5.7.25 | Clippy brings 90s UI to local LLMs, Gemini 2.5 Pro preview released, OpenAI acquires Windsurf for $3B

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on May 7, 2025.Show HN: Clippy – 90s UI for local LLMshttps://felixrieseberg.github.io/clippy/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43905942Gemini 2.5 Pro Previewhttps://developers.googleblog.com/en/gemini-2-5-pro-io-improved-coding-performance/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43906018OpenAI reaches agreement to buy Windsurf for $3Bhttps://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-05-06/openai-reaches-agreement-to-buy-startup-windsurf-for-3-billionhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43900877Matt 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=43907820Launch HN: Exa (YC S21) – The web as a databasehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43906841India launches attack on 9 sites in Pakistan and Pakistani Jammu and Kashmirhttps://www.reuters.com/world/india/india-launches-attack-9-sites-pakistan-pakistan-occupied-jammu-kashmir-2025-05-06/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43909430Claude's system prompt is over 24k tokens with toolshttps://github.com/asgeirtj/system_prompts_leaks/blob/main/claude.txthttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43909409VVVVVV Source Codehttps://github.com/TerryCavanagh/VVVVVVhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43910681Nnd – a TUI debugger alternative to GDB, LLDBhttps://github.com/al13n321/nndhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43905185Accents in latent spaces: How AI hears accent strength in Englishhttps://accent-strength.boldvoice.com/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43905299