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Hacker News (May 2025)
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Medical journals hit with threatening letters from Justice Department
11 points • comment • may 02, 2025
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Oldest known tools made from whale bones dated to 20k years ago
11 points • comment • may 28, 2025
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Bitwarden registration flow failed – so I wrote a stand-up comedy set instead
11 points • comment • may 15, 2025
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Chauffeur Knowledge and the Impending AI Crack-Up
11 points • comment • may 16, 2025
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Germany Is Using AI to Erase Pro-Palestinian Speech
11 points • comment • may 31, 2025
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Transform DOCX into LLM-ready data
11 points • comment • may 04, 2025
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Ask HN: Email Provider for Main Account?
11 points • comment • may 15, 2025
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Solving the local optima problem – NQueens
11 points • comment • may 16, 2025
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When Compiler Engineers Act as Judges, What Can Possibly Go Wrong?
11 points • comment • may 12, 2025
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Farewell to Lee Gold's Alarums and Excursions
11 points • comment • may 10, 2025
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We Tested Google Veo and Runway to Create This AI Film. It Was Wild [video]
11 points • comment • may 29, 2025
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What Money Can't Buy: The Moral Limits of Markets
11 points • comment • may 08, 2025
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Removing "Annoying" Windows 10 Features Is DMCA Violation, Microsoft Says(2020)
11 points • comment • may 11, 2025
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Just Because You Can Prove It Doesn't Make It True
11 points • comment • may 02, 2025
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A DoorDash driver scammed the company out $2.5M
11 points • comment • may 18, 2025
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Distributed Continuous GPU Profiling
11 points • comment • may 02, 2025
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U.S. ISPs Want Retrospective Immunity in Pirate Site Blocking Bill
11 points • comment • may 20, 2025
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Like Lovable but can make apps with gen-AI powered back ends
11 points • comment • may 23, 2025
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Jupiter was formerly twice its current size and had much stronger magnetic field
11 points • comment • may 20, 2025
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Ask HN: What career will you switch to when AI replaces developers?
11 points • comment • may 07, 2025
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DigitalOcean terminating business account with no details given
11 points • comment • may 27, 2025
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Humble Bundle raises prices for Euro and Canadian subscribers
11 points • comment • may 01, 2025
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QGIS is the mapping software you didn't know you needed (2023)
11 points • comment • may 04, 2025
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The Design Evolution of Mailboxes
11 points • comment • may 01, 2025
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MCP will be native to Windows 11
11 points • comment • may 19, 2025
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Every SWE knows DOGE can't rewrite Social Security in a few months
11 points • comment • may 15, 2025
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Tesla confirms it has given up on its Cybertruck range extender
11 points • comment • may 08, 2025
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US Navy aircraft carrier in the Red Sea loses a third Super Hornet
11 points • comment • may 07, 2025
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Physicists uncover how geometric frustration shapes the rose's iconic blossom
11 points • comment • may 07, 2025
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Europe Built Trains. America Built Highways and Regret.
11 points • comment • may 18, 2025
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Prime Path Coverage in the GNU Compiler Collection
11 points • comment • may 23, 2025
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The latest image to text and OCR technology
11 points • comment • may 26, 2025
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CFPB Kills Rule to Shield Americans from Data Brokers
11 points • comment • may 15, 2025
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Pyrefly:A fast type checker/IDE extension for Python written in Rust
11 points • comment • may 15, 2025
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San Francisco crypto founder faked his own death
11 points • comment • may 10, 2025
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Embracing Slow Tech
11 points • comment • may 18, 2025
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Show HN: I made an infinite gallery of AI-generated 3D skeuomorphic icons
11 points • comment • may 23, 2025
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Hasbro, the custodians of D&D, have no idea what to do with BG3's success
11 points • comment • may 20, 2025
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A Scientist Fighting Nuclear Armageddon Hid a 50-Year Secret
11 points • comment • may 20, 2025
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People understanding the dangers of risky areas more likely to accept buyouts
11 points • comment • may 16, 2025
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Golden Algebra: A unifying mathematical framework
11 points • comment • may 31, 2025
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Show HN: WinCse – Access Object Storage in Windows Explorer (Now AWS, GCP, etc.)
