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Hacker News (Feb 2025)

  1. HP to Acquire Parts of Humane for $116M

    44 points • comment • feb 18, 2025

  2. RealDOOM: Doom Ported to 16-bit Real Mode

    44 points • comment • feb 21, 2025

  3. The US Treasury Claimed Doge Technologist Didn't Have 'Write Access' When He Did

    44 points • comment • feb 07, 2025

  4. Ask HN: Finding interesting work if disenchanted with "big tech" & "VC-backed"

    44 points • comment • feb 08, 2025

  5. Dedekind's Subtle Knife

    44 points • comment • feb 17, 2025

  6. Show HN: Prioritize Anything with Stacks

    44 points • comment • feb 25, 2025

  7. Show HN: Electro – A hyper-fast Windows image viewer with a built-in terminal

    44 points • comment • feb 24, 2025

  8. CIA offers buyouts to entire workforce

    44 points • comment • feb 05, 2025

  9. Have we been wrong about why Mars is red?

    44 points • comment • feb 25, 2025

  10. A CLI to quickly launch VSCode/cursor devcontainers

    44 points • comment • feb 26, 2025

  11. GitHub Codespaces Alternatives

    44 points • comment • feb 22, 2025

  12. Andrew Tate and brother leave Romania for US after travel ban lifted

    44 points • comment • feb 27, 2025

  13. Why Legal Immigration Is Nearly Impossible: US Legal Immigration Rules Explained

    44 points • comment • feb 12, 2025

  14. Signal will withdraw from Sweden if encryption-busting laws take effect

    44 points • comment • feb 27, 2025

  15. Python's official documentation contains textbook example of insecure code (XSS)

    43 points • comment • feb 23, 2025

  16. Apple pulls encryption feature from UK

    43 points • comment • feb 21, 2025

  17. ninjavis – generate visualization from ninja build logs

    43 points • comment • feb 28, 2025

  18. Amazon MGM Studios will gain creative control of the James Bond franchise

    43 points • comment • feb 20, 2025

  19. Fire the Contractors: Paradoxically adding government employees reduces costs

    43 points • comment • feb 07, 2025

  20. Towards an AI Co-Scientist

    43 points • comment • feb 28, 2025

  21. Static electricity depends on materials' contact history

    43 points • comment • feb 22, 2025

  22. In a last-minute decision, White House decides not to terminate NASA employees

    43 points • comment • feb 19, 2025

  23. AI CUDA Engineer: Agentic CUDA Kernel Discovery, Optimization and Composition

    43 points • comment • feb 20, 2025

  24. NASA Downgrades the Risk of 2024 YR4 to Below 1%

    43 points • comment • feb 23, 2025

  25. Tuta Launches Post Quantum Cryptography for Email (2024)

    43 points • comment • feb 21, 2025

  26. Microsoft announces Phi-4-multimodal and Phi-4-mini

    43 points • comment • feb 26, 2025

  27. Brazil mayor was shot in 'fake attack' for election boost but lost in landslide

    43 points • comment • feb 18, 2025

  28. Palantir designed to 'power the West to its obvious innate superiority' says CEO

    43 points • comment • feb 04, 2025

  29. Instagram 'Error' Turned Reels into Scroll of Murder, Gore, and Violence

    43 points • comment • feb 27, 2025

  30. Musk says DOGE is halting Treasury payments to US contractors

    43 points • comment • feb 03, 2025

  31. Tell HN: Five random IndieWeb blog links on your terminal

    43 points • comment • feb 23, 2025

  32. Open source maintainers are feeling the squeeze

    43 points • comment • feb 17, 2025

  33. Codeberg Down

    43 points • comment • feb 12, 2025

  34. The problem with MySQL foreign key constraints in Online Schema Changes (2021)

    43 points • comment • feb 10, 2025

  35. Are LLMs able to play the card game Set?

    43 points • comment • feb 15, 2025

  36. Ente: Self Host the Google Photos Alternative and Own Your Privacy

    42 points • comment • feb 24, 2025

  37. Amazon is closing USB access in Kindle that made it easy to remove DRM

    42 points • comment • feb 14, 2025

  38. AI is blurring the line between PMs and engineers?

    42 points • comment • feb 25, 2025

  39. Tesla Sales Decline in California with Model 3 Plunging 36%

    42 points • comment • feb 03, 2025

  40. Dismissed Nuclear Bomb Specialists Recalled by Energy Department

    42 points • comment • feb 15, 2025

  41. The Commodore Penny Farthing Adventures

    42 points • comment • feb 09, 2025

  42. Fish-delousing underwater laser (2018) [video]

    42 points • comment • feb 23, 2025

  43. Moderate-to-vigorous physical activity at any dose reduces dementia risk

    42 points • comment • feb 22, 2025

  44. US Energy Department ending appliance efficiency standards

    42 points • comment • feb 16, 2025

  45. Man from uncontacted tribe emerges in Amazon, villagers demonstrate a lighter

    42 points • comment • feb 16, 2025

  46. The Strike Is Coming

    42 points • comment • feb 01, 2025

  47. Mt32-pi developer quits due to community harassment

    42 points • comment • feb 17, 2025

  48. Rifling through the archives with Robert Caro

    42 points • comment • feb 27, 2025

