Mar 1, 2025 | Zelensky's Tense White House Meeting, Code Execution Vulnerabilities In Popular Apps, 400 Reasons Against Microsoft Azure Hacker News Highlights podcast

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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 Extensible Diff Format https://diffx.org/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44176737 Merlin Bird ID https://merlin.allaboutbirds.org/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44176829 Brain aging shows nonlinear transitions, suggesting a midlife "critical window" https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2416433122 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44175905 Precious Plastic is in trouble https://www.preciousplastic.com//news/problems-in-precious-plastic https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44175773 The Small World of English https://www.inotherwords.app/linguabase/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44170968 Ask HN: Has anybody built search on top of Anna's Archive? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44176514 A deep dive into self-improving AI and the Darwin-Gödel Machine https://richardcsuwandi.github.io/blog/2025/dgm/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44174856 Binary Wordle https://wordle.chengeric.com/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44176825…

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

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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 Trello https://github.com/kanbn/kan https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44157177 Show HN: Onlook – Open-source, visual-first Cursor for designers https://github.com/onlook-dev/onlook https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44127653 Show HN: A toy version of Wireshark (student project) https://github.com/lixiasky/vanta https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44159758 Show HN: I build one absurd web project every month https://absurd.website https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44162363 Quarkdown: A modern Markdown-based typesetting system https://github.com/iamgio/quarkdown https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44167592 AI makes the humanities more important, but also weirder https://resobscura.substack.com/p/ai-makes-the-humanities-more-important https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44166102 ThorVG: Super Lightweight Vector Graphics Engine https://www.thorvg.org/about https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44157406 Younger generations less likely to have dementia, study suggests https://www.theguardian.com/society/2025/jun/02/younger-generations-less-likely-dementia-study https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44160012…

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

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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' https://animationobsessive.substack.com/p/the-visual-world-of-samurai-jack https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44154032 How to post when no one is reading https://www.jeetmehta.com/posts/thrive-in-obscurity https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44155746 LibriVox https://librivox.org/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44153738 I made a chair https://milofultz.com/2025-05-27-i-made-a-chair.html https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44142259 When Fine-Tuning Makes Sense: A Developer's Guide https://getkiln.ai/blog/why_fine_tune_LLM_models_and_how_to_get_started https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44129495 HeidiSQL Available Also for Linux https://www.heidisql.com/forum.php?t=44068 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44125793 If you are useful, it doesn't mean you are valued https://betterthanrandom.substack.com/p/if-you-are-useful-it-doesnt-mean https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44156935 The Rise of Judgement over Technical Skill https://notsocommonthoughts.com/blog/ai-and-judgement/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44153732…

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

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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://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44145517 RenderFormer: Neural rendering of triangle meshes with global illumination https://microsoft.github.io/renderformer/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44148524 Oniux: Kernel-level Tor isolation for any Linux app https://blog.torproject.org/introducing-oniux-tor-isolation-using-linux-namespaces/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44146830 YOLO-World: Real-Time Open-Vocabulary Object Detection https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.17270 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44146858 Show HN: Patio – Rent tools, learn DIY, reduce waste https://patio.so https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44147803 CCD co-inventor George E. Smith dies at 95 https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/science/george-e-smith-dead.html https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44146619 New adaptive optics shows details of our star's atmosphere https://nso.edu/press-release/new-adaptive-optics-shows-stunning-details-of-our-stars-atmosphere/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44147573 Father Ted Kilnettle Shrine Tape Dispenser https://stephencoyle.net/kilnettle https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44148853…

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

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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/anthropic-amodei-ai-jobs-nightcap https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44136117 Systems Correctness Practices at Amazon Web Services https://cacm.acm.org/practice/systems-correctness-practices-at-amazon-web-services/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44135638 Microsandbox: Virtual Machines that feel and perform like containers https://github.com/microsandbox/microsandbox https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44135977 Beating Google's kernelCTF PoW using AVX512 https://anemato.de/blog/kctf-vdf https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44137715 Surprisingly fast AI-generated kernels we didn't mean to publish yet https://crfm.stanford.edu/2025/05/28/fast-kernels.html https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44139454 Silicon Valley finally has a big electronics retailer again: Micro Center opens https://www.microcenter.com/site/mc-news/article/micro-center-santa-clara-photos.aspx https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44140378 Valkey Turns One: Community fork of Redis https://www.gomomento.com/blog/valkey-turns-one-how-the-community-fork-left-redis-in-the-dust/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44140379 The Darwin Gödel Machine: AI that improves itself by rewriting its own code https://sakana.ai/dgm/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44135369 Show HN: Icepi Zero – The FPGA Raspberry Pi Zero Equivalent https://github.com/cheyao/icepi-zero https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44115853…

