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Hacker News (Feb 2025)

  1. Google scraps diversity-based hiring targets

    61 points • comment • feb 05, 2025

  2. Automated Capability Discovery via Foundation Model Self-Exploration

    61 points • comment • feb 12, 2025

  3. The Pinball Philosophy (1975)

    61 points • comment • feb 10, 2025

  4. OpenJKDF2 – A cross-platform reimplementation of JKDF2 in C

    61 points • comment • feb 23, 2025

  5. Gold-Medalist Performance in Solving Olympiad Geometry with AlphaGeometry2

    60 points • comment • feb 07, 2025

  6. 'Indiana Jones' jailbreak approach highlights vulnerabilities of existing LLMs

    60 points • comment • feb 21, 2025

  7. Transfinite NIM (the game, not the programming language)

    60 points • comment • feb 06, 2025

  8. The art of calling out room dynamics (2024)

    60 points • comment • feb 12, 2025

  9. Blocking the telemetry of Adobe apps

    60 points • comment • feb 07, 2025

  10. Is ChatGPT autocomplete bad UX/UI?

    60 points • comment • feb 17, 2025

  11. French train passenger fined €150 for using phone on speaker

    60 points • comment • feb 07, 2025

  12. Deep Fake Detector Extension by Mozilla Firefox

    60 points • comment • feb 08, 2025

  13. USDA Inspector General Who Refused to Leave Escorted from Office by Security

    60 points • comment • feb 01, 2025

  14. Weird Kaggle and the Superiority of Books

    60 points • comment • feb 19, 2025

  15. Show HN: WinCse – Integrating AWS S3 with Windows Explorer

    60 points • comment • feb 20, 2025

  16. Open Source LLMOps Stack

    60 points • comment • feb 26, 2025

  17. Imposing memory security in C [video]

    60 points • comment • feb 27, 2025

  18. Managing Secrets in Docker Compose – A Developer's Guide

    60 points • comment • feb 03, 2025

  19. February 22, 1985 Operation Beluga

    60 points • comment • feb 09, 2025

  20. Microsoft Cancels Leases for AI Data Centers, Analyst Says

    60 points • comment • feb 24, 2025

  21. Ask HN: Can I really create a company around my open-source software?

    60 points • comment • feb 18, 2025

  22. Terraform Config Root Setups

    60 points • comment • feb 12, 2025

  23. Mailspring: Cross-platform, fast, open source mail client

    59 points • comment • feb 03, 2025

  24. Federal workers say they increasingly distrust platforms like Facebook

    59 points • comment • feb 13, 2025

  25. 'social network' attacking pesticide critics shuts down after investigation

    59 points • comment • feb 11, 2025

  26. Trump administration to fire thousands at health agencies

    59 points • comment • feb 14, 2025

  27. US examining whether UK's encryption demand on Apple broke data treaty

    59 points • comment • feb 27, 2025

  28. OpenAI: Out of Ideas

    59 points • comment • feb 03, 2025

  29. Cameras of 1930s Era

    59 points • comment • feb 06, 2025

  30. No good deed goes unpunished: can we now be sued over software we give away?

    59 points • comment • feb 15, 2025

  31. Gazeta Wyborcza, Poland's largest newspaper quits X, now on Bluesky

    59 points • comment • feb 15, 2025

  32. Syria just hosted its first international tech conference in 50 years

    59 points • comment • feb 12, 2025

  33. Nocc – A Distributed C++ Compiler

    59 points • comment • feb 11, 2025

  34. Ways to annoy your senior engineer

    59 points • comment • feb 23, 2025

  35. Show HN: Txtl – Fast static website of text utilities

    59 points • comment • feb 25, 2025

  36. Chipzilla Devours the Desktop

    59 points • comment • feb 23, 2025

  37. FDA meeting to pick next winter's flu shot is canceled, in ominous sign for US

    59 points • comment • feb 27, 2025

  38. Elementary Functions and Not Following IEEE754 Floating-Point Standard (2020)

    59 points • comment • feb 11, 2025

  39. Feature Flags vs. Configuration Options – Same Difference?

    59 points • comment • feb 11, 2025

  40. Launch HN: Roark (YC W25) – Taking the pain out of voice AI testing

    59 points • comment • feb 17, 2025

  41. VSCode Marketplace Web Pages No Longer Allow Direct VSIX Downloads

    59 points • comment • feb 04, 2025

  42. Announcing Rust 1.85.0 and Rust 2024

    59 points • comment • feb 20, 2025

  43. UK demands access to Apple users' encrypted data

    59 points • comment • feb 07, 2025

  44. Reasoning models are just LLMs

    59 points • comment • feb 09, 2025

  45. The LLM Curve of Impact on Software Engineers

    59 points • comment • feb 07, 2025

  46. Rust: Doubling Throughput with Continuous Profiling and Optimization

    59 points • comment • feb 14, 2025

  47. Grafana: Why observability needs FinOps, and vice versa

    58 points • comment • feb 06, 2025

  48. Par: Process language with an interactive playground for exploring concurrency

    58 points • comment • feb 02, 2025

  49. An Anonymous Investor Is Spending Millions to Make Underwater Homes

    58 points • comment • feb 06, 2025

