Hacker News on Saturday, 10 May 2025

A critical look at MCP(raz.sh)

556 points by ablekh 1 year ago | 304 comments

A blog post on Raz Blog critically examining the Model Context Protocol (MCP), covering its protocol and transport design.

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

475 points by redman25 1 year ago | 104 comments

Documentation page in the llama.cpp GitHub repository describing multimodal (vision) input support via libmtmd and the tools that use it.

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

466 points by andrewrn 1 year ago | 91 comments

Tixy is an interactive web toy where a one-line JavaScript function of time, index, x and y animates a 16x16 grid of dots.

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

402 points by dave1629 1 year ago | 862 comments

PDF of Y Combinator's amicus curiae brief supporting the plaintiffs in the US Department of Justice antitrust case against Google.

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

399 points by jger15 1 year ago | 214 comments

A Substack essay by a wedding painter listing 21 observations about human behavior gathered from watching strangers at events.

Gmail to SQLite(github.com)

302 points by tehlike 1 year ago | 92 comments

RPG in a Box(rpginabox.com)

278 points by skibz 1 year ago | 65 comments

Interferometer Device Sees Text from a Mile Away(physics.aps.org)

243 points by bookofjoe 1 year ago | 61 comments

The Deathbed Fallacy (2018)(hjorthjort.xyz)

240 points by mefengl 1 year ago | 116 comments

For $595, you get what nobody else can give you for twice the price (1982) [pdf](s3data.computerhistory.org)

238 points by indigodaddy 1 year ago | 134 comments

Ash Framework – Model your domain, derive the rest(ash-hq.org)

237 points by lawik 1 year ago | 113 comments

Address of Pope Leo XIV to the College of Cardinals(vatican.va)

224 points by 90s_dev 1 year ago | 156 comments

Sierpiński Triangle? In My Bitwise and?(lcamtuf.substack.com)

204 points by guiambros 1 year ago | 49 comments

Fandom sells gaming media brand Giant Bomb to long-term staff(about.fandom.com)

197 points by minimaxir 1 year ago | 111 comments

LTXVideo 13B AI video generation(ltxv.video)

193 points by zoudong376 1 year ago | 60 comments

Continuous glucose monitors reveal variable glucose responses to the same meals(examine.com)

183 points by Matrixik 1 year ago | 105 comments

Embracer Games Archive is preserving 75000 video games and needs contributions(embracergamesarchive.com)

173 points by draugadrotten 1 year ago | 82 comments

Failed Soviet Venus lander Kosmos 482 crashes to Earth after 53 years in orbit(space.com)

172 points by taubek 1 year ago | 123 comments

Microsoft Teams will soon block screen capture during meetings(bleepingcomputer.com)

160 points by josephcsible 1 year ago | 223 comments

'We Currently Have No Container Ships,' Seattle Port Says(newsweek.com)

156 points by pseudolus 1 year ago | 62 comments

Reverse engineering the 386 processor's prefetch queue circuitry(righto.com)

156 points by todsacerdoti 1 year ago | 46 comments

Slow software for a burning world(bonfirenetworks.org)

138 points by todsacerdoti 1 year ago | 79 comments

Writing N-body gravity simulations code in Python(alvinng4.github.io)

136 points by dargscisyhp 1 year ago | 30 comments

Membrane: Media Framework for Elixir(membrane.stream)

127 points by lawik 1 year ago | 36 comments

A Typical Workday at a Japanese Hardware Tool Store [video](youtube.com)

124 points by Erikun 1 year ago | 53 comments

15 Years of Shader Minification(ctrl-alt-test.fr)

123 points by laurentlb 1 year ago | 22 comments

Comparison of C/POSIX standard library implementations for Linux(etalabs.net)

123 points by smartmic 1 year ago | 42 comments

Show HN: Xenolab – Rasp Pi monitor for my pet carnivourus plants(github.com)

120 points by malux85 1 year ago | 48 comments

The cult of doing business(commonwealmagazine.org)

