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Hacker News (Feb 2025)

  1. A New Oral Culture

    21 points • comment • feb 16, 2025

  2. Physics Rediscovered #6: My trebuchet is bigger than yours

    21 points • comment • feb 02, 2025

  3. After 44 Years, Someone Beat the Donkey Kong Kill Screen [video]

    21 points • comment • feb 01, 2025

  4. 14th century Spanish Food before tomatoes and chili

    21 points • comment • feb 14, 2025

  5. The National Institute of Standards and Technology Braces for Mass Firings

    21 points • comment • feb 21, 2025

  6. Show HN: Hackyournews.com v2

    21 points • comment • feb 16, 2025

  7. The Butter Thesis (2019)

    21 points • comment • feb 11, 2025

  8. National Science Foundation freezes payments in response to executive orders

    21 points • comment • feb 01, 2025

  9. Building a Bitcoin Exchange with FOSS BTC Pay Server

    21 points • comment • feb 19, 2025

  10. Show HN: Paste a Zillow URL and get a property analysis

    21 points • comment • feb 26, 2025

  11. European Alternatives for Popular Services

    21 points • comment • feb 19, 2025

  12. Man stalked professor 6 years, used AI chatbots to lure strangers to her home

    21 points • comment • feb 02, 2025

  13. Scientists on alert as NOAA restricts contact with foreign nationals

    21 points • comment • feb 07, 2025

  14. Just give the man the fish (i.e. just answer the question)

    21 points • comment • feb 10, 2025

  15. My startup journey with BYBE

    21 points • comment • feb 24, 2025

  16. Exposed GitHub repos, now private, can be accessed through Copilot

    21 points • comment • feb 26, 2025

  17. Authoritarian Coups Are Gradual Then Sudden

    21 points • comment • feb 01, 2025

  18. I Tried to Fix Government Tech for Years. I'm Fed Up

    21 points • comment • feb 13, 2025

  19. Talking out loud to yourself is a technology for thinking (2020)

    21 points • comment • feb 17, 2025

  20. Google Maps Origin Story – 20-Year Anniversary

    21 points • comment • feb 10, 2025

  21. NOAA Employees Told to Pause Work with 'Foreign Nationals'

    21 points • comment • feb 06, 2025

  22. DeepSeek not as disruptive as claimed, firm has 50k GPUs and spent $1.6B

    21 points • comment • feb 04, 2025

  23. A custom version of Firefox, focused on privacy, security and freedom

    20 points • comment • feb 27, 2025

  24. A Clang regression related to switch statements and inlining

    20 points • comment • feb 19, 2025

  25. Cloudflare Agents

    20 points • comment • feb 28, 2025

  26. Show HN: Japanese City Name Generator – Using a Simple 3-Layer MLP

    20 points • comment • feb 22, 2025

  27. Irony alert: Anthropic says applicants shouldn't use LLMs

    20 points • comment • feb 04, 2025

  28. Show HN: EVMole for Analysing EVM Bytecode

    20 points • comment • feb 18, 2025

  29. Can We Trust AI Benchmarks? A Review of Current Issues in AI Evaluation

    20 points • comment • feb 15, 2025

  30. Is Ops a Bullshit Job?

    20 points • comment • feb 17, 2025

  31. Lzbench compression benchmark

    20 points • comment • feb 11, 2025

  32. Trump administration kills New York City's congestion pricing

    20 points • comment • feb 19, 2025

  33. Domino's Pizza to close 172 outlets in Japan

    20 points • comment • feb 10, 2025

  34. CouchDB Prevents Data Corruption: Fsync

    20 points • comment • feb 28, 2025

  35. "At Our Companies, Employees Just Disappear"

