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Hacker News (May 2025)

  1. Ask HN: Do you have a side project you're getting tired of?

    13 points • comment • may 22, 2025

  2. How a "We Buy Ugly Houses" Franchise Left a Trail of Financial Wreckage in Texas

    13 points • comment • may 14, 2025

  3. A whippet waypoint / Nofl: A Precise Immix

    13 points • comment • may 10, 2025

  4. It's Not Just a Feeling: Data Shows Boys and Young Men Are Falling Behind

    13 points • comment • may 16, 2025

  5. Job Hunting Scripts

    13 points • comment • may 25, 2025

  6. Trump Administration Disqualifies Harvard from Future Research Grants

    13 points • comment • may 05, 2025

  7. VA-based DOGE associate gets 'the boot' after publicly discussing his work

    13 points • comment • may 29, 2025

  8. FreeBSD fans rally round zVault upstart

    13 points • comment • may 13, 2025

  9. The secret recipe of powerful AI coding Agents

    13 points • comment • may 03, 2025

  10. A Fire Sale of Portland's Largest Office Tower Shows How Far the City Has Fallen

    13 points • comment • may 20, 2025

  11. Show HN: Embedo – Word Equation Puzzle Game

    13 points • comment • may 22, 2025

  12. They Paid $3,500 for Apple's Vision Pro. A Year Later, It Still Hurts

    13 points • comment • may 15, 2025

  13. 'Streaming as surveillance': How Spotify is poisoning music in the digital age

    13 points • comment • may 06, 2025

  14. Aetna reimburses 25% less than what they claim (case study)

    13 points • comment • may 09, 2025

  15. Bento gets a makeover

    13 points • comment • may 08, 2025

  16. The MiniBook X N150 "netbook"

    13 points • comment • may 15, 2025

  17. Incinerating thousand of Satellites in the atmosphere releases toxic pollutants

    13 points • comment • may 02, 2025

  18. Precomputing Transparency Order in 3D

    13 points • comment • may 17, 2025

  19. Gemma 3n Architectural Innovations – Speculation and poking around in the model

    13 points • comment • may 25, 2025

  20. Coinbase says customers’ personal information stolen in data breach

    13 points • comment • may 15, 2025

  21. Ask HN: Anyone working in traditional ML/stats research instead of LLMs?

    13 points • comment • may 17, 2025

  22. 'I guess NASA doesn't need or care about my work anymore'

