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Hacker News (Feb 2025)

  1. "Homotopical macrocosms for higher category theory" identified as woke DEI grant

    55 points • comment • feb 14, 2025

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

    55 points • comment • feb 18, 2025

  3. iText PDF Library turns 25

    55 points • comment • feb 18, 2025

  4. Show HN: Instantly Translate Manga – TranslateManga

    55 points • comment • feb 24, 2025

  5. Show HN: Ricotta – Language Learning to Replace Anki

    55 points • comment • feb 06, 2025

  6. Show HN: A New Way to Learn Languages

    55 points • comment • feb 14, 2025

  7. Show HN: App that simulates a software engineer's daily job

    55 points • comment • feb 08, 2025

  8. BleachBit is a free and open-source disk space cleaner

    55 points • comment • feb 15, 2025

  9. OpenAI Sales Agent Demo

    55 points • comment • feb 06, 2025

  10. Decompilation of Minecraft: Legacy Console Edition

    55 points • comment • feb 23, 2025

  11. Only bad poems go viral

    54 points • comment • feb 20, 2025

  12. Automattic's "nuclear war" over WordPress access sparks potential class action

    54 points • comment • feb 27, 2025

  13. Show HN: Haystack Code Reviewer – Perform code reviews on a canvas

    54 points • comment • feb 04, 2025

  14. No AI December Reflections

    54 points • comment • feb 09, 2025

  15. Why bother with privacy when I have nothing to hide? (2023)

    54 points • comment • feb 17, 2025

  16. Warren Buffett amasses more cash and sells more stock

    54 points • comment • feb 22, 2025

  17. 19 y/o DOGE employee "Big Balls" given unfettered access to Treasury Department

