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6.4.25 | Deep learning praised, fact checking overlooked, covert Android tracking, DiffX extensible format 04.06.2025 12:12

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Jun 4, 2025. Deep learning gets the glory, deep fact checking gets ignored https://rachel.fast.ai/posts/2025-06-04-enzyme-ml-fails/index.html https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44174965 Covert Web-to-App Tracking via Localhost on Android https://localmess.github.io/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44169115 DiffX – Next-Generation Extensi...

6.3.25 | AI skeptics are irrational, Cloudflare creates OAuth with Claude, Kan.bn is an open-source Trello alternative 03.06.2025 10:26

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Jun 3, 2025. My AI skeptic friends are all nuts https://fly.io/blog/youre-all-nuts/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44163063 Cloudlflare builds OAuth with Claude and publishes all the prompts https://github.com/cloudflare/workers-oauth-provider/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44159166 Show HN: Kan.bn – An open-source alterative to Tr...

6.2.25 | Root shell on credit card terminal, Cinematography of "Andor," Visual world of 'Samurai Jack' 02.06.2025 11:33

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Jun 2, 2025. Root shell on a credit card terminal https://stefan-gloor.ch/yomani-hack https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44150803 Cinematography of “Andor” https://www.pushing-pixels.org/2025/05/20/cinematography-of-andor-interview-with-christophe-nuyens.html https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44149718 The Visual World of 'Samurai Jack' htt...

6.1.25 | Precision Clock Mk IV, Progressive JSON, A Lean companion to Analysis I 01.06.2025 11:54

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Jun 1, 2025. Precision Clock Mk IV https://mitxela.com/projects/precision_clock_mk_iv https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44144750 Progressive JSON https://overreacted.io/progressive-json/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44147945 A Lean companion to Analysis I https://terrytao.wordpress.com/2025/05/31/a-lean-companion-to-analysis-i/ https...

5.31.25 | Photos inside instruments, AI hype and white-collar layoffs, AWS systems correctness practices 31.05.2025 12:46

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on May 31, 2025. Photos taken inside musical instruments https://www.dpreview.com/photography/5400934096/probe-lenses-and-focus-stacking-the-secrets-to-incredible-photos-taken-inside-instruments https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44139626 The ‘white-collar bloodbath’ is all part of the AI hype machine https://www.cnn.com/2025/05/30/business/anth...

5.30.25 | WeatherStar 4000+ simulates Weather Channel, human coders outperform LLMs, FLUX.1 Kontext 30.05.2025 11:33

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on May 30, 2025. WeatherStar 4000+: Weather Channel Simulator https://weatherstar.netbymatt.com/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44127109 Human coders are still better than LLMs https://antirez.com/news/153 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44127739 FLUX.1 Kontext https://bfl.ai/models/flux-kontext https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4412...

5.29.25 | Rewrote Mac Electron app in Rust, Japan Post launches digital address system, Compiler Explorer promises lasting URLs 29.05.2025 12:04

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 Rust https://desktopdocs.com/?v=2025 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44118023 Japan Post launches 'digital address' system https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2025/05/27/companies/japan-post-digital-address/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44117779 Compiler Explorer and the pro...

5.28.25 | Square Theory, hawk uses traffic signals for hunting, LLM CLI tool runs tools from Python or plugins 28.05.2025 12:07

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on May 28, 2025. Square Theory https://aaronson.org/blog/square-theory https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44107942 How a hawk learned to use traffic signals to hunt more successfully https://www.frontiersin.org/news/2025/05/23/street-smarts-hawk-use-traffic-signals-hunting https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44105965 Show HN: My LLM CLI tool ca...

5.27.25 | CSS Minecraft, Hacker News uses Common Lisp, Owls in Towels 27.05.2025 11:52

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on May 27, 2025. CSS Minecraft https://benjaminaster.com/css-minecraft/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44100148 Hacker News now runs on top of Common Lisp https://lisp-journey.gitlab.io/blog/hacker-news-now-runs-on-top-of-common-lisp/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44099006 Owls in Towels https://owlsintowels.org/ https://news.ycombina...

