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Hacker News (May 2025)

  1. The Cannae Problem

    158 points • comment • may 02, 2025

  2. Owen Le Blanc: creator of the first Linux distribution

    157 points • comment • may 01, 2025

  3. Vanguard 50-year anniversary CEO letter

    157 points • comment • may 01, 2025

  4. AI code is legacy code?

    157 points • comment • may 04, 2025

  5. A Common Lisp jq replacement

    154 points • comment • may 02, 2025

  6. Show HN: OSle – A 510 bytes OS in x86 assembly

    153 points • comment • may 02, 2025

  7. Driverless semis have started running regular longhaul routes

    153 points • comment • may 02, 2025

  8. The future of solar doesn't track the sun

    149 points • comment • may 01, 2025

  9. Wyze pays $255k of tariffs on $167k of floodlights

    147 points • comment • may 01, 2025

  10. Show HN: TextQuery – Query CSV, JSON, XLSX Files with SQL

    145 points • comment • may 05, 2025

  11. Show HN: Blast – Fast, multi-threaded serving engine for web browsing AI agents

    142 points • comment • may 02, 2025

  12. Trust Me, I'm Local: Chrome Extensions, MCP, and the Sandbox Escape

    142 points • comment • may 01, 2025

  13. Numerical Linear Algebra Class in Julia TUM

    142 points • comment • may 03, 2025

  14. Show HN: Bracket – selfhosted tournament system

    141 points • comment • may 05, 2025

  15. 'I found your dad': The mystery of a missing climber

    140 points • comment • may 01, 2025

  16. The US has approved CRISPR pigs for food

    138 points • comment • may 03, 2025

  17. Helmdar: 3D Scanning Brooklyn on Rollerblades

    138 points • comment • may 04, 2025

  18. Unparalleled Misalignments

    137 points • comment • may 05, 2025

  19. A Texan who built an empire of ecstasy

    136 points • comment • may 04, 2025

  20. People are losing loved ones to AI-fueled spiritual fantasies

    135 points • comment • may 04, 2025

  21. Webflow makes GSAP 100% free – plus more updates

    134 points • comment • may 02, 2025

  22. You could just choose optimism

    134 points • comment • may 01, 2025

  23. Typed Lisp, a Primer

    134 points • comment • may 04, 2025

  24. RFK Jr. rejects cornerstone of health science: Germ theory

    132 points • comment • may 01, 2025

  25. AI code review: Should the author be the reviewer?

    131 points • comment • may 01, 2025

  26. GitDroid: A third party Android app manager for apps uploaded to GitHub releases

    130 points • comment • may 02, 2025

  27. Company built its own rail terminal in NYC to avoid relying on trucks

    128 points • comment • may 01, 2025

  28. TScale – Distributed training on consumer GPUs

    128 points • comment • may 04, 2025

  29. How LWN is faring in 2025

    126 points • comment • may 03, 2025

  30. Phi-4 Reasoning Models

    125 points • comment • may 01, 2025

  31. Sneakers (1992) – 4K Restoration

    125 points • comment • may 06, 2025

  32. Vatican Observatory

    125 points • comment • may 02, 2025

  33. Dimension 126 Contains Twisted Shapes, Mathematicians Prove

    125 points • comment • may 05, 2025

  34. Deadly Screwworm Parasite's Comeback Threatens Texas Cattle, US Beef Supply

    124 points • comment • may 03, 2025

  35. No Instagram, no privacy

    124 points • comment • may 05, 2025

  36. Felix86: Run x86-64 programs on RISC-V Linux

    122 points • comment • may 02, 2025

  37. Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (May 2025)

    122 points • comment • may 01, 2025

  38. Building Burstables: CPU slicing with cgroups

    121 points • comment • may 02, 2025

  39. Analyzing Modern Nvidia GPU Cores

    120 points • comment • may 05, 2025

  40. Show HN: Kubetail – Real-time log search for Kubernetes

    120 points • comment • may 01, 2025

  41. The term "vegetative electron microscopy" keeps showing up in scientific papers

    117 points • comment • may 01, 2025

  42. I turned a 40 year old Apple Mouse into a speech to text button

    117 points • comment • may 03, 2025

  43. Nevermind, an album on major chords

    116 points • comment • may 04, 2025

  44. Towards the Cutest Neural Network

    116 points • comment • may 01, 2025

  45. Thunderscope update: My take: Why open source is better

    116 points • comment • may 01, 2025

  46. Pascal for Small Machines

    115 points • comment • may 04, 2025

  47. Mac app launches slowed by malware scan (2024)

    115 points • comment • may 01, 2025

  48. Geometrically understanding calculus of inverse functions (2023)

    114 points • comment • may 05, 2025

  49. ePub-utils: A Python library and CLI tool for inspecting ePub from the terminal

