 2^51 trick (2017)

https://www.chosenplaintext.ca/articles/radix-2-51-trick.html

1 year ago

Surprisingly fast AI-generated kernels we didn't mean to publish yet

https://crfm.stanford.edu/2025/05/28/fast-kernels.html

1 year ago

Microsandbox: Virtual Machines that feel and perform like containers

https://github.com/microsandbox/microsandbox

1 year ago

Systems Correctness Practices at Amazon Web Services

https://cacm.acm.org/practice/systems-correctness-practices-at-amazon-web-services/

1 year ago

Beating Google's kernelCTF PoW using AVX512

https://anemato.de/blog/kctf-vdf

1 year ago

Silicon Valley finally has a big electronics retailer again: Micro Center opens

https://www.microcenter.com/site/mc-news/article/micro-center-santa-clara-photos.aspx

1 year ago

Practical SDR: Getting started with software-defined radio

https://nostarch.com/practical-sdr

1 year ago

The Darwin Gödel Machine: AI that improves itself by rewriting its own code

https://sakana.ai/dgm/

1 year ago

Valkey Turns One: Community fork of Redis

https://www.gomomento.com/blog/valkey-turns-one-how-the-community-fork-left-redis-in-the-dust/

1 year ago

Buttplug MCP

https://github.com/ConAcademy/buttplug-mcp

1 year ago

Ask HN: What is the best LLM for consumer grade hardware?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44134896

1 year ago

AI is not our future

https://procreate.com/ai

1 year ago

C++ to Rust Phrasebook

https://cel.cs.brown.edu/crp/

1 year ago

U.S. sanctions cloud provider 'Funnull' as top source of 'pig butchering' scams

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2025/05/u-s-sanctions-cloud-provider-funnull-as-top-source-of-pig-butchering-scams/

1 year ago

White House releases health report written by LLM, with hallucinated citations

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/29/well/maha-report-citations.html

1 year ago

Jerry Lewis's “The Day the Clown Cried” discovered in Sweden after 53 years

https://www.thenationalnews.com/arts-culture/film-tv/2025/05/29/jerry-lewis-day-the-clown-cried-discovered/

1 year ago

MinIO Removes Web UI Features from Community Version, Pushes Users to Paid Plans

https://biggo.com/news/202505261334_MinIO_Removes_Web_UI_Features

1 year ago

Mary Meeker's first Trends report since 2019, focused on AI

https://www.bondcap.com/reports/tai

1 year ago

Triangle splatting: radiance fields represented by triangles

https://trianglesplatting.github.io/

1 year ago

RFK Jr's 'Maha' report found to contain citations to nonexistent studies

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/may/29/rfk-jr-maha-health-report-studies

1 year ago

Cap: Lightweight, modern open-source CAPTCHA alternative using proof-of-work

https://capjs.js.org/

1 year ago

Show HN: MCP Server SDK in Bash

https://github.com/muthuishere/mcp-server-bash-sdk

1 year ago

De Bruijn notation, and why it's useful

https://blueberrywren.dev/blog/debruijn-explanation/

1 year ago

What's working for YC companies since the AI boom

https://jamesin.substack.com/p/whats-working-for-yc-companies-since

1 year ago

Radio Astronomy Software Defined Radio (Rasdr)

https://radio-astronomy.org/rasdr

1 year ago

Copy Excel to Markdown Table (and vice versa)

https://thisdavej.com/copy-table-in-excel-and-paste-as-a-markdown-table/

1 year ago

Toxic Origins, Toxic Decisions: Biases in CEO Selection

https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=5270031

1 year ago

Adam Riess and the Hubble tension

https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2025/05/adam-riess-hubble-tension/682980/

1 year ago

Show HN: W++ – A Python-style scripting language for .NET with NuGet support

https://github.com/sinisterMage/WPlusPlus

1 year ago

Show HN: Donut Browser, a Browser Orchestrator

https://donutbrowser.com/

1 year ago

Limits to Growth was right about collapse

https://thenextwavefutures.wordpress.com/2025/05/20/limits-to-growth-was-right-about-overshoot-and-collapse-new-data/

1 year ago

OpenBao Namespaces

https://openbao.org/blog/namespaces-announcement/

1 year ago

When will M&S take online orders again?

https://moneyweek.com/personal-finance/marks-and-spencer-online-order-problems

1 year ago

Trump Taps Palantir to Compile Data on Americans

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/technology/trump-palantir-data-americans.html

1 year ago

The Surveilled Student (2021)

https://www.chronicle.com/article/the-surveilled-student

1 year ago

Tokenization for language modeling: BPE vs. Unigram Language Modeling (2020)

https://ndingwall.github.io/blog/tokenization

1 year ago

What Happens When AI-Generated Lies Are More Compelling Than the Truth?

https://behavioralscientist.org/what-happens-when-ai-generated-lies-are-more-compelling-than-the-truth/

1 year ago

Show HN: Asdf Overlay – High performance in-game overlay library for Windows

https://github.com/storycraft/asdf-overlay

1 year ago

Bridged Indexes in OrioleDB: architecture, internals and everyday use?

https://www.orioledb.com/blog/orioledb-bridged-indexes

1 year ago

Show HN: Git-Add–Interactive with Enhancements

https://github.com/cwarden/git-add-interactive

1 year ago

IRS Direct File

https://github.com/IRS-Public/direct-file

1 year ago

High vitamin B6 doses over a long period could cause irreversible nerve damage

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-01-08/vitamin-b6-toxicity-peripheral-neuropathy-health-supplements/104793006

1 year ago

Use AI code tools as collaborators, not crutches

https://newsletter.oberai.dev/p/stop-vibe-coding-every-damn-time

1 year ago

The David Lynch Collection

https://www.juliensauctions.com/en/auctions/julien-s-auctions-turner-classic-movies-present-the-david-lynch-collection

1 year ago

Investigating AI Manipulation in Viral Chinese Paraglider Video

https://blog.hyperknot.com/p/investigating-ai-manipulation-in

1 year ago

How Generative Engine Optimization (GEO) rewrites the rules of search

https://a16z.com/geo-over-seo/

1 year ago

Germany eyes 10% digital tax on global tech groups

https://www.ft.com/content/39d4678d-a7e1-4fce-b8d8-eb799cfed3e6

1 year ago

Player Piano Rolls

https://omeka-s.library.illinois.edu/s/MPAL/page/player-piano-rolls-landing

1 year ago

Show HN: templUI – The UI Kit for templ (CLI-based, like shadcn/UI)

https://templui.io/

1 year ago

U.S. Woman Dies from Mad Cow-Like Brain Disease That Lay Dormant for 50 Years

https://gizmodo.com/u-s-woman-dies-from-mad-cow-like-brain-disease-that-lay-dormant-for-50-years-2000603359

1 year ago

How to Do Ambitious Research in the Modern Era [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w7DVlI_Ztq8

1 year ago

Build API integrations with SQL and YAML – no SaaS lock-in, no drag-and-drop UIs

https://github.com/paloaltodatabases/sequor

1 year ago