5.16.25 | Baby healed with gene-editing, LLM agent loop effectiveness, leap year check instructions

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on May 16, 2025.Baby is healed with first personalized gene-editing treatmenthttps://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/15/health/gene-editing-personalized-rare-disorders.htmlhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43997636The unreasonable effectiveness of an LLM agent loop with tool usehttps://sketch.dev/blog/agent-loophttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43998472A leap year check in three instructionshttps://hueffner.de/falk/blog/a-leap-year-check-in-three-instructions.htmlhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43999748Coinbase says hackers bribed staff to steal customer data, demanding $20M ransomhttps://www.cnbc.com/2025/05/15/coinbase-says-hackers-bribed-staff-to-steal-customer-data-and-are-demanding-20-million-ransom.htmlhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43996307Ollama's new engine for multimodal modelshttps://ollama.com/blog/multimodal-modelshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44001087BuyMeACoffee silently dropped support for many countries (2024)https://zverok.space/blog/2024-08-08-bmac-snafu.htmlhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44002333Initialization in C++ is bonkers (2017)https://blog.tartanllama.xyz/initialization-is-bonkers/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43999492Teal – A statically-typed dialect of Luahttps://teal-language.org/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44000759After months of coding with LLMs, I'm going back to using my brainhttps://albertofortin.com/writing/coding-with-aihttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44003700Launch HN: Tinfoil (YC X25): Verifiable Privacy for Cloud AIhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43996555