    113 points • comment • may 02, 2025

  50. Load-Store Conflicts

    112 points • comment • may 04, 2025

  51. Crawlers impact the operations of the Wikimedia projects

    112 points • comment • may 02, 2025

  52. Achieving Human Level Competitive Robot Table Tennis

    110 points • comment • may 01, 2025

  53. Altair at 50: Remembering the first Personal Computer

    109 points • comment • may 02, 2025

  54. Reflecting on a Year of Gamedev in Zig

    109 points • comment • may 02, 2025

  55. I built a pixel art editor after playing Octopath Traveler II

    107 points • comment • may 02, 2025

  56. Google Wallet launches new age and identity verification features (ZK proofs)

    107 points • comment • may 01, 2025

  57. VR Design Unpacked: The secret to Beat Saber's fun

    107 points • comment • may 02, 2025

  58. The History of Album Art

    103 points • comment • may 02, 2025

  59. RethinkDNS Resolver That Deploys to CF Workers, Deno Deploy, Fastly, Fly.io

    102 points • comment • may 03, 2025

  60. We know a little more about Amazon's satellites

    101 points • comment • may 03, 2025

  61. Doom GPU Flame Graphs

    101 points • comment • may 01, 2025

  62. Internet usage pattern during power outage in Spain and Portugal

    101 points • comment • may 05, 2025

  63. Derivation and Intuition behind Poisson distribution

    100 points • comment • may 01, 2025

  64. A Tektronix TDS 684B Oscilloscope Uses CCD Analog Memory

    99 points • comment • may 05, 2025

  65. You can't git clone a team

    98 points • comment • may 05, 2025

  66. Apple Shortcuts is falling into "the automation gap"

    98 points • comment • may 05, 2025

  67. Show HN: Use Third Party LLM API in JetBrains AI Assistant

    98 points • comment • may 03, 2025

  68. History of “Adventure” for the Atari 2600

    98 points • comment • may 05, 2025

  69. The Totalitarian Buddhist Who Beat SIM City (2010)

    97 points • comment • may 02, 2025

  70. Urtext: The Python plaintext library for people who've tried everything else

    97 points • comment • may 01, 2025

  71. Depictions of the Milky Way found in ancient Egyptian imagery

    96 points • comment • may 01, 2025

  72. Bethesda Thinks Fan Remaster of Oblivion Is 'Very Special' and Supports It

    95 points • comment • may 03, 2025

  73. Millihertz 5 Mechanical Computer (2022)

    93 points • comment • may 01, 2025

  74. Cursor hits $9B valuation

    93 points • comment • may 05, 2025

  75. Milwaukee police considering trading mugshots for facial recognition tech

    92 points • comment • may 01, 2025

  76. A Survey of AI Agent Protocols

    90 points • comment • may 04, 2025

  77. NSF stops awarding new grants and funding existing ones

    90 points • comment • may 01, 2025

  78. SpaceX pushed "sniper" theory with the feds

    89 points • comment • may 05, 2025

  79. Driving Compilers (2023)

    87 points • comment • may 05, 2025

  80. The complicated business of electing a Doge

    87 points • comment • may 04, 2025

  81. De minimis: US small parcels loophole closes pushing up Shein, Temu prices

    85 points • comment • may 02, 2025

  82. Minimal Linux Bootloader (2018)

    84 points • comment • may 04, 2025

  83. Why I ever wrote Clojure

    84 points • comment • may 03, 2025

  84. Chrome Origin Trial: Device Bound Session Credentials

    83 points • comment • may 02, 2025

  85. Are you the same person you used to be? (2022)

    82 points • comment • may 01, 2025

  86. Understanding Memory Management, Part 5: Fighting with Rust

    81 points • comment • may 03, 2025

  87. Closures in Tcl

    81 points • comment • may 03, 2025

  88. Show HN: Tkintergalactic - Declarative Tcl/Tk UI Library for Python

    80 points • comment • may 05, 2025

  89. Fivetran to acquire Census

    80 points • comment • may 01, 2025

  90. C++26: more constexpr in the standard library

    79 points • comment • may 01, 2025

  91. A proof of concept tool to verify estimates

    79 points • comment • may 02, 2025

  92. Quebec refuses to reinvest in Lion Electric

    79 points • comment • may 02, 2025

  93. Critical CSS

    78 points • comment • may 06, 2025

  94. A visual feast of galaxies, from infrared to X-ray

    78 points • comment • may 02, 2025

  95. TeleMessage, a modified Signal clone used by US govt. officials, has been hacked

    77 points • comment • may 05, 2025

  96. Speedrunning and Modding the Incredibles: Rise of the Underminer

    77 points • comment • may 03, 2025

  97. What New Orleans Taught Me

    77 points • comment • may 01, 2025

  98. Orders of Infinity

    76 points • comment • may 04, 2025

  99. Why Is the Kiwi's Egg So Big?

    76 points • comment • may 01, 2025

  100. Semantic unit testing: test code without executing it

    74 points • comment • may 03, 2025