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Hacker News (May 2025)
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Python Pandas Ditches NumPy for Speedier PyArrow
16 points • comment • may 27, 2025
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NASA's Voyager 1 Revives Backup Thrusters Before Command Pause Science
16 points • comment • may 14, 2025
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18-Year-Old U.S. Teen Develops AI to Reveal 1.5M New Space Objects
16 points • comment • may 08, 2025
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Vibe-coded a professional C99 compiler with a broken hand (then threw it away)
16 points • comment • may 17, 2025
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How did geometry create modern physics?
16 points • comment • may 27, 2025
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A Simple Spit Test Could Reveal Prostate Cancer, Outperforming a Blood Test
16 points • comment • may 14, 2025
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Jonathan Blow on Removing Dependencies
16 points • comment • may 19, 2025
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Ransomware Gangs Weaponize Employee Burnout to Breach Corporate Defenses
16 points • comment • may 06, 2025
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Erlang/OTP 28 Highlights
16 points • comment • may 21, 2025
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Microsoft Announces Xbox Console Price Hike, Xbox Games to Cost $80
16 points • comment • may 02, 2025
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Show HN: Kudos.wiki – Discover the best movies on Wikipedia
16 points • comment • may 15, 2025
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Jewels linked to Buddha remains go to auction, sparking ethical debate
16 points • comment • may 04, 2025
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SEC Investigating Whether Coinbase Misstated Its User Numbers
16 points • comment • may 15, 2025
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What Can You Do with a Slide Rule?
16 points • comment • may 16, 2025
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Show HN: Self-Funded Game with Homemade Engine – Play Online, Steam Coming
16 points • comment • may 16, 2025
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TwoFold (2f), CLI text expander/template engine
16 points • comment • may 11, 2025
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Level-5 CEO says games being made 80-90% by AI "aesthetic sense" a must for devs
16 points • comment • may 08, 2025
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The Imaginary 16-Bit Amiga Games of Suzanne Treister
16 points • comment • may 19, 2025
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Apple Created a Legal Mess When It Skirted Judge's Ruling
16 points • comment • may 09, 2025
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I bought a $1k electric boat from China. Here's what showed up
16 points • comment • may 04, 2025
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Data center projects blocked or delayed amid local opposition
16 points • comment • may 26, 2025
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Show HN: Sprigman – Pac-Man Recreated in a Limited Tile Based JavaScript Engine
16 points • comment • may 07, 2025
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Google Worried It Couldn't Control How Israel Uses Project Nimbus, Files Reveal
16 points • comment • may 12, 2025
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Linux wiper malware hidden in malicious Go modules on GitHub
16 points • comment • may 06, 2025
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They Were Every Student's Worst Nightmare. Now Blue Books Are Back
16 points • comment • may 24, 2025
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Outlook stores email in Microsoft Cloud – what you need to know
16 points • comment • may 17, 2025
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The people stuck using ancient Windows computers
15 points • comment • may 19, 2025
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Charles M. Lieber joins Tsinghua University
15 points • comment • may 04, 2025
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The Battle to Bottle Palm Wine (2021)
15 points • comment • may 10, 2025
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America's consumer watchdog drops leash on proposed data broker crackdown
15 points • comment • may 17, 2025
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World's largest '100 per cent electric' ship launched
15 points • comment • may 02, 2025
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If Everyone Has Trauma, Everyone Has Trauma
15 points • comment • may 12, 2025
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Oops, I accidentally vibe-coded a ChatGPT client for my Apple Watch
15 points • comment • may 19, 2025
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NASA celebrated employee's story of resilience, tried to scrub it, and fired her
15 points • comment • may 20, 2025
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HHS Finds Columbia University in Violation of Federal Civil Rights Law
15 points • comment • may 24, 2025
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How Indian Colleges Casually Violate Human Rights
15 points • comment • may 05, 2025
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How Qatar Bought America
15 points • comment • may 15, 2025
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Fixrleak: Fixing Java Resource Leaks with GenAI
15 points • comment • may 13, 2025
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Driverless Semi Trucks Are Here, with Little Regulation and Big Promises
15 points • comment • may 28, 2025
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Kermit the Frog gives commencement speech at University of Maryland
15 points • comment • may 23, 2025
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Google's Veo3 Is Already Deepfaking All of YouTube's Most Smooth-Brained Content
15 points • comment • may 23, 2025
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I Miss Visual Basic
15 points • comment • may 14, 2025
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Gradient-Based Program Repair: Fixing Bugs in Continuous Program Spaces
15 points • comment • may 27, 2025
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What is Humphrey's Executor? A look at the 90-year-old Supreme Court decision
15 points • comment • may 30, 2025
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$20B manufacturer has no bosses, just an internal currency called Will
15 points • comment • may 03, 2025
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Examining problematic speech and behavior in World of Warcraft (2022)
15 points • comment • may 08, 2025
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Ask HN: Is anyone using AI conversation partners?
