news, !paper 2025-05-07

890 Ty: A fast Python type checker and language server / github.com/astral-sh / 286

723 Zed: High-performance AI Code Editor / zed.dev / 417

618 CLion Is Now Free for Non-Commercial Use / blog.jetbrains.com / 381

618 Claude's system prompt is over 24k tokens with tools / github.com/asgeirtj / 331

568 Waiting for Postgres 18: Accelerating Disk Reads with Asynchronous I/O / pganalyze.com / 153

531 Unity’s Open-Source Double Standard: the ban of VLC / mfkl.github.io / 160

499 Mistral ships Le Chat – enterprise AI assistant that can run on prem / mistral.ai / 156

439 VVVVVV Source Code / github.com/TerryCavanagh / 92

436 So Much Blood / dynomight.net / 207

354 RybbitL Open source Google Analytics replacement / github.com/rybbit-io / 155

308 My quest to make motorcycle riding that tad bit safer / gill.net.in / 378

270 Web search on the Anthropic API / anthropic.com / 61

258 Bloat is still software's biggest vulnerability (2024) / spectrum.ieee.org / 211

252 Create and edit images with Gemini 2.0 in preview / developers.googleblog.com / 100

246 EPA Plans to Shut Down the Energy Star Program / nytimes.com / 282

237 Show HN: eInk optimized manga with Kindle Comic Converter (+Kobo/ReMarkable) / github.com/ciromattia / 49

230 Jury orders NSO to pay $167M for hacking WhatsApp users / arstechnica.com / 128

224 Mac Themes Garden / damien.zone / 78

217 June Huh dropped out to become a poet, now he’s won a Fields Medal (2022) / quantamagazine.org / 138

215 Samsung is paying $350M for audio brands B&W, Denon, Marantz and Polk / engadget.com / 322

192 Inheritance was invented as a performance hack (2021) / catern.com / 237

192 Yggdrasil is an experimental compact routing scheme that is fully decentralised / yggdrasil-network.github.io / 53

185 FTC rule on unfair or deceptive fees to take effect on May 12 / ftc.gov / 118

163 Ghost students are creating problems for California colleges / sfgate.com / 202

163 The DEA is now abandoning body cameras / propublica.org / 63

161 OpenAI for Countries / openai.com / 198

154 How three years at McKinsey shaped my second startup / blog.zactownsend.com / 179

153 'I paid for the whole GPU, I am going to use the whole GPU' / modal.com / 45

148 Three Chapters at Cloudflare: Programmer to CTO to Board of Directors / blog.cloudflare.com / 27

146 Getting Older Isn't What You Think / katycowan.co.uk / 229

137 Vagus Nerve Stimulation Erases PTSD: Study / neurosciencenews.com / 77

135 Foundation DB Record Layer SQL API / foundationdb.github.io / 74

134 Mass spectrometry method identifies pathogens within minutes instead of days / phys.org / 45

130 Detect and crash Chromium bots / blog.castle.io / 38

121 Alignment is not free: How model upgrades can silence your confidence signals / variance.co / 67

115 WebMonkeys: parallel GPU programming in JavaScript (2016) / github.com/VictorTaelin / 26

114 Everyone Is Cheating Their Way Through College / nymag.com / 169

114 Show HN: US Routing – Python library for fast local routing in the US / github.com/ivanbelenky / 26

113 WeightWatchers files bankruptcy / wsj.com / 336

108 OpenSearch 3.0 Released / opensearch.org / 29

105 Pakistani firm shipped fentanyl analogs, scams to us / krebsonsecurity.com / 44

103 Mississippi Can't Possibly Have Good Schools / educationdaly.us / 214

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