top 20 hacker news stories for 2025-05-19

The Windows Subsystem for Linux is now open source

https://blogs.windows.com/windowsdeveloper/2025/05/19/the-windows-subsystem-for-linux-is-now-open-source/

2 weeks ago

1613 upvotes – 1193 comments

Have I Been Pwned 2.0

https://www.troyhunt.com/have-i-been-pwned-2-0-is-now-live/

2 weeks ago

880 upvotes – 305 comments

Zod 4

https://zod.dev/v4

2 weeks ago

782 upvotes – 255 comments

Don't guess my language

https://vitonsky.net/blog/2025/05/17/language-detection/

2 weeks ago

670 upvotes – 380 comments

GitHub Copilot Coding Agent

https://github.blog/changelog/2025-05-19-github-copilot-coding-agent-in-public-preview/

2 weeks ago

564 upvotes – 357 comments

Jules: An asynchronous coding agent

https://jules.google/

2 weeks ago

534 upvotes – 236 comments

Claude Code SDK

https://docs.anthropic.com/en/docs/claude-code/sdk

2 weeks ago

454 upvotes – 194 comments

Dilbert creator Scott Adams says he will die soon from same cancer as Joe Biden

https://www.thewrap.com/dilbert-scott-adams-prostate-cancer-biden/

2 weeks ago

452 upvotes – 610 comments

Game theory illustrated by an animated cartoon game

https://ncase.me/trust/

2 weeks ago

449 upvotes – 74 comments

What makes a good engineer also makes a good engineering organization (2024)

https://moxie.org/2024/09/23/a-good-engineer.html

2 weeks ago

337 upvotes – 139 comments

Microsoft's ICC blockade: digital dependence comes at a cost

https://www.techzine.eu/news/privacy-compliance/131536/microsofts-icc-blockade-digital-dependence-comes-at-a-cost/

2 weeks ago

308 upvotes – 200 comments

European Investment Bank to inject €70B in European tech

https://ioplus.nl/en/posts/european-investment-bank-to-inject-70-billion-in-european-tech

2 weeks ago

307 upvotes – 355 comments

Edit is now open source

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/commandline/edit-is-now-open-source/

2 weeks ago

271 upvotes – 185 comments

CERN gears up to ship antimatter across Europe

https://arstechnica.com/science/2025/05/cern-gears-up-to-ship-antimatter-across-europe/

2 weeks ago

263 upvotes – 170 comments

“There are people who can see and others who cannot even look”

https://worldhistory.substack.com/p/there-are-people-who-can-see-and

2 weeks ago

262 upvotes – 78 comments

Side projects I've built since 2009

https://naeemnur.com/side-projects/

2 weeks ago

260 upvotes – 143 comments

Launch HN: Better Auth (YC X25) – Authentication Framework for TypeScript

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44030492

2 weeks ago

259 upvotes – 106 comments

The forbidden railway: Vienna-Pyongyang (2008)

http://vienna-pyongyang.blogspot.com/2008/04/how-everything-began.html

2 weeks ago

227 upvotes – 77 comments

Kilo: A text editor in less than 1000 LOC with syntax highlight and search

https://github.com/antirez/kilo

2 weeks ago

222 upvotes – 82 comments

23andMe Sells Gene-Testing Business to DNA Drug Maker Regeneron

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-05-19/23andme-sells-gene-testing-business-to-dna-drug-maker-regeneron

2 weeks ago

221 upvotes – 127 comments
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