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Stories from May 4, 2025
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1.I'd rather read the prompt (claytonwramsey.com)
1444 points by claytonwramsey on May 4, 2025 | 839 comments
2.Design for 3D-Printing (rahix.de)
837 points by q3k on May 4, 2025 | 210 comments
3.Gorgeous-GRUB: collection of decent community-made GRUB themes (github.com/jacksaur)
458 points by todsacerdoti on May 3, 2025 | 123 comments
4.An Alabama landline that keeps ringing (oxfordamerican.org)
338 points by bookofjoe on May 4, 2025 | 105 comments
5.What went wrong with wireless USB (oldvcr.blogspot.com)
331 points by goldenskye on May 4, 2025 | 213 comments
6.Oberon Pi (hansotten.com)
207 points by tosh on May 4, 2025 | 46 comments
7.Time saved by AI offset by new work created, study suggests (arstechnica.com)
448 points by amichail on May 3, 2025 | 446 comments
8.In kids, EEG monitoring of consciousness safely reduces anesthetic use (news.mit.edu)
139 points by LorenDB on April 30, 2025 | 85 comments
9.Metagenomics test saves woman's sight after mystery infection (bbc.co.uk)
204 points by neversaydie on April 30, 2025 | 80 comments
10.Dummy's Guide to Modern LLM Sampling (rentry.co)
228 points by nkko on May 4, 2025 | 37 comments
11.Graceful Shutdown in Go: Practical Patterns (victoriametrics.com)
248 points by mkl95 on May 4, 2025 | 60 comments
12.Evidence of controversial Planet 9 uncovered in sky surveys taken 23 years apart (space.com)
242 points by spchampion2 on May 2, 2025 | 250 comments
13.Pascal for Small Machines (hansotten.com)
116 points by ibobev on May 4, 2025 | 24 comments
14.TScale – Distributed training on consumer GPUs (github.com/foreseerr)
130 points by zX41ZdbW on May 4, 2025 | 27 comments
15.Helmdar: 3D Scanning Brooklyn on Rollerblades (owentrueblood.com)
143 points by todsacerdoti on May 4, 2025 | 26 comments
16.Typed Lisp, a Primer (alhassy.com)
140 points by todsacerdoti on May 4, 2025 | 66 comments
17.Why I Am Not Going to Buy a Computer (1987) [pdf] (matthewjbrown.net)
201 points by bookofjoe on May 3, 2025 | 143 comments
18.Brian Eno's Theory of Democracy (programmablemutter.com)
176 points by akkartik on May 4, 2025 | 244 comments
19.Google Gemini has the worst LLM API (venki.dev)
203 points by indigodaddy on May 3, 2025 | 188 comments
20.Minimal Linux Bootloader (2018) (githubusercontent.com)
88 points by 1vuio0pswjnm7 on May 4, 2025 | 27 comments
21.A Texan who built an empire of ecstasy (texasmonthly.com)
144 points by wallflower on May 4, 2025 | 156 comments
22.Show HN: I taught AI to commentate Pong in real time (github.com/pncnmnp)
207 points by pncnmnp on May 2, 2025 | 52 comments
23.I built a pixel art editor after playing Octopath Traveler II
115 points by Kobayashiii on May 2, 2025 | 48 comments
24.The complicated business of electing a Doge (theballotboy.com)
91 points by dr_dshiv on May 4, 2025 | 47 comments
25.DotnetSnes: Library allowing to use C# to create SNES ROMs (github.com/kalldrexx)
68 points by ingve on May 2, 2025 | 17 comments
26.Elvish – Scripting language and interactive shell (github.com/elves)
80 points by kartikarti on April 30, 2025 | 60 comments
27.A Survey of AI Agent Protocols (arxiv.org)
91 points by distalx on May 4, 2025 | 63 comments
28.Programmers Guide to the AMIBIOS (1993) [pdf] (bitsavers.org)
69 points by 1vuio0pswjnm7 on May 4, 2025 | 18 comments
29.Orders of Infinity (terrytao.wordpress.com)
82 points by matt_d on May 4, 2025 | 15 comments
30.A PostgreSQL planner semi-join gotcha with CTE, LIMIT, and RETURNING (shayon.dev)
57 points by namanyayg on May 4, 2025 | 50 comments

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