Hacker News on Thursday, 29 May 2025

WeatherStar 4000+: Weather Channel Simulator(weatherstar.netbymatt.com)

664 points by adam_gyroscope 1 year ago | 125 comments

WeatherStar 4000+ is a web app that recreates the classic Weather Channel local forecast display using current weather data for a location you enter.

Human coders are still better than LLMs(antirez.com)

526 points by longwave 1 year ago | 604 comments

Blog post by antirez arguing human programmers still outperform LLMs, illustrated by debugging a Redis Vector Sets corruption issue.

FLUX.1 Kontext(bfl.ai)

485 points by minimaxir 1 year ago | 113 comments

Black Forest Labs product page for FLUX.1 Kontext, a model suite for text-and-image-driven image generation and editing.

Show HN: I wrote a modern Command Line Handbook(commandline.stribny.name)

397 points by petr25102018 1 year ago | 107 comments

Landing page for the Command Line Handbook, a 120-page pay-what-you-want PDF ebook on the Linux command line sold via Gumroad.

Show HN: Onlook – Open-source, visual-first Cursor for designers(github.com)

396 points by hoakiet98 1 year ago | 79 comments

GitHub repository for Onlook, an open-source visual editor for building and styling React apps with AI on an infinite canvas, now rewritten to run in the browser.

Gurus of 90s Web Design: Zeldman, Siegel, Nielsen(cybercultural.com)

392 points by panic 1 year ago | 177 comments

A Cybercultural article on three 1990s web design philosophies from David Siegel, Jakob Nielsen, and Jeffrey Zeldman amid the rise of Flash and CSS in 1997.

Run a C# file directly using dotnet run app.cs(devblogs.microsoft.com)

346 points by soheilpro 1 year ago | 287 comments

Microsoft .NET Blog post announcing that .NET 10 lets developers run a single C# file directly with `dotnet run app.cs`, without a project file.

Show HN: Typed-FFmpeg 3.0–Typed Interface to FFmpeg and Visual Filter Editor(github.com)

322 points by lucemia51 1 year ago | 34 comments

GitHub repository for typed-ffmpeg, a Python FFmpeg wrapper with typed filter graph building, plus a visual in-browser playground in v3.0.

Airlines are charging solo passengers higher fares than groups(thriftytraveler.com)

252 points by _tqr3 1 year ago | 390 comments

Learning C3(alloc.dev)

233 points by lerno 1 year ago | 133 comments

I'm starting a social club to solve the male loneliness epidemic(wave3.social)

217 points by nswizzle31 1 year ago | 417 comments

A new generation of Tailscale access controls(tailscale.com)

200 points by ingve 1 year ago | 52 comments

Nova: A JavaScript and WebAssembly engine written in Rust(trynova.dev)

150 points by AbuAssar 1 year ago | 42 comments

When Fine-Tuning Makes Sense: A Developer's Guide(getkiln.ai)

138 points by scosman 1 year ago | 53 comments

Reverse engineering of Linear's sync engine(github.com)

136 points by flashblaze 1 year ago | 25 comments

Oxfordshire clock still keeping village on time after 500 years(bbc.com)

135 points by 1659447091 1 year ago | 71 comments

HeidiSQL Available Also for Linux(heidisql.com)

134 points by Daril 1 year ago | 39 comments

EasyTier – P2P mesh VPN written in Rust using Tokio(easytier.cn)

130 points by wucke13 1 year ago | 41 comments

Edamagit: Magit for VSCode(github.com)

113 points by tosh 1 year ago | 69 comments

Open-sourcing circuit tracing tools(anthropic.com)

113 points by jlaneve 1 year ago | 19 comments

Putting Rigid Bodies to Rest(twitter.com)

112 points by pvg 1 year ago | 10 comments

What works (and doesn't) selling formal methods(galois.com)

110 points by azhenley 1 year ago | 53 comments

I started a little math club in Bangalore(teachyourselfmath.app)

109 points by viveknathani_ 1 year ago | 21 comments

The flip phone web: browsing with the original Opera Mini(spacebar.news)

105 points by protonbob 1 year ago | 63 comments

Simple programming language with offline usable browser IDE(tiki.li)

99 points by chrisjj 1 year ago | 30 comments

Ovld – Efficient and featureful multiple dispatch for Python(github.com)

