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Hacker News (May 2025)

  1. A cycle-accurate IBM PC emulator in your web browser

    152 points • comment • may 04, 2025

  2. HTAP is Dead

    152 points • comment • may 28, 2025

  3. When Fine-Tuning Makes Sense: A Developer's Guide

    152 points • comment • may 29, 2025

  4. A Typical Workday at a Japanese Hardware Tool Store [video]

    151 points • comment • may 10, 2025

  5. MCP explained without hype or fluff

    151 points • comment • may 22, 2025

  6. Pathfinding

    150 points • comment • may 15, 2025

  7. Positional preferences, order effects, prompt sensitivity undermine AI judgments

    150 points • comment • may 23, 2025

  8. How three years at McKinsey shaped my second startup

    150 points • comment • may 04, 2025

  9. LiveStore: State management based on reactive SQLite and built-in sync engine

    149 points • comment • may 27, 2025

  10. Sketchy Calendar

    149 points • comment • may 22, 2025

  11. The future of solar doesn't track the sun

    149 points • comment • may 01, 2025

  12. Náhuatl and Mayan Language Renaissance Occurring in Mexico

    149 points • comment • may 13, 2025

  13. Fan Service

    148 points • comment • may 11, 2025

  14. Show HN: Bracket – selfhosted tournament system

    148 points • comment • may 05, 2025

  15. EasyTier – P2P mesh VPN written in Rust using Tokio

    148 points • comment • may 29, 2025

  16. The Lost Japanese ROM of the Macintosh Plus

    148 points • comment • may 17, 2025

  17. What does “Undecidable” mean, anyway

    147 points • comment • may 28, 2025

  18. Wyze pays $255k of tariffs on $167k of floodlights

    147 points • comment • may 01, 2025

  19. Robin: A multi-agent system for automating scientific discovery

    147 points • comment • may 20, 2025

  20. Tariffs in American History

    146 points • comment • may 24, 2025

  21. Mistral Agents API

    146 points • comment • may 27, 2025

  22. Dependency injection frameworks add confusion

    146 points • comment • may 25, 2025

  23. The cult of doing business

    146 points • comment • may 10, 2025

  24. Coding agent in 94 lines of Ruby

    146 points • comment • may 14, 2025

  25. Show HN: Chat with 19 years of HN

    145 points • comment • may 18, 2025

  26. How to cheat at settlers by loading the dice (2017)

    145 points • comment • may 22, 2025

  27. Understanding Memory Management, Part 5: Fighting with Rust

    145 points • comment • may 03, 2025

  28. Show HN: Every problem and solution in Beyond Cracking the Coding Interview

    145 points • comment • may 28, 2025

  29. Show HN: A web browser agent in your Chrome side panel

    145 points • comment • may 18, 2025

  30. 'Strange metals' point to a whole new way to understand electricity

    145 points • comment • may 25, 2025

  31. YOLO-World: Real-Time Open-Vocabulary Object Detection

    144 points • comment • may 31, 2025

  32. Detect and crash Chromium bots

    144 points • comment • may 07, 2025

  33. DumPy: NumPy except it's OK if you're dum

    144 points • comment • may 24, 2025

  34. Ancient law requires a bale of straw to hang from Charing Cross rail bridge

    144 points • comment • may 22, 2025

  35. Roto: A Compiled Scripting Language for Rust

    144 points • comment • may 21, 2025

  36. Starcloud

    144 points • comment • may 13, 2025

  37. Writing N-body gravity simulations code in Python

    144 points • comment • may 10, 2025

  38. Gig Companies Violate Workers Rights

    143 points • comment • may 12, 2025

  39. 'I paid for the whole GPU, I am going to use the whole GPU'

