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Hacker News (May 2025)

  1. Show HN: Agents.erl (AI Agents in Erlang)

    31 points • comment • may 07, 2025

  2. Superauthenticity: Computer Game Aspect Ratios

    31 points • comment • may 27, 2025

  3. Nanoparticle-cell link enables EM wireless programming of transgene expression

    31 points • comment • may 26, 2025

  4. Zuckerberg's Grand Vision: Most of Your Friends Will Be AI

    31 points • comment • may 07, 2025

  5. Stopping AI scrapers from taking down my server

    31 points • comment • may 26, 2025

  6. Cell Mates: Extracting Useful Information from Tables for LLMs

    31 points • comment • may 06, 2025

  7. Vagus nerve stimulation therapy for treatment-resistant PTSD

    30 points • comment • may 06, 2025

  8. Sign in with Apple" broke after update–losing data for a third of users

    30 points • comment • may 06, 2025

  9. Dreariness Index (2015)

    30 points • comment • may 05, 2025

  10. US Treasury to stop producing pennies next year

    30 points • comment • may 23, 2025

  11. Microsoft laying off 6k employees

    30 points • comment • may 13, 2025

  12. Why do we get earworms?

    30 points • comment • may 30, 2025

  13. GM's new turbo engine rewrites the rules of torque control-and locks out tuners

    30 points • comment • may 13, 2025

  14. Big Tech takes a harder line against worker activism, political dissent

    30 points • comment • may 17, 2025

  15. The Debian testing/trixie release on amd64 is now reproducible for over 95%

    30 points • comment • may 04, 2025

  16. London’s water pumps: Where strange history flows freely (2024)

    30 points • comment • may 18, 2025

  17. Linux kernel is leaving 486 CPUs behind, only 18 years after the last one made

    30 points • comment • may 10, 2025

  18. Ratatoi is a C libary that wraps stdlib's strtol (as atoi does), but it's evil.

    30 points • comment • may 21, 2025

  19. Bypassing a web application firewall with autocomplete

    30 points • comment • may 02, 2025

  20. Hunting extreme microbes that redefine the limits of life

    30 points • comment • may 15, 2025

  21. You can no longer browse open source code on GitHub without logging in first

    30 points • comment • may 14, 2025

  22. Making iText's table rendering faster

    30 points • comment • may 19, 2025

  23. TLA+ Video Course (2021)

    30 points • comment • may 01, 2025

  24. Creativity came to pass

    30 points • comment • may 07, 2025

  25. Photos in a Similar Style Aren't Copyright-Infringing–Woodland vs. Lil Nas X

    30 points • comment • may 20, 2025

  26. Laser-Induced Graphene from Commercial Inks and Dyes

    30 points • comment • may 14, 2025

  27. The Headlines Are Evil, and They're Bringing Us Down

    30 points • comment • may 29, 2025

  28. Fanaka – a handbook for African success in the international software industry

    30 points • comment • may 23, 2025

  29. Dolphin whistle decoders win $100k interspecies communication prize

    30 points • comment • may 15, 2025

  30. Ask HN: What will tech employment look like in 10 years?

    30 points • comment • may 11, 2025

  31. Meta faces lawsuit that could dismantle it

    30 points • comment • may 07, 2025

  32. Building (Open Source) Custom Dashboards Is Harder Than You Think

    30 points • comment • may 21, 2025

  33. It feels at the beginning of the end of the world

    30 points • comment • may 02, 2025

  34. Hill or High Water

    30 points • comment • may 09, 2025

  35. 128GB RAM Ryzen AI MAX+, $1699 – Bosman Undercuts All Other Local LLM Mini-PCs

