Hacker News on Monday, 25 May 2026

Magnifica Humanitas(vatican.va)

1526 points by theletterf 5 months ago | 857 comments

Vatican page hosting Magnifica Humanitas, Pope Leo XIV's encyclical letter on safeguarding the human person in the time of artificial intelligence.

Using AI to write better code more slowly(nolanlawson.com)

1102 points by signa11 5 months ago | 407 comments

Blog post by Nolan Lawson arguing that LLMs can be used to write higher-quality code more slowly, such as finding bugs, rather than producing low-quality code fast.

California moves to exempt Linux from its age-verification law after backlash(tomshardware.com)

995 points by rbanffy 5 months ago | 435 comments

Tom's Hardware news article on a proposed amendment exempting Linux from California's upcoming OS age-verification law, by the law's original author.

Taking a walk may lead to more creativity than sitting, study finds (2014)(apa.org)

550 points by bilsbie 5 months ago | 216 comments

Archived 2014 American Psychological Association press release on a study finding that walking boosts creative thinking compared with sitting.

What we lost when we stopped letting kids leave the front yard(stevemagness.substack.com)

463 points by obscurette 5 months ago | 494 comments

Steve Magness essay arguing that restricting children's freedom to roam beyond their street or yard has costs, citing statistics on declining independence.

Search engines alternatives now that Google isn't Google anymore(techcrunch.com)

460 points by elorant 5 months ago | 430 comments

TechCrunch article recommending six alternative search engines to try as Google Search shifts toward AI-driven results.

Ferrari Luce(ferrari.com)

453 points by jumploops 5 months ago | 839 comments

Ferrari's official product page for the Ferrari Luce, its first fully electric car; the capture shows a CloudFront 403 error instead.

Exit IP VPN servers mitigation rollout(mullvad.net)

411 points by Cider9986 5 months ago | 79 comments

Mullvad help page listing the VPN servers (WireGuard relays in various cities) where a new exit IP mitigation has been applied.

A few interesting modern pixel fonts(unsung.aresluna.org)

402 points by zdw 5 months ago | 97 comments

A blog post on Marcin Wichary's Unsung blog highlighting several modern pixel fonts, starting with Andrew Gleeson's Analog Mono, a remake of the VCR OSD Mono font.

Hacker News front page as a site(thefrontpage.dev)

372 points by thatxliner 5 months ago | 102 comments

A website that renders the Hacker News front page as a vintage newspaper layout with story headlines, images, and summaries.

How Shamir's Secret Sharing Works(ente.com)

351 points by subract 5 months ago | 65 comments

Ente blog post explaining how Shamir's Secret Sharing splits a secret into pieces so that a threshold of them can reconstruct it.

The Eternal Sloptember(geohot.github.io)

347 points by razin 5 months ago | 280 comments

A blog post by George Hotz arguing that adopting AI coding agents in software development is a costly mistake because their output is subtly broken.

Pope Leo XIV says AI must serve humanity, not the powerful few(religionnews.com)

320 points by benwerd 5 months ago | 141 comments

Religion News Service article on Pope Leo XIV's first encyclical, 'Magnifica Humanitas,' an 83-page document on the social, economic and political challenges of AI.

Norway's 2 petabytes of Huawei flash storage and LLM training(blocksandfiles.com)

304 points by rbanffy 5 months ago | 195 comments

Leave Me Behind(androidessence.com)

296 points by mooreds 5 months ago | 216 comments

Jira Is Turing-Complete(seriot.ch)

283 points by vinhnx 5 months ago | 132 comments

Netherlands Seizes 800 Servers, Arrests 2 for Aiding Cyberattacks(krebsonsecurity.com)

263 points by jruohonen 5 months ago | 69 comments

Toshifumi Suzuki, founder of Seven-Eleven Japan, has died(referenceforbusiness.com)

254 points by L_Rahman 5 months ago | 104 comments

Nobody cracks open a programming book anymore(unix.foo)

241 points by zdw 5 months ago | 260 comments

A successful Japanese trial of a ramjet engine designed for Mach‑5 aircraft(bgr.com)

221 points by rmason 5 months ago | 166 comments

Microsoft Copilot Cowork Exfiltrates Files(promptarmor.com)

217 points by Kneenex 5 months ago | 46 comments

The bootstrapper's EU stack for under €10 per month(eualternative.eu)

193 points by sparkling 5 months ago | 72 comments

C extensions, portability, and alternative compilers(lemon.rip)

161 points by xngbuilds 5 months ago | 76 comments

Microsoft pulls plug on plans for 244-acre data center in Caledonia (2025)(tmj4.com)

156 points by cdrnsf 5 months ago | 140 comments

Uber’s COO says it’s getting harder to justify money spent on tokenmaxxing(businessinsider.com)

