top 50% hacker news stories for 2025-05-31

Precision Clock Mk IV

https://mitxela.com/projects/precision_clock_mk_iv

1 year ago

I made a chair

https://milofultz.com/2025-05-27-i-made-a-chair.html

1 year ago

Beware of Fast-Math

https://simonbyrne.github.io/notes/fastmath/

1 year ago

A Lean companion to Analysis I

https://terrytao.wordpress.com/2025/05/31/a-lean-companion-to-analysis-i/

1 year ago

Ask HN: Anyone making a living from a paid API?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44144473

1 year ago

GUIs are built at least 2.5 times

https://patricia.no/2025/05/30/why_lean_software_dev_is_wrong.html

1 year ago

Using lots of little tools to aggressively reject the bots

https://lambdacreate.com/posts/68

1 year ago

How to Store Data on Paper?

https://www.monperrus.net/martin/store-data-paper

1 year ago

Oniux: Kernel-level Tor isolation for any Linux app

https://blog.torproject.org/introducing-oniux-tor-isolation-using-linux-namespaces/

1 year ago

The Rise of the Japanese Toilet

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/29/business/toto-toilet-japan-bidet.html

1 year ago

Consider Knitting

https://journal.stuffwithstuff.com/2025/05/30/consider-knitting/

1 year ago

Ask HN: How do I learn practical electronic repair?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44142224

1 year ago

AI Responses May Include Mistakes

https://www.os2museum.com/wp/ai-responses-may-include-mistakes/

1 year ago

New adaptive optics shows details of our star's atmosphere

https://nso.edu/press-release/new-adaptive-optics-shows-stunning-details-of-our-stars-atmosphere/

1 year ago

Every 5x5 Nonogram

https://pixelogic.app/every-5x5-nonogram

1 year ago

Sid Meier's Pirates – In-depth (2017)

https://shot97retro.blogspot.com/2017/12/sid-meiers-pirates-in-depth-written.html

1 year ago

CCD co-inventor George E. Smith dies at 95

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/science/george-e-smith-dead.html

1 year ago

YOLO-World: Real-Time Open-Vocabulary Object Detection

https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.17270

1 year ago

Show HN: PunchCard Key Backup

https://github.com/volution/punchcard-key-backup

1 year ago

Gradients Are the New Intervals

https://www.mattkeeter.com/blog/2025-05-14-gradients/

1 year ago

Implementing a Forth

https://ratfactor.com/forth/implementing

1 year ago

My five-year experiment with UTC

https://timestripe.com/magazine/blog/timezone/

1 year ago

Simpler Backoff

https://commaok.xyz/post/simple-backoff/

1 year ago

Doge cuts to USAid blamed for 300k deaths – most of them children

https://www.thetimes.com/us/american-politics/article/usaid-doge-deaths-children-cuts-7nb83dfkp

1 year ago

Web dev is still fun if you want it to be

https://github.com/jchester/bobotw

1 year ago

The NFS 4 Freezer Spacer In Science Fiction Sets

https://kolektiva.social/@beka_valentine/114600567753999701

1 year ago

How Georgists Valued land in the 1900's

https://progressandpoverty.substack.com/p/how-georgists-valued-land-in-the

1 year ago

A Complete Guide to Meta Prompting

https://www.prompthub.us/blog/a-complete-guide-to-meta-prompting

1 year ago

The Trackers and SDKs in ChatGPT, Claude, Grok and Perplexity

https://jamesoclaire.com/2025/05/31/the-trackers-and-sdks-in-chatgpt-claude-grok-and-perplexity/

1 year ago

Show HN: AI Peer Reviewer – Multiagent system for scientific manuscript analysis

https://github.com/robertjakob/rigorous

1 year ago

Why we still can't stop plagiarism in undergraduate computer science (2018)

https://kevinchen.co/blog/cant-stop-plagiarism-in-computer-science/

1 year ago

Estimating Logarithms

https://obrhubr.org/logarithm-estimation

1 year ago

Using Ed(1) as My Static Site Generator

https://aartaka.me/this-post-is-ed.html

1 year ago

Cerebras achieves 2,500T/s on Llama 4 Maverick (400B)

https://www.cerebras.ai/press-release/maverick

1 year ago

A High-Level View of TLA+

https://lamport.azurewebsites.net/tla/high-level-view.html

1 year ago

Writing your own C++ standard library part 2

https://nibblestew.blogspot.com/2025/05/writing-your-own-c-standard-library.html

1 year ago

Writing a postmortem: an interview exercise I like (2017)

https://www.danielputtick.com/writing/mapbox-postmortem-interview.html

1 year ago

Investment Risk Is Highest for Nuclear Power Plants, Lowest for Solar

https://www.bu.edu/igs/2025/05/19/investment-risk-for-energy-infrastructure-construction-is-highest-for-nuclear-power-plants-lowest-for-solar/

1 year ago

Why Writing by Hand Is Better for Memory and Learning

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/why-writing-by-hand-is-better-for-memory-and-learning/

1 year ago

The Book of Secret Knowledge

https://github.com/trimstray/the-book-of-secret-knowledge

1 year ago

Show HN: Fontofweb – Discover Fonts Used on a Website or Websites Using Font(s)

https://fontofweb.com

1 year ago

In POSIX, you can theoretically use inode zero

https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/unix/POSIXAllowsZeroInode

1 year ago

Sguaba: Hard-to-misuse rigid body transforms for engineers

https://blog.helsing.ai/sguaba-hard-to-misuse-rigid-body-transforms-for-engineers-with-other-things-to-worry-about-than-aeaa45af9e0d

1 year ago

Texas cop searched license plate cameras nationwide for woman who got abortion

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/05/she-got-abortion-so-texas-cop-used-83000-cameras-track-her-down

1 year ago

Learn touch typing – it's worth it

https://www.typequicker.com/blog/learn-touch-typing

1 year ago

Cuss: Map of profane words to a rating of sureness

https://github.com/words/cuss

1 year ago

Plutonium Powered Pacemaker (From 1974)

https://www.orau.org/health-physics-museum/collection/miscellaneous/pacemaker.html

1 year ago

Nncp: Ad-hoc friend-to-friend delay-tolerant sneakernet-compatible darknet

http://www.nncpgo.org/

1 year ago

The Two Ideals of Fields

https://susam.net/two-ideals-of-fields.html

1 year ago

Magic Ink: Information Software and the Graphical Interface

https://worrydream.com/MagicInk/

1 year ago

The wake effect: As wind farms expand, some can ‘steal’ each others’ wind

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20250506-renewable-energys-trouble-with-wind-theft

1 year ago

Intelligent Agent Technology: Open Sesame! (1993)

https://blog.gingerbeardman.com/2025/05/31/intelligent-agent-technology-open-sesame-1993/

1 year ago

Show HN: Open-source P2P file transfer

https://github.com/nihaocami/berb

1 year ago