Hacker News Highlights

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on May 16, 2025.

Baby is healed with first personalized gene-editing treatment
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/15/health/gene-editing-personalized-rare-disorders.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43997636

The unreasonable effectiveness of an LLM agent loop with tool use
https://sketch.dev/blog/agent-loop
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43998472

A leap year check in three instructions
https://hueffner.de/falk/blog/a-leap-year-check-in-three-instructions.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43999748

Coinbase says hackers bribed staff to steal customer data, demanding $20M ransom
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/05/15/coinbase-says-hackers-bribed-staff-to-steal-customer-data-and-are-demanding-20-million-ransom.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43996307

Ollama's new engine for multimodal models
https://ollama.com/blog/multimodal-models
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44001087

BuyMeACoffee silently dropped support for many countries (2024)
https://zverok.space/blog/2024-08-08-bmac-snafu.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44002333

Initialization in C++ is bonkers (2017)
https://blog.tartanllama.xyz/initialization-is-bonkers/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43999492

Teal – A statically-typed dialect of Lua
https://teal-language.org/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44000759

After months of coding with LLMs, I'm going back to using my brain
https://albertofortin.com/writing/coding-with-ai
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44003700

Launch HN: Tinfoil (YC X25): Verifiable Privacy for Cloud AI
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43996555

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