top 20 hacker news stories for 2025-05-06

The curse of knowing how, or; fixing everything

https://notashelf.dev/posts/curse-of-knowing

1 year ago

Show HN: Clippy – 90s UI for local LLMs

https://felixrieseberg.github.io/clippy/

1 year ago

Gemini 2.5 Pro Preview

https://developers.googleblog.com/en/gemini-2-5-pro-io-improved-coding-performance/

1 year ago

OpenAI reaches agreement to buy Windsurf for $3B

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-05-06/openai-reaches-agreement-to-buy-startup-windsurf-for-3-billion

1 year ago

Claude's system prompt is over 24k tokens with tools

https://github.com/asgeirtj/system_prompts_leaks/blob/main/claude.txt

1 year ago

Matt Godbolt sold me on Rust by showing me C++

https://www.collabora.com/news-and-blog/blog/2025/05/06/matt-godbolt-sold-me-on-rust-by-showing-me-c-plus-plus/

1 year ago

India launches attack on 9 sites in Pakistan and Pakistani Jammu and Kashmir

https://www.reuters.com/world/india/india-launches-attack-9-sites-pakistan-pakistan-occupied-jammu-kashmir-2025-05-06/

1 year ago

Curl: We still have not seen a valid security report done with AI help

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/danielstenberg_hackerone-curl-activity-7324820893862363136-glb1

1 year ago

VVVVVV Source Code

https://github.com/TerryCavanagh/VVVVVV

1 year ago

Launch HN: Exa (YC S21) – The web as a database

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43906841

1 year ago

Sneakers (1992) – 4K makeover sourced from the original camera negative

https://www.blu-ray.com/movies/Sneakers-4K-Blu-ray/343185/

1 year ago

An appeal to Apple from Anukari

https://anukari.com/blog/devlog/an-appeal-to-apple

1 year ago

Getting things “done” in large tech companies

https://www.seangoedecke.com/getting-things-done/

1 year ago

NSA spied through Angry Birds, other apps: report (2014)

https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/nsa-spied-through-angry-birds-other-apps-report-flna2d12006530

1 year ago

Nnd – a TUI debugger alternative to GDB, LLDB

https://github.com/al13n321/nnd

1 year ago

Four years of running a SaaS in a competitive market

https://maxrozen.com/on-four-years-running-saas-competitive-market

1 year ago

TeleMessage, used by Trump officials, can access plaintext chat logs

https://micahflee.com/despite-misleading-marketing-israeli-company-telemessage-used-by-trump-officials-can-access-plaintext-chat-logs/

1 year ago

Bloat is still software's biggest vulnerability (2024)

https://spectrum.ieee.org/lean-software-development

1 year ago

Google has most of my email because it has all of yours (2014)

https://mako.cc/copyrighteous/google-has-most-of-my-email-because-it-has-all-of-yours

1 year ago

Accents in latent spaces: How AI hears accent strength in English

https://accent-strength.boldvoice.com/

1 year ago