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Hacker News (May 2025)

  1. A 1903 Proposal to Preserve the Dead in Glass Cubes

    34 points • comment • may 02, 2025

  2. USPS law enforcement assists 'mass deportation' effort, sources and records show

    34 points • comment • may 02, 2025

  3. LLMs as Unbiased Oracles

    33 points • comment • may 04, 2025

  4. McDonald's posts biggest US sales drop since 2020

    33 points • comment • may 01, 2025

  5. 'Unparalleled' snake antivenom made from man bitten 200 times

    33 points • comment • may 03, 2025

  6. The number of new apartments is at a 50-year high, but states expect a slowdown

    32 points • comment • may 03, 2025

  7. Critical Program Reading (1975) [video]

    32 points • comment • may 04, 2025

  8. AGI Is Not a Milestone

    32 points • comment • may 01, 2025

  9. The complicated circuitry for the 386 processor's registers

    31 points • comment • may 01, 2025

  10. Hello My Perverted Friend

    31 points • comment • may 04, 2025

  11. People who don't ask me questions drive me crazy. Why are they like that?

    31 points • comment • may 01, 2025

  12. The end of compounded GLP-1 drugs leaves many patients in a ‘lose-lose’ position

    31 points • comment • may 01, 2025

  13. Where Do Scientists Think This Is All Going?

    31 points • comment • may 03, 2025

  14. We May Be About to Lose a Powerful Force in Video Game Preservation

    31 points • comment • may 02, 2025

  15. NASA's Psyche spacecraft hits a speed bump on the way to a metal asteroid

    31 points • comment • may 01, 2025

  16. TLA+ Video Course (2021)

    30 points • comment • may 01, 2025

  17. Bypassing a web application firewall with autocomplete

    30 points • comment • may 02, 2025

  18. The Debian testing/trixie release on amd64 is now reproducible for over 95%

    30 points • comment • may 04, 2025

  19. Link Out for In-App Purchases

    30 points • comment • may 02, 2025

  20. It feels at the beginning of the end of the world

    30 points • comment • may 02, 2025

  21. Show HN: I built a 7-day calendar app – no months or years, just the next 7 days

    29 points • comment • may 05, 2025

  22. "Older than Google" Elder Scrolls wiki has been helping gamers for 30 years

    29 points • comment • may 02, 2025

  23. Psilocybin reduced depression symptoms as much as leading antidepressant (2021)

    29 points • comment • may 03, 2025

  24. Hybrid AC/DC distribution system with a shared neutral (2020)

    29 points • comment • may 01, 2025

  25. Why do econ journalists keep making this basic mistake?

    29 points • comment • may 03, 2025

  26. Tortoise Mode vs. Hare Mode

    28 points • comment • may 01, 2025

  27. The Creative Power of Constraints

    28 points • comment • may 05, 2025

  28. RFK Jr. to require placebo-controlled studies for new vaccines

    28 points • comment • may 01, 2025

  29. Flies in the evidence room: Inside Belgium's rotting Justice Palace

    28 points • comment • may 03, 2025

  30. Microsoft's new "passwordless by default" is great but comes at a cost

    27 points • comment • may 02, 2025

  31. Retro Computing

    27 points • comment • may 04, 2025

  32. Show HN: VoltAgent – Open-Source Observability-First TS AI Agent Framework

    27 points • comment • may 04, 2025

  33. Distributed server for social and realtime games and apps

    27 points • comment • may 05, 2025

  34. Why I'm getting off US tech

    26 points • comment • may 01, 2025

  35. RIP Skype

    26 points • comment • may 06, 2025

  36. 84% of the coral reefs hit by worst bleaching event on record

    26 points • comment • may 01, 2025

  37. Google can train search AI with web content even with opt-out

    26 points • comment • may 03, 2025

  38. Show HN: MP3 File Editor for Bulk Processing

    26 points • comment • may 03, 2025

  39. Carmakers Are Embracing Physical Buttons Again

    26 points • comment • may 05, 2025

  40. White House budget seeks to end SLS, Orion, and Lunar Gateway programs

    25 points • comment • may 05, 2025

  41. PScientists reveal how bats learn to identify which prey is safe to eat

    25 points • comment • may 01, 2025

  42. The Anti-Capitalist Case for Standards

    25 points • comment • may 02, 2025

  43. How Complex Systems Fail

    25 points • comment • may 04, 2025

  44. Show HN: Exhibit and Site on Mechanisms for Students

    25 points • comment • may 02, 2025

  45. Digitization Complete for World-Renowned Franco Novacco Map Collection

    25 points • comment • may 03, 2025

  46. US EPA plans to cut staff to 1980s levels, dissolve research office

    25 points • comment • may 03, 2025

  47. Ask HN: 3rd Week at FAANG and feeling imposter syndrome

    25 points • comment • may 01, 2025

  48. AI-driven robot installs nearly 10k solar modules in Australia

    24 points • comment • may 04, 2025

  49. A Hyper-Catalan Series Solution to Polynomial Equations, and the Geode

    24 points • comment • may 02, 2025

  50. Executive order directs federal funding cuts to PBS and NPR

