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Hacker News (May 2025)

  1. Propositions as Types (2014) [pdf]

    107 points • comment • may 06, 2025

  2. Google Wallet launches new age and identity verification features (ZK proofs)

    107 points • comment • may 01, 2025

  3. Updated rate limits for unauthenticated requests

    107 points • comment • may 09, 2025

  4. The Turkish İ Problem and Why You Should Care (2012)

    107 points • comment • may 06, 2025

  5. VR Design Unpacked: The secret to Beat Saber's fun

    107 points • comment • may 02, 2025

  6. ACE-Step: A step towards music generation foundation model

    107 points • comment • may 06, 2025

  7. History of “Adventure” for the Atari 2600

    107 points • comment • may 05, 2025

  8. British naval dominance during the age of sail

    107 points • comment • may 16, 2025

  9. Mathematical Fiction

    106 points • comment • may 25, 2025

  10. 'Turbocharged' Mitochondria Power Birds' Epic Migratory Journeys

    106 points • comment • may 21, 2025

  11. Microsoft is Cutting 3% of All Workers

    106 points • comment • may 13, 2025

  12. WireGuard vanity keygen

    106 points • comment • may 19, 2025

  13. Instagram Addiction

    106 points • comment • may 20, 2025

  14. How Does Claude 4 Think? – Sholto Douglas and Trenton Bricken

    106 points • comment • may 23, 2025

  15. Wacom drawing tablets track the name of every application you open (2020)

    105 points • comment • may 17, 2025

  16. OpenTelemetry protocol with Apache Arrow

    105 points • comment • may 13, 2025

  17. Launch HN: Relace (YC W23) – Models for fast and reliable codegen

    105 points • comment • may 27, 2025

  18. The Trackers and SDKs in ChatGPT, Claude, Grok and Perplexity

    105 points • comment • may 31, 2025

  19. What even is a small language model now?

    105 points • comment • may 21, 2025

  20. OpenSearch 3.0 Released

    105 points • comment • may 07, 2025

  21. Intel: Winning and Losing

    105 points • comment • may 10, 2025

  22. Internet usage pattern during power outage in Spain and Portugal

    105 points • comment • may 05, 2025

  23. Behind Silicon Valley and the GOP’s campaign to ban state AI laws

    104 points • comment • may 17, 2025

  24. Overview of the Ada Computer Language Competition (1979)

    104 points • comment • may 21, 2025

  25. Cursor hits $9B valuation

    104 points • comment • may 05, 2025

  26. Gail Wellington, former Commodore executive, has died

    104 points • comment • may 17, 2025

  27. Compiling OCaml to the TI-84 CE Calculator

    104 points • comment • may 17, 2025

  28. Bootstrapping Lisp in a Boot Sector

    103 points • comment • may 05, 2025

  29. Apple Blocks Fortnite's Return to iOS App Store, Epic Claims

    103 points • comment • may 16, 2025

  30. Toxic Origins, Toxic Decisions: Biases in CEO Selection

    103 points • comment • may 30, 2025

  31. The History of Album Art

    103 points • comment • may 02, 2025

  32. A Visual History of Chessmen

    103 points • comment • may 25, 2025

  33. Untrusted chatbot AI between you & the internet is a disaster waiting to happen

    103 points • comment • may 29, 2025

  34. Living beings emit a faint light that extinguishes upon death, study

    103 points • comment • may 19, 2025

  35. Estimating Logarithms

    102 points • comment • may 31, 2025

  36. Notes on Tunisia

    102 points • comment • may 29, 2025

  37. ARMv9 Architecture Helps Lift Arm to New Financial Heights

    102 points • comment • may 14, 2025

  38. RethinkDNS Resolver That Deploys to CF Workers, Deno Deploy, Fastly, Fly.io

    102 points • comment • may 03, 2025

  39. Accessing private GitHub repositories via MCP

    102 points • comment • may 26, 2025

  40. DWARF as a Shared Reverse Engineering Format

    102 points • comment • may 28, 2025

  41. Harnessing the Universal Geometry of Embeddings

    102 points • comment • may 21, 2025

  42. Traffic Fatalities Are a Choice

    102 points • comment • may 12, 2025

  43. Apple Shortcuts is falling into "the automation gap"

    102 points • comment • may 05, 2025

  44. Show HN: Buckaroo – Data table UI for Notebooks

    102 points • comment • may 18, 2025

  45. ChatGPT Is a Gimmick

    102 points • comment • may 22, 2025

  46. Show HN: A minimalist web timer for focus and time tracking

    102 points • comment • may 26, 2025

  47. The Beam

    102 points • comment • may 09, 2025

  48. Show HN: Turn any workflow diagram into compilable, running and stateful code

    102 points • comment • may 14, 2025

  49. CheerpJ 4.1: Java in the browser, now supporting Java 17 (preview)

    101 points • comment • may 28, 2025

  50. Microsoft Open Sources Copilot

    101 points • comment • may 19, 2025

