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  1. Claude 4 (anthropic.com)
    ×8.03 31 | 1998 points by meetpateltech 5 days ago | 1161 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Mozilla to shut down Pocket and Fakespot (mozilla.org)
    ×5.84 52 | 1201 points by phantomathkg 5 days ago | 749 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. CSS Minecraft (benjaminaster.com)
    ×4.83 16 #39 | 1112 points by mudkipdev 1 day ago | 129 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Postgres IDE in VS Code (microsoft.com)
    ×3.98 44 | 1025 points by Dowwie 4 days ago | 389 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Trump administration halts Harvard's ability to enroll international students (nytimes.com)
    ×11.44 60 | 906 points by S0y 5 days ago | 1026 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Gemini Diffusion (simonwillison.net)
    ×3.75 70 | 887 points by mdp2021 6 days ago | 243 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. OpenAI to buy AI startup from Jony Ive (bloomberg.com)
    ×3.92 74 | 818 points by minimaxir 6 days ago | 1122 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Find Your People (posthaven.com)
    ×3.64 51 | 781 points by jl 4 days ago | 278 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. German court sends VW execs to prison over Dieselgate scandal (politico.eu)
    ×6.73 43 | 744 points by Tomte 1 day ago | 297 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Devstral (mistral.ai)
    ×3.98 82 | 699 points by mfiguiere 6 days ago | 148 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Owls in Towels (owlsintowels.org)
    ×5.85 23 #65 | 693 points by schaum 1 day ago | 91 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Claude 4 System Card (simonwillison.net)
    ×3.26 19 | 687 points by pvg 2 days ago | 249 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. I used o3 to find a remote zeroday in the Linux SMB implementation (heelan.io)
    ×3.60 40 | 648 points by zielmicha 3 days ago | 218 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. The scientific “unit” we call the decibel (lcamtuf.substack.com)
    ×3.46 79 | 641 points by Ariarule 6 days ago | 491 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Hacker News now runs on top of Common Lisp (lisp-journey.gitlab.io)
    ×4.70 18 #71 | 627 points by Tomte 1 day ago | 413 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Reinvent the Wheel (endler.dev)
    ×2.75 36 | 599 points by zdw 3 days ago | 219 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. By default, Signal doesn't recall (signal.org)
    ×4.82 88 | 583 points by feross 6 days ago | 482 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. That fractal that's been up on my wall for years (chriskw.xyz)
    ×2.46 78 | 564 points by chriskw 5 days ago | 38 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. At Amazon, some coders say their jobs have begun to resemble warehouse work (nytimes.com)
    ×4.43 22 | 557 points by milkshakes 2 days ago | 830 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. John Carmack talk at Upper Bound 2025 (twitter.com/ID_AA_Carmack)
    ×2.71 71 | 548 points by tosh 4 days ago | 358 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Open Source Society University – Path to a free self-taught education in CS (github.com/ossu)
    ×2.70 18 | 514 points by saikatsg 2 days ago | 157 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. How to live on $432 a month in America (shagbark.substack.com)
    ×4.83 64 | 512 points by cactusplant7374 4 days ago | 728 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Square Theory (aaronson.org)
    ×2.69 2 #4 | 492 points by aaaronson 13 hours ago | 100 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. GitHub MCP exploited: Accessing private repositories via MCP (invariantlabs.ai)
    ×2.69 9 #27 | 465 points by andy99 1 day ago | 286 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Google shared my phone number (danq.me)
    ×3.83 4 | 462 points by luu 1 day ago | 167 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Denmark to raise retirement age to 70 (telegraph.co.uk)
    ×5.45 24 | 458 points by wslh 2 days ago | 1212 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Trying to teach in the age of the AI homework machine (solarshades.club)
    ×2.87 4 #63 | 443 points by notarobot123 1 day ago | 613 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Root for your friends (josephthacker.com)
    ×3.08 67 | 432 points by rez0123 4 days ago | 164 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Duolingo CEO tries to walk back AI-first comments, fails (htxt.co.za)
    ×4.96 30 | 431 points by Improvement 1 day ago | 300 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Scientific conferences are leaving the US amid border fears (nature.com)
    ×6.52 49 | 419 points by mdhb 3 days ago | 405 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Show HN: Defuddle, an HTML-to-Markdown alternative to Readability (github.com/kepano)
    ×2.00 83 | 410 points by kepano 5 days ago | 68 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Why I no longer have an old-school cert on my HTTPS site (rachelbythebay.com)
    ×2.96 76 | 406 points by mcbain 4 days ago | 417 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. A new class of materials that can passively harvest water from air (upenn.edu)
    ×1.70 6 #82 | 389 points by Tycho 1 day ago | 191 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. How a hawk learned to use traffic signals to hunt more successfully (frontiersin.org)
