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Hacker News (May 2025)

  1. We fell out of love with Next.js and back in love with Ruby on Rails

    500 points • comment • may 03, 2025

  2. Ground control to Major Trial

    495 points • comment • may 16, 2025

  3. The great displacement is already well underway?

    494 points • comment • may 12, 2025

  4. A Research Preview of Codex

    493 points • comment • may 16, 2025

  5. Mistral ships Le Chat – enterprise AI assistant that can run on prem

    492 points • comment • may 07, 2025

  6. GitHub MCP exploited: Accessing private repositories via MCP

    492 points • comment • may 26, 2025

  7. Why Archers Didn't Volley Fire

    491 points • comment • may 03, 2025

  8. Deep Learning Is Applied Topology

    490 points • comment • may 20, 2025

  9. Show HN: I built a synthesizer based on 3D physics

    489 points • comment • may 02, 2025

  10. A faster way to copy SQLite databases between computers

    485 points • comment • may 01, 2025

  11. Getting AI to write good SQL

    483 points • comment • may 16, 2025

  12. How to live on $432 a month in America

    483 points • comment • may 23, 2025

  13. India launches attack on 9 sites in Pakistan and Pakistani Jammu and Kashmir

    480 points • comment • may 06, 2025

  14. Ask HN: What are good high-information density UIs (screenshots, apps, sites)?

    477 points • comment • may 08, 2025

  15. Bus stops here: Shanghai lets riders design their own routes

    475 points • comment • may 14, 2025

  16. DuckDB is probably the most important geospatial software of the last decade

    474 points • comment • may 03, 2025

  17. 108B Pixel Scan of Johannes Vermeer's Girl with a Pearl Earring

    470 points • comment • may 01, 2025

  18. I don't like NumPy

    469 points • comment • may 15, 2025

  19. InventWood is about to mass-produce wood that's stronger than steel

    469 points • comment • may 18, 2025

  20. Trying to teach in the age of the AI homework machine

    463 points • comment • may 26, 2025

  21. Proton threatens to quit Switzerland over new surveillance law

    462 points • comment • may 17, 2025

  22. Ditching Obsidian and building my own

    451 points • comment • may 18, 2025

  23. How a hawk learned to use traffic signals to hunt more successfully

    450 points • comment • may 27, 2025

  24. Google shared my phone number

    449 points • comment • may 26, 2025

  25. Car companies are in a billion-dollar software war

    448 points • comment • may 11, 2025

  26. Finland announces migration of its rail network to international gauge

    448 points • comment • may 20, 2025

  27. Japan Post launches 'digital address' system

    447 points • comment • may 28, 2025

  28. Claude Code SDK

    446 points • comment • may 19, 2025

  29. Embeddings are underrated (2024)

    445 points • comment • may 12, 2025

  30. Buffett to step down following six-decade run atop Berkshire

    442 points • comment • may 03, 2025

  31. As a developer, my most important tools are a pen and a notebook

    442 points • comment • may 28, 2025

  32. Flattening Rust’s learning curve

    442 points • comment • may 13, 2025

  33. Third party cookies must be removed

    441 points • comment • may 02, 2025

  34. Litestream: Revamped

    440 points • comment • may 20, 2025

  35. Gorgeous-GRUB: collection of decent community-made GRUB themes

    438 points • comment • may 03, 2025

  36. Denmark to raise retirement age to 70

    437 points • comment • may 25, 2025

  37. Dilbert creator Scott Adams says he will die soon from same cancer as Joe Biden

    437 points • comment • may 19, 2025

  38. Apple App Store guidelines remove ban on encouraging external payments in US

    434 points • comment • may 02, 2025

  39. Gemma 3n preview: Mobile-first AI

    433 points • comment • may 20, 2025

  40. Building my own solar power system

    433 points • comment • may 18, 2025

  41. Mystical

    433 points • comment • may 17, 2025

  42. Observations from people-watching

    431 points • comment • may 10, 2025

  43. So Much Blood

    430 points • comment • may 07, 2025

  44. Google is building its own DeX: First look at Android's Desktop Mode

    430 points • comment • may 13, 2025

  45. Curl: We still have not seen a valid security report done with AI help

    429 points • comment • may 06, 2025

  46. VVVVVV Source Code

    429 points • comment • may 06, 2025

  47. Show HN: I wrote a modern Command Line Handbook

    428 points • comment • may 29, 2025

  48. Replacing Kubernetes with systemd (2024)

    427 points • comment • may 05, 2025

  49. Changes since congestion pricing started in New York

    427 points • comment • may 13, 2025

  50. The unreasonable effectiveness of an LLM agent loop with tool use

    427 points • comment • may 15, 2025

  51. Time saved by AI offset by new work created, study suggests

    426 points • comment • may 03, 2025

