The best of Hacker News - May 15, 2025

1.
AlphaEvolve: A Gemini-powered coding agent for designing advanced algorithms

769 points

2.
What is HDR, anyway?

570 points

3.
Databricks acquires Neon

306 points

4.
A server that wasn't meant to exist

289 points

5.
Changes since congestion pricing started in New York

246 points

6.
Git Bug: Distributed, Offline-First Bug Tracker Embedded in Git, with Bridges

202 points

7.
The cryptography behind passkeys

192 points

8.
Show HN: Muscle-Mem, a behavior cache for AI agents

167 points

9.
Migrating to Postgres

148 points

10.
Our narrative prison

142 points

11.
LLMs get lost in multi-turn conversation

123 points

12.
Show HN: Semantic Calculator (king-man+woman=?)

113 points

13.
Human

106 points

14.
Python lib generates its code on-the-fly based on usage

67 points

15.
Internet Artifacts

58 points

16.
Hegel 2.0: The imaginary history of ternary computing (2018)

40 points

17.
Internet Scrabble Club (2002-)

33 points

18.
NASA Stennis Releases First Open-Source Software

30 points

19.
Why agency and cognition are fundamentally not computational

20 points

20.
Self-hostable webhook tester in go

11 points

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