5.31.25 | Photos inside instruments, AI hype and white-collar layoffs, AWS systems correctness practices

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on May 31, 2025.Photos taken inside musical instrumentshttps://www.dpreview.com/photography/5400934096/probe-lenses-and-focus-stacking-the-secrets-to-incredible-photos-taken-inside-instrumentshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44139626The ‘white-collar bloodbath’ is all part of the AI hype machinehttps://www.cnn.com/2025/05/30/business/anthropic-amodei-ai-jobs-nightcaphttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44136117Systems Correctness Practices at Amazon Web Serviceshttps://cacm.acm.org/practice/systems-correctness-practices-at-amazon-web-services/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44135638Microsandbox: Virtual Machines that feel and perform like containershttps://github.com/microsandbox/microsandboxhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44135977Beating Google's kernelCTF PoW using AVX512https://anemato.de/blog/kctf-vdfhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44137715Surprisingly fast AI-generated kernels we didn't mean to publish yethttps://crfm.stanford.edu/2025/05/28/fast-kernels.htmlhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44139454Silicon Valley finally has a big electronics retailer again: Micro Center openshttps://www.microcenter.com/site/mc-news/article/micro-center-santa-clara-photos.aspxhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44140378Valkey Turns One: Community fork of Redishttps://www.gomomento.com/blog/valkey-turns-one-how-the-community-fork-left-redis-in-the-dust/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44140379The Darwin Gödel Machine: AI that improves itself by rewriting its own codehttps://sakana.ai/dgm/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44135369Show HN: Icepi Zero – The FPGA Raspberry Pi Zero Equivalenthttps://github.com/cheyao/icepi-zerohttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44115853