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Hacker News (Feb 2025)

  1. Digital Services Playbook

    125 points • comment • feb 23, 2025

  2. Barcelona buys apartment building at center of eviction protests

    125 points • comment • feb 18, 2025

  3. The Wrongs of Thomas More

    125 points • comment • feb 24, 2025

  4. Matrix Foundation to shut down bridges if it doesn't raise $100K

    125 points • comment • feb 20, 2025

  5. A 16TB Mirror of Data.gov on Source.Coop

    125 points • comment • feb 07, 2025

  6. Show HN: Blunderchess.net – blunder for your opponent every five moves

    125 points • comment • feb 16, 2025

  7. By the end of today, NASA's workforce will be about 10 percent smaller

    125 points • comment • feb 18, 2025

  8. A Mount Lyell shrew has just been photographed alive

    124 points • comment • feb 02, 2025

  9. NES86 – IBM PC Emulator for the NES

    124 points • comment • feb 17, 2025

  10. A colorful Game of Life

    124 points • comment • feb 06, 2025

  11. TikTok is back in the App Store

    124 points • comment • feb 14, 2025

  12. Why Quantum Cryptanalysis is Bollocks [pdf]

    123 points • comment • feb 14, 2025

  13. Go 1.24 Is Released

    123 points • comment • feb 11, 2025

  14. We don't need startups, we need Digital-Mittelstand

    123 points • comment • feb 24, 2025

  15. Grok 3: Another win for the bitter lesson

    123 points • comment • feb 20, 2025

  16. Tesla protests gain momentum while the hate is dividing Tesla owners

    123 points • comment • feb 26, 2025

  17. There's Math.random(), and then there's Math.random() (2015)

    122 points • comment • feb 03, 2025

  18. Larry Ellison wants to put all America's data in AI, including DNA

    122 points • comment • feb 13, 2025

  19. Mac(OS)talgia

    122 points • comment • feb 09, 2025

  20. Basketball has evolved into a game of calculated decision-making

    122 points • comment • feb 15, 2025

  21. A tail calling interpreter for Python (already landed in CPython)

    122 points • comment • feb 17, 2025

  22. US Cloud soon illegal in EU? US punches first hole in EU-US Data Deal

    122 points • comment • feb 06, 2025

  23. Ray-Ban Meta glasses have sold 2M units, production to be increased

    121 points • comment • feb 18, 2025

  24. Mathematics in the 20th century, by Michael Atiyah [pdf] (2002)

    121 points • comment • feb 09, 2025

  25. Putting Andrew Ng's OCR models to the test

    121 points • comment • feb 28, 2025

  26. TikTok's algorithm exhibited pro-Republican bias during 2024 presidential race

    121 points • comment • feb 04, 2025

  27. Big tech has disrupted the social contract

    121 points • comment • feb 16, 2025

  28. Brain Hyperconnectivity in Children with Autism and Its Links to Social Deficits (2013)

    121 points • comment • feb 09, 2025

  29. Automattic Hit with Class Action over WP Engine Dispute

    121 points • comment • feb 26, 2025

  30. Nigerians are building affordable alternatives to AWS and Google Cloud

    121 points • comment • feb 27, 2025

  31. Little Sisyphus A physics-based platformer for the NES

    120 points • comment • feb 15, 2025

  32. OpenStreetMap Calendar

    120 points • comment • feb 09, 2025

  33. Is the ArXiv safe from the current US Government attacks?

    120 points • comment • feb 15, 2025

  34. CDC Study Finds Silent Bird Flu Infections in Dairy Veterinarians

    120 points • comment • feb 14, 2025

  35. If you believe in "Artificial Intelligence", take five minutes to ask it

    120 points • comment • feb 15, 2025

  36. The Cantonese Scrolls – A Cantonese language learning mental RPG

    120 points • comment • feb 03, 2025

  37. The Impact of Generative AI on Critical Thinking [pdf]

    120 points • comment • feb 15, 2025

  38. Escaping surprise bills and over-engineered messes: Why I left AWS

    119 points • comment • feb 04, 2025

  39. Apple software update “bug” enables Apple Intelligence

    119 points • comment • feb 11, 2025

  40. The need for memory safety standards

    119 points • comment • feb 26, 2025

  41. Hytradboi 2025 Program

    119 points • comment • feb 01, 2025

  42. Show HN: Klarity – Open-source tool to analyze uncertainty/entropy in LLM output

    119 points • comment • feb 03, 2025

  43. Rediscovering Quaternions

    119 points • comment • feb 26, 2025

  44. Google Titans Model Explained: The Future of Memory-Driven AI Architectures

    118 points • comment • feb 18, 2025

  45. Vanishing Culture: Punch Card Knitting

    118 points • comment • feb 12, 2025

  46. I think Yann Lecun was right about LLMs (but perhaps only by accident)

    118 points • comment • feb 21, 2025

  47. Lox – Oxidized Astrodynamics – A safe, ergonomic astrodynamics library

    117 points • comment • feb 20, 2025

  48. AI by Hand Exercises in Excel

    117 points • comment • feb 06, 2025

  49. The Buenos Aires Constant

    117 points • comment • feb 18, 2025

  50. Show HN: I Built a Reddit-style Bluesky client – still rough, but open to ideas

    117 points • comment • feb 15, 2025

