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Hacker News (Feb 2025)

  1. But good sir, what is electricity?

    399 points • comment • feb 23, 2025

  2. What really happens inside a dating app

    399 points • comment • feb 03, 2025

  3. Microsoft cancels leases for AI data centers, analyst says

    396 points • comment • feb 24, 2025

  4. Show HN: Breakout with a roguelite/vampire survivor twist

    393 points • comment • feb 26, 2025

  5. Write to Escape Your Default Setting

    392 points • comment • feb 28, 2025

  6. YouTube asks channel owner to verify phone, permanently overwrites personal info

    391 points • comment • feb 17, 2025

  7. Troubleshooting: A skill that never goes obsolete

    391 points • comment • feb 25, 2025

  8. Everyone at NSF overseeing the Platforms for Wireless Experimentation is gone

    391 points • comment • feb 25, 2025

  9. 'Hey Number 17 '

    389 points • comment • feb 25, 2025

  10. How do modern compilers choose which variables to put in registers?

    389 points • comment • feb 14, 2025

  11. DeepGEMM: clean and efficient FP8 GEMM kernels with fine-grained scaling

    388 points • comment • feb 26, 2025

  12. Open Deep Research

    386 points • comment • feb 04, 2025

  13. Thomson Reuters wins first major AI copyright case in the US

    384 points • comment • feb 11, 2025

  14. Cheap blood test detects pancreatic cancer before it spreads

    384 points • comment • feb 13, 2025

  15. Life is more than an engineering problem

    384 points • comment • feb 02, 2025

  16. LIMO: Less Is More for Reasoning

    383 points • comment • feb 09, 2025

  17. Github scam investigation: Thousands of “mods” and “cracks” stealing data

    379 points • comment • feb 28, 2025

  18. Simulating water over terrain

    379 points • comment • feb 06, 2025

  19. Building a personal, private AI computer on a budget

    378 points • comment • feb 10, 2025

  20. Are LLMs able to notice the “gorilla in the data”?

    377 points • comment • feb 05, 2025

  21. Jeff Bezos exerts more control of Washington Post opinion

    377 points • comment • feb 26, 2025

  22. Part two of Grant Sanderson's video with Terry Tao on the cosmic distance ladder

    374 points • comment • feb 23, 2025

  23. Reality has a surprising amount of detail (2017)

    374 points • comment • feb 18, 2025

  24. Vietnamese Graphic Design

    373 points • comment • feb 23, 2025

  25. Show HN: I made a site to tell the time in corporate

    373 points • comment • feb 24, 2025

  26. U.K. demand for a back door to Apple data threatens Americans, lawmakers say

    373 points • comment • feb 13, 2025

  27. Okta Bcrypt incident lessons for designing better APIs

    370 points • comment • feb 05, 2025

  28. San Francisco homelessness: Park ranger helps one person at a time

    369 points • comment • feb 17, 2025

  29. Scented products cause indoor air pollution on par with car exhaust

    367 points • comment • feb 19, 2025

  30. Accelerating scientific breakthroughs with an AI co-scientist

    364 points • comment • feb 19, 2025

  31. Show HN: Libredesk – Open-source customer support desk. Single binary app

    363 points • comment • feb 24, 2025

  32. Making any integer with four 2s

    360 points • comment • feb 23, 2025

  33. The subtle art of designing physical controls for cars

    358 points • comment • feb 11, 2025

  34. Our channel on YouTube has been deleted due to “spam and deceptive policies”

    358 points • comment • feb 03, 2025

  35. DOGE puts $1 spending limit on government employee credit cards

    358 points • comment • feb 20, 2025

  36. Show HN: Subtrace – Wireshark for Docker Containers

    357 points • comment • feb 18, 2025

  37. Perplexity Deep Research

    357 points • comment • feb 15, 2025

  38. The Video Game History Foundation library opens in early access

    357 points • comment • feb 04, 2025

  39. Introduction to CUDA programming for Python developers

    356 points • comment • feb 20, 2025

  40. The Generative AI Con

    354 points • comment • feb 18, 2025

  41. Roc rewrites the compiler in Zig

    349 points • comment • feb 04, 2025

  42. Kindle is removing download and transfer option on Feb 26th

    348 points • comment • feb 16, 2025

  43. Running Pong in 240 browser tabs

    347 points • comment • feb 20, 2025

  44. NASA has a list of 10 rules for software development

    347 points • comment • feb 15, 2025

  45. Bzip3: A spiritual successor to BZip2

    347 points • comment • feb 01, 2025

  46. Flea-Scope: $18 Source Available USB Oscilloscope, Logic Analyzer and More [pdf]

    346 points • comment • feb 16, 2025

  47. Fire-Flyer File System from DeepSeek

    346 points • comment • feb 28, 2025

  48. Moving on from 18F

    345 points • comment • feb 18, 2025

  49. Some critical issues with the SWE-bench dataset

    343 points • comment • feb 21, 2025

