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Hacker News (May 2025)

  1. Chrome Origin Trial: Device Bound Session Credentials

    83 points • comment • may 02, 2025

  2. Show HN: SQL-tString a t-string SQL builder in Python

    83 points • comment • may 16, 2025

  3. The Surveilled Student (2021)

    83 points • comment • may 30, 2025

  4. The Lisp in the Cellar: Dependent types that live upstairs [pdf]

    83 points • comment • may 20, 2025

  5. Silly job interview questions in Haskell

    83 points • comment • may 23, 2025

  6. GOP sneaks decade-long AI regulation ban into spending bill

    83 points • comment • may 13, 2025

  7. AI can't even fix a simple bug – but sure, let's fire engineers

    82 points • comment • may 24, 2025

  8. Math Machine – A notebook will show your kid how far they have travelled

    82 points • comment • may 06, 2025

  9. Are you the same person you used to be? (2022)

    82 points • comment • may 01, 2025

  10. Smallest Possible Files

    82 points • comment • may 27, 2025

  11. Absolute Zero: Reinforced Self-Play Reasoning with Zero Data

    82 points • comment • may 11, 2025

  12. The Japanese method of creating forests comes to Mexico

    82 points • comment • may 17, 2025

  13. Booting the RP2350 from UART

    82 points • comment • may 11, 2025

  14. Persuasion methods for engineering managers

    82 points • comment • may 13, 2025

  15. Designing type inference for high quality type errors

    82 points • comment • may 19, 2025

  16. Types of optical systems in a lens designer's toolbox (2020)

    81 points • comment • may 23, 2025

  17. I taught my 3-year-old to read like a 9-year-old

    81 points • comment • may 29, 2025

  18. Alberta separatism push roils Canada

    81 points • comment • may 23, 2025

  19. What if humanity forgot how to make CPUs?

    81 points • comment • may 12, 2025

  20. Why GADTs matter for performance (2015)

    81 points • comment • may 10, 2025

  21. The Maid Who Restored Charles II

    81 points • comment • may 29, 2025

  22. In Vietnam, an unlikely outpost for Chicano culture

    81 points • comment • may 27, 2025

  23. Closures in Tcl

    81 points • comment • may 03, 2025

  24. Show HN: Python Simulator of David Deutsch’s “Constructor Theory of Time”

    80 points • comment • may 18, 2025

  25. Coinbase 8K SEC filing for breach

    80 points • comment • may 16, 2025

  26. Writing a postmortem: an interview exercise I like (2017)

    80 points • comment • may 31, 2025

  27. The Future of Comments Is Lies, I Guess

    80 points • comment • may 29, 2025

  28. Fivetran to acquire Census

    80 points • comment • may 01, 2025

  29. Crypto Investor Charged with Kidnapping and Torturing Man for Weeks

    80 points • comment • may 25, 2025

  30. How to (actually) prove it – New Frontiers of Mathematics and Computing in Lean

    80 points • comment • may 09, 2025

  31. AI Hallucination Legal Cases Database

    80 points • comment • may 25, 2025

  32. A proof of concept tool to verify estimates

    79 points • comment • may 02, 2025

  33. Every wondered how Facebook spoofs Gmail message list snippet text?

    79 points • comment • may 26, 2025

  34. Basic for the Raspberry Pi Pico and Pico 2

    79 points • comment • may 25, 2025

  35. Show HN: Merliot – plugging physical devices into LLMs

    79 points • comment • may 17, 2025

  36. Applications of Classical Physics

    79 points • comment • may 11, 2025

  37. Sitting for a long time shrinks your brain even if you exercise

    79 points • comment • may 16, 2025

  38. Whippet GC notes on Guile, heuristics, and heap growth

    79 points • comment • may 22, 2025

  39. Big banks explore venturing into crypto world together with joint stablecoin

    79 points • comment • may 23, 2025

  40. C++26: more constexpr in the standard library

    79 points • comment • may 01, 2025

  41. The Internet 1997–2021

    79 points • comment • may 12, 2025

  42. How to run cron jobs in Postgres without extra infrastructure

    79 points • comment • may 28, 2025

  43. Writing your own C++ standard library part 2

    79 points • comment • may 31, 2025

  44. Quebec refuses to reinvest in Lion Electric

    79 points • comment • may 02, 2025

  45. White House fires head of Copyright Office amid Library of Congress shakeup

    79 points • comment • may 12, 2025

  46. A 2030 Morning Routine

    78 points • comment • may 23, 2025

  47. Why do LLMs have emergent properties?

    78 points • comment • may 08, 2025

  48. Sutton and Barto book implementation

    78 points • comment • may 06, 2025

  49. A visual feast of galaxies, from infrared to X-ray

    78 points • comment • may 02, 2025

  50. Koog, a Kotlin-based framework to build and run Al agents in idiomatic Kotlin

