The best of Hacker News - May 10, 2025

1.
ALICE detects the conversion of lead into gold at the LHC

519 points

2.
Sofie: open-source web based system for automating live TV news production

298 points

3.
21 GB/s CSV Parsing Using SIMD on AMD 9950X

268 points

4.
Rust’s dependencies are starting to worry me

242 points

5.
Business books are entertainment, not strategic tools

205 points

6.
What’s new in Swift 6.2

139 points

7.
Launch HN: Nao Labs (YC X25) – Cursor for Data

133 points

8.
WebGL Water (2010)

108 points

9.
Brandon's Semiconductor Simulator

106 points

10.
Fleurs du Mal

85 points

11.
Vision Now Available in Llama.cpp

83 points

12.
Internet Roadtrip: Vote to steer

76 points

13.
Charles Bukowski, William Burroughs, and the Computer (2009)

49 points

14.
Some novelists are becoming video game writers – and vice-versa

47 points

15.
PlainBudget – Minimalist Plain Text Budgeting

45 points

16.
Stratolaunch Successfully Completes Reusable Hypersonic Flight and Recovery

31 points

17.
Fighting Unwanted Notifications with Machine Learning in Chrome

20 points

18.
Algebraic Effects: Another mistake carried through to perfection?

12 points

19.
6502 Illegal Opcodes in the Siemens PC 100 Assembly Manual

11 points

20.
The Screamer – a yell-on yell-off light

7 points

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