5.14.25 | Older hardware viable with software optimization, GNU Screen has multiple security issues, Branch Privilege Injection exploits race conditions

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on May 14, 2025.The world could run on older hardware if software optimization was a priorityhttps://twitter.com/ID_AA_Carmack/status/1922100771392520710https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43971464Multiple security issues in GNU Screenhttps://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2025/05/12/1https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43971716Branch Privilege Injection: Exploiting branch predictor race conditionshttps://comsec.ethz.ch/research/microarch/branch-privilege-injection/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43974891The great displacement is already well underway?https://shawnfromportland.substack.com/p/the-great-displacement-is-alreadyhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43963434Google is building its own DeX: First look at Android's Desktop Modehttps://www.androidauthority.com/android-desktop-mode-leak-3550321/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43973395PDF to Text, a challenging problemhttps://www.marginalia.nu/log/a_119_pdf/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43973721Flattening Rust’s learning curvehttps://corrode.dev/blog/flattening-rusts-learning-curve/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43978435Bus stops here: Shanghai lets riders design their own routeshttps://www.sixthtone.com/news/1017072https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43980845Type-constrained code generation with language modelshttps://arxiv.org/abs/2504.09246https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43978357Launch HN: Miyagi (YC W25) turns YouTube videos into online, interactive courseshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43972425