Hacker News top 30 - 2025-05-07
- The curse of knowing how, or; fixing everything notashelf.dev - 409 comments 1023 points
- Show HN: Clippy – 90s UI for local LLMs felixrieseberg.github.io - 206 comments 798 points
- Gemini 2.5 Pro Preview developers.googleblog.com - 507 comments 551 points
- Curl: We still have not seen a valid security report done with AI help www.linkedin.com - 200 comments 388 points
- Sneakers - 1992 – 4K makeover sourced from the original camera negative www.blu-ray.com - 265 comments 383 points
- Matt Godbolt sold me on Rust by showing me C++ www.collabora.com - 283 comments 359 points
- Launch HN: Exa - YC S21 – The web as a database news.ycombinator.com - 116 comments 298 points
- Getting things “done” in large tech companies www.seangoedecke.com - 195 comments 285 points
- India launches attack on 9 sites in Pakistan and Pakistani Jammu and Kashmir www.reuters.com - 213 comments 253 points
- Nnd – a TUI debugger alternative to GDB, LLDB github.com - 74 comments 229 points
- TeleMessage, used by Trump officials, can access plaintext chat logs micahflee.com - 63 comments 222 points
- Accents in latent spaces: How AI hears accent strength in English accent-strength.boldvoice.com - 103 comments 195 points
- Memory-safe sudo to become the default in Ubuntu trifectatech.org - 219 comments 193 points
- Claude’s system prompt is over 24k tokens with tools github.com - 64 comments 187 points
- FTC bans hidden fees for live events and short-term rentals, effective May 12 techcrunch.com - 4 comments 179 points
- New studies offer insight into Lyme disease’s treatment, lingering symptoms news.northwestern.edu - 105 comments 177 points
- Show HN: Sheet Music in Smart Glasses news.ycombinator.com - 21 comments 168 points
- iOS Kindle app now has a ‘get book’ button after changes to App Store rules www.theverge.com - 146 comments 160 points
- OpenAI reaches agreement to buy Windsurf for around $3B www.bloomberg.com - 2 comments 155 points
- VVVVVV Source Code github.com - 22 comments 153 points
- EPA Plans to Shut Down the Energy Star Program www.nytimes.com - 97 comments 137 points
- FTC rule on unfair or deceptive fees to take effect on May 12 www.ftc.gov - 86 comments 132 points
- Design and evaluation of a parrot-to-parrot video-calling system - 2023 www.smithsonianmag.com - 64 comments 130 points
- Jury orders NSO to pay $167M for hacking WhatsApp users arstechnica.com - 31 comments 115 points
- Brush - Bo(urn(e) RUsty SHell) a POSIX and Bash-Compatible Shell in Rust github.com - 64 comments 114 points
- The DEA is now abandoning body cameras www.propublica.org - 30 comments 114 points
- The Turkish İ Problem and Why You Should Care - 2012 haacked.com - 143 comments 105 points
- Bloat is still software’s biggest vulnerability - 2024 spectrum.ieee.org - 56 comments 99 points
- Propositions as Types - 2014 - pdf homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk - 52 comments 99 points
- Show HN: Plexe – ML Models from a Prompt github.com - 43 comments 98 points
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