The best of Hacker News - May 18, 2025

1.
Coding without a laptop: Two weeks with AR glasses and Linux on Android

517 points

2.
Push Ifs Up and Fors Down

412 points

3.
Mystical

212 points

4.
If nothing is curated, how do we find things

195 points

5.
Dead Stars Don’t Radiate

185 points

6.
Palette lighting tricks on the Nintendo 64

185 points

7.
How to have the browser pick a contrasting color in CSS

167 points

8.
Directory of MCP Servers

125 points

9.
AniSora: Open-source anime video generation model

122 points

10.
The Lost Japanese ROM of the Macintosh Plus

120 points

11.
Understanding Transformers via N-gram Statistics

73 points

12.
FreeBASIC is a free/open source BASIC compiler for Windows DOS and Linux

71 points

13.
Bike-mounted sensor could boost the mapping of safe cycling routes

54 points

14.
“Streaming vs. Batch” Is a Wrong Dichotomy, and I Think It's Confusing

36 points

15.
ARMv9 Architecture Helps Lift Arm to New Financial Heights

35 points

16.
Experts have it easy (2024)

34 points

17.
Confessions about my smart home

22 points

18.
Show HN: Turn any workflow diagram into compilable, running and stateful code

13 points

19.
Ask HN: What's your go-to message queue in 2025?

9 points

20.
Every programming language has its 'killer' domain

8 points

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