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Top of Month - May 2025

1. Claude 4
   (22 May 2025 | 2013 points | Comments)

2. Redis is open source again
   (1 May 2025 | 1896 points | Comments)

3. The Windows Subsystem for Linux is now open source
   (19 May 2025 | 1613 points | Comments)

4. Plain Vanilla Web
   (11 May 2025 | 1519 points | Comments)

5. I'd rather read the prompt
   (4 May 2025 | 1444 points | Comments)

6. Baby is healed with first personalized gene-editing treatment
   (15 May 2025 | 1257 points | Comments)

7. Mozilla to shut down Pocket and Fakespot
   (22 May 2025 | 1222 points | Comments)

8. CSS Minecraft
   (26 May 2025 | 1220 points | Comments)

9. From: Steve Jobs. "Great idea, thank you."
   (8 May 2025 | 1209 points | Comments)

10. The curse of knowing how, or; fixing everything
    (6 May 2025 | 1197 points | Comments)

11. Apple violated antitrust ruling, judge finds
    (1 May 2025 | 1165 points | Comments)

12. Show HN: Clippy – 90s UI for local LLMs
    (6 May 2025 | 1122 points | Comments)

13. Photos taken inside musical instruments
    (30 May 2025 | 1121 points | Comments)

14. Watching AI drive Microsoft employees insane
    (21 May 2025 | 1088 points | Comments)

15. Postgres IDE in VS Code
    (23 May 2025 | 1040 points | Comments)

16. Judge rules Apple executive lied under oath, makes criminal contempt referral
    (1 May 2025 | 1036 points | Comments)

17. AlphaEvolve: A Gemini-powered coding agent for designing advanced algorithms
    (14 May 2025 | 1036 points | Comments)

18. Spaced repetition systems have gotten better
    (18 May 2025 | 1026 points | Comments)

19. Coding without a laptop: Two weeks with AR glasses and Linux on Android
    (14 May 2025 | 1016 points | Comments)

20. Void: Open-source Cursor alternative
    (8 May 2025 | 948 points | Comments)

21. Trump administration halts Harvard's ability to enroll international students
    (22 May 2025 | 922 points | Comments)

22. Ty: A fast Python type checker and language server
    (7 May 2025 | 916 points | Comments)

23. Gemini Diffusion
    (22 May 2025 | 890 points | Comments)

24. Have I Been Pwned 2.0
    (19 May 2025 | 880 points | Comments)

25. Mozilla Firefox – Official GitHub repo
    (13 May 2025 | 855 points | Comments)

26. The world could run on older hardware if software optimization was a priority
    (13 May 2025 | 848 points | Comments)

