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Hacker News (May 2025)

  1. Social drinking also a well-worn path to alcohol use disorder

    67 points • comment • may 09, 2025

  2. Show HN: Solidis – Tiny TS Redis client, no deps, for serverless

    67 points • comment • may 16, 2025

  3. Demoting i686-PC-windows-gnu to Tier 2

    67 points • comment • may 26, 2025

  4. Dart added support for cross-compilation

    67 points • comment • may 08, 2025

  5. Investment Risk Is Highest for Nuclear Power Plants, Lowest for Solar

    67 points • comment • may 31, 2025

  6. Getting Started with Celtic Coins – Crude and Barbarous, or Just Different?

    67 points • comment • may 11, 2025

  7. When Suno covers my song (very useful) – a study with variations

    67 points • comment • may 08, 2025

  8. Polycompiler: Merge Python and JavaScript code into one file that runs in both

    66 points • comment • may 04, 2025

  9. Sorry, grads: Entry-level tech jobs are getting wiped out

    66 points • comment • may 22, 2025

  10. The mysterious Gobi wall uncovered

    66 points • comment • may 28, 2025

  11. TheForger's Win32 API Tutorial

    66 points • comment • may 13, 2025

  12. Inventing the Adventure Game (1984)

    66 points • comment • may 09, 2025

  13. Turn a Tesla into a mapping vehicle with Mapillary

    66 points • comment • may 28, 2025

  14. Show HN: Workflow Use – Deterministic, self-healing browser automation (RPA 2.0)

    66 points • comment • may 16, 2025

  15. Show HN: A Implementation of Alpha Zero for Chess in MLX

    66 points • comment • may 29, 2025

  16. Show HN: Feedsmith — Fast parser & generator for RSS, Atom, OPML feed namespaces

    66 points • comment • may 06, 2025

  17. EU to ban anonymous crypto accounts and privacy coins by 2027

    66 points • comment • may 05, 2025

  18. Transformer neural net learns to run Conway's Game of Life just from examples

    66 points • comment • may 17, 2025

  19. OBNC – Oberon-07 Compiler

    66 points • comment • may 17, 2025

  20. Magic Leap One Bootloader Exploit

    66 points • comment • may 15, 2025

  21. New tools and features in the Responses API

    66 points • comment • may 21, 2025

  22. Sguaba: Hard-to-misuse rigid body transforms for engineers

    66 points • comment • may 31, 2025

  23. Into The Tunnel: The secret life of wind tunnels

    66 points • comment • may 23, 2025

  24. Life before the web – Running a Startup in the 1980's (2016)

    66 points • comment • may 17, 2025

  25. Transformer: The Deep Chemistry of Life and Death

    66 points • comment • may 13, 2025

  26. US pauses new student visa interviews as it mulls expanding social media vetting

    65 points • comment • may 27, 2025

  27. If AI is so good at coding where are the open source contributions?

    65 points • comment • may 15, 2025

  28. Alone and Adrift in the Pacific

    65 points • comment • may 20, 2025

  29. Ask HN: Is Slack Down?

    65 points • comment • may 12, 2025

  30. Changelog: Lazy trees (faster Nix builds)

    65 points • comment • may 25, 2025

  31. Net-Negative Cursor

    65 points • comment • may 29, 2025

  32. Cleo, the mathematician that tricked Stack Exchange

    65 points • comment • may 20, 2025

  33. Programmers Guide to the AMIBIOS (1993) [pdf]

    65 points • comment • may 04, 2025

  34. A privilege escalation from Chrome extensions (2023)

    65 points • comment • may 28, 2025

  35. The Book of Secret Knowledge

    65 points • comment • may 31, 2025

  36. How Generative Engine Optimization (GEO) rewrites the rules of search

    65 points • comment • may 30, 2025

  37. When Americana doesn't mean American

    65 points • comment • may 02, 2025

  38. Building interactive web pages with Guile Hoot

    65 points • comment • may 25, 2025

  39. Richest 10 Percent Responsible for Two-Thirds of Warming

    65 points • comment • may 07, 2025

  40. Space is not a wall: toward a less architectural level design

    65 points • comment • may 21, 2025

  41. Show HN: Fontofweb – Discover Fonts Used on a Website or Websites Using Font(s)

    65 points • comment • may 31, 2025

  42. V.S. Naipaul: The Grief and the Glory

    65 points • comment • may 04, 2025

  43. Show HN: Curved Space Shader in Three.js (via 4D sphere projection)

    64 points • comment • may 22, 2025

  44. Show HN: High-resolution surface analysis with Lidar data

    64 points • comment • may 21, 2025

  45. The Problem with Teens Isn't Smartphones–It's Their Families

    64 points • comment • may 16, 2025

  46. Ask HN: Tired of all the AI, what other cool tech is out there?

    64 points • comment • may 28, 2025

  47. DotnetSnes: Library allowing to use C# to create SNES ROMs

    64 points • comment • may 02, 2025

  48. Memetics – A Growth Industry in US Military Operations (2006) [pdf]

    64 points • comment • may 18, 2025