    20 points • comment • feb 24, 2025

  36. Root-inspired additive printing for fabricating robust conformal electronics

    20 points • comment • feb 13, 2025

  37. Supersight: Mod for DOS game stunts that increasing the field of view

    20 points • comment • feb 16, 2025

  38. T-Mobile Opens Cellular Starlink Beta to AT&T and Verizon Users, Reveals Pricing

    20 points • comment • feb 10, 2025

  39. Trolls Aren't Like the Rest of Us

    20 points • comment • feb 14, 2025

  40. Show HN: New approach for CI/CD/compute system

    20 points • comment • feb 06, 2025

  41. Europe will not be part of Ukraine-Russia peace talks, US envoy says

    20 points • comment • feb 15, 2025

  42. de minimis trade exemption for China is delayed

    20 points • comment • feb 07, 2025

  43. Harry Stewart, Jr., one of the last surviving Tuskegee Airmen, dies at 100

    20 points • comment • feb 11, 2025

  44. History 2701 Wiki

    20 points • comment • feb 14, 2025

  45. TIL: Rust does not prevent memory leaks

    20 points • comment • feb 18, 2025

  46. After Recent Kernel Drama, Rust for Linux Policy Put in Place

    20 points • comment • feb 13, 2025

  47. Why I think AI take-off is relatively slow

    20 points • comment • feb 23, 2025

  48. Center for the Study of National Reconnaissance: Corona Satellite (2013) [pdf]

    20 points • comment • feb 09, 2025

  49. US State Department has budget line for 'Armored Teslas' worth $400M

    20 points • comment • feb 12, 2025

  50. Logs Matter More Than Metrics

    20 points • comment • feb 27, 2025

  51. Show HN: Dropbud – A place to upload files without uploading

    20 points • comment • feb 23, 2025

  52. Understanding the MAGA-Tech Authoritarian Alliance

    20 points • comment • feb 16, 2025

  53. Splitting from Handmade Network

    20 points • comment • feb 02, 2025

  54. RISC-V Sandboxing Library

    20 points • comment • feb 12, 2025

  55. Doge says its savings total $55B, but analysis shows it's less

    20 points • comment • feb 22, 2025

  56. China responds to tariffs with antitrust investigations of Google, Nvidia

    20 points • comment • feb 04, 2025

  57. Russia is 'recycling' wounded troops, sending some to the frontline on crutches

    20 points • comment • feb 23, 2025

  58. A Handheld Upgrade – How Bazzite Transformed My ROG Ally

    20 points • comment • feb 08, 2025

  59. Description Language for managing file/folder naming conventions

    20 points • comment • feb 10, 2025

  60. Elon Musk's Toxicity Could Spell Disaster for Tesla

    20 points • comment • feb 16, 2025

  61. Show HN: LookAway – a native macOS app for building healthy screen habits

    20 points • comment • feb 20, 2025

  62. Slack Outage

    20 points • comment • feb 26, 2025

  63. 40 Years of Cisco, the Real Story Behind Cisco's "Innovative" Founding

    20 points • comment • feb 20, 2025

  64. You Can't Solve the Teacher Shortage by Pretending Anyone Can Do the Job

    20 points • comment • feb 17, 2025

  65. New iPhone SE Coming Soon

    20 points • comment • feb 07, 2025

  66. HP deliberately adds 15 minutes waiting time for telephone support calls

    20 points • comment • feb 20, 2025

  67. Microsoft CEO Admits That AI Is Generating Basically No Value

    20 points • comment • feb 25, 2025

  68. South Africa's history uncovered: the 1k-year gap they don't teach in school

    20 points • comment • feb 17, 2025

  69. Only About 40% of the Cruz "Woke Science" Database Is Woke Science

    20 points • comment • feb 14, 2025

  70. Math That Matters: The Case for Probability over Polynomials

    20 points • comment • feb 27, 2025

  71. Ara Agui Nakajima DCT compression algorithm

    20 points • comment • feb 21, 2025

  72. DOGE team member alleged involvement with cybercriminals

    20 points • comment • feb 08, 2025

  73. X Prevents Research on Potential Election Interference

    20 points • comment • feb 18, 2025

  74. The Ultra-Scale Playbook: Training LLMs on GPU Clusters

    20 points • comment • feb 19, 2025

  75. Revisiting Random Number Generation

    20 points • comment • feb 01, 2025

  76. Laid-off Meta employees blast Zuckerberg: the 'cruelest tech company out there'

    20 points • comment • feb 14, 2025

  77. Show HN: Steganographically encode messages with LLMs and Arithmetic Coding

    20 points • comment • feb 12, 2025

  78. 25yr Old with Elon Musk Ties Has Direct Access to the Federal Payment System

    20 points • comment • feb 04, 2025

  79. Moving Power Grids in a Weekend, the Baltic States Make the Switch

    20 points • comment • feb 09, 2025

  80. Fake security reports are swamping open-source projects, thanks to AI

    19 points • comment • feb 11, 2025

  81. Our Search for Life in the Clouds

    19 points • comment • feb 25, 2025

  82. GenSX: OS framework for building agents and workflows with React-like components

    19 points • comment • feb 20, 2025

  83. The False Summit – When 90% done becomes 50%

    19 points • comment • feb 27, 2025

  84. The DNSSEC Root Signing Ceremony

    19 points • comment • feb 26, 2025

  85. Show HN: ArXiv-txt, LLM-friendly ArXiv papers

    19 points • comment • feb 20, 2025

  86. Gene Hackman has died

    19 points • comment • feb 27, 2025

  87. Japan births fall to lowest in 125 years

    19 points • comment • feb 27, 2025

  88. A simple way of visualizing Git repository

    19 points • comment • feb 24, 2025

  89. Why US Refiners Won't Ditch Canadian Crude

    19 points • comment • feb 17, 2025

  90. Americans, Russians have held undisclosed talks on Ukraine in Switzerland

    19 points • comment • feb 21, 2025

  91. Trump's plan for Gaza triggers international condemnation

    19 points • comment • feb 05, 2025

  92. Gh-128563: A new tail-calling interpreter for Python 3.14

    19 points • comment • feb 08, 2025

  93. Half Cent Coin

    19 points • comment • feb 10, 2025

  94. Using pip to install a Large Language Model that's under 100MB

    19 points • comment • feb 07, 2025

  95. OpenAI expands Deep Research to all paying ChatGPT users

    19 points • comment • feb 25, 2025

  96. RustDesk – open-source alternative to TeamViewer

    19 points • comment • feb 06, 2025

  97. Ask HN: Do you still use Google?

    19 points • comment • feb 16, 2025

  98. CISA puts election security staffers who worked with the states on leave

    19 points • comment • feb 11, 2025

  99. Mission Accomplished? Heat pump adoption has a long way to go

    19 points • comment • feb 09, 2025

  100. A change in maintenance for the kernel's DMA-mapping layer

    19 points • comment • feb 26, 2025