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Hacker News (May 2025)
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Show HN: CodeCafé – A real-time collaborative code editor in the browser
75 points • comment • may 05, 2025
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Comma 3X: Initial Impressions
74 points • comment • may 13, 2025
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"Night of the Living Dead" accidentally became public domain (2019)
74 points • comment • may 06, 2025
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FAA offering more incentives as air traffic controller shortage worsens
74 points • comment • may 03, 2025
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In praise of grobi for auto-configuring X11 monitors
74 points • comment • may 10, 2025
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Designing Tools for Scientific Thought
74 points • comment • may 25, 2025
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NASA Stennis's first open source software
74 points • comment • may 13, 2025
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Show HN: A new programming language inspired by Go, no LLVM
74 points • comment • may 29, 2025
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A senior Apple exec could be jailed in Epic case
74 points • comment • may 01, 2025
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RIP Skype
74 points • comment • may 06, 2025
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Nobel Laureate Daron Acemoglu: Don't Believe the AI Hype
74 points • comment • may 29, 2025
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Richard Garwin’s role in designing the hydrogen bomb was obscured
74 points • comment • may 19, 2025
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Authors are accidentally leaving AI prompts in their novels
74 points • comment • may 25, 2025
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Graduate Student Solves Classic Problem About the Limits of Addition
74 points • comment • may 23, 2025
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Semantic unit testing: test code without executing it
74 points • comment • may 03, 2025
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Engineers develop wearable heart attack detection technology
73 points • comment • may 07, 2025
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Loss of dance and infant-directed song among the Northern Aché
73 points • comment • may 07, 2025
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The Magic Hours: The Films and Hidden Life of Terrence Malick
73 points • comment • may 16, 2025
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Show HN: LoopMix128 – Fast C PRNG (.46ns), 2^128 Period, BigCrush/PractRand Pass
73 points • comment • may 10, 2025
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An Update on Fresh
73 points • comment • may 15, 2025
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Advice to Tenstorrent
73 points • comment • may 25, 2025
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Show HN: Hyperparam: OSS tools for exploring datasets locally in the browser
73 points • comment • may 01, 2025
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Faulty 120W charger analysis (Anker GAN Prime) [video]
73 points • comment • may 21, 2025
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Emacs dired-mode as a file manager
73 points • comment • may 23, 2025
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Has anyone coined the term “fast tech” yet?
73 points • comment • may 10, 2025
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Ask HN: Conversational AI to Learn a Language
73 points • comment • may 17, 2025
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Two publishers and three authors fail to understand what "vibe coding" means
73 points • comment • may 01, 2025
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Ghost in the machine? Legend of the 'haunted' N64 video game cartridge
73 points • comment • may 03, 2025
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Malaya's Timeless Design
73 points • comment • may 06, 2025
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Pglocks.org
73 points • comment • may 18, 2025
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US Government considering suspending habeas corpus
72 points • comment • may 10, 2025
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Show HN: Klavis AI – Open-source MCP integration for AI applications
72 points • comment • may 05, 2025
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Show HN: Voiden – a free, offline, Git-native API Client
72 points • comment • may 28, 2025
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Show HN: Asdf Overlay – High performance in-game overlay library for Windows
72 points • comment • may 30, 2025
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Stuff I Learned at Carta
72 points • comment • may 24, 2025
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Why Flatpak apps use so much disk space on Linux
72 points • comment • may 04, 2025
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Show HN: Git-Add–Interactive with Enhancements
72 points • comment • may 30, 2025
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Federal Court Halts Dismantling of Federal Library Agency in ALA Lawsuit
72 points • comment • may 03, 2025
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Armbian Updates: OMV support, boot improvents, Rockchip optimizations
72 points • comment • may 12, 2025
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Sandy Bridge-era motherboard gets M.2 SSD boot support 12 years after launch
72 points • comment • may 07, 2025
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A man who sailed round the world with a chicken (2019)
72 points • comment • may 29, 2025
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The RISC OS GUI
72 points • comment • may 18, 2025
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The Audio Stack Is a Crime Scene
72 points • comment • may 12, 2025
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How to Average in Prolog (2017)
71 points • comment • may 07, 2025
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The Speed of VITs and CNNs
71 points • comment • may 02, 2025
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Why Writing by Hand Is Better for Memory and Learning
71 points • comment • may 31, 2025
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How “The Great Gatsby” took over high school
71 points • comment • may 13, 2025
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How Kim Jong Il Kidnapped a Director, Made a Cult Hit Godzilla Knockoff (2015)
71 points • comment • may 03, 2025
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Show HN: Rv, a Package Manager for R
71 points • comment • may 16, 2025
