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Hacker News (May 2025)

  1. A simple search engine from scratch

    283 points • comment • may 20, 2025

  2. AI Meets WinDBG

    283 points • comment • may 05, 2025

  3. Mike Waltz Accidentally Reveals App Govt Uses to Archive Signal Messages

    282 points • comment • may 02, 2025

  4. Microsoft's ICC blockade: digital dependence comes at a cost

    282 points • comment • may 19, 2025

  5. I Built My Own Audio Player

    282 points • comment • may 22, 2025

  6. Google to back three new nuclear projects

    282 points • comment • may 08, 2025

  7. The Future of Flatpak

    281 points • comment • may 22, 2025

  8. The first year of free-threaded Python

    281 points • comment • may 16, 2025

  9. University of Texas-led team solves a big problem for fusion energy

    280 points • comment • may 12, 2025

  10. The Deathbed Fallacy (2018)

    279 points • comment • may 10, 2025

  11. Compiling a neural net to C for a speedup

    279 points • comment • may 28, 2025

  12. Ask HN: Anyone struggling to get value out of coding LLMs?

    279 points • comment • may 26, 2025

  13. Run LLMs on Apple Neural Engine (ANE)

    279 points • comment • may 03, 2025

  14. A Lean companion to Analysis I

    278 points • comment • may 31, 2025

  15. Doge software engineer's computer infected by info-stealing malware

    277 points • comment • may 09, 2025

  16. Ask HN: Cursor or Windsurf?

    276 points • comment • may 12, 2025

  17. Don't watermark your legal PDFs with purple dragons in suits

    276 points • comment • may 02, 2025

  18. What are people doing? Live-ish estimates based on global population dynamics

    276 points • comment • may 20, 2025

  19. LLM function calls don't scale; code orchestration is simpler, more effective

    275 points • comment • may 21, 2025

  20. Ash Framework – Model your domain, derive the rest

    275 points • comment • may 10, 2025

  21. Animated Factorization (2012)

    273 points • comment • may 21, 2025

  22. Collaborative Text Editing Without CRDTs or OT

    273 points • comment • may 21, 2025

  23. NSA spied through Angry Birds, other apps: report (2014)

    272 points • comment • may 06, 2025

  24. Ask HN: What projects do you donate to?

    272 points • comment • may 23, 2025

  25. Nnd – a TUI debugger alternative to GDB, LLDB

    271 points • comment • may 06, 2025

  26. When ChatGPT broke the field of NLP: An oral history

    270 points • comment • may 01, 2025

  27. Lazarus Release 4.0

    270 points • comment • may 07, 2025

  28. Running Qwen3 on your macbook, using MLX, to vibe code for free

    270 points • comment • may 01, 2025

  29. Is-even-ai – Check if a number is even using the power of AI

    270 points • comment • may 20, 2025

  30. Web search on the Anthropic API

    269 points • comment • may 07, 2025

  31. Itter.sh – Micro-Blogging via Terminal

    269 points • comment • may 09, 2025

  32. Chomsky on what ChatGPT is good for (2023)

    268 points • comment • may 25, 2025

  33. Show HN: VectorVFS, your filesystem as a vector database

    268 points • comment • may 05, 2025

  34. In Memoriam: John L. Young, Cryptome Co-Founder

    268 points • comment • may 15, 2025

  35. Sci-Net

    268 points • comment • may 16, 2025

  36. Open Hardware Ethernet Switch project, part 1

    267 points • comment • may 09, 2025

  37. Run GitHub Actions locally

    267 points • comment • may 16, 2025

  38. Just redesigned my personal site with a TTY-style interface

    266 points • comment • may 02, 2025

  39. I failed a take-home assignment from Kagi Search

    266 points • comment • may 14, 2025

  40. Why are banks still getting authentication so wrong?

    266 points • comment • may 13, 2025

  41. Show HN: KVSplit – Run 2-3x longer contexts on Apple Silicon

    264 points • comment • may 16, 2025

  42. Sleep apnea pill shows striking success in large clinical trial

    263 points • comment • may 26, 2025

  43. “ZLinq”, a Zero-Allocation LINQ Library for .NET

    263 points • comment • may 20, 2025

  44. Spaced repetition memory system (2024)

    262 points • comment • may 18, 2025

  45. Why does Debian change software?

    262 points • comment • may 22, 2025

  46. DuckLake is an integrated data lake and catalog format

    261 points • comment • may 27, 2025

  47. The cryptography behind passkeys

    261 points • comment • may 14, 2025

  48. How are cyber criminals rolling in 2025?

    259 points • comment • may 05, 2025

  49. Fast Allocations in Ruby 3.5

    258 points • comment • may 22, 2025

  50. Interferometer Device Sees Text from a Mile Away

    258 points • comment • may 10, 2025

  51. Four years of running a SaaS in a competitive market

    258 points • comment • may 06, 2025

  52. “An independent journalist” who won't remain nameless

    258 points • comment • may 03, 2025

  53. “There are people who can see and others who cannot even look”

