The Lost Japanese ROM of the Macintosh Plus

https://www.journaldulapin.com/2025/05/17/the-lost-japanese-rom-of-the-macintosh-plus-which-isnt-lost-anymore/

51•ecliptik•1h ago•12 comments

Coding without a laptop: Two weeks with AR glasses and Linux on Android

https://holdtherobot.com/blog/2025/05/11/linux-on-android-with-ar-glasses/

373•mikenew•3d ago•174 comments

AniSora: Open-source anime video generation model

https://komiko.app/video/AniSora

19•PaulineGar•54m ago•4 comments

FreeBASIC is a free/open source BASIC compiler for Windows DOS and Linux

https://freebasic.net/

29•90s_dev•2h ago•6 comments

Mystical

https://suberic.net/~dmm/projects/mystical/README.html

141•mmphosis•6h ago•15 comments

Directory of MCP Servers

https://github.com/chatmcp/mcpso

79•saikatsg•5h ago•24 comments

Dead Stars Don't Radiate

https://johncarlosbaez.wordpress.com/2025/05/17/dead-stars-dont-radiate-and-shrink/

157•thechao•6h ago•70 comments

Proton threatens to quit Switzerland over new surveillance law

https://www.techradar.com/vpn/vpn-privacy-security/we-would-be-less-confidential-than-google-proton-threatens-to-quit-switzerland-over-new-surveillance-law

240•taubek•9h ago•136 comments

Can V Deliver on Its Promises?

http://bitshifters.cc/2025/05/17/vlang.html

6•hmac1282•1h ago•0 comments

If nothing is curated, how do we find things

https://tadaima.bearblog.dev/if-nothing-is-curated-how-do-we-find-things/

149•nivethan•9h ago•103 comments

Palette lighting tricks on the Nintendo 64

https://30fps.net/pages/palette-lighting-tricks-n64/

177•ibobev•10h ago•32 comments

How to have the browser pick a contrasting color in CSS

https://webkit.org/blog/16929/contrast-color/

133•Kerrick•8h ago•48 comments

Understanding Transformers via N-gram Statistics

https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.12034

36•pona-a•4h ago•0 comments

Bike-mounted sensor could boost the mapping of safe cycling routes

https://newatlas.com/bicycles/proxicycle-bicycle-sensor-safe-cycling-routes/

21•yunusabd•3d ago•12 comments

Push Ifs Up and Fors Down

https://matklad.github.io/2023/11/15/push-ifs-up-and-fors-down.html

356•goranmoomin•15h ago•134 comments

Weather Report from Saturn's Moon Titan

https://www.sci.news/astronomy/titan-weather-13907.html

5•astroimagery•2d ago•0 comments

Espanso – Cross-Platform Text Expander Written in Rust

https://github.com/espanso/espanso

45•kartikarti•3d ago•13 comments

Unspoken Currency of Office Politics: Leverage and Sanction Between Coworkers

https://graphthinking.blogspot.com/2025/05/leverage-and-sanction-between-coworkers.html

40•physicsgraph•3h ago•2 comments

"Streaming vs. Batch" Is a Wrong Dichotomy, and I Think It's Confusing

https://www.morling.dev/blog/streaming-vs-batch-wrong-dichotomy/

10•ingve•3d ago•5 comments

Show HN: I built a knife steel comparison tool

https://new.knife.day/blog/knife-steel-comparisons/all

91•p-s-v•7h ago•65 comments

O2 VoLTE: locating any customer with a phone call

https://mastdatabase.co.uk/blog/2025/05/o2-expose-customer-location-call-4g/

170•kragniz•11h ago•41 comments

A library of words: Discovering Roget's Thesaurus (2023)

https://austinkleon.substack.com/p/a-library-of-words

27•NaOH•2d ago•2 comments

Pyrefly: A new type checker and IDE experience for Python

https://engineering.fb.com/2025/05/15/developer-tools/introducing-pyrefly-a-new-type-checker-and-ide-experience-for-python/

150•homarp•12h ago•105 comments

LLMs are more persuasive than incentivized human persuaders

https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.09662

90•flornt•4h ago•69 comments

Xata: Postgres at scale, with copy-on-write branching and anonymization

https://xata.io/blog/xata-postgres-with-data-branching-and-pii-anonymization

25•mebcitto•5h ago•4 comments

How I fixed the infamous Basilisk II Windows "Black Screen" bug in 2013

https://www.downtowndougbrown.com/2025/05/how-i-fixed-the-infamous-basilisk-ii-windows-black-screen-bug-in-2013/

55•zdw•2d ago•4 comments

A Simulation in C++ of Joseph Weizenbaum's 1966 Eliza

https://github.com/anthay/ELIZA

26•m1guelpf•7h ago•5 comments

Moment of heart's formation captured in images for first time

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2025/may/13/heart-cells-mouse-embryo-science-research

65•giuliomagnifico•4d ago•10 comments

JavaScript's New Superpower: Explicit Resource Management

https://v8.dev/features/explicit-resource-management

289•olalonde•19h ago•184 comments

NASA Observes First Visible-Light Auroras at Mars

https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/nasa-observes-first-visible-light-auroras-at-mars/

25•pseudolus•3d ago•6 comments

Open in hackernews

A Simulation in C++ of Joseph Weizenbaum's 1966 Eliza

https://github.com/anthay/ELIZA

26•m1guelpf•7h ago

Comments

johnea•4h ago

And how do you _feel_ about LLMs not constituting any kind of "intelligence"?

I'm sorry you feel that I'm over anthropomorphized...

tantalor•4h ago

> purpose was not to advance our understanding of intelligence, but to... demonstrate how easily people can be fooled

That actually says a lot about "intelligence", doesn't it?

Animats•3h ago

At the time, there was said to be a seduction script for the Eliza engine. Has it ever been found?

wpollock•3h ago

Yes it was, handsome!

throwaway81523•1h ago

You can run a Lisp version with M-x doctor in Emacs.