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Why our waistlines expand in middle age: aging stem cells shift into overdrive
71 points • comment • may 02, 2025
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California vanity license plate applications with reasons for rejection (2020)
71 points • comment • may 18, 2025
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A brief history of the numeric keypad
71 points • comment • may 08, 2025
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Show HN: Lnk – Git-native dotfiles manager
71 points • comment • may 24, 2025
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When good pseudorandom numbers go bad
70 points • comment • may 19, 2025
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Zinc Microcapacitors Are the Best of Both Worlds
70 points • comment • may 13, 2025
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Patience too cheap to meter
70 points • comment • may 17, 2025
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On eval in dynamic languages generally and in Racket specifically (2011)
70 points • comment • may 28, 2025
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A competing theory to 'dark energy' suggests universe has different time zones
70 points • comment • may 01, 2025
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Strengths and limitations of diffusion language models
70 points • comment • may 22, 2025
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Block Diffusion: Interpolating Autoregressive and Diffusion Language Models
70 points • comment • may 08, 2025
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Teachable Machine
70 points • comment • may 20, 2025
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Rams is a documentary portrait of Dieter Rams (2018)
70 points • comment • may 02, 2025
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Revisiting Image Maps
70 points • comment • may 09, 2025
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GM Is Pushing Hard to Tank California's EV Mandate
70 points • comment • may 18, 2025
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Thank you Google for breaking my YouTube addiction
70 points • comment • may 18, 2025
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GPS Needs to Toughen Up, or Get Trampled Down
70 points • comment • may 18, 2025
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Confessions about my smart home
70 points • comment • may 18, 2025
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Preparing for when the machine stops
70 points • comment • may 06, 2025
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Improving Naval Ship Acquisition
70 points • comment • may 15, 2025
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Production tests: a guidebook for better systems and more sleep
69 points • comment • may 17, 2025
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Rivers
69 points • comment • may 16, 2025
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Please Fund More Science (2020)
69 points • comment • may 24, 2025
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Emergent social conventions and collective bias in LLM populations
69 points • comment • may 18, 2025
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EU startups fail because their press refuses to hype them up
69 points • comment • may 21, 2025
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Show HN: Reverse Pac-Man
69 points • comment • may 05, 2025
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Optimizing My Hacker News Experience
69 points • comment • may 08, 2025
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Arduino is at work to make bio-based PCBs
69 points • comment • may 08, 2025
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Ash (Almquist Shell) Variants
69 points • comment • may 10, 2025
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A Formal Mathematical Investigation on the Validity of Kellogg's Glaze Claims
69 points • comment • may 19, 2025
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Binary Formats Are Better Than JSON in Browsers
69 points • comment • may 13, 2025
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JEP 519: Compact Object Headers
69 points • comment • may 22, 2025
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AI Is Like a Crappy Consultant
69 points • comment • may 13, 2025
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Use AI code tools as collaborators, not crutches
69 points • comment • may 30, 2025
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A tool to verify estimates, II: a flexible proof assistant
69 points • comment • may 10, 2025
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Self-hostable webhook tester in go
69 points • comment • may 13, 2025
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Game preservationists say Switch2 GameKey Cards are disheartening but inevitable
69 points • comment • may 01, 2025
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VMware perpetual license holders receive cease-and-desist letters from Broadcom
68 points • comment • may 07, 2025
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In POSIX, you can theoretically use inode zero
68 points • comment • may 31, 2025
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Tippy Coco: A Free, Open-Source Game Inspired by Slime Volleyball
68 points • comment • may 04, 2025
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A new sign that AI is competing with college grads?
68 points • comment • may 01, 2025
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Meta Battles an 'Epidemic of Scams' as Criminals Flood Instagram and Facebook
68 points • comment • may 16, 2025
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Demoting i686-PC-windows-gnu to Tier 2
67 points • comment • may 26, 2025
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Can a corporation be pardoned?
67 points • comment • may 25, 2025
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Show HN: Text to 3D simulation on a map (does history pretty well)
67 points • comment • may 20, 2025
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Telling Lies: Bowie and Online Music Distribution in 1996
67 points • comment • may 07, 2025
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Show HN: Loodio 2 – A Simple Rechargable Bathroom Privacy Device
67 points • comment • may 28, 2025
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Dart added support for cross-compilation
67 points • comment • may 08, 2025
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Emulator Debugging: Area 5150's Lake Effect
67 points • comment • may 19, 2025
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Visualizing entire Chromium include graph
67 points • comment • may 21, 2025
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Microsoft gets twitchy over talk of Europe's tech independence
67 points • comment • may 01, 2025