The best of Hacker News - May 23, 2025

1.
Claude 4

1615 points

2.
Mozilla to shut down Pocket and Fakespot

879 points

3.
That fractal that's been up on my wall for years

352 points

4.
Improving performance of rav1d video decoder

265 points

5.
Fast Allocations in Ruby 3.5

198 points

6.
I Built My Own Audio Player

196 points

7.
Show HN: Defuddle, an HTML-to-Markdown alternative to Readability

194 points

8.
The Future of Flatpak

190 points

9.
Does Earth have two high-tide bulges on opposite sides? (2014)

164 points

10.
How to cheat at settlers by loading the dice (2017)

97 points

11.
Loading Pydantic models from JSON without running out of memory

90 points

12.
Airport for DuckDB

76 points

13.
“Secret Mall Apartment,” a Protest for Place

75 points

14.
32 bits that changed microprocessor design

60 points

15.
Silly job interview questions in Haskell

51 points

16.
Sketchy Calendar

41 points

17.
Richard Garwin’s role in designing the hydrogen bomb was obscured

41 points

18.
CivitAI Policy Update: Removal of Real-Person Likeness Content

27 points

19.
John Carmack at Upper Bound 2025 (slides and notes)

9 points

20.
Like Lovable but can make apps with gen-AI powered back ends

8 points

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