The best of Hacker News - May 3, 2025

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Show HN: I built a synthesizer based on 3D physics

349 points

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Old Soviet Venus descent craft nearing Earth reentry

320 points

3.
Suno v4.5

273 points

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Expanding on what we missed with sycophancy

191 points

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Show HN: GPT-2 implemented using graphics shaders

188 points

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Strings Just Got Faster

167 points

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Driverless semis have started running regular longhaul routes

144 points

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What I've learned from jj

122 points

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Show HN: Blast – Fast, multi-threaded serving engine for web browsing AI agents

112 points

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Building Burstables: CPU slicing with cgroups

103 points

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The History of Album Art

83 points

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Achieving Human Level Competitive Robot Table Tennis

77 points

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Derivation and Intuition behind Poisson distribution

70 points

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Creating Bluey: Tales from the Art Director

63 points

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GitDroid: A third party Android app manager for apps uploaded to GitHub releases

63 points

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Connomore64: Cycle exact emulation of the C64 using parallel microcontrollers

53 points

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I put sheet music into smart glasses [video]

42 points

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ePub-utils: A Python library and CLI tool for inspecting ePub from the terminal

37 points

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Why Is the Kiwi's Egg So Big?

33 points

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Depictions of the Milky Way found in ancient Egyptian imagery

24 points

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