    24 points • comment • may 02, 2025

  51. Professors Staffed a Fake Company with AI Agents, Guess What Happened?

    24 points • comment • may 05, 2025

  52. The Secret Services' involvement in the making of The Line of Fire (1993) [pdf]

    24 points • comment • may 01, 2025

  53. Bootstrapping Lisp in a Boot Sector

    24 points • comment • may 05, 2025

  54. Source code for the unofficial Signal app used by Trump officials

    24 points • comment • may 03, 2025

  55. Phoenician culture spread mainly through cultural exchange

    24 points • comment • may 05, 2025

  56. Sanctum || A pq-safe and sandboxed VPN daemon

    24 points • comment • may 02, 2025

  57. Ancient DNA Unveils the Cosmopolitan Heart of the Phoenician-Punic Civilization

    24 points • comment • may 01, 2025

  58. A.I. Is Getting More Powerful, but Its Hallucinations Are Getting Worse

    24 points • comment • may 05, 2025

  59. 'The Worst Internet-Research Ethics Violation I Have Ever Seen'

    24 points • comment • may 03, 2025

  60. VMOS – Virtual Android on Android

    23 points • comment • may 03, 2025

  61. Scientists May Have Found a Natural Alternative to Ozempic

    23 points • comment • may 02, 2025

  62. Censoring Social Media

    23 points • comment • may 04, 2025

  63. Dropbox will require App Indicator support on Linux

    22 points • comment • may 01, 2025

  64. Two-phase chip cooling with manifold-capillary structures enables 10⁵ COP

    22 points • comment • may 01, 2025

  65. House votes to block California from banning sales of gas cars by 2035

    22 points • comment • may 01, 2025

  66. AI models routinely lie when honesty conflicts with their goals

    22 points • comment • may 01, 2025

  67. Reading Zanzibar

    22 points • comment • may 03, 2025

  68. Air traffic controllers couldn't see or talk to planes in Newark failure

    22 points • comment • may 05, 2025

  69. Some thoughts on how control over web content works

    22 points • comment • may 02, 2025

  70. Settling the File Structure Debate

    22 points • comment • may 02, 2025

  71. Britain's Latest True Crime Thriller: Who Killed the Sycamore Tree?

    21 points • comment • may 02, 2025

  72. Experts and Elites Play Fundamentally Different Games

    21 points • comment • may 04, 2025

  73. Mines: A simple mine puzzle game inspired by classic minesweeper

    21 points • comment • may 01, 2025

  74. The Algebra of Patterns (Extended Version)

    21 points • comment • may 03, 2025

  75. Can you smuggle data in an ID card photo?

    21 points • comment • may 06, 2025

  76. AfD classified as extreme-right by German intelligence

    21 points • comment • may 02, 2025

  77. Anthropic Development Partner Program

    21 points • comment • may 02, 2025

  78. Hyper – Outperform React on every metric

    21 points • comment • may 06, 2025

  79. Why it is (nearly) impossible that we live in a simulation

    20 points • comment • may 05, 2025

  80. Understanding transaction visibility in PostgreSQL clusters with read replicas

    20 points • comment • may 03, 2025

  81. UnitedHealth Now Has 1k AI Use Cases, Including in Claims

    20 points • comment • may 05, 2025

  82. Pebble Core 2 Duo Smartwatch Demo and Q&A [video]

    20 points • comment • may 01, 2025

  83. The Uncanny Mirror: AI, Self-Doubt, and the Limits of Reflection

    20 points • comment • may 02, 2025

  84. An Interactive Debugger for Rust Trait Errors

    20 points • comment • may 06, 2025

  85. Codd's Cellular Automaton

    20 points • comment • may 01, 2025

  86. The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Multiple Dispatch in Julia (2019)

    20 points • comment • may 03, 2025

  87. Pakistan pulled off one of the fastest solar revolutions in the world

    20 points • comment • may 02, 2025

  88. Can you remove ads from the documentation?

    20 points • comment • may 03, 2025

  89. Computational Limit of Life May Be Billion Times Higher Than Assumed

    19 points • comment • may 03, 2025

  90. Show HN: A motherfucking app (does one thing, under 300 LOC)

    19 points • comment • may 02, 2025

  91. You can now directly sync Postgres with Redis

    19 points • comment • may 03, 2025

  92. Tell HN: Incorporated my software company today

    19 points • comment • may 03, 2025

  93. Git Changesets

    19 points • comment • may 01, 2025

  94. The Enshittification of Tech Jobs

    19 points • comment • may 04, 2025

  95. The Em Dash Conspiracy: More and More of Reddit Is from LLMs

    19 points • comment • may 05, 2025

  96. The unusual mathematics that gives rose petals their shape

    19 points • comment • may 01, 2025

  97. The Strategic Oil Bombing Campaign

    19 points • comment • may 04, 2025

  98. Show HN: Maybe – The personal finance app for everyone

    19 points • comment • may 02, 2025

  99. Thinking Forth (2011)

    18 points • comment • may 01, 2025

  100. Open Document Format turns 20, but Microsoft Office still reigns supreme

    18 points • comment • may 03, 2025