π° Today's Top 21 Hacker News Stories (Sorted by Score) π°
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π Title: Bus stops here: Shanghai lets riders design their own routes
π URL: https://www.sixthtone.com/news/1017072
π Score: [387]
π¬ Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43980845
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π Title: AlphaEvolve: A Gemini-powered coding agent for designing advanced algorithms
π URL: https://deepmind.google/discover/blog/alphaevolve-a-gemini-powered-coding-agent-for-designing-advanced-algorithms/
π Score: [360]
π¬ Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43985489
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π Title: Writing that changed how I think about programming languages
π URL: https://bernsteinbear.com/blog/pl-writing/
π Score: [339]
π¬ Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43980760
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π Title: What Is HDR, Anyway?
π URL: https://www.lux.camera/what-is-hdr/
π Score: [335]
π¬ Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43983871
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π Title: The recently lost file upload feature in the Nextcloud app for Android
π URL: https://nextcloud.com/blog/nextcloud-android-file-upload-issue-google/
π Score: [305]
π¬ Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43981170
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π Title: SMS 2FA is not just insecure, it's also hostile to mountain people
π URL: https://blog.stillgreenmoss.net/sms-2fa-is-not-just-insecure-its-also-hostile-to-mountain-people
π Score: [271]
π¬ Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43984297
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π Title: Databricks and Neon
π URL: https://www.databricks.com/blog/databricks-neon
π Score: [222]
π¬ Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43982777
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π Title: How to Build a Smartwatch: Picking a Chip
π URL: https://ericmigi.com/blog/how-to-build-a-smartwatch-picking-a-chip/
π Score: [195]
π¬ Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43981680
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π Title: Interferometer Device Sees Text from a Mile Away
π URL: https://physics.aps.org/articles/v18/99
π Score: [149]
π¬ Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43945733
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π Title: A server that wasn't meant to exist
π URL: https://it-notes.dragas.net/2025/05/13/the_server_that_wasnt_meant_to_exist/
π Score: [122]
π¬ Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43985971
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π Title: How the economics of multitenancy work
π URL: https://www.blacksmith.sh/blog/the-economics-of-operating-a-ci-cloud
π Score: [105]
π¬ Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43984097
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π Title: The Cryptography Behind Passkeys
π URL: https://blog.trailofbits.com/2025/05/14/the-cryptography-behind-passkeys/
π Score: [92]
π¬ Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43983159
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π Title: Show HN: Lumier β Run macOS VMs in a Docker
π URL: https://github.com/trycua/cua/tree/main/libs/lumier
π Score: [73]
π¬ Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43985624
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π Title: Git Bug: Distributed, Offline-First Bug Tracker Embedded in Git, with Bridges
π URL: https://github.com/git-bug/git-bug
π Score: [68]
π¬ Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43971620
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π Title: Our Narrative Prison
π URL: https://aeon.co/essays/why-does-every-film-and-tv-series-seem-to-have-the-same-plot
π Score: [58]
π¬ Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43986424
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π Title: Uber to introduce fixed-route shuttles in major US cities
π URL: https://techcrunch.com/2025/05/14/uber-to-introduce-fixed-route-shuttles-in-major-us-cities-other-ways-to-save/
π Score: [42]
π¬ Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43985861
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π Title: Show HN: CSV GB+ by Data.olllo β Open and Process CSVs Locally
π URL: https://apps.microsoft.com/detail/9pfcrwp46v22?hl=en-US&gl=US
π Score: [26]
π¬ Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43985527
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π Title: Smalltalk-78 Xerox NoteTaker in-browser emulator
π URL: https://smalltalkzoo.thechm.org/users/bert/Smalltalk-78.html
π Score: [21]
π¬ Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43986833
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π Title: An accessibility update β GTK Development Blog
π URL: https://blog.gtk.org/2025/05/12/an-accessibility-update/
π Score: [20]
π¬ Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43971685
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π Title: Beyond the Wrist: Debugging RSI
π URL: https://www.debugyourpain.org/docs/main_posts/understand/debugging_rsi/
π Score: [13]
π¬ Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43987525
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