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Hacker News (May 2025)
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A 1903 Proposal to Preserve the Dead in Glass Cubes
34 points • comment • may 02, 2025
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USPS law enforcement assists 'mass deportation' effort, sources and records show
34 points • comment • may 02, 2025
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LLMs as Unbiased Oracles
33 points • comment • may 04, 2025
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McDonald's posts biggest US sales drop since 2020
33 points • comment • may 01, 2025
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'Unparalleled' snake antivenom made from man bitten 200 times
33 points • comment • may 03, 2025
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The number of new apartments is at a 50-year high, but states expect a slowdown
32 points • comment • may 03, 2025
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Critical Program Reading (1975) [video]
32 points • comment • may 04, 2025
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AGI Is Not a Milestone
32 points • comment • may 01, 2025
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The complicated circuitry for the 386 processor's registers
31 points • comment • may 01, 2025
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Hello My Perverted Friend
31 points • comment • may 04, 2025
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People who don't ask me questions drive me crazy. Why are they like that?
31 points • comment • may 01, 2025
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The end of compounded GLP-1 drugs leaves many patients in a ‘lose-lose’ position
31 points • comment • may 01, 2025
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Where Do Scientists Think This Is All Going?
31 points • comment • may 03, 2025
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We May Be About to Lose a Powerful Force in Video Game Preservation
31 points • comment • may 02, 2025
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NASA's Psyche spacecraft hits a speed bump on the way to a metal asteroid
31 points • comment • may 01, 2025
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TLA+ Video Course (2021)
30 points • comment • may 01, 2025
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Bypassing a web application firewall with autocomplete
30 points • comment • may 02, 2025
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The Debian testing/trixie release on amd64 is now reproducible for over 95%
30 points • comment • may 04, 2025
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Link Out for In-App Purchases
30 points • comment • may 02, 2025
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It feels at the beginning of the end of the world
30 points • comment • may 02, 2025
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Show HN: I built a 7-day calendar app – no months or years, just the next 7 days
29 points • comment • may 05, 2025
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"Older than Google" Elder Scrolls wiki has been helping gamers for 30 years
29 points • comment • may 02, 2025
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Psilocybin reduced depression symptoms as much as leading antidepressant (2021)
29 points • comment • may 03, 2025
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Hybrid AC/DC distribution system with a shared neutral (2020)
29 points • comment • may 01, 2025
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Why do econ journalists keep making this basic mistake?
29 points • comment • may 03, 2025
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Tortoise Mode vs. Hare Mode
28 points • comment • may 01, 2025
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The Creative Power of Constraints
28 points • comment • may 05, 2025
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RFK Jr. to require placebo-controlled studies for new vaccines
28 points • comment • may 01, 2025
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Flies in the evidence room: Inside Belgium's rotting Justice Palace
28 points • comment • may 03, 2025
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Microsoft's new "passwordless by default" is great but comes at a cost
27 points • comment • may 02, 2025
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Retro Computing
27 points • comment • may 04, 2025
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Show HN: VoltAgent – Open-Source Observability-First TS AI Agent Framework
27 points • comment • may 04, 2025
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Distributed server for social and realtime games and apps
27 points • comment • may 05, 2025
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Why I'm getting off US tech
26 points • comment • may 01, 2025
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RIP Skype
26 points • comment • may 06, 2025
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84% of the coral reefs hit by worst bleaching event on record
26 points • comment • may 01, 2025
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Google can train search AI with web content even with opt-out
26 points • comment • may 03, 2025
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Show HN: MP3 File Editor for Bulk Processing
26 points • comment • may 03, 2025
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Carmakers Are Embracing Physical Buttons Again
26 points • comment • may 05, 2025
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White House budget seeks to end SLS, Orion, and Lunar Gateway programs
25 points • comment • may 05, 2025
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PScientists reveal how bats learn to identify which prey is safe to eat
25 points • comment • may 01, 2025
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The Anti-Capitalist Case for Standards
25 points • comment • may 02, 2025
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How Complex Systems Fail
25 points • comment • may 04, 2025
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Show HN: Exhibit and Site on Mechanisms for Students
25 points • comment • may 02, 2025
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Digitization Complete for World-Renowned Franco Novacco Map Collection
25 points • comment • may 03, 2025
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US EPA plans to cut staff to 1980s levels, dissolve research office
25 points • comment • may 03, 2025
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Ask HN: 3rd Week at FAANG and feeling imposter syndrome
25 points • comment • may 01, 2025
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AI-driven robot installs nearly 10k solar modules in Australia
24 points • comment • may 04, 2025
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A Hyper-Catalan Series Solution to Polynomial Equations, and the Geode
24 points • comment • may 02, 2025
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Executive order directs federal funding cuts to PBS and NPR
24 points • comment • may 02, 2025
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Professors Staffed a Fake Company with AI Agents, Guess What Happened?
