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Hacker News (May 2025)

54 years ago, a programmer fixed a bug – and created an existential crisis
20 points • comment • may 16, 2025
Show HN: Public transportation departure board
20 points • comment • may 30, 2025
The most annoying video player of all time
20 points • comment • may 15, 2025
H.R.1161 – Red, White, and Blueland Act of 2025
20 points • comment • may 07, 2025
Authy corrupted my 2FA backup and all I got was this lousy blogpost
20 points • comment • may 20, 2025
Pebble Core 2 Duo Smartwatch Demo and Q&A [video]
20 points • comment • may 01, 2025
QueryHub
20 points • comment • may 08, 2025
Codd's Cellular Automaton
20 points • comment • may 01, 2025
I trapped an AI model inside an art installation [video]
20 points • comment • may 20, 2025
Microsoft blocks emails that contain 'Palestine' after employee protests
20 points • comment • may 22, 2025
When Open Source Isn't: How OpenRewrite Lost Its Way
20 points • comment • may 15, 2025
Rust Devs Think We're Hopeless; Let's Prove Them Wrong (With C++ Memory Leaks)
20 points • comment • may 11, 2025
My Cute Homelab
20 points • comment • may 24, 2025
Bash implementation of Tabloid, the clickbait programming language
20 points • comment • may 24, 2025
Pakistan pulled off one of the fastest solar revolutions in the world
20 points • comment • may 02, 2025
Intel versus AMD is currently an emotional decision for me
20 points • comment • may 28, 2025
Show HN: Maybe – The personal finance app for everyone
19 points • comment • may 02, 2025
Defensive CSS
19 points • comment • may 19, 2025
Expressive Design: Google's UX Research
19 points • comment • may 14, 2025
Welcome to the land that no country wants (2016)
19 points • comment • may 16, 2025
The 44 Year Old Computer Magazine That Changed Everything [video]
19 points • comment • may 25, 2025
A Pregnancy Souvenir: Cells That Are Not Your Own (2015)
19 points • comment • may 24, 2025
Ultra-low power, miniature electrophysiological electronics
19 points • comment • may 23, 2025
The unusual mathematics that gives rose petals their shape
19 points • comment • may 01, 2025
The Enshittification of Tech Jobs
19 points • comment • may 04, 2025
Jargonic Sets New SOTA for Japanese ASR
19 points • comment • may 07, 2025
Year 2038 Problem
19 points • comment • may 26, 2025
Tell HN: The Hetzner Experience - Invisible Outages
19 points • comment • may 20, 2025
A Wolf in Sheep's Clothing: White Labeling and Partnerships in the HVAC Industry
19 points • comment • may 24, 2025
For better or for worse, the overload (2024)
19 points • comment • may 09, 2025
Infrastructure, Common Goods, and the Future of Open Source Software
19 points • comment • may 14, 2025
Why Intel Deprecated SGX?
19 points • comment • may 08, 2025
Garmin watches reveal your personal data, and what you can do
19 points • comment • may 26, 2025
You can now directly sync Postgres with Redis
19 points • comment • may 03, 2025
The Strategic Oil Bombing Campaign
19 points • comment • may 04, 2025
Show HN: SoloDB – A document database build on top of SQLite with JSONB
19 points • comment • may 31, 2025
Show HN: YapCards (iOS) – Voice-driven flashcards with AI feedback
19 points • comment • may 15, 2025
ChatGPT may be polite, but it's not cooperating with you
19 points • comment • may 13, 2025
CHERIoT: The Last Ten Years
19 points • comment • may 17, 2025
SpaceX may have solved one problem, only to find more on latest Starship flight
19 points • comment • may 28, 2025
How my ADHD makes handling relationships difficult
19 points • comment • may 05, 2025
Pallene: A statically typed ahead-of-time compiled sister language to Lua, with
19 points • comment • may 16, 2025
Show HN: A motherfucking app (does one thing, under 300 LOC)
19 points • comment • may 02, 2025
The Myth of the Genius Hacker
19 points • comment • may 11, 2025
SEC SIM-swapper who Googled 'signs that the FBI is after you' put behind bars
19 points • comment • may 20, 2025
Collatz's Ant and Similarity of Landscapes
19 points • comment • may 25, 2025
Writing C++ in 2025
19 points • comment • may 19, 2025
Ask HN: How do you obtain software development contracts?