  50. Debugging an Undebuggable App

    343 points • comment • feb 17, 2025

  51. Suckless.org: software that sucks less

    342 points • comment • feb 21, 2025

  52. The ideal candidate will be punched in the stomach

    342 points • comment • feb 18, 2025

  53. 3D reconstruction of the capital of the Aztec empire

    339 points • comment • feb 05, 2025

  54. Watt The Fox?

    338 points • comment • feb 15, 2025

  55. TL;DR of Deep Dive into LLMs Like ChatGPT by Andrej Karpathy

    338 points • comment • feb 10, 2025

  56. Minimum effective dose

    338 points • comment • feb 02, 2025

  57. Umami is a simple, fast, privacy-focused alternative to Google Analytics

    337 points • comment • feb 13, 2025

  58. Calendar.txt

    336 points • comment • feb 24, 2025

  59. America desperately needs more air traffic controllers

    336 points • comment • feb 04, 2025

  60. Recent results show that LLMs struggle with compositional tasks

    334 points • comment • feb 02, 2025

  61. Debugging Hetzner: Uncovering failures with powerstat, sensors, and dmidecode

    333 points • comment • feb 19, 2025

  62. GitHub reveals how software engineers are purging federal databases

    332 points • comment • feb 04, 2025

  63. Mitochondria as you've never seen them

    331 points • comment • feb 01, 2025

  64. Vanguard's average fee is now 0.07% after biggest-ever cut

    328 points • comment • feb 04, 2025

  65. Every .gov Domain

    327 points • comment • feb 21, 2025

  66. There isn't much point to HTTP/2 past the load balancer

    325 points • comment • feb 25, 2025

  67. If it is worth keeping, save it in Markdown

    323 points • comment • feb 22, 2025

  68. Show HN: ESP32 RC Cars

    322 points • comment • feb 01, 2025

  69. Penn to reduce graduate admissions, rescind acceptances amid research cuts

    322 points • comment • feb 23, 2025

  70. It’s still worth blogging in the age of AI

    322 points • comment • feb 25, 2025

  71. 670nm red light exposure improved aged mitochondrial function, colour vision

    319 points • comment • feb 16, 2025

  72. GarminDB

    319 points • comment • feb 02, 2025

  73. I Wrote a WebAssembly VM in C

    318 points • comment • feb 03, 2025

  74. Announcing the data.gov archive

    318 points • comment • feb 07, 2025

  75. The Deck: An open-source cross-platform multiplayer card game engine in Flutter

    317 points • comment • feb 08, 2025

  76. Show HN: Jq-Like Tool for Markdown

    317 points • comment • feb 23, 2025

  77. DeepScaleR: Surpassing O1-Preview with a 1.5B Model by Scaling RL

    317 points • comment • feb 11, 2025

  78. Open Euro LLM: Open LLMs for Transparent AI in Europe

    316 points • comment • feb 03, 2025

  79. Spotify's Beta Used 'Pirate' MP3 Files, Some from Pirate Bay (2017)

    316 points • comment • feb 25, 2025

  80. The Prophet of Parking: A eulogy for the great Donald Shoup

    315 points • comment • feb 12, 2025

  81. Hard problems that reduce to document ranking

    315 points • comment • feb 25, 2025

  82. FAQ on Microsoft's topological qubit thing

    315 points • comment • feb 20, 2025

  83. TL;DW: Too Long; Didn't Watch Distill YouTube Videos to the Relevant Information

    313 points • comment • feb 12, 2025

  84. Why are QR Codes with capital letters smaller than QR codes with lower case?

    312 points • comment • feb 23, 2025

  85. United States Power Outage Map

    310 points • comment • feb 16, 2025

  86. TinyCompiler: A compiler in a week-end

    309 points • comment • feb 20, 2025

  87. Javier Milei backtracks on $4.4B memecoin after 'insiders' pocket $87M

    309 points • comment • feb 16, 2025

  88. Linux Running in a PDF

    309 points • comment • feb 06, 2025

  89. If you ever stacked cups in gym class, blame my dad

    308 points • comment • feb 14, 2025

  90. DOGE employees ordered to stop using Slack

    308 points • comment • feb 05, 2025

  91. Earthstar – A database for private, distributed, offline-first applications

    308 points • comment • feb 01, 2025

  92. How the UK Is Weakening Safety Worldwide

    307 points • comment • feb 24, 2025

  93. Avoid ISP Routers (2024)

    307 points • comment • feb 01, 2025

  94. Show HN: A website that heatmaps your city based on your housing preferences

    307 points • comment • feb 07, 2025

  95. Egg prices are soaring. Are backyard chickens the answer?

    306 points • comment • feb 19, 2025

  96. Smallpond – A lightweight data processing framework built on DuckDB and 3FS

    305 points • comment • feb 28, 2025

  97. Tiny JITs for a Faster FFI

    305 points • comment • feb 12, 2025

  98. AI Demos

    304 points • comment • feb 09, 2025

  99. OlmOCR: Open-source tool to extract plain text from PDFs

    304 points • comment • feb 25, 2025

  100. Embedding Python in Elixir, it's fine

    304 points • comment • feb 25, 2025