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Hacker News (May 2025)

  1. Redis is open source again

    1878 points • comment • may 01, 2025

  2. I'd rather read the prompt

    1334 points • comment • may 04, 2025

  3. Apple violated antitrust ruling, judge finds

    1133 points • comment • may 01, 2025

  4. Judge rules Apple executive lied under oath, makes criminal contempt referral

    976 points • comment • may 01, 2025

  5. Office is too slow, so Microsoft is making it load at Windows startup

    785 points • comment • may 01, 2025

  6. Design for 3D-Printing

    774 points • comment • may 04, 2025

  7. Show HN: Free, in-browser PDF editor

    756 points • comment • may 03, 2025

  8. Claude Integrations

    716 points • comment • may 01, 2025

  9. Starting July 1, academic publishers can't paywall NIH-funded research

    608 points • comment • may 01, 2025

  10. Technical analysis of the Signal clone used by Trump officials

    608 points • comment • may 02, 2025

  11. Accountability Sinks

    592 points • comment • may 03, 2025

  12. The Death of Daydreaming

    578 points • comment • may 05, 2025

  13. How to live an intellectually rich life

    554 points • comment • may 02, 2025

  14. We fell out of love with Next.js and back in love with Ruby on Rails

    500 points • comment • may 03, 2025

  15. Show HN: I built a synthesizer based on 3D physics

    489 points • comment • may 02, 2025

  16. A faster way to copy SQLite databases between computers

    485 points • comment • may 01, 2025

  17. Why Archers Didn't Volley Fire

    483 points • comment • may 03, 2025

  18. DuckDB is probably the most important geospatial software of the last decade

    474 points • comment • may 03, 2025

  19. Evolving OpenAI's Structure

    473 points • comment • may 05, 2025

  20. 108B Pixel Scan of Johannes Vermeer's Girl with a Pearl Earring

    470 points • comment • may 01, 2025

  21. Buffett to step down following six-decade run atop Berkshire

    442 points • comment • may 03, 2025

  22. Third party cookies must be removed

    441 points • comment • may 02, 2025

  23. Gorgeous-GRUB: collection of decent community-made GRUB themes

    438 points • comment • may 03, 2025

  24. Apple App Store guidelines remove ban on encouraging external payments in US

    434 points • comment • may 02, 2025

  25. Time saved by AI offset by new work created, study suggests

    426 points • comment • may 03, 2025

  26. The language brain matters more for programming than the math brain? (2020)

    407 points • comment • may 02, 2025

  27. Old Soviet Venus descent craft nearing Earth reentry

    399 points • comment • may 02, 2025

  28. International Workers' Day

    394 points • comment • may 01, 2025

  29. The vocal effects of Daft Punk

    386 points • comment • may 05, 2025

  30. When flat rate movers won't answer your calls

    385 points • comment • may 03, 2025

  31. “Fewer Users” Warning Hurting Specialized and New Apps

    385 points • comment • may 02, 2025

  32. Why can't HTML alone do includes?

    382 points • comment • may 03, 2025

  33. Suno v4.5

    377 points • comment • may 02, 2025

  34. New Study: Waymo is reducing serious crashes and making streets safer

    372 points • comment • may 01, 2025

  35. We identified a North Korean hacker who tried to get a job

    361 points • comment • may 01, 2025

  36. Irish privacy watchdog hits TikTok with €530M fine over data transfers to China

    356 points • comment • may 02, 2025

  37. Judge said Meta illegally used books to build its AI

    354 points • comment • may 05, 2025

  38. Minimum Viable Blog

    348 points • comment • may 03, 2025

  39. Corporation for Public Broadcasting Statement Regarding Executive Order

    347 points • comment • may 02, 2025

  40. Anubis saved our websites from a DDoS attack

    339 points • comment • may 01, 2025

  41. An Alabama landline that keeps ringing

    331 points • comment • may 04, 2025

  42. What went wrong with wireless USB

    324 points • comment • may 04, 2025

  43. Show HN: Real-time AI Voice Chat at ~500ms Latency

    296 points • comment • may 05, 2025

  44. I decided to pay off a school’s lunch debt

    295 points • comment • may 04, 2025

  45. An interview question that will protect you from North Korean fake workers

    293 points • comment • may 01, 2025

  46. As an experienced LLM user, I don't use generative LLMs often

    293 points • comment • may 05, 2025

  47. Linkwarden: FOSS self-hostable bookmarking with AI-tagging and page archival

    292 points • comment • may 01, 2025

  48. On Not Carrying a Camera – Cultivating memories instead of snapshots

    286 points • comment • may 04, 2025

  49. Mike Waltz Accidentally Reveals App Govt Uses to Archive Signal Messages

