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Hacker News (May 2025)

  1. Mullvad Leta

    366 points • comment • may 28, 2025

  2. Malicious compliance by booking an available meeting room

    366 points • comment • may 15, 2025

  3. Can you trust that permission pop-up on macOS?

    365 points • comment • may 12, 2025

  4. LLMs get lost in multi-turn conversation

    365 points • comment • may 15, 2025

  5. Systems Correctness Practices at Amazon Web Services

    362 points • comment • may 30, 2025

  6. We identified a North Korean hacker who tried to get a job

    361 points • comment • may 01, 2025

  7. FastVLM: Efficient vision encoding for vision language models

    360 points • comment • may 13, 2025

  8. Getting a Cease and Desist from Waffle House

    357 points • comment • may 28, 2025

  9. Irish privacy watchdog hits TikTok with €530M fine over data transfers to China

    356 points • comment • may 02, 2025

  10. The Myth of Developer Obsolescence

    355 points • comment • may 27, 2025

  11. AI in my plasma physics research didn’t go the way I expected

    352 points • comment • may 20, 2025

  12. Ollama's new engine for multimodal models

    348 points • comment • may 16, 2025

  13. I ruined my vacation by reverse engineering WSC

    348 points • comment • may 12, 2025

  14. Minimum Viable Blog

    348 points • comment • may 03, 2025

  15. Inigo Quilez: computer graphics, mathematics, shaders, fractals, demoscene

    347 points • comment • may 18, 2025

  16. Corporation for Public Broadcasting Statement Regarding Executive Order

    347 points • comment • may 02, 2025

  17. Material 3 Expressive

    346 points • comment • may 13, 2025

  18. RybbitL Open source Google Analytics replacement

    346 points • comment • may 07, 2025

  19. Lottie is an open format for animated vector graphics

    345 points • comment • may 25, 2025

  20. Compiler Explorer and the promise of URLs that last forever

    343 points • comment • may 28, 2025

  21. I made a chair

    343 points • comment • may 31, 2025

  22. Planetfall

    341 points • comment • may 22, 2025

  23. AniSora: Open-source anime video generation model

    341 points • comment • may 17, 2025

  24. Lossless video compression using Bloom filters

    341 points • comment • may 26, 2025

  25. TIL: timeout in Bash scripts

    341 points • comment • may 26, 2025

  26. Writing an LLM from scratch, part 13 – attention heads are dumb

    340 points • comment • may 08, 2025

  27. Japan's IC cards are weird and wonderful

    340 points • comment • may 15, 2025

  28. PDF to Text, a challenging problem

    339 points • comment • may 13, 2025

  29. Anubis saved our websites from a DDoS attack

    339 points • comment • may 01, 2025

  30. After months of coding with LLMs, I'm going back to using my brain

    339 points • comment • may 16, 2025

  31. NASA keeps ancient Voyager 1 spacecraft alive with Hail Mary thruster fix

    336 points • comment • may 16, 2025

  32. Show HN: 90s.dev – Game maker that runs on the web

    336 points • comment • may 20, 2025

  33. O2 VoLTE: locating any customer with a phone call

    336 points • comment • may 17, 2025

  34. If nothing is curated, how do we find things

    336 points • comment • may 17, 2025

  35. In a high-stress work environment, prioritize relationships

    335 points • comment • may 13, 2025

  36. Show HN: Rotary Phone Dial Linux Kernel Driver

    334 points • comment • may 24, 2025

  37. For algorithms, a little memory outweighs a lot of time

    333 points • comment • may 21, 2025

  38. An Alabama landline that keeps ringing

    331 points • comment • may 04, 2025

  39. BuyMeACoffee silently dropped support for many countries (2024)

    330 points • comment • may 16, 2025

  40. Beating Google's kernelCTF PoW using AVX512

    330 points • comment • may 30, 2025

  41. The FTC puts off enforcing its 'click-to-cancel' rule

    329 points • comment • may 12, 2025

  42. Show HN: Porting Terraria and Celeste to WebAssembly

    329 points • comment • may 26, 2025

  43. Show HN: Typed-FFmpeg 3.0–Typed Interface to FFmpeg and Visual Filter Editor

    329 points • comment • may 29, 2025

  44. BGP handling bug causes widespread internet routing instability

    328 points • comment • may 27, 2025

  45. Ask HN: What are you working on? (May 2025)

    327 points • comment • may 25, 2025

  46. The emoji problem (2022)

    327 points • comment • may 20, 2025

  47. What went wrong with wireless USB

    324 points • comment • may 04, 2025

  48. Mycoria is an open and secure overlay network that connects all participants

    324 points • comment • may 08, 2025

  49. A community-led fork of Organic Maps

    324 points • comment • may 12, 2025

  50. How linear regression works intuitively and how it leads to gradient descent

    322 points • comment • may 05, 2025

  51. What makes a good engineer also makes a good engineering organization (2024)

    322 points • comment • may 19, 2025

  52. Why Bell Labs Worked

    322 points • comment • may 11, 2025

  53. JavaScript's New Superpower: Explicit Resource Management

    321 points • comment • may 17, 2025

  54. Gmail to SQLite

    320 points • comment • may 10, 2025

  55. $30 Homebrew Automated Blinds Opener (2024)

