The best of Hacker News - May 25, 2025

1.
I used o3 to find a remote zeroday in the Linux SMB implementation

414 points

2.
Show HN: Rotary Phone Dial Linux Kernel Driver

290 points

3.
Reinvent the Wheel

287 points

4.
Scientific conferences are leaving the US amid border fears

238 points

5.
Good Writing

204 points

6.
Tachy0n: The Last 0day Jailbreak

190 points

7.
The Xenon Death Flash: How a Camera Nearly Killed the Raspberry Pi 2

186 points

8.
Hong Kong's Famous Bamboo Scaffolding Hangs on (For Now)

161 points

9.
Lone coder cracks 50-year puzzle to find Boggle's top-scoring board

121 points

10.
Why old games never die, but new ones do

92 points

11.
Failure Mechanisms in Democratic Regimes – An Army's Role

65 points

12.
The Logistics of Road War in the Wasteland

61 points

13.
How to Install Windows NT 4 Server on Proxmox

50 points

14.
One of the Most Popular Games on the Planet

39 points

15.
Nvidia Pushes Further into Cloud with GPU Marketplace

37 points

16.
An Almost Pointless Exercise in GPU Optimization

37 points

17.
The WinRAR Approach

35 points

18.
Anthropic Claude Opus 4 tries to blackmail devs when replacement threatened

34 points

19.
Using the Apple ][+ with the RetroTink-5X

30 points

20.
On File Formats

15 points

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