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Hacker News (May 2025)

  1. Launch HN: MindFort (YC X25) – AI agents for continuous pentesting

    60 points • comment • may 28, 2025

  2. Terence Tao started a YouTube channel

    60 points • comment • may 13, 2025

  3. What I discovered when I asked Amazon to tell me everything Alexa had heard

    60 points • comment • may 24, 2025

  4. Mice grow bigger brains when given this stretch of human DNA

    60 points • comment • may 14, 2025

  5. Pluto Flyover from New Horizons

    60 points • comment • may 18, 2025

  6. Uber's Shower Gate Scandal

    60 points • comment • may 08, 2025

  7. Claude Code does our releases now

    60 points • comment • may 26, 2025

  8. Paul McCartney, Elton John and other creatives demand AI comes clean on scraping

    60 points • comment • may 12, 2025

  9. Open-source AI platform for ear-based sensing applications

    60 points • comment • may 01, 2025

  10. Investigating AI Manipulation in Viral Chinese Paraglider Video

    59 points • comment • may 30, 2025

  11. "Microsoft has simply given us no other option," Signal blocks Windows Recall

    59 points • comment • may 22, 2025

  12. Update turns Google Gemini into a prude, breaking apps for trauma survivors

    59 points • comment • may 10, 2025

  13. Google worried it couldn't control how Israel uses Project Nimbus, files reveal

    59 points • comment • may 17, 2025

  14. How the Water System Works

    59 points • comment • may 01, 2025

  15. If you're in the market for a $1,900 color E Ink monitor, one of them exists now

    59 points • comment • may 01, 2025

  16. Show HN: Astra – a new js2exe compiler

    59 points • comment • may 20, 2025

  17. Even Tesla's Insurance Arm Is Getting Wrecked

    59 points • comment • may 10, 2025

  18. Meta's Reality Labs Has Now Lost over $60B Since 2020

    59 points • comment • may 02, 2025

  19. Nncp: Ad-hoc friend-to-friend delay-tolerant sneakernet-compatible darknet

    59 points • comment • may 31, 2025

  20. London's National Gallery buys mysterious altarpiece for $20m

    59 points • comment • may 01, 2025

  21. LLMs are making me dumber

    59 points • comment • may 14, 2025

  22. Fast(er) regular expression engines in Ruby

    58 points • comment • may 02, 2025

  23. Unhappy Meals (2007)

    58 points • comment • may 28, 2025

  24. Tales from Mainframe Modernization

    58 points • comment • may 22, 2025

  25. The surgeon who used F1 pitstop techniques to save lives of babies

    58 points • comment • may 11, 2025

  26. Craft Basic (Windows 95 and up)

    58 points • comment • may 18, 2025

  27. Show HN: Model2vec-Rs – Fast Static Text Embeddings in Rust

    58 points • comment • may 18, 2025

  28. Ending TLS Client Authentication Certificate Support in 2026

    58 points • comment • may 18, 2025

  29. Circuitpainter: Create PCBs using a simplfiied graphics language

    58 points • comment • may 03, 2025

  30. The White House, LLC

    58 points • comment • may 19, 2025

  31. Texas' annual reading test adjusted difficulty yearly, masking improvement

    58 points • comment • may 28, 2025

  32. Huawei is spamming open source community for its Harmony ecosystem (See Comment)

    58 points • comment • may 16, 2025

  33. Show HN: BlenderQ – A TUI for managing multiple Blender renders

    58 points • comment • may 09, 2025

  34. Ask HN: Selling software to company I work for as an employee

    58 points • comment • may 21, 2025

  35. Show HN: templUI – The UI Kit for templ (CLI-based, like shadcn/UI)

    57 points • comment • may 30, 2025

  36. US loses last perfect credit rating amid rising debt

    57 points • comment • may 18, 2025

  37. Quantum Picturalism

    57 points • comment • may 20, 2025

  38. Why Good Ideas Die Quietly and Bad Ideas Go Viral

    57 points • comment • may 28, 2025

  39. Programming in Martin-Lof's Type Theory: An Introduction (1990)

    57 points • comment • may 17, 2025

  40. US Copyright Office: Generative AI Training [pdf]

    57 points • comment • may 11, 2025

  41. Sesame Scheme: Unintended Consequences of Allergen Food Labeling

    57 points • comment • may 23, 2025

  42. Memory Consistency Models: A Tutorial

    57 points • comment • may 20, 2025

  43. A New Headache for Honest Students: Proving They Didn't Use A.I

    57 points • comment • may 18, 2025

  44. Hegel 2.0: The imaginary history of ternary computing (2018)

    57 points • comment • may 12, 2025

  45. Linear Programming for Fun and Profit

    57 points • comment • may 09, 2025

  46. A Rust API Inspired by Python, Powered by Serde

    57 points • comment • may 11, 2025

  47. Some novelists are becoming video game writers – and vice-versa

    57 points • comment • may 07, 2025

  48. New method for creating large 3D models of urban areas is faster and cheaper

    57 points • comment • may 23, 2025

  49. Critical Warning for External Purchases in Apple App Store

