Hacker News Weekly

Weekly Hacker News for the 7 days ending 2025-05-24

The 20 highest-rated articles on Hacker News in the 7 days ending May 24, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Weekly are:

• Coding without a laptop: Two weeks with AR glasses and Linux on Android
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• Spaced repetition systems have gotten better
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• France Endorses UN Open Source Principles
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• Don't guess my language
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• Zod 4
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• The Windows Subsystem for Linux is now open source
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• Have I Been Pwned 2.0
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• DDoSecrets publishes 410 GB of heap dumps, hacked from TeleMessage
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• Veo 3 and Imagen 4, and a new tool for filmmaking called Flow
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• Watching AI drive Microsoft employees insane
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• Devstral
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• OpenAI to buy AI startup from Jony Ive
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• Gemini Diffusion
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• The scientific “unit” we call the decibel
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• That fractal that's been up on my wall for years
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• Mozilla to shut down Pocket and Fakespot
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• Claude 4
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• Trump administration halts Harvard's ability to enroll international students
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• Postgres IDE in VS Code
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• Find Your People
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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:

• 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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Weekly Hacker News for the 7 days ending 2025-05-10

The 20 highest-rated articles on Hacker News in the 7 days ending May 10, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Weekly are:

• Technical analysis of the Signal clone used by Trump officials
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• Accountability Sinks
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• Show HN: Free, in-browser PDF editor
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• Design for 3D-Printing
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• I'd rather read the prompt
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• The Death of Daydreaming
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• Evolving OpenAI's Structure
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• OpenAI reaches agreement to buy Windsurf for $3B
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• The curse of knowing how, or; fixing everything
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• Show HN: Clippy – 90s UI for local LLMs
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• Gemini 2.5 Pro Preview
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• Matt Godbolt sold me on Rust by showing me C++
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• Claude's system prompt is over 24k tokens with tools
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• Zed: High-performance AI Code Editor
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• Waiting for Postgres 18: Accelerating Disk Reads with Asynchronous I/O
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• Ty: A fast Python type checker and language server
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• First American pope elected and will be known as Pope Leo XIV
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• Void: Open-source Cursor alternative
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• From: Steve Jobs. \"Great idea, thank you.\"
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• ALICE detects the conversion of lead into gold at the LHC
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Weekly Hacker News for the 7 days ending 2025-05-03

The 20 highest-rated articles on Hacker News in the 7 days ending May 03, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Weekly are:

• An end to all this prostate trouble?
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• Internet in a Box
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• Widespread power outage in Spain and Portugal
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• Show HN: I built a hardware processor that runs Python
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• Migrating away from Rust
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• Qwen3: Think deeper, act faster
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• I use zip bombs to protect my server
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• LibreLingo – FOSS Alternative to Duolingo
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• Try Switching to Kagi
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• Jepsen: Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL 17.4
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• Firefox tab groups are here
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• I created Perfect Wiki and reached $250k in annual revenue without investors
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• Finland Bans Smartphones in Schools
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• Port of Los Angeles says shipping volume will plummet 35% next week
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• Someone at YouTube needs glasses
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• Apple violated antitrust ruling, judge finds
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• Office is too slow, so Microsoft is making it load at Windows startup
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• Judge rules Apple executive lied under oath, makes criminal contempt referral
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• Redis is open source again
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• Claude Integrations
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