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This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on May 18, 2025. Coding without a laptop: Two weeks with AR glasses and Linux on Android https://holdtherobot.com/blog/2025/05/11/linux-on-android-with-ar-glasses/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43985513 Mystical https://suberic.net/~dmm/projects/mystical/README.html https://news.ycombinator.…
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This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on May 17, 2025. Push Ifs Up and Fors Down https://matklad.github.io/2023/11/15/push-ifs-up-and-fors-down.html https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44013157 JavaScript's New Superpower: Explicit Resource Management https://v8.dev/features/explicit-resource-management https://news.ycombinator.com/it…
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This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on May 16, 2025. Baby is healed with first personalized gene-editing treatment https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/15/health/gene-editing-personalized-rare-disorders.html https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43997636 The unreasonable effectiveness of an LLM agent loop with tool use https://sketch.dev/b…
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This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on May 15, 2025. AlphaEvolve: A Gemini-powered coding agent for designing advanced algorithms https://deepmind.google/discover/blog/alphaevolve-a-gemini-powered-coding-agent-for-designing-advanced-algorithms/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43985489 What is HDR, anyway? https://www.lux.camera/…
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This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on May 14, 2025. The world could run on older hardware if software optimization was a priority https://twitter.com/ID_AA_Carmack/status/1922100771392520710 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43971464 Multiple security issues in GNU Screen https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2025/05/12/1 h…
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This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on May 13, 2025. The Barbican https://arslan.io/2025/05/12/barbican-estate/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43964136 Firefox moves to GitHub https://github.com/mozilla-firefox/firefox https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43969827 A community-led fork of Organic Maps https://www.comaps.app/news…
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This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on May 12, 2025. Plain Vanilla Web https://plainvanillaweb.com/index.html https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43954896 One-Click RCE in Asus's Preinstalled Driver Software https://mrbruh.com/asusdriverhub/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43951588 A simple 16x16 dot animation from simple math …
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This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on May 10, 2025. ALICE detects the conversion of lead into gold at the LHC https://www.home.cern/news/news/physics/alice-detects-conversion-lead-gold-lhc https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43937214 Sofie: open-source web based system for automating live TV news production https://nrkno.github.io/…
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This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on May 9, 2025. From: Steve Jobs. "Great idea, thank you." https://blog.hayman.net/2025/05/06/from-steve-jobs-great-idea.html https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43929724 Void: Open-source Cursor alternative https://github.com/voideditor/void https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43927926 First Ame…
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This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on May 8, 2025. Ty: A fast Python type checker and language server https://github.com/astral-sh/ty https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43918484 Waiting for Postgres 18: Accelerating Disk Reads with Asynchronous I/O https://pganalyze.com/blog/postgres-18-async-io https://news.ycombinator.com/item?i…
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This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on May 7, 2025. Show HN: Clippy – 90s UI for local LLMs https://felixrieseberg.github.io/clippy/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43905942 Gemini 2.5 Pro Preview https://developers.googleblog.com/en/gemini-2-5-pro-io-improved-coding-performance/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43906018 Ope…
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This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on May 6, 2025. Evolving OpenAI's Structure https://openai.com/index/evolving-our-structure/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43897772 The vocal effects of Daft Punk https://bjango.com/articles/daftpunkvocaleffects/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43893601 Show HN: Real-time AI Voice Chat …
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This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on May 5, 2025. I'd rather read the prompt https://claytonwramsey.com/blog/prompt/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43888803 Design for 3D-Printing https://blog.rahix.de/design-for-3d-printing/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43888117 An Alabama landline that keeps ringing https://oxfordam…
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This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on May 4, 2025. Show HN: Free, in-browser PDF editor https://breezepdf.com https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43880962 We fell out of love with Next.js and back in love with Ruby on Rails https://hardcover.app/blog/part-1-how-we-fell-out-of-love-with-next-js-and-back-in-love-with-ruby-on-rails-in…
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This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on May 3, 2025. Show HN: I built a synthesizer based on 3D physics https://anukari.com https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43873074 Old Soviet Venus descent craft nearing Earth reentry https://www.leonarddavid.com/old-soviet-venus-descent-craft-nearing-earth-reentry/ https://news.ycombinator.com/i…
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This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on May 2, 2025. Redis is open source again https://antirez.com/news/151 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43859446 Judge rules Apple executive lied under oath, makes criminal contempt referral https://www.thebignewsletter.com/p/judge-rules-apple-executive-lied https://news.ycombinator.com/item?i…
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This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on May 1, 2025. Someone at YouTube needs glasses https://jayd.ml/2025/04/30/someone-at-youtube-needs-glasses.html https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43846487 Apple violated antitrust ruling, judge finds https://www.wsj.com/tech/apple-violated-antitrust-ruling-federal-judge-finds-66b85957 https://…
