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Robin: A multi-agent system for automating scientific discovery (❄️ Score: 150+ in 5 days)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6uNrV
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/6uNrV
Design Pressure: The Invisible Hand That Shapes Your Code (Score: 150+ in 13 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6v4CW
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/6v4CW
Plwm – An X11 window manager written in Prolog (Score: 151+ in 9 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6v59a
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/6v59a
Chomsky on what ChatGPT is good for (2023) (Score: 152+ in 9 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6v54n
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/6v54n
Show HN: SVG Animation Software (Score: 151+ in 10 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6v4nK
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/6v4nK
Expressive Animator is an SVG vector animation software that helps users create and export animated icons, logos, and illustrations. Users can import SVG, PDF, Adobe Illustrator files, and Figma designs, and animate them using easing controls, motion paths, masking, and other techniques. Expressive Animator also allow users to export their animations in other formats as Lottie, GIF, PNG, and video.
Denmark to raise retirement age to 70 (🔥 Score: 150+ in 3 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6v4YP
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/6v4YP
Lottie is an open format for animated vector graphics (Score: 151+ in 4 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6v4KA
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/6v4KA
Sketchy Calendar (❄️ Score: 150+ in 2 days)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6uWne
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/6uWne
Lone coder cracks 50-year puzzle to find Boggle's top-scoring board (Score: 151+ in 17 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6v34w
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/6v34w
Claude 4 System Card (Score: 153+ in 5 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6v42A
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/6v42A
Why old games never die, but new ones do (Score: 151+ in 12 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6v3nP
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/6v3nP
Hong Kong's Famous Bamboo Scaffolding Hangs on (For Now) (Score: 151+ in 14 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6v2iF
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/6v2iF
Tachy0n: The Last 0day Jailbreak (Score: 150+ in 5 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6v3dn
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/6v3dn
Reinvent the Wheel (Score: 152+ in 4 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6v3eM
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/6v3eM
The Xenon Death Flash: How a Camera Nearly Killed the Raspberry Pi 2 (Score: 150+ in 9 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6v2ip
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/6v2ip
Writing your own CUPS printer driver in 100 lines of Python (2018) (Score: 151+ in 11 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6v4TU
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/6v4TU
Show HN: ClipJS – Edit your videos from a PC or phone (❄️ Score: 150+ in 4 days)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6uSk8
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/6uSk8
Ask HN: What are you working on? (May 2025) (Score: 150+ in 7 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/c/6v5sm
What are you working on? Any new ideas that you're thinking about?
Open Source Society University – Path to a free self-taught education in CS (Score: 152+ in 6 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6v54g
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/6v54g
How to Install Windows NT 4 Server on Proxmox (Score: 150+ in 19 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6v3G7
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/6v3G7
At Amazon, some coders say their jobs have begun to resemble warehouse work (Score: 151+ in 8 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6v4qy
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Microsoft-backed UK tech unicorn Builder.ai collapses into insolvency (Score: 150+ in 1 day)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6v2ki
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/6v2ki
AI, Heidegger, and Evangelion (Score: 150+ in 1 day)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6v2yU
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Live facial recognition cameras may become 'commonplace' as police use soars (Score: 150+ in 19 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6v2Sq
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/6v2Sq
Peer Programming with LLMs, for Senior+ Engineers (Score: 150+ in 20 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6v2ub
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Positional preferences, order effects, prompt sensitivity undermine AI judgments (Score: 150+ in 1 day)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6uYrE
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Scientific conferences are leaving the US amid border fears (Score: 153+ in 4 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6v3qB
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Good Writing (Score: 150+ in 9 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6v2Dc
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/6v2Dc
The world of Japan's PC-98 computer (Score: 150+ in 1 day)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6uZ2p
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Show HN: DoubleMemory – more efficient local-first read-it-later app (Score: 150+ in 1 day)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6uYFD
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/6uYFD
DoubleMemory started as an experiment to see if I can somehow automatically save all double cmd + c, as I often do instinctively, so I don't need extensions to save links and text into an app, and avoiding flooding the capture history as regular clipboard managers does.
My motivation was not to create a read-it-later app, yet it evolved into this unique yet cohesive form of a read-it-later + bookmarking organizer + clipboard manager + card based note-taking app over the last 6 months. It also launches from the menu bar with a shortcut and navigates with keyboard shortcuts. My favorite part is instead of rendering a list of article titles, everything is rendered as pretty preview cards in a translucent Pinterest-like mood board. It also has a nifty iOS app, that will allow you to swipe with your thumbs between articles just like on iOS Safari...
Now that Pocket is closing, this is after Instapaper going back to indie and Omnivore and UpNext and numerous others closing over the years. All of these are cloud-hosted services, which got me reflecting: maybe this local-first architecture would be well positioned to build in this space.
Here is my not-so-scientific comparison:
## Domain
$10 vs $1M = 100,000x difference.
## Server running cost
No servers other than what's running by iCloud vs $1M per year = 1mX difference
## Platforms
Apple only (mac + iphone + ipad) vs Multi platforms (windows, linux, android also supported) = 20X maintenance cost difference
## Capturing
No browser extensions required v.s. maintain all extensions for various browsers and extension stores = 5x difference
## Architecture
App receives the link, Apple generates the rich preview cards for thousands of different types of links, app caches these preview cards.
vs.
Someone write some custom code for each link type or with Open Graph, one designer created one generic card that works for all links.
=
100x cost difference.
I know, Apple is coming for clipboards with more restrictions, which is basically a shared global state on Mac systems, DoubleMemory does also support other ways to capture: drag-n-drop to app/menubar icon/app icon, right click->Services menu, or Share sheet. We will add more auto-importers.
Also vibe coded some importers for Pocket, Omnivore and ReadWise here: https://doublememory.com/posts/tools
Everything in the app is free with no limits. Capturing is really step 0. You giving us a chance to save your content, doesn't mean you are getting any values out of it (ain't that the typical story of read-it-later apps? save-it and never-read-it). the eventual goal is to easily retrieve these content, and eventually consuming them. I hope to eventually launch paid features that aligns with these value generating workflows.
App Store link: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/doublememory/id6737529034
Let me know what you think...