  52. Writing that changed how I think about programming languages

    422 points • comment • may 14, 2025

  53. The vocal effects of Daft Punk

    421 points • comment • may 05, 2025

  54. High tariffs become 'real' with our first $36K bill

    420 points • comment • may 08, 2025

  55. Show HN: Lazy Tetris

    420 points • comment • may 27, 2025

  56. Deepseek R1-0528

    420 points • comment • may 28, 2025

  57. A leap year check in three instructions

    419 points • comment • may 15, 2025

  58. Game theory illustrated by an animated cartoon game

    418 points • comment • may 19, 2025

  59. The radix 2^51 trick (2017)

    415 points • comment • may 30, 2025

  60. Branch Privilege Injection: Exploiting branch predictor race conditions

    411 points • comment • may 13, 2025

  61. Duolingo CEO tries to walk back AI-first comments, fails

    411 points • comment • may 26, 2025

  62. Gurus of 90s Web Design: Zeldman, Siegel, Nielsen

    411 points • comment • may 29, 2025

  63. Root for your friends

    410 points • comment • may 23, 2025

  64. Surprisingly fast AI-generated kernels we didn't mean to publish yet

    408 points • comment • may 30, 2025

  65. US vs. Google amicus curiae brief of Y Combinator in support of plaintiffs [pdf]

    408 points • comment • may 10, 2025

  66. Multiple security issues in GNU Screen

    407 points • comment • may 13, 2025

  67. The language brain matters more for programming than the math brain? (2020)

    407 points • comment • may 02, 2025

  68. Coinbase says hackers bribed staff to steal customer data, demanding $20M ransom

    404 points • comment • may 15, 2025

  69. Sneakers (1992) – 4K makeover sourced from the original camera negative

    403 points • comment • may 06, 2025

  70. Show HN: Onlook – Open-source, visual-first Cursor for designers

    403 points • comment • may 29, 2025

  71. US Copyright Office found AI companies breach copyright. Its boss was fired

    403 points • comment • may 12, 2025

  72. Rust’s dependencies are starting to worry me

    401 points • comment • may 09, 2025

  73. The recently lost file upload feature in the Nextcloud app for Android

    400 points • comment • may 14, 2025

  74. An appeal to Apple from Anukari

    400 points • comment • may 06, 2025

  75. Launch HN: Exa (YC S21) – The web as a database

    399 points • comment • may 06, 2025

  76. Old Soviet Venus descent craft nearing Earth reentry

    399 points • comment • may 02, 2025

  77. Why I no longer have an old-school cert on my HTTPS site

    396 points • comment • may 23, 2025

  78. International Workers' Day

    394 points • comment • may 01, 2025

  79. Show HN: Defuddle, an HTML-to-Markdown alternative to Readability

    394 points • comment • may 22, 2025

  80. A new class of materials that can passively harvest water from air

    394 points • comment • may 26, 2025

  81. Show HN: AutoThink – Boosts local LLM performance with adaptive reasoning

    392 points • comment • may 28, 2025

  82. SMS 2FA is not just insecure, it's also hostile to mountain people

    391 points • comment • may 14, 2025

  83. Microsandbox: Virtual Machines that feel and perform like containers

    390 points • comment • may 30, 2025

  84. Long live American Science and Surplus

    389 points • comment • may 28, 2025

  85. Judge said Meta illegally used books to build its AI

    388 points • comment • may 05, 2025

  86. A server that wasn't meant to exist

    387 points • comment • may 14, 2025

  87. Scientific conferences are leaving the US amid border fears

    386 points • comment • may 24, 2025

  88. When flat rate movers won't answer your calls

    385 points • comment • may 03, 2025

  89. “Fewer Users” Warning Hurting Specialized and New Apps

    385 points • comment • may 02, 2025

  90. Pyrefly vs. Ty: Comparing Python's two new Rust-based type checkers

    384 points • comment • may 27, 2025

  91. Why can't HTML alone do includes?

    382 points • comment • may 03, 2025

  92. As an experienced LLM user, I don't use generative LLMs often

    379 points • comment • may 05, 2025

  93. Suno v4.5

    377 points • comment • may 02, 2025

  94. Databricks acquires Neon

    377 points • comment • may 14, 2025

  95. Show HN: I modeled the Voynich Manuscript with SBERT to test for structure

    376 points • comment • may 18, 2025

  96. New Study: Waymo is reducing serious crashes and making streets safer

    372 points • comment • may 01, 2025

  97. MIT asks arXiv to withdraw preprint of paper on AI and scientific discovery

    371 points • comment • may 16, 2025

  98. Sofie: open-source web based system for automating live TV news production

    369 points • comment • may 09, 2025

  99. I built a native Windows Todo app in pure C (278 KB, no frameworks)

    367 points • comment • may 11, 2025

  100. Malicious compliance by booking an available meeting room

    366 points • comment • may 15, 2025