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Hacker News (Feb 2025)

  1. Do-nothing scripting: the key to gradual automation (2019)

    567 points • comment • feb 07, 2025

  2. Plane crashes, overturns during landing at Toronto airport

    567 points • comment • feb 17, 2025

  3. Introducing deep research

    565 points • comment • feb 03, 2025

  4. Carbon capture more costly than switching to renewables, researchers find

    560 points • comment • feb 15, 2025

  5. An update on Mozilla's terms of use for Firefox

    553 points • comment • feb 28, 2025

  6. Suspension of inbound parcels from China and Hong Kong

    552 points • comment • feb 05, 2025

  7. Pi-hole v6

    552 points • comment • feb 18, 2025

  8. Andrej Karpathy: Deep Dive into LLMs Like ChatGPT [video]

    551 points • comment • feb 05, 2025

  9. Johnny.Decimal – A system to organise your life

    551 points • comment • feb 21, 2025

  10. The Anthropic Economic Index

    550 points • comment • feb 10, 2025

  11. Caddy – The Ultimate Server with Automatic HTTPS

    545 points • comment • feb 16, 2025

  12. macOS Tips and Tricks (2022)

    544 points • comment • feb 28, 2025

  13. Payments crisis of 2025: Not “read only” access anymore

    538 points • comment • feb 04, 2025

  14. A decade later, a decade lost (2024)

    536 points • comment • feb 14, 2025

  15. Framework's first desktop is a strange–but unique–mini ITX gaming PC

    535 points • comment • feb 25, 2025

  16. Half-Life

    534 points • comment • feb 23, 2025

  17. Obscure islands I find interesting

    531 points • comment • feb 07, 2025

  18. OpenBSD Innovations

    531 points • comment • feb 22, 2025

  19. LibreOffice still kicking at 40, now with browser tricks and real-time collab

    524 points • comment • feb 13, 2025

  20. DeepSeek open source DeepEP – library for MoE training and Inference

    523 points • comment • feb 25, 2025

  21. Phind 2: AI search with visual answers and multi-step reasoning

    518 points • comment • feb 13, 2025

  22. Station of despair: What to do if you get stuck at end of Tokyo Chuo Rapid Line

    512 points • comment • feb 05, 2025

  23. Waydroid – Android in a Linux container

    510 points • comment • feb 02, 2025

  24. Type 1 diabetes reversed by new cell transplantation technique

    506 points • comment • feb 24, 2025

  25. Why Ruby on Rails still matters

    503 points • comment • feb 21, 2025

  26. Hotline for modern Apple systems

    503 points • comment • feb 06, 2025

  27. Zed now predicts your next edit with Zeta, our new open model

    502 points • comment • feb 14, 2025

  28. Richard Feynman's blackboard at the time of his death (1988)

    501 points • comment • feb 21, 2025

  29. Ask HN: What is interviewing like now with everyone using AI?

    499 points • comment • feb 02, 2025

  30. 20 years working on the same software product

    497 points • comment • feb 21, 2025

  31. Turning a Bluetooth device into an Apple AirTag without root privileges

    496 points • comment • feb 27, 2025

  32. AI is stifling new tech adoption?

    494 points • comment • feb 14, 2025

  33. Programming SDF animations of Rick and Morty

    493 points • comment • feb 06, 2025

  34. They Thought They Were Free: The Germans, 1933-45 (1955)

    492 points • comment • feb 05, 2025

  35. Boring tech is mature, not old

    491 points • comment • feb 11, 2025

  36. Jacksonpollock.org (2003)

    489 points • comment • feb 08, 2025

  37. Why young parents should focus on building trust with their kids

    489 points • comment • feb 13, 2025

  38. Right to Repair laws have now been proposed in all U.S. states

    488 points • comment • feb 24, 2025

  39. Show HN: I convert videos to printed flipbooks for living

    488 points • comment • feb 03, 2025

  40. Breaking into apartment buildings in five minutes on my phone

    487 points • comment • feb 24, 2025

  41. Apple Debuts iPhone 16e

    485 points • comment • feb 19, 2025

  42. Nuclear fusion: WEST beats the world record for plasma duration

    480 points • comment • feb 18, 2025

  43. My washing machine refreshed my thinking on software estimation

    479 points • comment • feb 18, 2025

  44. We are the builders

    478 points • comment • feb 21, 2025

  45. Visualizing all books of the world in ISBN-Space

    478 points • comment • feb 01, 2025

  46. 3,200% CPU Utilization

    477 points • comment • feb 28, 2025

  47. Ask HN: Who is hiring? (February 2025)

    475 points • comment • feb 03, 2025

  48. Infosec 101 for Activists

    472 points • comment • feb 04, 2025

  49. My LLM codegen workflow

    471 points • comment • feb 18, 2025

  50. IBM completes acquisition of HashiCorp

    470 points • comment • feb 27, 2025

  51. Jellyfin: The Free Software Media System