  51. We know a little more about Amazon's satellites

    101 points • comment • may 03, 2025

  52. NASA study reveals Venus crust surprise

    101 points • comment • may 09, 2025

  53. Show HN: A platform to find tech conferences, discounts, and ticket giveaways

    101 points • comment • may 16, 2025

  54. Convolutions, Polynomials and Flipped Kernels

    101 points • comment • may 21, 2025

  55. Doom GPU Flame Graphs

    101 points • comment • may 01, 2025

  56. Using obscure graph theory to solve programming languages problems

    101 points • comment • may 13, 2025

  57. Valve takes another step toward making SteamOS a true Windows competitor

    101 points • comment • may 24, 2025

  58. Derivation and Intuition behind Poisson distribution

    100 points • comment • may 01, 2025

  59. Nvidia pushes further into cloud with GPU marketplace

    100 points • comment • may 21, 2025

  60. Satellites Spotting Depth

    100 points • comment • may 21, 2025

  61. Hyper Typing

    100 points • comment • may 18, 2025

  62. UndoDB – The interactive time travel debugger for Linux C/C++ for debugging

    100 points • comment • may 23, 2025

  63. Discover is now part of Capital One

    100 points • comment • may 19, 2025

  64. Cory Doctorow on how we lost the internet

    100 points • comment • may 28, 2025

  65. Outcome-Based Reinforcement Learning to Predict the Future

    99 points • comment • may 27, 2025

  66. JEP 515: Ahead-of-Time Method Profiling

    99 points • comment • may 11, 2025

  67. Terraform MCP Server

    99 points • comment • may 19, 2025

  68. Show HN: Oliphaunt – A native Mastodon client for macOS

    99 points • comment • may 09, 2025

  69. 2024 sea level 'report cards' map futures of U.S. coastal communities

    99 points • comment • may 11, 2025

  70. SVG favicons in action

    99 points • comment • may 24, 2025

  71. Show HN: Confidential computing for high-assurance RISC-V embedded systems

    99 points • comment • may 21, 2025

  72. “Secret Mall Apartment,” a Protest for Place

    99 points • comment • may 22, 2025

  73. Nitrogen Triiodide (2016)

    98 points • comment • may 29, 2025

  74. Urtext: The Python plaintext library for people who've tried everything else

    98 points • comment • may 01, 2025

  75. In defense of shallow technical knowledge

    98 points • comment • may 25, 2025

  76. Show HN: Use Third Party LLM API in JetBrains AI Assistant

    98 points • comment • may 03, 2025

  77. The Logistics of Road War in the Wasteland

    98 points • comment • may 24, 2025

  78. Mitochondria Are More Than Powerhouses–They're the Motherboard of the Cell

    98 points • comment • may 21, 2025

  79. Why we still can't stop plagiarism in undergraduate computer science (2018)

    98 points • comment • may 31, 2025

  80. Fast machines, slow machines (2023)

    97 points • comment • may 13, 2025

  81. The Totalitarian Buddhist Who Beat SIM City (2010)

    97 points • comment • may 02, 2025

  82. Pakistani firm shipped fentanyl analogs, scams to us

    97 points • comment • may 07, 2025

  83. Webb telescope helps refine Hubble constant

    97 points • comment • may 28, 2025

  84. Don't unwrap options: There are better ways (2024)

    97 points • comment • may 13, 2025

  85. Byte latent transformer: Patches scale better than tokens

    97 points • comment • may 12, 2025

  86. Mipmap selection in too much detail

    96 points • comment • may 11, 2025

  87. Depictions of the Milky Way found in ancient Egyptian imagery

    96 points • comment • may 01, 2025

  88. MicroPython v1.25.0

    96 points • comment • may 15, 2025

  89. Gonzalo Guerrero

    96 points • comment • may 11, 2025

  90. The longest train journey is epic – but nobody's ever taken it

    96 points • comment • may 17, 2025

  91. I can’t understand Apple’s Critical Alert policy (2023)

    96 points • comment • may 08, 2025

  92. In the Network of the Conclav: How we "guessed" the Pope using network science

    95 points • comment • may 09, 2025

  93. More people are getting tattoos removed

    95 points • comment • may 08, 2025

  94. Wikipedia's Most Translated Articles

    95 points • comment • may 19, 2025

  95. Stack Overflow is almost dead

    95 points • comment • may 15, 2025

  96. Bethesda Thinks Fan Remaster of Oblivion Is 'Very Special' and Supports It

    95 points • comment • may 03, 2025

  97. A Pokémon battle simulation engine

    95 points • comment • may 29, 2025

  98. Garbage collection of object storage at scale

    94 points • comment • may 10, 2025

  99. The Decline of Usability: Revisited (2023)

    94 points • comment • may 21, 2025

  100. Bike-mounted sensor could boost the mapping of safe cycling routes

    94 points • comment • may 14, 2025