The best of Hacker News - May 17, 2025

1.
A Research Preview of Codex

402 points

2.
Thoughts on thinking

365 points

3.
MIT asks arXiv to withdraw preprint of paper on AI and scientific discovery

276 points

4.
Getting AI to write good SQL

252 points

5.
Show HN: KVSplit – Run 2-3x longer contexts on Apple Silicon

223 points

6.
Show HN: Visual flow-based programming for Erlang, inspired by Node-RED

210 points

7.
I'm Peter Roberts, immigration attorney, who does work for YC and startups. AMA

198 points

8.
X X^t can be faster

170 points

9.
ClojureScript 1.12.42

119 points

10.
Rustls Server-Side Performance

79 points

11.
Coding agent in 94 lines of Ruby

77 points

12.
Wow@Home – Network of Amateur Radio Telescopes

56 points

13.
XTool – Cross-platform Xcode replacement

50 points

14.
MCP: An in-depth introduction

44 points

15.
Show HN: Merliot – plugging physical devices into LLMs

29 points

16.
A Linux kernel developer plays with Home Assistant: general impressions

29 points

17.
New high-quality hash measures 71GB/s on M4

22 points

18.
WebGL Gray-Scott Explorer (2012)

18 points

19.
Show HN: Fahmatrix – A Lightweight, Pandas-Like DataFrame Library for Java

11 points

20.
How can traditional British TV survive the US streaming giants

8 points

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