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Archives for 06 May 2025
  1. FTC bans hidden fees for live events and short-term rentals, effective May 12
    (184 points | Comments)

  2. Bloat is still software's biggest vulnerability (2024)
    (260 points | Comments)

  3. The DEA is now abandoning body cameras
    (164 points | Comments)

  4. Alignment is not free: How model upgrades can silence your confidence signals
    (121 points | Comments)

  5. VVVVVV Source Code
    (446 points | Comments)

  6. Four years of running a SaaS in a competitive market
    (269 points | Comments)

  7. iOS Kindle app now has a ‘get book’ button after changes to App Store rules
    (189 points | Comments)

  8. India launches attack on 9 sites in Pakistan and Pakistani Jammu and Kashmir
    (488 points | Comments)

  9. Claude's system prompt is over 24k tokens with tools
    (627 points | Comments)

  10. ACE-Step: A step towards music generation foundation model
    (109 points | Comments)

  11. TeleMessage, used by Trump officials, can access plaintext chat logs
    (262 points | Comments)

  12. Brush (Bo(u)rn(e) RUsty SHell) a POSIX and Bash-Compatible Shell in Rust
    (165 points | Comments)

  13. When Abandoned Mines Collapse
    (228 points | Comments)

  14. Matt Godbolt sold me on Rust by showing me C++
    (611 points | Comments)

  15. Is Planet Nine Alone in the Outer System?
    (119 points | Comments)

  16. Curl: We still have not seen a valid security report done with AI help
    (454 points | Comments)

  17. Launch HN: Exa (YC S21) – The web as a database
    (412 points | Comments)

  18. Show HN: Sheet Music in Smart Glasses
    (205 points | Comments)

  19. Show HN: Plexe – ML Models from a Prompt
    (130 points | Comments)

  20. Mass spectrometry method identifies pathogens within minutes instead of days
    (136 points | Comments)

  21. Gemini 2.5 Pro Preview
    (708 points | Comments)

  22. Show HN: Clippy – 90s UI for local LLMs
    (1122 points | Comments)

  23. Accents in latent spaces: How AI hears accent strength in English
    (245 points | Comments)

  24. Nnd – a TUI debugger alternative to GDB, LLDB
    (278 points | Comments)

  25. Cuttlefish 'talk' with their arms, study reveals
    (145 points | Comments)

  26. OpenAI reaches agreement to buy Windsurf for around $3B
    (155 points | Comments)

  27. New studies offer insight into Lyme disease’s treatment, lingering symptoms
    (225 points | Comments)

  28. Propositions as Types (2014) [pdf]
    (108 points | Comments)

  29. Memory-safe sudo to become the default in Ubuntu
    (224 points | Comments)

  30. Getting things “done” in large tech companies
    (315 points | Comments)

  31. Design and evaluation of a parrot-to-parrot video-calling system (2023)
    (139 points | Comments)

  32. Inheritance was invented as a performance hack (2021)
    (194 points | Comments)

  33. NSA spied through Angry Birds, other apps: report (2014)
    (278 points | Comments)

  34. FTC rule on unfair or deceptive fees to take effect on May 12
    (185 points | Comments)

  35. The Turkish İ Problem and Why You Should Care (2012)
    (112 points | Comments)

  36. DoorDash to acquire Deliveroo
    (183 points | Comments)

  37. Sneakers (1992) – 4K makeover sourced from the original camera negative
    (410 points | Comments)

  38. The curse of knowing how, or; fixing everything
    (1197 points | Comments)

  39. An appeal to Apple from Anukari
    (405 points | Comments)

  40. Critical CSS
    (234 points | Comments)

  41. Google has most of my email because it has all of yours (2014)
    (252 points | Comments)

  42. How to harden GitHub Actions
    (218 points | Comments)

  43. OpenAI reaches agreement to buy Windsurf for $3B
    (667 points | Comments)