Hacker News on Sunday, 11 May 2025

Plain Vanilla Web(plainvanillaweb.com)

1335 points by andrewrn 1 year ago | 613 comments

Plain Vanilla is an explainer site on building websites and web apps with only HTML, CSS, JavaScript and web standards, without build tools or frameworks.

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

490 points by MrBruh 1 year ago | 230 comments

A blog post describing a one-click remote code execution vulnerability found in ASUS's preinstalled DriverHub driver software.

Leaving Google(airs.com)

484 points by todsacerdoti 1 year ago | 301 comments

Ian Lance Taylor's blog post announcing he has left Google after 19 years, reflecting on his work on the Go programming language since 2008.

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

407 points by rntn 1 year ago | 710 comments

InsideEVs feature on how car companies are spending billions on in-house software efforts, with most struggling and some faring better than others.

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

325 points by toxi360 1 year ago | 181 comments

GitHub repository for a lightweight native Windows todo application written in pure C using the Win32 API, with tray support and MIT license.

Why Bell Labs Worked(1517.substack.com)

292 points by areoform 1 year ago | 199 comments

Air Traffic Control(computer.rip)

242 points by 1317 1 year ago | 106 comments

High-school shop students attract skilled-trades job offers(wsj.com)

238 points by lxm 1 year ago | 403 comments

Scraperr – A Self Hosted Webscraper(github.com)

232 points by jpyles 1 year ago | 78 comments

Title of work deciphered in sealed Herculaneum scroll via digital unwrapping(finebooksmagazine.com)

227 points by namanyayg 1 year ago | 111 comments

In 2025, venture capital can't pretend everything is fine any more(pivot-to-ai.com)

214 points by namanyayg 1 year ago | 167 comments

Klarna changes its AI tune and again recruits humans for customer service(customerexperiencedive.com)

210 points by elsewhen 1 year ago | 84 comments

The Epochalypse Project(epochalypse-project.org)

188 points by maxeda 1 year ago | 81 comments

Avoiding AI is hard – but our freedom to opt out must be protected(theconversation.com)

185 points by gnabgib 1 year ago | 107 comments

Build iOS Apps on Linux and Windows(forums.swift.org)

178 points by plurby 1 year ago | 27 comments

Dotless Domains(lab.avl.la)

161 points by wibbily 1 year ago | 129 comments

LSP client in Clojure in 200 lines of code(vlaaad.github.io)

153 points by vlaaad 1 year ago | 23 comments

DNS piracy blocking orders: Google, Cloudflare, and OpenDNS respond differently(torrentfreak.com)

144 points by DanAtC 1 year ago | 130 comments

Burrito Now, Pay Later(enterprisevalue.substack.com)

143 points by gwintrob 1 year ago | 245 comments

Fan Service(flak.tedunangst.com)

133 points by todsacerdoti 1 year ago | 29 comments

I learned Snobol and then wrote a toy Forth(ratfactor.com)

131 points by ingve 1 year ago | 36 comments

Why are coffee stains darker at the edges?(why.is)

125 points by michalpleban 1 year ago | 44 comments

Insurers launch cover for losses caused by AI chatbot errors(ft.com)

117 points by jmacd 1 year ago | 44 comments

ToyDB rewritten: a distributed SQL database in Rust, for education(github.com)

109 points by erikgrinaker 1 year ago | 13 comments

I hacked my clock to control my focus(paepper.com)

101 points by rcarmo 1 year ago | 54 comments

An online exhibition of pretty software bugs(glitchgallery.org)

98 points by tobr 1 year ago | 4 comments

JEP 515: Ahead-of-Time Method Profiling(openjdk.org)

90 points by cempaka 1 year ago | 8 comments

2024 sea level 'report cards' map futures of U.S. coastal communities(news.wm.edu)

85 points by gnabgib 1 year ago | 77 comments

A Rust Documentation Ecosystem Review(harudagondi.space)

85 points by hyperbrainer 1 year ago | 11 comments

Gonzalo Guerrero(en.wikipedia.org)

