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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

12:05

5.8.25 | Ty is a fast Python type checker, Postgres...

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2025/05/08

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on May 8, 2025.Ty: A fast Python type checker and language serverhttps://github.com/astral-sh/tyhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43918484Waiting for Postgres 18: Accelerating Disk Reads with Asynchronous I/Ohttps://pganalyze.com/blog/postgres-18-async-iohttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43916577Mistral ships Le Chat – enterprise AI assistant that can run on

11:56

5.7.25 | Clippy brings 90s UI to local LLMs, Gemini...

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2025/05/07

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on May 7, 2025.Show HN: Clippy – 90s UI for local LLMshttps://felixrieseberg.github.io/clippy/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43905942Gemini 2.5 Pro Previewhttps://developers.googleblog.com/en/gemini-2-5-pro-io-improved-coding-performance/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43906018OpenAI reaches agreement to buy Windsurf for

12:19

5.6.25 | OpenAI's structural evolution, Daft Punk's...

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2025/05/06

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on May 6, 2025.Evolving OpenAI's Structurehttps://openai.com/index/evolving-our-structure/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43897772The vocal effects of Daft Punkhttps://bjango.com/articles/daftpunkvocaleffects/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43893601Show HN: Real-time AI Voice Chat at ~500ms Latencyhttps://github.com/KoljaB/RealtimeVoiceChathttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43899028I decided to pay off a school’s lunch

12:12

5.5.25 | Prefer prompt reading, 3D-printing design,...

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2025/05/05

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on May 5, 2025.I'd rather read the prompthttps://claytonwramsey.com/blog/prompt/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43888803Design for 3D-Printinghttps://blog.rahix.de/design-for-3d-printing/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43888117An Alabama landline that keeps ringinghttps://oxfordamerican.org/oa-now/the-alabama-landline-that-keeps-ringinghttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43886243Why Archers Didn't Volley

12:23

5.4.25 | Free PDF editor, Rediscovering Ruby on Rails...

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2025/05/04

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on May 4, 2025.Show HN: Free, in-browser PDF editorhttps://breezepdf.comhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43880962We fell out of love with Next.js and back in love with Ruby on Railshttps://hardcover.app/blog/part-1-how-we-fell-out-of-love-with-next-js-and-back-in-love-with-ruby-on-rails-inertia-jshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43881035Time saved by AI offset by new work created, study

12:11

5.3.25 | Synthesizer using 3D physics, Soviet Venus...

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2025/05/03

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 physicshttps://anukari.comhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43873074Old Soviet Venus descent craft nearing Earth reentryhttps://www.leonarddavid.com/old-soviet-venus-descent-craft-nearing-earth-reentry/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43873531The language brain matters more for programming than the math brain

12:34

5.2.25 | Redis is open source, Judge rules Apple...

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2025/05/02

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on May 2, 2025.Redis is open source againhttps://antirez.com/news/151https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43859446Judge rules Apple executive lied under oath, makes criminal contempt referralhttps://www.thebignewsletter.com/p/judge-rules-apple-executive-liedhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43856795Claude Integrationshttps://www.anthropic.com/news/integrationshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43859536Third party cookies must be

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