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Hacker News (May 2025)

  1. I let lasers power my smart home – and I don't want to go back

    24 points • comment • may 17, 2025

  2. Unique Games Conjecture

    24 points • comment • may 10, 2025

  3. Every programming language has its 'killer' domain

    24 points • comment • may 18, 2025

  4. Microbe that infests hospitals can digest medical-grade plastic ― a first

    24 points • comment • may 12, 2025

  5. Netflix will show generative AI ads midway through streams in 2026

    24 points • comment • may 15, 2025

  6. Florida Just Banned Fluoride from Public Water

    24 points • comment • may 15, 2025

  7. Accidentally discovered nanostructured material passively harvest water from air

    24 points • comment • may 22, 2025

  8. Oil companies protected ahead of selling fracking water

    24 points • comment • may 28, 2025

  9. Unix Workstations – The Computer Collection

    24 points • comment • may 23, 2025

  10. A Hyper-Catalan Series Solution to Polynomial Equations, and the Geode

    24 points • comment • may 02, 2025

  11. A first successful factorization of RSA-2048 integer by D-Wave quantum computer

    24 points • comment • may 11, 2025

  12. Human-Like Episodic Memory for Infinite Context LLMs

    24 points • comment • may 08, 2025

  13. The Secret Services' involvement in the making of The Line of Fire (1993) [pdf]

    24 points • comment • may 01, 2025

  14. Globalization did not hollow out the American middle class

    24 points • comment • may 08, 2025

  15. Sieving pores: stable,fast alloying chemistry of Si -electrodes in Li-ion batt

    24 points • comment • may 26, 2025

  16. Newsreels from the UCLA Film and Television Archive

    24 points • comment • may 08, 2025

  17. How I found a Star Wars website made by the CIA

    24 points • comment • may 26, 2025

  18. Wake Up, Remix

    24 points • comment • may 28, 2025

  19. Passing Messages

    24 points • comment • may 08, 2025

  20. Trump Threatens 25% Tariffs on Apple If iPhones Not Made in US

    24 points • comment • may 23, 2025

  21. Boy Accidentally Orders 70k Lollipops on Amazon. Panic Ensues.

    24 points • comment • may 09, 2025

  22. AI-driven robot installs nearly 10k solar modules in Australia

    24 points • comment • may 04, 2025

  23. Professors Staffed a Fake Company with AI Agents, Guess What Happened?

    24 points • comment • may 05, 2025

  24. A 'Trump Card Visa' Is Already Showing Up in Immigration Forms

    24 points • comment • may 07, 2025

  25. Ancient DNA Unveils the Cosmopolitan Heart of the Phoenician-Punic Civilization

    24 points • comment • may 01, 2025

  26. Measure EEG with Arduino

    24 points • comment • may 15, 2025

  27. Tulsi Gabbard Reused the Same Weak Password on Multiple Accounts for Years

    24 points • comment • may 07, 2025

  28. Hacker News Anti-Paywall

    24 points • comment • may 18, 2025

  29. Why Are ADHD Rates So Much Higher in the U.S.?

    24 points • comment • may 10, 2025

  30. Executive order directs federal funding cuts to PBS and NPR

    24 points • comment • may 02, 2025

  31. Solving the mystery of a dinosaur mass grave at the 'River of Death'

    24 points • comment • may 21, 2025

  32. Sanctum || A pq-safe and sandboxed VPN daemon

    24 points • comment • may 02, 2025

  33. Show HN: I reinvented PHP in TypeScript (demo)

    24 points • comment • may 15, 2025

  34. Show HN: The missing inbox for GitHub pull requests

    24 points • comment • may 12, 2025

  35. The Reverse Turing Test Game

    24 points • comment • may 06, 2025

  36. Silicon Valley is coming for The Pentagon's $1T budget

    24 points • comment • may 09, 2025

  37. A.I. Is Getting More Powerful, but Its Hallucinations Are Getting Worse

    24 points • comment • may 05, 2025

  38. The World Of dBASE (1984) [video]

    24 points • comment • may 04, 2025

  39. Source code for the unofficial Signal app used by Trump officials

    24 points • comment • may 03, 2025

  40. "Google wanted that": Nextcloud decries Android permissions as "gatekeeping"

    24 points • comment • may 14, 2025

  41. CT scans show cigarettes are harder on the lungs than marijuana

    24 points • comment • may 10, 2025

  42. 'The Worst Internet-Research Ethics Violation I Have Ever Seen'