    282 points • comment • may 02, 2025

  50. Run LLMs on Apple Neural Engine (ANE)

    279 points • comment • may 03, 2025

  51. AI Meets WinDBG

    279 points • comment • may 05, 2025

  52. Don't watermark your legal PDFs with purple dragons in suits

    276 points • comment • may 02, 2025

  53. Show HN: My AI Native Resume

    275 points • comment • may 05, 2025

  54. Running Qwen3 on your macbook, using MLX, to vibe code for free

    270 points • comment • may 01, 2025

  55. When ChatGPT broke the field of NLP: An oral history

    270 points • comment • may 01, 2025

  56. Just redesigned my personal site with a TTY-style interface

    266 points • comment • may 02, 2025

  57. The Gang Has a Mid-Life Crisis

    254 points • comment • may 01, 2025

  58. Oxide’s compensation model: how is it going?

    253 points • comment • may 01, 2025

  59. Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2025)

    247 points • comment • may 01, 2025

  60. Expanding on what we missed with sycophancy

    247 points • comment • may 02, 2025

  61. Why I stopped angel investing after 15 years, and what I'm doing instead

    244 points • comment • may 03, 2025

  62. Strings Just Got Faster

    236 points • comment • may 01, 2025

  63. Evidence of controversial Planet 9 uncovered in sky surveys taken 23 years apart

    235 points • comment • may 02, 2025

  64. Bloom Filters

    233 points • comment • may 02, 2025

  65. xAI dev leaks API key for private SpaceX, Tesla LLMs

    233 points • comment • may 02, 2025

  66. Graceful Shutdown in Go: Practical Patterns

    230 points • comment • may 04, 2025

  67. Show HN: VectorVFS, your filesystem as a vector database

    227 points • comment • may 05, 2025

  68. Show HN: GPT-2 implemented using graphics shaders

    224 points • comment • may 02, 2025

  69. The Brief Origins of May Day

    224 points • comment • may 01, 2025

  70. Dummy's Guide to Modern LLM Sampling

    219 points • comment • may 04, 2025

  71. The Beauty of Having a Pi-Hole (2024)

    217 points • comment • may 05, 2025

  72. Modern LaTeX

    217 points • comment • may 05, 2025

  73. Replacing Kubernetes with systemd (2024)

    215 points • comment • may 05, 2025

  74. Dopamine signals when a fear can be forgotten

    209 points • comment • may 01, 2025

  75. Matrix-vector multiplication implemented in off-the-shelf DRAM for Low-Bit LLMs

    209 points • comment • may 04, 2025

  76. QModem 4.51 Source Code

    207 points • comment • may 03, 2025

  77. What I've learned from jj

    203 points • comment • may 02, 2025

  78. Possibly a Serious Possibility

    202 points • comment • may 05, 2025

  79. How are cyber criminals rolling in 2025?

    202 points • comment • may 05, 2025

  80. Oberon Pi

    200 points • comment • may 04, 2025

  81. Show HN: I taught AI to commentate Pong in real time

    200 points • comment • may 02, 2025

  82. Connomore64: Cycle exact emulation of the C64 using parallel microcontrollers

    197 points • comment • may 03, 2025

  83. AWS Built a Security Tool. It Introduced a Security Risk

    194 points • comment • may 05, 2025

  84. Google Gemini has the worst LLM API

    193 points • comment • may 03, 2025

  85. Why I Am Not Going to Buy a Computer (1987) [pdf]

    193 points • comment • may 03, 2025

  86. I put sheet music into smart glasses [video]

    192 points • comment • may 03, 2025

  87. Deno's Decline

    191 points • comment • may 01, 2025

  88. Show HN: Roons – Mechanical Computer Kit

    191 points • comment • may 01, 2025

  89. N8n – Flexible AI workflow automation for technical teams

    188 points • comment • may 03, 2025

  90. Ask HN: Hackathons feel fake now

    186 points • comment • may 04, 2025

  91. Arizona laptop farmer pleads guilty for funneling $17M to Kim Jong Un

    180 points • comment • may 01, 2025

  92. Show HN: Driverless print server for legacy printers, profit goes to open-source

    171 points • comment • may 04, 2025

  93. Brian Eno's Theory of Democracy

    169 points • comment • may 04, 2025

  94. Llasa: Llama-Based Speech Synthesis

    165 points • comment • may 01, 2025

  95. Trump announces 100% tariffs on movies ‘produced in foreign lands’

    164 points • comment • may 05, 2025

  96. Julia Parsons, U.S. Navy Code Breaker During World War II, Dies at 104

    164 points • comment • may 01, 2025

  97. “An independent journalist” who won't remain nameless

    162 points • comment • may 03, 2025

  98. The Cannae Problem

    158 points • comment • may 02, 2025

  99. Owen Le Blanc: creator of the first Linux distribution

    157 points • comment • may 01, 2025

  100. Vanguard 50-year anniversary CEO letter

    157 points • comment • may 01, 2025