  50. Show HN: Python micro event loop library (~250 LOC)

    58 points • comment • feb 28, 2025

  51. Skopje’s eccentric post office (2021)

    58 points • comment • feb 26, 2025

  52. Are noise-cancelling headphones to blame for young people's hearing problems?

    58 points • comment • feb 17, 2025

  53. The reason behind the TikTok ban

    58 points • comment • feb 16, 2025

  54. Jooki – Taking Control of a Forgotten Device

    58 points • comment • feb 10, 2025

  55. Elon Musk's DOGE Posts Classified Data on Its New Website

    58 points • comment • feb 14, 2025

  56. How America traded systematic improvement for quick wins–and lost both

    58 points • comment • feb 11, 2025

  57. Trust, 2-Party Relays, and QUIC

    58 points • comment • feb 11, 2025

  58. AMOC shutdown likely within the next 20-30 years

    58 points • comment • feb 07, 2025

  59. Show HN: Synergetica – A Modern, End-to-End Genetic Circuit Design Desktop App

    58 points • comment • feb 15, 2025

  60. Ollama-Swift

    58 points • comment • feb 16, 2025

  61. The Big TDD Misunderstanding (2022)

    58 points • comment • feb 15, 2025

  62. Show HN: TimeRetain – A browser-based personal time tracker, no sign-up needed

    57 points • comment • feb 17, 2025

  63. SilverBullet – note-taking Git-friendly alternative to Logseq and Obsidian

    57 points • comment • feb 08, 2025

  64. Technofossils: Humanity's eternal testament will be plastic bags, cheap clothes

    57 points • comment • feb 23, 2025

  65. Show HN: Groundhog AI Spring API

    57 points • comment • feb 02, 2025

  66. An Upstate Town Took Back Its Power (2023)

    57 points • comment • feb 09, 2025

  67. Concurrency bugs in Lucene: How to fix optimistic concurrency failures

    57 points • comment • feb 20, 2025

  68. How Translation Works, Book Title Edition

    57 points • comment • feb 03, 2025

  69. Down the rabbit hole: Implementing SSH port forwarding over AWS Session Manager

    57 points • comment • feb 11, 2025

  70. The Dino, the Llama, and the Whale (Deno and Jupyter for Local AI Experiments)

    57 points • comment • feb 28, 2025

  71. MESI Cache Coherency Protocol Visualization

    57 points • comment • feb 10, 2025

  72. Python 3.14 Getting New Interpreter

    57 points • comment • feb 10, 2025

  73. Long-Context GRPO

    57 points • comment • feb 21, 2025

  74. Show HN: Kartoffels – Cellular Automata, Statistics, 32-bit RISC-V

    57 points • comment • feb 17, 2025

  75. DOGE exposes once-secret government networks

    57 points • comment • feb 14, 2025

  76. Nearly a year later, Mozilla is still promoting Onerep

    57 points • comment • feb 14, 2025

  77. A whirlwind tutorial on creating teensy ELF executables for Linux (1999)

    57 points • comment • feb 07, 2025

  78. More users are watching YouTube on TV than mobile

    57 points • comment • feb 11, 2025

  79. The first ever all-drone assault by Ukraine

    57 points • comment • feb 09, 2025

  80. Tolerating full cloud outages with Monzo Stand-in

    57 points • comment • feb 13, 2025

  81. Who was Aleph Null? (2013)

    57 points • comment • feb 27, 2025

  82. Increasing rat numbers in cities are linked to climate warming, urbanization

    57 points • comment • feb 15, 2025

  83. Beavers finish seven-year dam project in two days saving – $1M

    56 points • comment • feb 10, 2025

  84. $30 Thrift Store Find a $223,000 Jet Engine Valve

    56 points • comment • feb 25, 2025

  85. America's "First Car-Free Neighborhood" Is Going Pretty Good, Actually?

    56 points • comment • feb 05, 2025

  86. Publish Your Gaussian Splats with SuperSplat

    56 points • comment • feb 13, 2025

  87. Diffusion Without Tears

    56 points • comment • feb 14, 2025

  88. New technique generates topological structures with gravity water waves

    56 points • comment • feb 15, 2025

  89. TSforge: Reverse Engineering the Windows Software Protection Platform

    56 points • comment • feb 13, 2025

  90. CDC Posts, Then Deletes, Data on Bird Flu Spread Between Cats and People

    56 points • comment • feb 13, 2025

  91. Humanity's Last Exam

    56 points • comment • feb 03, 2025

  92. ESP32 Antenna Array Can See WiFi [video]

    56 points • comment • feb 15, 2025

  93. How to GIF (2025 Edition)

    56 points • comment • feb 06, 2025

  94. What happened to the n in restaurateur?

    56 points • comment • feb 24, 2025

  95. Go's new map implementation in 1.24 is powered by Swiss Tables

    56 points • comment • feb 11, 2025

  96. Tesla was hit by a wave of protests, sales are crashing, insiders are waking up

    55 points • comment • feb 18, 2025

  97. OpenAI Sales Agent Demo

    55 points • comment • feb 06, 2025

  98. After Moss Landing Power Plant reignites, officials brace for more flare-ups

    55 points • comment • feb 23, 2025

  99. Time to act on the risk of efficient personalized text generation

    55 points • comment • feb 11, 2025

  100. Where are all the rewrite rules?

    55 points • comment • feb 19, 2025