Hacker News on Sunday, 4 May 2025

I'd rather read the prompt(claytonwramsey.com)

1282 points by claytonwramsey 1 year ago | 766 comments

Blog post by Clayton Ramsey arguing that LLM-generated student answers are verbose and empty, and that he would rather read the prompt that produced them.

Design for 3D-Printing(blog.rahix.de)

743 points by q3k 1 year ago | 184 comments

A long blog post collecting tips, tricks, and rules for designing parts that print well on 3D printers.

I decided to pay off a school’s lunch debt(huffpost.com)

438 points by dredmorbius 1 year ago | 551 comments

A HuffPost Personal essay by DJ Bracken about deciding to pay off a school's student lunch debt and what happened afterward.

What went wrong with wireless USB(oldvcr.blogspot.com)

314 points by goldenskye 1 year ago | 194 comments

An Alabama landline that keeps ringing(oxfordamerican.org)

312 points by bookofjoe 1 year ago | 93 comments

On Not Carrying a Camera – Cultivating memories instead of snapshots(hedgehogreview.com)

275 points by pseudolus 1 year ago | 285 comments

Graceful Shutdown in Go: Practical Patterns(victoriametrics.com)

201 points by mkl95 1 year ago | 49 comments

Dummy's Guide to Modern LLM Sampling(rentry.co)

201 points by nkko 1 year ago | 32 comments

Matrix-vector multiplication implemented in off-the-shelf DRAM for Low-Bit LLMs(arxiv.org)

193 points by cpldcpu 1 year ago | 46 comments

Oberon Pi(pascal.hansotten.com)

185 points by tosh 1 year ago | 32 comments

Old Timey Code and Old Timey Mono Fonts(github.com)

167 points by dsevil 1 year ago | 23 comments

Brian Eno's Theory of Democracy(programmablemutter.com)

147 points by akkartik 1 year ago | 125 comments

Show HN: Driverless print server for legacy printers, profit goes to open-source(printserver.ink)

143 points by ValdikSS 1 year ago | 24 comments

Why does Switzerland have so many bunkers?(thedial.world)

141 points by pseudolus 1 year ago | 156 comments

A cycle-accurate IBM PC emulator in your web browser(martypc.net)

139 points by GloriousCow 1 year ago | 20 comments

AI code is legacy code?(text-incubation.com)

133 points by krrishd 1 year ago | 135 comments

Helmdar: 3D Scanning Brooklyn on Rollerblades(owentrueblood.com)

125 points by todsacerdoti 1 year ago | 22 comments

TScale – Distributed training on consumer GPUs(github.com)

124 points by zX41ZdbW 1 year ago | 27 comments

Ask HN: Hackathons feel fake now

118 points by sepidy 1 year ago | 88 comments

A Texan who built an empire of ecstasy(texasmonthly.com)

115 points by wallflower 1 year ago | 111 comments

Typed Lisp, a Primer(alhassy.com)

115 points by todsacerdoti 1 year ago | 42 comments

How three years at McKinsey shaped my second startup(blog.zactownsend.com)

115 points by zt 1 year ago | 140 comments

WebMonkeys: parallel GPU programming in JavaScript (2016)(github.com)

111 points by surprisetalk 1 year ago | 19 comments

People are losing loved ones to AI-fueled spiritual fantasies(rollingstone.com)

108 points by wzm 1 year ago | 88 comments

Pascal for Small Machines(pascal.hansotten.com)

104 points by ibobev 1 year ago | 18 comments

Nevermind, an album on major chords(farina00.github.io)

93 points by lozzo 1 year ago | 90 comments

Perfect Random Floating-Point Numbers(specbranch.com)

91 points by pclmulqdq 1 year ago | 50 comments

Load-Store Conflicts(zeux.io)

86 points by ashvardanian 1 year ago | 5 comments

A Survey of AI Agent Protocols(arxiv.org)

75 points by distalx 1 year ago | 36 comments

The complicated business of electing a Doge(theballotboy.com)

