Hacker News on Friday, 30 May 2025

Photos taken inside musical instruments(dpreview.com)

981 points by worik 1 year ago | 50 comments

DPReview article on how a photographer uses probe lenses and focus stacking to capture images from inside musical instruments.

The ‘white-collar bloodbath’ is all part of the AI hype machine(cnn.com)

638 points by lwo32k 1 year ago | 1120 comments

CNN Business analysis piece arguing that Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei's warning of a 'white-collar bloodbath' from AI is part of the AI hype machine.

The radix 2^51 trick (2017)(chosenplaintext.ca)

398 points by blobcode 1 year ago | 78 comments

Blog post explaining the radix 2^51 representation trick for faster multi-precision addition and subtraction on modern CPUs by deferring carry propagation.

Surprisingly fast AI-generated kernels we didn't mean to publish yet(crfm.stanford.edu)

387 points by mfiguiere 1 year ago | 182 comments

Stanford CRFM blog post by Anne Ouyang, Azalia Mirhoseini and Percy Liang describing surprisingly fast AI-generated GPU kernels they discovered.

Microsandbox: Virtual Machines that feel and perform like containers(github.com)

360 points by makeboss 1 year ago | 170 comments

GitHub repository for Microsandbox, a self-hosted platform for securely executing untrusted user or AI-generated code in lightweight virtual machines.

Systems Correctness Practices at Amazon Web Services(cacm.acm.org)

345 points by tanelpoder 1 year ago | 127 comments

Communications of the ACM practice article by Marc Brooker and Ankush Desai on how AWS uses formal and semi-formal methods to ensure systems correctness.

Beating Google's kernelCTF PoW using AVX512(anemato.de)

320 points by anematode 1 year ago | 92 comments

Blog post describing how the author used AVX512IFMA to speed up Google's kernelCTF proof-of-work and win a $51k exploit submission race.

Silicon Valley finally has a big electronics retailer again: Micro Center opens(microcenter.com)

247 points by modeless 1 year ago | 126 comments

Practical SDR: Getting started with software-defined radio(nostarch.com)

240 points by teleforce 1 year ago | 70 comments

Valkey Turns One: Community fork of Redis(gomomento.com)

219 points by cebert 1 year ago | 92 comments

The Darwin Gödel Machine: AI that improves itself by rewriting its own code(sakana.ai)

207 points by birriel 1 year ago | 184 comments

Buttplug MCP(github.com)

204 points by surrTurr 1 year ago | 115 comments

C++ to Rust Phrasebook(cel.cs.brown.edu)

184 points by wcrichton 1 year ago | 59 comments

Ask HN: What is the best LLM for consumer grade hardware?

175 points by VladVladikoff 1 year ago | 137 comments

Mary Meeker's first Trends report since 2019, focused on AI(bondcap.com)

154 points by kjhughes 1 year ago | 70 comments

U.S. sanctions cloud provider 'Funnull' as top source of 'pig butchering' scams(krebsonsecurity.com)

151 points by todsacerdoti 1 year ago | 192 comments

Jerry Lewis's “The Day the Clown Cried” discovered in Sweden after 53 years(thenationalnews.com)

149 points by danso 1 year ago | 69 comments

Triangle splatting: radiance fields represented by triangles(trianglesplatting.github.io)

147 points by ath92 1 year ago | 64 comments

Cap: Lightweight, modern open-source CAPTCHA alternative using proof-of-work(capjs.js.org)

143 points by tiagorangel 1 year ago | 110 comments

AI is not our future – Procreate(procreate.com)

140 points by alexharri 1 year ago | 54 comments

Every 5x5 Nonogram(pixelogic.app)

131 points by eieio 1 year ago | 63 comments

De Bruijn notation, and why it's useful(blueberrywren.dev)

125 points by blueberry87 1 year ago | 35 comments

What's working for YC companies since the AI boom(jamesin.substack.com)

122 points by jseidel 1 year ago | 83 comments

Radio Astronomy Software Defined Radio (Rasdr)(radio-astronomy.org)

122 points by zeristor 1 year ago | 7 comments

Show HN: MCP Server SDK in Bash(github.com)

116 points by muthuishere 1 year ago | 31 comments

MinIO Removes Web UI Features from Community Version, Pushes Users to Paid Plans(biggo.com)

114 points by jordigh 1 year ago | 53 comments

RFK Jr's 'Maha' report found to contain citations to nonexistent studies(theguardian.com)