    317 points • comment • may 18, 2025

  56. RPG in a Box

    314 points • comment • may 10, 2025

  57. WASM 2.0

    313 points • comment • may 09, 2025

  58. Why does the U.S. always run a trade deficit?

    311 points • comment • may 20, 2025

  59. The Polymarket users betting on when Jesus will return

    311 points • comment • may 28, 2025

  60. Show HN: Hyvector – A fast and modern SVG editor

    310 points • comment • may 09, 2025

  61. 21 GB/s CSV Parsing Using SIMD on AMD 9950X

    310 points • comment • may 09, 2025

  62. The Level Design Book

    309 points • comment • may 25, 2025

  63. Continuous Thought Machines

    308 points • comment • may 12, 2025

  64. The Beauty of Having a Pi-Hole (2024)

    305 points • comment • may 05, 2025

  65. xAI to pay telegram $300M to integrate Grok into the chat app

    305 points • comment • may 28, 2025

  66. Using NASA’s SMAP satellite to detect L-band interference

    305 points • comment • may 08, 2025

  67. Beware of Fast-Math

    304 points • comment • may 31, 2025

  68. What do wealthy people buy, that ordinary people know nothing about? (2015)

    304 points • comment • may 18, 2025

  69. My quest to make motorcycle riding that tad bit safer

    304 points • comment • may 07, 2025

  70. Google AI Ultra

    304 points • comment • may 20, 2025

  71. Getting things “done” in large tech companies

    303 points • comment • may 06, 2025

  72. Git Bug: Distributed, Offline-First Bug Tracker Embedded in Git, with Bridges

    303 points • comment • may 13, 2025

  73. Show HN: PgDog – Shard Postgres without extensions

    301 points • comment • may 26, 2025

  74. AI's energy footprint

    301 points • comment • may 20, 2025

  75. Airlines are charging solo passengers higher fares than groups

    298 points • comment • may 29, 2025

  76. Starlink User Terminal Teardown

    297 points • comment • may 09, 2025

  77. What were the MS-DOS programs that the moricons.dll icons were intended for?

    297 points • comment • may 13, 2025

  78. Lieferando.de has captured 5.7% of restaurant related domain names

    297 points • comment • may 26, 2025

  79. The NSA Selector

    296 points • comment • may 20, 2025

  80. How to Build a Smartwatch: Picking a Chip

    296 points • comment • may 14, 2025

  81. Highlights from the Claude 4 system prompt

    295 points • comment • may 26, 2025

  82. GitHub issues is almost the best notebook in the world

    294 points • comment • may 26, 2025

  83. Show HN: My AI Native Resume

    294 points • comment • may 05, 2025

  84. Good Writing

    294 points • comment • may 24, 2025

  85. An interview question that will protect you from North Korean fake workers

    293 points • comment • may 01, 2025

  86. European Investment Bank to inject €70B in European tech

    293 points • comment • may 19, 2025

  87. You’re a little company, now act like one (2009)

    293 points • comment • may 24, 2025

  88. Microservices are a tax your startup probably can't afford

    292 points • comment • may 08, 2025

  89. Linkwarden: FOSS self-hostable bookmarking with AI-tagging and page archival

    292 points • comment • may 01, 2025

  90. Improving performance of rav1d video decoder

    292 points • comment • may 22, 2025

  91. Does Earth have two high-tide bulges on opposite sides? (2014)

    290 points • comment • may 22, 2025

  92. Silicon Valley finally has a big electronics retailer again: Micro Center opens

    290 points • comment • may 30, 2025

  93. Working on complex systems: What I learned working at Google

    290 points • comment • may 13, 2025

  94. The Ingredients of a Productive Monorepo

    289 points • comment • may 25, 2025

  95. Show HN: A Tiling Window Manager for Windows, Written in Janet

    288 points • comment • may 20, 2025

  96. I'm starting a social club to solve the male loneliness epidemic

    288 points • comment • may 29, 2025

  97. On Not Carrying a Camera – Cultivating memories instead of snapshots

    287 points • comment • may 04, 2025

  98. Why old games never die, but new ones do

    287 points • comment • may 24, 2025

  99. AI: Accelerated Incompetence

    285 points • comment • may 28, 2025

  100. Why Algebraic Effects?

    284 points • comment • may 24, 2025