John Carmack talk at Upper Bound 2025 – slides and notes

https://twitter.com/ID_AA_Carmack/status/1925710474366034326

187•tosh•5h ago•68 comments

Tallest Wooden Wind Turbine

https://modvion.com/

65•Bluestein•4d ago•37 comments

KumoRFM: A Foundation Model for In-Context Learning on Relational Data

https://kumo.ai/company/news/kumo-relational-foundation-model/

27•cliffly•3h ago•4 comments

Show HN: Defuddle, an HTML-to-Markdown alternative to Readability

https://github.com/kepano/defuddle

264•kepano•12h ago•52 comments

Lockheed Martin and IBM combine quantum computing with HPC in new research

https://www.ibm.com/quantum/blog/lockheed-martin-sqd

39•donutloop•5h ago•0 comments

'Turbocharged' Mitochondria Power Birds' Epic Migratory Journeys

https://www.quantamagazine.org/turbocharged-mitochondria-power-birds-epic-migratory-journeys-20250519/

9•pseudolus•3d ago•3 comments

That fractal that's been up on my wall for years

https://chriskw.xyz/2025/05/21/Fractal/

430•chriskw•18h ago•33 comments

Claude 4

https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-4

1764•meetpateltech•17h ago•994 comments

Airport for DuckDB

https://airport.query.farm/

115•jonbaer•3d ago•15 comments

Does Earth have two high-tide bulges on opposite sides? (2014)

http://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/121830/does-earth-really-have-two-high-tide-bulges-on-opposite-sides

211•imurray•15h ago•62 comments

32 bits that changed microprocessor design

https://spectrum.ieee.org/bellmac-32-ieee-milestone

92•mdp2021•11h ago•20 comments

Mozilla to shut down Pocket and Fakespot

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/future-of-pocket

970•phantomathkg•17h ago•603 comments

Sketchy Calendar

https://www.inkandswitch.com/ink/notes/sketchy-calendar/

76•surprisetalk•11h ago•17 comments

Fast Allocations in Ruby 3.5

https://railsatscale.com/2025-05-21-fast-allocations-in-ruby-3-5/

223•tekknolagi•20h ago•54 comments

Improving performance of rav1d video decoder

https://ohadravid.github.io/posts/2025-05-rav1d-faster/

275•todsacerdoti•22h ago•96 comments

How to cheat at settlers by loading the dice (2017)

https://izbicki.me/blog/how-to-cheat-at-settlers-of-catan-by-loading-the-dice-and-prove-it-with-p-values.html

113•jxmorris12•15h ago•93 comments

A South Korean grand master on the art of the perfect soy sauce

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/may/21/without-time-there-is-no-flavour-a-south-korean-grand-master-on-the-art-of-the-perfect-soy-sauce

174•n1b0m•1d ago•140 comments

A Formal Mathematical Investigation on the Validity of Kellogg's Glaze Claims

https://old.reddit.com/r/theydidthemath/comments/1iljmig/_/

20•ZeroCool2u•3d ago•1 comments

We’ll be ending web hosting for your apps on Glitch

https://blog.glitch.com/post/changes-are-coming-to-glitch/

119•js4ever•17h ago•69 comments

Ancient law requires a bale of straw to hang from Charing Cross rail bridge

https://www.ianvisits.co.uk/articles/ancient-law-requires-a-bale-of-hay-to-hang-from-charing-cross-rail-bridge-81318/

84•alexbilbie•1d ago•94 comments

I Built My Own Audio Player

https://nexo.sh/posts/why-i-built-a-native-mp3-player-in-swiftui/

225•nexo-v1•20h ago•127 comments

Richard Garwin’s role in designing the hydrogen bomb was obscured

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/19/science/richard-garwin-hydrogen-bomb.html

53•LAsteNERD•3d ago•23 comments

When a team is too big

https://blog.alexewerlof.com/p/when-a-team-is-too-big

89•gpi•4d ago•87 comments

The Future of Flatpak

https://lwn.net/Articles/1020571/

243•dxs•10h ago•168 comments

Remote Prompt Injection in Gitlab Duo Leads to Source Code Theft

https://www.legitsecurity.com/blog/remote-prompt-injection-in-gitlab-duo

4•chillax•3h ago•2 comments

Launch HN: WorkDone (YC X25) – AI Audit of Medical Charts

65•digitaltzar•19h ago•52 comments

Show HN: SQLite JavaScript - extend your database with JavaScript

https://github.com/sqliteai/sqlite-js

165•marcobambini•20h ago•47 comments

Loading Pydantic models from JSON without running out of memory

https://pythonspeed.com/articles/pydantic-json-memory/

101•itamarst•16h ago•35 comments

When good pseudorandom numbers go bad

https://blog.djnavarro.net/posts/2025-05-18_multivariate-normal-sampling-floating-point/

59•chewxy•4d ago•19 comments

Problems in AI alignment: A scale model

https://muldoon.cloud/2025/05/22/alignment.html

43•hamburga•14h ago•24 comments

Open in hackernews

W.a.s.t.e. Not: John Scanlan looks for the future in the dustbins of history

https://thebaffler.com/latest/w-a-s-t-e-not-adams

8•Thevet•3d ago

Comments

smitty1e•5h ago

We Await Silent Tristero's Empire

jauntywundrkind•5h ago

No Pychon references? The underground postal service in Crying of Lot 49.

That's what Nullsoft (of Winamp fame)'s P2P app WASTE was named in reference to. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WASTE

smitty1e•1h ago

Did you miss my reply?