1257
531
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
737
270
Human
https://quarter--mile.com/Human
488
206
I don't like NumPy
https://dynomight.net/numpy/
447
320
The unreasonable effectiveness of an LLM agent loop with tool use
https://sketch.dev/blog/agent-loop
434
164
A leap year check in three instructions
https://hueffner.de/falk/blog/a-leap-year-check-in-three-instructions.html
422
499
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
375
367
Malicious compliance by booking an available meeting room
https://www.clientserver.dev/p/malicious-compliance-by-booking-an
374
259
LLMs get lost in multi-turn conversation
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.06120
361
294
Japan's IC cards are weird and wonderful
https://aruarian.dance/blog/japan-ic-cards/
271
33
In Memoriam: John L. Young, Cryptome Co-Founder
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/05/memoriam-john-l-young-cryptome-co-founder
262
47
A Tiny Boltzmann Machine
https://eoinmurray.info/boltzmann-machine
239
134
New research reveals the strongest solar event ever detected, in 12350 BC
https://phys.org/news/2025-05-reveals-strongest-solar-event-bc.html
228
171
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/
224
73
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/
197
144
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
191
249
Initialization in C++ is bonkers (2017)
https://blog.tartanllama.xyz/initialization-is-bonkers/
190
62
Windsurf SWE-1: Our First Frontier Models
https://windsurf.com/blog/windsurf-wave-9-swe-1
185
114
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
177
52
Show HN: Min.js style compression of tech docs for LLM context
https://github.com/marv1nnnnn/llm-min.txt
173
23
Tek – A music making program for 24-bit Unicode terminals
https://codeberg.org/unspeaker/tek
166
145
Project Verona: Fearless Concurrency for Python
https://microsoft.github.io/verona/pyrona.html
159
2
Llama from scratch (2023)
https://blog.briankitano.com/llama-from-scratch/
155
46
Pathfinding
https://juhrjuhr.itch.io/deep-space-exploitation/devlog/945428/9-pathfinding
146
100
Launch HN: Tinfoil (YC X25): Verifiable Privacy for Cloud AI
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43996555
27
Popcorn: Run Elixir in WASM
https://popcorn.swmansion.com/
276
Stack Overflow is almost dead
https://blog.pragmaticengineer.com/stack-overflow-is-almost-dead/
53
Show HN: Real-Time Gaussian Splatting
https://github.com/axbycc/LiveSplat
142
42
The current state of TLA⁺ development
https://ahelwer.ca/post/2025-05-15-tla-dev-status/
125
89
“The Mind in the Wheel” lays out a new foundation for the science of mind
https://www.experimental-history.com/p/new-paradigm-for-psychology-just
122
My Engineering Craft Regressed
https://lemmy.ml/post/30100312
116
98
Show HN: Undetectag, track stolen items with AirTag
https://undetectag.com/
115
Lessons from Mixing Rust and Java: Fast, Safe, and Practical
https://medium.com/@greptime/how-to-supercharge-your-java-project-with-rust-a-practical-guide-to-jni-integration-with-a-86f60e9708b8
In the US, a rotating detonation rocket engine takes flight
https://arstechnica.com/space/2025/05/venus-aerospace-flies-its-rotating-detonation-rocket-engine-for-the-first-time/
103
28
MicroPython v1.25.0
https://github.com/micropython/micropython/releases/tag/v1.25.0
94
35
Refactoring Clojure
https://www.orsolabs.com/post/refactoring-clojure-1/
93
Oracle VM VirtualBox – VM Escape via VGA Device
https://github.com/google/security-research/security/advisories/GHSA-qx2m-rcpc-v43v
91
79
Dr. Dobb's Journal interviews Jef Raskin (1986)
https://computeradsfromthepast.substack.com/p/dr-dobbs-journal-interviews-jef-raskin
45
What Every Programmer Should Know About Enumerative Combinatorics
https://leetarxiv.substack.com/p/counting-integer-compositions
83
37
If AI is so good at coding where are the open source contributions?
https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/05/13/if-ai-is-so-good-at-coding-where-are-the-open-source-contributions/
80
26
Forget IPs: using cryptography to verify bot and agent traffic
https://blog.cloudflare.com/web-bot-auth/
87
O(n) vs. O(n^2) Startups
https://rohan.ga/blog/startup_types/
10
How I fixed the infamous Basilisk II Windows “Black Screen” bug in 2013
https://www.downtowndougbrown.com/2025/05/how-i-fixed-the-infamous-basilisk-ii-windows-black-screen-bug-in-2013/
78
6
Demystifying Ruby: It's all about threads (2024)
https://blog.papey.fr/post/07-demystifying-ruby-01/
75
An Update on Fresh
https://deno.com/blog/an-update-on-fresh
72
130
Improving Naval Ship Acquisition
https://www.construction-physics.com/p/fixing-naval-ship-acquisition
71
11
Moving Forth: a series on writing Forth kernels
https://www.bradrodriguez.com/papers/index.html
70
7
Magic Leap One Bootloader Exploit
https://github.com/EliseZeroTwo/ml1hax
68
59
Critical Warning for External Purchases in Apple App Store
https://mjtsai.com/blog/2025/05/14/critical-warning-for-external-purchases-in-app-store/
66
97
Ask HN: What's your go-to message queue in 2025?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43993982
54
About Asteroids, Atari's biggest arcade hit
https://www.goto10retro.com/p/about-asteroids-ataris-biggest-arcade
Walmart is preparing to welcome its next customer: the AI shopping agent
https://www.wsj.com/articles/walmart-is-preparing-to-welcome-its-next-customer-the-ai-shopping-agent-6659ef18
64
107
CarPlay Ultra, the next generation of CarPlay, begins rolling out today
https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2025/05/carplay-ultra-the-next-generation-of-carplay-begins-rolling-out-today/