top 20 hacker news stories for 2025-05-16

Thoughts on thinking

https://dcurt.is/thinking

2 weeks ago

721 upvotes – 438 comments

Ground control to Major Trial

https://virtualize.sh/blog/ground-control-to-major-trial/

2 weeks ago

526 upvotes – 191 comments

A Research Preview of Codex

https://openai.com/index/introducing-codex/

2 weeks ago

511 upvotes – 450 comments

Getting AI to write good SQL

https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/databases/techniques-for-improving-text-to-sql

2 weeks ago

501 upvotes – 358 comments

MIT asks arXiv to withdraw preprint of paper on AI and scientific discovery

https://economics.mit.edu/news/assuring-accurate-research-record

2 weeks ago

386 upvotes – 202 comments

After months of coding with LLMs, I'm going back to using my brain

https://albertofortin.com/writing/coding-with-ai

2 weeks ago

365 upvotes – 221 comments

Ollama's new engine for multimodal models

https://ollama.com/blog/multimodal-models

2 weeks ago

353 upvotes – 84 comments

BuyMeACoffee silently dropped support for many countries (2024)

https://zverok.space/blog/2024-08-08-bmac-snafu.html

2 weeks ago

343 upvotes – 318 comments

NASA keeps ancient Voyager 1 spacecraft alive with Hail Mary thruster fix

https://www.theregister.com/2025/05/15/voyager_1_survives_with_thruster_fix/

2 weeks ago

342 upvotes – 88 comments

Moody’s strips U.S. of triple-A credit rating

https://www.ft.com/content/e456ea34-c6ad-43fe-abe9-d4ce781c07b4

2 weeks ago

320 upvotes – 358 comments

The first year of free-threaded Python

https://labs.quansight.org/blog/free-threaded-one-year-recap

2 weeks ago

291 upvotes – 290 comments

Sci-Net

https://sci-hub.se/sci-net

2 weeks ago

276 upvotes – 120 comments

Show HN: KVSplit – Run 2-3x longer contexts on Apple Silicon

https://github.com/dipampaul17/KVSplit

2 weeks ago

272 upvotes – 40 comments

Run GitHub Actions locally

https://github.com/nektos/act

2 weeks ago

272 upvotes – 132 comments

I'm Peter Roberts, immigration attorney, who does work for YC and startups. AMA

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44006381

2 weeks ago

257 upvotes – 453 comments

Java at 30: Interview with James Gosling

https://thenewstack.io/java-at-30-the-genius-behind-the-code-that-changed-tech/

2 weeks ago

253 upvotes – 423 comments

Show HN: Visual flow-based programming for Erlang, inspired by Node-RED

https://github.com/gorenje/erlang-red

2 weeks ago

243 upvotes – 102 comments

Teal – A statically-typed dialect of Lua

https://teal-language.org/

2 weeks ago

229 upvotes – 173 comments

Ollama violating llama.cpp license for over a year

https://github.com/ollama/ollama/issues/3185

2 weeks ago

202 upvotes – 68 comments

X X^t can be faster

https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.09814

2 weeks ago

201 upvotes – 60 comments
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