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Hacker News (May 2025)
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Texas Senate passes bill requiring solar plants to provide power at night
27 points • comment • may 13, 2025
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Show HN: Pi Co-pilot – Evaluation of AI apps made easy
27 points • comment • may 22, 2025
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Canon Law Ninja
27 points • comment • may 27, 2025
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How to disappear– Inside the world of extreme-privacy consultants
27 points • comment • may 28, 2025
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Static Types Are for Perfectionists
27 points • comment • may 17, 2025
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Distributed server for social and realtime games and apps
27 points • comment • may 05, 2025
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Retro Computing
27 points • comment • may 04, 2025
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Python in LibreOffice (LibrePythonista Extension)
27 points • comment • may 25, 2025
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3D Simulation of the Bombe Machine
27 points • comment • may 27, 2025
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British ICC chief prosecutor lost access to email and has bank accounts frozen
27 points • comment • may 16, 2025
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From RPC to transactions and durable executions
27 points • comment • may 21, 2025
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µPC: Scaling Predictive Coding to 100 Layer Networks
27 points • comment • may 21, 2025
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Show HN: VoltAgent – Open-Source Observability-First TS AI Agent Framework
27 points • comment • may 04, 2025
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Windows 11 Start Menu Revealed as Resource-Heavy React Native App
27 points • comment • may 29, 2025
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Programming Basics with Tiki
27 points • comment • may 25, 2025
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The Gmail app will now create AI summaries
27 points • comment • may 30, 2025
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Illinois man has spent 40 years rebuilding a WWII-era B-17 bomber in his barn
27 points • comment • may 30, 2025
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X Blocks Jailed Istanbul Mayor Imamoglu's Account
27 points • comment • may 08, 2025
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Microsoft's new "passwordless by default" is great but comes at a cost
27 points • comment • may 02, 2025
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There's a national egg crisis, and one company is making a lot of money
27 points • comment • may 10, 2025
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Old Growth Wood
27 points • comment • may 20, 2025
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GodAmp: Reimplementation of Winamp 2.9 in Godot, with cross-platform support
27 points • comment • may 22, 2025
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Reading "Business" Books Is a Waste of Time
27 points • comment • may 19, 2025
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How to Automate Software Engineering
26 points • comment • may 30, 2025
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Turning into Turing (2022)
26 points • comment • may 05, 2025
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Federal judge halts Trump admin ban on Harvard's ability to enroll intl students
26 points • comment • may 23, 2025
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Randomness Requirements for Security (2005)
26 points • comment • may 29, 2025
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Self Rewarding Self Improving: Autonomous LLM Improvement
26 points • comment • may 15, 2025
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Show HN: MP3 File Editor for Bulk Processing
26 points • comment • may 03, 2025
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Carmakers Are Embracing Physical Buttons Again
26 points • comment • may 05, 2025
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Show HN: Infinite Hagakure
26 points • comment • may 22, 2025
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Solving physics-based initial value problems with unsupervised machine learning
26 points • comment • may 16, 2025
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Three Faces of American Capitalism: Buffett, Musk, and Trump
26 points • comment • may 12, 2025
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RFK Jr threatens ban on federal scientists publishing in top journals
26 points • comment • may 28, 2025
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Ask HN: Is anyone else burnt out on AI?
26 points • comment • may 23, 2025
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Why walking is the most underrated form of exercise (2017)
26 points • comment • may 21, 2025
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Ask HN: Has anyone been able to overcome crippling executive dysfunction?
26 points • comment • may 22, 2025
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Taking a look at the next generation of telescopes
26 points • comment • may 13, 2025
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Concrete spheres for energy storage; California plans a 9-meter diameter sphere
26 points • comment • may 10, 2025
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The Language That Never Was
26 points • comment • may 17, 2025
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Some Life Lessons from VAX/VMS (2013)
26 points • comment • may 22, 2025
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Nothing Radicalizes You Against Dirty Diesels Like Riding a Motorcycle
26 points • comment • may 08, 2025
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US President Donald Trump Seeks to Cancel NASA's Mars Sample Return
26 points • comment • may 11, 2025
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Show HN: Claude Code in the Cloud
26 points • comment • may 19, 2025
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State of the Art PFAS [pdf]
26 points • comment • may 18, 2025
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Lead Bullets (2011)
26 points • comment • may 10, 2025
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GrapheneOS: Where Licenses Matter More Than People
26 points • comment • may 25, 2025
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The Beam Book: Understanding the Erlang Runtime System
26 points • comment • may 29, 2025
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Mini-satellite paves the way for quantum messaging anywhere on Earth
26 points • comment • may 19, 2025
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84% of the coral reefs hit by worst bleaching event on record
26 points • comment • may 01, 2025
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Internet Phone Book
26 points • comment • may 15, 2025
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What is it like to be a thermostat? (1996)
26 points • comment • may 11, 2025
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The Next-Gen Mainboard Designed with AmigaOS4 and MorphOS in Mind
26 points • comment • may 25, 2025
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Microsoft-backed Builder.ai collapsed after finding potentially bogus sales
26 points • comment • may 22, 2025
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Show HN: Checking Pope's election results with smoke test script for chimney
26 points • comment • may 08, 2025
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Why I'm getting off US tech
26 points • comment • may 01, 2025
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Show HN: BetterFriend – a CRM just to be a better friend
26 points • comment • may 25, 2025
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SQL Workbench – Republicans not welcome
26 points • comment • may 29, 2025
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Mark Zuckerberg Loves MAGA Now. Will MAGA Ever Love Him Back?