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

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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=44128322 Show HN: I wrote a modern Command Line Handbook https://commandline.stribny.name/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44126612 The radix 2^51 trick (2017) https://www.chosenplaintext.ca/articles/radix-2-51-trick.html https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44132673 I'm starting a social club to solve the male loneliness epidemic https://wave3.social https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44131513 Buttplug MCP https://github.com/ConAcademy/buttplug-mcp https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44133706 Practical SDR: Getting started with software-defined radio https://nostarch.com/practical-sdr https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44131984 Why is everybody knitting chickens? https://ironicsans.ghost.io/why-is-everybody-knitting-chickens/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44108139 Making C and Python Talk to Each Other https://leetarxiv.substack.com/p/making-c-and-python-talk-to-each https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44105746…

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

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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 promise of URLs that last forever https://xania.org/202505/compiler-explorer-urls-forever https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44117722 Long live American Science and Surplus https://milwaukeerecord.com/city-life/long-live-american-science-surplus-which-needs-your-help/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44120507 Compiling a neural net to C for a speedup https://slightknack.dev/blog/difflogic/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44118373 Show HN: Porting Terraria and Celeste to WebAssembly https://velzie.rip/blog/celeste-wasm https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44101175 A toy RTOS inside Super Mario Bros. using emulator save states https://prettygoodblog.com/p/what-threads-are-part-2 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44120241 Show HN: Typed-FFmpeg 3.0–Typed Interface to FFmpeg and Visual Filter Editor https://github.com/livingbio/typed-ffmpeg https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44123098 Visualize and debug Rust programs with a new lens https://firedbg.sea-ql.org/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44086429 Show HN: Tesseral – Open-Source Auth https://github.com/tesseral-labs/tesseral https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44117059…

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

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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 can run tools now, from Python code or plugins https://simonwillison.net/2025/May/27/llm-tools/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44110584 Show HN: Lazy Tetris https://lazytetris.com/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44103839 Pyrefly vs. Ty: Comparing Python's two new Rust-based type checkers https://blog.edward-li.com/tech/comparing-pyrefly-vs-ty/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44107655 BGP handling bug causes widespread internet routing instability https://blog.benjojo.co.uk/post/bgp-attr-40-junos-arista-session-reset-incident https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44105796 Show HN: AutoThink – Boosts local LLM performance with adaptive reasoning https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44112326 LumoSQL https://lumosql.org/src/lumosql/doc/trunk/README.md https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44105619 The Level Design Book https://book.leveldesignbook.com https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44086973 The Ingredients of a Productive Monorepo https://blog.swgillespie.me/posts/monorepo-ingredients/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44086917…

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

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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.ycombinator.com/item?id=44101349 A new class of materials that can passively harvest water from air https://blog.seas.upenn.edu/penn-engineers-discover-a-new-class-of-materials-that-passively-harvest-water-from-air/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44097144 TIL: timeout in Bash scripts https://heitorpb.github.io/bla/timeout/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44096395 Lossless video compression using Bloom filters https://github.com/ross39/new_bloom_filter_repo/blob/main/README.md https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44100179 Show HN: PgDog – Shard Postgres without extensions https://github.com/pgdogdev/pgdog https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44099187 Trying to teach in the age of the AI homework machine https://www.solarshades.club/p/dispatch-from-the-trenches-of-the https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44100677 GitHub MCP exploited: Accessing private repositories via MCP https://invariantlabs.ai/blog/mcp-github-vulnerability https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44097390 TSMC bets on unorthodox optical tech https://spectrum.ieee.org/microled-optical-chiplet https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44099407…