    54 points • comment • feb 03, 2025

  18. Minuteman III test showcases readiness of U.S. nuclear force's deterrent

    54 points • comment • feb 19, 2025

  19. How does DeepSeek work: An inside look

    54 points • comment • feb 05, 2025

  20. Bosch's brake-by-wire system may be the next big leap in automotive tech

    54 points • comment • feb 16, 2025

  21. Making Markets on Kalshi

    54 points • comment • feb 17, 2025

  22. How do we evaluate vector-based code retrieval?

    54 points • comment • feb 03, 2025

  23. Countries spend huge sums on fossil fuel subsidies – why they're so hard to end

    54 points • comment • feb 23, 2025

  24. How does life happen when there's barely any light?

    54 points • comment • feb 07, 2025

  25. Elon Musk staff has been caught installing drives inside the OPM office

    54 points • comment • feb 01, 2025

  26. Lifestyle and environmental factors affect health and ageing more than our genes

    54 points • comment • feb 20, 2025

  27. How (not) to sign a JSON object (2019)

    54 points • comment • feb 09, 2025

  28. It's not 'emotional labour', it's kin work

    54 points • comment • feb 03, 2025

  29. Google Is on the Wrong Side of History

    54 points • comment • feb 20, 2025

  30. Zlib-Rs Is Not Only Safer but Now Outperforming Zlib C Implementations

    54 points • comment • feb 25, 2025

  31. What situations in classical physics are non-deterministic? (2018)

    54 points • comment • feb 15, 2025

  32. Harnessing orbital Hall effect in spin-orbit torque MRAM

    54 points • comment • feb 25, 2025

  33. A pair of scissors on formica table suddenly bursts into flames

    54 points • comment • feb 11, 2025

  34. Neo Gamma (Home Humanoid)

    54 points • comment • feb 21, 2025

  35. Canada pledges billions for high-speed rail linking Quebec City and Toronto

    54 points • comment • feb 20, 2025

  36. eserde – a serde that just doesn't stop

    54 points • comment • feb 18, 2025

  37. Large Language Models Show Concerning Tendency to Flatter Users

    54 points • comment • feb 16, 2025

  38. Periodic Cooking of Eggs

    54 points • comment • feb 06, 2025

  39. U.S. facing most intense flu season in at least 15 years

    54 points • comment • feb 09, 2025

  40. Show HN: OpenSCAD configurable calendar 3D model

    53 points • comment • feb 14, 2025

  41. Show HN: Betting game puzzle (Hamming neighbor sum in linear time)

    53 points • comment • feb 28, 2025

  42. Ada Gems (2014)

    53 points • comment • feb 08, 2025

  43. CodeWeavers Hiring More Developers to Work on Wine and Valve's Proton

    53 points • comment • feb 17, 2025

  44. RFK Jr Will Be Confirmed as Secretary of Health and Human Services

    53 points • comment • feb 13, 2025

  45. Long Covid impacting more than 1M children: CDC study suggests

    53 points • comment • feb 07, 2025

  46. Beautiful, boring, and without soul

    53 points • comment • feb 17, 2025

  47. Science is a strong-link problem

    53 points • comment • feb 04, 2025

  48. Fat Rand: How many lines do you need to generate a random number?

    53 points • comment • feb 05, 2025

  49. NixOS and Portable Executables

    52 points • comment • feb 11, 2025

  50. X sues Lego, Nestlé and more brands, accusing them of advertising boycott

    52 points • comment • feb 02, 2025

  51. Every line is a potential bug (2009)

    52 points • comment • feb 24, 2025

  52. JSON has become today's machine-readable output format on Unix

    52 points • comment • feb 24, 2025

  53. Show HN: Skies-adsb 2.0 – my 3D plane-tracking web app

    52 points • comment • feb 12, 2025

  54. Trump expected to take control of USPS and fire postal board

    52 points • comment • feb 21, 2025

  55. Are electric cars that much cheaper to operate?

    52 points • comment • feb 18, 2025

  56. OpenCloud 1.0

    52 points • comment • feb 27, 2025

  57. Apple Maps Might Start Showing Ads

    52 points • comment • feb 16, 2025

  58. Gravel Map

    52 points • comment • feb 18, 2025

  59. Show HN: Simple to build MCP servers that easily connect with custom LLM calls

    52 points • comment • feb 01, 2025

  60. The ABA supports the rule of law

    51 points • comment • feb 10, 2025

  61. SVDQuant+NVFP4: 4× Smaller, 3× Faster FLUX with 16-bit Quality on Blackwell GPUs

    51 points • comment • feb 22, 2025

  62. Netflix says its brief Apple TV app integration was a mistake

    51 points • comment • feb 16, 2025

  63. Is the use of reCAPTCHA GDPR-compliant?

    51 points • comment • feb 07, 2025

  64. Curiosity Mars rover discovers evidence of ripples from ancient Red Planet lake

    51 points • comment • feb 20, 2025

  65. Franz Kafka – the workers' friend (2018)

    51 points • comment • feb 05, 2025

  66. Ask HN: A retrofitted C dialect?

    51 points • comment • feb 22, 2025

  67. Appeasement at Munich

    51 points • comment • feb 18, 2025

  68. Twitch's new storage limits will purge swaths of Internet gaming history

    51 points • comment • feb 22, 2025

  69. Tensor evolution: A framework for fast tensor computations using recurrences

    51 points • comment • feb 18, 2025

  70. Google Maps reclassifies the U.S. as a 'sensitive country'

    51 points • comment • feb 01, 2025

  71. Shopify takes down Ye website selling swastika shirts after Super Bowl ad

    51 points • comment • feb 11, 2025

  72. EU's AltStore Gets First Native iOS Pornography App

    51 points • comment • feb 11, 2025

  73. Earth's inner core may have changed shape, say scientists

    51 points • comment • feb 10, 2025

  74. Topological Superconductors

    50 points • comment • feb 19, 2025

  75. Zuckerberg's rightward policy shift puts Meta staffers on edge, targets Apple

    50 points • comment • feb 14, 2025

  76. SETI's hard steps and how to resolve them

    50 points • comment • feb 22, 2025

  77. JPMorgan employee questioned Dimon's RTO mandate, fired, then told he could stay

    50 points • comment • feb 16, 2025

  78. Reddit plans to lock some content behind a paywall this year, CEO says

    50 points • comment • feb 14, 2025

  79. The Middle Ages in Computer Games

    50 points • comment • feb 25, 2025

  80. Navigating a Broken Dev Culture

    50 points • comment • feb 23, 2025

  81. Web awesome: "Shoelace 3.0" open source web components

    50 points • comment • feb 18, 2025

  82. I Paid $70 for an AI Boyfriend. It Was So Worth It

    50 points • comment • feb 12, 2025

  83. Show HN: Wampy, interface addon for Linux-based Walkmans

    50 points • comment • feb 27, 2025

  84. It's a knowledge problem Or is it?

    50 points • comment • feb 12, 2025

  85. Waste-based perovskite solar cell achieves 21.39% energy efficiency

    50 points • comment • feb 22, 2025

  86. Danes sign petition to buy California from U.S.

    50 points • comment • feb 11, 2025

  87. Elon Musk's terrifying vision for AI

    50 points • comment • feb 17, 2025

  88. So Many Unmarried Men

    50 points • comment • feb 16, 2025

  89. How to Store and Dry Your 3D Filament: Full Guide

    50 points • comment • feb 01, 2025

  90. Google's 7-year slog to improve Chrome extensions hasn't satisfied developers

    50 points • comment • feb 07, 2025

  91. A Libertarian Island Dream in Honduras Is Now an $11B Nightmare

    50 points • comment • feb 14, 2025

  92. US immigration is gaming Google to create a mirage of mass deportations

    49 points • comment • feb 07, 2025

  93. Apple Robot Research

    49 points • comment • feb 06, 2025

  94. Palantir Drops 10% on Report of Pentagon Slashing Budget

    49 points • comment • feb 20, 2025

  95. Personal Software

    49 points • comment • feb 05, 2025

  96. Doge Sets Sights on Medicaid: New York Times

    49 points • comment • feb 04, 2025

  97. Tiny vanes glued to planes promise big savings for US Air Force

    49 points • comment • feb 02, 2025

  98. Algorithms are breaking how we think [video]

    49 points • comment • feb 22, 2025

  99. DOGE Staff Had Questions About the 'Resign' Email. Their HR Chief Dodged Them

    49 points • comment • feb 02, 2025

  100. Ask HN: Ethical VC Funds?

    49 points • comment • feb 26, 2025