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Hacker News (Feb 2025)

  1. Hans Bethe Stumbled Upon Perfect Quantum Theories

    29 points • comment • feb 13, 2025

  2. The art of engineering team focus: less is more

    29 points • comment • feb 05, 2025

  3. Ten Years as a Free, Open, and Automated Certificate Authority

    29 points • comment • feb 02, 2025

  4. DOGE employee created software to alter ballot image to satisfy desired outcome

    29 points • comment • feb 09, 2025

  5. All-optical control of charge-trapping defects in rare-earth doped oxides

    29 points • comment • feb 18, 2025

  6. US employee screening giant DISA says hackers accessed data of 3M people

    29 points • comment • feb 25, 2025

  7. Ontario rips up $100M Starlink contract ahead of U.S. tariffs

    29 points • comment • feb 03, 2025

  8. Fabric and craft retailer Joann to go out of business, close all of its stores

    29 points • comment • feb 25, 2025

  9. Elon Musk Biographer: No Evidence Billionaire Has Any Intellectual Achievements

    29 points • comment • feb 23, 2025

  10. Show HN: Automated Sorting of group photos by user defined N people in each pic

    29 points • comment • feb 04, 2025

  11. Large Nuclear-Powered Subsonic Aircraft for Transoceanic Commerce (1971) [pdf]

    29 points • comment • feb 10, 2025

  12. Euclid telescope captures Einstein ring revealing warping of space

    29 points • comment • feb 10, 2025

  13. Imec demonstrates electrical yield for 20nm lines High NA EUV single patterning

    29 points • comment • feb 28, 2025

  14. Ask HN: Does anyone still use code snippets?

    29 points • comment • feb 01, 2025

  15. ChatGPT can be used as default Safari search engine with new extension

    29 points • comment • feb 25, 2025

  16. A better (than Optional) maybe for Java

    29 points • comment • feb 06, 2025

  17. Satya Nadella on knowledge work

    29 points • comment • feb 20, 2025

  18. An Experimental Study of Bitmap Compression vs. Inverted List Compression

    28 points • comment • feb 28, 2025

  19. Three migrants describe Guantánamo detention

    28 points • comment • feb 25, 2025

  20. Elastic Binary Trees (2011)

    28 points • comment • feb 05, 2025

  21. Mascotbot: Real-Time, Engaging Avatar SDK for Al Agents

    28 points • comment • feb 20, 2025

  22. The Sad Math of Ads: Messages of inadequacy and salvation through consumption

    28 points • comment • feb 06, 2025

  23. What We're Fighting For

    28 points • comment • feb 12, 2025

  24. Tell HN: Substack Is Spamming

    28 points • comment • feb 27, 2025

  25. ChatGPT Clicks Convert 6.8X Higher Than Google Organic

    28 points • comment • feb 25, 2025

  26. "I'm a Barbie girl" but it's a three voice fugue (2022) [video]

