Hacker News top 30 - 2025-05-16
- Baby is healed with first personalized gene-editing treatment www.nytimes.com - 314 comments 742 points
- I don’t like NumPy dynomight.net - 164 comments 399 points
- Malicious compliance by booking an available meeting room www.clientserver.dev - 305 comments 331 points
- Coinbase says hackers bribed staff to steal customer data, demanding $20M ransom www.cnbc.com - 351 comments 322 points
- The unreasonable effectiveness of an LLM agent loop with tool use sketch.dev - 184 comments 301 points
- A leap year check in three instructions hueffner.de - 91 comments 265 points
- A Tiny Boltzmann Machine eoinmurray.info - 39 comments 232 points
- EU ruling: tracking-based advertising - … across Europe has no legal basis www.iccl.ie - 165 comments 220 points
- XAI’s Grok suddenly can’t stop bringing up “white genocide” in South Africa arstechnica.com - 65 comments 203 points
- NASA keeps ancient Voyager 1 spacecraft alive with Hail Mary thruster fix www.theregister.com - 30 comments 203 points
- Harvard Law paid $27 for a copy of Magna Carta. It’s an original www.nytimes.com - 110 comments 176 points
- California sent residents’ personal health data to LinkedIn themarkup.org - 104 comments 170 points
- Show HN: Min.js style compression of tech docs for LLM context github.com - 48 comments 165 points
- Initialization in C++ is bonkers - 2017 blog.tartanllama.xyz - 104 comments 131 points
- Show HN: Real-Time Gaussian Splatting github.com - 46 comments 130 points
- Pathfinding juhrjuhr.itch.io - 40 comments 127 points
- Launch HN: Tinfoil - YC X25: Verifiable Privacy for Cloud AI news.ycombinator.com - 87 comments 119 points
- My Engineering Craft Regressed lemmy.ml - 70 comments 119 points
- Ollama’s new engine for multimodal models ollama.com - 17 comments 117 points
- Tek – A music making program for 24-bit Unicode terminals codeberg.org - 13 comments 114 points
- Stack Overflow is almost dead blog.pragmaticengineer.com - 157 comments 109 points
- The current state of TLA⁺ development ahelwer.ca - 24 comments 109 points
- Teal – A statically-typed dialect of Lua teal-language.org - 51 comments 98 points
- I was a Theranos whistleblower. Here’s what I think Elizabeth Holmes is up to www.statnews.com - 65 comments 97 points
- Show HN: Undetectag, track stolen items with AirTag undetectag.com - 85 comments 94 points
- Refactoring Clojure www.orsolabs.com - 22 comments 85 points
- In the US, a rotating detonation rocket engine takes flight arstechnica.com - 61 comments 83 points
- Forget IPs: using cryptography to verify bot and agent traffic blog.cloudflare.com - 25 comments 77 points
- An Update on Fresh deno.com - 55 comments 71 points
- “The Mind in the Wheel” lays out a new foundation for the science of mind www.experimental-history.com - 56 comments 69 points
May 16, 2025 ∙