The Best Hacker News Posts of May 2025
We track 1,117 stories from May 2025, averaging 265 points each. github.com was the most linked source, with 115 stories. Together they drew 175,258 comments, 157 per story on average.
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The Windows Subsystem for Linux is now open source
blogs.windows.com · pentagrama · 19 May 2025
1.6k pts
1.2k comments
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I'd rather read the prompt
claytonwramsey.com · claytonwramsey · 4 May 2025
1.4k pts
839 comments
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Baby is healed with first personalized gene-editing treatment
nytimes.com · jbredeche · 15 May 2025
1.3k pts
531 comments
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Mozilla to shut down Pocket and Fakespot
support.mozilla.org · phantomathkg · 22 May 2025
1.2k pts
761 comments
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From: Steve Jobs. "Great idea, thank you."
blog.hayman.net · mattl · 8 May 2025
1.2k pts
292 comments
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The curse of knowing how, or; fixing everything
notashelf.dev · Lunar5227 · 6 May 2025
1.2k pts
441 comments
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Apple violated antitrust ruling, judge finds
wsj.com · shayneo · 1 May 2025
1.2k pts
602 comments
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Show HN: Clippy – 90s UI for local LLMs
felixrieseberg.github.io · felixrieseberg · 6 May 2025
1.1k pts
275 comments
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Photos taken inside musical instruments
dpreview.com · worik · 30 May 2025
1.1k pts
55 comments
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Watching AI drive Microsoft employees insane
old.reddit.com · laiysb · 21 May 2025
1.1k pts
552 comments
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Postgres IDE in VS Code
techcommunity.microsoft.com · Dowwie · 23 May 2025
1k pts
407 comments
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Judge rules Apple executive lied under oath, makes criminal contempt referral
thebignewsletter.com · connor11528 · 1 May 2025
1k pts
360 comments
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AlphaEvolve: A Gemini-powered coding agent for designing advanced algorithms
deepmind.google · Fysi · 14 May 2025
1k pts
270 comments
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Spaced repetition systems have gotten better
domenic.me · domenicd · 18 May 2025
1k pts
512 comments
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Coding without a laptop: Two weeks with AR glasses and Linux on Android
holdtherobot.com · mikenew · 14 May 2025
1k pts
386 comments
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Void: Open-source Cursor alternative
github.com · sharjeelsayed · 8 May 2025
948 pts
343 comments
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Trump administration halts Harvard's ability to enroll international students
nytimes.com · S0y · 22 May 2025
922 pts
1k comments
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Ty: A fast Python type checker and language server
github.com · arathore · 7 May 2025
916 pts
287 comments
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Mozilla Firefox – Official GitHub repo
github.com · thefilmore · 13 May 2025
855 pts
466 comments
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The world could run on older hardware if software optimization was a priority
twitter.com · turrini · 13 May 2025
848 pts
814 comments
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Veo 3 and Imagen 4, and a new tool for filmmaking called Flow
blog.google · youssefarizk · 20 May 2025
832 pts
532 comments
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OpenAI to buy AI startup from Jony Ive
bloomberg.com · minimaxir · 21 May 2025
818 pts
1.1k comments
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Office is too slow, so Microsoft is making it load at Windows startup
pcworld.com · airstrike · 1 May 2025
807 pts
1k comments
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Technical analysis of the Signal clone used by Trump officials
micahflee.com · micahflee · 2 May 2025
807 pts
339 comments
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Find Your People
foundersatwork.posthaven.com · jl · 23 May 2025
806 pts
283 comments
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German court sends VW execs to prison over Dieselgate scandal
politico.eu · Tomte · 26 May 2025
798 pts
316 comments
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Show HN: Free, in-browser PDF editor
breezepdf.com · philjohnson · 3 May 2025
791 pts
182 comments
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Zed: High-performance AI Code Editor
zed.dev · vquemener · 7 May 2025
747 pts
422 comments
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WeatherStar 4000+: Weather Channel Simulator
weatherstar.netbymatt.com · adam_gyroscope · 29 May 2025
716 pts
134 comments
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The ‘white-collar bloodbath’ is all part of the AI hype machine
cnn.com · lwo32k · 30 May 2025
713 pts
1.2k comments
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Gemini 2.5 Pro Preview
developers.googleblog.com · meetpateltech · 6 May 2025
708 pts
686 comments
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My new deadline: 20 years to give away virtually all my wealth
gatesnotes.com · nrvn · 8 May 2025
678 pts
656 comments
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OpenAI reaches agreement to buy Windsurf for $3B
bloomberg.com · swyx · 6 May 2025
667 pts
572 comments
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DDoSecrets publishes 410 GB of heap dumps, hacked from TeleMessage
micahflee.com · micahflee · 20 May 2025
666 pts
188 comments
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Hacker News now runs on top of Common Lisp
lisp-journey.gitlab.io · Tomte · 26 May 2025
663 pts
435 comments
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I used o3 to find a remote zeroday in the Linux SMB implementation
sean.heelan.io · zielmicha · 24 May 2025
658 pts
223 comments
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Human coders are still better than LLMs
antirez.com · longwave · 29 May 2025
655 pts
735 comments
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Starting July 1, academic publishers can't paywall NIH-funded research
nih.gov · m463 · 1 May 2025
646 pts
108 comments
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The scientific “unit” we call the decibel
lcamtuf.substack.com · Ariarule · 22 May 2025
644 pts
491 comments
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