105 points by KnuthIsGod 1 year ago | 41 comments

Show HN: W++ – A Python-style scripting language for .NET with NuGet support(github.com)

90 points by sinisterMage 1 year ago | 49 comments

Toxic Origins, Toxic Decisions: Biases in CEO Selection(papers.ssrn.com)

82 points by marojejian 1 year ago | 52 comments

Adam Riess and the Hubble tension(theatlantic.com)

81 points by samizdis 1 year ago | 67 comments

OpenBao Namespaces(openbao.org)

74 points by gslin 1 year ago | 26 comments

The Surveilled Student (2021)(chronicle.com)

74 points by smlacy 1 year ago | 35 comments

When will M&S take online orders again?(moneyweek.com)

71 points by fredley 1 year ago | 94 comments

Tokenization for language modeling: BPE vs. Unigram Language Modeling (2020)(ndingwall.github.io)

65 points by phewlink 1 year ago | 19 comments

Bridged Indexes in OrioleDB: architecture, internals and everyday use?(orioledb.com)

63 points by pella 1 year ago | 10 comments

Show HN: Git-Add–Interactive with Enhancements(github.com)

62 points by xn 1 year ago | 35 comments

Show HN: Donut Browser, a Browser Orchestrator(donutbrowser.com)

61 points by andrewzeno 1 year ago | 28 comments

Show HN: Asdf Overlay – High performance in-game overlay library for Windows(github.com)

60 points by storycraft 1 year ago | 16 comments

Limits to Growth was right about collapse(thenextwavefutures.wordpress.com)

60 points by surprisetalk 1 year ago | 52 comments

The David Lynch Collection(juliensauctions.com)

58 points by Duanemclemore 1 year ago | 54 comments

White House releases health report written by LLM, with hallucinated citations(nytimes.com)

57 points by riffraff 1 year ago | 11 comments

What Happens When AI-Generated Lies Are More Compelling Than the Truth?(behavioralscientist.org)

54 points by the-mitr 1 year ago | 45 comments

Germany eyes 10% digital tax on global tech groups(ft.com)

54 points by saubeidl 1 year ago | 53 comments

How Generative Engine Optimization (GEO) rewrites the rules of search(a16z.com)

52 points by eutropheon 1 year ago | 36 comments

Investigating AI Manipulation in Viral Chinese Paraglider Video(blog.hyperknot.com)

51 points by hyperknot 1 year ago | 34 comments

Player Piano Rolls(omeka-s.library.illinois.edu)

51 points by brudgers 1 year ago | 38 comments

Show HN: templUI – The UI Kit for templ (CLI-based, like shadcn/UI)(templui.io)

48 points by axadrn 1 year ago | 26 comments

Vibe coding is not the same as using an AI assistant(newsletter.oberai.dev)

47 points by adityaoberai1 1 year ago | 20 comments

High vitamin B6 doses over a long period could cause irreversible nerve damage(abc.net.au)

42 points by l8rlump 1 year ago | 38 comments

A Smiling Public Man(salmagundi.skidmore.edu)

39 points by crescit_eundo 1 year ago | 2 comments

How to Do Ambitious Research in the Modern Era [video](youtube.com)

39 points by surprisetalk 1 year ago | 6 comments

Build API integrations with SQL and YAML – no SaaS lock-in, no drag-and-drop UIs(github.com)

38 points by maxgrinev 1 year ago | 18 comments

IRS Direct File(github.com)

36 points by nerevarthelame 1 year ago | 39 comments

Modern C++ – RAII(green7ea.github.io)

34 points by green7ea 1 year ago | 34 comments

I let Claude Code write an entire book(github.com)

34 points by JayD0ubleu 1 year ago | 37 comments

U.S. Woman Dies from Mad Cow-Like Brain Disease That Lay Dormant for 50 Years(gizmodo.com)

32 points by Vaslo 1 year ago | 17 comments

Why do we get earworms?(theneuroscienceofeverydaylife.substack.com)

30 points by lentoutcry 1 year ago | 39 comments

Take9 Won't Improve Cybersecurity(schneier.com)

27 points by MattSayar 1 year ago | 7 comments

How to Automate Software Engineering(mechanize.work)

25 points by Tamaybes 1 year ago | 25 comments

The Gmail app will now create AI summaries(arstechnica.com)

23 points by rurp 1 year ago | 31 comments