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

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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 Society University – Path to a free self-taught education in CS https://github.com/ossu/computer-science https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44089150 Google Shared My Phone Number https://danq.me/2025/05/21/google-shared-my-phone-number/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44094270 Lottie is an open format for animated vector graphics https://lottie.github.io/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44088216 Ask HN: What are you working on? (May 2025) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44090387 Plwm – An X11 window manager written in Prolog https://github.com/Seeker04/plwm https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44089424 Ten years of JSON Web Token and preparing for the future https://self-issued.info/?p=2708 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44092102 Design Pressure: The Invisible Hand That Shapes Your Code https://hynek.me/talks/design-pressure/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44087844 Writing your own CUPS printer driver in 100 lines of Python (2018) https://behind.pretix.eu/2018/01/20/cups-driver/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44088682…

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

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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.ycombinator.com/item?id=44083467 Scientific conferences are leaving the US amid border fears https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-01636-5 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44084017 Show HN: Rotary Phone Dial Linux Kernel Driver https://gitlab.com/sephalon/rotary_dial_kmod https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44080803 Good Writing https://paulgraham.com/goodwriting.html https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44081586 Tachy0n: The Last 0day Jailbreak https://blog.siguza.net/tachy0n/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44083388 The Xenon Death Flash: How a Camera Nearly Killed the Raspberry Pi 2 https://magnus919.com/2025/05/the-xenon-death-flash-how-a-camera-nearly-killed-the-raspberry-pi-2/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44080533 Hong Kong's Famous Bamboo Scaffolding Hangs on (For Now) https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/24/world/asia/hongkong-bamboo-scaffolding.html https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44080549 Why old games never die, but new ones do https://pleromanonx86.wordpress.com/2025/05/06/why-old-games-never-die-but-new-ones-do/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44083917 Peer Programming with LLMs, for Senior+ Engineers https://pmbanugo.me/blog/peer-programming-with-llms https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44081081…

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

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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 $432 a month in America https://shagbark.substack.com/p/how-to-live-on-432-a-month-in-america https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44074340 Root for your friends https://josephthacker.com/personal/2025/05/13/root-for-your-friends.html https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44077533 Mermaid: Generation of diagrams like flowcharts or sequence diagrams from text https://github.com/mermaid-js/mermaid https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44049619 Modification of acetaminophen to reduce liver toxicity and enhance drug efficacy https://www.societyforscience.org/regeneron-sts/2025-student-finalists/chloe-lee/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44077850 Why Algebraic Effects? https://antelang.org/blog/why_effects/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44078434 Caesar's Last Breath https://charliesabino.com/caesars-last-breath/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44073185 Show HN: DoubleMemory – more efficient local-first read-it-later app https://doublememory.com https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44075451…

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

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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://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44063248 Improving performance of rav1d video decoder https://ohadravid.github.io/posts/2025-05-rav1d-faster/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44061160 Show HN: Defuddle, an HTML-to-Markdown alternative to Readability https://github.com/kepano/defuddle https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44067409 The Future of Flatpak https://lwn.net/Articles/1020571/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44068400 I Built My Own Audio Player https://nexo.sh/posts/why-i-built-a-native-mp3-player-in-swiftui/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44062227 Fast Allocations in Ruby 3.5 https://railsatscale.com/2025-05-21-fast-allocations-in-ruby-3-5/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44062160 Does Earth have two high-tide bulges on opposite sides? (2014) http://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/121830/does-earth-really-have-two-high-tide-bulges-on-opposite-sides https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44065458 John Carmack talk at Upper Bound 2025 – slides and notes https://twitter.com/ID_AA_Carmack/status/1925710474366034326 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44070042…

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

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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://simonwillison.net/2025/May/21/gemini-diffusion/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44057820 For algorithms, a little memory outweighs a lot of time https://www.quantamagazine.org/for-algorithms-a-little-memory-outweighs-a-lot-of-time-20250521/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44055347 Animated Factorization (2012) http://www.datapointed.net/visualizations/math/factorization/animated-diagrams/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44051958 Collaborative Text Editing Without CRDTs or OT https://mattweidner.com/2025/05/21/text-without-crdts.html https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44053560 LLM function calls don't scale; code orchestration is simpler, more effective https://jngiam.bearblog.dev/mcp-large-data/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44053744 Decibels Are Ridiculous https://lcamtuf.substack.com/p/decibels-are-ridiculous https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44058778 CERN gears up to ship antimatter across Europe https://arstechnica.com/science/2025/05/cern-gears-up-to-ship-antimatter-across-europe/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44033711 An upgraded dev experience in Google AI Studio https://developers.googleblog.com/en/google-ai-studio-native-code-generation-agentic-tools-upgrade/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44054185…

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

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