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Hacker News (May 2025)

  1. The SEP has achieved what Wikipedia can only dream of (2015)

    10 points • comment • may 01, 2025

  2. ChatGPT as Economics Tutor: Capabilities and Limitations

    10 points • comment • may 04, 2025

  3. Physics of Language Models: Architecture Design and the Magic of Canon Layers

    10 points • comment • may 04, 2025

  4. Opinion: Is a split imminent? – Synadia demands NATS back from the CNCF

    10 points • comment • may 02, 2025

  5. Earthquake could sink parts of Pacific Northwest coast within minutes

    10 points • comment • may 01, 2025

  6. NASA's SPHEREx Space Telescope Begins Capturing Entire Sky

    10 points • comment • may 02, 2025

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

    10 points • comment • may 04, 2025

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

    10 points • comment • may 01, 2025

  9. Switch to a tiling-window-manager TODAY

    10 points • comment • may 04, 2025

  10. Amazon sues government safety agency Consumer Product Safety Commission

    10 points • comment • may 03, 2025

  11. Origins of common lung cancer that affects smokers discovered

    10 points • comment • may 01, 2025

  12. The Female Gaze

    10 points • comment • may 02, 2025

  13. Republicans want to tax EV drivers $200/year in new transport bill

    9 points • comment • may 01, 2025

  14. Autism evaluations are being canceled over fears about a national registry

    9 points • comment • may 02, 2025

  15. New electronic "skin" could enable lightweight night-vision glasses

    9 points • comment • may 02, 2025

  16. Study of USB2 signal robustness under varying conditions [video]

    9 points • comment • may 05, 2025

  17. Welcome to the Future: The 2020s, the cyberpunk vision that arrived on schedule

    9 points • comment • may 03, 2025

  18. Atari 2600 Smartwatch

    9 points • comment • may 02, 2025

  19. Visual Analysis Shows U.S. Likely Bombed Yemen Migrant Detention Center

    9 points • comment • may 04, 2025

  20. The birth of AI poker? Letters from the 1984 WSOP

    9 points • comment • may 05, 2025

  21. Show HN: I made a toast that shows what visitors are doing in real-time

    9 points • comment • may 02, 2025

  22. Mummy mystery solved: 'air-dried' priest was embalmed via rectum

    9 points • comment • may 02, 2025

  23. Alzheimers could be linked to a common virus

    9 points • comment • may 02, 2025

  24. What Netflix's patents reveal about the future of watching movies

    9 points • comment • may 04, 2025

  25. Park Service suspends air-quality monitoring at all national parks

    9 points • comment • may 05, 2025

  26. AI companions unsafe for teens under 18, researchers say

    9 points • comment • may 01, 2025

  27. Quebec to ban cellphones in elementary and high schools

    9 points • comment • may 01, 2025

  28. Ancient DNA unearths a new race from a verdant North African interlude

    9 points • comment • may 04, 2025

  29. Warren Buffett shocks shareholders by announcing his intention to retire

    9 points • comment • may 03, 2025

  30. OpenAI agrees to buy Windsurf for about $3B

    9 points • comment • may 06, 2025

  31. Apple referred to criminal prosecutor for 'thwarting' order to change App Store

    9 points • comment • may 01, 2025

  32. Judge Rules Apple Violated Court Order on App Store Anti-Steering Provisions

    9 points • comment • may 01, 2025

  33. Turning into Turing (2022)

    8 points • comment • may 05, 2025

  34. A novel scientific theory: The Law of Adaptive Dissipative Organization

    8 points • comment • may 04, 2025

  35. Prompt chaining reimagined with type inference

    8 points • comment • may 02, 2025

  36. Dreariness Index (2015)

    8 points • comment • may 05, 2025

  37. Commercial driverless freight trucking begins in Texas

    8 points • comment • may 02, 2025

  38. The future of web development is AI. Get on or get left behind

    8 points • comment • may 05, 2025

  39. Testing AI's GeoGuessr Genius

    8 points • comment • may 02, 2025

  40. NASA Proposal Would Shift Agency's Focus Away from Space Science

    8 points • comment • may 04, 2025

  41. Antarctica gains ice for first time in decades, reversing trend of mass loss

    8 points • comment • may 04, 2025

  42. A affordable retrocomputer compatible with the C64

    8 points • comment • may 01, 2025

  43. Catastrophic fires and soil degradation: possible link with Neolithic revolution

    8 points • comment • may 04, 2025

  44. Trump proposes unprecedented budget cuts to US science

    8 points • comment • may 06, 2025

  45. Thirteen new MCP servers from Cloudflare you can use today

    8 points • comment • may 01, 2025

  46. Raspberry Pi cuts product returns by 50% by changing up its pin soldering

    8 points • comment • may 01, 2025

  47. Upstream Linux support for Rockchip RK3588

    8 points • comment • may 02, 2025

  48. Zuckerberg Sailed 5,300 Miles with Two Superyachts to Helicopter Up a Mountain