  49. The atmospheric memory that feeds billions of people: Monsoon rainfall mechanism

    64 points • comment • may 27, 2025

  50. Chairs, Chairs, Chairs

    64 points • comment • may 25, 2025

  51. What Happens When AI-Generated Lies Are More Compelling Than the Truth?

    64 points • comment • may 30, 2025

  52. An accessibility update – GTK Development Blog

    64 points • comment • may 13, 2025

  53. Why top posting has won (2018)

    64 points • comment • may 25, 2025

  54. Tower Defense: Cache Control

    64 points • comment • may 13, 2025

  55. Using Logic in Writing

    64 points • comment • may 27, 2025

  56. Violating memory safety with Haskell's value restriction

    64 points • comment • may 22, 2025

  57. Designing Pareto-optimal RAG workflows with syftr

    64 points • comment • may 28, 2025

  58. Censorship concerns rise over Texas book bill; Abilene bookstore pushes back

    64 points • comment • may 03, 2025

  59. Show HN: Outpost – OSS infra for outbound webhooks and event destinations

    64 points • comment • may 06, 2025

  60. Industry groups are not happy about the imminent demise of Energy Star

    64 points • comment • may 10, 2025

  61. The Windows Registry Adventure #7: Attack surface analysis

    63 points • comment • may 25, 2025

  62. Germany eyes 10% digital tax on global tech groups

    63 points • comment • may 30, 2025

  63. A Bead Too Far: Rethinking Global Connections Before Columbus

    63 points • comment • may 23, 2025

  64. Programming on 34 Keys (2022)

    63 points • comment • may 25, 2025

  65. High vitamin B6 doses over a long period could cause irreversible nerve damage

    63 points • comment • may 30, 2025

  66. 'Bizarro World' (2007)

    63 points • comment • may 04, 2025

  67. Fast, Simple and Open Firebase Alternative: TrailBase

    63 points • comment • may 25, 2025

  68. Lilith and Modula-2

    63 points • comment • may 04, 2025

  69. Show HN: Hyper – Standards-first React alternative

    63 points • comment • may 09, 2025

  70. Taiwan to ramp up gas imports after shuttering last nuclear plant

    63 points • comment • may 19, 2025

  71. What programmers should know about how CPUs work [video]

    63 points • comment • may 29, 2025

  72. Docs like code in basic terms

    63 points • comment • may 05, 2025

  73. Lockheed Martin and IBM combine quantum computing with HPC in new research

    63 points • comment • may 23, 2025

  74. You sent the message, but did you write it?

    63 points • comment • may 03, 2025

  75. Player Piano Rolls

    63 points • comment • may 30, 2025

  76. So why *did* U.S. wages stagnate for 20 years?

    62 points • comment • may 19, 2025

  77. Will protein design tools solve the snake antivenom shortage?

    62 points • comment • may 08, 2025

  78. Open WebUI changed license from BSD-3 to Open WebUI license with CLA

    62 points • comment • may 06, 2025

  79. Show HN: Samchika – A Java Library for Fast, Multithreaded File Processing

    62 points • comment • may 23, 2025

  80. Burning Mao

    62 points • comment • may 03, 2025

  81. Yes, the Apple II MouseCard IRQ is synced to the VBL

    62 points • comment • may 08, 2025

  82. Building an agentic image generator that improves itself

    62 points • comment • may 21, 2025

  83. CRDTs #2: Turtles All the Way Down

    61 points • comment • may 23, 2025

  84. Theory of Stupidity [pdf]

    61 points • comment • may 28, 2025

  85. Gemini 2.5: Our most intelligent models are getting even better

    61 points • comment • may 20, 2025

  86. Near-infrared spatiotemporal color vision enabled by upconversion contact lenses

    61 points • comment • may 22, 2025

  87. Everything’s a bug (or an issue)

    61 points • comment • may 19, 2025

  88. About Asteroids, Atari's biggest arcade hit

    61 points • comment • may 15, 2025

  89. Walmart is preparing to welcome its next customer: the AI shopping agent

    61 points • comment • may 15, 2025

  90. The David Lynch Collection

    61 points • comment • may 30, 2025

  91. Federal agencies continue terminating all funding to Harvard

    61 points • comment • may 17, 2025

  92. Finding a Bug in Chromium

    61 points • comment • may 05, 2025

  93. Cuss: Map of profane words to a rating of sureness

    61 points • comment • may 31, 2025

  94. Show HN: MCP Defender – OSS AI Firewall for Protecting MCP in Cursor/Claude etc

    61 points • comment • may 29, 2025

  95. Moving Forth: a series on writing Forth kernels

    61 points • comment • may 15, 2025

  96. Plutonium Powered Pacemaker (From 1974)

    61 points • comment • may 31, 2025

  97. UK study: Almost half of young people would prefer a world without internet

    61 points • comment • may 20, 2025

  98. Dijkstra on Ada

    61 points • comment • may 22, 2025

  99. Domain Theory Lecture Notes

    60 points • comment • may 25, 2025

  100. Uber's Shower Gate Scandal

    60 points • comment • may 08, 2025