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This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Apr 30, 2025. I use zip bombs to protect my server https://idiallo.com/blog/zipbomb-protection https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43826798 Firefox tab groups are here https://blog.mozilla.org/en/firefox/tab-groups-community/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43834101 Only Teslas exempt from…
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This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Apr 29, 2025. Widespread power outage in Spain and Portugal https://www.bbc.com/news/live/c9wpq8xrvd9t https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43819791 Show HN: I built a hardware processor that runs Python https://www.runpyxl.com/gpio https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43820228 Qwen3: Think deep…
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This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Apr 28, 2025. Internet in a Box https://internet-in-a-box.org/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43814433 How a single line of code could brick your iPhone https://rambo.codes/posts/2025-04-24-how-a-single-line-of-code-could-brick-your-iphone https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43814360 Busi…
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This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Apr 27, 2025. Watching o3 guess a photo's location is surreal, dystopian and entertaining https://simonwillison.net/2025/Apr/26/o3-photo-locations/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43803243 An end to all this prostate trouble? https://yarchive.net/blog/prostate/ https://news.ycombinator.com/…
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This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Apr 26, 2025. A $20k American-made electric pickup with no paint, no stereo, no screen https://www.theverge.com/electric-cars/655527/slate-electric-truck-price-paint-radio-bezos https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43794284 Wikipedia’s nonprofit status questioned by D.C. U.S. attorney https://ww…
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This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Apr 25, 2025. I wrote to the address in the GPLv2 license notice (2022) https://code.mendhak.com/gpl-v2-address-letter/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43781888 OpenAI releases image generation in the API https://openai.com/index/image-generation-api/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43…
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This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Apr 24, 2025. How a 20 year old bug in GTA San Andreas surfaced in Windows 11 24H2 https://cookieplmonster.github.io/2025/04/23/gta-san-andreas-win11-24h2-bug/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43772311 You wouldn't steal a font https://fedi.rib.gay/notes/a6xqityngfubsz0f https://news.ycombin…
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This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Apr 23, 2025. Atuin Desktop: Runbooks That Run https://blog.atuin.sh/atuin-desktop-runbooks-that-run/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43766200 Sapphire: Rust based package manager for macOS (Homebrew replacement) https://github.com/alexykn/sapphire https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43765…
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This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Apr 22, 2025. Show HN: Dia, an open-weights TTS model for generating realistic dialogue https://github.com/nari-labs/dia https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43754124 Blog hosted on a Nintendo Wii https://blog.infected.systems/posts/2025-04-21-this-blog-is-hosted-on-a-nintendo-wii/ https://news.…
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This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Apr 21, 2025. Gemma 3 QAT Models: Bringing AI to Consumer GPUs https://developers.googleblog.com/en/gemma-3-quantized-aware-trained-state-of-the-art-ai-to-consumer-gpus/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43743337 Things Zig comptime won't do https://matklad.github.io/2025/04/19/things-zig-com…
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This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Apr 20, 2025. Librarians are dangerous https://bradmontague.substack.com/p/librarians-are-dangerous https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43736791 Raspberry Pi Lidar Scanner https://github.com/PiLiDAR/PiLiDAR https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43738561 Claude Code: Best practices for agentic co…
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This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Apr 19, 2025. Show HN: I made a Doom-like game fit inside a QR code https://github.com/Kuberwastaken/backdooms https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43729683 Judge Rules Blanket Search of Cell Tower Data Unconstitutional https://www.404media.co/judge-rules-blanket-search-of-cell-tower-data-uncons…
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This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Apr 18, 2025. Gemini 2.5 Flash https://developers.googleblog.com/en/start-building-with-gemini-25-flash/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43720845 Google is illegally monopolizing online advertising tech, judge rules https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/17/technology/google-ad-tech-antitrust-ruli…
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This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Apr 17, 2025. Attention K-Mart Shoppers https://archive.org/details/attentionkmartshoppers https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43706706 TLS certificate lifetimes will officially reduce to 47 days https://www.digicert.com/blog/tls-certificate-lifetimes-will-officially-reduce-to-47-days https://n…
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This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Apr 16, 2025. Cursor IDE support hallucinates lockout policy, causes user cancellations https://old.reddit.com/r/cursor/comments/1jyy5am/psa_cursor_now_restricts_logins_to_a_single/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43683012 CVE program faces swift end after DHS fails to renew contract https:…
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This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Apr 15, 2025. Harvard's response to federal government letter demanding changes https://www.harvard.edu/president/news/2025/the-promise-of-american-higher-education/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43684536 A hackable AI assistant using a single SQLite table and a handful of cron jobs https…
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This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Apr 14, 2025. Googler... ex-Googler https://nerdy.dev/ex-googler https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43658089 Open guide to equity compensation https://github.com/jlevy/og-equity-compensation https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43675126 The dark side of the Moomins https://www.newstatesman.com…
