The best of Hacker News - May 11, 2025

1.
A critical look at MCP

397 points

2.
US vs. Google amicus curiae brief of Y Combinator in support of plaintiffs [pdf]

346 points

3.
For $595, you get what nobody else can give you for twice the price (1982) [pdf]

160 points

4.
Embracer Games Archive is preserving 75000 video games and needs contributions

158 points

5.
Observations from people watching

157 points

6.
Reverse engineering the 386 processor's prefetch queue circuitry

130 points

7.
Sierpiński Triangle? In My Bitwise and?

125 points

8.
Dotless Domains

119 points

9.
Comparison of C/POSIX standard library implementations for Linux

101 points

10.
Show HN: Xenolab – Rasp Pi monitor for my pet carnivourus plants

86 points

11.
Fandom Sells Giant Bomb to Independent Creators

85 points

12.
Why the Apple II Didn't Support Lowercase Letters (2020)

68 points

13.
The State of SSL Stacks

45 points

14.
Show HN: LoopMix128 – Fast C PRNG (.46ns), 2^128 Period, BigCrush/PractRand Pass

41 points

15.
The History and Legacy of Visual Basic

40 points

16.
Strain gauge made out of PCB

39 points

17.
Fan Service

22 points

18.
Adaptive Hashing

22 points

19.
Engineers develop wearable heart attack detection technology

12 points

20.
When Suno covers my song (very useful) – a study with variations

8 points

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