The best of Hacker News - May 8, 2025

1.
Ty: A fast Python type checker and language server

642 points

2.
Waiting for Postgres 18: Accelerating Disk Reads with Asynchronous I/O

418 points

3.
Mistral ships le chat – enterprise AI assistant that can run on prem

314 points

4.
Open source Google Analytics replacement

231 points

5.
Web search on the Anthropic API

200 points

6.
Create and edit images with Gemini 2.0 in preview

189 points

7.
Mac Themes Garden

145 points

8.
June Huh dropped out to become a poet, now he’s won a Fields Medal (2022)

113 points

9.
Yggdrasil is an experimental compact routing scheme that is fully decentralised

108 points

10.
Foundation DB Record Layer SQL API

82 points

11.
A cycle-accurate IBM PC emulator in your web browser

75 points

12.
Inheritance was invented as a performance hack (2021)

72 points

13.
Show HN: US Routing – Python library for fast local routing in the United States

66 points

14.
Bootstrapping Lisp in a Boot Sector

45 points

15.
Ask HN: How much better are AI IDEs vs. copy pasting into chat apps?

44 points

16.
We have reached the "severed fingers and abductions" stage of crypto revolution

41 points

17.
Docs like code in basic terms

23 points

18.
Ancient DNA from the Green Sahara Reveals Ancestral North African Lineage

13 points

19.
Gmail will soon stop support for the 3DES encryption cipher for incoming SMTP

7 points

20.
How linear regression works intuitively and how it leads to gradient descent

6 points

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