27. Design for 3D-Printing
    (4 May 2025 | 837 points | Comments)

28. Veo 3 and Imagen 4, and a new tool for filmmaking called Flow
    (20 May 2025 | 832 points | Comments)

29. OpenAI to buy AI startup from Jony Ive
    (21 May 2025 | 818 points | Comments)

30. Office is too slow, so Microsoft is making it load at Windows startup
    (1 May 2025 | 807 points | Comments)

31. Technical analysis of the Signal clone used by Trump officials
    (2 May 2025 | 807 points | Comments)

32. What is HDR, anyway?
    (14 May 2025 | 806 points | Comments)

33. Find Your People
    (23 May 2025 | 806 points | Comments)

34. German court sends VW execs to prison over Dieselgate scandal
    (26 May 2025 | 798 points | Comments)

35. Show HN: Free, in-browser PDF editor
    (3 May 2025 | 791 points | Comments)

36. Zod 4
    (19 May 2025 | 782 points | Comments)

37. Owls in Towels
    (26 May 2025 | 770 points | Comments)

38. Square Theory
    (27 May 2025 | 750 points | Comments)

39. Zed: High-performance AI Code Editor
    (7 May 2025 | 747 points | Comments)

40. The Who Cares Era
    (28 May 2025 | 739 points | Comments)

41. Human
    (15 May 2025 | 737 points | Comments)

42. Claude Integrations
    (1 May 2025 | 734 points | Comments)

43. The Barbican
    (12 May 2025 | 728 points | Comments)

44. Thoughts on thinking
    (16 May 2025 | 721 points | Comments)

45. WeatherStar 4000+: Weather Channel Simulator
    (29 May 2025 | 716 points | Comments)

46. The ‘white-collar bloodbath’ is all part of the AI hype machine
    (30 May 2025 | 713 points | Comments)

47. Gemini 2.5 Pro Preview
    (6 May 2025 | 708 points | Comments)

48. The Death of Daydreaming
    (5 May 2025 | 707 points | Comments)

49. Devstral
    (21 May 2025 | 701 points | Comments)

50. Claude 4 System Card
    (25 May 2025 | 700 points | Comments)

51. Internet Artifacts
    (13 May 2025 | 693 points | Comments)

52. My new deadline: 20 years to give away virtually all my wealth
    (8 May 2025 | 678 points | Comments)

53. Don't guess my language
    (19 May 2025 | 670 points | Comments)

54. OpenAI reaches agreement to buy Windsurf for $3B
    (6 May 2025 | 667 points | Comments)

55. DDoSecrets publishes 410 GB of heap dumps, hacked from TeleMessage
    (20 May 2025 | 666 points | Comments)

56. Hacker News now runs on top of Common Lisp
    (26 May 2025 | 663 points | Comments)

57. I used o3 to find a remote zeroday in the Linux SMB implementation
    (24 May 2025 | 658 points | Comments)

58. Human coders are still better than LLMs
    (29 May 2025 | 655 points | Comments)

59. Starting July 1, academic publishers can't paywall NIH-funded research
    (1 May 2025 | 646 points | Comments)

60. The scientific “unit” we call the decibel
    (22 May 2025 | 644 points | Comments)

61. ALICE detects the conversion of lead into gold at the LHC
    (9 May 2025 | 637 points | Comments)

62. Claude's system prompt is over 24k tokens with tools
    (6 May 2025 | 627 points | Comments)

63. CLion Is Now Free for Non-Commercial Use
    (7 May 2025 | 624 points | Comments)

64. Accountability Sinks
    (3 May 2025 | 623 points | Comments)

65. A critical look at MCP
    (10 May 2025 | 623 points | Comments)

66. France Endorses UN Open Source Principles
    (18 May 2025 | 617 points | Comments)

67. Reinvent the Wheel
    (24 May 2025 | 612 points | Comments)

68. Matt Godbolt sold me on Rust by showing me C++
    (6 May 2025 | 611 points | Comments)

69. First American pope elected and will be known as Pope Leo XIV
    (8 May 2025 | 606 points | Comments)

70. Evolving OpenAI's Structure
    (5 May 2025 | 602 points | Comments)

71. Show HN: I rewrote my Mac Electron app in Rust
    (28 May 2025 | 597 points | Comments)

72. LegoGPT: Generating Physically Stable and Buildable Lego
    (9 May 2025 | 596 points | Comments)

73. Business books are entertainment, not strategic tools
    (9 May 2025 | 593 points | Comments)

74. How to live an intellectually rich life
    (2 May 2025 | 592 points | Comments)

75. I decided to pay off a school’s lunch debt
    (4 May 2025 | 589 points | Comments)

76. By default, Signal doesn't recall
    (21 May 2025 | 584 points | Comments)

77. US Trade Court finds Trump tariffs illegal
    (29 May 2025 | 583 points | Comments)

78. At Amazon, some coders say their jobs have begun to resemble warehouse work
    (25 May 2025 | 580 points | Comments)

79. Ask HN: How are you acquiring your first hundred users?
    (13 May 2025 | 573 points | Comments)

80. Making video games (without an engine) in 2025
    (20 May 2025 | 573 points | Comments)

81. Waiting for Postgres 18: Accelerating Disk Reads with Asynchronous I/O
    (7 May 2025 | 572 points | Comments)

82. That fractal that's been up on my wall for years
    (22 May 2025 | 571 points | Comments)

83. NSF faces shake-up as officials abolish its 37 divisions
    (9 May 2025 | 570 points | Comments)

84. I hacked a dating app (and how not to treat a security researcher)
    (12 May 2025 | 570 points | Comments)

85. Push Ifs Up and Fors Down
    (17 May 2025 | 569 points | Comments)

86. Leaving Google
    (11 May 2025 | 565 points | Comments)

87. GitHub Copilot Coding Agent
    (19 May 2025 | 564 points | Comments)

88. My website is ugly because I made it
    (28 May 2025 | 562 points | Comments)

89. John Carmack talk at Upper Bound 2025
    (23 May 2025 | 557 points | Comments)

90. Precision Clock Mk IV
    (31 May 2025 | 552 points | Comments)

91. Vision Now Available in Llama.cpp
    (10 May 2025 | 550 points | Comments)

92. Unity’s Open-Source Double Standard: the ban of VLC
    (7 May 2025 | 541 points | Comments)

93. A simple 16x16 dot animation from simple math rules
    (10 May 2025 | 539 points | Comments)

94. Jules: An asynchronous coding agent
    (19 May 2025 | 534 points | Comments)

95. Open Source Society University – Path to a free self-taught education in CS
    (25 May 2025 | 534 points | Comments)

96. Reservoir Sampling
    (8 May 2025 | 532 points | Comments)

97. FLUX.1 Kontext
    (29 May 2025 | 531 points | Comments)

98. Ask HN: What are good high-information density UIs (screenshots, apps, sites)?
    (8 May 2025 | 530 points | Comments)

99. Show HN: My LLM CLI tool can run tools now, from Python code or plugins
    (27 May 2025 | 529 points | Comments)

100. Ground control to Major Trial
     (16 May 2025 | 526 points | Comments)