Hacker News

Links for the intellectually curious, ranked by readers.

• JavaScript Trademark Update
• Solving `Passport Application` with Haskell
• MCP: An (Accidentally) Universal Plugin System
• The Death of the Middle-Class Musician
• Addictions Are Being Engineered
• Refurb weekend: Gremlin Blasto arcade board
• We ran a Unix-like OS Xv6 on our home-built CPU with a home-built C compiler (2020)
• Life of an inference request (vLLM V1): How LLMs are served efficiently at scale
• BusyBeaver(6) Is Quite Large
• Universal pre-training by iterated random computation
• 2025 ARRL Field Day
• Group of investors represented by YouTuber Perifractic buys Commodore
• Community Is Motivation on Tap
• Show HN: I'm an airline pilot – I built interactive graphs/globes of my flights
• Blackwell: Nvidia's GPU
• Gradient Descent Visualiser
• An Indoor Beehive in My Bedroom Wall
• Generative AI's crippling failure to induce robust models of the world
• Show HN: SVG Lined Tile Generator
• Tennis Scorigami
• The European wood pigeon helped me appreciate its omnipresent city cousins
• Is being bilingual good for your brain?
• Sirius: A GPU-native SQL engine
• Parsing JSON in Forty Lines of Awk
• Memory Safe Languages: Reducing Vulnerabilities in Modern Software Development [pdf]
• Show HN: AGL a toy language that compiles to Go
• Finding Peter Putnam
• Show HN: Vet – A tool for safely running remote shell scripts
• Against AI: An Open Letter from Writers to Publishers
• Infrastructure at Roblox