top 10 hacker news stories for 2025-05-17

Push Ifs Up and Fors Down

https://matklad.github.io/2023/11/15/push-ifs-up-and-fors-down.html

2 weeks ago

569 upvotes – 197 comments

Proton threatens to quit Switzerland over new surveillance law

https://www.techradar.com/vpn/vpn-privacy-security/we-would-be-less-confidential-than-google-proton-threatens-to-quit-switzerland-over-new-surveillance-law

2 weeks ago

492 upvotes – 227 comments

Mystical

https://suberic.net/~dmm/projects/mystical/README.html

2 weeks ago

442 upvotes – 46 comments

If nothing is curated, how do we find things

https://tadaima.bearblog.dev/if-nothing-is-curated-how-do-we-find-things/

2 weeks ago

358 upvotes – 253 comments

AniSora: Open-source anime video generation model

https://komiko.app/video/AniSora

2 weeks ago

356 upvotes – 218 comments

O2 VoLTE: locating any customer with a phone call

https://mastdatabase.co.uk/blog/2025/05/o2-expose-customer-location-call-4g/

2 weeks ago

343 upvotes – 73 comments

JavaScript's New Superpower: Explicit Resource Management

https://v8.dev/features/explicit-resource-management

2 weeks ago

329 upvotes – 234 comments

How to have the browser pick a contrasting color in CSS

https://webkit.org/blog/16929/contrast-color/

2 weeks ago

261 upvotes – 74 comments

Dead Stars Don’t Radiate

https://johncarlosbaez.wordpress.com/2025/05/17/dead-stars-dont-radiate-and-shrink/

2 weeks ago

246 upvotes – 148 comments

Pyrefly: A new type checker and IDE experience for Python

https://engineering.fb.com/2025/05/15/developer-tools/introducing-pyrefly-a-new-type-checker-and-ide-experience-for-python/

2 weeks ago

237 upvotes – 165 comments
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