5.12.25 | Plain Vanilla Web, One-Click RCE in Asus Driver, 16x16 Dot Animation from Math Rules

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on May 12, 2025.Plain Vanilla Webhttps://plainvanillaweb.com/index.htmlhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43954896One-Click RCE in Asus's Preinstalled Driver Softwarehttps://mrbruh.com/asusdriverhub/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43951588A simple 16x16 dot animation from simple math ruleshttps://tixy.landhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43942881Car companies are in a billion-dollar software warhttps://insideevs.com/features/759153/car-companies-software-companies/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43955525Writing an LLM from scratch, part 13 – attention heads are dumbhttps://www.gilesthomas.com/2025/05/llm-from-scratch-13-taking-stock-part-1-attention-heads-are-dumbhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43931366Lazarus Release 4.0https://forum.lazarus.freepascal.org/index.php?topic=71050.0https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43913414Title of work deciphered in sealed Herculaneum scroll via digital unwrappinghttps://www.finebooksmagazine.com/fine-books-news/title-work-deciphered-sealed-herculaneum-scroll-digital-unwrappinghttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43953883The most valuable commodity in the world is frictionhttps://kyla.substack.com/p/the-most-valuable-commodity-in-thehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43933091Why Bell Labs Workedhttps://1517.substack.com/p/why-bell-labs-workedhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43957010High-school shop students attract skilled-trades job offershttps://www.wsj.com/lifestyle/careers/skilled-trades-high-school-recruitment-fd9f8257https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43954488