The Best Hacker News Posts of May 2025

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Claude 4 anthropic.com · meetpateltech · 22 May 2025

2k pts 1.2k comments

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Redis is open source again antirez.com · antirez · 1 May 2025

1.9k pts 789 comments

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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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Plain Vanilla Web plainvanillaweb.com · andrewrn · 11 May 2025

1.5k pts 685 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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CSS Minecraft benjaminaster.com · mudkipdev · 26 May 2025

1.2k pts 140 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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Gemini Diffusion simonwillison.net · mdp2021 · 22 May 2025

890 pts 244 comments

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Have I Been Pwned 2.0 troyhunt.com · LorenDB · 19 May 2025

880 pts 305 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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Design for 3D-Printing blog.rahix.de · q3k · 4 May 2025

837 pts 210 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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What is HDR, anyway? lux.camera · _kush · 14 May 2025

806 pts 342 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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Zod 4 zod.dev · bpierre · 19 May 2025

782 pts 255 comments

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Owls in Towels owlsintowels.org · schaum · 26 May 2025

770 pts 98 comments

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Square Theory aaronson.org · aaaronson · 27 May 2025

750 pts 138 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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The Who Cares Era dansinker.com · NotInOurNames · 28 May 2025

739 pts 721 comments

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Human quarter--mile.com · surprisetalk · 15 May 2025

737 pts 269 comments

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Claude Integrations anthropic.com · bryanh · 1 May 2025

734 pts 257 comments

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The Barbican arslan.io · farslan · 12 May 2025

728 pts 256 comments

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Thoughts on thinking dcurt.is · bradgessler · 16 May 2025

721 pts 438 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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The Death of Daydreaming afterbabel.com · isolli · 5 May 2025

707 pts 265 comments

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Devstral mistral.ai · mfiguiere · 21 May 2025

701 pts 148 comments

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Claude 4 System Card simonwillison.net · pvg · 25 May 2025

700 pts 252 comments

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Internet Artifacts neal.fun · mikerg87 · 13 May 2025

693 pts 140 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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Don't guess my language vitonsky.net · e-topy · 19 May 2025

670 pts 380 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