It's 2025-05-17. What's happening?

HACKER NEWS

Proton threatens to quit Switzerland over new surveillance law | comment
O2 VoLTE: locating any customer with a phone call | comment
Dead Stars Don’t Radiate | comment
If nothing is curated, how do we find things | comment
Mystical | comment
Wow@Home – Network of Amateur Radio Telescopes | comment
Plain Vanilla Web | comment
AlphaEvolve: A Gemini-powered coding agent for designing advanced algorithms | comment
Mozilla Firefox – Official GitHub repo | comment
Human | comment
Baby is healed with first personalized gene-editing treatment | comment
I hacked a dating app (and how not to treat a security researcher) | comment
The Barbican | comment
A Research Preview of Codex | comment
One-Click RCE in Asus's Preinstalled Driver Software | comment
I don't like NumPy | comment
Branch Privilege Injection: Exploiting branch predictor race conditions | comment
Ground control to Major Trial | comment
Bus stops here: Shanghai lets riders design their own routes | comment
LLMs get lost in multi-turn conversation | comment
Coinbase says hackers bribed staff to steal customer data, demanding $20M ransom | comment
Ollama's new engine for multimodal models | comment
Writing that changed how I think about programming languages | comment
The world could run on older hardware if software optimization was a priority | comment
BuyMeACoffee silently dropped support for many countries (2024) | comment
I ruined my vacation by reverse engineering WSC | comment
Thoughts on thinking | comment
I built a native Windows Todo app in pure C (278 KB, no frameworks) | comment
A server that wasn't meant to exist | comment
Ask HN: How are you acquiring your first hundred users? | comment

HACKER NEWS WEEKLY

Plain Vanilla Web | comment
From: Steve Jobs. "Great idea, thank you." | comment
AlphaEvolve: A Gemini-powered coding agent for designing advanced algorithms | comment
Show HN: Clippy – 90s UI for local LLMs | comment
Mozilla Firefox – Official GitHub repo | comment
Void: Open-source Cursor alternative | comment
The curse of knowing how, or; fixing everything | comment
Ty: A fast Python type checker and language server | comment
Human | comment
Baby is healed with first personalized gene-editing treatment | comment
I'd rather read the prompt | comment
Gemini 2.5 Pro Preview | comment
I hacked a dating app (and how not to treat a security researcher) | comment
First American pope elected and will be known as Pope Leo XIV | comment
LegoGPT: Generating Physically Stable and Buildable Lego | comment
Evolving OpenAI's Structure | comment
The Barbican | comment
Design for 3D-Printing | comment
Waiting for Postgres 18: Accelerating Disk Reads with Asynchronous I/O | comment
High tariffs become 'real' with our first $36K bill | comment
Vision Now Available in Llama.cpp | comment
A Research Preview of Codex | comment
Curl: We still have not seen a valid security report done with AI help | comment
One-Click RCE in Asus's Preinstalled Driver Software | comment
I don't like NumPy | comment
Show HN: Free, in-browser PDF editor | comment
A critical look at MCP | comment
Branch Privilege Injection: Exploiting branch predictor race conditions | comment
Ground control to Major Trial | comment
Bus stops here: Shanghai lets riders design their own routes | comment
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