    28 points • comment • feb 06, 2025

  27. Curious Correspondence with Edward Gorey

    28 points • comment • feb 25, 2025

  28. Making a system highly available isn't just about adding redundancy

    28 points • comment • feb 24, 2025

  29. DOGE Website Hacked

    28 points • comment • feb 14, 2025

  30. We Live Like Royalty and Don't Know It

    28 points • comment • feb 12, 2025

  31. Subsea fibre optic cable deliberately cut for the 2nd time between N.S. and N.L

    28 points • comment • feb 19, 2025

  32. Man who lost Bitcoin fortune in Welsh tip explores purchase of entire landfill

    28 points • comment • feb 10, 2025

  33. Syd: An Introduction to Secure Application Sandboxing for Linux [video]

    28 points • comment • feb 12, 2025

  34. US bill allowing AIs to prescribe FDA-approved drugs

    28 points • comment • feb 28, 2025

  35. The Great Re-shard: adding Postgres capacity (again) with zero downtime (2023)

    28 points • comment • feb 24, 2025

  36. Favicon Hasher – An Osint Tool

    28 points • comment • feb 21, 2025

  37. Progress on Intel and Nvidia GPUs on Raspberry Pi

    28 points • comment • feb 27, 2025

  38. A password generator inspired by the Xkcd password spec

    28 points • comment • feb 20, 2025

  39. The Champion Who Memorized 80 Numbers in 13.5 Seconds

    28 points • comment • feb 21, 2025

  40. Medical treatments devised for war can quickly be implemented in US hospitals

    28 points • comment • feb 28, 2025

  41. Exposing concurrency bugs with a custom scheduler

    28 points • comment • feb 14, 2025

  42. Mexico extradites 29 drug traffickers to the United States

    28 points • comment • feb 28, 2025

  43. FBI told to transfer 1,500 personnel from headquarters

    28 points • comment • feb 22, 2025

  44. Russia employing sophisticated DeepFakes to influence German Elections

    28 points • comment • feb 13, 2025

  45. Getaddrinfo sucks. everything else is much worse

    28 points • comment • feb 07, 2025

  46. The Yin and Yang of Programming

    28 points • comment • feb 24, 2025

  47. Cloudflare handling of less-popular browsers

    28 points • comment • feb 12, 2025

  48. Sweden investigating new reports of Baltic Sea cable damage

    27 points • comment • feb 21, 2025

  49. AI Mistakes Are Different from Human Mistakes

    27 points • comment • feb 15, 2025

  50. Dropbox to Reincorporate in Nevada

    27 points • comment • feb 01, 2025

  51. Hundreds in US climate agency fired in latest cuts

    27 points • comment • feb 28, 2025

  52. Brewing Clean Water: The metal-remediating benefits of tea preparation

    27 points • comment • feb 25, 2025

  53. Elon Musk's CEO-Dictator Playbook

    27 points • comment • feb 19, 2025

  54. There are no more bands (2024)

    27 points • comment • feb 17, 2025

  55. H5N1 bird flu spills over again; Nevada cows hit with different, deadly strain

    27 points • comment • feb 06, 2025

  56. Elon Musk Says He'll 'Fix' Community Notes on X After It Disagreed with Him

    27 points • comment • feb 20, 2025

  57. As more local cinemas close, residents are forming nonprofits to buy them

    27 points • comment • feb 18, 2025

  58. Ask HN: Can we get a HN background color (dark mode)

    27 points • comment • feb 17, 2025

  59. Parents favor daughters: A meta-analysis of predictors of differential treatment

    27 points • comment • feb 24, 2025

  60. USAID's chief economist has resigned. Here's why

    27 points • comment • feb 27, 2025

  61. My 2 year journey to building a successful product ($2,700 MRR)

    27 points • comment • feb 14, 2025

  62. Who wants to work in a factory?

    27 points • comment • feb 22, 2025

  63. Engineers turn the body's goo into new glue

    27 points • comment • feb 19, 2025

  64. Google Chrome disables uBlock Origin for some in Manifest v3 rollout

    27 points • comment • feb 21, 2025

  65. PG&E reports profit of more than $2B for 2024

    27 points • comment • feb 18, 2025

  66. Jean Hilliard's Minnesota Story (2018)

    27 points • comment • feb 18, 2025

  67. The Hollow Men of Silicon Valley

    27 points • comment • feb 26, 2025

  68. Tech Continues to Be Political

    27 points • comment • feb 18, 2025

  69. The Weird New Putting Technique That's Driving the Golf World Nuts

    27 points • comment • feb 21, 2025

  70. Gulf of America name change in the U.S.

    27 points • comment • feb 11, 2025

  71. White House budget proposal could shatter the National Science Foundation

    27 points • comment • feb 07, 2025

  72. My Wife's Enemies Are Now My Enemies, Too (2019)

    27 points • comment • feb 11, 2025

  73. Small, Light, Robust Phones for a Type 1 Diabetic Child

    27 points • comment • feb 13, 2025

  74. Hands-On with Vescin: MINI's New Vegan Friendly Interior That Replaces Leather

    27 points • comment • feb 15, 2025

  75. Show HN: BookWatch – Animated book summaries for visual learners

    27 points • comment • feb 21, 2025

  76. AMD's game-changing Strix Halo, formerly Ryzen AI Max, poses for new die shots

    27 points • comment • feb 18, 2025

  77. Status.sh: Bash script to generate a static status page

    26 points • comment • feb 13, 2025

  78. A fiscal crisis is looming for many US cities

    26 points • comment • feb 20, 2025

  79. Towards an API for the Real Numbers Hans

    26 points • comment • feb 13, 2025

  80. The Doge Takeover Is Worse Than You Think

    26 points • comment • feb 27, 2025

  81. Final Fantasy iOS game shuts down over unfixable bug

    26 points • comment • feb 13, 2025

  82. Cloudflare R2 Incident on February 6, 2025

    26 points • comment • feb 07, 2025

  83. Byte Queue Limits: the unauthorized biography

    26 points • comment • feb 01, 2025

  84. Exploring UK Environment Agency Data with DuckDB and Rill

    26 points • comment • feb 28, 2025

  85. Temu, Shein and Amazon to be liable in EU for 'unsafe' or 'illegal' goods

    26 points • comment • feb 02, 2025

  86. Britain advised by US insiders to reduce UK reliance on US military equipment

    26 points • comment • feb 28, 2025

  87. You don't link all of Libc

    26 points • comment • feb 12, 2025

  88. A Visual Guide to Reasoning LLMs

    26 points • comment • feb 03, 2025

  89. Members of Congress say were denied entry to USAID on orders of Elon Musk

    26 points • comment • feb 03, 2025

  90. Amazon remembers it has an Android app store, kills it

    26 points • comment • feb 20, 2025

  91. Ask HN: Do the tarrifs impact software/SaaS? If so, how?

    26 points • comment • feb 02, 2025

  92. European leaders show support for Zelenskiy after Trump clash

    26 points • comment • feb 28, 2025

  93. Comments on Shared Unix Hosting vs. the Cloud

    26 points • comment • feb 14, 2025

  94. DOGE to examine NASA payments – SpaceNews

    26 points • comment • feb 13, 2025

  95. Show HN: I built a tool to create polls on Bluesky

    26 points • comment • feb 06, 2025

  96. Remco is a lightweight configuration management tool

    26 points • comment • feb 13, 2025

  97. My Open Letter to Elon Musk

    26 points • comment • feb 20, 2025

  98. The McKinley Years

    26 points • comment • feb 10, 2025

  99. Powerful legal and financial services enable kleptocracy, research shows

    26 points • comment • feb 21, 2025

  100. Getting a charge out of wasted automobile heat (2012)

    26 points • comment • feb 17, 2025