Weekly Hacker News for the 7 days ending 2025-05-17
The 20 highest-rated articles on Hacker News in the 7 days ending May 17, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Weekly are:
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A simple 16x16 dot animation from simple math rules
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A critical look at MCP
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Leaving Google
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One-Click RCE in Asus's Preinstalled Driver Software
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Plain Vanilla Web
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Embeddings are underrated (2024)
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The Barbican
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I hacked a dating app (and how not to treat a security researcher)
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Mozilla Firefox – Official GitHub repo
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Ask HN: How are you acquiring your first hundred users?
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The world could run on older hardware if software optimization was a priority
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Internet Artifacts
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What is HDR, anyway?
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AlphaEvolve: A Gemini-powered coding agent for designing advanced algorithms
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Human
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Baby is healed with first personalized gene-editing treatment
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Ground control to Major Trial
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A Research Preview of Codex
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Thoughts on thinking
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Getting AI to write good SQL
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Posted at 2025-05-18 00:00 | Permanent link |