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May 2025 discussion archive

Browse 132 retained Hacker News discussion records from May 2025, with reading status and captured HN facts shown for every entry.

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  1. Photos taken inside musical instruments30 May 2025 · 1,121 points · 55 commentsPartial reading withheld
  2. The ‘white-collar bloodbath’ is all part of the AI hype machine30 May 2025 · 713 points · 1,240 commentsPartial reading withheld
  3. Human coders are still better than LLMs29 May 2025 · 655 points · 735 commentsPartial reading withheld
  4. WeatherStar 4000+: Weather Channel Simulator29 May 2025 · 716 points · 134 commentsPartial reading withheld
  5. US Trade Court finds Trump tariffs illegal29 May 2025 · 583 points · 508 commentsPartial reading withheld
  6. Show HN: I rewrote my Mac Electron app in Rust28 May 2025 · 597 points · 443 commentsPartial reading withheld
  7. The Who Cares Era28 May 2025 · 739 points · 721 commentsPartial reading withheld
  8. My website is ugly because I made it28 May 2025 · 562 points · 130 commentsPartial reading withheld
  9. Square Theory27 May 2025 · 750 points · 138 commentsPartial reading withheld
  10. DuckLake is an integrated data lake and catalog format27 May 2025 · 276 points · 107 commentsPartial reading withheld
  11. Owls in Towels26 May 2025 · 770 points · 98 commentsPartial reading withheld
  12. CSS Minecraft26 May 2025 · 1,220 points · 140 commentsPartial reading withheld
  13. Hacker News now runs on top of Common Lisp26 May 2025 · 663 points · 435 commentsPartial reading withheld
  14. German court sends VW execs to prison over Dieselgate scandal26 May 2025 · 798 points · 316 commentsPartial reading withheld
  15. Sleep apnea pill shows striking success in large clinical trial26 May 2025 · 279 points · 219 commentsPartial reading withheld
  16. Chomsky on what ChatGPT is good for (2023)25 May 2025 · 286 points · 359 commentsPartial reading withheld
  17. At Amazon, some coders say their jobs have begun to resemble warehouse work25 May 2025 · 580 points · 867 commentsPartial reading withheld
  18. Claude 4 System Card25 May 2025 · 700 points · 252 commentsPartial reading withheld
  19. Reinvent the Wheel24 May 2025 · 612 points · 221 commentsPartial reading withheld
  20. I used o3 to find a remote zeroday in the Linux SMB implementation24 May 2025 · 658 points · 223 commentsPartial reading withheld
  21. Find Your People23 May 2025 · 806 points · 283 commentsPartial reading withheld
  22. Postgres IDE in VS Code23 May 2025 · 1,040 points · 407 commentsPartial reading withheld
  23. Ask HN: What projects do you donate to?23 May 2025 · 279 points · 289 commentsPartial reading withheld
  24. Trump administration halts Harvard's ability to enroll international students22 May 2025 · 922 points · 1,039 commentsPartial reading withheld
  25. Claude 422 May 2025 · 2,013 points · 1,170 commentsPartial reading withheld
  26. Mozilla to shut down Pocket and Fakespot22 May 2025 · 1,222 points · 761 commentsPartial reading withheld
  27. That fractal that's been up on my wall for years22 May 2025 · 571 points · 40 commentsPartial reading withheld
  28. Why does Debian change software?22 May 2025 · 279 points · 205 commentsPartial reading withheld
  29. The scientific “unit” we call the decibel22 May 2025 · 644 points · 491 commentsPartial reading withheld
  30. Gemini Diffusion22 May 2025 · 890 points · 244 commentsPartial reading withheld
  31. Display any CSV file as a searchable, filterable, pretty HTML table22 May 2025 · 268 points · 69 commentsPartial reading withheld
  32. LLM function calls don't scale; code orchestration is simpler, more effective21 May 2025 · 282 points · 101 commentsPartial reading withheld
