news, !paper 2025-05-06

1146 The curse of knowing how, or; fixing everything / notashelf.dev / 436

1098 Show HN: Clippy – 90s UI for local LLMs / felixrieseberg.github.io / 268

693 Gemini 2.5 Pro Preview / developers.googleblog.com / 685

601 Matt Godbolt sold me on Rust by showing me C++ / collabora.com / 647

575 Show HN: My self-written hobby OS is finally running on my vintage IBM ThinkPad / github.com/joexbayer / 116

484 India launches attack on 9 sites in Pakistan and Pakistani Jammu and Kashmir / reuters.com / 611

446 Curl: We still have not seen a valid security report done with AI help / linkedin.com / 238

408 Sneakers (1992) – 4K makeover sourced from the original camera negative / blu-ray.com / 298

405 Launch HN: Exa (YC S21) – The web as a database / news.ycombinator.com / 132

404 An appeal to Apple from Anukari / anukari.com / 187

310 Getting things “done” in large tech companies / seangoedecke.com / 213

295 The True Size Of / thetruesize.com / 138

276 NSA spied through Angry Birds, other apps: report (2014) / nbcnews.com / 154

273 Nnd – a TUI debugger alternative to GDB, LLDB / github.com/al13n321 / 83

257 TeleMessage, used by Trump officials, can access plaintext chat logs / micahflee.com / 74

244 Accents in latent spaces: How AI hears accent strength in English / accent-strength.boldvoice.com / 127

230 Critical CSS / critical-css-extractor.kigo.studio / 113

222 New studies offer insight into Lyme disease’s treatment, lingering symptoms / news.northwestern.edu / 153

221 Memory-safe sudo to become the default in Ubuntu / trifectatech.org / 270

218 When Abandoned Mines Collapse / practical.engineering / 78

202 Show HN: Sheet Music in Smart Glasses / news.ycombinator.com / 25

190 Old Timey Code and Old Timey Mono Fonts / github.com/dse / 33

188 iOS Kindle app now has a ‘get book’ button after changes to App Store rules / theverge.com / 183

181 DoorDash to acquire Deliveroo / cnbc.com / 379

161 Brush (Bo(u)rn(e) RUsty SHell) a POSIX and Bash-Compatible Shell in Rust / github.com/reubeno / 89

161 Pixels in Islamic Art: Square Kufic Calligraphy (2020) / uwithumlaut.wordpress.com / 21

160 Why does Switzerland have so many bunkers? / thedial.world / 187

155 OpenAI reaches agreement to buy Windsurf for around $3B / bloomberg.com / 2

144 Cuttlefish 'talk' with their arms, study reveals / scienceblog.com / 101

141 docker2exe: Convert a Docker image to an executable / github.com/rzane / 90

139 Design and evaluation of a parrot-to-parrot video-calling system (2023) / smithsonianmag.com / 71

128 Show HN: Plexe – ML Models from a Prompt / github.com/plexe-ai / 48

122 Show HN: AgenticSeek – Self-hosted alternative to cloud-based AI tools / github.com/Fosowl / 18

119 Is Planet Nine Alone in the Outer System? / centauri-dreams.org / 63

112 The Turkish İ Problem and Why You Should Care (2012) / haacked.com / 151

108 ACE-Step: A step towards music generation foundation model / github.com/ace-step / 53

107 Propositions as Types (2014) [pdf] / homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk / 74

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