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Hacker News (May 2025)

  1. Avoiding AI is hard – but our freedom to opt out must be protected

    239 points • comment • may 12, 2025

  2. The Darwin Gödel Machine: AI that improves itself by rewriting its own code

    239 points • comment • may 30, 2025

  3. Google has most of my email because it has all of yours (2014)

    239 points • comment • may 06, 2025

  4. EPA Plans to Shut Down the Energy Star Program

    239 points • comment • may 07, 2025

  5. Graceful Shutdown in Go: Practical Patterns

    238 points • comment • may 04, 2025

  6. Edit is now open source

    237 points • comment • may 19, 2025

  7. New research reveals the strongest solar event ever detected, in 12350 BC

    237 points • comment • may 15, 2025

  8. Strings Just Got Faster

    236 points • comment • may 01, 2025

  9. Evidence of controversial Planet 9 uncovered in sky surveys taken 23 years apart

    235 points • comment • may 02, 2025

  10. Ten years of JSON Web Token and preparing for the future

    234 points • comment • may 25, 2025

  11. Java at 30: Interview with James Gosling

    234 points • comment • may 16, 2025

  12. Airbnb is in midlife crisis mode

    233 points • comment • may 13, 2025

  13. Power Failure: The downfall of General Electric

    233 points • comment • may 26, 2025

  14. Bloom Filters

    233 points • comment • may 02, 2025

  15. xAI dev leaks API key for private SpaceX, Tesla LLMs

    233 points • comment • may 02, 2025

  16. Title of work deciphered in sealed Herculaneum scroll via digital unwrapping

    232 points • comment • may 11, 2025

  17. TSMC bets on unorthodox optical tech

    232 points • comment • may 26, 2025

  18. Progress toward fusion energy gain as measured against the Lawson criteria

    231 points • comment • may 08, 2025

  19. Show HN: eInk optimized manga with Kindle Comic Converter (+Kobo/ReMarkable)

    231 points • comment • may 07, 2025

  20. Pyrefly: A new type checker and IDE experience for Python

    230 points • comment • may 17, 2025

  21. Migrating to Postgres

    229 points • comment • may 14, 2025

  22. Critical CSS

    228 points • comment • may 06, 2025

  23. Show HN: HelixDB – Open-source vector-graph database for AI applications (Rust)

    228 points • comment • may 13, 2025

  24. Jjui – A Nice TUI for Jujutsu

    227 points • comment • may 26, 2025

  25. The Xenon Death Flash: How a Camera Nearly Killed the Raspberry Pi 2

    226 points • comment • may 24, 2025

  26. A flat pricing subscription for Claude Code

    226 points • comment • may 08, 2025

  27. Look Ma, No Bubbles: Designing a Low-Latency Megakernel for Llama-1B

    226 points • comment • may 28, 2025

  28. Show HN: Icepi Zero – The FPGA Raspberry Pi Zero Equivalent

    225 points • comment • may 28, 2025

  29. Ask HN: What is the best LLM for consumer grade hardware?

    225 points • comment • may 30, 2025

  30. Modification of acetaminophen to reduce liver toxicity and enhance drug efficacy

    224 points • comment • may 24, 2025

  31. CryptPad: An Alternative to the Google Suite

    224 points • comment • may 09, 2025

  32. Reviving a modular cargo bike design from the 1930s

    224 points • comment • may 12, 2025

  33. Ask HN: Anyone making a living from a paid API?

    224 points • comment • may 31, 2025

  34. The Brief Origins of May Day

    224 points • comment • may 01, 2025

  35. Show HN: GPT-2 implemented using graphics shaders

    224 points • comment • may 02, 2025

  36. A new generation of Tailscale access controls

    223 points • comment • may 29, 2025

  37. Matrix-vector multiplication implemented in off-the-shelf DRAM for Low-Bit LLMs

    223 points • comment • may 04, 2025

  38. Teal – A statically-typed dialect of Lua

    223 points • comment • may 16, 2025

  39. Jury orders NSO to pay $167M for hacking WhatsApp users

    222 points • comment • may 07, 2025

  40. Show HN: Vaev – A browser engine built from scratch (It renders google.com)

    221 points • comment • may 18, 2025

  41. Dummy's Guide to Modern LLM Sampling

    220 points • comment • may 04, 2025

  42. Man 'Disappeared' by ICE Was on El Salvador Flight Manifest, Hacked Data Shows

    220 points • comment • may 09, 2025

  43. 'We Currently Have No Container Ships,' Seattle Port Says

    220 points • comment • may 10, 2025

  44. Plwm – An X11 window manager written in Prolog

    219 points • comment • may 25, 2025

  45. The copilot delusion

    219 points • comment • may 23, 2025

  46. New studies offer insight into Lyme disease’s treatment, lingering symptoms

    218 points • comment • may 06, 2025

  47. Palette lighting tricks on the Nintendo 64

    218 points • comment • may 17, 2025

  48. The forbidden railway: Vienna-Pyongyang (2008)

    218 points • comment • may 19, 2025

  49. When Abandoned Mines Collapse

    218 points • comment • may 06, 2025

