The best of Hacker News - May 14, 2025

1.
Multiple security issues in GNU Screen

362 points

2.
Branch Privilege Injection: Exploiting branch predictor race conditions

351 points

3.
Google is building its own DeX: First look at Android's Desktop Mode

261 points

4.
PDF to Text, a challenging problem

253 points

5.
Launch HN: Miyagi (YC W25) turns YouTube videos into online, interactive courses

170 points

6.
Type-constrained code generation with language models

158 points

7.
Flattening Rust’s learning curve

155 points

8.
It Awaits Your Experiments

149 points

9.
Show HN: HelixDB – Open-source vector-graph database for AI applications (Rust)

145 points

10.
Failed Soviet Venus lander Kosmos 482 crashes to Earth after 53 years in orbit

128 points

11.
Build real-time knowledge graph for documents with LLM

113 points

12.
Airbnb is in midlife crisis mode

111 points

13.
Bus stops here: Shanghai lets riders design their own routes

72 points

14.
Show HN: I’ve built an IoT device to let my family know when I’m in a meeting

61 points

15.
Garbage collection of object storage at scale

60 points

16.
RPG in a Box

48 points

17.
Replicube: A puzzle game about writing code to create shapes

30 points

18.
How “The Great Gatsby” took over high school

26 points

19.
Mipmap selection in too much detail

25 points

20.
Show HN: Mycelium

8 points

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