The best of Hacker News - May 7, 2025

1.
Show HN: Clippy – 90s UI for local LLMs

777 points

2.
Gemini 2.5 Pro Preview

544 points

3.
OpenAI reaches agreement to buy Windsurf for $3B

442 points

4.
Matt Godbolt sold me on Rust by showing me C++

346 points

5.
Launch HN: Exa (YC S21) – The web as a database

293 points

6.
India launches attack on 9 sites in Pakistan and Pakistani Jammu and Kashmir

233 points

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Accents in latent spaces: How AI hears accent strength in English

194 points

8.
Claude's system prompt is over 24k tokens with tools

168 points

9.
VVVVVV Source Code

134 points

10.
FTC rule on unfair or deceptive fees to take effect on May 12

125 points

11.
Brush (Bo(u)rn(e) RUsty SHell) a POSIX and Bash-Compatible Shell in Rust

113 points

12.
Jury orders NSO to pay $167M for hacking WhatsApp users

104 points

13.
Old Timey Code and Old Timey Mono Fonts

97 points

14.
Bloat is still software's biggest vulnerability (2024)

90 points

15.
ACE-Step: A step towards music generation foundation model

59 points

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Show HN: Whippy Term - GUI terminal for embedded development (Linux and Windows)

44 points

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Alignment is not free: How model upgrades can silence your confidence signals

44 points

18.
DuoBook: Generate bilingual stories to learn any language

23 points

19.
docker2exe: Convert a Docker image to an executable

22 points

20.
Scientists have found a way to 'tattoo' tardigrades

22 points

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