  50. Data manipulations alleged in study that paved way for Microsoft's quantum chip

    217 points • comment • may 09, 2025

  51. Reports of Deno's Demise Have Been Greatly Exaggerated

    217 points • comment • may 20, 2025

  52. Mac Themes Garden

    217 points • comment • may 07, 2025

  53. Universe expected to decay in 10⁷⁸ years, much sooner than previously thought

    216 points • comment • may 12, 2025

  54. Internet Roadtrip: Vote to steer

    216 points • comment • may 07, 2025

  55. Getting a paper accepted

    216 points • comment • may 22, 2025

  56. AtomVM, the Erlang virtual machine for IoT devices

    215 points • comment • may 28, 2025

  57. Negotiating PoE+ Power in the Pre‑Boot Environment

    215 points • comment • may 27, 2025

  58. Show HN: Muscle-Mem, a behavior cache for AI agents

    215 points • comment • may 14, 2025

  59. Show HN: Aberdeen – An elegant approach to reactive UIs

    215 points • comment • may 09, 2025

  60. Ruby 3.5 Feature: Namespace on read

    215 points • comment • may 12, 2025

  61. Bagel: Open-source unified multimodal model

    215 points • comment • may 26, 2025

  62. Memory-safe sudo to become the default in Ubuntu

    214 points • comment • may 06, 2025

  63. June Huh dropped out to become a poet, now he’s won a Fields Medal (2022)

    214 points • comment • may 07, 2025

  64. WebGL Water (2010)

    214 points • comment • may 10, 2025

  65. Google is burying the web alive

    214 points • comment • may 26, 2025

  66. Launch HN: Miyagi (YC W25) turns YouTube videos into online, interactive courses

    213 points • comment • may 13, 2025

  67. LTXVideo 13B AI video generation

    213 points • comment • may 10, 2025

  68. How Obama’s BlackBerry got secured (2013)

    213 points • comment • may 05, 2025

  69. Fandom sells gaming media brand Giant Bomb to long-term staff

    212 points • comment • may 11, 2025

  70. Samsung is paying $350M for audio brands B&W, Denon, Marantz and Polk

    212 points • comment • may 07, 2025

  71. Sierpiński Triangle? In My Bitwise and?

    212 points • comment • may 10, 2025

  72. Remote Prompt Injection in Gitlab Duo Leads to Source Code Theft

    211 points • comment • may 23, 2025

  73. 23andMe Sells Gene-Testing Business to DNA Drug Maker Regeneron

    211 points • comment • may 19, 2025

  74. A lost decade chasing distributed architectures for data analytics?

    210 points • comment • may 19, 2025

  75. How to harden GitHub Actions

    210 points • comment • may 06, 2025

  76. Visualize and debug Rust programs with a new lens

    210 points • comment • may 25, 2025

  77. C++ to Rust Phrasebook

    210 points • comment • may 30, 2025

  78. Lua for Elixir

    210 points • comment • may 13, 2025

  79. A South Korean grand master on the art of the perfect soy sauce

    209 points • comment • may 21, 2025

  80. Dopamine signals when a fear can be forgotten

    209 points • comment • may 01, 2025

  81. Kilo: A text editor in less than 1000 LOC with syntax highlight and search

    209 points • comment • may 19, 2025

  82. Private Japanese lunar lander enters orbit around moon ahead of a June touchdown

    209 points • comment • may 07, 2025

  83. Using lots of little tools to aggressively reject the bots

    208 points • comment • may 31, 2025

  84. QModem 4.51 Source Code

    207 points • comment • may 03, 2025

  85. We’ll be ending web hosting for your apps on Glitch

    207 points • comment • may 22, 2025

  86. AWS Built a Security Tool. It Introduced a Security Risk

    206 points • comment • may 05, 2025

  87. Red Programming Language

    206 points • comment • may 20, 2025

  88. MCP: An in-depth introduction

    204 points • comment • may 13, 2025

  89. EU ruling: tracking-based advertising [...] across Europe has no legal basis

    204 points • comment • may 15, 2025

  90. Design Pressure: The Invisible Hand That Shapes Your Code

    204 points • comment • may 25, 2025

  91. Buttplug MCP

    204 points • comment • may 30, 2025

  92. All BART trains were stopped due to ‘computer networking problem’

    204 points • comment • may 09, 2025

  93. Oberon Pi

    204 points • comment • may 04, 2025

  94. Chicago native Cardinal Prevost elected pope, takes name Leo XIV

    204 points • comment • may 08, 2025

  95. Odin: A programming language made for me

    203 points • comment • may 13, 2025

  96. What I've learned from jj

    203 points • comment • may 02, 2025

  97. Audiobookshelf: Self-hosted audiobook and podcast server

    203 points • comment • may 09, 2025

  98. Microsoft Teams will soon block screen capture during meetings

    203 points • comment • may 10, 2025

  99. Show HN: Hardtime.nvim – break bad habits and master Vim motions

    202 points • comment • may 18, 2025

  100. Hong Kong's Famous Bamboo Scaffolding Hangs on (For Now)

    201 points • comment • may 24, 2025