The best of Hacker News - May 16, 2025

1.
Baby is healed with first personalized gene-editing treatment

706 points

2.
The unreasonable effectiveness of an LLM agent loop with tool use

286 points

3.
A leap year check in three instructions

249 points

4.
A Tiny Boltzmann Machine

230 points

5.
NASA keeps ancient Voyager 1 spacecraft alive with Hail Mary thruster fix

184 points

6.
Initialization in C++ is bonkers (2017)

122 points

7.
Launch HN: Tinfoil (YC X25): Verifiable Privacy for Cloud AI

117 points

8.
Tek – A music making program for 24-bit Unicode terminals

113 points

9.
The current state of TLA⁺ development

105 points

10.
Ollama's new engine for multimodal models

91 points

11.
Teal – A statically-typed dialect of Lua

86 points

12.
Show HN: Easel – Code multiplayer games like singleplayer

68 points

13.
GTK Krell Monitors

44 points

14.
Lock-Free Rust: How to Build a Rollercoaster While It's on Fire

43 points

15.
Cracked - method chaining/CSS-style selector web audio library

39 points

16.
Rolling Highway

26 points

17.
The Awful German Language (1880)

23 points

18.
Dia – An Early Review

22 points

19.
"Goodwill", key member of the SoCal Python Community has passed away

21 points

20.
Bringing 3D shoppable products online with generative AI

11 points

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