    30 points • comment • may 25, 2025

  36. Link Out for In-App Purchases

    30 points • comment • may 02, 2025

  37. Postman for MCP

    30 points • comment • may 17, 2025

  38. A Critical Look at "A Critical Look at MCP."

    30 points • comment • may 17, 2025

  39. The Future of Junior Software Engineering Roles

    30 points • comment • may 21, 2025

  40. BYD Beats Tesla in Europe for First Time with 169% Sales Surge

    30 points • comment • may 22, 2025

  41. All That Glitters

    30 points • comment • may 21, 2025

  42. SDB Scans the Ruby Stack Without the GVL

    30 points • comment • may 19, 2025

  43. Chaos on German autobahns as Google Maps wrongly says they are closed

    29 points • comment • may 30, 2025

  44. Hybrid AC/DC distribution system with a shared neutral (2020)

    29 points • comment • may 01, 2025

  45. How Bail Bonds Work

    29 points • comment • may 10, 2025

  46. ChatGPT can accurately estimate Body Fat Percentage from photos

    29 points • comment • may 16, 2025

  47. The Creative Power of Constraints

    29 points • comment • may 05, 2025

  48. Psilocybin reduced depression symptoms as much as leading antidepressant (2021)

    29 points • comment • may 03, 2025

  49. OpenEoX to Standardize End-of-Life (EOL) and End-of-Support (EOS) Information

    29 points • comment • may 12, 2025

  50. Ancient reptile footprints are rewriting the history of when animals evolved

    29 points • comment • may 18, 2025

  51. Bell's 1881 Metal detector

    29 points • comment • may 04, 2025

  52. Show HN: I built an AI agent that turns ROS 2's turtlesim into a digital artist

    29 points • comment • may 31, 2025

  53. Show HN: AG-UI Protocol – Bring Agents into Frontend Applications

    29 points • comment • may 13, 2025

  54. Show HN: Trendly AI – Trend detection across 42 languages

    29 points • comment • may 21, 2025

  55. "Older than Google" Elder Scrolls wiki has been helping gamers for 30 years

    29 points • comment • may 02, 2025

  56. Why AI hasn't taken your job – And any jobs-pocalypse seems a long way off

    29 points • comment • may 27, 2025

  57. Lawful kinematics link eye movements to the limits of high-speed perception

    29 points • comment • may 13, 2025

  58. Fewer people want to work in the U.S.

    29 points • comment • may 13, 2025

  59. Show HN: Wetlands – a lightweight Python library for managing Conda environments

    29 points • comment • may 28, 2025

  60. Robot chefs take over at South Korea's highway restaurants, to mixed reviews

    29 points • comment • may 14, 2025

  61. Before the Undo Command, There Was the Electric Eraser

    29 points • comment • may 07, 2025

  62. Why do econ journalists keep making this basic mistake?

    29 points • comment • may 03, 2025

  63. Show HN: Test your typing speed and accuracy with movie scripts

    29 points • comment • may 08, 2025

  64. Farmers fear dingoes are eating livestock but poo tells an unexpected story

    29 points • comment • may 15, 2025

  65. Dia – An Early Review

    29 points • comment • may 13, 2025

  66. Steepest Descent Density Control for Compact 3D Gaussian Splatting

    29 points • comment • may 17, 2025

  67. Why some friendships end after kids come into the picture

    29 points • comment • may 18, 2025

  68. DIY Cybersickness Remedies

    29 points • comment • may 24, 2025

  69. Prompts for our Grok chat assistant and grok bot on X

    29 points • comment • may 16, 2025

  70. Let's Talk About the Bidet, the Bathroom's Best-Kept Secret

    28 points • comment • may 11, 2025

  71. UnitedHealth Group is under criminal investigation for possible Medicare fraud

    28 points • comment • may 14, 2025

  72. Research Uncovers Parthenon Spectacular Lighting Effects for Athena in Antiquity

    28 points • comment • may 19, 2025

  73. UnitedHealth paid nursing homes to reduce hospital transfers

    28 points • comment • may 21, 2025

  74. Show HN: Open-source protein and ligand viewer

    28 points • comment • may 23, 2025

  75. Building software on top of large language models

    28 points • comment • may 22, 2025

  76. Grammars of Formal Uncertainty

    28 points • comment • may 27, 2025

  77. Authors Are Accidentally Leaving AI Prompts in Their Novels

    28 points • comment • may 23, 2025

  78. Show HN: Ductape – Build back end integrations once, reuse them anywhere

    28 points • comment • may 05, 2025

  79. Zillow to bar publicly marketed listings not shared via MLS

    28 points • comment • may 14, 2025

  80. Verizon tries to get out of merger condition requiring it to unlock phones

    28 points • comment • may 21, 2025

  81. From the Transistor to the Web Browser, a rough outline for a 12 week course

    28 points • comment • may 06, 2025

  82. The Anarchitecture Group

    28 points • comment • may 09, 2025

  83. No one wants or needs downtown San Francisco's new $20M coworking trap

    28 points • comment • may 27, 2025

  84. An illustrated guide to Amazon VPCs

    28 points • comment • may 31, 2025

  85. Show HN: Wall Go – browser remake of a Devil's Plan 2 mini-game

    28 points • comment • may 25, 2025

  86. Tortoise Mode vs. Hare Mode

    28 points • comment • may 01, 2025

  87. Irritation Is Inspiration

    28 points • comment • may 30, 2025

  88. They Were Identical 'Twinnies' Who Charmed Orwell, Camus and More

    28 points • comment • may 16, 2025

  89. Solar grants held hostage in Pennsylvania legislature – as demand soars

    28 points • comment • may 18, 2025

  90. Show HN: Pixelagent – Build your Stateful Agent Framework in 200 lines of code

    28 points • comment • may 15, 2025

  91. Flies in the evidence room: Inside Belgium's rotting Justice Palace

    28 points • comment • may 03, 2025

  92. RFK Jr. to require placebo-controlled studies for new vaccines

    28 points • comment • may 01, 2025

  93. The Joys of Discovering the Roman Underground

    28 points • comment • may 15, 2025

  94. Personal Computer Origins: The Datapoint 2200

    28 points • comment • may 21, 2025

  95. You could have invented Transformers

    28 points • comment • may 25, 2025

  96. Exploring a Language Runtime with Bpftrace

    28 points • comment • may 28, 2025

  97. Revisiting Loop Recognition in C++ in Rust

    27 points • comment • may 29, 2025

  98. DumPy: NumPy except it's OK if you're dum

    27 points • comment • may 24, 2025

  99. 3D Simulation of the Bombe Machine

    27 points • comment • may 27, 2025

  100. Texas Senate passes bill requiring solar plants to provide power at night

    27 points • comment • may 13, 2025