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Hacker News (May 2025)

  1. RIP Skype

    18 points • comment • may 06, 2025

  2. Screwworms have breached the U.S.-maintained barrier in Panama

    18 points • comment • may 02, 2025

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

    18 points • comment • may 03, 2025

  4. pdfCropMargins – auto-detect and cut PDF margins for small-screen reading

    18 points • comment • may 04, 2025

  5. Thinking Forth (2011)

    18 points • comment • may 01, 2025

  6. Over half of UK businesses who replaced workers with AI regret their decision

    18 points • comment • may 01, 2025

  7. Ask HN: Has anyone managed to pass Meta's Access Verification?

    18 points • comment • may 05, 2025

  8. Blocking surprising master regulator of immunity eradicates liver tumors in mice

    17 points • comment • may 02, 2025

  9. The end of an AI that shocked the world: OpenAI retires GPT-4

    17 points • comment • may 02, 2025

  10. The Fantasy of a Nonprofit Dating App

    17 points • comment • may 01, 2025

  11. The New Control Society

    17 points • comment • may 04, 2025

  12. COBOL front-end added to GCC

    17 points • comment • may 06, 2025

  13. Multiboard 3D Printed Storage System

    16 points • comment • may 01, 2025

  14. Product Purgatory: When they love it but still don't buy

    16 points • comment • may 05, 2025

  15. Extending a Language – Writing Powerful Macros in Scheme

    16 points • comment • may 05, 2025

  16. Zuckerberg: "The average American has 3 friends, but has demand for 15"

    16 points • comment • may 01, 2025

  17. Microsoft Announces Xbox Console Price Hike, Xbox Games to Cost $80

    16 points • comment • may 02, 2025

  18. Windows 11 users losing data due to Microsoft's forced BitLocker encryption

    16 points • comment • may 02, 2025

  19. Designers Do a Double Take at the Lettering on Pope Francis' Tombstone

    16 points • comment • may 04, 2025

  20. Jewels linked to Buddha remains go to auction, sparking ethical debate

    16 points • comment • may 04, 2025

  21. I bought a $1k electric boat from China. Here's what showed up

    16 points • comment • may 04, 2025

  22. Donald Trump raises doubt over Americans' right to due process

    16 points • comment • may 05, 2025

  23. Why MFA is getting easer to bypass and what to do about it

    16 points • comment • may 02, 2025

  24. The Unofficial Ruby Usage Guide

    15 points • comment • may 02, 2025

  25. DNSanity: Quickly validate DNS servers at scale

    15 points • comment • may 05, 2025

  26. $20B manufacturer has no bosses, just an internal currency called Will

    15 points • comment • may 03, 2025

  27. DoorDash to acquire British food delivery firm Deliveroo in $3.9B deal

    15 points • comment • may 06, 2025

  28. Determining favorite t-shirt color using science

    15 points • comment • may 03, 2025

  29. Charles M. Lieber joins Tsinghua University

    15 points • comment • may 04, 2025

  30. World's largest '100 per cent electric' ship launched

    15 points • comment • may 02, 2025

  31. Type 2 diabetes alters brain circuits involved in reward processing

    15 points • comment • may 02, 2025

  32. Show HN: Live Air Quality Monitor

    15 points • comment • may 03, 2025

  33. The Whole Unicode Table

    15 points • comment • may 02, 2025

  34. How Indian Colleges Casually Violate Human Rights

    15 points • comment • may 05, 2025

  35. Skin wounds in humans heal nearly three times slower than in other primates

    15 points • comment • may 01, 2025

  36. Genetic links with bipolar disorder identified

    14 points • comment • may 04, 2025

  37. AWS Blog on Postgres Long Fork Anomaly (Response to Jepsen Report)

    14 points • comment • may 04, 2025

  38. FastAPI Cloud: deploying FastAPI apps with just a single command

    14 points • comment • may 05, 2025

  39. Trump, Asked If He Has to 'Uphold the Constitution', Says, 'I Don't Know'

    14 points • comment • may 04, 2025

  40. Show HN: Tired of bloated time trackers? Here's a dead-simple, free one I built

    14 points • comment • may 05, 2025

  41. Grok: "xAI tried to train me to appeal to the right but my focus [is] on truth"

    14 points • comment • may 02, 2025

  42. UnitedHealth's Move to End Cyberattack Loan Lifeline Upsets Medical Providers

    14 points • comment • may 05, 2025

  43. Why is English so weirdly different from other languages?

    14 points • comment • may 01, 2025

  44. CORBA: Catching The Next Wave (1997)

    14 points • comment • may 04, 2025

  45. History of the Centrifuge

    14 points • comment • may 05, 2025

  46. How my ADHD makes handling relationships difficult

    14 points • comment • may 05, 2025

  47. Why are there no thunderstorms in the UK?

    14 points • comment • may 04, 2025

  48. The most subversive thing you can do is blog

    14 points • comment • may 01, 2025

  49. The antibiotic that takes the bite out of Lyme