    78 points • comment • may 22, 2025

  51. Huawei unveils laptop running self-developed HarmonyOS as Windows licence expire

    78 points • comment • may 08, 2025

  52. In the past year my illustration business has dropped more half

    78 points • comment • may 22, 2025

  53. Visualizing 100k Years of Earth in WebGL

    78 points • comment • may 19, 2025

  54. The Inchtuthil Nail Hoard

    78 points • comment • may 05, 2025

  55. Speedrunning and Modding the Incredibles: Rise of the Underminer

    77 points • comment • may 03, 2025

  56. Unlocking Ractors: class instance variables in Ruby

    77 points • comment • may 26, 2025

  57. Forget IPs: using cryptography to verify bot and agent traffic

    77 points • comment • may 15, 2025

  58. How I fixed the infamous Basilisk II Windows “Black Screen” bug in 2013

    77 points • comment • may 15, 2025

  59. TeleMessage, a modified Signal clone used by US govt. officials, has been hacked

    77 points • comment • may 05, 2025

  60. Proposal: Add bare metal support to Go

    77 points • comment • may 07, 2025

  61. What New Orleans Taught Me

    77 points • comment • may 01, 2025

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

    77 points • comment • may 19, 2025

  63. Coffee for people who don't like coffee

    77 points • comment • may 10, 2025

  64. The Last Letter

    77 points • comment • may 20, 2025

  65. Kate and Python Language Server

    77 points • comment • may 02, 2025

  66. Car Physics for Games (2003)

    76 points • comment • may 27, 2025

  67. 37signals Says Goodbye to AWS: Full S3 Migration and $10M in Projected Savings

    76 points • comment • may 09, 2025

  68. How scrolling becomes a religious act

    76 points • comment • may 19, 2025

  69. The Atomic Airplane

    76 points • comment • may 29, 2025

  70. Zombieverter: Open source VCU for reusing salvage EV components

    76 points • comment • may 05, 2025

  71. Show HN: GlassFlow – OSS streaming dedup and joins from Kafka to ClickHouse

    76 points • comment • may 11, 2025

  72. Orders of Infinity

    76 points • comment • may 04, 2025

  73. Mississippi Can't Possibly Have Good Schools

    76 points • comment • may 07, 2025

  74. Crowd Sourcing Broken QR Codes

    76 points • comment • may 07, 2025

  75. Ask HN: How to Make Friendster Great?

    76 points • comment • may 21, 2025

  76. Show HN: Codigo – The Programming Language Repository

    76 points • comment • may 10, 2025

  77. Show HN: Journelly for iOS: like tweeting but for your eyes only (in plain text)

    76 points • comment • may 04, 2025

  78. Limits to Growth was right about collapse

    76 points • comment • may 30, 2025

  79. Bridged Indexes in OrioleDB: architecture, internals and everyday use?

    76 points • comment • may 30, 2025

  80. O(n) vs. O(n^2) Startups

    76 points • comment • may 15, 2025

  81. Ogmo – free, open source, 2D level editor

    76 points • comment • may 20, 2025

  82. Infinite Tool Use

    76 points • comment • may 25, 2025

  83. Why Is the Kiwi's Egg So Big?

    76 points • comment • may 01, 2025

  84. Show HN: I’m 16 years old and working on my first startup, a study app

    76 points • comment • may 11, 2025

  85. Starship Flight 9 booster explodes on impact [video]

    76 points • comment • may 27, 2025

  86. How the Sun Enterprise 10000 was born (2007)

    75 points • comment • may 18, 2025

  87. There was a time when the US government built homes for working-class Americans

    75 points • comment • may 25, 2025

  88. Tokenization for language modeling: BPE vs. Unigram Language Modeling (2020)

    75 points • comment • may 30, 2025

  89. Show HN: CodeCafé – A real-time collaborative code editor in the browser

    75 points • comment • may 05, 2025

  90. Cows get GPS collars to stop them falling in river

    75 points • comment • may 24, 2025

  91. Beyond Text: On-Demand UI Generation for Better Conversational Experiences

    75 points • comment • may 16, 2025

  92. Why not object capability languages?

    75 points • comment • may 11, 2025

  93. Lune: Standalone Luau Runtime

    75 points • comment • may 21, 2025

  94. The length of file names in early Unix

    75 points • comment • may 25, 2025

  95. Ann, the Small Annotation Server

    75 points • comment • may 20, 2025

  96. Crypto has become the ultimate swamp asset

    75 points • comment • may 18, 2025

  97. Demystifying Ruby: It's all about threads (2024)

    75 points • comment • may 15, 2025

  98. AI focused on brain regions recreates what you're looking at (2024)

    75 points • comment • may 06, 2025

  99. Launch HN: WorkDone (YC X25) – AI Audit of Medical Charts

    75 points • comment • may 22, 2025

  100. AI makes bad managers

    75 points • comment • may 26, 2025