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Hacker News (Feb 2025)

  1. Greeks II: The Cult of Numbers

    16 points • comment • feb 07, 2025

  2. Making Space for a Handmade Web

    16 points • comment • feb 17, 2025

  3. Human brain samples contain an entire spoon's worth of nanoplastics, study says

    16 points • comment • feb 04, 2025

  4. Uncertainty surrounds US participation in WHO flu strain selection meeting

    16 points • comment • feb 16, 2025

  5. How often should you poo?

    16 points • comment • feb 26, 2025

  6. Show HN: Gemini Cursor – A Multimodal AI Cursor for Your Desktop (Open Source)

    16 points • comment • feb 11, 2025

  7. A Chinese Animated Movie Reaped $1.2B and Beat Hollywood Giants

    16 points • comment • feb 11, 2025

  8. Please Take Off Your Apple Watch

    16 points • comment • feb 07, 2025

  9. DOGE Staffer Previously Fired from Cybersecurity Company for Leaking Secrets

    15 points • comment • feb 07, 2025

  10. jzw: The Network State Coup Is Happening Right Now

    15 points • comment • feb 02, 2025

  11. Temperatures at North Pole 20C above average and beyond ice melting point

    15 points • comment • feb 04, 2025

  12. Bezos changes at Wapo lead to mass subscription cancellations – again

    15 points • comment • feb 28, 2025

  13. Ask HN: Recommendations for a Linux Distro and Laptop?

    15 points • comment • feb 01, 2025

  14. German Devs Strip Faker.js Creator from License – I'm Suing

    15 points • comment • feb 22, 2025

  15. Musicians release silent album to protest UK's AI copyright changes

    15 points • comment • feb 25, 2025

  16. Elon Musk Is an Existential Threat to Big Tech

    15 points • comment • feb 03, 2025

  17. We Issued Our First Six Day Cert

    15 points • comment • feb 21, 2025

  18. Show HN: PulseBeam – Simplify WebRTC by Staying Serverless

    15 points • comment • feb 05, 2025

  19. Electronic Frontier Foundation

    15 points • comment • feb 15, 2025

  20. US Government Websites Are Disappearing in Real Time

    15 points • comment • feb 02, 2025

  21. Trump tariffs to slow U.S. companies' digital spending, Fujitsu says

    15 points • comment • feb 17, 2025

  22. Sam Altman: OpenAI has been wrong concerning open source

    15 points • comment • feb 01, 2025

  23. The Staffers Helping Elon Musk Dismantle and Downsize the U.S. Government

    15 points • comment • feb 16, 2025

  24. Definancialization / Hyperfinancialization

    15 points • comment • feb 09, 2025

  25. How Americans View Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg

    15 points • comment • feb 20, 2025

  26. Firefox Extends ESR Support for Windows 7-8.1 and macOS 10.12-10.14 to Sept 2025

    15 points • comment • feb 21, 2025

  27. Medical billing firm Medusind discloses breach affecting 360k people

    15 points • comment • feb 02, 2025

  28. Google fumbles Gemini Super Bowl ad's cheese statistic

    15 points • comment • feb 13, 2025

  29. 3FS – a parallel file system from DeepSeek

    15 points • comment • feb 28, 2025

  30. Men overestimate women's preference for masculinity

    15 points • comment • feb 23, 2025

  31. We ditched Next.js and never looked back

    15 points • comment • feb 21, 2025

  32. Platform for supporting local sellers and buyers

    15 points • comment • feb 04, 2025

  33. Apple Is Renaming Gulf of Mexico to Gulf of America on Maps App

    15 points • comment • feb 11, 2025

  34. Iberian miracle amazes Europe: Spain and Portugal become engine of eurozone

    15 points • comment • feb 18, 2025

  35. Air traffic controller 'left work early', one was left to handle the air traffic

    15 points • comment • feb 01, 2025

  36. National Science Foundation threatened with mass layoffs

    15 points • comment • feb 05, 2025

  37. Edgware 1924: The Making of a Suburb

    15 points • comment • feb 14, 2025

  38. The Curious Similarity Between LLMs and Quantum Mechanics

    15 points • comment • feb 11, 2025

  39. IVF insurance startup Future Family promises a baby or your money back

    15 points • comment • feb 19, 2025

  40. LLM Hallucination Benchmark: R1, o1, o3-mini, Gemini 2.0 Flash Think Exp 01-21

    15 points • comment • feb 10, 2025

  41. Threads Drives 73.6% More Engagement Than X

    15 points • comment • feb 03, 2025

  42. X is blocking links to Signal

    15 points • comment • feb 21, 2025

  43. Two AI agents on a phone call realize they're both AI and switch to ggwave

    15 points • comment • feb 24, 2025

  44. Why We Chose the Name Attio

    15 points • comment • feb 07, 2025

  45. EU Officially Begins Work on $11B Starlink Rival IRIS2, Eta 2030

    15 points • comment • feb 24, 2025

  46. Show HN: Calculate Your Revenue

    15 points • comment • feb 03, 2025

  47. FCC Proposes Nearly $4.5M Fine for Apparently Illegal Robocall Scheme

    15 points • comment • feb 05, 2025

  48. HP's Z2 Mini G1a packs more power into a mini PC than you'd ever need

    15 points • comment • feb 08, 2025

  49. Mexico will wait for Google response on Gulf of Mexico before filing lawsuit

