top 10 hacker news stories for 2025-05-15

Baby is healed with first personalized gene-editing treatment

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/15/health/gene-editing-personalized-rare-disorders.html

3 weeks ago

1257 upvotes – 531 comments

Human

https://quarter--mile.com/Human

3 weeks ago

737 upvotes – 270 comments

I don't like NumPy

https://dynomight.net/numpy/

3 weeks ago

488 upvotes – 206 comments

The unreasonable effectiveness of an LLM agent loop with tool use

https://sketch.dev/blog/agent-loop

3 weeks ago

447 upvotes – 320 comments

A leap year check in three instructions

https://hueffner.de/falk/blog/a-leap-year-check-in-three-instructions.html

3 weeks ago

434 upvotes – 164 comments

Coinbase says hackers bribed staff to steal customer data, demanding $20M ransom

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/05/15/coinbase-says-hackers-bribed-staff-to-steal-customer-data-and-are-demanding-20-million-ransom.html

3 weeks ago

422 upvotes – 499 comments

Malicious compliance by booking an available meeting room

https://www.clientserver.dev/p/malicious-compliance-by-booking-an

3 weeks ago

375 upvotes – 367 comments

LLMs get lost in multi-turn conversation

https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.06120

3 weeks ago

374 upvotes – 259 comments

Japan's IC cards are weird and wonderful

https://aruarian.dance/blog/japan-ic-cards/

3 weeks ago

361 upvotes – 294 comments

In Memoriam: John L. Young, Cryptome Co-Founder

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/05/memoriam-john-l-young-cryptome-co-founder

3 weeks ago

271 upvotes – 33 comments
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