The best of Hacker News - May 1, 2025

1.
I created Perfect Wiki and reached $250k in annual revenue without investors

598 points

2.
Apple violated antitrust ruling, judge finds

558 points

3.
Xiaomi MiMo Reasoning Model

422 points

4.
Mercury: Commercial-scale diffusion language model

268 points

5.
NotebookLM Audio Overviews are now available in over 50 languages

253 points

6.
Linux Kernel Exploitation: Attack of the Vsock

169 points

7.
All four major web browsers are about to lose 80% of their funding

160 points

8.
Espressif's ESP32-C5 Is Now in Mass Production

128 points

9.
Reversible computing with mechanical links and pivots

124 points

10.
Pwning the Ladybird Browser

123 points

11.
Zhaoxin's KX-7000

121 points

12.
Julia Parsons, U.S. Navy Code Breaker During World War II, Dies at 104

109 points

13.
Show HN: Create your own finetuned AI model using Google Sheets

105 points

14.
How the US defense secretary circumvents official DoD communications equipment

95 points

15.
108B Pixel Scan of Johannes Vermeer's Girl with a Pearl Earring

84 points

16.
I Found Malware in a BeamNG Mod

68 points

17.
Company built its own rail terminal in NYC to avoid relying on trucks

60 points

18.
Stockhausen: Sounds in Space

18 points

19.
Show HN: Convert Large CSV/XLSX to JSON or XML in Browser

12 points

20.
GroMo (YC W21) Is Hiring

1 points

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