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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

    1353 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

    780 points • comment • may 04, 2025

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

    757 points • comment • may 03, 2025

  8. Claude Integrations

    716 points • comment • may 01, 2025

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

    688 points • comment • may 02, 2025

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

    608 points • comment • may 01, 2025

  11. The Death of Daydreaming

    606 points • comment • may 05, 2025

  12. Accountability Sinks

    592 points • comment • may 03, 2025

  13. How to live an intellectually rich life

    554 points • comment • may 02, 2025

  14. Evolving OpenAI's Structure

    541 points • comment • may 05, 2025

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

    500 points • comment • may 03, 2025

  16. Why Archers Didn't Volley Fire

    490 points • comment • may 03, 2025

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

    489 points • comment • may 02, 2025

  18. A faster way to copy SQLite databases between computers

    485 points • comment • may 01, 2025

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

    474 points • comment • may 03, 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 vocal effects of Daft Punk

    407 points • comment • may 05, 2025

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

    407 points • comment • may 02, 2025

  28. Old Soviet Venus descent craft nearing Earth reentry

    399 points • comment • may 02, 2025

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

    398 points • comment • may 05, 2025

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

    396 points • comment • may 04, 2025

  31. International Workers' Day

    394 points • comment • may 01, 2025

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

    385 points • comment • may 02, 2025

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

    385 points • comment • may 03, 2025

  34. Why can't HTML alone do includes?

    382 points • comment • may 03, 2025

  35. Suno v4.5

    377 points • comment • may 02, 2025

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

    372 points • comment • may 01, 2025

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

    367 points • comment • may 05, 2025

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

    361 points • comment • may 01, 2025

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

    356 points • comment • may 02, 2025

  40. Minimum Viable Blog

    348 points • comment • may 03, 2025

  41. Corporation for Public Broadcasting Statement Regarding Executive Order

    347 points • comment • may 02, 2025

  42. Anubis saved our websites from a DDoS attack

    339 points • comment • may 01, 2025

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

    332 points • comment • may 05, 2025

  44. An Alabama landline that keeps ringing

    331 points • comment • may 04, 2025

  45. The curse of knowing how, or; fixing everything

    331 points • comment • may 06, 2025

  46. What went wrong with wireless USB

    324 points • comment • may 04, 2025

  47. Replacing Kubernetes with systemd (2024)

    306 points • comment • may 05, 2025

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

    293 points • comment • may 01, 2025

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

    292 points • comment • may 01, 2025

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

    287 points • comment • may 04, 2025

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

    282 points • comment • may 02, 2025

  52. Show HN: My AI Native Resume

    281 points • comment • may 05, 2025

  53. AI Meets WinDBG

    281 points • comment • may 05, 2025

  54. Run LLMs on Apple Neural Engine (ANE)

    279 points • comment • may 03, 2025

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

    276 points • comment • may 02, 2025

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

    270 points • comment • may 05, 2025

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

    270 points • comment • may 01, 2025

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

    270 points • comment • may 01, 2025

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

    266 points • comment • may 02, 2025

  60. The Gang Has a Mid-Life Crisis

    254 points • comment • may 01, 2025

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

    253 points • comment • may 01, 2025

  62. Expanding on what we missed with sycophancy

    247 points • comment • may 02, 2025

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

    247 points • comment • may 01, 2025

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

    246 points • comment • may 05, 2025

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

    244 points • comment • may 03, 2025

  66. Strings Just Got Faster

    236 points • comment • may 01, 2025

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

    235 points • comment • may 02, 2025

  68. How are cyber criminals rolling in 2025?

    234 points • comment • may 05, 2025

  69. Graceful Shutdown in Go: Practical Patterns

    233 points • comment • may 04, 2025

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

    233 points • comment • may 02, 2025

  71. Bloom Filters

    233 points • comment • may 02, 2025

  72. Possibly a Serious Possibility

    225 points • comment • may 05, 2025

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

    224 points • comment • may 02, 2025

  74. The Brief Origins of May Day

    224 points • comment • may 01, 2025

  75. Modern LaTeX

    223 points • comment • may 05, 2025

  76. Dummy's Guide to Modern LLM Sampling

    220 points • comment • may 04, 2025

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

    212 points • comment • may 03, 2025

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

    212 points • comment • may 04, 2025

  79. Dopamine signals when a fear can be forgotten

    209 points • comment • may 01, 2025

  80. QModem 4.51 Source Code

    207 points • comment • may 03, 2025

  81. What I've learned from jj

    203 points • comment • may 02, 2025

  82. Google has most of my email because it has all of yours (2014)

    203 points • comment • may 06, 2025

  83. Oberon Pi

    201 points • comment • may 04, 2025

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

    200 points • comment • may 02, 2025

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

    197 points • comment • may 03, 2025

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

    195 points • comment • may 05, 2025

  87. Google Gemini has the worst LLM API

    193 points • comment • may 03, 2025

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

    193 points • comment • may 03, 2025

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

    192 points • comment • may 03, 2025

  90. Deno's Decline

    191 points • comment • may 01, 2025

  91. Show HN: Roons – Mechanical Computer Kit

    191 points • comment • may 01, 2025

  92. N8n – Flexible AI workflow automation for technical teams

    188 points • comment • may 03, 2025

  93. Ask HN: Hackathons feel fake now

    186 points • comment • may 04, 2025

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

    180 points • comment • may 01, 2025

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

    177 points • comment • may 04, 2025

  96. Databricks in talks to acquire startup Neon for about $1B

    171 points • comment • may 05, 2025

  97. Brian Eno's Theory of Democracy

    169 points • comment • may 04, 2025

  98. Llasa: Llama-Based Speech Synthesis

    165 points • comment • may 01, 2025

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

    164 points • comment • may 05, 2025

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

    164 points • comment • may 01, 2025