19 points • comment • may 07, 2025
Show HN: Mirror World, create an AI clone of anyone
19 points • comment • may 19, 2025
Just Fucking Use React
19 points • comment • may 16, 2025
Git Changesets
19 points • comment • may 01, 2025
Tell HN: Incorporated my software company today
19 points • comment • may 03, 2025
Deadlocks in Go: the dark side of concurrency (2021)
19 points • comment • may 23, 2025
Computational Limit of Life May Be Billion Times Higher Than Assumed
19 points • comment • may 03, 2025
The Em Dash Conspiracy: More and More of Reddit Is from LLMs
19 points • comment • may 05, 2025
Sharp X68000
19 points • comment • may 24, 2025
So You Want to Look Rich?
19 points • comment • may 23, 2025
U.S. Jury Orders NSO Group to Pay $168M in WhatsApp Spyware Case
19 points • comment • may 07, 2025
Over half of UK businesses who replaced workers with AI regret their decision
18 points • comment • may 01, 2025
Loko Scheme, an optimizing, bare-metal Scheme compiler
18 points • comment • may 12, 2025
Show HN: MMORPG prototype inspired by World of Warcraft
18 points • comment • may 12, 2025
The FDIC Dismantling Is Underway
18 points • comment • may 07, 2025
What's up with this "Please add me on WhatsApp" robocall spam?
18 points • comment • may 31, 2025
An In-Room Mosquito Tracking Device That Lets You Easily Kill Them
18 points • comment • may 16, 2025
The world needs more modest, linear growth companies
18 points • comment • may 13, 2025
ChatGPT may be polite, but it's not cooperating with you
18 points • comment • may 14, 2025
Publisher: The Malloy Semantic Model Server
18 points • comment • may 17, 2025
Glaxnimate – Fast and simple vector graphics editor
18 points • comment • may 25, 2025
19M tons of lithium found in Arkansas
18 points • comment • may 27, 2025
Show HN: Kinematic Hand Skeleton Optimization in Jax
18 points • comment • may 02, 2025
Bot countermeasures impact on the quality of life on the web
18 points • comment • may 10, 2025
Red Hat partners with SiFive for a RISC-V developer preview of RHEL 10
18 points • comment • may 20, 2025
Ask HN: Did Aliexpress stop shipping to US?
18 points • comment • may 06, 2025
Empire of office workers strikes back against RTO mandates
18 points • comment • may 27, 2025
Erlang/OTP 28.0 Release
18 points • comment • may 21, 2025
In São Paulo, 'Big Brother' is watching, with 25K cameras and facial recognition
18 points • comment • may 10, 2025
Elon Musk is responsible for "killing the poorest children," says Bill Gates
18 points • comment • may 08, 2025
Rules-based world order in retreat and violence on the rise. Has WW3 begun?
18 points • comment • may 10, 2025
How MiniDisc Worked
18 points • comment • may 26, 2025
Open Document Format turns 20, but Microsoft Office still reigns supreme
18 points • comment • may 03, 2025
We Need Lisp Machines
18 points • comment • may 19, 2025
Replacing tmux and GNU screen with Emacs
18 points • comment • may 12, 2025
Backblaze Drive Stats for Q1 2025
18 points • comment • may 13, 2025
Show HN: Make your own voice AI in two clicks
18 points • comment • may 13, 2025
Why incels take the "Blackpill"–and why we should care
18 points • comment • may 31, 2025
Catbench Vector Search Demo Has Postgres SQL Throughput, Latency Monitoring Now
18 points • comment • may 30, 2025
Huawei's Kirin X90 may be the company's 'Apple Silicon' moment
18 points • comment • may 10, 2025
Xkcd's "Is It Worth the Time?" Considered Harmful
18 points • comment • may 10, 2025
Altman testifies that OpenAI will release an Open Source model this Summer
18 points • comment • may 08, 2025
Analysis of the Russian information manipulation set Storm-1516 [pdf]
18 points • comment • may 06, 2025
Lyria 2
18 points • comment • may 20, 2025
Yahtzeeql – Yahtzee solver that's mostly SQL
18 points • comment • may 15, 2025
Fearmongering
18 points • comment • may 18, 2025
Using Git-upload-pack for a simpler CI integration
18 points • comment • may 09, 2025
The Decline of Battery Life (2021)
18 points • comment • may 28, 2025
Ask HN: Has anyone managed to pass Meta's Access Verification?
18 points • comment • may 05, 2025
Too Much Grit Can Damage Your Brain
18 points • comment • may 22, 2025
Microsoft-backed Builder.ai enters insolvency proceedings
18 points • comment • may 20, 2025
Git Commands That Cover 90% of a Developer's Daily Workflow
18 points • comment • may 02, 2025
Thinking Forth (2011)
18 points • comment • may 01, 2025