5.26.25 | Claude 4 System Card, Amazon coders liken jobs to warehouse work, Open Source Society University offers free CS education 26.05.2025 11:52

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on May 26, 2025. Claude 4 System Card https://simonwillison.net/2025/May/25/claude-4-system-card/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44085920 At Amazon, some coders say their jobs have begun to resemble warehouse work https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/25/business/amazon-ai-coders.html https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44087150 Open Source Socie...

5.25.25 | o3 finds Linux SMB zeroday, Reinvent the Wheel, US scientific conferences leaving due to border fears 25.05.2025 12:01

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 implementation https://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=44081338 Reinvent the Wheel https://endler.dev/2025/reinvent-the-wheel/ https://news....

5.24.25 | Postgres IDE for VS Code, Find Your People, Living on $432 a month in America 24.05.2025 10:51

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on May 24, 2025. Postgres IDE in VS Code https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/adforpostgresql/announcing-a-new-ide-for-postgresql-in-vs-code-from-microsoft/4414648 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44073588 Find Your People https://foundersatwork.posthaven.com/find-your-people https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44074017 How to live on $43...

5.23.25 | Claude 4, Mozilla shutting down Pocket and Fakespot, long-admired fractal on wall 23.05.2025 12:10

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

5.22.25 | OpenAI acquires Jony Ive's AI startup, Devstral, Gemini Diffusion 22.05.2025 12:35

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on May 22, 2025. OpenAI to buy AI startup from Jony Ive https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-05-21/openai-to-buy-apple-veteran-jony-ive-s-ai-device-startup-in-6-5-billion-deal https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44053518 Devstral https://mistral.ai/news/devstral https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44051733 Gemini Diffusion https://simonw...

5.21.25 | Veo 3 and Imagen 4 for filmmaking, Deep Learning in Applied Topology, AI driving Microsoft employees insane 21.05.2025 12:06

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 Flow https://blog.google/technology/ai/generative-media-models-io-2025/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44044043 Deep Learning Is Applied Topology https://theahura.substack.com/p/deep-learning-is-applied-topology https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44041738 My new hobb...

5.20.25 | Windows Subsystem for Linux open source, Zod 4, Have I Been Pwned 2.0 20.05.2025 11:57

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on May 20, 2025. The Windows Subsystem for Linux is now open source https://blogs.windows.com/windowsdeveloper/2025/05/19/the-windows-subsystem-for-linux-is-now-open-source/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44031385 Zod 4 https://zod.dev/v4 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44030850 Have I Been Pwned 2.0 https://www.troyhunt.com/have-i-been...

5.18.25 | AR glasses and Linux on Android, Mystical, O2 VoLTE customer location 18.05.2025 12:17

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.com/item?id=44016037 O2 VoLTE: locating any custom...

5.17.25 | Push Ifs Up, JavaScript's Explicit Resource Management, Japan's IC Cards 17.05.2025 11:43

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/item?id=44012227 Japan's IC cards are weird and wond...

5.16.25 | Baby healed with gene-editing, LLM agent loop effectiveness, leap year check instructions 16.05.2025 12:39

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/blog/agent-loop https://news.ycombinator.com/item?i...

5.15.25 | AlphaEvolve: Gemini-powered coding agent, HDR explained, an unexpected server 15.05.2025 12:26

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/what-is-hdr/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=...

5.14.25 | Older hardware viable with software optimization, GNU Screen has multiple security issues, Branch Privilege Injection exploits race conditions 14.05.2025 12:52

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 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43971716 Branc...

5.13.25 | The Barbican, Firefox on GitHub, community fork of Organic Maps 13.05.2025 12:05

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/2025-05-12/3/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?i...

5.12.25 | Plain Vanilla Web, One-Click RCE in Asus Driver, 16x16 Dot Animation from Math Rules 12.05.2025 12:09

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 rules https://tixy.land https://news.ycombinator.c...

5.10.25 | ALICE detects lead to gold at LHC, Sofie automates live TV news production, business books as entertainment 10.05.2025 10:39

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/sofie-core/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4...

5.9.25 | Steve Jobs praises idea, Open-source Cursor alternative, First American pope named Pope Leo XIV 09.05.2025 11:30

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 American pope elected and will be known as Pope Leo X...