Hacker News Highlights

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on May 7, 2025.

Show HN: Clippy – 90s UI for local LLMs
https://felixrieseberg.github.io/clippy/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43905942

Gemini 2.5 Pro Preview
https://developers.googleblog.com/en/gemini-2-5-pro-io-improved-coding-performance/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43906018

OpenAI reaches agreement to buy Windsurf for $3B
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-05-06/openai-reaches-agreement-to-buy-startup-windsurf-for-3-billion
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43900877

Matt Godbolt sold me on Rust by showing me C++
https://www.collabora.com/news-and-blog/blog/2025/05/06/matt-godbolt-sold-me-on-rust-by-showing-me-c-plus-plus/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43907820

Launch HN: Exa (YC S21) – The web as a database
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43906841

India launches attack on 9 sites in Pakistan and Pakistani Jammu and Kashmir
https://www.reuters.com/world/india/india-launches-attack-9-sites-pakistan-pakistan-occupied-jammu-kashmir-2025-05-06/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43909430

Claude's system prompt is over 24k tokens with tools
https://github.com/asgeirtj/system_prompts_leaks/blob/main/claude.txt
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43909409

VVVVVV Source Code
https://github.com/TerryCavanagh/VVVVVV
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43910681

Nnd – a TUI debugger alternative to GDB, LLDB
https://github.com/al13n321/nnd
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43905185

Accents in latent spaces: How AI hears accent strength in English
https://accent-strength.boldvoice.com/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43905299

What is Hacker News Highlights?

Daily overview of the Top 10 Hacker News posts. Post and comment summarization by AI.