150 points by _____k 5 months ago | 179 comments

Pope Leo: opaque AI run by few firms risks "New Forms of Dehumanization"(variety.com)

149 points by embedding-shape 5 months ago | 16 comments

IBM Spins Off the First Pure-Play Quantum Chip Foundry(futurumgroup.com)

144 points by rbanffy 5 months ago | 62 comments

Yoti age checks share facial photos and device fingerprints with third parties(techxplore.com)

139 points by Lihh27 5 months ago | 26 comments

CVE-2026-28952: Apple macOS 26.5 Kernel Vuln found by Claude(support.apple.com)

134 points by dragonsenseiguy 5 months ago | 64 comments

The Ask(randsinrepose.com)

134 points by digitallogic 5 months ago | 93 comments

Performance of Rust Language [pdf](github.com)

124 points by tanelpoder 5 months ago | 92 comments

The most unlikely school bag(carryology.com)

118 points by surprisetalk 5 months ago | 34 comments

C array types are weird(anselmschueler.com)

117 points by signa11 5 months ago | 117 comments

What Is a Direct Attach Copper (DAC) Cable? (2021)(servethehome.com)

99 points by teleforce 5 months ago | 82 comments

Rising seas will swallow New Orleans. People need to start relocating now(cnn.com)

89 points by breve 5 months ago | 88 comments

My new obsession: A horse-racing board game of pure luck(alexanderbjoy.com)

86 points by surprisetalk 5 months ago | 53 comments

2026 HIPAA Security Rule Update(medcurity.com)

82 points by mooreds 5 months ago | 76 comments

US's big bet on quantum computing may not be legal(arstechnica.com)

81 points by Bender 5 months ago | 88 comments

Rapira (Рапира) – Soviet programming language interpreter(github.com)

80 points by begoon 5 months ago | 49 comments

Splinter Cell veteran says realistic modern lighting has screwed up stealth game(rockpapershotgun.com)

74 points by Tomte 5 months ago | 50 comments

Show HN: OpenBrief – Local-first video downloader/summarizer(github.com)

72 points by tantara 5 months ago | 12 comments

Seeing Around Corners Using Smartphone-Grade Lidar(spectrum.ieee.org)

69 points by marc__1 5 months ago | 18 comments

GPT Guesses Between 1 and 100(github.com)

65 points by adunk 5 months ago | 46 comments

Show HN: Geomatic – A command-driven geometry studio enabled with autodiff(tinyvolt.com)

62 points by nivter 5 months ago | 14 comments

Using Tailscale with an OrbStack VM on macOS(github.com)

61 points by highpost 5 months ago | 15 comments

Ruby vs. Java vs. TypeScript: my experience on building a Cowork DOCX plugin(tanin.nanakorn.com)

59 points by theanonymousone 5 months ago | 39 comments

Cate v1.0 is out: The Infinite canvas workspace for developers(github.com)

56 points by BlueBerry2001 5 months ago | 35 comments

Theseus: Translating Win32 to WASM(neugierig.org)

55 points by ingve 5 months ago | 25 comments

Launch HN: Chert (YC P26) – Twilio for iMessage(trychert.com)

51 points by garygao 5 months ago | 178 comments

I manage teams without a single call(orchidfiles.com)

48 points by theorchid 5 months ago | 43 comments

Fully in-browser container builds(ochagavia.nl)

45 points by wofo 5 months ago | 25 comments

Why Ctrl+V won't paste images in Claude Code on WSL, with a fix(rajveerbachkaniwala.com)

45 points by rajveerb 5 months ago | 44 comments

Why Do We Sleep Under Blankets, Even on the Hottest Nights? (2017)(atlasobscura.com)

45 points by downbad_ 5 months ago | 33 comments

Canada losing top talent as workers head to the U.S.(bnnbloomberg.ca)

41 points by leopoldj 5 months ago | 38 comments

Boston and Bermuda(askthepilot.com)

41 points by dangle1 5 months ago | 16 comments

Anthropic Cofounder Chris Olah's Remarks on Pope Leo XIV's "Magnifica Humanitas"(anthropic.com)

40 points by Philpax 5 months ago | 37 comments

Alaska's oil revival sparks a new energy rush Into the Arctic(fortune.com)

39 points by Brajeshwar 5 months ago | 35 comments

Ninth Circuit Panel Goes Out of Its Way to Question Section 230–DOE vs. Meta(blog.ericgoldman.org)

36 points by hn_acker 5 months ago | 33 comments

Qwen3.7-Max Ran for 35 Hours on Unknown Hardware and Achieved a 10× Speedup(firethering.com)

34 points by steveharing1 5 months ago | 18 comments

AI Datacenters Were Built for GPUs. What Happens When You Remove the GPUs?(almartis.xyz)

33 points by AlassaneSakande 5 months ago | 23 comments