    ×2.14 6 #11 | 364 points by layer8 17 hours ago | 104 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Planetfall (wordpress.com)
    ×2.13 94 | 351 points by milliams 5 days ago | 106 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Lottie is an open format for animated vector graphics (lottie.github.io)
    ×1.71 34 | 346 points by marcodiego 2 days ago | 173 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. TIL: timeout in Bash scripts (heitorpb.github.io)
    ×2.32 2 | 340 points by lr0 1 day ago | 92 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. For algorithms, a little memory outweighs a lot of time (quantamagazine.org)
    ×1.72 109 | 340 points by makira 6 days ago | 137 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Lossless video compression using Bloom filters (github.com/ross39)
    ×1.56 1 #72 | 336 points by rh3939 1 day ago | 112 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Show HN: Rotary Phone Dial Linux Kernel Driver (gitlab.com)
    ×1.64 63 | 335 points by sephalon 3 days ago | 49 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Show HN: Lazy Tetris (lazytetris.com)
    ×2.11 15 #31 | 326 points by admtal 1 day ago | 131 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Ask HN: What are you working on? (May 2025)
    ×1.51 42 #78 | 326 points by david927 2 days ago | 1001 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. The Myth of Developer Obsolescence (alonso.network)
    ×3.06 25 #46 | 316 points by cat-whisperer 18 hours ago | 336 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Ask HN: Anyone struggling to get value out of coding LLMs?
    ×4.55 9 | 313 points by bjackman 1 day ago | 267 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Lieferando.de has captured 5.7% of restaurant related domain names (mondaybits.com)
    ×4.28 10 | 309 points by __natty__ 1 day ago | 191 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Good Writing (paulgraham.com)
    ×2.12 65 | 306 points by oli5679 3 days ago | 309 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. The copilot delusion (deplet.ing)
    ×7.39 90 | 303 points by isaiahwp 5 days ago | 196 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. The Future of Flatpak (lwn.net)
    ×2.38 91 | 303 points by dxs 5 days ago | 263 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. GitHub issues is almost the best notebook in the world (simonwillison.net)
    ×3.54 14 | 302 points by ingve 1 day ago | 186 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Improving performance of rav1d video decoder (ohadravid.github.io)
    ×1.37 101 | 301 points by todsacerdoti 5 days ago | 114 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Why old games never die, but new ones do (wordpress.com)
    ×2.29 62 | 294 points by airhangerf15 3 days ago | 320 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. You’re a little company, now act like one (2009) (asmartbear.com)
    ×2.97 69 | 294 points by tosh 3 days ago | 63 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Does Earth have two high-tide bulges on opposite sides? (2014) (stackexchange.com)
    ×1.76 97 | 293 points by imurray 5 days ago | 90 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Highlights from the Claude 4 system prompt (simonwillison.net)
    ×2.27 18 #86 | 292 points by Anon84 1 day ago | 83 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Why Algebraic Effects? (antelang.org)
    ×1.53 75 | 292 points by jiggawatts 4 days ago | 199 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. I Built My Own Audio Player (nexo.sh)
    ×1.97 102 | 290 points by nexo-v1 5 days ago | 189 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Show HN: PgDog – Shard Postgres without extensions (github.com/pgdogdev)
    ×1.44 35 #45 | 283 points by levkk 1 day ago | 78 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Collaborative Text Editing Without CRDTs or OT (mattweidner.com)
    ×1.73 116 | 283 points by samwillis 6 days ago | 79 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Animated Factorization (2012) (datapointed.net)
    ×1.44 118 | 283 points by miniBill 6 days ago | 63 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. LLM function calls don't scale; code orchestration is simpler, more effective (bearblog.dev)
    ×2.07 117 | 281 points by jngiam1 6 days ago | 101 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Pyrefly vs. Ty: Comparing Python's two new Rust-based type checkers (edward-li.com)
    ×2.10 4 #10 | 278 points by edwardjxli 13 hours ago | 112 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Why does Debian change software? (liw.fi)
    ×2.80 110 | 278 points by tapanjk 5 days ago | 205 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Chomsky on what ChatGPT is good for (2023) (chomsky.info)
    ×2.95 43 | 277 points by mef 2 days ago | 352 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Show HN: My LLM CLI tool can run tools now, from Python code or plugins (simonwillison.net)
    ×2.05 #2 | 275 points by simonw 7 hours ago | 101 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. BGP handling bug causes widespread internet routing instability (benjojo.co.uk)
    ×2.03 3 #21 | 273 points by robin_reala 17 hours ago | 126 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Display any CSV file as a searchable, filterable, pretty HTML table (github.com/derekeder)
    ×1.70 114 | 267 points by indigodaddy 6 days ago | 67 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Ask HN: What projects do you donate to?
