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11:33

5.30.25 | WeatherStar 4000+ simulates Weather...

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2025/05/30

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on May 30, 2025.WeatherStar 4000+: Weather Channel Simulatorhttps://weatherstar.netbymatt.com/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44127109Human coders are still better than LLMshttps://antirez.com/news/153https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44127739FLUX.1 Kontexthttps://bfl.ai/models/flux-kontexthttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44128322Show HN: I wrote a modern Command Line

12:04

5.29.25 | Rewrote Mac Electron app in Rust, Japan...

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2025/05/29

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on May 29, 2025.Show HN: I rewrote my Mac Electron app in Rusthttps://desktopdocs.com/?v=2025https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44118023Japan Post launches 'digital address' systemhttps://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2025/05/27/companies/japan-post-digital-address/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44117779Compiler Explorer and the promise of URLs that last

12:07

5.28.25 | Square Theory, hawk uses traffic signals...

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2025/05/28

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on May 28, 2025.Square Theoryhttps://aaronson.org/blog/square-theoryhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44107942How a hawk learned to use traffic signals to hunt more successfullyhttps://www.frontiersin.org/news/2025/05/23/street-smarts-hawk-use-traffic-signals-huntinghttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44105965Show HN: My LLM CLI tool can run tools now, from Python code or

11:52

5.27.25 | CSS Minecraft, Hacker News uses Common...

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2025/05/27

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on May 27, 2025.CSS Minecrafthttps://benjaminaster.com/css-minecraft/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44100148Hacker News now runs on top of Common Lisphttps://lisp-journey.gitlab.io/blog/hacker-news-now-runs-on-top-of-common-lisp/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44099006Owls in Towelshttps://owlsintowels.org/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44101349A new class of materials that can passively harvest water from

11:52

5.26.25 | Claude 4 System Card, Amazon coders liken...

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2025/05/26

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on May 26, 2025.Claude 4 System Cardhttps://simonwillison.net/2025/May/25/claude-4-system-card/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44085920At Amazon, some coders say their jobs have begun to resemble warehouse workhttps://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/25/business/amazon-ai-coders.htmlhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44087150Open Source Society University – Path to a free self-taught education in

12:01

5.25.25 | o3 finds Linux SMB zeroday, Reinvent the...

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2025/05/25

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on May 25, 2025.I used o3 to find a remote zeroday in the Linux SMB implementationhttps://sean.heelan.io/2025/05/22/how-i-used-o3-to-find-cve-2025-37899-a-remote-zeroday-vulnerability-in-the-linux-kernels-smb-implementation/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44081338Reinvent the Wheelhttps://endler.dev/2025/reinvent-the-wheel/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44083467Scientific conferences are leaving the US amid border

10:51

5.24.25 | Postgres IDE for VS Code, Find Your People,...

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2025/05/24

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on May 24, 2025.Postgres IDE in VS Codehttps://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/adforpostgresql/announcing-a-new-ide-for-postgresql-in-vs-code-from-microsoft/4414648https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44073588Find Your Peoplehttps://foundersatwork.posthaven.com/find-your-peoplehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44074017How to live on $432 a month in

12:10

5.23.25 | Claude 4, Mozilla shutting down Pocket and...

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2025/05/23

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on May 23, 2025.Claude 4https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-4https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44063703Mozilla to shut down Pocket and Fakespothttps://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/future-of-pockethttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44063662That fractal that's been up on my wall for yearshttps://chriskw.xyz/2025/05/21/Fractal/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44063248Improving performance of rav1d video

12:35

5.22.25 | OpenAI acquires Jony Ive's AI startup,...

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2025/05/22

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on May 22, 2025.OpenAI to buy AI startup from Jony Ivehttps://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-05-21/openai-to-buy-apple-veteran-jony-ive-s-ai-device-startup-in-6-5-billion-dealhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44053518Devstralhttps://mistral.ai/news/devstralhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44051733Gemini Diffusionhttps://simonwillison.net/2025/May/21/gemini-diffusion/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44057820For algorithms, a

12:06

5.21.25 | Veo 3 and Imagen 4 for filmmaking, Deep...

