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Hacker News (Feb 2025)

  1. Facing the Music or Burying Our Heads in the Sand?

    12 points • comment • feb 16, 2025

  2. Ontario premier ripping up contract with Starlink in response to tariffs

    12 points • comment • feb 03, 2025

  3. UnitedHealth Hires Defamation Firm over Social Media Posts

    12 points • comment • feb 05, 2025

  4. Former Staffers Say India's Biggest IT Firm Was Gaming the US Visa System

    12 points • comment • feb 18, 2025

  5. DeepSeek Native Sparse Attention

    12 points • comment • feb 18, 2025

  6. AI isn't going to build your startup

    12 points • comment • feb 14, 2025

  7. Meta's 'low performer' layoffs disputed by fired staffers

    12 points • comment • feb 13, 2025

  8. Terence Tao on how we measure the cosmos – Distance ladder [video]

    12 points • comment • feb 19, 2025

  9. FDA cancels meeting to select flu strains for next season's shots

    12 points • comment • feb 27, 2025

  10. Why community pharmacies are closing – and what to do if yours shutters

    12 points • comment • feb 18, 2025

  11. YouTube's ghost town of billions of unwatched, ignored videos

    12 points • comment • feb 17, 2025

  12. Altitude estimation of RF interference sources via interferometric corrections

    12 points • comment • feb 24, 2025

  13. Chevron to Lay Off Up to 20% of Staff

    12 points • comment • feb 14, 2025

  14. What if we're alone? The philosophical paradox of a lifeless cosmos

    12 points • comment • feb 02, 2025

  15. Vatican Astronomer Releases 'A Jesuit's Guide to the Stars'

    12 points • comment • feb 16, 2025

  16. Dirty "Peaker Plants" Remain Essential to NYC's Power Grid

    12 points • comment • feb 22, 2025

  17. Competition and survival in modern academia: A bibliometric case study

    12 points • comment • feb 07, 2025

  18. How Not to Launch on Hacker News

    12 points • comment • feb 28, 2025

  19. Building Query Compilers [pdf]

    12 points • comment • feb 27, 2025

  20. Coffee Prices at a 50 year high

    12 points • comment • feb 24, 2025

  21. DeepSeek and Double Standards

    12 points • comment • feb 04, 2025

  22. Show HN: Built A Better Shopify (that's not a rip off)

    12 points • comment • feb 10, 2025

  23. Elon Musk revoked $80M in FEMA funding from NYC bank accounts

    12 points • comment • feb 13, 2025

  24. A Disney Worker Downloaded an AI Tool. It Led to a Hack That Ruined His Life

    12 points • comment • feb 26, 2025

  25. Trump begins firings of FAA air traffic control staff just weeks after fatal

    12 points • comment • feb 17, 2025

  26. Elon Musk Installs Illegal Server to Seize All Federal Workers' Data

    12 points • comment • feb 04, 2025

  27. Why Amazon Is Betting on 'Automated Reasoning' to Reduce AI's Hallucinations

    12 points • comment • feb 10, 2025

  28. Framework (2nd Gen) Event – 2025 Launch Event

    12 points • comment • feb 25, 2025

  29. Physical media is officially back

    12 points • comment • feb 07, 2025

  30. New hack uses prompt injection to corrupt Gemini's long-term memory

    12 points • comment • feb 13, 2025

  31. Show HN: Multi-/BiKeyMap (Go Module)

    12 points • comment • feb 03, 2025

  32. Homemade polarimetric synthetic aperture radar drone

    11 points • comment • feb 14, 2025

  33. Ask HN: Solo developer building a product? Show us your work and get feedback

    11 points • comment • feb 04, 2025

  34. Jim Keller says a 'great Intel' is worth $1T

    11 points • comment • feb 19, 2025

  35. "Creating a Government That Works Better and Costs Less" by VP Al Gore [pdf] (1993)

