5.31.25 | Photos inside instruments, AI hype and white-collar layoffs, AWS systems correctness practices
Episode description
Photos taken inside musical instruments
https://www.dpreview.com/photography/5400934096/probe-lenses-and-focus-stacking-the-secrets-to-incredible-photos-taken-inside-instruments
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44139626
The ‘white-collar bloodbath’ is all part of the AI hype machine
https://www.cnn.com/2025/05/30/business/anthropic-amodei-ai-jobs-nightcap
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44136117
Systems Correctness Practices at Amazon Web Services
https://cacm.acm.org/practice/systems-correctness-practices-at-amazon-web-services/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44135638
Microsandbox: Virtual Machines that feel and perform like containers
https://github.com/microsandbox/microsandbox
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44135977
Beating Google's kernelCTF PoW using AVX512
https://anemato.de/blog/kctf-vdf
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44137715
Surprisingly fast AI-generated kernels we didn't mean to publish yet
https://crfm.stanford.edu/2025/05/28/fast-kernels.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44139454
Silicon Valley finally has a big electronics retailer again: Micro Center opens
https://www.microcenter.com/site/mc-news/article/micro-center-santa-clara-photos.aspx
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44140378
Valkey Turns One: Community fork of Redis
https://www.gomomento.com/blog/valkey-turns-one-how-the-community-fork-left-redis-in-the-dust/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44140379
The Darwin Gödel Machine: AI that improves itself by rewriting its own code
https://sakana.ai/dgm/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44135369
Show HN: Icepi Zero – The FPGA Raspberry Pi Zero Equivalent
https://github.com/cheyao/icepi-zero
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44115853