24 points • comment • may 05, 2025
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The Secret Services' involvement in the making of The Line of Fire (1993) [pdf]
24 points • comment • may 01, 2025
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Bootstrapping Lisp in a Boot Sector
24 points • comment • may 05, 2025
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Source code for the unofficial Signal app used by Trump officials
24 points • comment • may 03, 2025
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Phoenician culture spread mainly through cultural exchange
24 points • comment • may 05, 2025
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Sanctum || A pq-safe and sandboxed VPN daemon
24 points • comment • may 02, 2025
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Ancient DNA Unveils the Cosmopolitan Heart of the Phoenician-Punic Civilization
24 points • comment • may 01, 2025
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A.I. Is Getting More Powerful, but Its Hallucinations Are Getting Worse
24 points • comment • may 05, 2025
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'The Worst Internet-Research Ethics Violation I Have Ever Seen'
24 points • comment • may 03, 2025
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VMOS – Virtual Android on Android
23 points • comment • may 03, 2025
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Scientists May Have Found a Natural Alternative to Ozempic
23 points • comment • may 02, 2025
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Censoring Social Media
23 points • comment • may 04, 2025
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Dropbox will require App Indicator support on Linux
22 points • comment • may 01, 2025
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Two-phase chip cooling with manifold-capillary structures enables 10⁵ COP
22 points • comment • may 01, 2025
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House votes to block California from banning sales of gas cars by 2035
22 points • comment • may 01, 2025
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AI models routinely lie when honesty conflicts with their goals
22 points • comment • may 01, 2025
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Reading Zanzibar
22 points • comment • may 03, 2025
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Air traffic controllers couldn't see or talk to planes in Newark failure
22 points • comment • may 05, 2025
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Some thoughts on how control over web content works
22 points • comment • may 02, 2025
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Settling the File Structure Debate
22 points • comment • may 02, 2025
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Britain's Latest True Crime Thriller: Who Killed the Sycamore Tree?
21 points • comment • may 02, 2025
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Experts and Elites Play Fundamentally Different Games
21 points • comment • may 04, 2025
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Mines: A simple mine puzzle game inspired by classic minesweeper
21 points • comment • may 01, 2025
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The Algebra of Patterns (Extended Version)
21 points • comment • may 03, 2025
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Can you smuggle data in an ID card photo?
21 points • comment • may 06, 2025
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AfD classified as extreme-right by German intelligence
21 points • comment • may 02, 2025
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Anthropic Development Partner Program
21 points • comment • may 02, 2025
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Hyper – Outperform React on every metric
21 points • comment • may 06, 2025
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Why it is (nearly) impossible that we live in a simulation
20 points • comment • may 05, 2025
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Understanding transaction visibility in PostgreSQL clusters with read replicas
20 points • comment • may 03, 2025
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UnitedHealth Now Has 1k AI Use Cases, Including in Claims
20 points • comment • may 05, 2025
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Pebble Core 2 Duo Smartwatch Demo and Q&A [video]
20 points • comment • may 01, 2025
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The Uncanny Mirror: AI, Self-Doubt, and the Limits of Reflection
20 points • comment • may 02, 2025
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An Interactive Debugger for Rust Trait Errors
20 points • comment • may 06, 2025
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Codd's Cellular Automaton
20 points • comment • may 01, 2025
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The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Multiple Dispatch in Julia (2019)
20 points • comment • may 03, 2025
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Pakistan pulled off one of the fastest solar revolutions in the world
20 points • comment • may 02, 2025
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Can you remove ads from the documentation?
20 points • comment • may 03, 2025
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Computational Limit of Life May Be Billion Times Higher Than Assumed
19 points • comment • may 03, 2025
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Show HN: A motherfucking app (does one thing, under 300 LOC)
19 points • comment • may 02, 2025
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You can now directly sync Postgres with Redis
19 points • comment • may 03, 2025
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Tell HN: Incorporated my software company today
19 points • comment • may 03, 2025
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Git Changesets
19 points • comment • may 01, 2025
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The Enshittification of Tech Jobs
19 points • comment • may 04, 2025
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The Em Dash Conspiracy: More and More of Reddit Is from LLMs
19 points • comment • may 05, 2025
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The unusual mathematics that gives rose petals their shape
19 points • comment • may 01, 2025
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The Strategic Oil Bombing Campaign
19 points • comment • may 04, 2025
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Show HN: Maybe – The personal finance app for everyone
19 points • comment • may 02, 2025
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Thinking Forth (2011)
18 points • comment • may 01, 2025
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Open Document Format turns 20, but Microsoft Office still reigns supreme
18 points • comment • may 03, 2025