    143 points • comment • may 07, 2025

  40. Heat stress mitigation by trees and shelters at bus stops

    143 points • comment • may 05, 2025

  41. Show HN: ClipJS – Edit your videos from a PC or phone

    143 points • comment • may 21, 2025

  42. Launch HN: Tinfoil (YC X25): Verifiable Privacy for Cloud AI

    143 points • comment • may 15, 2025

  43. Gradients Are the New Intervals

    142 points • comment • may 31, 2025

  44. 15 Years of Shader Minification

    142 points • comment • may 10, 2025

  45. Trust Me, I'm Local: Chrome Extensions, MCP, and the Sandbox Escape

    142 points • comment • may 01, 2025

  46. Unparalleled Misalignments

    142 points • comment • may 05, 2025

  47. Show HN: Blast – Fast, multi-threaded serving engine for web browsing AI agents

    142 points • comment • may 02, 2025

  48. Numerical Linear Algebra Class in Julia TUM

    142 points • comment • may 03, 2025

  49. U.S. nuclear base hidden under Greenland's ice for decades

    141 points • comment • may 14, 2025

  50. What works (and doesn't) selling formal methods

    141 points • comment • may 29, 2025

  51. Semantic search engine for ArXiv, biorxiv and medrxiv

    141 points • comment • may 20, 2025

  52. Cuttlefish 'talk' with their arms, study reveals

    141 points • comment • may 06, 2025

  53. Dimension 126 Contains Twisted Shapes, Mathematicians Prove

    141 points • comment • may 05, 2025

  54. Atomics and Concurrency

    141 points • comment • may 28, 2025

  55. New high-quality hash measures 71GB/s on M4

    140 points • comment • may 14, 2025

  56. I learned Snobol and then wrote a toy Forth

    140 points • comment • may 11, 2025

  57. Show HN: MCP Server SDK in Bash

    140 points • comment • may 30, 2025

  58. Popcorn: Run Elixir in WASM

    140 points • comment • may 15, 2025

  59. I started a little math club in Bangalore

    140 points • comment • may 29, 2025

  60. 'I found your dad': The mystery of a missing climber

    140 points • comment • may 01, 2025

  61. Revisiting the algorithm that changed horse race betting (2023)

    140 points • comment • may 27, 2025

  62. Show HN: Real-Time Gaussian Splatting

    140 points • comment • may 15, 2025

  63. Implementing a Forth

    139 points • comment • may 31, 2025

  64. Show HN: I built a knife steel comparison tool

    139 points • comment • may 17, 2025

  65. The State of SSL Stacks

    139 points • comment • may 07, 2025

  66. Mexican Navy ship crashes into Brooklyn Bridge leaving two people dead

    139 points • comment • may 18, 2025

  67. docker2exe: Convert a Docker image to an executable

    139 points • comment • may 05, 2025

  68. I think it's time to give Nix a chance

    138 points • comment • may 26, 2025

  69. Helmdar: 3D Scanning Brooklyn on Rollerblades

    138 points • comment • may 04, 2025

  70. The DEA is now abandoning body cameras

    138 points • comment • may 06, 2025

  71. The US has approved CRISPR pigs for food

    138 points • comment • may 03, 2025

  72. Show HN: PunchCard Key Backup

    138 points • comment • may 31, 2025

  73. Procolored printer drivers contained malware

    138 points • comment • may 17, 2025

  74. The Academic Pipeline Stall: Why Industry Must Stand for Academia

    138 points • comment • may 12, 2025

  75. ToyDB rewritten: a distributed SQL database in Rust, for education

    137 points • comment • may 11, 2025

  76. A Texan who built an empire of ecstasy

    137 points • comment • may 04, 2025

  77. K-Scale Labs: Open-source humanoid robots, built for developers

    137 points • comment • may 18, 2025

  78. Odin, a pragmatic C alternative with a Go flavour

    137 points • comment • may 09, 2025

  79. Comparison of C/POSIX standard library implementations for Linux

    137 points • comment • may 10, 2025

  80. Telum II at Hot Chips 2024: Mainframe with a Unique Caching Strategy

    137 points • comment • may 19, 2025

  81. The current state of TLA⁺ development

    137 points • comment • may 15, 2025

  82. Sea snail teeth top Kevlar, titanium as strongest material (2015)

    136 points • comment • may 02, 2025

  83. LLMs are more persuasive than incentivized human persuaders

    136 points • comment • may 17, 2025

  84. Data breach exposes 184M passwords, likely captured by malware

    136 points • comment • may 26, 2025

  85. Design and evaluation of a parrot-to-parrot video-calling system (2023)

    135 points • comment • may 06, 2025

  86. A man who visited every country in the world without boarding a plane (2023)

    135 points • comment • may 17, 2025

  87. The value isn't in the code (2022)

    135 points • comment • may 20, 2025

  88. People are losing loved ones to AI-fueled spiritual fantasies

    135 points • comment • may 04, 2025

  89. Remembering Alasdair MacIntyre

    135 points • comment • may 23, 2025

  90. What's working for YC companies since the AI boom

    135 points • comment • may 30, 2025

  91. Getting Older Isn't What You Think

    135 points • comment • may 07, 2025

  92. De Bruijn notation, and why it's useful

    134 points • comment • may 30, 2025

  93. Why are 2025/05/28 and 2025-05-28 different days in JavaScript?

    134 points • comment • may 28, 2025

  94. Discord Unveiled: A Comprehensive Dataset of Public Communication (2015-2024)

    134 points • comment • may 21, 2025

  95. You could just choose optimism

    134 points • comment • may 01, 2025

  96. Apple card disabled my iCloud, App Store, and Apple ID accounts (2021)

    134 points • comment • may 18, 2025

  97. Why are coffee stains darker at the edges?

    134 points • comment • may 11, 2025

  98. Webflow makes GSAP 100% free – plus more updates

    134 points • comment • may 02, 2025

  99. Ex-UK Special Forces break silence on 'war crimes' by colleagues

    134 points • comment • may 12, 2025

  100. Typed Lisp, a Primer

    134 points • comment • may 04, 2025