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Hacker News (May 2025)

  1. XAI's Grok suddenly can't stop bringing up "white genocide" in South Africa

    93 points • comment • may 15, 2025

  2. Show HN: W++ – A Python-style scripting language for .NET with NuGet support

    93 points • comment • may 30, 2025

  3. Reverse Engineering "DNA Sequences" in the Lost World: Jurassic Park Video Game

    93 points • comment • may 07, 2025

  4. Adam Riess and the Hubble tension

    93 points • comment • may 30, 2025

  5. Mustard Watches (1990)

    93 points • comment • may 27, 2025

  6. Millihertz 5 Mechanical Computer (2022)

    93 points • comment • may 01, 2025

  7. A Rust Documentation Ecosystem Review

    93 points • comment • may 11, 2025

  8. Show HN: Whippy Term - GUI terminal for embedded development (Linux and Windows)

    93 points • comment • may 06, 2025

  9. Refactoring Clojure

    93 points • comment • may 15, 2025

  10. New Tool: lsds – List All Linux Block Devices and Settings in One Place

    92 points • comment • may 09, 2025

  11. USPTO refuses Tesla Robotaxi trademark as "merely descriptive"

    92 points • comment • may 09, 2025

  12. It is time to stop teaching frequentism to non-statisticians (2012)

    92 points • comment • may 24, 2025

  13. How to title your blog post or whatever

    92 points • comment • may 12, 2025

  14. Milwaukee police considering trading mugshots for facial recognition tech

    92 points • comment • may 01, 2025

  15. Open Problems in Computational geometry

    91 points • comment • may 17, 2025

  16. Monitoring my Minecraft server with OpenTelemetry and Prometheus

    91 points • comment • may 08, 2025

  17. Mathematical Problem Solving

    91 points • comment • may 05, 2025

  18. US cancels funding for Moderna bird flu vaccine

    91 points • comment • may 29, 2025

  19. DuoBook: Generate bilingual stories to learn any language

    91 points • comment • may 04, 2025

  20. FedRAMP 20x – One Month in and Moving Fast

    91 points • comment • may 13, 2025

  21. Cracked – Method chaining/CSS-style selector web audio library

    91 points • comment • may 16, 2025

  22. The legacy of the iconic Nakagin capsule tower

    91 points • comment • may 24, 2025

  23. A Formal Proof of Complexity Bounds on Diophantine Equations

    91 points • comment • may 23, 2025

  24. A Song of “Full Self-Driving”

    91 points • comment • may 29, 2025

  25. eBPF Mystery: When is IPv4 not IPv4? When it's pretending to be IPv6

    91 points • comment • may 09, 2025

  26. They used Xenon to climb Everest in days – is it the future of mountaineering?

    90 points • comment • may 27, 2025

  27. A Survey of AI Agent Protocols

    90 points • comment • may 04, 2025

  28. Smalltalk-78 Xerox NoteTaker in-browser emulator

    90 points • comment • may 14, 2025

  29. Show HN: A5

    90 points • comment • may 13, 2025

  30. Faster sorting with SIMD CUDA intrinsics (2024)

    90 points • comment • may 05, 2025

  31. NSF stops awarding new grants and funding existing ones

    90 points • comment • may 01, 2025

  32. Google Doc Templates for Startups

    90 points • comment • may 09, 2025

  33. GTK Krell Monitors

    89 points • comment • may 13, 2025

  34. Show HN: Zli – A Batteries-Included CLI Framework for Zig

    89 points • comment • may 25, 2025

  35. Extending a Language – Writing Powerful Macros in Scheme

    89 points • comment • may 05, 2025

  36. Show HN: A backend agnostic Ruby framework for building reactive desktop apps

    89 points • comment • may 09, 2025

  37. SpaceX pushed "sniper" theory with the feds

    89 points • comment • may 05, 2025

  38. A Secret Trove of Rare Guitars Heads to the Met

    89 points • comment • may 21, 2025

  39. MTerrain: Optimized terrain system and editor for Godot

    89 points • comment • may 06, 2025

  40. FCC Chair Brendan Carr is letting ISPs merge–as long as they end DEI programs

    89 points • comment • may 19, 2025

  41. PlainBudget – Minimalist Plain Text Budgeting

    89 points • comment • may 09, 2025

  42. Driving Compilers (2023)

    89 points • comment • may 05, 2025

  43. Using Ed(1) as My Static Site Generator

    89 points • comment • may 31, 2025

  44. UK's Ancient Tree Inventory

    89 points • comment • may 14, 2025

  45. Show HN: SuperUtilsPlus – A Modern Alternative to Lodash

    89 points • comment • may 24, 2025

  46. Charles Bukowski, William Burroughs, and the Computer (2009)

    88 points • comment • may 10, 2025

  47. Tornado warnings delayed because of DOGE cuts

    88 points • comment • may 18, 2025

  48. Dr. Dobb's Journal interviews Jef Raskin (1986)

    88 points • comment • may 15, 2025

  49. How can traditional British TV survive the US streaming giants

    87 points • comment • may 14, 2025

  50. Comparing Parallel Functional Array Languages: Programming and Performance