  51. MapQuest's 'Name Your Own Gulf'

    117 points • comment • feb 18, 2025

  52. LeetCode but You Can Force People to Code in Light Mode

    117 points • comment • feb 20, 2025

  53. Does iOS have sideloading yet?

    117 points • comment • feb 28, 2025

  54. Meta announces LlamaCon, its first generative AI dev conference on April 29

    116 points • comment • feb 19, 2025

  55. Lynx Browser: The Land That Time Revived (2022)

    116 points • comment • feb 20, 2025

  56. RT64: N64 graphics renderer in emulators and native ports

    116 points • comment • feb 20, 2025

  57. Malaysia is betting on data centers to boost its economy

    116 points • comment • feb 19, 2025

  58. Linux’s Sole Wireless/WiFi Driver Maintainer Is Stepping Down

    116 points • comment • feb 18, 2025

  59. The Language Construction Kit (1996, 2012)

    116 points • comment • feb 03, 2025

  60. Why cryptography is not based on NP-complete problems

    116 points • comment • feb 13, 2025

  61. Tumblr to join the Fediverse after WordPress migration completes

    115 points • comment • feb 11, 2025

  62. The reality of long-term software maintenance from the maintainer's perspective

    115 points • comment • feb 19, 2025

  63. Spanish 'running of the bulls' festival reveals crowd movements can be predicted

    115 points • comment • feb 12, 2025

  64. Product Development Processes You Might Not Have Heard of (2022)

    115 points • comment • feb 13, 2025

  65. T1: A RISC-V Vector processor implementation

    115 points • comment • feb 03, 2025

  66. Critics say new Google rules put profits over privacy

    115 points • comment • feb 16, 2025

  67. Bifurcation: The secret giant islands formed when rivers split

    115 points • comment • feb 26, 2025

  68. DARPA project reveals one person can control dozens of robots

    115 points • comment • feb 28, 2025

  69. The $1.5B Bybit Hack

    114 points • comment • feb 22, 2025

  70. Patterns for Personal Web Sites (2003)

    114 points • comment • feb 03, 2025

  71. UnitedHealth Is Sick of Everyone Complaining About Its Claim Denials

    114 points • comment • feb 09, 2025

  72. Show HN: Global 3D topography explorer

    114 points • comment • feb 10, 2025

  73. Fans are better than tech at organizing information online (2019)

    114 points • comment • feb 22, 2025

  74. Huawei's Ascend 910C delivers 60% of Nvidia H100 inference performance

    113 points • comment • feb 05, 2025

  75. US Forest Service firings decimate: entire generation of talent and passion lost

    113 points • comment • feb 27, 2025

  76. Lithium-sulfur battery retains 80% charge capacity after 25,000 cycles

    113 points • comment • feb 21, 2025

  77. Launch HN: Confident AI (YC W25) – Open-source evaluation framework for LLM apps

    113 points • comment • feb 20, 2025

  78. Out of Africa: celebrating 100 years of human-origins research

    113 points • comment • feb 06, 2025

  79. Ricochet: Peer-to-peer instant messaging system built on Tor hidden services (2017)

    113 points • comment • feb 14, 2025

  80. How Medical Research Cuts Would Hit Colleges and Hospitals in Every State

    113 points • comment • feb 16, 2025

  81. US Space Force reveals first look at secretive X-37B space plane in orbit

    113 points • comment • feb 22, 2025

  82. Some Programming Language Ideas

    113 points • comment • feb 21, 2025

  83. YouTube audio quality – How good does it get? (2022)

    113 points • comment • feb 01, 2025

  84. Another Conflict Between Privacy Laws and Age Authentication–Murphy v Confirm ID

    112 points • comment • feb 28, 2025

  85. Vibe Coding and the Future of Software Engineering

    112 points • comment • feb 25, 2025

  86. Awesome DeepSeek Integrations

    112 points • comment • feb 25, 2025

  87. Managers given 200 characters to justify not firing nuclear regulators

    112 points • comment • feb 17, 2025

  88. Bernd das Brot, a depressed German loaf of bread

    112 points • comment • feb 28, 2025

  89. I Blog with Raw HTML

    112 points • comment • feb 10, 2025

  90. Sky skimmers: The race to fly satellites at the lowest orbits yet

    111 points • comment • feb 09, 2025

  91. Parsing JSON in 500 lines of Rust

    111 points • comment • feb 19, 2025

  92. Open source projects could sell SBOM fragments

    111 points • comment • feb 17, 2025

  93. Long division verified via Hoare logic

    111 points • comment • feb 26, 2025

  94. EEG Study of Buddhist Jhāna Meditation (2019)

    111 points • comment • feb 17, 2025

  95. More Solar and Battery Storage Added to TX Grid Than Other Power Src Last Year

    111 points • comment • feb 15, 2025

  96. Dinner at a North Korean Restaurant in Shanghai (2016)

    111 points • comment • feb 16, 2025

  97. Ghost House – software for automatic inbetweens

    111 points • comment • feb 25, 2025

  98. Q2DOS – Quake 2 backported to MS-DOS

    110 points • comment • feb 15, 2025

  99. MongoDB acquires Voyage AI

    110 points • comment • feb 24, 2025

  100. Macintosh Allegro Common Lisp

    110 points • comment • feb 01, 2025