    470 points • comment • feb 15, 2025

  52. RLHF Book

    468 points • comment • feb 01, 2025

  53. Jane Street's Figgie card game

    468 points • comment • feb 15, 2025

  54. Understanding Reasoning LLMs

    463 points • comment • feb 06, 2025

  55. How Core Git Developers Configure Git

    463 points • comment • feb 25, 2025

  56. US government struggles to rehire nuclear safety staff it laid off days ago

    462 points • comment • feb 16, 2025

  57. Clean Code vs. A Philosophy Of Software Design

    457 points • comment • feb 24, 2025

  58. Material Theme has been pulled from VS Code's marketplace

    456 points • comment • feb 25, 2025

  59. Solitaire

    455 points • comment • feb 27, 2025

  60. How to Run DeepSeek R1 671B Locally on a $2000 EPYC Server

    453 points • comment • feb 01, 2025

  61. US bill proposes jail time for people who download DeepSeek

    452 points • comment • feb 03, 2025

  62. US Judge invalidates blood glucose sensor patent, opens door for Apple Watch

    451 points • comment • feb 21, 2025

  63. Show HN: BadSeek – How to backdoor large language models

    450 points • comment • feb 20, 2025

  64. Amazon now discloses you're buying a license to view Kindle eBooks

    448 points • comment • feb 22, 2025

  65. After 20 years, math couple solves major group theory problem

    445 points • comment • feb 20, 2025

  66. The FFT Strikes Back: An Efficient Alternative to Self-Attention

    443 points • comment • feb 26, 2025

  67. AI systems with 'unacceptable risk' are now banned in the EU

    442 points • comment • feb 03, 2025

  68. The 20 year old PSP can now connect to WPA2 WiFi Networks

    440 points • comment • feb 15, 2025

  69. "A computer can never be held accountable"

    439 points • comment • feb 03, 2025

  70. Anthropic: "Applicants should not use AI assistants"

    439 points • comment • feb 03, 2025

  71. Signal to leave Sweden if backdoor law passes

    438 points • comment • feb 25, 2025

  72. Show HN: Scripton – Python IDE with built-in realtime visualizations

    438 points • comment • feb 18, 2025

  73. US and UK refuse to sign AI safety declaration at summit

    436 points • comment • feb 12, 2025

  74. The Sims Game Design Documents (1997)

    436 points • comment • feb 16, 2025

  75. I built an AI company to save my open source project

    435 points • comment • feb 10, 2025

  76. Show HN: HTML visualization of a PDF file's internal structure

    433 points • comment • feb 10, 2025

  77. AI-designed chips are so weird that 'humans cannot understand them'

    433 points • comment • feb 23, 2025

  78. Show HN: Mastra – Open-source JS agent framework, by the developers of Gatsby

    430 points • comment • feb 19, 2025

  79. Violence alters human genes for generations, researchers discover

    430 points • comment • feb 28, 2025

  80. Dust from car brakes more harmful than exhaust, study finds

    426 points • comment • feb 15, 2025

  81. Microsoft unveils Majorana 1 quantum processor

    426 points • comment • feb 19, 2025

  82. Introduction to Stochastic Calculus

    426 points • comment • feb 24, 2025

  83. Show HN: SQL Noir – Learn SQL by solving crimes

    424 points • comment • feb 13, 2025

  84. Servo's progress in 2024

    424 points • comment • feb 05, 2025

  85. DeepSeek Open Source FlashMLA – MLA Decoding Kernel for Hopper GPUs

    423 points • comment • feb 24, 2025

  86. OCR4all

    421 points • comment • feb 14, 2025

  87. Why it's so hard to build a jet engine

    420 points • comment • feb 28, 2025

  88. 1972 Unix V2 "Beta" Resurrected

    420 points • comment • feb 19, 2025

  89. Train Your Own O1 Preview Model Within $450

    418 points • comment • feb 21, 2025

  90. Alice Hamilton waged a one-woman campaign to get the lead out of everything

    416 points • comment • feb 18, 2025

  91. To buy a Tesla Model 3, only to end up in hell

    414 points • comment • feb 10, 2025

  92. iMac G4(K)

    413 points • comment • feb 26, 2025

  93. Cities can cost effectively start their own utilities

    412 points • comment • feb 07, 2025

  94. Docker limits unauthenticated pulls to 10/HR/IP from Docker Hub, from March 1

    408 points • comment • feb 21, 2025

  95. Nvidia's RTX 5090 power connectors are melting

    405 points • comment • feb 11, 2025

  96. Don't "optimize" conditional moves in shaders with mix()+step()

    403 points • comment • feb 09, 2025

  97. Donald Knuth's 2024 Christmas Lecture: Strong and Weak Components [video]

    403 points • comment • feb 07, 2025

  98. What if Eye...?

    402 points • comment • feb 14, 2025

  99. Freelancing: How I found clients, part 1

    400 points • comment • feb 24, 2025

  100. I built an open source AI tool to find my autoimmune disease

    399 points • comment • feb 10, 2025