    87 points • comment • may 16, 2025

  51. Show HN: Lumoar – Free SOC 2 tool for SaaS startups

    87 points • comment • may 12, 2025

  52. If an AI agent can't figure out how your API works, neither can your users

    87 points • comment • may 20, 2025

  53. The complicated business of electing a Doge

    87 points • comment • may 04, 2025

  54. What Every Programmer Should Know About Enumerative Combinatorics

    87 points • comment • may 15, 2025

  55. Paper Mechanisms

    87 points • comment • may 18, 2025

  56. Returning to My Roots in Hardware

    87 points • comment • may 13, 2025

  57. Cerebras achieves 2,500T/s on Llama 4 Maverick (400B)

    87 points • comment • may 31, 2025

  58. Ink and Algorithms: Techniques, tools and the craft of pen plotting

    87 points • comment • may 08, 2025

  59. Death of Michael Ledeen, maker of the phony case for the invasion of Iraq

    87 points • comment • may 25, 2025

  60. When will M&S take online orders again?

    86 points • comment • may 30, 2025

  61. Launch HN: Nomi (YC X25) – Copilot for Sales

    86 points • comment • may 26, 2025

  62. Show HN: Donut Browser, a Browser Orchestrator

    86 points • comment • may 30, 2025

  63. Show HN: AI Baby Monitor – local Video-LLM that beeps when safety rules break

    86 points • comment • may 21, 2025

  64. Radxa Orion O6 brings Arm to the midrange PC (with caveats)

    86 points • comment • may 10, 2025

  65. Trial by Fire: The crash of Aeroflot flight 1492

    86 points • comment • may 13, 2025

  66. A High-Level View of TLA+

    86 points • comment • may 31, 2025

  67. Direct TLS can speed up your connections

    86 points • comment • may 22, 2025

  68. Prohibition and ice cream in the US Navy

    86 points • comment • may 28, 2025

  69. OpenBao Namespaces

    86 points • comment • may 30, 2025

  70. Ray Tracing in J

    86 points • comment • may 28, 2025

  71. Things that have a bigger impact than coding assistants

    86 points • comment • may 21, 2025

  72. Phoenician culture spread mainly through cultural exchange

    85 points • comment • may 05, 2025

  73. Just Fucking Use HTML

    85 points • comment • may 12, 2025

  74. Layers All the Way Down: The Untold Story of Shader Compilation

    85 points • comment • may 19, 2025

  75. Moment of heart's formation captured in images for first time

    85 points • comment • may 13, 2025

  76. De minimis: US small parcels loophole closes pushing up Shein, Temu prices

    85 points • comment • may 02, 2025

  77. Chimps strike stones against trees as communication, study suggests

    85 points • comment • may 27, 2025

  78. Former Supreme Court justice David Souter has died

    85 points • comment • may 09, 2025

  79. Rock, paper, scissors showdown

    85 points • comment • may 23, 2025

  80. Unspoken Currency of Office Politics: Leverage and Sanction Between Coworkers

    85 points • comment • may 17, 2025

  81. Show HN: Tkintergalactic - Declarative Tcl/Tk UI Library for Python

    85 points • comment • may 05, 2025

  82. Oracle VM VirtualBox – VM Escape via VGA Device

    85 points • comment • may 15, 2025

  83. Show HN: Easel – Code multiplayer games like singleplayer

    85 points • comment • may 14, 2025

  84. Prolog's Eternal September (2017)

    84 points • comment • may 08, 2025

  85. Prepare your apps for Google Play's 16 KB page size compatibility requirement

    84 points • comment • may 08, 2025

  86. OpenAI's Stargate project struggling to get off the ground, due to tariffs

    84 points • comment • may 13, 2025

  87. Why I ever wrote Clojure

    84 points • comment • may 03, 2025

  88. The Price of Remission

    84 points • comment • may 08, 2025

  89. Minimal Linux Bootloader (2018)

    84 points • comment • may 04, 2025

  90. An Almost Pointless Exercise in GPU Optimization

    84 points • comment • may 21, 2025

  91. Carolina Eyck, renowned superstar of the theremin

    84 points • comment • may 03, 2025

  92. The Era of the Business Idiot

    84 points • comment • may 21, 2025

  93. The Linux Kernel's PGP Web of Trust

    84 points • comment • may 09, 2025

  94. Another way electric cars clean the air: study says brake dust reduced by 83%

    83 points • comment • may 28, 2025

  95. Silly job interview questions in Haskell

    83 points • comment • may 23, 2025

  96. What Is the Difference Between a Block, a Proc, and a Lambda in Ruby? (2013)

    83 points • comment • may 18, 2025

  97. Kelp – simple replacement for homebrew on macOS

    83 points • comment • may 19, 2025

  98. DeepSeek’s founder is threatening US dominance in AI race

    83 points • comment • may 14, 2025

  99. How much information is in DNA?

    83 points • comment • may 08, 2025

  100. The Surveilled Student (2021)

    83 points • comment • may 30, 2025