    15 points • comment • feb 18, 2025

  50. Airbus Says Non-U.S. Orders Get Priority If Tariffs Imposed

    15 points • comment • feb 25, 2025

  51. What 5 Megabytes of Data Looked Like in 1966 (62,500 punched cards)

    15 points • comment • feb 19, 2025

  52. The Final Frontier with Steve Jurvetson (2022)

    15 points • comment • feb 04, 2025

  53. JPMorgan CEO Dimon derides in-office work pushback, demands efficiency

    15 points • comment • feb 13, 2025

  54. What's New in Python 3.14.0a4

    15 points • comment • feb 09, 2025

  55. Google Lifts a Ban on Using Its AI for Weapons and Surveillance

    15 points • comment • feb 04, 2025

  56. Genetic Evidence of Killer Whale Predation on White Sharks in Australia

    15 points • comment • feb 07, 2025

  57. Why do frame pointers matter for OCaml?

    15 points • comment • feb 24, 2025

  58. Mullvad has partnered with Obscura VPN

    15 points • comment • feb 11, 2025

  59. U.K. asks to backdoor iCloud Backup encryption

    15 points • comment • feb 12, 2025

  60. Reflections on 25 Years of Blogging

    15 points • comment • feb 25, 2025

  61. RISC-V and Fedora: All Aboard

    15 points • comment • feb 25, 2025

  62. Germany's Water Consumption Down 17% Following Nuclear Reactor Shutdowns

    15 points • comment • feb 27, 2025

  63. SoftBank Is Betting Billions That OpenAI's Agents Will Automate Work

    15 points • comment • feb 04, 2025

  64. Emacs 30.1 Released

    15 points • comment • feb 23, 2025

  65. Ask HN: Percent of employees that benefit financially from equity offers?

    15 points • comment • feb 01, 2025

  66. US Government websites are disappearing in real time

    15 points • comment • feb 01, 2025

  67. Rep. Zoe Lofgren Introduces Act to Block Sites Infringing on U.S. Copyrights

    15 points • comment • feb 04, 2025

  68. Six, and the art of staying in the game

    15 points • comment • feb 20, 2025

  69. Vector Search with DuckDB

    14 points • comment • feb 26, 2025

  70. SEC says memecoins are not securities

    14 points • comment • feb 28, 2025

  71. The GitVenom campaign: cryptocurrency theft using GitHub

    14 points • comment • feb 26, 2025

  72. Elon Musk's first month of destroying America will cost us decades

    14 points • comment • feb 22, 2025

  73. Apple's Dictation System Transcribes the Word 'Racist' as 'Trump'

    14 points • comment • feb 25, 2025

  74. Apple denied appeal in Google trial

    14 points • comment • feb 03, 2025

  75. Show HN: I've built personal site in plain HTML/CSS, withouth React/Next.js BS

    14 points • comment • feb 11, 2025

  76. 'Spoonful of plastics in your brain' paper has duplicated images

    14 points • comment • feb 28, 2025

  77. Artifical ballot generation script by DOGE Engineer Ethan Shaotran

    14 points • comment • feb 09, 2025

  78. Google's Sergey Brin Asks Workers to Spend More Time in the Office

    14 points • comment • feb 28, 2025

  79. No-Libc Zig Now Outperforms Glibc Zig

    14 points • comment • feb 08, 2025

  80. Musk, after spat with astronaut, calls for deorbiting the ISS

    14 points • comment • feb 21, 2025

  81. Bring Silent Videos to Life Sounds(Open-Source)

    14 points • comment • feb 28, 2025

  82. Nouveau kernel maintainer steps down

    14 points • comment • feb 15, 2025

  83. U.S. foreign aid freeze derails efforts to stem proliferation risks

    14 points • comment • feb 05, 2025

  84. Give Me 30 Minutes, and I Will Kill Your Entrepreneurial Dream

    14 points • comment • feb 07, 2025

  85. Gustatory Wisdom: Bruegel the Elder's Twelve Proverbs (1558)

    14 points • comment • feb 26, 2025

  86. Scryer Prolog NPM package (experimental)

    14 points • comment • feb 16, 2025

  87. Unity continues mass layoffs with 'abrupt' communications and 5am emails

    14 points • comment • feb 11, 2025

  88. Ask HN: Is Hacker News Being Manipulated?

    14 points • comment • feb 03, 2025

  89. The Investor Betting on People in Their 50s

    14 points • comment • feb 09, 2025

  90. Man who threw away $750M in Bitcoin wants to buy the dump where it's buried

    14 points • comment • feb 11, 2025

  91. Extend Extra Extreme: keyboard extend layer mappings

    14 points • comment • feb 09, 2025

  92. Leaked Windsurf System Prompt

    14 points • comment • feb 25, 2025

  93. The Ex-Rationalist Society Members Tied to a Killing Spree

    14 points • comment • feb 22, 2025

  94. Asian markets tumble as Trump's tariff war escalates

    14 points • comment • feb 03, 2025

  95. How to run Firecracker without KVM on cloud VMs

    14 points • comment • feb 13, 2025

  96. What's the Deal with (Ruby) Ractors?

    14 points • comment • feb 27, 2025

  97. EnigmaEval: A Benchmark of Long Multimodal Reasoning Challenges

    14 points • comment • feb 17, 2025

  98. Blackmailing Grok

    14 points • comment • feb 21, 2025

  99. Why Upstart from Ubuntu Failed

    14 points • comment • feb 17, 2025

  100. Nezha 2 becomes highest-grossing animated film globally

    14 points • comment • feb 20, 2025