The best of Hacker News - May 5, 2025

1.
I'd rather read the prompt

720 points

2.
Design for 3D-Printing

467 points

3.
An Alabama landline that keeps ringing

273 points

4.
Why Archers Didn't Volley Fire

218 points

5.
Evidence of controversial Planet 9 uncovered in sky surveys taken 23 years apart

184 points

6.
Dummy's Guide to Modern LLM Sampling

182 points

7.
Technical analysis of TM SGNL, the unofficial Signal app Trump officials used

170 points

8.
TScale – Distributed training on consumer GPUs

121 points

9.
Graceful Shutdown in Go: Practical Patterns

114 points

10.
On Not Carrying a Camera – Cultivating memories instead of snapshots

99 points

11.
Typed Lisp, a Primer

86 points

12.
Helmdar: 3D Scanning Brooklyn on Rollerblades

80 points

13.
Show HN: My AI Native Resume

73 points

14.
Matrix-vector multiplication implemented in off-the-shelf DRAM for Low-Bit LLMs

68 points

15.
Thunderscope update: My take: Why open source is better

67 points

16.
I turned a 40 year old Apple Mouse into a speech to text button

46 points

17.
Urtext: The Python plaintext library for people who've tried everything else

24 points

18.
AI Meets WinDBG

16 points

19.
Mines: A simple mine puzzle game inspired by classic minesweeper

13 points

20.
Semantic unit testing: test code without executing it

8 points

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