75 points by dr_dshiv 1 year ago | 39 comments

Minimal Linux Bootloader (2018)(raw.githubusercontent.com)

72 points by 1vuio0pswjnm7 1 year ago | 18 comments

Orders of Infinity(terrytao.wordpress.com)

70 points by matt_d 1 year ago | 6 comments

DuoBook: Generate bilingual stories to learn any language(duobook.co)

70 points by celltalk 1 year ago | 52 comments

Polycompiler: Merge Python and JavaScript code into one file that runs in both(github.com)

61 points by nickoates 1 year ago | 14 comments

Show HN: Journelly for iOS: like tweeting but for your eyes only (in plain text)(xenodium.com)

60 points by xenodium 1 year ago | 36 comments

'Bizarro World'(archive.boston.com)

57 points by Timothee 1 year ago | 7 comments

V.S. Naipaul: The Grief and the Glory(granta.com)

56 points by paulpauper 1 year ago | 9 comments

Programmers Guide to the AMIBIOS (1993) [pdf](bitsavers.org)

55 points by 1vuio0pswjnm7 1 year ago | 15 comments

Lilith and Modula-2(astrobe.com)

54 points by kristianp 1 year ago | 7 comments

Tippy Coco: A Free, Open-Source Game Inspired by Slime Volleyball(tippycoco.com)

50 points by stefankuehnel 1 year ago | 12 comments

A PostgreSQL planner semi-join gotcha with CTE, LIMIT, and RETURNING(shayon.dev)

49 points by namanyayg 1 year ago | 38 comments

El Cono: The mysterious sacred 'pyramid' hidden deep in the Amazon rainforest(livescience.com)

49 points by Brajeshwar 1 year ago | 13 comments

Why Flatpak apps use so much disk space on Linux(ostechnix.com)

48 points by dxs 1 year ago | 83 comments

Ancient DNA from the green Sahara reveals ancestral North African lineage(nature.com)

47 points by gnabgib 1 year ago | 5 comments

Predictions from the METR AI scaling graph are based on a flawed premise(garymarcus.substack.com)

43 points by nsoonhui 1 year ago | 20 comments

An appeal to companies doing AI(soatok.blog)

42 points by todsacerdoti 1 year ago | 26 comments

Switch bouncing reference traces for a variety of different switches(github.com)

41 points by luu 1 year ago | 19 comments

How Riot Games is fighting the war against video game hackers(techcrunch.com)

37 points by badmonster 1 year ago | 81 comments

Show HN: EZ-TRAK Satellite Hand Tracking Suite(github.com)

37 points by benbojangles 1 year ago | 7 comments

Stringly Typed(stefanjudis.com)

33 points by todsacerdoti 1 year ago | 49 comments

Show HN: 100.st – Dev utilities I built for format conversions and encoding(100.st)

32 points by abdelbkk 1 year ago | 14 comments

'Dangerous nonsense': AI-authored books about ADHD for sale on Amazon(theguardian.com)

30 points by n1b0m 1 year ago | 6 comments

Feather: Feather: A web framework that skips Rust's async boilerplate and jus(github.com)

30 points by todsacerdoti 1 year ago | 37 comments

Critical Program Reading (1975) [video](youtube.com)

27 points by blahaj 1 year ago | 3 comments

Bell's 1881 Metal detector(scitechantiques.com)

27 points by joebig 1 year ago | 0 comments

LLMs as Unbiased Oracles(jazzberry.ai)

25 points by MarcoDewey 1 year ago | 19 comments

The World Of dBASE (1984) [video](youtube.com)

23 points by TMWNN 1 year ago | 5 comments

Censoring Social Media(tbray.org)

22 points by DanAtC 1 year ago | 0 comments

The New Control Society(thenewatlantis.com)

16 points by Michelangelo11 1 year ago | 7 comments

The Tragic Story Behind the Infamous '4 Children for Sale' Photograph (2023)(allthatsinteresting.com)

12 points by kolanos 1 year ago | 1 comments