    13 points • comment • may 02, 2025

  23. The second birth of JMW Turner

    13 points • comment • may 06, 2025

  24. Working in IT made me a nervous traveller

    13 points • comment • may 13, 2025

  25. Making code last a long time

    13 points • comment • may 16, 2025

  26. Next Chapter of Shapes

    13 points • comment • may 06, 2025

  27. Breaking the Sorting Barrier for Directed Single-Source Shortest Paths

    13 points • comment • may 29, 2025

  28. Newfound Mechanism Rewires Cellular Energy Processing for Drastic Weight Loss

    13 points • comment • may 21, 2025

  29. Eye-tracking study reveals where women and men look when viewing a female butt

    13 points • comment • may 12, 2025

  30. Apple Filing Protocol will soon disappear from macOS

    13 points • comment • may 21, 2025

  31. Trump just made it much harder to track the nation's worst weather disasters

    13 points • comment • may 09, 2025

  32. The entire 1941 Japanese film Kanzashi can be watched on its Wikipedia page

    13 points • comment • may 02, 2025

  33. Sag-Aftra Statement on Fortnite's Use of A.I. Darth Vader Voice and ULP Filing

    13 points • comment • may 19, 2025

  34. Show HN: A highly extensible framework for building OCR systems

    13 points • comment • may 19, 2025

  35. For AI Startups, a 7-Day Work Week Isn't Enough

    13 points • comment • may 04, 2025

  36. GM's LMR battery breakthrough means more range at a lower cost

    13 points • comment • may 13, 2025

  37. Shingles vaccine reduces risk of heart disease by 23%, study of one million

    13 points • comment • may 13, 2025

  38. Tech hiring slows, unemployment rises, jobs report shows

    13 points • comment • may 04, 2025

  39. The Old, Old, Old Man

    13 points • comment • may 21, 2025

  40. I Came to Study Aging. Now I'm Trapped in ICE Detention

    13 points • comment • may 13, 2025

  41. What we lose when weather balloons don't fly

    13 points • comment • may 26, 2025

  42. Show HN: Sam TTS – Recreates the classic Microsoft SAM voice in the browser

    13 points • comment • may 14, 2025

  43. MIT physicists discover a new type of superconductor that's also a magnet

    13 points • comment • may 29, 2025

  44. AI is like hyperprocessed foods for learning

    13 points • comment • may 15, 2025

  45. Show HN: I made a tool that helps you find and create better AI prompts faster

    13 points • comment • may 17, 2025

  46. MariaDB Acquires Galera Cluster

    13 points • comment • may 30, 2025

  47. Faster Firewalls with Bpfilter

    13 points • comment • may 22, 2025

  48. Grand Theft Auto VI gets pushed back to May 26, 2026

    13 points • comment • may 02, 2025

  49. Postman is logging all your secrets and environment variables

    13 points • comment • may 16, 2025

  50. KumoRFM: Gen-purpose model for making instant predictions over relational data

    13 points • comment • may 20, 2025

  51. Show HN: Open-Source AlphaEvolve Clone Using GPT-4.1 and Genetic Programming

    13 points • comment • may 19, 2025

  52. Reconstructing dopamine's link to reward (2024)

    13 points • comment • may 02, 2025

  53. How we built our docs site

    13 points • comment • may 15, 2025

  54. The Christians Who Believe Empathy Is a Sin

    13 points • comment • may 22, 2025

  55. Proximity to Golf Courses and Risk of Parkinson Disease

    13 points • comment • may 09, 2025

  56. Show HN: Super (YC W18) - Turn company data into answers & agents for your team

    13 points • comment • may 21, 2025

  57. Most Americans don't earn enough to afford basic costs of living

    13 points • comment • may 16, 2025

  58. Grok wants people to know claim of white genocide in S.A. is contentious

    13 points • comment • may 14, 2025

  59. Please don't upload my code to GitHub

    13 points • comment • may 24, 2025

  60. EU preliminarily finds TikTok's ad repository in breach of Digital Services Act

    13 points • comment • may 16, 2025

  61. Ever wondered why Gmail search fails to find text you're sure is present?

    13 points • comment • may 05, 2025

  62. LockBit Hacked – Plaintext Passwords

    13 points • comment • may 08, 2025

  63. Visualising home sun exposure with Rhino

    13 points • comment • may 01, 2025

  64. What motivates you to contribute to open source projects?

    13 points • comment • may 30, 2025

  65. Common MVP mistakes: How to build smart without overbuilding

    13 points • comment • may 13, 2025

  66. The GLP-1 Saga Continues, and How

    13 points • comment • may 01, 2025

  67. Terminator: Hasta La Vista, Shell

    13 points • comment • may 22, 2025

  68. NSF faces shake-up as officials abolish its 37 divisions

    13 points • comment • may 09, 2025

  69. AI turns Amazon coders into Amazon warehouse workers

    13 points • comment • may 27, 2025

  70. Like a hot dog, the Wienermobile is made from a variety of ingredients (2022)

    13 points • comment • may 23, 2025

  71. Identifying Unmarked Iron

    13 points • comment • may 29, 2025

  72. U.S. State Autism Databases

    12 points • comment • may 05, 2025

  73. Concatenative programming and stack-based languages (2023) [video]

    12 points • comment • may 27, 2025

  74. Spider Eye Development Editing and Silk Fiber Engineering Using CRISPR-Cas

    12 points • comment • may 16, 2025

  75. I built a free energy engine and show how it works [video]

    12 points • comment • may 09, 2025

  76. The Vagus Nerve Industry

    12 points • comment • may 29, 2025

  77. Apple Used China to Make a Profit. What China Got in Return Is Scarier

    12 points • comment • may 24, 2025

  78. The Colorado River is running low. The picture looks even worse underground

    12 points • comment • may 28, 2025

  79. "We're Definitely Going to Build a Bunker Before We Release AGI"

    12 points • comment • may 15, 2025

  80. Show HN: Keep track of why you muted someone on X

    12 points • comment • may 18, 2025

  81. W3C: Minimum Common Web Platform API

    12 points • comment • may 21, 2025

  82. Apple Considers Raising iPhone Prices, Without Blaming Tariffs

    12 points • comment • may 12, 2025

  83. The economic impact of Oman's rose season

    12 points • comment • may 02, 2025

  84. Write the most clever code you can

    12 points • comment • may 09, 2025

  85. Toxic Proteins for Drug Discovery

    12 points • comment • may 29, 2025

  86. Live, 24/7 4K ultra high-def video of Earth from space

    12 points • comment • may 14, 2025

  87. Women 3x More Likely to Lose Job to AI Than Men, UN Study Finds

    12 points • comment • may 27, 2025

  88. U.S. and China agree to slash tariffs for 90 days in major trade breakthrough

    12 points • comment • may 12, 2025

  89. Discrete Text Diffusion Explained

    12 points • comment • may 22, 2025

  90. Universal all-optical logic gate reaches 240 GHz at room temperature

    12 points • comment • may 08, 2025

  91. Building a more accessible GitHub CLI

    12 points • comment • may 05, 2025

  92. As a programmer, get your math sorted

    12 points • comment • may 26, 2025

  93. Scientist busts myths about how humans burn calories–and why (2022)

    12 points • comment • may 25, 2025

  94. GNU Taler 1.0 Released

    12 points • comment • may 10, 2025

  95. Sub-millimeter waveguide shrinks augmented-reality glasses

    12 points • comment • may 08, 2025

  96. Psibase: Protocol that enables communities to "self-host" a web app ecosystem

    12 points • comment • may 07, 2025

  97. MIT physicists discover a new type of superconductor that's also a magnet

    12 points • comment • may 24, 2025

  98. 'Everybody's Replaceable': The New Ways Bosses Talk About Workers

    12 points • comment • may 12, 2025

  99. Tell HN: TIL about Not By AI, A Badge you can add if your work is "human made"

    12 points • comment • may 03, 2025

  100. Trump fires head of Copyright Office after rpt AI training may not be fair use

    12 points • comment • may 12, 2025