top 20 hacker news stories for 2025-05-12

The Barbican

https://arslan.io/2025/05/12/barbican-estate/

1 year ago

I hacked a dating app (and how not to treat a security researcher)

https://alexschapiro.com/blog/security/vulnerability/2025/04/21/startups-need-to-take-security-seriously

1 year ago

The great displacement is already well underway?

https://shawnfromportland.substack.com/p/the-great-displacement-is-already

1 year ago

Embeddings are underrated (2024)

https://technicalwriting.dev/ml/embeddings/overview.html

1 year ago

US Copyright Office found AI companies breach copyright. Its boss was fired

https://www.theregister.com/2025/05/12/us_copyright_office_ai_copyright/

1 year ago

Can you trust that permission pop-up on macOS?

https://wts.dev/posts/tcc-who/

1 year ago

I ruined my vacation by reverse engineering WSC

https://blog.es3n1n.eu/posts/how-i-ruined-my-vacation/

1 year ago

The FTC puts off enforcing its 'click-to-cancel' rule

https://www.theverge.com/news/664730/ftc-delay-click-to-cancel-rule

1 year ago

A community-led fork of Organic Maps

https://www.comaps.app/news/2025-05-12/3/

1 year ago

Ask HN: Cursor or Windsurf?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43959710

1 year ago

Continuous Thought Machines

https://pub.sakana.ai/ctm/

1 year ago

University of Texas-led team solves a big problem for fusion energy

https://news.utexas.edu/2025/05/05/university-of-texas-led-team-solves-a-big-problem-for-fusion-energy/

1 year ago

Air Traffic Control

https://computer.rip/2025-05-11-air-traffic-control.html

1 year ago

Avoiding AI is hard – but our freedom to opt out must be protected

https://theconversation.com/avoiding-ai-is-hard-but-our-freedom-to-opt-out-must-be-protected-255873

1 year ago

Python lib generates its code on-the-fly based on usage

https://github.com/cofob/autogenlib

1 year ago

Reviving a modular cargo bike design from the 1930s

https://www.core77.com/posts/136773/Reviving-a-Modular-Cargo-Bike-Design-from-the-1930s

1 year ago

Universe expected to decay in 10⁷⁸ years, much sooner than previously thought

https://phys.org/news/2025-05-universe-decay-years-sooner-previously.html

1 year ago

Ruby 3.5 Feature: Namespace on read

https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/21311

1 year ago

Intellect-2 Release: The First 32B Model Trained Through Globally Distributed RL

https://www.primeintellect.ai/blog/intellect-2-release

1 year ago

Just use HTML

https://justfuckingusehtml.com

1 year ago