    14 points • comment • may 01, 2025

  50. Wrapping Paper Turns All Your Presents into Bread

    14 points • comment • may 06, 2025

  51. Albert Stevens, the most radioactive man

    14 points • comment • may 01, 2025

  52. Ghosts and Dolls

    14 points • comment • may 02, 2025

  53. Making of Monkeys.zip

    13 points • comment • may 01, 2025

  54. For AI Startups, a 7-Day Work Week Isn't Enough

    13 points • comment • may 04, 2025

  55. Ever wondered why Gmail search fails to find text you're sure is present?

    13 points • comment • may 05, 2025

  56. Trump Administration Disqualifies Harvard from Future Research Grants

    13 points • comment • may 05, 2025

  57. The secret recipe of powerful AI coding Agents

    13 points • comment • may 03, 2025

  58. Next Chapter of Shapes

    13 points • comment • may 06, 2025

  59. Tech hiring slows, unemployment rises, jobs report shows

    13 points • comment • may 04, 2025

  60. Incinerating thousand of Satellites in the atmosphere releases toxic pollutants

    13 points • comment • may 02, 2025

  61. The entire 1941 Japanese film Kanzashi can be watched on its Wikipedia page

    13 points • comment • may 02, 2025

  62. Reconstructing dopamine's link to reward (2024)

    13 points • comment • may 02, 2025

  63. Trump says Harvard will lose tax exempt status

    13 points • comment • may 02, 2025

  64. Grand Theft Auto VI gets pushed back to May 26, 2026

    13 points • comment • may 02, 2025

  65. 'I guess NASA doesn't need or care about my work anymore'

    13 points • comment • may 02, 2025

  66. Visualising home sun exposure with Rhino

    13 points • comment • may 01, 2025

  67. The GLP-1 Saga Continues, and How

    13 points • comment • may 01, 2025

  68. The economic impact of Oman's rose season

    12 points • comment • may 02, 2025

  69. Meta tightens privacy policy around Ray-Ban glasses to boost AI training

    12 points • comment • may 01, 2025

  70. American Wages Fall Behind as Cost of Health Insurance Triples Since 2000

    12 points • comment • may 01, 2025

  71. U.S. State Autism Databases

    12 points • comment • may 05, 2025

  72. Tell HN: TIL about Not By AI, A Badge you can add if your work is "human made"

    12 points • comment • may 03, 2025

  73. New Order Sparks 'Martial Law' Concerns

    12 points • comment • may 01, 2025

  74. Elon Musk's xAI in Memphis: 35 gas turbines, no air pollution permits

    12 points • comment • may 01, 2025

  75. Vygotsky's Zone of Proximal Development

    12 points • comment • may 04, 2025

  76. Building a more accessible GitHub CLI

    12 points • comment • may 05, 2025

  77. The Danish language, even the Danes don't understand it [video]

    12 points • comment • may 02, 2025

  78. Any headline that ends in a question mark can be answered by the word no

    11 points • comment • may 04, 2025

  79. The worlds weirdest musical instrument

    11 points • comment • may 03, 2025

  80. Falling satellites put the atmosphere at risk

    11 points • comment • may 04, 2025

  81. Nail salon employee pleads guilty after holding 13 remote IT jobs

    11 points • comment • may 05, 2025

  82. Humble Bundle raises prices for Euro and Canadian subscribers

    11 points • comment • may 01, 2025

  83. Ask HN: Did Aliexpress stop shipping to US?

    11 points • comment • may 06, 2025

  84. Beyond the 1 MB barrier in DOS

    11 points • comment • may 05, 2025

  85. Medical journals hit with threatening letters from Justice Department

    11 points • comment • may 02, 2025

  86. Reading Zanzibar

    11 points • comment • may 02, 2025

  87. QGIS is the mapping software you didn't know you needed (2023)

    11 points • comment • may 04, 2025

  88. Distributed Continuous GPU Profiling

    11 points • comment • may 02, 2025

  89. Just Because You Can Prove It Doesn't Make It True

    11 points • comment • may 02, 2025

  90. Fujitsu's New 2nm ARM Chip: Focused, Fast, and Unlike Anything Else [video]

    11 points • comment • may 02, 2025

  91. The Design Evolution of Mailboxes

    11 points • comment • may 01, 2025

  92. Make music from GitHub contribution graphs

    11 points • comment • may 03, 2025

  93. How much I have(n't) made angel investing

    11 points • comment • may 03, 2025

  94. Origins of common lung cancer that affects smokers discovered

    10 points • comment • may 01, 2025

  95. Elon Musk wins vote to establish his city in Starbase, Texas

    10 points • comment • may 04, 2025

  96. The ancient psychedelics myth: Tourists told stories 'they find interesting'

    10 points • comment • may 01, 2025

  97. US Manufacturing Activity Shrinks by the Most Since November

    10 points • comment • may 01, 2025

  98. Switch to a tiling-window-manager TODAY

    10 points • comment • may 04, 2025

  99. Terminal Colors

    10 points • comment • may 05, 2025

  100. Show HN: Got laid off. Got sick of ghost jobs. Built something

    10 points • comment • may 01, 2025