85 points by akkartik 1 year ago | 25 comments

Mipmap selection in too much detail(pema.dev)

81 points by luu 1 year ago | 21 comments

Show HN: I’ve built an IoT device to let my family know when I’m in a meeting(nullonerror.org)

69 points by delduca 1 year ago | 44 comments

Show HN: GlassFlow – OSS streaming dedup and joins from Kafka to ClickHouse(github.com)

67 points by super_ar 1 year ago | 27 comments

Show HN: I’m 16 years old and working on my first startup, a study app(notiv.app)

64 points by WilliamCranna 1 year ago | 47 comments

Applications of Classical Physics(pmaweb.caltech.edu)

63 points by nill0 1 year ago | 24 comments

Absolute Zero: Reinforced Self-Play Reasoning with Zero Data(arxiv.org)

63 points by leodriesch 1 year ago | 15 comments

Getting Started with Celtic Coins – Crude and Barbarous, or Just Different?(collectingancientcoins.co.uk)

57 points by jstrieb 1 year ago | 12 comments

Booting the RP2350 from UART(pfister.dev)

57 points by hugolundin 1 year ago | 6 comments

Why not object capability languages?(blog.plan99.net)

57 points by mike_hearn 1 year ago | 21 comments

A Rust API Inspired by Python, Powered by Serde(ohadravid.github.io)

49 points by lukastyrychtr 1 year ago | 20 comments

Internet Scrabble Club (2002-)(isc.ro)

46 points by indigodaddy 1 year ago | 18 comments

NetBSD 10.x Kernel Math_emulation(mezzantrop.wordpress.com)

46 points by jaypatelani 1 year ago | 3 comments

On thinkers and doers (2022)(strangeloopcanon.com)

45 points by andrewrn 1 year ago | 30 comments

The surgeon who used F1 pitstop techniques to save lives of babies(thetimes.com)

44 points by sunray2 1 year ago | 6 comments

An $18M grant would have drastically reduced food waste. Then the EPA cut it(grist.org)

41 points by rntn 1 year ago | 16 comments

Doom on the Oldest Digital Computer in America [video](youtube.com)

39 points by zdw 1 year ago | 7 comments

Zig, the Ideal C Replacement Or?(bitshifters.cc)

38 points by ksec 1 year ago | 38 comments

Breaking the Sound Barrier Part I: Fuzzing CoreAudio with Mach Messages(googleprojectzero.blogspot.com)

34 points by MajesticHobo2 1 year ago | 0 comments

Tufts graduate student Rümeysa Öztürk released from immigration detention(npr.org)

33 points by colinprince 1 year ago | 5 comments

Ask HN: What will tech employment look like in 10 years?

29 points by ipnon 1 year ago | 37 comments

A first successful factorization of RSA-2048 integer by D-Wave quantum computer(sciopen.com)

25 points by popol12 1 year ago | 9 comments

A visual history of the safety pin(museumofeverydaylife.org)

25 points by andsoitis 1 year ago | 5 comments

What is it like to be a thermostat? (1996)(organism.earth)

25 points by theletterf 1 year ago | 36 comments

Elizabeth Holmes's lover raises millions for blood-testing startup(theguardian.com)

22 points by elorm 1 year ago | 18 comments

Designing Cities for Families(bloomberg.com)

21 points by toomuchtodo 1 year ago | 36 comments

Clearly Incorrect(quarter--mile.com)

20 points by surprisetalk 1 year ago | 11 comments

The overlooked masterpiece full of coded messages about World War One(bbc.com)

18 points by rmason 1 year ago | 4 comments

Rust Devs Think We're Hopeless; Let's Prove Them Wrong (With C++ Memory Leaks)(babaei.net)

18 points by zdw 1 year ago | 3 comments

Backdoor found in popular ecommerce components(sansec.io)

15 points by mooreds 1 year ago | 3 comments

Sequencing for Value(engineering.blueberrypediatrics.blog)

13 points by kierangill 1 year ago | 2 comments