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Hacker News (May 2025)
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The Cannae Problem
158 points • comment • may 02, 2025
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Owen Le Blanc: creator of the first Linux distribution
157 points • comment • may 01, 2025
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Vanguard 50-year anniversary CEO letter
157 points • comment • may 01, 2025
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AI code is legacy code?
157 points • comment • may 04, 2025
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A Common Lisp jq replacement
154 points • comment • may 02, 2025
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Show HN: OSle – A 510 bytes OS in x86 assembly
153 points • comment • may 02, 2025
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Driverless semis have started running regular longhaul routes
153 points • comment • may 02, 2025
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The future of solar doesn't track the sun
149 points • comment • may 01, 2025
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Wyze pays $255k of tariffs on $167k of floodlights
147 points • comment • may 01, 2025
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Show HN: TextQuery – Query CSV, JSON, XLSX Files with SQL
145 points • comment • may 05, 2025
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Show HN: Blast – Fast, multi-threaded serving engine for web browsing AI agents
142 points • comment • may 02, 2025
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Trust Me, I'm Local: Chrome Extensions, MCP, and the Sandbox Escape
142 points • comment • may 01, 2025
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Numerical Linear Algebra Class in Julia TUM
142 points • comment • may 03, 2025
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Show HN: Bracket – selfhosted tournament system
141 points • comment • may 05, 2025
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'I found your dad': The mystery of a missing climber
140 points • comment • may 01, 2025
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The US has approved CRISPR pigs for food
138 points • comment • may 03, 2025
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Helmdar: 3D Scanning Brooklyn on Rollerblades
138 points • comment • may 04, 2025
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Unparalleled Misalignments
137 points • comment • may 05, 2025
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A Texan who built an empire of ecstasy
136 points • comment • may 04, 2025
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People are losing loved ones to AI-fueled spiritual fantasies
135 points • comment • may 04, 2025
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Webflow makes GSAP 100% free – plus more updates
134 points • comment • may 02, 2025
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You could just choose optimism
134 points • comment • may 01, 2025
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Typed Lisp, a Primer
134 points • comment • may 04, 2025
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RFK Jr. rejects cornerstone of health science: Germ theory
132 points • comment • may 01, 2025
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AI code review: Should the author be the reviewer?
131 points • comment • may 01, 2025
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GitDroid: A third party Android app manager for apps uploaded to GitHub releases
130 points • comment • may 02, 2025
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Company built its own rail terminal in NYC to avoid relying on trucks
128 points • comment • may 01, 2025
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TScale – Distributed training on consumer GPUs
128 points • comment • may 04, 2025
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How LWN is faring in 2025
126 points • comment • may 03, 2025
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Phi-4 Reasoning Models
125 points • comment • may 01, 2025
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Sneakers (1992) – 4K Restoration
125 points • comment • may 06, 2025
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Vatican Observatory
125 points • comment • may 02, 2025
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Dimension 126 Contains Twisted Shapes, Mathematicians Prove
125 points • comment • may 05, 2025
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Deadly Screwworm Parasite's Comeback Threatens Texas Cattle, US Beef Supply
124 points • comment • may 03, 2025
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No Instagram, no privacy
124 points • comment • may 05, 2025
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Felix86: Run x86-64 programs on RISC-V Linux
122 points • comment • may 02, 2025
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Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (May 2025)
122 points • comment • may 01, 2025
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Building Burstables: CPU slicing with cgroups
121 points • comment • may 02, 2025
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Analyzing Modern Nvidia GPU Cores
120 points • comment • may 05, 2025
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Show HN: Kubetail – Real-time log search for Kubernetes
120 points • comment • may 01, 2025
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The term "vegetative electron microscopy" keeps showing up in scientific papers
117 points • comment • may 01, 2025
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I turned a 40 year old Apple Mouse into a speech to text button
117 points • comment • may 03, 2025
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Nevermind, an album on major chords
116 points • comment • may 04, 2025
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Towards the Cutest Neural Network
116 points • comment • may 01, 2025
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Thunderscope update: My take: Why open source is better
116 points • comment • may 01, 2025
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Pascal for Small Machines
115 points • comment • may 04, 2025
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Mac app launches slowed by malware scan (2024)
115 points • comment • may 01, 2025
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Geometrically understanding calculus of inverse functions (2023)
114 points • comment • may 05, 2025
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ePub-utils: A Python library and CLI tool for inspecting ePub from the terminal
113 points • comment • may 02, 2025
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Load-Store Conflicts