    57 points • comment • may 15, 2025

  50. People Who Hype Cursor Usually Lack Technical Skills

    57 points • comment • may 10, 2025

  51. A new hairlike electrode for long-term, high-quality EEG monitoring

    57 points • comment • may 06, 2025

  52. Stop using REST for state synchronization (2024)

    57 points • comment • may 15, 2025

  53. Show HN: A free, privacy preserving, archive of public Discord servers

    56 points • comment • may 20, 2025

  54. How Riot Games is fighting the war against video game hackers

    56 points • comment • may 04, 2025

  55. Exposed Industrial Control Systems and Honeypots in the Wild [pdf]

    56 points • comment • may 24, 2025

  56. The Fastest Way yet to Color Graphs

    56 points • comment • may 13, 2025

  57. MathML with Pandoc

    56 points • comment • may 03, 2025

  58. The Acid King (2001)

    56 points • comment • may 09, 2025

  59. Using Coalton to implement a quantum compiler (2022)

    56 points • comment • may 05, 2025

  60. She Got an Abortion. So a Texas Cop Used 83,000 Cameras to Track Her Down

    56 points • comment • may 31, 2025

  61. From Finite Integral Domains to Finite Fields

    56 points • comment • may 26, 2025

  62. Show HN: Hydra (YC W22) – Serverless Analytics on Postgres

    56 points • comment • may 09, 2025

  63. Show HN: DockFlow – Switch between multiple macOS Dock layouts instantly

    56 points • comment • may 22, 2025

  64. The Conquest of Hell Gate [pdf]

    56 points • comment • may 18, 2025

  65. Ruffle – open-source Flash player

    56 points • comment • may 26, 2025

  66. Allow us to block Copilot-generated issues (and PRs) from our own repositories

    56 points • comment • may 20, 2025

  67. Using unwrap() in Rust is Okay (2022)

    55 points • comment • may 18, 2025

  68. Attack of the Sadistic Zombies – Paul Krugman

    55 points • comment • may 19, 2025

  69. Scientists have found a way to 'tattoo' tardigrades

    55 points • comment • may 06, 2025

  70. The Philosophy of Byung-Chul Han (2020)

    55 points • comment • may 22, 2025

  71. The un-celebrity president: Jimmy Carter shuns riches, lives modestly (2018)

    55 points • comment • may 02, 2025

  72. How we made our OCR code more accurate

    55 points • comment • may 21, 2025

  73. A PostgreSQL planner semi-join gotcha with CTE, LIMIT, and RETURNING

    55 points • comment • may 04, 2025

  74. El Cono: The mysterious sacred 'pyramid' hidden deep in the Amazon rainforest

    55 points • comment • may 04, 2025

  75. The 'Man-Eater' Screwworm Is Coming

    55 points • comment • may 28, 2025

  76. Understanding-j: An introduction to the J programming language that gets to the

    55 points • comment • may 03, 2025

  77. We broke down the Sam Altman and Jony Ive video

    54 points • comment • may 25, 2025

  78. Science funding was already way too low

    54 points • comment • may 17, 2025

  79. Medium Is the New Large

    54 points • comment • may 07, 2025

  80. Grid-Free Approach to Partial Differential Equations on Volumetric Domains [pdf]

    54 points • comment • may 27, 2025

  81. NetBSD 10.x Kernel Math_emulation

    54 points • comment • may 11, 2025

  82. Font Activations: A Note on the Type

    54 points • comment • may 16, 2025

  83. An appeal to companies doing AI

    54 points • comment • may 04, 2025

  84. The Two Ideals of Fields

    54 points • comment • may 31, 2025

  85. Wavelet Trees: An Introduction (2011)

    54 points • comment • may 15, 2025

  86. The Fractured Entangled Representation Hypothesis

    54 points • comment • may 20, 2025

  87. Hollow Core Fiber (HCF)

    54 points • comment • may 09, 2025

  88. DNA is maybe 60-750MB of data

    54 points • comment • may 08, 2025

  89. Spanish Shipwreck Reveals Evidence of Earliest Known Pet Cats to Arrive in US

    54 points • comment • may 07, 2025

  90. Show HN: Handover.ai – Knowledge transfer made easy

    54 points • comment • may 29, 2025

  91. The effect of physical fitness on mortality is overestimated

    54 points • comment • may 18, 2025

  92. TorrentFreak is wrong about Google DNS notification

    54 points • comment • may 26, 2025

  93. How the humble chestnut traced the rise and fall of the Roman Empire

    54 points • comment • may 14, 2025

  94. Migrating a JavaScript Project from Prettier and ESLint to BiomeJS

    54 points • comment • may 07, 2025

  95. Magic Ink: Information Software and the Graphical Interface

    54 points • comment • may 31, 2025

  96. Doge cuts to USAid blamed for 300k deaths – most of them children

    54 points • comment • may 31, 2025

  97. Android and Wear OS are getting a redesign

    54 points • comment • may 13, 2025

  98. 37signals is completing its on-prem move

    54 points • comment • may 11, 2025

  99. RK3588 – Implementing a Vectorscope for processing video in real time

    54 points • comment • may 02, 2025

  100. Rolling Highway

    54 points • comment • may 13, 2025