Newsletter for 2025-05-12

Curated posts from Hacker News on 2025-05-12.

Krowth Digest: AI Funding Frenzy, Embedding Insights, and the Ethics of Tech

Top Posts of the Day
10 posts curated from Hacker News
I ruined my vacation by reverse engineering WSC

298 points • 150 comments • by todsacerdotidiscussion

Why Bell Labs Worked

292 points • 199 comments • by areoformdiscussion

Continuous Thought Machines

255 points • 26 comments • by hardmarudiscussion

Scraperr – A Self Hosted Webscraper

238 points • 78 comments • by jpylesdiscussion

Ask HN: Cursor or Windsurf?

227 points • 321 comments • by skaratdiscussion

A community-led fork of Organic Maps

192 points • 121 comments • by maelitodiscussion

Latest AI Posts
24 posts curated from Hacker News
Google Worried It Couldn't Control How Israel Uses Project Nimbus, Files Reveal

1 points • 0 comments • by jaredwienerdiscussion

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The effect of ChatGPT on students' learning performance: meta-analysis

1 points • 0 comments • by michalplebandiscussion

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Understanding Modern AI Is Understanding Embeddings: A Guide with Lots of Dogs

1 points • 0 comments • by petesergeantdiscussion

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Vulcan Robots: Amazon's Solution to Picking Challenges

2 points • 0 comments • by WaitWaitWhadiscussion

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NimbleEdge AI App - First offline voice AI by running Python on-device

13 points • 2 comments • by vkkharediscussion

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Perplexity AI's Valuation Surges to $14B in $500M Funding Round

2 points • 1 comments • by colesantiagodiscussion

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Scientists clear major roadblocks in mission to build powerful AI photonic chips

1 points • 0 comments • by taubekdiscussion

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Show HN: AI Cold Outreach Tool

5 points • 0 comments • by ignalexdiscussion

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Show HN: Artifacthub MCP Server

1 points • 0 comments • by surrTurrdiscussion

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Ask HN: How are you managing connections/authZ for Cursor/Windsurf?

1 points • 0 comments • by manibaurdiscussion

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Wholesale Prices for LLM Inference

1 points • 0 comments • by spongebob_shdiscussion

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FlyLoop – AI meeting scheduling assistant

2 points • 0 comments • by localbuilderdiscussion

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Looking for an AI app to create? Look no further

1 points • 0 comments • by Haeuserschluchtdiscussion

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Show HN: Grapple, a DIY data platform that uses AI the Right Way

2 points • 1 comments • by andrewicarlsondiscussion

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Chegg to lay off 22% of workforce

3 points • 0 comments • by mfiguierediscussion

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SoftBank Stargate Venture with OpenAI Snags on Tariff Fears

1 points • 0 comments • by mfiguierediscussion

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Show HN: Airweave – Let agents search any app

9 points • 2 comments • by lennertjansendiscussion

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Klarna Slows AI-Driven Job Cuts with Call for Real People

2 points • 0 comments • by rntndiscussion

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We Built a 7-Figure AI Consulting Business in Less Than a Year

1 points • 0 comments • by mooredsdiscussion

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Scaling Judge-Time Compute with Leonard Tang – Weaviate Podcast

1 points • 0 comments • by CShortendiscussion

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Show HN: Chattergories – a category-guessing game, judged by AI

1 points • 0 comments • by npilkdiscussion

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Hallucinations are not the same as errors

1 points • 0 comments • by skadamatdiscussion

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Embeddings Are Underrated

115 points • 24 comments • by jxmorris12discussion

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Machine learning without true labels and noisy heuristics

2 points • 0 comments • by usgroupdiscussion

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