119 points by Caiero 1 year ago | 90 comments

'It cannot provide nuance': UK experts warn AI therapy chatbots are not safe(theguardian.com)

117 points by distalx 1 year ago | 140 comments

Not a three-year-old chimney sweep (2022)(fakehistoryhunter.net)

116 points by nixass 1 year ago | 65 comments

Sam Altman Wants Your Eyeball(privacyguides.org)

116 points by ChiptuneIsCool 1 year ago | 102 comments

React Three Ecosystem(react-three.org)

111 points by bpierre 1 year ago | 52 comments

Why the Apple II Didn't Support Lowercase Letters (2020)(vintagecomputing.com)

109 points by colinbartlett 1 year ago | 62 comments

Show HN: Code Claude Code(github.com)

103 points by sean_ 1 year ago | 23 comments

EM-LLM: Human-Inspired Episodic Memory for Infinite Context LLMs(github.com)

95 points by jbotz 1 year ago | 10 comments

Intel: Winning and Losing(abortretry.fail)

89 points by rbanffy 1 year ago | 73 comments

The History and Legacy of Visual Basic(retool.com)

87 points by ibobev 1 year ago | 48 comments

Radxa Orion O6 brings Arm to the midrange PC (with caveats)(jeffgeerling.com)

83 points by goranmoomin 1 year ago | 60 comments

Garbage collection of object storage at scale(warpstream.com)

80 points by ko_pivot 1 year ago | 9 comments

Why GADTs matter for performance (2015)(blog.janestreet.com)

73 points by hyperbrainer 1 year ago | 22 comments

Show HN: LoopMix128 – Fast C PRNG (.46ns), 2^128 Period, BigCrush/PractRand Pass(github.com)

64 points by the_othernet 1 year ago | 31 comments

In praise of grobi for auto-configuring X11 monitors(michael.stapelberg.ch)

64 points by secure 1 year ago | 15 comments

Ash (Almquist Shell) Variants(in-ulm.de)

63 points by thefilmore 1 year ago | 3 comments

Coffee for people who don't like coffee(ostwilkens.se)

62 points by ostwilkens 1 year ago | 168 comments

Industry groups are not happy about the imminent demise of Energy Star(insideclimatenews.org)

60 points by Tomte 1 year ago | 51 comments

Europe launches program to lure scientists away from the US(es.wired.com)

60 points by mpweiher 1 year ago | 72 comments

Has anyone coined the term “fast tech” yet?(chaos.social)

58 points by luu 1 year ago | 29 comments

Show HN: Codigo – The Programming Language Repository(codigolangs.com)

56 points by adamjhf 1 year ago | 17 comments

A tool to verify estimates, II: a flexible proof assistant(terrytao.wordpress.com)

55 points by jjgreen 1 year ago | 0 comments

Even Tesla's Insurance Arm Is Getting Wrecked(insideevs.com)

52 points by ryan_j_naughton 1 year ago | 60 comments

Update turns Google Gemini into a prude, breaking apps for trauma survivors(theregister.com)

51 points by Bender 1 year ago | 40 comments

Email Forwarding for Your Domain(mailwip.com)

50 points by codazoda 1 year ago | 37 comments

After 16 years, we're renewing the StackOverflow Brand(meta.stackexchange.com)

41 points by walterbell 1 year ago | 37 comments

Uber Driver app can get location in background without the permissions (How?)(developer.apple.com)

36 points by umrashrf 1 year ago | 3 comments

AI is draining water from areas that need it most(bloomberg.com)

36 points by mraniki 1 year ago | 27 comments

Policy of Transience(chiark.greenend.org.uk)

35 points by pekim 1 year ago | 7 comments

The Fallacy of Techno-Feudalism(petrapalusova.com)

34 points by gasull 1 year ago | 33 comments

Ireland given two months to implement hate speech laws or face action from EU(thejournal.ie)

33 points by like_any_other 1 year ago | 39 comments

Mill as a direct style build tool(mill-build.org)

31 points by lihaoyi 1 year ago | 5 comments