  33. Collaborative Text Editing Without CRDTs or OT21 May 2025 · 284 points · 79 commentsPartial reading withheld
  34. OpenAI to buy AI startup from Jony Ive21 May 2025 · 818 points · 1,126 commentsPartial reading withheld
  35. By default, Signal doesn't recall21 May 2025 · 584 points · 485 commentsPartial reading withheld
  36. Animated Factorization (2012)21 May 2025 · 284 points · 63 commentsPartial reading withheld
  37. Devstral21 May 2025 · 701 points · 148 commentsPartial reading withheld
  38. Watching AI drive Microsoft employees insane21 May 2025 · 1,088 points · 552 commentsPartial reading withheld
  39. “ZLinq”, a Zero-Allocation LINQ Library for .NET20 May 2025 · 269 points · 88 commentsPartial reading withheld
  40. Veo 3 and Imagen 4, and a new tool for filmmaking called Flow20 May 2025 · 832 points · 532 commentsPartial reading withheld
  41. Making video games (without an engine) in 202520 May 2025 · 573 points · 246 commentsPartial reading withheld
  42. What are people doing? Live-ish estimates based on global population dynamics20 May 2025 · 284 points · 103 commentsPartial reading withheld
  43. DDoSecrets publishes 410 GB of heap dumps, hacked from TeleMessage20 May 2025 · 666 points · 188 commentsPartial reading withheld
  44. Have I Been Pwned 2.019 May 2025 · 880 points · 305 commentsPartial reading withheld
  45. Edit is now open source19 May 2025 · 271 points · 185 commentsPartial reading withheld
  46. GitHub Copilot Coding Agent19 May 2025 · 564 points · 357 commentsPartial reading withheld
  47. The Windows Subsystem for Linux is now open source19 May 2025 · 1,613 points · 1,194 commentsPartial reading withheld
  48. Zod 419 May 2025 · 782 points · 255 commentsPartial reading withheld
  49. Don't guess my language19 May 2025 · 670 points · 380 commentsPartial reading withheld
  50. France Endorses UN Open Source Principles18 May 2025 · 617 points · 215 commentsPartial reading withheld
  51. Spaced repetition memory system (2024)18 May 2025 · 279 points · 43 commentsPartial reading withheld
  52. Spaced repetition systems have gotten better18 May 2025 · 1,026 points · 512 commentsPartial reading withheld
  53. Push Ifs Up and Fors Down17 May 2025 · 569 points · 197 commentsPartial reading withheld
  54. Show HN: KVSplit – Run 2-3x longer contexts on Apple Silicon16 May 2025 · 272 points · 40 commentsPartial reading withheld
  55. Thoughts on thinking16 May 2025 · 721 points · 438 commentsPartial reading withheld
  56. Sci-Net16 May 2025 · 276 points · 120 commentsPartial reading withheld
  57. The first year of free-threaded Python16 May 2025 · 291 points · 290 commentsPartial reading withheld
  58. Run GitHub Actions locally16 May 2025 · 273 points · 133 commentsPartial reading withheld
  59. In Memoriam: John L. Young, Cryptome Co-Founder15 May 2025 · 271 points · 33 commentsPartial reading withheld
  60. Baby is healed with first personalized gene-editing treatment15 May 2025 · 1,257 points · 531 commentsPartial reading withheld
  61. Human15 May 2025 · 737 points · 269 commentsPartial reading withheld
  62. Grok answers unrelated queries with long paragraphs about "white genocide"14 May 2025 · 273 points · 113 commentsPartial reading withheld
  63. Coding without a laptop: Two weeks with AR glasses and Linux on Android14 May 2025 · 1,016 points · 386 commentsPartial reading withheld
  64. AlphaEvolve: A Gemini-powered coding agent for designing advanced algorithms14 May 2025 · 1,036 points · 270 commentsPartial reading withheld
  65. What is HDR, anyway?14 May 2025 · 806 points · 342 commentsPartial reading withheld
  66. The cryptography behind passkeys14 May 2025 · 276 points · 263 commentsPartial reading withheld