    24 points • comment • may 03, 2025

  43. Scientists May Have Found a Natural Alternative to Ozempic

    23 points • comment • may 02, 2025

  44. Why Is Geographic Mobility Declining?

    23 points • comment • may 15, 2025

  45. Harrison Ruffin Tyler, grandson of 10th U.S. president, has died

    23 points • comment • may 28, 2025

  46. FlowTSE: Target Speaker Extraction with Flow Matching

    23 points • comment • may 28, 2025

  47. I Hated Smart Glasses, but Google's Android XR Let Me See a New Future

    23 points • comment • may 23, 2025

  48. Detecting Malicious Unicode

    23 points • comment • may 16, 2025

  49. You share a house with Einstein, Hawking and Tao

    23 points • comment • may 26, 2025

  50. Why agency and cognition are fundamentally not computational

    23 points • comment • may 15, 2025

  51. Gateway Books: The lessons of a defunct canon

    23 points • comment • may 15, 2025

  52. New DSL "MassQL" lets scientists query mass spectrometry data

    23 points • comment • may 23, 2025

  53. Algebraic Effects: Another mistake carried through to perfection?

    23 points • comment • may 10, 2025

  54. OCaml Web Development: Essential Tools and Libraries in 2025

    23 points • comment • may 17, 2025

  55. Protein-slayer drugs could beat some of the cruellest cancers

    23 points • comment • may 07, 2025

  56. From Clocks to Chaos: The Rhythms of Life

    23 points • comment • may 28, 2025

  57. Show HN: Bricks – One Click Dashboards from Your Data Using AI

    23 points • comment • may 20, 2025

  58. AMD GPU Programming in Julia

    23 points • comment • may 08, 2025

  59. Microbes in Gowanus teach lessons on fighting industrial pollution

    23 points • comment • may 16, 2025

  60. Europe's last maker of antibiotics ingredients shuts biggest domestic factory

    23 points • comment • may 06, 2025

  61. White House “Accelerating” Nuclear Power With Executive Orders

    23 points • comment • may 07, 2025

  62. UK rolls out passkeys across Gov.uk services

    23 points • comment • may 08, 2025

  63. How a Quiet American Cardinal Became Pope

    23 points • comment • may 11, 2025

  64. Klarna flip from AI-first to hiring people again, Survey Reveal AI projects fail

    23 points • comment • may 11, 2025

  65. Engineered adipocytes implantation suppresses tumor progression in cancer models

    23 points • comment • may 06, 2025

  66. The overlooked masterpiece full of coded messages about World War One

    23 points • comment • may 11, 2025

  67. Drawing power out of CCS port

    23 points • comment • may 25, 2025

  68. Gemini Diffusion

    23 points • comment • may 20, 2025

  69. Berlin, Paris overcome rift over nuclear energy, French official says

    23 points • comment • may 19, 2025

  70. Comparing floating-point numbers (2012)

    23 points • comment • may 13, 2025

  71. Sole maintainer of Linux distro AnduinOS turns out to be a Microsoft employee

    23 points • comment • may 08, 2025

  72. From Philosophy to Power: The Misuse of René Girard by Peter Thiel, J.D. Vance

    23 points • comment • may 25, 2025

  73. Hyper – Outperform React on every metric

    23 points • comment • may 06, 2025

  74. On "Vibe Coding"

    23 points • comment • may 23, 2025

  75. Is the job market for software developers collapsing?

    23 points • comment • may 27, 2025

  76. French state covered up Nestle water scandal: Senate report

    23 points • comment • may 20, 2025

  77. Larry Tesler: Smalltalk Kernel Language Manual [pdf]

    23 points • comment • may 11, 2025

  78. Censoring Social Media

    23 points • comment • may 04, 2025

  79. Reading Zanzibar

    22 points • comment • may 03, 2025

  80. Robot is 3D-printed upside-down in one piece, then walks out of the printer

    22 points • comment • may 29, 2025

  81. RepoRoulette: Randomly sample repositories from GitHub

    22 points • comment • may 18, 2025

  82. Bertrand Piccard's Big Hydrogen Adventure – hydrogen fuel-cell aircraft

    22 points • comment • may 27, 2025

  83. Dropbox will require App Indicator support on Linux

    22 points • comment • may 01, 2025

  84. Tipping Point: How America's Gratuity System Got Out of Hand

    22 points • comment • may 15, 2025

  85. Forester, a tool for scientific and mathematical hypertexts

    22 points • comment • may 27, 2025

  86. The Monster-Slaying Game You Can Play Almost Anywhere

    22 points • comment • may 23, 2025

  87. Fedora Linux is now an official WSL distro

    22 points • comment • may 06, 2025

  88. Apple Turnover

    22 points • comment • may 09, 2025

  89. QueryLeaf: SQL for Mongo

    22 points • comment • may 08, 2025

  90. Why are (male) surgeons still addressed as Mr? (2000)

    22 points • comment • may 19, 2025

  91. Ask HN: Decided I no longer want to be a SWE – what next?

    22 points • comment • may 27, 2025

  92. Hacking Pinball High Scores

    22 points • comment • may 29, 2025

  93. People who believe that AI might become conscious

    22 points • comment • may 26, 2025

  94. The Utter Flimsiness of XAI's Processes

    22 points • comment • may 19, 2025

  95. Azul CTO: Java at 30 Still Rules Enterprise Dev

    22 points • comment • may 26, 2025

  96. Human coders are still better than LLMs

    22 points • comment • may 29, 2025

  97. Boeing reaches deal to avoid prosecution over deadly 737 MAX crashes

    22 points • comment • may 24, 2025

  98. October the First Is Too Late

    22 points • comment • may 15, 2025

  99. Air traffic controllers couldn't see or talk to planes in Newark failure

    22 points • comment • may 05, 2025

  100. The bad science behind expensive nuclear

    22 points • comment • may 27, 2025