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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

12:02

5.1.25 | YouTube's vision issue, Apple antitrust...

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2025/05/01

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on May 1, 2025.Someone at YouTube needs glasseshttps://jayd.ml/2025/04/30/someone-at-youtube-needs-glasses.htmlhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43846487Apple violated antitrust ruling, judge findshttps://www.wsj.com/tech/apple-violated-antitrust-ruling-federal-judge-finds-66b85957https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43852145I created Perfect Wiki and reached $250k in annual revenue without

12:03

4.30.25 | Using zip bombs for server protection,...

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2025/04/30

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Apr 30, 2025.I use zip bombs to protect my serverhttps://idiallo.com/blog/zipbomb-protectionhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43826798Firefox tab groups are herehttps://blog.mozilla.org/en/firefox/tab-groups-community/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43834101Only Teslas exempt from new auto tariffs thanks to 85% domestic content

12:08

4.29.25 | Power outage in Spain and Portugal,...

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2025/04/29

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Apr 29, 2025.Widespread power outage in Spain and Portugalhttps://www.bbc.com/news/live/c9wpq8xrvd9thttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43819791Show HN: I built a hardware processor that runs Pythonhttps://www.runpyxl.com/gpiohttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43820228Qwen3: Think deeper, act fasterhttps://qwenlm.github.io/blog/qwen3/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43825900Migrating away from

12:30

4.28.25 | Internet in a Box, single line of code can...

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2025/04/28

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Apr 28, 2025.Internet in a Boxhttps://internet-in-a-box.org/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43814433How a single line of code could brick your iPhonehttps://rambo.codes/posts/2025-04-24-how-a-single-line-of-code-could-brick-your-iphonehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43814360Business co-founders in tech startups are less valuable than they

12:07

Apr 27, 2025 | o3 guesses photo location, prostate...

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2025/04/27

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 entertaininghttps://simonwillison.net/2025/Apr/26/o3-photo-locations/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43803243An end to all this prostate trouble?https://yarchive.net/blog/prostate/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43801906Clothhttps://www.cloudofoz.com/verlet-test/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43801179Show HN: My self-written hobby OS is finally

12:25

Apr 26, 2025 | $20k American electric pickup with no...

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2025/04/26

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 screenhttps://www.theverge.com/electric-cars/655527/slate-electric-truck-price-paint-radio-bezoshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43794284Wikipedia’s nonprofit status questioned by D.C. U.S. attorneyhttps://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2025/04/25/wikipedia-nonprofit-ed-martin-letter/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43799302Writing "/etc/hosts"

11:58

Apr 25, 2025 | GPLv2 license address contacted,...

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2025/04/25

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=43781888OpenAI releases image generation in the APIhttps://openai.com/index/image-generation-api/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43786506Instant SQL for results as you type in DuckDB

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