  67. I failed a take-home assignment from Kagi Search14 May 2025 · 289 points · 363 commentsPartial reading withheld
  68. Why are banks still getting authentication so wrong?13 May 2025 · 287 points · 371 commentsPartial reading withheld
  69. Internet Artifacts13 May 2025 · 693 points · 140 commentsPartial reading withheld
  70. The world could run on older hardware if software optimization was a priority13 May 2025 · 848 points · 814 commentsPartial reading withheld
  71. Nextcloud cries foul over Google Play Store app rejection13 May 2025 · 280 points · 230 commentsPartial reading withheld
  72. Ask HN: How are you acquiring your first hundred users?13 May 2025 · 573 points · 354 commentsPartial reading withheld
  73. Mozilla Firefox – Official GitHub repo13 May 2025 · 855 points · 466 commentsPartial reading withheld
  74. I hacked a dating app (and how not to treat a security researcher)12 May 2025 · 570 points · 311 commentsPartial reading withheld
  75. The Barbican12 May 2025 · 728 points · 256 commentsPartial reading withheld
  76. University of Texas-led team solves a big problem for fusion energy12 May 2025 · 287 points · 207 commentsPartial reading withheld
  77. Plain Vanilla Web11 May 2025 · 1,519 points · 685 commentsPartial reading withheld
  78. In 2025, venture capital can't pretend everything is fine any more11 May 2025 · 282 points · 260 commentsPartial reading withheld
  79. Build iOS Apps on Linux and Windows11 May 2025 · 269 points · 54 commentsPartial reading withheld
  80. Leaving Google11 May 2025 · 565 points · 382 commentsPartial reading withheld
  81. A critical look at MCP10 May 2025 · 623 points · 336 commentsPartial reading withheld
  82. Ash Framework – Model your domain, derive the rest10 May 2025 · 277 points · 121 commentsPartial reading withheld
  83. The Deathbed Fallacy (2018)10 May 2025 · 282 points · 148 commentsPartial reading withheld
  84. Business books are entertainment, not strategic tools09 May 2025 · 593 points · 255 commentsPartial reading withheld
  85. ALICE detects the conversion of lead into gold at the LHC09 May 2025 · 637 points · 300 commentsPartial reading withheld
  86. Itter.sh – Micro-Blogging via Terminal09 May 2025 · 289 points · 73 commentsPartial reading withheld
  87. NSF faces shake-up as officials abolish its 37 divisions09 May 2025 · 570 points · 767 commentsPartial reading withheld
  88. Open Hardware Ethernet Switch project, part 109 May 2025 · 275 points · 36 commentsPartial reading withheld
  89. LegoGPT: Generating Physically Stable and Buildable Lego09 May 2025 · 596 points · 136 commentsPartial reading withheld
  90. From: Steve Jobs. "Great idea, thank you."08 May 2025 · 1,209 points · 292 commentsPartial reading withheld
  91. Void: Open-source Cursor alternative08 May 2025 · 948 points · 343 commentsPartial reading withheld
  92. First American pope elected and will be known as Pope Leo XIV08 May 2025 · 606 points · 1,040 commentsPartial reading withheld
  93. My new deadline: 20 years to give away virtually all my wealth08 May 2025 · 678 points · 656 commentsPartial reading withheld
  94. Google to back three new nuclear projects08 May 2025 · 291 points · 356 commentsPartial reading withheld
  95. Web search on the Anthropic API07 May 2025 · 272 points · 63 commentsPartial reading withheld
  96. Ty: A fast Python type checker and language server07 May 2025 · 916 points · 287 commentsPartial reading withheld
  97. Waiting for Postgres 18: Accelerating Disk Reads with Asynchronous I/O07 May 2025 · 572 points · 154 commentsPartial reading withheld
  98. CLion Is Now Free for Non-Commercial Use07 May 2025 · 624 points · 388 commentsPartial reading withheld
  99. Lazarus Release 4.007 May 2025 · 276 points · 165 commentsPartial reading withheld
