Hacker News with Generative AI: New Releases

CheerpJ 4.1: Java in the browser, now supporting Java 17 (preview) (leaningtech.com)
Around a month ago we announced CheerpJ 4.0, the first release of our WebAssembly-based JVM with support for multiple versions of Java.
Firefox 139 adds experimental AI-powered link previews (9to5mac.com)
Today, Mozilla released Firefox 139.0, which brings an interesting AI-based feature: by pressing a keyboard shortcut, the browser opens a small pop-up with a preview of a link’s content. Here’s how to test it out.
ChezScheme v10.2.0 (github.com/cisco)
Updates and bug fixes since November 14, 2024. See the release notes for details.
Iron Spring PL/I Compiler (iron-spring.com)
26 May, 2025: Iron Spring PL/I compiler version 1.4.0 released
Changelog: Lazy trees (faster Nix builds) (determinate.systems)
Lazy trees have been one of the most hotly requested Nix features for quite some time. They make Nix much more efficient in larger repositories, particularly in massive monorepos. And so we’re excited to announce that lazy trees have landed in Determinate Nix version 3.5.2, based on version 2.28.3 of upstream Nix.
Rust Coreutils 0.1.0 Release (github.com/uutils)
We are excited to announce the release of Rust Coreutils 0.1.0 — our first 0.1 milestone! This release brings major performance gains, SELinux support, and expanded GNU compatibility.
NixOS 25.05 Released (nixos.org)
Hey everyone, we are Leona Maroni and Tristan Ross, the release managers of the newest release of NixOS. We are very proud to announce the public availability of NixOS 25.05 “Warbler”.
Sublime Text Build 4200 and Future Plugin Changes (sublimetext.com)
Sublime Text 4, build 4200 is out now with some exciting new features, improvements and fixes. We're also announcing some changes to the way plugins will be handled in the future:
Pharo 13 (pharo.org)
We have released Pharo version 13!
DuckDB 1.3.0 (duckdb.org)
TL;DR: The DuckDB team is happy to announce that today we're releasing DuckDB version 1.3.0, codenamed “Ossivalis”.
HTML5 elements you didn't know you need (dev.to)
As you know, we love unusual tech at Lingo.dev. So when in my last essay, David commented he was surprised to not see "dialog" HTML element, it hit me - wait, but there's so many HTML5 elements that we don't even know about!
Sonnet 4 Available on Cursor (twitter.com)
Something went wrong, but don’t fret — let’s give it another shot.
Cherry Leads the Revolution from Mechanical to Smart Switches (cherry.de)
Auerbach, May 20, 2025 — CHERRY will be opening a bold new chapter at COMPUTEX 2025, a leading computer technology trade show held annually in Taipei. The company will debut its IK inductive switch, a preview of the MK magnetic switch platform, and the latest additions to its legendary MX mechanical switch family – MX Honey, MX Blossom, and MX Falcon.
voyage-3.5 and voyage-3.5-lite: improved quality for a new retrieval frontier (voyageai.com)
Today, we’re excited to introduce voyage-3.5 and voyage-3.5-lite, which maintain the same sizes as their predecessors—voyage-3 and voyage-3-lite—but offer improved quality for a new retrieval frontier.
DuckDB 1.3.0 (duckdb.org)
TL;DR: The DuckDB team is happy to announce that today we're releasing DuckDB version 1.3.0, codenamed “Ossivalis”.
Erlang/OTP 28.0 Release (erlang.org)
Erlang/OTP 28 is a new major release with new features, improvements as well as a few incompatibilities. Some of the new features are highlighted below.
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 released (lwn.net)
Red Hat has announced the release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 10.
UUIDv7 Comes to PostgreSQL 18 (thenile.dev)
Show HN: Astra – a new js2exe compiler (github.com/astracompiler)
🚀 Fast, reliable and easy-to-use js-to-exe compiler.
Hunyuan Image 2.0: Real-Time AI Image Generator (hunyuan-image.com)
Experience the future of AI image generation with millisecond-level response. Our breakthrough technology delivers 15x faster performance than industry standards, with 95%+ accuracy in GenEval benchmarks. Join thousands of creators who are transforming their creative workflow.
Show HN: Svelte Flow 1.0 is out! Rewritten for Svelte 5 (svelteflow.dev)
Svelte Flow 1.0 is here! Rewritten for Svelte 5 with many new features and improvements.
xAI's Grok 3 comes to Microsoft Azure (techcrunch.com)
Microsoft on Monday became one of the first hyperscalers to provide managed access to Grok, the AI model developed by billionaire Elon Musk’s AI startup, xAI.
Zod 4 (zod.dev)
After a year of active development: Zod 4 is now stable! It's faster, slimmer, more tsc-efficient, and implements some long-requested features.
Gimp 3.0.4 Released (gimp.org)
Emacs pretest 30.1.90 (lists.gnu.org)
The first pretest for what will be the 30.2 release of Emacs (the extensible text editor) is available at: https://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/emacs/pretest/emacs-30.1.90.tar.xz
Craft Basic (Windows 95 and up) (lucidapogee.com)
Craft Basic version 1.7.1 released: This is a small update, so I decided this will be v1.7.1 and not v1.8. Did some cleaning up of the examples. Added more examples ported from other languages.
Racket – the Language-Oriented Programming Language – 8.17 is now available (racket-lang.org)
We are pleased to announce Racket v8.17 is now available from https://download.racket-lang.org/.
Gnosis Evolve MCP for Claude Desktop (github.com/kordless)
ClojureScript 1.12.42 (clojurescript.org)
We’re happy to announce a new release of ClojureScript. If you’re an existing user of ClojureScript please read over the following release notes carefully.
Announcing Rust 1.87.0 and ten years of Rust (rust-lang.org)
Live from the 10 Years of Rust celebration in Utrecht, Netherlands, the Rust team is happy to announce a new version of Rust, 1.87.0!