96 points by breuleux 1 year ago | 41 comments

California has got good at building giant batteries(economist.com)

94 points by chiffre01 1 year ago | 120 comments

Show HN: I made a Zero-config tool to visualize your code(staying.fun)

94 points by lezhu 1 year ago | 35 comments

Google is using AI to censor independent websites like mine(travellemming.com)

91 points by rapnie 1 year ago | 51 comments

Java Virtual Threads Ate My Memory: A Web Crawler's Tale of Speed vs. Memory(dariobalinzo.medium.com)

89 points by dariobalinzo 1 year ago | 36 comments

Nitrogen Triiodide (2016)(fourmilab.ch)

84 points by keepamovin 1 year ago | 43 comments

Untrusted chatbot AI between you & the internet is a disaster waiting to happen(macwright.com)

83 points by panic 1 year ago | 35 comments

RSyncUI – A SwiftUI based macOS GUI for rsync(github.com)

83 points by mickelsen 1 year ago | 24 comments

Copy Excel to Markdown Table (and vice versa)(thisdavej.com)

79 points by thisdavej 1 year ago | 14 comments

ClickHouse raises $350M Series C(clickhouse.com)

77 points by caust1c 1 year ago | 54 comments

Notes on Tunisia(mattlakeman.org)

76 points by returningfory2 1 year ago | 34 comments

A Pokémon battle simulation engine(github.com)

75 points by rickcarlino 1 year ago | 33 comments

A man who sailed round the world with a chicken (2019)(theguardian.com)

70 points by NaOH 1 year ago | 39 comments

The Atomic Airplane(whatisnuclear.com)

68 points by mpweiher 1 year ago | 23 comments

A Song of “Full Self-Driving”(thebulwark.com)

67 points by latexr 1 year ago | 34 comments

The Maid Who Restored Charles II(historytoday.com)

66 points by samclemens 1 year ago | 25 comments

Snake on a Globe(engaging-data.com)

66 points by rishikeshs 1 year ago | 13 comments

Show HN: A new programming language inspired by Go, no LLVM(github.com)

64 points by hualaka 1 year ago | 52 comments

Show HN: A Implementation of Alpha Zero for Chess in MLX(github.com)

62 points by jakobfrick 1 year ago | 9 comments

The Future of Comments Is Lies, I Guess(aphyr.com)

59 points by zdw 1 year ago | 44 comments

I taught my 3-year-old to read like a 9-year-old(theintrinsicperspective.com)

58 points by sebg 1 year ago | 51 comments

Show HN: MCP Defender – OSS AI Firewall for Protecting MCP in Cursor/Claude etc(mcpdefender.com)

46 points by gsundeep 1 year ago | 35 comments

Civil War in 3D: Stereographs from the New-York Historical Society (2015)(nyhistory.org)

43 points by LorenDB 1 year ago | 19 comments

What programmers should know about how CPUs work [video](youtube.com)

38 points by bschne 1 year ago | 2 comments

The Art of the Critic(metropolitanreview.org)

37 points by benbreen 1 year ago | 5 comments

Pure vs. Impure Iterators in Go(jub0bs.com)

37 points by ingve 1 year ago | 13 comments

Nobel Laureate Daron Acemoglu: Don't Believe the AI Hype(project-syndicate.org)

37 points by hannofcart 1 year ago | 16 comments

Gabon longs to cash in on sacred hallucinogenic remedy(phys.org)

35 points by PaulHoule 1 year ago | 32 comments

Net-Negative Cursor(lukasatkinson.de)

35 points by todsacerdoti 1 year ago | 20 comments

Caffeine induces age-dependent brain complexity and criticality during sleep(nature.com)

34 points by gnabgib 1 year ago | 29 comments

Dear diary, today the user asked me if I'm alive(blog.fsck.com)

33 points by obrajesse 1 year ago | 38 comments

The Zach Attack Scratch 'N Solve Puzzle Pack(coincidence.games)

30 points by GauntletWizard 1 year ago | 3 comments

The Headlines Are Evil, and They're Bringing Us Down(writing.kemitchell.com)

30 points by feross 1 year ago | 12 comments

Show HN: I compressed 10k PDFs into a 1.4GB video for LLM memory(github.com)

29 points by saleban1031 1 year ago | 4 comments

Searching for Autograms(curiosityarb.blog)

29 points by abrefeld 1 year ago | 1 comments