Hacker News on Friday, 16 May 2025

Thoughts on thinking(dcurt.is)

588 points by bradgessler 1 year ago | 367 comments

Dustin Curtis's blog essay reflecting on how AI and LLMs have made his own writing, coding, and creative thinking feel pointless.

A Research Preview of Codex(openai.com)

462 points by meetpateltech 1 year ago | 392 comments

OpenAI announcement introducing Codex, a cloud-based software engineering agent powered by codex-1 that runs many coding tasks in parallel for ChatGPT users.

Getting AI to write good SQL(cloud.google.com)

459 points by richards 1 year ago | 311 comments

Google Cloud blog post explaining techniques Google uses to improve Gemini's generation of SQL from natural language (text-to-SQL).

Ground control to Major Trial(virtualize.sh)

442 points by plam503711 1 year ago | 170 comments

Blog post from Vates/XCP-ng describing a $130M aerospace company repeatedly abusing Xen Orchestra free trials instead of building from source with git pull.

MIT asks arXiv to withdraw preprint of paper on AI and scientific discovery(economics.mit.edu)

351 points by carabiner 1 year ago | 176 comments

MIT Economics statement announcing it asked arXiv and the QJE to withdraw a preprint on AI, scientific discovery, and product innovation after an internal integrity review.

Ollama's new engine for multimodal models(ollama.com)

331 points by LorenDB 1 year ago | 73 comments

Ollama blog post from May 15, 2025 announcing a new engine for running multimodal models locally.

BuyMeACoffee silently dropped support for many countries (2024)(zverok.space)

311 points by beeburrt 1 year ago | 241 comments

The first year of free-threaded Python(labs.quansight.org)

275 points by rbanffy 1 year ago | 271 comments

Show HN: KVSplit – Run 2-3x longer contexts on Apple Silicon(github.com)

259 points by dipampaul17 1 year ago | 39 comments

Run GitHub Actions locally(github.com)

258 points by flashblaze 1 year ago | 109 comments

After months of coding with LLMs, I'm going back to using my brain(albertofortin.com)

242 points by a7fort 1 year ago | 147 comments

Sci-Net(sci-hub.se)

238 points by greyface- 1 year ago | 105 comments

Show HN: Visual flow-based programming for Erlang, inspired by Node-RED(github.com)

235 points by Towaway69 1 year ago | 97 comments

I'm Peter Roberts, immigration attorney, who does work for YC and startups. AMA

234 points by proberts 1 year ago | 424 comments

Java at 30: Interview with James Gosling(thenewstack.io)

219 points by chhum 1 year ago | 311 comments

ClojureScript 1.12.42(clojurescript.org)

189 points by Borkdude 1 year ago | 38 comments

X X^t can be faster(arxiv.org)

188 points by robinhouston 1 year ago | 57 comments

The Awful German Language (1880)(faculty.georgetown.edu)

174 points by nalinidash 1 year ago | 418 comments

Remarks on AI from NZ(nealstephenson.substack.com)

166 points by zdw 1 year ago | 92 comments

Moody’s strips U.S. of triple-A credit rating(ft.com)

161 points by Anon84 1 year ago | 88 comments

Evolution of Rust Compiler Errors(kobzol.github.io)

131 points by ingve 1 year ago | 29 comments

Ollama violating llama.cpp license for over a year(github.com)

129 points by Jabrov 1 year ago | 42 comments

The average workday increased during the pandemic’s early weeks (2020)(library.hbs.edu)

104 points by robtherobber 1 year ago | 100 comments

Grok's white genocide fixation caused by 'unauthorized modification'(theverge.com)

102 points by doener 1 year ago | 59 comments

Leeks and Leaks(daniel.haxx.se)

100 points by mrmanner 1 year ago | 10 comments

Will AI systems perform poorly due to AI-generated material in training data?(cacm.acm.org)

92 points by pseudolus 1 year ago | 103 comments

Show HN: A platform to find tech conferences, discounts, and ticket giveaways(tech.tickets)

87 points by danthebaker 1 year ago | 25 comments

I was a Theranos whistleblower. Here's what I think Elizabeth Holmes is up to(statnews.com)

84 points by iancmceachern 1 year ago | 43 comments

Cracked – Method chaining/CSS-style selector web audio library(github.com)

