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Hacker News (May 2025)
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We fell out of love with Next.js and back in love with Ruby on Rails
500 points • comment • may 03, 2025
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Ground control to Major Trial
495 points • comment • may 16, 2025
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The great displacement is already well underway?
494 points • comment • may 12, 2025
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A Research Preview of Codex
493 points • comment • may 16, 2025
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Mistral ships Le Chat – enterprise AI assistant that can run on prem
492 points • comment • may 07, 2025
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GitHub MCP exploited: Accessing private repositories via MCP
492 points • comment • may 26, 2025
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Why Archers Didn't Volley Fire
491 points • comment • may 03, 2025
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Deep Learning Is Applied Topology
490 points • comment • may 20, 2025
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Show HN: I built a synthesizer based on 3D physics
489 points • comment • may 02, 2025
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A faster way to copy SQLite databases between computers
485 points • comment • may 01, 2025
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Getting AI to write good SQL
483 points • comment • may 16, 2025
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How to live on $432 a month in America
483 points • comment • may 23, 2025
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India launches attack on 9 sites in Pakistan and Pakistani Jammu and Kashmir
480 points • comment • may 06, 2025
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Ask HN: What are good high-information density UIs (screenshots, apps, sites)?
477 points • comment • may 08, 2025
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Bus stops here: Shanghai lets riders design their own routes
475 points • comment • may 14, 2025
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DuckDB is probably the most important geospatial software of the last decade
474 points • comment • may 03, 2025
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108B Pixel Scan of Johannes Vermeer's Girl with a Pearl Earring
470 points • comment • may 01, 2025
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I don't like NumPy
469 points • comment • may 15, 2025
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InventWood is about to mass-produce wood that's stronger than steel
469 points • comment • may 18, 2025
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Trying to teach in the age of the AI homework machine
463 points • comment • may 26, 2025
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Proton threatens to quit Switzerland over new surveillance law
462 points • comment • may 17, 2025
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Ditching Obsidian and building my own
451 points • comment • may 18, 2025
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How a hawk learned to use traffic signals to hunt more successfully
450 points • comment • may 27, 2025
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Google shared my phone number
449 points • comment • may 26, 2025
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Car companies are in a billion-dollar software war
448 points • comment • may 11, 2025
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Finland announces migration of its rail network to international gauge
448 points • comment • may 20, 2025
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Japan Post launches 'digital address' system
447 points • comment • may 28, 2025
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Claude Code SDK
446 points • comment • may 19, 2025
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Embeddings are underrated (2024)
445 points • comment • may 12, 2025
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Buffett to step down following six-decade run atop Berkshire
442 points • comment • may 03, 2025
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As a developer, my most important tools are a pen and a notebook
442 points • comment • may 28, 2025
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Flattening Rust’s learning curve
442 points • comment • may 13, 2025
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Third party cookies must be removed
441 points • comment • may 02, 2025
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Litestream: Revamped
440 points • comment • may 20, 2025
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Gorgeous-GRUB: collection of decent community-made GRUB themes
438 points • comment • may 03, 2025
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Denmark to raise retirement age to 70
437 points • comment • may 25, 2025
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Dilbert creator Scott Adams says he will die soon from same cancer as Joe Biden
437 points • comment • may 19, 2025
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Apple App Store guidelines remove ban on encouraging external payments in US
434 points • comment • may 02, 2025
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Gemma 3n preview: Mobile-first AI
433 points • comment • may 20, 2025
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Building my own solar power system
433 points • comment • may 18, 2025
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Mystical
433 points • comment • may 17, 2025
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Observations from people-watching
431 points • comment • may 10, 2025
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So Much Blood
430 points • comment • may 07, 2025
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Google is building its own DeX: First look at Android's Desktop Mode
430 points • comment • may 13, 2025
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Curl: We still have not seen a valid security report done with AI help
429 points • comment • may 06, 2025
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VVVVVV Source Code
429 points • comment • may 06, 2025
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Show HN: I wrote a modern Command Line Handbook
428 points • comment • may 29, 2025
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Replacing Kubernetes with systemd (2024)
427 points • comment • may 05, 2025
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Changes since congestion pricing started in New York
427 points • comment • may 13, 2025
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The unreasonable effectiveness of an LLM agent loop with tool use
427 points • comment • may 15, 2025
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Time saved by AI offset by new work created, study suggests