112 points • comment • may 04, 2025
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Crawlers impact the operations of the Wikimedia projects
112 points • comment • may 02, 2025
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Achieving Human Level Competitive Robot Table Tennis
110 points • comment • may 01, 2025
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Altair at 50: Remembering the first Personal Computer
109 points • comment • may 02, 2025
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Reflecting on a Year of Gamedev in Zig
109 points • comment • may 02, 2025
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I built a pixel art editor after playing Octopath Traveler II
107 points • comment • may 02, 2025
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Google Wallet launches new age and identity verification features (ZK proofs)
107 points • comment • may 01, 2025
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VR Design Unpacked: The secret to Beat Saber's fun
107 points • comment • may 02, 2025
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The History of Album Art
103 points • comment • may 02, 2025
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RethinkDNS Resolver That Deploys to CF Workers, Deno Deploy, Fastly, Fly.io
102 points • comment • may 03, 2025
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We know a little more about Amazon's satellites
101 points • comment • may 03, 2025
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Doom GPU Flame Graphs
101 points • comment • may 01, 2025
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Internet usage pattern during power outage in Spain and Portugal
101 points • comment • may 05, 2025
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Derivation and Intuition behind Poisson distribution
100 points • comment • may 01, 2025
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A Tektronix TDS 684B Oscilloscope Uses CCD Analog Memory
99 points • comment • may 05, 2025
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You can't git clone a team
98 points • comment • may 05, 2025
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Apple Shortcuts is falling into "the automation gap"
98 points • comment • may 05, 2025
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Show HN: Use Third Party LLM API in JetBrains AI Assistant
98 points • comment • may 03, 2025
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History of “Adventure” for the Atari 2600
98 points • comment • may 05, 2025
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The Totalitarian Buddhist Who Beat SIM City (2010)
97 points • comment • may 02, 2025
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Urtext: The Python plaintext library for people who've tried everything else
97 points • comment • may 01, 2025
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Depictions of the Milky Way found in ancient Egyptian imagery
96 points • comment • may 01, 2025
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Bethesda Thinks Fan Remaster of Oblivion Is 'Very Special' and Supports It
95 points • comment • may 03, 2025
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Millihertz 5 Mechanical Computer (2022)
93 points • comment • may 01, 2025
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Cursor hits $9B valuation
93 points • comment • may 05, 2025
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Milwaukee police considering trading mugshots for facial recognition tech
92 points • comment • may 01, 2025
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A Survey of AI Agent Protocols
90 points • comment • may 04, 2025
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NSF stops awarding new grants and funding existing ones
90 points • comment • may 01, 2025
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SpaceX pushed "sniper" theory with the feds
89 points • comment • may 05, 2025
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Driving Compilers (2023)
87 points • comment • may 05, 2025
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The complicated business of electing a Doge
87 points • comment • may 04, 2025
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De minimis: US small parcels loophole closes pushing up Shein, Temu prices
85 points • comment • may 02, 2025
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Minimal Linux Bootloader (2018)
84 points • comment • may 04, 2025
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Why I ever wrote Clojure
84 points • comment • may 03, 2025
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Chrome Origin Trial: Device Bound Session Credentials
83 points • comment • may 02, 2025
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Are you the same person you used to be? (2022)
82 points • comment • may 01, 2025
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Understanding Memory Management, Part 5: Fighting with Rust
81 points • comment • may 03, 2025
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Closures in Tcl
81 points • comment • may 03, 2025
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Show HN: Tkintergalactic - Declarative Tcl/Tk UI Library for Python
80 points • comment • may 05, 2025
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Fivetran to acquire Census
80 points • comment • may 01, 2025
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C++26: more constexpr in the standard library
79 points • comment • may 01, 2025
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A proof of concept tool to verify estimates
79 points • comment • may 02, 2025
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Quebec refuses to reinvest in Lion Electric
79 points • comment • may 02, 2025
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Critical CSS
78 points • comment • may 06, 2025
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A visual feast of galaxies, from infrared to X-ray
78 points • comment • may 02, 2025
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TeleMessage, a modified Signal clone used by US govt. officials, has been hacked
77 points • comment • may 05, 2025
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Speedrunning and Modding the Incredibles: Rise of the Underminer
77 points • comment • may 03, 2025
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What New Orleans Taught Me
77 points • comment • may 01, 2025
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Orders of Infinity
76 points • comment • may 04, 2025
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Why Is the Kiwi's Egg So Big?
76 points • comment • may 01, 2025
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Semantic unit testing: test code without executing it
74 points • comment • may 03, 2025