The best of Hacker News - May 13, 2025

1.
The Barbican

467 points

2.
A community-led fork of Organic Maps

288 points

3.
Can you trust that permission pop-up on macOS?

237 points

4.
University of Texas-led team solves a big problem for fusion energy

229 points

5.
Ruby 3.5 Feature: Namespace on read

192 points

6.
Fastvlm: Efficient vision encoding for vision language models

188 points

7.
Reviving a modular cargo bike design from the 1930s

155 points

8.
RIP Usenix ATC

154 points

9.
HealthBench – An evaluation for AI systems and human health

140 points

10.
A conversation about AI for science with Jason Pruet

139 points

11.
Air Traffic Control

126 points

12.
Launch HN: ParaQuery (YC X25) – GPU Accelerated Spark/SQL

111 points

13.
Understanding LucasArts' iMUSE System

94 points

14.
Open Hardware Ethernet Switch project, part 1

72 points

15.
Wtfis: Passive hostname, domain and IP lookup tool for non-robots

71 points

16.
NASA study reveals Venus crust surprise

61 points

17.
15 Years of Shader Minification

22 points

18.
TransMLA: Multi-head latent attention is all you need

22 points

19.
Policy of Transience

20 points

20.
Firefox Moves to GitHub

16 points

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