82 points by stephenhandley 1 year ago | 22 comments

British naval dominance during the age of sail(lesswrong.com)

81 points by surprisetalk 1 year ago | 65 comments

Comparing Parallel Functional Array Languages: Programming and Performance(arxiv.org)

80 points by vok 1 year ago | 15 comments

Ed Smylie, Who Saved the Apollo 13 Crew with Duct Tape, Dies at 95(nytimes.com)

79 points by sohkamyung 1 year ago | 26 comments

Apple Blocks Fortnite's Return to iOS App Store, Epic Claims(macrumors.com)

77 points by tosh 1 year ago | 51 comments

Coinbase 8K SEC filing for breach(sec.gov)

75 points by weinzierl 1 year ago | 35 comments

Show HN: SQL-tString a t-string SQL builder in Python(github.com)

70 points by pgjones 1 year ago | 30 comments

Beyond Text: On-Demand UI Generation for Better Conversational Experiences(blog.fka.dev)

64 points by fka 1 year ago | 35 comments

The Magic Hours: The Films and Hidden Life of Terrence Malick(lrb.co.uk)

64 points by mitchbob 1 year ago | 35 comments

Show HN: Rv, a Package Manager for R(github.com)

61 points by Keats 1 year ago | 28 comments

Meta Battles an 'Epidemic of Scams' as Criminals Flood Instagram and Facebook(wsj.com)

59 points by erehweb 1 year ago | 30 comments

Rivers(futilitycloset.com)

57 points by surprisetalk 1 year ago | 5 comments

Show HN: Workflow Use – Deterministic, self-healing browser automation (RPA 2.0)(github.com)

53 points by gregpr07 1 year ago | 13 comments

The Problem with Teens Isn't Smartphones–It's Their Families(grimoiremanor.substack.com)

51 points by illinx 1 year ago | 22 comments

Font Activations: A Note on the Type(robhorning.substack.com)

48 points by prismatic 1 year ago | 8 comments

Letsencrypt will kill SMTP server auth following Chrome CA policy change(social.wildeboer.net)

46 points by Aissen 1 year ago | 37 comments

Show HN: Solidis – Tiny TS Redis client, no deps, for serverless(github.com)

44 points by jayl-e-e 1 year ago | 5 comments

The truth behind the accuracy of weather forecasts(abc.net.au)

44 points by Brajeshwar 1 year ago | 32 comments

Dominion Energy's NEM 2.0 Proposal: What It Means for Solar in Virginia(virtuesolar.com)

43 points by Vsolar 1 year ago | 39 comments

"Goodwill", key member of the SoCal Python Community has passed away(socalpython.org)

39 points by rdegges 1 year ago | 3 comments

New 'Superdiffusion' Proof Probes the Mysterious Math of Turbulence(quantamagazine.org)

37 points by rbanffy 1 year ago | 6 comments

Methodical Banality(aeon.co)

33 points by CharlesW 1 year ago | 11 comments

The fastest Postgres inserts(docs.hatchet.run)

32 points by abelanger 1 year ago | 15 comments

Compressed music might be harmful to the ears(economist.com)

31 points by doener 1 year ago | 35 comments

Stax Museum Bob Abrahamian Collection(bobacollection.staxmuseum.org)

29 points by mellosouls 1 year ago | 6 comments

New stem cell model sheds light on human amniotic sac development(crick.ac.uk)

28 points by gmays 1 year ago | 1 comments

Prompts for our Grok chat assistant and grok bot on X(github.com)

28 points by taubek 1 year ago | 20 comments

The Connoisseur of Desire(nybooks.com)

27 points by samclemens 1 year ago | 0 comments

The Journal of Imaginary Research(journalofimaginaryresearch.home.blog)

27 points by cenazoic 1 year ago | 2 comments

ChatGPT can accurately estimate Body Fat Percentage from photos(annaleptikon.substack.com)

27 points by Luc 1 year ago | 3 comments

WebGL Gray-Scott Explorer (2012)(mrob.com)

25 points by joebig 1 year ago | 2 comments

They Were Identical 'Twinnies' Who Charmed Orwell, Camus and More(nytimes.com)

23 points by lermontov 1 year ago | 6 comments