    ×1.84 #64 | 265 points by xeonmc 1 day ago | 273 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Fast Allocations in Ruby 3.5 (railsatscale.com)
    ×1.36 108 | 264 points by tekknolagi 5 days ago | 67 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Sleep apnea pill shows striking success in large clinical trial (science.org)
    ×3.29 15 | 261 points by pseudolus 1 day ago | 207 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Tachy0n: The Last 0day Jailbreak (siguza.net)
    ×1.69 68 | 261 points by todsacerdoti 3 days ago | 41 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Cloudflare CEO: Football piracy blocks will claim lives (torrentfreak.com)
    ×3.69 4 | 255 points by reynaldi 1 day ago | 240 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. You can choose tools that make you happy (borretti.me)
    ×3.27 35 | 253 points by zdw 5 days ago | 82 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. MCP is the coming of Web 2.0 2.0 (anildash.com)
    ×2.87 89 | 250 points by freediver 4 days ago | 191 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Claude 4 and GitHub MCP will leak your private GitHub repositories (twitter.com/lbeurerkellner)
    ×3.75 6 | 246 points by amrrs 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Ten years of JSON Web Token and preparing for the future (self-issued.info)
    ×1.24 39 | 237 points by mooreds 2 days ago | 145 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. I salvaged $6k of luxury items discarded by Duke students (indyweek.com)
    ×4.31 23 #38 | 234 points by drvladb 12 hours ago | 271 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. The Xenon Death Flash: How a Camera Nearly Killed the Raspberry Pi 2 (magnus919.com)
    ×1.39 77 | 232 points by DamonHD 3 days ago | 85 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Power Failure: The downfall of General Electric (gwintrob.com)
    ×1.56 27 #50 | 230 points by gwintrob 1 day ago | 150 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. TSMC bets on unorthodox optical tech (ieee.org)
    ×1.45 44 #49 | 230 points by Rohitcss 1 day ago | 96 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Modification of acetaminophen to reduce liver toxicity and enhance drug efficacy (societyforscience.org)
    ×2.48 85 | 228 points by felineflock 4 days ago | 146 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Jjui – A Nice TUI for Jujutsu (github.com/idursun)
    ×1.57 37 #87 | 225 points by Curiositry 2 days ago | 51 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. DuckLake is an integrated data lake and catalog format (ducklake.select)
    ×2.41 16 #36 | 224 points by kermatt 15 hours ago | 87 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. LumoSQL (lumosql.org)
    ×1.16 16 #22 | 221 points by smartmic 18 hours ago | 79 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Plwm – An X11 window manager written in Prolog (github.com/Seeker04)
    ×1.26 50 | 221 points by jedeusus 2 days ago | 69 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Google is burying the web alive (nymag.com)
    ×4.71 13 | 219 points by doener 1 day ago | 188 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Getting a paper accepted (maxwellforbes.com)
    ×1.60 121 | 219 points by stefanpie 6 days ago | 126 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Bagel: Open-source unified multimodal model (bagel-ai.org)
    ×1.76 28 | 217 points by tosh 1 day ago | 33 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. We’ll be ending web hosting for your apps on Glitch (glitch.com)
    ×2.12 113 | 211 points by js4ever 5 days ago | 137 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Remote Prompt Injection in Gitlab Duo Leads to Source Code Theft (legitsecurity.com)
    ×1.55 51 #85 | 209 points by chillax 2 days ago | 53 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Design Pressure: The Invisible Hand That Shapes Your Code (hynek.me)
    ×1.39 56 | 208 points by NeutralForest 2 days ago | 67 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???