15 points • comment • may 28, 2025
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Show HN: Live Air Quality Monitor
15 points • comment • may 03, 2025
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Show HN: Kokoro TTS – Free Text to Speech Converter with Multilingual AI Voices
15 points • comment • may 17, 2025
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NYC MTA scavenges for parts on eBay to maintain subway system
15 points • comment • may 26, 2025
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What we in the open world are messing up in trying to compete with big tech
15 points • comment • may 19, 2025
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The Unofficial Ruby Usage Guide
15 points • comment • may 02, 2025
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Welcome to the age of paranoia as deepfakes and scams abound
15 points • comment • may 13, 2025
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The Boring Company Achieves "Holy Grail" Zero-People-in-Tunnel Continuous Mining
15 points • comment • may 14, 2025
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Rerum Novarum ("The thirst for innovation") (1891)
15 points • comment • may 11, 2025
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The way of code: Rick Rubin
15 points • comment • may 23, 2025
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Dodge Confirms Electric Charger Daytona R/T Is Dead as Unsold Cars Pile Up
15 points • comment • may 31, 2025
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A star has been destroyed by a wandering supermassive black hole
15 points • comment • may 09, 2025
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White House MAHA Report may have garbled science by using AI
15 points • comment • may 30, 2025
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Warming of 1.5 °C is too high for polar ice sheets
15 points • comment • may 21, 2025
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Why Arabic Is Terrific (2011)
15 points • comment • may 17, 2025
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AI cheating surge pushes schools into chaos
15 points • comment • may 26, 2025
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Tech Conferences are ramping up security to quell employee protests
15 points • comment • may 26, 2025
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The first year of free-threaded Python
15 points • comment • may 13, 2025
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A Cool HTTP Feature for Simple Real-Time Updates
15 points • comment • may 06, 2025
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Show HN: Vom Decision Platform (Cursor for Decision Analyst)
15 points • comment • may 09, 2025
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Microsoft dumps AI into Notepad as 'Copilot all the things' mania takes hold
15 points • comment • may 23, 2025
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A romance scam compound–and how people get tricked into being there
15 points • comment • may 09, 2025
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Sequencing for Value
15 points • comment • may 11, 2025
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MCP Is Not Good, Yet
15 points • comment • may 06, 2025
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DNSanity: Quickly validate DNS servers at scale
15 points • comment • may 05, 2025
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The Whole Unicode Table
15 points • comment • may 02, 2025
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Robert Musil Forgotten Plays Inspired His Greatest Work of Fiction
15 points • comment • may 22, 2025
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The AI jobs crisis is here, now
15 points • comment • may 11, 2025
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Why are some rocks on the moon highly magnetic?
15 points • comment • may 28, 2025
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Non-Pointless Software Projects for New Devs in the LLM Age
15 points • comment • may 26, 2025
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If Free Buses Aren't Wise, What About Cheaper Citi Bikes?
15 points • comment • may 09, 2025
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8% of the reviews submitted to Tripadvisor in 2024 were fake
15 points • comment • may 25, 2025
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Petrichor
15 points • comment • may 10, 2025
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Type 2 diabetes alters brain circuits involved in reward processing
15 points • comment • may 02, 2025
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Uninitialized garbage on ia64 can be deadly (2004)
15 points • comment • may 28, 2025
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Are the Colors in Astronomical Images 'Real'?
15 points • comment • may 25, 2025
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Why Did Grok Start Talking About 'White Genocide'?
15 points • comment • may 15, 2025
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Skin wounds in humans heal nearly three times slower than in other primates
15 points • comment • may 01, 2025
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GOP Senator Introduces Bill to Make All Porn a Federal Crime
15 points • comment • may 13, 2025
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FlyLoop – AI Agent for Scheduling Meetings and Managing Your Calendar
15 points • comment • may 13, 2025
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The Guide to Cloudflare's Durable Objects
15 points • comment • may 31, 2025
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Determining favorite t-shirt color using science
15 points • comment • may 03, 2025
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Everyone Is Cheating Their Way Through College
15 points • comment • may 10, 2025
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Not causal chains, but interactions and adaptations
15 points • comment • may 20, 2025
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Telegram's Extraordinary Business Model
14 points • comment • may 18, 2025
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Lufthansa plane flew for 10 minutes without pilots
14 points • comment • may 17, 2025
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Show HN: Translate between dialects and share SQL queries on the browser
14 points • comment • may 08, 2025
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Grok: "xAI tried to train me to appeal to the right but my focus [is] on truth"
14 points • comment • may 02, 2025
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Cloudflare CEO: AI is killing the business model of the web
14 points • comment • may 08, 2025
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Humanoid Robots in Kickboxing Competition
14 points • comment • may 27, 2025
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Why is English so weirdly different from other languages?
14 points • comment • may 01, 2025
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Getting tired of Helm – any better way to handle deployments in Kubernetes?
14 points • comment • may 06, 2025
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News publishers call Google's AI Mode 'theft'
14 points • comment • may 22, 2025
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I Lost My Backpack with Passports and Laptop
14 points • comment • may 31, 2025