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1.Void: Open-source Cursor alternative (github.com/voideditor)
948 points by sharjeelsayed on May 8, 2025 | 343 comments
2.From: Steve Jobs. "Great idea, thank you." (hayman.net)
1209 points by mattl on May 8, 2025 | 292 comments
3.Reservoir Sampling (samwho.dev)
532 points by chrisdemarco on May 8, 2025 | 105 comments
4.First American pope elected and will be known as Pope Leo XIV (cnn.com)
606 points by saikatsg on May 8, 2025 | 1040 comments
5.Progress toward fusion energy gain as measured against the Lawson criteria (fusionenergybase.com)
232 points by sam on May 8, 2025 | 142 comments
6.June Huh dropped out to become a poet, now he’s won a Fields Medal (2022) (quantamagazine.org)
219 points by bpierre on May 7, 2025 | 139 comments
7.When Abandoned Mines Collapse (practical.engineering)
228 points by impish9208 on May 6, 2025 | 79 comments
8.How Obama’s BlackBerry got secured (2013) (electrospaces.net)
220 points by lastdong on May 5, 2025 | 82 comments
9.How linear regression works intuitively and how it leads to gradient descent (briefer.cloud)
334 points by lucasfcosta on May 5, 2025 | 101 comments
10.Mycoria is an open and secure overlay network that connects all participants (mycoria.org)
336 points by doener on May 8, 2025 | 125 comments
11.Using NASA’s SMAP satellite to detect L-band interference (radioandnukes.substack.com)
308 points by c16 on May 8, 2025 | 69 comments
12.A flat pricing subscription for Claude Code (anthropic.com)
234 points by namuorg on May 8, 2025 | 277 comments
13.Ask HN: What are good high-information density UIs (screenshots, apps, sites)?
530 points by troupo on May 8, 2025 | 372 comments
14.Samsung is paying $350M for audio brands B&W, Denon, Marantz and Polk (engadget.com)
217 points by thibautg on May 7, 2025 | 326 comments
15.A cycle-accurate IBM PC emulator in your web browser (martypc.net)
158 points by GloriousCow on May 4, 2025 | 25 comments
16.My new deadline: 20 years to give away virtually all my wealth (gatesnotes.com)
678 points by nrvn on May 8, 2025 | 656 comments
17.Inheritance was invented as a performance hack (2021) (catern.com)
194 points by aquastorm on May 6, 2025 | 244 comments
18.Show HN: US Routing – Python library for fast local routing in the US (github.com/ivanbelenky)
114 points by ivanbelenky on May 7, 2025 | 26 comments
19.Mass spectrometry method identifies pathogens within minutes instead of days (phys.org)
136 points by pseudolus on May 6, 2025 | 45 comments
20.Static as a Server (overreacted.io)
115 points by danabramov on May 8, 2025 | 116 comments
21.Yggdrasil is an experimental compact routing scheme that is fully decentralised (yggdrasil-network.github.io)
194 points by doener on May 7, 2025 | 53 comments
22.Stability by Design (potetm.com)
132 points by potetm on May 8, 2025 | 65 comments
23.Show HN: Using eBPF to see through encryption without a proxy (github.com/qpoint-io)
259 points by tylerflint on May 8, 2025 | 78 comments
24.How to harden GitHub Actions (wiz.io)
218 points by moyer on May 6, 2025 | 71 comments
25.Google to back three new nuclear projects (esgtoday.com)
291 points by aburan28 on May 8, 2025 | 356 comments
26.Egyptologist uncovers hidden messages on Paris’s iconic obelisk (artnet.com)
125 points by isaacfrond on May 8, 2025 | 105 comments
27.Bootstrapping Lisp in a Boot Sector (github.com/jart)
104 points by gone35 on May 5, 2025 | 6 comments
28.Block Diffusion: Interpolating Autoregressive and Diffusion Language Models (m-arriola.com)
72 points by t55 on May 8, 2025 | 16 comments
29.Notes on rolling out Cursor and Claude Code (ghiculescu.substack.com)
189 points by jermaustin1 on May 8, 2025 | 104 comments
30.NSA spied through Angry Birds, other apps: report (2014) (nbcnews.com)
278 points by __natty__ on May 6, 2025 | 155 comments

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