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2025/05/21

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on May 21, 2025.Veo 3 and Imagen 4, and a new tool for filmmaking called Flowhttps://blog.google/technology/ai/generative-media-models-io-2025/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44044043Deep Learning Is Applied Topologyhttps://theahura.substack.com/p/deep-learning-is-applied-topologyhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44041738My new hobby: watching AI slowly drive Microsoft employees

11:57

5.20.25 | Windows Subsystem for Linux open source,...

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2025/05/20

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on May 20, 2025.The Windows Subsystem for Linux is now open sourcehttps://blogs.windows.com/windowsdeveloper/2025/05/19/the-windows-subsystem-for-linux-is-now-open-source/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44031385Zod 4https://zod.dev/v4https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44030850Have I Been Pwned 2.0https://www.troyhunt.com/have-i-been-pwned-2-0-is-now-live/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44035158GitHub Copilot Coding

12:17

5.18.25 | AR glasses and Linux on Android, Mystical,...

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2025/05/18

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 Androidhttps://holdtherobot.com/blog/2025/05/11/linux-on-android-with-ar-glasses/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43985513Mysticalhttps://suberic.net/~dmm/projects/mystical/README.htmlhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44016037O2 VoLTE: locating any customer with a phone

11:43

5.17.25 | Push Ifs Up, JavaScript's Explicit Resource...

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2025/05/17

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on May 17, 2025.Push Ifs Up and Fors Downhttps://matklad.github.io/2023/11/15/push-ifs-up-and-fors-down.htmlhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44013157JavaScript's New Superpower: Explicit Resource Managementhttps://v8.dev/features/explicit-resource-managementhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44012227Japan's IC cards are weird and wonderfulhttps://aruarian.dance/blog/japan-ic-cards/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43993711MCP: An

12:39

5.16.25 | Baby healed with gene-editing, LLM agent...

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2025/05/16

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on May 16, 2025.Baby is healed with first personalized gene-editing treatmenthttps://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/15/health/gene-editing-personalized-rare-disorders.htmlhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43997636The unreasonable effectiveness of an LLM agent loop with tool usehttps://sketch.dev/blog/agent-loophttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43998472A leap year check in three

12:26

5.15.25 | AlphaEvolve: Gemini-powered coding agent,...

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2025/05/15

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 algorithmshttps://deepmind.google/discover/blog/alphaevolve-a-gemini-powered-coding-agent-for-designing-advanced-algorithms/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43985489What is HDR, anyway?https://www.lux.camera/what-is-hdr/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43983871A server that wasn't meant to

12:52

5.14.25 | Older hardware viable with software...

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2025/05/14

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 priorityhttps://twitter.com/ID_AA_Carmack/status/1922100771392520710https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43971464Multiple security issues in GNU Screenhttps://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2025/05/12/1https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43971716Branch Privilege Injection: Exploiting branch predictor race

12:05

5.13.25 | The Barbican, Firefox on GitHub, community...

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2025/05/13

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on May 13, 2025.The Barbicanhttps://arslan.io/2025/05/12/barbican-estate/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43964136Firefox moves to GitHubhttps://github.com/mozilla-firefox/firefoxhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43969827A community-led fork of Organic Mapshttps://www.comaps.app/news/2025-05-12/3/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43961908Can you trust that permission pop-up on

12:09

5.12.25 | Plain Vanilla Web, One-Click RCE in Asus...

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2025/05/12

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on May 12, 2025.Plain Vanilla Webhttps://plainvanillaweb.com/index.htmlhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43954896One-Click RCE in Asus's Preinstalled Driver Softwarehttps://mrbruh.com/asusdriverhub/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43951588A simple 16x16 dot animation from simple math ruleshttps://tixy.landhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43942881Car companies are in a billion-dollar software

10:39

5.10.25 | ALICE detects lead to gold at LHC, Sofie...

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2025/05/10

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 LHChttps://www.home.cern/news/news/physics/alice-detects-conversion-lead-gold-lhchttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43937214Sofie: open-source web based system for automating live TV news productionhttps://nrkno.github.io/sofie-core/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43936408Business books are entertainment, not strategic

11:30

5.9.25 | Steve Jobs praises idea, Open-source Cursor...

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2025/05/09

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.htmlhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43929724Void: Open-source Cursor alternativehttps://github.com/voideditor/voidhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43927926First American pope elected and will be known as Pope Leo

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