Hacker News Highlights

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on May 13, 2025.

The Barbican
https://arslan.io/2025/05/12/barbican-estate/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43964136

Firefox moves to GitHub
https://github.com/mozilla-firefox/firefox
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43969827

A community-led fork of Organic Maps
https://www.comaps.app/news/2025-05-12/3/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43961908

Can you trust that permission pop-up on macOS?
https://wts.dev/posts/tcc-who/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43966089

FastVLM: Efficient vision encoding for vision language models
https://github.com/apple/ml-fastvlm
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43968897

University of Texas-led team solves a big problem for fusion energy
https://news.utexas.edu/2025/05/05/university-of-texas-led-team-solves-a-big-problem-for-fusion-energy/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43962148

Ruby 3.5 Feature: Namespace on read
https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/21311
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43962770

Reviving a modular cargo bike design from the 1930s
https://www.core77.com/posts/136773/Reviving-a-Modular-Cargo-Bike-Design-from-the-1930s
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43963397

Air Traffic Control
https://computer.rip/2025-05-11-air-traffic-control.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43958562

RIP Usenix ATC
https://bcantrill.dtrace.org/2025/05/11/rip-usenix-atc/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43964827