  49. Bybit sees over $4B 'bank run' after crypto's biggest hack

    42 points • comment • feb 23, 2025

  50. Show HN: I analyzed 1500+ job ads to find the most wanted skills by recruiters

    42 points • comment • feb 19, 2025

  51. As a nonsense phrase of shady provenance makes the rounds, Elsevier defends it

    42 points • comment • feb 12, 2025

  52. Siddhartha

    42 points • comment • feb 20, 2025

  53. Large Language Diffusion Models

    42 points • comment • feb 20, 2025

  54. The Campaign to Delegitimize Wikipedia

    42 points • comment • feb 09, 2025

  55. The Path to American Authoritarianism

    42 points • comment • feb 13, 2025

  56. Improved evaluation times with pre-resolved Nix store paths

    41 points • comment • feb 12, 2025

  57. Captain 'lost for words' after witnessing a super pod of more than 2k dolphins

    41 points • comment • feb 27, 2025

  58. Yash: Yet Another Shell

    41 points • comment • feb 14, 2025

  59. Return-to-office policies are leading to increased brain drain in the U.S.

    41 points • comment • feb 04, 2025

  60. Hydrogen cyanide and acetylene detected in a brown dwarf

    41 points • comment • feb 28, 2025

  61. On Zero Sum Games (The Informational Meta-Game)

    41 points • comment • feb 21, 2025

  62. Shades of Blunders

    41 points • comment • feb 01, 2025

  63. US wants to un-fire nuclear safety workers can't figure out how to reach them

    41 points • comment • feb 15, 2025

  64. Electronic devices used for car thefts set to be banned

    41 points • comment • feb 23, 2025

  65. Google Lighthouse recommends not embedding YouTube videos directly

    41 points • comment • feb 13, 2025

  66. We do not know what Elon Musk is doing to the federal government

    41 points • comment • feb 01, 2025

  67. Ocean temperatures are rising much faster than scientists expected

    41 points • comment • feb 09, 2025

  68. Rape under wraps: how Tinder, Hinge and corporate owner chose profits not safety

    41 points • comment • feb 13, 2025

  69. The Future of WATMM

    41 points • comment • feb 19, 2025

  70. Technicolor likely closing all US operations as of Monday 24th Feb

    41 points • comment • feb 23, 2025

  71. France unveils 109B-euro AI investment

    41 points • comment • feb 10, 2025

  72. Implementing a linear collider facility at CERN

    41 points • comment • feb 04, 2025

  73. Why Startup Wealth Never Trickles Down to Employees

    41 points • comment • feb 07, 2025

  74. Musk/Dodge Given Access to Federal Databases

    41 points • comment • feb 03, 2025

  75. The IRS Is Buying an AI Supercomputer from Nvidia

    41 points • comment • feb 15, 2025

  76. Bulk inserts on ClickHouse: How to avoid overstuffing your instance

    41 points • comment • feb 11, 2025

  77. Who Does That Server Serve? (2010)

    41 points • comment • feb 06, 2025

  78. Apple will spend more than $500B in the U.S. over the next four years

    41 points • comment • feb 24, 2025

  79. The Utopia of Rules: Technology, Stupidity and Secret Joys of Bureaucracy (2015)

    41 points • comment • feb 20, 2025

  80. Mathics: A free, open-source alternative to Mathematica

    41 points • comment • feb 14, 2025

  81. Ask HN: Small Ideas vs. Big Ideas?

    41 points • comment • feb 17, 2025

  82. Orion O6 ITX Arm V9 board – temper your expectations

    40 points • comment • feb 04, 2025

  83. Canonical announces 12 year Kubernetes LTS

    40 points • comment • feb 11, 2025

  84. Fortune(6) – Linux Man Page

    40 points • comment • feb 24, 2025

  85. Show HN: Apitally – A simple, privacy-focused API monitoring and analytics tool

    40 points • comment • feb 03, 2025

  86. The most breathtaking abandoned sites

    40 points • comment • feb 04, 2025

  87. My Seventh Year as a Bootstrapped Founder

    40 points • comment • feb 04, 2025

  88. I set my phone to 'do not disturb' three years ago – and have never looked back

    40 points • comment • feb 16, 2025

  89. To avoid being replaced by LLMs, do what they can't

    40 points • comment • feb 15, 2025

  90. State Capture

    40 points • comment • feb 14, 2025

  91. What we get wrong about athleticism

    40 points • comment • feb 01, 2025

  92. Scientists solve the mystery of sea turtles' 'lost years'

    40 points • comment • feb 05, 2025

  93. The Cathedral and the Bazaar (1997)

    40 points • comment • feb 21, 2025

  94. Trump will kill CHIPS Act by gutting NIST employees

    40 points • comment • feb 23, 2025

  95. Far-right populists much more likely than the left to spread fake news – study

    40 points • comment • feb 11, 2025

  96. Solving the ABA Problem in Rust with Tagged Pointers

    40 points • comment • feb 11, 2025

  97. US Commerce Department to Fire as Many as 500 NIST Staffers

    40 points • comment • feb 26, 2025

  98. Open-Sourcing R1 1776

    40 points • comment • feb 18, 2025

  99. Mutool – all purpose tool for dealing with PDF files

    40 points • comment • feb 02, 2025

  100. Accessing the Qualcomm Modem over USB on the RAK5010

    40 points • comment • feb 22, 2025