26 points • comment • may 26, 2025
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Google can train search AI with web content even with opt-out
26 points • comment • may 03, 2025
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New #1 open-source AI Agent on SWE-bench Verified
25 points • comment • may 22, 2025
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PScientists reveal how bats learn to identify which prey is safe to eat
25 points • comment • may 01, 2025
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Cosmos-482 descent craft re-entry prediction
25 points • comment • may 10, 2025
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White House budget seeks to end SLS, Orion, and Lunar Gateway programs
25 points • comment • may 05, 2025
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Ask HN: 3rd Week at FAANG and feeling imposter syndrome
25 points • comment • may 01, 2025
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No! Repent! From! Harlan! (1998)
25 points • comment • may 05, 2025
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Ask HN: Building LLM apps? How are you handling user context?
25 points • comment • may 26, 2025
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Is America Headed for an Age of Dumb Phones?
25 points • comment • may 24, 2025
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Nintendo warns that it can brick Switch consoles if it detects hacking, piracy
25 points • comment • may 13, 2025
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Implementing State Machines in PostgreSQL (2017)
25 points • comment • may 08, 2025
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Infrared contact lenses allow people to see in the dark, eyes closed
25 points • comment • may 23, 2025
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Old and Small Technology
25 points • comment • may 15, 2025
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Show HN: Stack Error – ergonomic error handling for Rust
25 points • comment • may 18, 2025
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Throwaway Code: Don't recycle, throw it away (2017)
25 points • comment • may 06, 2025
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Thermoelectric generator based on a robust carbon nanotube/BiSbTe foam
25 points • comment • may 13, 2025
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Conspiracy Theorists Can Be Deprogrammed
25 points • comment • may 13, 2025
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Show HN: Terminal Flower Garden
25 points • comment • may 24, 2025
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Study finds a 50% decline in the use of semicolons over the last two decades
25 points • comment • may 26, 2025
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Shape and topology morphing of closed surfaces integrating origami and kirigami
25 points • comment • may 06, 2025
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Show HN: Exhibit and Site on Mechanisms for Students
25 points • comment • may 02, 2025
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Why should I care? Or why punks are correct and old wise philosophers are wrong
25 points • comment • may 10, 2025
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You Don't Need Re-Ranking: Understanding the Superlinked Vector Layer
25 points • comment • may 23, 2025
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US EPA plans to cut staff to 1980s levels, dissolve research office
25 points • comment • may 03, 2025
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Digitization Complete for World-Renowned Franco Novacco Map Collection
25 points • comment • may 03, 2025
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The Anti-Capitalist Case for Standards
25 points • comment • may 02, 2025
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"Police state" search got censored in Italy
25 points • comment • may 07, 2025
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We're beating $359M in funding with two people and OCaml
25 points • comment • may 31, 2025
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I so hate the phrase "vibe coding"
25 points • comment • may 06, 2025
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Reducing Huntington’s-related repeat expansions in patient cells and in mice
25 points • comment • may 27, 2025
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Never film the new Ex90 because you will break your cell camera
25 points • comment • may 08, 2025
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Ancient humans used sunscreen to survive a deadly magnetic pole shift
25 points • comment • may 10, 2025
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Sims, BattleBots, Cellular Automata God and Go (2001)
25 points • comment • may 24, 2025
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Show HN: Extension for full-text browser history search
25 points • comment • may 08, 2025
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How Complex Systems Fail
25 points • comment • may 04, 2025
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We Know Why Ancient Roman Concrete Lasts Thousands of Years
25 points • comment • may 18, 2025
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DuckLake: SQL as a Lakehouse Format
25 points • comment • may 27, 2025
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Loving 21st century gaming like an 18th century furniture expert
25 points • comment • may 05, 2025
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Sieving pores: stable,fast alloying chemistry of Si -electrodes in Li-ion batt
24 points • comment • may 26, 2025
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Oil companies protected ahead of selling fracking water
24 points • comment • may 28, 2025
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Source code for the unofficial Signal app used by Trump officials
24 points • comment • may 03, 2025