5.4.25 | Free PDF editor, Rediscovering Ruby on Rails over Next.js, AI's time savings balanced by new work

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This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on May 4, 2025.Show HN: Free, in-browser PDF editorhttps://breezepdf.comhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43880962We fell out of love with Next.js and back in love with Ruby on Railshttps://hardcover.app/blog/part-1-how-we-fell-out-of-love-with-next-js-and-back-in-love-with-ruby-on-rails-inertia-jshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43881035Time saved by AI offset by new work created, study suggestshttps://arstechnica.com/ai/2025/05/time-saved-by-ai-offset-by-new-work-created-study-suggests/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43878850Minimum Viable Bloghttps://ostwilkens.se/blog/setting-up-bloghttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43877797Why can't HTML alone do includes?https://frontendmasters.com/blog/seeking-an-answer-why-cant-html-alone-do-includes/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43878728DuckDB is probably the most important geospatial software of the last decadehttps://www.dbreunig.com/2025/05/03/duckdb-is-the-most-impactful-geospatial-software-in-a-decade.htmlhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43881468Run LLMs on Apple Neural Engine (ANE)https://github.com/Anemll/Anemllhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43879702Gorgeous-GRUB: collection of decent community-made GRUB themeshttps://github.com/Jacksaur/Gorgeous-GRUBhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43883040When flat rate movers won't answer your callshttps://aphyr.com/posts/381-when-flat-rate-movers-wont-answer-your-callshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43882150Why I stopped angel investing after 15 years (and what I'm doing instead)https://halletecco.substack.com/p/why-i-stopped-angel-investing-afterhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43878878