5.9.25 | Steve Jobs praises idea, Open-source Cursor alternative, First American pope named Pope Leo XIV
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 XIVhttps://www.cnn.com/world/live-news/new-pope-conclave-day-two-05-08-25https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43927856Reservoir Samplinghttps://samwho.dev/reservoir-sampling/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43928315LegoGPT: Generating Physically Stable and Buildable Legohttps://avalovelace1.github.io/LegoGPT/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43933891Progress toward fusion energy gain as measured against the Lawson criteriahttps://www.fusionenergybase.com/articles/continuing-progress-toward-fusion-energy-breakeven-and-gain-as-measured-against-the-lawson-criteriahttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43927337When Abandoned Mines Collapsehttps://practical.engineering/blog/2025/5/6/when-abandoned-mines-collapsehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43908261A flat pricing subscription for Claude Codehttps://support.anthropic.com/en/articles/11145838-using-claude-code-with-your-max-planhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43931409Starlink User Terminal Teardownhttps://www.darknavy.org/blog/a_first_glimpse_of_the_starlink_user_ternimal/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43933452How to start a school with your friendshttps://prigoose.substack.com/p/how-to-start-a-universityhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43930397
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5.8.25 | Ty is a fast Python type checker, Postgres 18 accelerates disk reads with asynchronous I/O, Mistral launches Le Chat, an enterprise AI assistant for on-prem use
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 premhttps://mistral.ai/news/le-chat-enterprisehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43916098So Much Bloodhttps://dynomight.net/blood/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43913751Open source Google Analytics replacementhttps://github.com/rybbit-io/rybbithttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43918620My quest to make motorcycle riding that tad bit saferhttps://gill.net.in/posts/my-quest-to-make-motorcycle-riding-safer/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43914235Web search on the Anthropic APIhttps://www.anthropic.com/news/web-search-apihttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43920188Show HN: eInk optimized manga with Kindle Comic Converter (+Kobo/ReMarkable)https://github.com/ciromattia/kcchttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43916956Create and edit images with Gemini 2.0 in previewhttps://developers.googleblog.com/en/generate-images-gemini-2-0-flash-preview/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43917461Mac Themes Gardenhttps://damien.zone/introducing-mac-themes-garden/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43919868
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5.7.25 | Clippy brings 90s UI to local LLMs, Gemini 2.5 Pro preview released, OpenAI acquires Windsurf for $3B
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 $3Bhttps://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-05-06/openai-reaches-agreement-to-buy-startup-windsurf-for-3-billionhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43900877Matt Godbolt sold me on Rust by showing me C++https://www.collabora.com/news-and-blog/blog/2025/05/06/matt-godbolt-sold-me-on-rust-by-showing-me-c-plus-plus/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43907820Launch HN: Exa (YC S21) – The web as a databasehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43906841India launches attack on 9 sites in Pakistan and Pakistani Jammu and Kashmirhttps://www.reuters.com/world/india/india-launches-attack-9-sites-pakistan-pakistan-occupied-jammu-kashmir-2025-05-06/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43909430Claude's system prompt is over 24k tokens with toolshttps://github.com/asgeirtj/system_prompts_leaks/blob/main/claude.txthttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43909409VVVVVV Source Codehttps://github.com/TerryCavanagh/VVVVVVhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43910681Nnd – a TUI debugger alternative to GDB, LLDBhttps://github.com/al13n321/nndhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43905185Accents in latent spaces: How AI hears accent strength in Englishhttps://accent-strength.boldvoice.com/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43905299
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5.6.25 | OpenAI's structural evolution, Daft Punk's vocal effects, Real-time AI voice chat at ~500ms latency
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 debthttps://www.huffpost.com/entry/utah-school-lunch-debt-relief-free-student-meals_n_681258fbe4b03207b5ba49fahttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43885101As an experienced LLM user, I don't use generative LLMs oftenhttps://minimaxir.com/2025/05/llm-use/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43897320Replacing Kubernetes with systemd (2024)https://blog.yaakov.online/replacing-kubernetes-with-systemd/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43899236The Beauty of Having a Pi-Hole (2024)https://den.dev/blog/pihole/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43894175Show HN: VectorVFS, your filesystem as a vector databasehttps://vectorvfs.readthedocs.io/en/latest/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43896011How are cyber criminals rolling in 2025?https://vin01.github.io/piptagole/cybcecrime/security/cybersecurity/2025/05/05/state-cyber-security.htmlhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43896188Possibly a Serious Possibilityhttps://kucharski.substack.com/p/possibly-a-serious-possibilityhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43898380
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 Firehttps://acoup.blog/2025/05/02/collections-why-archers-didnt-volley-fire/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43877644Evidence of controversial Planet 9 uncovered in sky surveys taken 23 years aparthttps://www.space.com/astronomy/solar-system/evidence-of-controversial-planet-9-uncovered-in-sky-surveys-taken-23-years-aparthttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43874641Technical analysis of TM SGNL, the unofficial Signal app Trump officials usedhttps://micahflee.com/tm-sgnl-the-obscure-unofficial-signal-app-mike-waltz-uses-to-text-with-trump-officials/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43875476Dummy's Guide to Modern LLM Samplinghttps://rentry.co/samplershttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43887637Oberon Pihttp://pascal.hansotten.com/niklaus-wirth/project-oberon/oberon-pi/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43885478Graceful Shutdown in Go: Practical Patternshttps://victoriametrics.com/blog/go-graceful-shutdown/index.htmlhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43889610On Not Carrying a Camera – Cultivating memories instead of snapshotshttps://hedgehogreview.com/issues/after-neoliberalism/articles/on-not-carrying-a-camerahttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43890525
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