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Hacker News (May 2025)
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Claude 4
1975 points • comment • may 22, 2025
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Redis is open source again
1878 points • comment • may 01, 2025
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The Windows Subsystem for Linux is now open source
1591 points • comment • may 19, 2025
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Plain Vanilla Web
1457 points • comment • may 11, 2025
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I'd rather read the prompt
1386 points • comment • may 04, 2025
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Baby is healed with first personalized gene-editing treatment
1232 points • comment • may 15, 2025
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CSS Minecraft
1185 points • comment • may 26, 2025
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Mozilla to shut down Pocket and Fakespot
1163 points • comment • may 22, 2025
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From: Steve Jobs. "Great idea, thank you."
1135 points • comment • may 08, 2025
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Apple violated antitrust ruling, judge finds
1133 points • comment • may 01, 2025
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The curse of knowing how, or; fixing everything
1120 points • comment • may 06, 2025
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Photos taken inside musical instruments
1090 points • comment • may 30, 2025
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Show HN: Clippy – 90s UI for local LLMs
1087 points • comment • may 06, 2025
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Postgres IDE in VS Code
1011 points • comment • may 23, 2025
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AlphaEvolve: A Gemini-powered coding agent for designing advanced algorithms
998 points • comment • may 14, 2025
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Coding without a laptop: Two weeks with AR glasses and Linux on Android
987 points • comment • may 14, 2025
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Spaced repetition systems have gotten better
979 points • comment • may 18, 2025
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Judge rules Apple executive lied under oath, makes criminal contempt referral
976 points • comment • may 01, 2025
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Void: Open-source Cursor alternative
895 points • comment • may 08, 2025
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Watching AI drive Microsoft employees insane
889 points • comment • may 21, 2025
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Ty: A fast Python type checker and language server
879 points • comment • may 07, 2025
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Gemini Diffusion
869 points • comment • may 22, 2025
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Have I Been Pwned 2.0
850 points • comment • may 19, 2025
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Trump administration halts Harvard's ability to enroll international students
849 points • comment • may 22, 2025
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Mozilla Firefox – Official GitHub repo
832 points • comment • may 13, 2025
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OpenAI to buy AI startup from Jony Ive
803 points • comment • may 21, 2025
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Veo 3 and Imagen 4, and a new tool for filmmaking called Flow
801 points • comment • may 20, 2025
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Technical analysis of the Signal clone used by Trump officials
797 points • comment • may 02, 2025
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Design for 3D-Printing
790 points • comment • may 04, 2025
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The world could run on older hardware if software optimization was a priority
785 points • comment • may 13, 2025
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Office is too slow, so Microsoft is making it load at Windows startup
785 points • comment • may 01, 2025
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What is HDR, anyway?
773 points • comment • may 14, 2025
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Zod 4
767 points • comment • may 19, 2025
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Show HN: Free, in-browser PDF editor
757 points • comment • may 03, 2025
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Find Your People
756 points • comment • may 23, 2025
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German court sends VW execs to prison over Dieselgate scandal
734 points • comment • may 26, 2025
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Square Theory
723 points • comment • may 27, 2025
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Owls in Towels
723 points • comment • may 26, 2025
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Claude Integrations
716 points • comment • may 01, 2025
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Human
713 points • comment • may 15, 2025
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Zed: High-performance AI Code Editor
709 points • comment • may 07, 2025
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The Barbican
701 points • comment • may 12, 2025
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WeatherStar 4000+: Weather Channel Simulator
694 points • comment • may 29, 2025
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Gemini 2.5 Pro Preview
689 points • comment • may 06, 2025
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Claude 4 System Card
684 points • comment • may 25, 2025
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Devstral
680 points • comment • may 21, 2025
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The ‘white-collar bloodbath’ is all part of the AI hype machine
676 points • comment • may 30, 2025
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Internet Artifacts
663 points • comment • may 13, 2025
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The Death of Daydreaming
662 points • comment • may 05, 2025
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Thoughts on thinking
659 points • comment • may 16, 2025
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The Who Cares Era
651 points • comment • may 28, 2025
