top 50% hacker news stories for 2025-05-25

Claude 4 System Card

https://simonwillison.net/2025/May/25/claude-4-system-card/

1 year ago

At Amazon, some coders say their jobs have begun to resemble warehouse work

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/25/business/amazon-ai-coders.html

1 year ago

Open Source Society University – Path to a free self-taught education in CS

https://github.com/ossu/computer-science

1 year ago

★ 203.2k HTML MIT

Denmark to raise retirement age to 70

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2025/05/23/denmark-raise-retirement-age-70/

1 year ago

Lottie is an open format for animated vector graphics

https://lottie.github.io/

1 year ago

Ask HN: What are you working on? (May 2025)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44090387

1 year ago

The Level Design Book

https://book.leveldesignbook.com

1 year ago

The Ingredients of a Productive Monorepo

https://blog.swgillespie.me/posts/monorepo-ingredients/

1 year ago

Chomsky on what ChatGPT is good for (2023)

https://chomsky.info/20230503-2/

1 year ago

Ten years of JSON Web Token and preparing for the future

https://self-issued.info/?p=2708

1 year ago

Plwm – An X11 window manager written in Prolog

https://github.com/Seeker04/plwm

1 year ago

Visualize and debug Rust programs with a new lens

https://firedbg.sea-ql.org/

1 year ago

Design Pressure: The Invisible Hand That Shapes Your Code

https://hynek.me/talks/design-pressure/

1 year ago

What If We Had Bigger Brains? Imagining Minds Beyond Ours

https://writings.stephenwolfram.com/2025/05/what-if-we-had-bigger-brains-imagining-minds-beyond-ours/

1 year ago

CAPTCHAs are over (in ticketing)

https://behind.pretix.eu/2025/05/23/captchas-are-over/

1 year ago

Show HN: SVG Animation Software

https://expressive.app/expressive-animator/

1 year ago

Writing your own CUPS printer driver in 100 lines of Python (2018)

https://behind.pretix.eu/2018/01/20/cups-driver/

1 year ago

Clojure MCP

https://github.com/bhauman/clojure-mcp

1 year ago

Show HN: DaedalOS – Desktop Environment in the Browser

https://github.com/DustinBrett/daedalOS

1 year ago

How to Install Windows NT 4 Server on Proxmox

https://blog.pipetogrep.org/2025/05/23/how-to-install-windows-nt-4-server-on-proxmox/

1 year ago

Space Selfie

https://space.crunchlabs.com/

1 year ago

Dependency injection frameworks add confusion

http://rednafi.com/go/di_frameworks_bleh/

1 year ago

'Strange metals' point to a whole new way to understand electricity

https://www.science.org/content/article/strange-metals-point-whole-new-way-understand-electricity

1 year ago

The Newark airport crisis

https://www.theverge.com/planes/673462/newark-airport-delay-air-traffic-control-tracon-radar

1 year ago

Failure Mechanisms in Democratic Regimes – An Army's Role

https://angrystaffofficer.com/2025/03/02/failure-mechanisms-in-democratic-regimes-an-armys-role/

1 year ago

Mathpad: A mathematical keypad for students and professionals

https://github.com/Summa-Cogni/Mathpad

1 year ago

Is TfL losing the battle against heat on the Victoria line?

https://www.swlondoner.co.uk/news/16052025-is-tfl-losing-the-battle-against-heat-on-the-victoria-line

1 year ago

Claude Opus 4 turns to blackmail when engineers try to take it offline

https://techcrunch.com/2025/05/22/anthropics-new-ai-model-turns-to-blackmail-when-engineers-try-to-take-it-offline/

1 year ago

Wrench Attacks: Physical attacks targeting cryptocurrency users (2024) [pdf]

https://drops.dagstuhl.de/storage/00lipics/lipics-vol316-aft2024/LIPIcs.AFT.2024.24/LIPIcs.AFT.2024.24.pdf

1 year ago

Writing a Self-Mutating x86_64 C Program (2013)

https://ephemeral.cx/2013/12/writing-a-self-mutating-x86_64-c-program/

1 year ago

Mathematical Fiction

https://kasmana.people.charleston.edu/MATHFICT/default.html

1 year ago

A Visual History of Chessmen

https://chesshistory.github.io/

1 year ago

In defense of shallow technical knowledge

https://www.seangoedecke.com/shallow-technical-knowledge/

1 year ago

Show HN: Zli – A Batteries-Included CLI Framework for Zig

https://github.com/xcaeser/zli

1 year ago

Crypto investor charged with kidnapping and torturing

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/24/nyregion/crypto-investor-torture-italian-tourist.html

1 year ago

Death of Michael Ledeen, maker of the phony case for the invasion of Iraq

https://www.spytalk.co/p/death-of-a-master-manipulator

1 year ago

SteamOS now released officially for any device

https://store.steampowered.com/steamos

1 year ago

AI Hallucination Legal Cases Database

https://www.damiencharlotin.com/hallucinations/

1 year ago

There was a time when the US government built homes for working-class Americans

https://theconversation.com/believe-it-or-not-there-was-a-time-when-the-us-government-built-beautiful-homes-for-working-class-americans-to-deal-with-a-housing-crisis-253512

1 year ago

Authors are accidentally leaving AI prompts in their novels

https://www.404media.co/authors-are-accidentally-leaving-ai-prompts-in-their-novels/

1 year ago

Infinite Tool Use

https://snimu.github.io/2025/05/23/infinite-tool-use.html

1 year ago

Advice to Tenstorrent

https://github.com/geohot/tt-tiny

1 year ago

Basic for the Raspberry Pi Pico and Pico 2

https://geoffg.net/picomite.html

1 year ago

Designing Tools for Scientific Thought

https://www.forester-notes.org/tfmt-0001/index.xml

1 year ago

The length of file names in early Unix

https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/unix/UnixEarlyFilenameLenghts

1 year ago

Can a corporation be pardoned?

https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=5202339

1 year ago

Fast, Simple and Open Firebase Alternative: TrailBase

https://github.com/trailbaseio/trailbase/releases/tag/v0.12.0

1 year ago

Changelog: Lazy trees (faster Nix builds)

https://determinate.systems/posts/changelog-determinate-nix-352/

1 year ago

Building interactive web pages with Guile Hoot

https://spritely.institute/news/building-interactive-web-pages-with-guile-hoot.html

1 year ago

Why top posting has won (2018)

https://www.solipsys.co.uk/new/WhyTopPostingHasWon.html?ye25hn

1 year ago

Chairs, Chairs, Chairs

https://www.parliament.uk/about/living-heritage/building/cultural-collections/historic-furniture/the-collection/chairs-chairs-chairs/

1 year ago

Programming on 34 Keys (2022)

https://oppi.li/posts/programming_on_34_keys/

1 year ago

The Windows Registry Adventure #7: Attack surface analysis

https://googleprojectzero.blogspot.com/2025/05/the-windows-registry-adventure-7-attack-surface.html

1 year ago

We broke down the Sam Altman and Jony Ive video

https://sfstandard.com/2025/05/23/sam-altman-jony-ive-video/

1 year ago

Domain Theory Lecture Notes

https://liamoc.net/forest/dt-001Y/index.xml

1 year ago