    258 points • comment • may 19, 2025

  54. Tachy0n: The Last 0day Jailbreak

    257 points • comment • may 24, 2025

  55. Display any CSV file as a searchable, filterable, pretty HTML table

    257 points • comment • may 22, 2025

  56. Practical SDR: Getting started with software-defined radio

    257 points • comment • may 30, 2025

  57. Launch HN: Better Auth (YC X25) – Authentication Framework for TypeScript

    256 points • comment • may 19, 2025

  58. Build iOS Apps on Linux and Windows

    256 points • comment • may 11, 2025

  59. CERN gears up to ship antimatter across Europe

    256 points • comment • may 19, 2025

  60. Air Traffic Control

    255 points • comment • may 12, 2025

  61. Learning C3

    255 points • comment • may 29, 2025

  62. The Gang Has a Mid-Life Crisis

    254 points • comment • may 01, 2025

  63. How to have the browser pick a contrasting color in CSS

    254 points • comment • may 17, 2025

  64. Moody’s strips U.S. of triple-A credit rating

    253 points • comment • may 16, 2025

  65. Type-constrained code generation with language models

    253 points • comment • may 13, 2025

  66. Oxide’s compensation model: how is it going?

    253 points • comment • may 01, 2025

  67. Cloudflare CEO: Football piracy blocks will claim lives

    253 points • comment • may 26, 2025

  68. Side projects I've built since 2009

    253 points • comment • may 19, 2025

  69. A Tiny Boltzmann Machine

    253 points • comment • may 15, 2025

  70. Mermaid: Generation of diagrams like flowcharts or sequence diagrams from text

    252 points • comment • may 21, 2025

  71. I salvaged $6k of luxury items discarded by Duke students

    252 points • comment • may 27, 2025

  72. Possibly a Serious Possibility

    251 points • comment • may 05, 2025

  73. Scraperr – A Self Hosted Webscraper

    251 points • comment • may 11, 2025

  74. Bloat is still software's biggest vulnerability (2024)

    250 points • comment • may 06, 2025

  75. LumoSQL

    250 points • comment • may 27, 2025

  76. Show HN: Using eBPF to see through encryption without a proxy

    250 points • comment • may 08, 2025

  77. Address of Pope Leo XIV to the College of Cardinals

    249 points • comment • may 10, 2025

  78. Create and edit images with Gemini 2.0 in preview

    248 points • comment • may 07, 2025

  79. High-school shop students attract skilled-trades job offers

    248 points • comment • may 11, 2025

  80. Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2025)

    247 points • comment • may 01, 2025

  81. Expanding on what we missed with sycophancy

    247 points • comment • may 02, 2025

  82. A toy RTOS inside Super Mario Bros. using emulator save states

    247 points • comment • may 28, 2025

  83. In 2025, venture capital can't pretend everything is fine any more

    247 points • comment • may 11, 2025

  84. Klarna changes its AI tune and again recruits humans for customer service

    246 points • comment • may 11, 2025

  85. For $595, you get what nobody else can give you for twice the price (1982) [pdf]

    246 points • comment • may 10, 2025

  86. I'm Peter Roberts, immigration attorney, who does work for YC and startups. AMA

    245 points • comment • may 16, 2025

  87. How friction is being redistributed in today's economy

    244 points • comment • may 09, 2025

  88. Why I stopped angel investing after 15 years, and what I'm doing instead

    244 points • comment • may 03, 2025

  89. MCP is the coming of Web 2.0 2.0

    244 points • comment • may 23, 2025

  90. Nextcloud cries foul over Google Play Store app rejection

    244 points • comment • may 13, 2025

  91. Python lib generates its code on-the-fly based on usage

    244 points • comment • may 12, 2025

  92. Valkey Turns One: Community fork of Redis

    244 points • comment • may 30, 2025

  93. TeleMessage, used by Trump officials, can access plaintext chat logs

    243 points • comment • may 06, 2025

  94. Modern LaTeX

    242 points • comment • may 05, 2025

  95. GUIs are built at least 2.5 times

    242 points • comment • may 31, 2025

  96. Claude 4 and GitHub MCP will leak your private GitHub repositories

    241 points • comment • may 26, 2025

  97. Accents in latent spaces: How AI hears accent strength in English

    241 points • comment • may 06, 2025

  98. Show HN: Visual flow-based programming for Erlang, inspired by Node-RED

    240 points • comment • may 16, 2025

  99. Dead Stars Don’t Radiate

    240 points • comment • may 17, 2025

  100. EPA Plans to Shut Down the Energy Star Program

    239 points • comment • may 07, 2025