426 points • comment • may 03, 2025
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Writing that changed how I think about programming languages
422 points • comment • may 14, 2025
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The vocal effects of Daft Punk
421 points • comment • may 05, 2025
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High tariffs become 'real' with our first $36K bill
420 points • comment • may 08, 2025
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Show HN: Lazy Tetris
420 points • comment • may 27, 2025
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Deepseek R1-0528
420 points • comment • may 28, 2025
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A leap year check in three instructions
419 points • comment • may 15, 2025
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Game theory illustrated by an animated cartoon game
418 points • comment • may 19, 2025
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The radix 2^51 trick (2017)
415 points • comment • may 30, 2025
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Branch Privilege Injection: Exploiting branch predictor race conditions
411 points • comment • may 13, 2025
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Duolingo CEO tries to walk back AI-first comments, fails
411 points • comment • may 26, 2025
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Gurus of 90s Web Design: Zeldman, Siegel, Nielsen
411 points • comment • may 29, 2025
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Root for your friends
410 points • comment • may 23, 2025
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Surprisingly fast AI-generated kernels we didn't mean to publish yet
408 points • comment • may 30, 2025
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US vs. Google amicus curiae brief of Y Combinator in support of plaintiffs [pdf]
408 points • comment • may 10, 2025
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Multiple security issues in GNU Screen
407 points • comment • may 13, 2025
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The language brain matters more for programming than the math brain? (2020)
407 points • comment • may 02, 2025
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Coinbase says hackers bribed staff to steal customer data, demanding $20M ransom
404 points • comment • may 15, 2025
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Sneakers (1992) – 4K makeover sourced from the original camera negative
403 points • comment • may 06, 2025
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Show HN: Onlook – Open-source, visual-first Cursor for designers
403 points • comment • may 29, 2025
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US Copyright Office found AI companies breach copyright. Its boss was fired
403 points • comment • may 12, 2025
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Rust’s dependencies are starting to worry me
401 points • comment • may 09, 2025
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The recently lost file upload feature in the Nextcloud app for Android
400 points • comment • may 14, 2025
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An appeal to Apple from Anukari
400 points • comment • may 06, 2025
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Launch HN: Exa (YC S21) – The web as a database
399 points • comment • may 06, 2025
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Old Soviet Venus descent craft nearing Earth reentry
399 points • comment • may 02, 2025
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Why I no longer have an old-school cert on my HTTPS site
396 points • comment • may 23, 2025
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International Workers' Day
394 points • comment • may 01, 2025
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Show HN: Defuddle, an HTML-to-Markdown alternative to Readability
394 points • comment • may 22, 2025
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A new class of materials that can passively harvest water from air
394 points • comment • may 26, 2025
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Show HN: AutoThink – Boosts local LLM performance with adaptive reasoning
392 points • comment • may 28, 2025
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SMS 2FA is not just insecure, it's also hostile to mountain people
391 points • comment • may 14, 2025
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Microsandbox: Virtual Machines that feel and perform like containers
390 points • comment • may 30, 2025
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Long live American Science and Surplus
389 points • comment • may 28, 2025
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Judge said Meta illegally used books to build its AI
388 points • comment • may 05, 2025
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A server that wasn't meant to exist
387 points • comment • may 14, 2025
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Scientific conferences are leaving the US amid border fears
386 points • comment • may 24, 2025
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When flat rate movers won't answer your calls
385 points • comment • may 03, 2025
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“Fewer Users” Warning Hurting Specialized and New Apps
385 points • comment • may 02, 2025
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Pyrefly vs. Ty: Comparing Python's two new Rust-based type checkers
384 points • comment • may 27, 2025
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Why can't HTML alone do includes?
382 points • comment • may 03, 2025
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As an experienced LLM user, I don't use generative LLMs often
379 points • comment • may 05, 2025
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Suno v4.5
377 points • comment • may 02, 2025
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Databricks acquires Neon
377 points • comment • may 14, 2025
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Show HN: I modeled the Voynich Manuscript with SBERT to test for structure
376 points • comment • may 18, 2025
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New Study: Waymo is reducing serious crashes and making streets safer
372 points • comment • may 01, 2025
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MIT asks arXiv to withdraw preprint of paper on AI and scientific discovery
371 points • comment • may 16, 2025
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Sofie: open-source web based system for automating live TV news production
369 points • comment • may 09, 2025
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I built a native Windows Todo app in pure C (278 KB, no frameworks)
367 points • comment • may 11, 2025
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Malicious compliance by booking an available meeting room
366 points • comment • may 15, 2025