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This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Apr 13, 2025. Open source and self hostable/private file converter https://vert.sh https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43663865 Nice things with SVG https://fuma-nama.vercel.app/blog/svg-art https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43666439 Trump exempts phones, computers, chips from ‘reciprocal’ t…
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This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Apr 12, 2025. But what if I want a faster horse? https://rakhim.exotext.com/but-what-if-i-really-want-a-faster-horse https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43652723 Leaked data reveals Israeli govt campaign to remove pro-Palestine posts on Meta https://www.dropsitenews.com/p/leaked-data-israeli-ce…
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This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Apr 11, 2025. Garfield Minus Garfield https://garfieldminusgarfield.net https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43646095 Fintech founder charged with fraud; AI app found to be humans in the Philippines https://techcrunch.com/2025/04/10/fintech-founder-charged-with-fraud-after-ai-shopping-app-found-…
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This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Apr 10, 2025. How much do you think it costs to make a pair of Nike shoes in Asia? https://twitter.com/dieworkwear/status/1909741170953273353 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43631543 Ironwood: The first Google TPU for the age of inference https://blog.google/products/google-cloud/ironwood-t…
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This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Apr 9, 2025. Apache ECharts https://echarts.apache.org/en/index.html https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43624220 Thank HN: The puzzle game I posted here 6 weeks ago got licensed by The Atlantic https://www.theatlantic.com/games/bracket-city/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43622719 Brazil…
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This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Apr 8, 2025. Middle-aged man trading cards go viral in rural Japan town https://www.tokyoweekender.com/entertainment/middle-aged-man-trading-cards-go-viral-in-japan/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43615912 Show HN: Browser MCP – Automate your browser using Cursor, Claude, VS Code https://b…
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This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Apr 7, 2025. Standard Ebooks: liberated ebooks, carefully produced for the true book lover https://standardebooks.org https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43599637 The “S” in MCP Stands for Security https://elenacross7.medium.com/%EF%B8%8F-the-s-in-mcp-stands-for-security-91407b33ed6b https://ne…
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This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Apr 6, 2025. What if we made advertising illegal? https://simone.org/advertising/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43595269 The Llama 4 herd https://ai.meta.com/blog/llama-4-multimodal-intelligence/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43595585 Show HN: I built a word game. My mom thinks it'…
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This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Apr 5, 2025. Understanding Machine Learning: From Theory to Algorithms https://www.cs.huji.ac.il/~shais/UnderstandingMachineLearning/copy.html https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43586073 The blissful Zen of a good side project https://joshcollinsworth.com/blog/the-blissful-zen-of-a-good-side-p…
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This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Apr 4, 2025. An image of an archeologist adventurer who wears a hat and uses a bullwhip https://theaiunderwriter.substack.com/p/an-image-of-an-archeologist-adventurer https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43573156 AnimeJs v4 Is Here https://animejs.com/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=435705…
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This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Apr 3, 2025. Tell HN: Announcing tomhow as a public moderator https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43558671 TV Garden https://tv.garden/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43524461 US Administration announces 34% tariffs on China, 20% on EU https://www.bbc.com/news/live/c1dr7vy39eet https://ne…
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This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Apr 2, 2025. Electron band structure in germanium, my ass (2001) https://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~kovar/hall.html https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43545917 Bletchley code breaker Betty Webb dies aged 101 https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c78jd30ywv8o https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43546236 G…
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This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Apr 1, 2025. The demoscene as a UNESCO heritage in Sweden https://www.goto80.com/the-demoscene-as-a-unesco-heritage-in-sweden https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43533362 Honey has now lost 4M Chrome users after shady tactics were revealed https://9to5google.com/2025/03/31/honey-extension-users…
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This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Mar 31, 2025. Blue95: a desktop for your childhood home's computer room https://github.com/winblues/blue95 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43524937 Claim for a missing tooth https://tf230.matteason.co.uk/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43504514 Public secrets exposure leads to supply …
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This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Mar 30, 2025. Everyone knows all the apps on your phone https://peabee.substack.com/p/everyone-knows-what-apps-you-use https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43518866 Why Apple's Severance gets edited over remote desktop software https://tedium.co/2025/03/29/severance-apple-remote-editing-weirdnes…
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This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Mar 29, 2025. xAI has acquired X, xAI now valued at $80B https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1905731750275510312 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43509923 I asked police to send me their public surveillance footage of my car https://cardinalnews.org/2025/03/28/i-drove-300-miles-in-rural-virg…
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