  100. Zed: High-performance AI Code Editor07 May 2025 · 747 points · 422 commentsPartial reading withheld
  101. Four years of running a SaaS in a competitive market06 May 2025 · 269 points · 90 commentsPartial reading withheld
  102. Claude's system prompt is over 24k tokens with tools06 May 2025 · 627 points · 334 commentsPartial reading withheld
  103. Matt Godbolt sold me on Rust by showing me C++06 May 2025 · 611 points · 658 commentsPartial reading withheld
  104. Gemini 2.5 Pro Preview06 May 2025 · 708 points · 686 commentsPartial reading withheld
  105. Show HN: Clippy – 90s UI for local LLMs06 May 2025 · 1,122 points · 275 commentsPartial reading withheld
  106. Nnd – a TUI debugger alternative to GDB, LLDB06 May 2025 · 278 points · 83 commentsPartial reading withheld
  107. NSA spied through Angry Birds, other apps: report (2014)06 May 2025 · 278 points · 155 commentsPartial reading withheld
  108. The curse of knowing how, or; fixing everything06 May 2025 · 1,197 points · 441 commentsPartial reading withheld
  109. OpenAI reaches agreement to buy Windsurf for $3B06 May 2025 · 667 points · 572 commentsPartial reading withheld
  110. Evolving OpenAI's Structure05 May 2025 · 602 points · 676 commentsPartial reading withheld
  111. Show HN: VectorVFS, your filesystem as a vector database05 May 2025 · 279 points · 138 commentsPartial reading withheld
  112. The Death of Daydreaming05 May 2025 · 707 points · 265 commentsPartial reading withheld
  113. AI Meets WinDBG05 May 2025 · 290 points · 60 commentsPartial reading withheld
  114. I'd rather read the prompt04 May 2025 · 1,444 points · 839 commentsPartial reading withheld
  115. Design for 3D-Printing04 May 2025 · 837 points · 210 commentsPartial reading withheld
  116. I decided to pay off a school’s lunch debt04 May 2025 · 589 points · 867 commentsPartial reading withheld
  117. Show HN: Free, in-browser PDF editor03 May 2025 · 791 points · 182 commentsPartial reading withheld
  118. Run LLMs on Apple Neural Engine (ANE)03 May 2025 · 286 points · 123 commentsPartial reading withheld
  119. Accountability Sinks03 May 2025 · 623 points · 392 commentsPartial reading withheld
  120. Technical analysis of the Signal clone used by Trump officials02 May 2025 · 807 points · 339 commentsPartial reading withheld
  121. How to live an intellectually rich life02 May 2025 · 592 points · 323 commentsPartial reading withheld
  122. Just redesigned my personal site with a TTY-style interface02 May 2025 · 271 points · 120 commentsPartial reading withheld
  123. Don't watermark your legal PDFs with purple dragons in suits02 May 2025 · 282 points · 282 commentsPartial reading withheld
  124. The Gang Has a Mid-Life Crisis01 May 2025 · 285 points · 282 commentsPartial reading withheld
  125. Claude Integrations01 May 2025 · 734 points · 257 commentsPartial reading withheld
  126. Redis is open source again01 May 2025 · 1,896 points · 789 commentsPartial reading withheld
  127. Starting July 1, academic publishers can't paywall NIH-funded research01 May 2025 · 646 points · 108 commentsPartial reading withheld
  128. Judge rules Apple executive lied under oath, makes criminal contempt referral01 May 2025 · 1,036 points · 360 commentsPartial reading withheld
  129. Running Qwen3 on your macbook, using MLX, to vibe code for free01 May 2025 · 286 points · 163 commentsPartial reading withheld
  130. When ChatGPT broke the field of NLP: An oral history01 May 2025 · 278 points · 173 commentsPartial reading withheld
  131. Office is too slow, so Microsoft is making it load at Windows startup01 May 2025 · 807 points · 1,020 commentsPartial reading withheld
  132. Apple violated antitrust ruling, judge finds01 May 2025 · 1,165 points · 602 commentsPartial reading withheld