    8 points • comment • may 04, 2025

  49. The Nature of Consciousness in Anaesthesia

    8 points • comment • may 05, 2025

  50. Trump's stablecoin chosen for $2B Abu Dhabi investment in Binance

    8 points • comment • may 01, 2025

  51. Single day Firebase bill for $100k

    8 points • comment • may 04, 2025

  52. The Tragic Story Behind the Infamous '4 Children for Sale' Photograph (2023)

    8 points • comment • may 04, 2025

  53. The Merovingians: 'Do-Nothing Kings'?

    8 points • comment • may 03, 2025

  54. Sam Altman's Eye-Scanning Orb Is Now Coming to the US

    8 points • comment • may 01, 2025

  55. NZ airport to remove Hobbit-themed eagle sculptures

    8 points • comment • may 05, 2025

  56. The day he was fired, Mike Waltz used Israeli app to archive Signal messages

    8 points • comment • may 02, 2025

  57. Trump Asks Supreme Court to Let Doge View Social Security Data

    8 points • comment • may 02, 2025

  58. Explosive sex toys and cosmetics: the story behind the DHL parcels plot

    8 points • comment • may 05, 2025

  59. Winding down our carsharing service in the U.S.

    8 points • comment • may 02, 2025

  60. Bell's 1881 Metal detector

    8 points • comment • may 04, 2025

  61. Warren Buffett, 94, stepping down as Berkshire Hathaway CEO

    8 points • comment • may 03, 2025

  62. Management Habits Burning Out Your Best Engineers

    8 points • comment • may 05, 2025

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

    8 points • comment • may 01, 2025

  64. Making PyPI's test suite 81% faster

    7 points • comment • may 01, 2025

  65. New Atomic Clock Is So Precise It Won't Lose a Second for 140M Years

    7 points • comment • may 03, 2025

  66. NEA Cancels Grants After Proposed Elimination of Agency

    7 points • comment • may 03, 2025

  67. RSA cofounder: The world would've been better without cryptocurrencies

    7 points • comment • may 01, 2025

  68. Runtime: Green tea garbage collector (Go)

    7 points • comment • may 03, 2025

  69. Be Careful of Your UDP Service: Preauth DoS on Windows Deployment Service

    7 points • comment • may 04, 2025

  70. Side-Effects Are the Complexity Iceberg [video] (2024)

    7 points • comment • may 05, 2025

  71. Show HN: Using AI to test the beauty for you

    7 points • comment • may 01, 2025

  72. Adaptive Hashing

    7 points • comment • may 02, 2025

  73. The Nature of the Firm

    7 points • comment • may 05, 2025

  74. Understanding Information Architecture

    7 points • comment • may 01, 2025

  75. Visualizations that show how true "based on a true story" movies are

    7 points • comment • may 02, 2025

  76. NPM should remove the default license from new packages (ISC)

    7 points • comment • may 01, 2025

  77. Spain in the Dark Is Safer Than Elsewhere with Power

    7 points • comment • may 04, 2025

  78. Head-bobbing sea lion proves animals can keep a beat better than humans

    7 points • comment • may 02, 2025

  79. Well, That's One Way to Address America's Vaping Problem

    7 points • comment • may 01, 2025

  80. A liberal critique of liberalism: What needs to change [video]

    7 points • comment • may 02, 2025

  81. The Signal Clone the Trump Admin Uses Was Hacked

    7 points • comment • may 05, 2025

  82. Netscape Communicator Datasheet (1997)

    7 points • comment • may 04, 2025

  83. Study links PFAS contamination of drinking water to a range of rare cancers

    7 points • comment • may 01, 2025

  84. Automatically add missing "async/await" keywords to your TypeScript code

    7 points • comment • may 03, 2025

  85. Don't need much sleep? Mutation linked to thriving with little rest

    7 points • comment • may 06, 2025

  86. The chaotic brilliance of the UK's biggest self-build town

    7 points • comment • may 02, 2025

  87. Doge Is Building a Surveillance State

    7 points • comment • may 01, 2025

  88. Creating Bluey: Tales from the Art Director - Chapter 3

    7 points • comment • may 03, 2025

  89. Tesla board denies launching search for Musk's successor

    7 points • comment • may 01, 2025

  90. The kerning on the pope's tomb is a travesty

    7 points • comment • may 01, 2025

  91. The Once and Future Genius

    7 points • comment • may 03, 2025

  92. The Bayeux Tapestry with knobs on: what do its 93 es tell us?

    7 points • comment • may 02, 2025

  93. Clever workaround to silence the iOS camera shutter sound

    7 points • comment • may 02, 2025

  94. AI and the Fatfinger Economy

    7 points • comment • may 03, 2025

  95. Old Lisp (2018)

    7 points • comment • may 02, 2025

  96. OCaml Cross Compilation: An Experiment

    7 points • comment • may 03, 2025

  97. Both novelty and familiarity affect memory

    6 points • comment • may 03, 2025

  98. Polygon Sold to Valnet and Hit with Mass Layoffs

    6 points • comment • may 01, 2025

  99. A militarized conspiracy theorist group believes radars are 'weather weapons'

    6 points • comment • may 05, 2025

  100. Llama-Nemotron: Efficient Reasoning Models

    6 points • comment • may 05, 2025