Plain Vanilla Web (plainvanillaweb.com)

1482 points by andrewrn 4d ago 676 comments

From: Steve Jobs. "Great idea, thank you." (blog.hayman.net)

1206 points by mattl 7d ago 293 comments

AlphaEvolve: A Gemini-powered coding agent for designing advanced algorithms (deepmind.google)

961 points by Fysi 1d ago 253 comments

Void: Open-source Cursor alternative (github.com)

941 points by sharjeelsayed 7d ago 343 comments

Mozilla Firefox – Official GitHub repo (github.com)

833 points by thefilmore 2d ago 457 comments

The world could run on older hardware if software optimization was a priority (twitter.com)

812 points by turrini 2d ago 783 comments

What is HDR, anyway? (lux.camera)

748 points by _kush 1d ago 323 comments

The Barbican (arslan.io)

710 points by farslan 3d ago 254 comments

Human (quarter--mile.com)

660 points by surprisetalk 19h ago 253 comments

ALICE detects the conversion of lead into gold at the LHC (home.cern)

636 points by miiiiiike 6d ago 300 comments

A critical look at MCP (raz.sh)

617 points by ablekh 5d ago 333 comments

First American pope elected and will be known as Pope Leo XIV (cnn.com)

604 points by saikatsg 7d ago 1039 comments

Internet Artifacts (neal.fun)

596 points by mikerg87 2d ago 125 comments

LegoGPT: Generating Physically Stable and Buildable Lego (avalovelace1.github.io)

592 points by nkko 6d ago 136 comments

Business books are entertainment, not strategic tools (theorthagonist.substack.com)

584 points by ZeroTalent 6d ago 255 comments

NSF faces shake-up as officials abolish its 37 divisions (science.org)

568 points by magicalist 6d ago 767 comments

Leaving Google (airs.com)

555 points by todsacerdoti 4d ago 370 comments

I hacked a dating app (and how not to treat a security researcher) (alexschapiro.com)

552 points by bearsyankees 3d ago 306 comments

Vision Now Available in Llama.cpp (github.com)

547 points by redman25 5d ago 102 comments

Ask HN: How are you acquiring your first hundred users?

538 points by amanchanda 2d ago 347 comments

Reservoir Sampling (samwho.dev)

529 points by chrisdemarco 7d ago 105 comments

A simple 16x16 dot animation from simple math rules (tixy.land)

528 points by andrewrn 5d ago 99 comments

One-Click RCE in Asus's Preinstalled Driver Software (mrbruh.com)

513 points by MrBruh 4d ago 241 comments

The great displacement is already well underway? (shawnfromportland.substack.com)

483 points by JSLegendDev 3d ago 473 comments

High tariffs become 'real' with our first $36K bill (blog.adafruit.com)

483 points by ptorrone 7d ago 397 comments

Embeddings are underrated (2024) (technicalwriting.dev)

476 points by jxmorris12 3d ago 150 comments

Bus stops here: Shanghai lets riders design their own routes (sixthtone.com)

473 points by anigbrowl 1d ago 337 comments

Car companies are in a billion-dollar software war (insideevs.com)

459 points by rntn 4d ago 803 comments

Observations from people-watching (skincontact.substack.com)

457 points by jger15 4d ago 227 comments

US Copyright Office found AI companies breach copyright. Its boss was fired (theregister.com)

447 points by croes 3d ago 390 comments

Flattening Rust’s learning curve (corrode.dev)

442 points by birdculture 1d ago 371 comments

Google is building its own DeX: First look at Android's Desktop Mode (androidauthority.com)

430 points by logic_node 2d ago 398 comments

Writing that changed how I think about programming languages (bernsteinbear.com)

426 points by r4um 1d ago 57 comments

Rust’s dependencies are starting to worry me (vincents.dev)

419 points by chaosprint 6d ago 568 comments

Changes since congestion pricing started in New York (nytimes.com)

417 points by Vinnl 2d ago 630 comments

Branch Privilege Injection: Exploiting branch predictor race conditions (comsec.ethz.ch)

414 points by alberto-m 2d ago 210 comments

US vs. Google amicus curiae brief of Y Combinator in support of plaintiffs [pdf] (storage.courtlistener.com)

411 points by dave1629 5d ago 943 comments

Multiple security issues in GNU Screen (openwall.com)

409 points by st_goliath 2d ago 260 comments

The recently lost file upload feature in the Nextcloud app for Android (nextcloud.com)

397 points by morsch 1d ago 162 comments

SMS 2FA is not just insecure, it's also hostile to mountain people (blog.stillgreenmoss.net)

393 points by todsacerdoti 1d ago 305 comments

A server that wasn't meant to exist (it-notes.dragas.net)

384 points by jaypatelani 1d ago 128 comments

I built a native Windows Todo app in pure C (278 KB, no frameworks) (github.com)

381 points by toxi360 4d ago 234 comments

Sofie: open-source web based system for automating live TV news production (nrkno.github.io)

378 points by rjmunro 6d ago 53 comments

Databricks acquires Neon (databricks.com)

374 points by davidgomes 1d ago 215 comments

Can you trust that permission pop-up on macOS? (wts.dev)

373 points by nmgycombinator 3d ago 249 comments

FastVLM: Efficient vision encoding for vision language models (github.com)

365 points by nhod 2d ago 73 comments

I ruined my vacation by reverse engineering WSC (blog.es3n1n.eu)

353 points by todsacerdoti 3d ago 189 comments

Writing an LLM from scratch, part 13 – attention heads are dumb (gilesthomas.com)

349 points by gpjt 7d ago 66 comments

PDF to Text, a challenging problem (marginalia.nu)

348 points by ingve 2d ago 191 comments

LLMs get lost in multi-turn conversation (arxiv.org)

343 points by simonpure 19h ago 231 comments

Class pairs students with military officers to build mission-critical solutions

2 rbanffy 1 5/15/2025, 10:48:54 AM news.mit.edu ↗

Comments (1)

austin-cheney · 10h ago

Amazing. As both a military officer and a corporate developer myself it really seems most developers have no idea how software solves actual business problems in the real world.