top 20 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

Palette lighting tricks on the Nintendo 64

https://30fps.net/pages/palette-lighting-tricks-n64/

2 weeks ago

225 upvotes – 55 comments

Wow@Home – Network of Amateur Radio Telescopes

https://phl.upr.edu/wow/outreach

2 weeks ago

196 upvotes – 35 comments

My favourite fonts to use with LaTeX (2022)

https://www.lfe.pt/latex/fonts/typography/2022/11/21/latex-fonts-part1.html

2 weeks ago

195 upvotes – 54 comments

A kernel developer plays with Home Assistant

https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/1017720/7155ecb9602e9ef2/

2 weeks ago

195 upvotes – 214 comments

XTool – Cross-platform Xcode replacement

https://github.com/xtool-org/xtool

2 weeks ago

195 upvotes – 66 comments

Directory of MCP Servers

https://github.com/chatmcp/mcpso

2 weeks ago

187 upvotes – 65 comments

Catalog of Novel Operating Systems

https://github.com/prathyvsh/os-catalog

2 weeks ago

187 upvotes – 63 comments

The Lost Japanese ROM of the Macintosh Plus

https://www.journaldulapin.com/2025/05/17/the-lost-japanese-rom-of-the-macintosh-plus-which-isnt-lost-anymore/

2 weeks ago

152 upvotes – 45 comments

Show HN: I built a knife steel comparison tool

https://new.knife.day/blog/knife-steel-comparisons/all

2 weeks ago

146 upvotes – 84 comments

Procolored printer drivers contained malware

https://www.neowin.net/news/this-printer-company-served-you-malware-for-months-and-dismissed-it-as-false-positives/

2 weeks ago

143 upvotes – 74 comments
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