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OpenAI reaches agreement to buy Windsurf for $3B
650 points • comment • may 06, 2025
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DDoSecrets publishes 410 GB of heap dumps, hacked from TeleMessage
649 points • comment • may 20, 2025
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Hacker News now runs on top of Common Lisp
645 points • comment • may 26, 2025
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Don't guess my language
641 points • comment • may 19, 2025
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I used o3 to find a remote zeroday in the Linux SMB implementation
635 points • comment • may 24, 2025
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The scientific “unit” we call the decibel
626 points • comment • may 22, 2025
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ALICE detects the conversion of lead into gold at the LHC
622 points • comment • may 09, 2025
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My new deadline: 20 years to give away virtually all my wealth
619 points • comment • may 08, 2025
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Human coders are still better than LLMs
617 points • comment • may 29, 2025
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Starting July 1, academic publishers can't paywall NIH-funded research
608 points • comment • may 01, 2025
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CLion Is Now Free for Non-Commercial Use
604 points • comment • may 07, 2025
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Claude's system prompt is over 24k tokens with tools
602 points • comment • may 06, 2025
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Evolving OpenAI's Structure
595 points • comment • may 05, 2025
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A critical look at MCP
594 points • comment • may 10, 2025
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Accountability Sinks
592 points • comment • may 03, 2025
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France Endorses UN Open Source Principles
591 points • comment • may 18, 2025
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Reinvent the Wheel
589 points • comment • may 24, 2025
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Matt Godbolt sold me on Rust by showing me C++
589 points • comment • may 06, 2025
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First American pope elected and will be known as Pope Leo XIV
588 points • comment • may 08, 2025
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Show HN: I rewrote my Mac Electron app in Rust
577 points • comment • may 28, 2025
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I decided to pay off a school’s lunch debt
577 points • comment • may 04, 2025
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LegoGPT: Generating Physically Stable and Buildable Lego
573 points • comment • may 09, 2025
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Business books are entertainment, not strategic tools
560 points • comment • may 09, 2025
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By default, Signal doesn't recall
556 points • comment • may 21, 2025
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At Amazon, some coders say their jobs have begun to resemble warehouse work
555 points • comment • may 25, 2025
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How to live an intellectually rich life
554 points • comment • may 02, 2025
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Waiting for Postgres 18: Accelerating Disk Reads with Asynchronous I/O
553 points • comment • may 07, 2025
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That fractal that's been up on my wall for years
551 points • comment • may 22, 2025
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US Trade Court finds Trump tariffs illegal
551 points • comment • may 29, 2025
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GitHub Copilot Coding Agent
546 points • comment • may 19, 2025
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Making video games (without an engine) in 2025
546 points • comment • may 20, 2025
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NSF faces shake-up as officials abolish its 37 divisions
544 points • comment • may 09, 2025
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Push Ifs Up and Fors Down
540 points • comment • may 17, 2025
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John Carmack talk at Upper Bound 2025
537 points • comment • may 23, 2025
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My website is ugly because I made it
536 points • comment • may 28, 2025
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Precision Clock Mk IV
536 points • comment • may 31, 2025
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Leaving Google
535 points • comment • may 11, 2025
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I hacked a dating app (and how not to treat a security researcher)
533 points • comment • may 12, 2025
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Vision Now Available in Llama.cpp
531 points • comment • may 10, 2025
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Ask HN: How are you acquiring your first hundred users?
530 points • comment • may 13, 2025
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A simple 16x16 dot animation from simple math rules
526 points • comment • may 10, 2025
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Unity’s Open-Source Double Standard: the ban of VLC
516 points • comment • may 07, 2025
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Jules: An asynchronous coding agent
516 points • comment • may 19, 2025
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FLUX.1 Kontext
515 points • comment • may 29, 2025
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Show HN: My LLM CLI tool can run tools now, from Python code or plugins
515 points • comment • may 27, 2025
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Open Source Society University – Path to a free self-taught education in CS
513 points • comment • may 25, 2025
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Reservoir Sampling
510 points • comment • may 08, 2025
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One-Click RCE in Asus's Preinstalled Driver Software
507 points • comment • may 11, 2025
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Show HN: Real-time AI Voice Chat at ~500ms Latency
502 points • comment • may 05, 2025