5.25.25 | o3 finds Linux SMB zeroday, Reinvent the Wheel, US scientific conferences leaving due to border fears

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on May 25, 2025.I used o3 to find a remote zeroday in the Linux SMB implementationhttps://sean.heelan.io/2025/05/22/how-i-used-o3-to-find-cve-2025-37899-a-remote-zeroday-vulnerability-in-the-linux-kernels-smb-implementation/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44081338Reinvent the Wheelhttps://endler.dev/2025/reinvent-the-wheel/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44083467Scientific conferences are leaving the US amid border fearshttps://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-01636-5https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44084017Show HN: Rotary Phone Dial Linux Kernel Driverhttps://gitlab.com/sephalon/rotary_dial_kmodhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44080803Good Writinghttps://paulgraham.com/goodwriting.htmlhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44081586Tachy0n: The Last 0day Jailbreakhttps://blog.siguza.net/tachy0n/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44083388The Xenon Death Flash: How a Camera Nearly Killed the Raspberry Pi 2https://magnus919.com/2025/05/the-xenon-death-flash-how-a-camera-nearly-killed-the-raspberry-pi-2/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44080533Hong Kong's Famous Bamboo Scaffolding Hangs on (For Now)https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/24/world/asia/hongkong-bamboo-scaffolding.htmlhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44080549Why old games never die, but new ones dohttps://pleromanonx86.wordpress.com/2025/05/06/why-old-games-never-die-but-new-ones-do/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44083917Peer Programming with LLMs, for Senior+ Engineershttps://pmbanugo.me/blog/peer-programming-with-llmshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44081081