11 points • comment • may 27, 2025
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Nail salon employee pleads guilty after holding 13 remote IT jobs
11 points • comment • may 05, 2025
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Improving Assembly Code Performance with LLMss via Reinforcement Learning
11 points • comment • may 20, 2025
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Coinbase becomes first crypto exchange to join the S&P 500
11 points • comment • may 20, 2025
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How much I have(n't) made angel investing
11 points • comment • may 03, 2025
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Show HN: Forge – Secure, Multi-Tenant GitHub Actions Runners on K8s or EC2
11 points • comment • may 19, 2025
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FOSS 3-2-1 Backup from SD-Card to Cloud
11 points • comment • may 29, 2025
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Flix: an effect-oriented, functional, imperative, and logic programming language
11 points • comment • may 23, 2025
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Study of the Reading Comprehension Skills of English Majors at Two Universities
11 points • comment • may 24, 2025
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Show HN: Changefly – Rebuilding the foundation of privacy and authentication
11 points • comment • may 30, 2025
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KVMs with DisplayPort and USB over USB-C
11 points • comment • may 21, 2025
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Trump's Trade War with China: One Ship, $417M in New Tariffs
11 points • comment • may 06, 2025
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Gender characteristics of service robots can influence customer decisions
11 points • comment • may 08, 2025
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Reading Zanzibar
11 points • comment • may 02, 2025
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Trump's sanctions on ICC prosecutor have halted tribunal's work
11 points • comment • may 15, 2025
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Asus' Latest NUC Mini PC Is Exceptionally Powerful
11 points • comment • may 15, 2025
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Memory Safety Features in Zig
11 points • comment • may 09, 2025
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Catastrophic fires and soil degradation: possible link with Neolithic revolution
11 points • comment • may 04, 2025
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Developing Karton, the KDE Virtual Machine Manager
11 points • comment • may 19, 2025
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Ash AI: A Comprehensive LLM Toolbox for Ash Framework
11 points • comment • may 17, 2025
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How "Andor" Injects Contemporary Politics into "Star Wars" I.P
11 points • comment • may 21, 2025
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11 points • comment • may 25, 2025
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Access to the United States' President for Sale via Meme Coin
11 points • comment • may 12, 2025
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U.S. Dept of Defense GitHub marked as archived, with it projects like ATAK-CIV
11 points • comment • may 25, 2025
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Scaling the Let's Encrypt rate limits to prepare for a billion active TLS cert
11 points • comment • may 26, 2025
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More NIH workers laid off, including cuts at the National Cancer Institute
11 points • comment • may 07, 2025
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Time Between The Lines: how memory access affects performance (2015)
11 points • comment • may 05, 2025
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We Tested 7 Languages Under Extreme Load and Only One Didn't Crash
11 points • comment • may 28, 2025
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Digital Dinosaurs Supervising Medtech: Getting Audited by the Berlin Authorities
11 points • comment • may 10, 2025
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Falling satellites put the atmosphere at risk
11 points • comment • may 04, 2025
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Center for AI Safety's new spokesperson suggests „burning down labs"
11 points • comment • may 20, 2025
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Bippy: A toolkit to hack into react internals
11 points • comment • may 12, 2025
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Ask HN: Almost a thousand dollars for a 20 minute new patient visit?
11 points • comment • may 23, 2025
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SteamOS 3.7.8 Brings Official Support to Non-Steam Deck Devices
11 points • comment • may 27, 2025
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Musk's fixation on South African "white genocide"
10 points • comment • may 27, 2025
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NASA's Voyager 1 Revives Backup Thrusters Before Command Pause
10 points • comment • may 18, 2025
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Coinbase joins the S&P 500, another summit scaled on towards economic freedom
10 points • comment • may 13, 2025
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Switch to a tiling-window-manager TODAY
10 points • comment • may 04, 2025
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Celsius founder Alex Mashinsky sentenced to 12 years for "unbank yourself" scam
10 points • comment • may 09, 2025
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Implementing native Node.js hot modules (technical write up)
10 points • comment • may 31, 2025
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Why Apple Still Hasn't Cracked AI
10 points • comment • may 18, 2025
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Neolithic 'sun stones' sacrificed in Denmark revives sun after volcanic eruption
10 points • comment • may 28, 2025
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Petabyte-Class E2 SSDs Poised to Disrupt Warm Data Storage
10 points • comment • may 30, 2025
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Mary Queen of Scots Channel Anamorphosis, a 3D Simulation
10 points • comment • may 17, 2025
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Why do Saturation and Luminance go all the way to 240, but Hue goes only to 239
10 points • comment • may 13, 2025
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Classicide
10 points • comment • may 31, 2025
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AI hallucinations are getting worse – and they're here to stay
10 points • comment • may 10, 2025
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Apple is planning smart glasses with and without AR
10 points • comment • may 09, 2025
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Comparing Parallel Functional Array Languages: Programming and Performance
10 points • comment • may 16, 2025
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The Miscalculations of Covid School Closures
10 points • comment • may 02, 2025
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LLM Shibboleths determine AI effectiveness
10 points • comment • may 28, 2025
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The Cybertruck was supposed to be apocalypse-proof
10 points • comment • may 14, 2025
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US Manufacturing Activity Shrinks by the Most Since November
10 points • comment • may 01, 2025
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Pope Leo XIV says advancement of AI played a factor in his papal name selection
10 points • comment • may 11, 2025
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The-One-True-Lisp-Style-Guide
10 points • comment • may 30, 2025
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Power generation from nuclear fusion not expected in the foreseeable future [pdf]
10 points • comment • may 22, 2025
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Culture comes first in cybersecurity, putting it on the frontline in culture war
10 points • comment • may 06, 2025
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One Writing Class, 35 Years, 113 Deals, 95 Books
10 points • comment • may 26, 2025
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Google says Linux Terminal VM feature isn't replacement for Android desktop mode
10 points • comment • may 18, 2025