top 20 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

1 year ago

Human

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

1 year ago

I don't like NumPy

https://dynomight.net/numpy/

1 year ago

The unreasonable effectiveness of an LLM agent loop with tool use

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

1 year ago

A leap year check in three instructions

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

1 year ago

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

1 year ago

Malicious compliance by booking an available meeting room

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

1 year ago

LLMs get lost in multi-turn conversation

https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.06120

1 year ago

Japan's IC cards are weird and wonderful

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

1 year ago

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

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

1 year ago

A Tiny Boltzmann Machine

https://eoinmurray.info/boltzmann-machine

1 year ago

New research reveals the strongest solar event ever detected, in 12350 BC

https://phys.org/news/2025-05-reveals-strongest-solar-event-bc.html

1 year ago

EU ruling: tracking-based advertising [...] across Europe has no legal basis

https://www.iccl.ie/digital-data/eu-ruling-tracking-based-advertising-by-google-microsoft-amazon-x-across-europe-has-no-legal-basis/

1 year ago

XAI's Grok suddenly can't stop bringing up "white genocide" in South Africa

https://arstechnica.com/ai/2025/05/xais-grok-suddenly-cant-stop-bringing-up-white-genocide-in-south-africa/

1 year ago

Harvard Law paid $27 for a copy of Magna Carta. It's an original

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/15/world/europe/harvard-law-magna-carta-original.html

1 year ago

Initialization in C++ is bonkers (2017)

https://blog.tartanllama.xyz/initialization-is-bonkers/

1 year ago

Windsurf SWE-1: Our First Frontier Models

https://windsurf.com/blog/windsurf-wave-9-swe-1

1 year ago

California sent residents' personal health data to LinkedIn

https://themarkup.org/pixel-hunt/2025/04/28/how-california-sent-residents-personal-health-data-to-linkedin

1 year ago

Show HN: Min.js style compression of tech docs for LLM context

https://github.com/marv1nnnnn/llm-min.txt

1 year ago

Tek – A music making program for 24-bit Unicode terminals

https://codeberg.org/unspeaker/tek

1 year ago