top 10 hacker news stories for 2026-05-25

Magnifica Humanitas (Encyclical Letter)

https://www.vatican.va/content/leo-xiv/en/encyclicals/documents/20260515-magnifica-humanitas.html

5 months ago

1650 upvotes – 963 comments

Using AI to write better code more slowly

https://nolanlawson.com/2026/05/25/using-ai-to-write-better-code-more-slowly/

5 months ago

1256 upvotes – 446 comments

California moves to exempt Linux from its age-verification law after backlash

https://www.tomshardware.com/software/linux/california-moves-to-exempt-linux-from-its-upcoming-age-verification-law-after-backlash-over-forcing-operating-systems-to-collect-users-ages-amendment-proposed-by-the-same-lawmaker-who-wrote-the-original-law

5 months ago

1066 upvotes – 499 comments

Taking a walk may lead to more creativity than sitting, study finds

https://www.apa.org/news/press/releases/2014/04/creativity-walk

5 months ago

616 upvotes – 235 comments

Search engines alternatives now that Google isn't Google anymore

https://techcrunch.com/2026/05/21/six-search-engines-worth-trying-now-that-google-isnt-really-google-anymore/

5 months ago

571 upvotes – 580 comments

The Cost of Safetyism

https://stevemagness.substack.com/p/the-cost-of-safetyism

5 months ago

550 upvotes – 608 comments

Jony Ive's Ferrari

https://www.ferrari.com/en-EN/auto/ferrari-luce

5 months ago

500 upvotes – 923 comments

The Eternal Sloptember

https://geohot.github.io//blog/jekyll/update/2026/05/24/the-eternal-sloptember.html

5 months ago

489 upvotes – 373 comments

Hacker News front page as a site

https://thefrontpage.dev/

5 months ago

431 upvotes – 118 comments

Exit IP VPN servers mitigation rollout

https://mullvad.net/en/help/exit-ip-vpn-servers-mitigation-rollout

5 months ago

422 upvotes – 95 comments
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