Hacker News with Generative AI

Celebrate 50 years of Microsoft with the company's original source code (gatesnotes.com)
An image of an archeologist adventurer who wears a hat and uses a bullwhip (theaiunderwriter.substack.com)
There is only one thing worse than being imitated, and that is not being imitated.
Build an 8-bit computer from scratch (eater.net)
Curl-impersonate: Special build of curl that can impersonate the major browsers (github.com/lwthiker)
A special build of curl that can impersonate the four major browsers: Chrome, Edge, Safari & Firefox. curl-impersonate is able to perform TLS and HTTP handshakes that are identical to that of a real browser.
The Slow Collapse of Critical Thinking in OSINT Due to AI (dutchosintguy.com)
Senior Developer Skills in the AI Age (kiessling.net)
Over the past few months, I have been experimenting with AI-powered coding tools in both my personal and professional projects.
Overengineered Anchor Links (thirty-five.com)
Supervisors often prefer rule breakers, up to a point (journals.aom.org)
New nanoparticle therapies target two major killers (science.org)
Was Houdini a Spy? (2021) (cia.gov)
The world’s most famous magician, Harry Houdini, was known as a celebrity conjurer, a practitioner of escape magic, and a master illusionist.
Binary Distribution Rebuilds (josefsson.org)
I rebuilt (the top-50 popcon) Debian and Ubuntu packages, on amd and arm64, and compared the results a couple of months ago. Since then the Reproduce.Debian.net effort has been launched. Unlike my small experiment, that effort is a full-scale rebuild with more architectures. Their goal is to reproduce what is published in the Debian archive.
Show HN: Hatchet v1 – A task orchestration platform built on Postgres (github.com/hatchet-dev)
Hatchet is a platform for running background tasks, built on top of Postgres. Instead of managing your own task queue or pub/sub system, you can use Hatchet to distribute your functions between a set of workers with minimal configuration or infrastructure.
AI cheats: Why you didn't notice your teammate was cheating (niila.fi)
For the past few years, cheats have evolved rapidly. First came memory reading aimbots, then colorbots, and now AI aim assist. Cheats have escaped the host PC. How does it affect the players and anti-cheats?
Microsoft reports several bootloader vulnerabilities (microsoft.com)
By leveraging Microsoft Security Copilot to expedite the vulnerability discovery process, Microsoft Threat Intelligence uncovered several vulnerabilities in multiple open-source bootloaders, impacting all operating systems relying on Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) Secure Boot as well as IoT devices.
The cultural evolution of distortion in music (royalsocietypublishing.org)
A university president makes a case against cowardice (newyorker.com)
Last Friday could have passed for a lovely spring day on the Connecticut campus of Wesleyan University. Students with books and laptops dotted a green hillside; flocks of admissions visitors trailed tour guides; baseball season had just begun, and practice was under way. It was almost possible to forget the grim straits of American higher education in 2025.
Reasoning models don't always say what they think (anthropic.com)
How Big Is VMS? – VMS Software, Inc (vmssoftware.com)
This question was asked during my Boot Camp presentation last fall in Boston, and over the past 35 years dozens of times people have asked, how big is VMS? That translates into "how many lines of code are in VMS"? I thought it was time to at least make a stab at pursuing some insight into the answer. I wrote some command procedures to count the number of source lines in .B32, .B64, .C, .MAR, .M64, and .S files.
Show HN: GitMCP is an automatic MCP server for every GitHub repo (gitmcp.io)
Instantly create a Remote MCP server for any GitHub project
AI 2027 (ai-2027.com)
We predict that the impact of superhuman AI over the next decade will be enormous, exceeding that of the Industrial Revolution.
John Cage recital set to last 639 years recently witnessed a chord change (spectator.co.uk)
In the year 2000, in a small east German town, work began on the construction of an organ that had one purpose: to perform John Cage’s ORGAN2/ASLSP (1987) for precisely 639 years.
Show HN: Monkeys.zip – 3000 Monkeys on Typewriters (monkeys.zip)
Dijkstra On the foolishness of "natural language programming" (cs.utexas.edu)
Since the early days of automatic computing we have had people that have felt it as a shortcoming that programming required the care and accuracy that is characteristic for the use of any formal symbolism.
AnimeJs v4 Is Here (animejs.com)
A fast and versatile JavaScript library to animate the web.
InitWare, a portable systemd fork running on BSDs and Linux (github.com/InitWare)
The InitWare Suite of Middleware allows you to manage services and system resources as logical entities called units. Its main component is a service management ("init") system.
How Servo Motors Work (jameco.com)
Simple Denoising Diffusion (github.com/utkuozbulak)
This repository contains a bare-bone implementation of denoising diffusion [1,2] in PyTorch, with majority of its code taken from The Annotated Diffusion and Phil Wang's diffusion repository.
Web Server for AoE 1, 2 and 3 DE supporting LAN multiplayer 100% offline (github.com/luskaner)
Age LAN Server is a web server that allows you to play multiplayer LAN game modes without having an internet connection to the game server ensuring the game LAN functionality is still available even if the official server is in maintenance or is eventually shutdown.
An open source, self-hosted implementation of the Tailscale control server (github.com/juanfont)