    11 points • comment • feb 09, 2025

  36. Solo RPGs and journaling games give advantage on mental health rolls

    11 points • comment • feb 26, 2025

  37. The Magic: the gathering wiki is now at mtg.wiki

    11 points • comment • feb 01, 2025

  38. This ain't the Apprentice. Stop Calling Them Firings. They're Purges

    11 points • comment • feb 07, 2025

  39. Who Is Being Excluded by Museums' Wholesale Adoption of Digital Technology?

    11 points • comment • feb 05, 2025

  40. Environmental Protection Agency Will Lose 65 Percent of Staff, Trump Says

    11 points • comment • feb 27, 2025

  41. ZeroVer: 0-Based Versioning

    11 points • comment • feb 25, 2025

  42. A coastal California community is sliding 4 inches a week toward the ocean

    11 points • comment • feb 04, 2025

  43. Looking for Technical Co-Founder

    11 points • comment • feb 03, 2025

  44. GTK's X11 Back End Now Deprecated, Planned for Removal in GTK 5

    11 points • comment • feb 01, 2025

  45. Ask HN: What fiction/non-fiction book should everyone read on the topic of CS?

    11 points • comment • feb 18, 2025

  46. Warpage in wafer-level packaging: causes, modelling, and mitigation strategies

    11 points • comment • feb 24, 2025

  47. X Hinted at Possible Deal Trouble in Talks with Ad Giant to Increase Spending

    11 points • comment • feb 20, 2025

  48. How A Skeptical Philosopher Becomes a Christian [Larry Sanger]

    11 points • comment • feb 11, 2025

  49. Firefox: About Your Rights – Terms of Use

    11 points • comment • feb 26, 2025

  50. Chess 2.0 [video]

    11 points • comment • feb 13, 2025

  51. Pied Beauty: Wari Tie-Dye Textiles (Ca. 425–1100)

    11 points • comment • feb 10, 2025

  52. A Short History of English Waymarks (2015)

    11 points • comment • feb 14, 2025

  53. Framework Laptop 12

    11 points • comment • feb 25, 2025

  54. Ask HN: Are there any CLI only tools that are monetised

    11 points • comment • feb 03, 2025

  55. Canada Supreme Court Leaves Platform X

    11 points • comment • feb 26, 2025

  56. Civil War Comes to the West

    11 points • comment • feb 13, 2025

  57. The Attraction of Homelessness (2009)

    11 points • comment • feb 09, 2025

  58. Excessive Criticism Is a Sign of Internal Conflict (Projecting)

    11 points • comment • feb 18, 2025

  59. Trump admin agrees to restrict DOGE employees access to Treasury payment systems

    11 points • comment • feb 06, 2025

  60. Bill Proposes Adding Trump to Mount Rushmore

    11 points • comment • feb 19, 2025

  61. E-Ink TRMNL device firmware

    11 points • comment • feb 01, 2025

  62. San Francisco's police staffing is at a historic low. So is its crime rate

    11 points • comment • feb 04, 2025

  63. Europe Is a Cautionary Tale on Birthright Citizenship

    11 points • comment • feb 27, 2025

  64. 'You've Blown a Hole in the Family': Inside the Murdochs' Succession Drama

    11 points • comment • feb 14, 2025

  65. Ask HN: How do you prompt the "advanced" models

    11 points • comment • feb 04, 2025

  66. Ask HN: Is it me or we almost stopped using Google because of LLMs?

    11 points • comment • feb 10, 2025

  67. Large Collection of Interactive(WASM) Creative Coding Demos C99 OpenGL/WebGL

    11 points • comment • feb 02, 2025

  68. Conciousness May Be Retrocausal

    11 points • comment • feb 15, 2025

  69. The difference between zoom and scale

    11 points • comment • feb 17, 2025

  70. The Airbnb/Hotel Gap: Private Common Spaces

    11 points • comment • feb 26, 2025

  71. Wikipedia's Co-Founder Is Wikipedia's Most Outspoken Critic

    11 points • comment • feb 18, 2025

  72. Why AI Spending Isn't Slowing Down

    11 points • comment • feb 23, 2025

  73. White House Says Musk Will Police His Own Conflicts of Interest

    11 points • comment • feb 05, 2025

  74. The Threat of Political Violence Informing Trump's Grip on Congress

    11 points • comment • feb 20, 2025

  75. Inside The New Right, Where Peter Thiel Is Placing His Biggest Bets (2022)

    11 points • comment • feb 09, 2025

  76. The world is moving on to trade without the US

    11 points • comment • feb 03, 2025

  77. A Leftist Activist Group Helped Torpedo a Psychedelic Therapy

    11 points • comment • feb 12, 2025

  78. Musk Decries Hitler's Censorship, Right Before Threatening to Jail Critics

    11 points • comment • feb 19, 2025

  79. Leave Billionaires Alone

    11 points • comment • feb 15, 2025

  80. Show HN: Tired of building agents? throw an LLM at this framework

    11 points • comment • feb 19, 2025

  81. They hijacked our flow state

    11 points • comment • feb 24, 2025

  82. UK government reportedly demands Apple backdoor to encrypted cloud data

    11 points • comment • feb 07, 2025

  83. Improving Consistency in Large Language Models Through Chain of Guidance

    11 points • comment • feb 26, 2025

  84. Donut Lab and the electric motors everyone has been talking about

    11 points • comment • feb 26, 2025

  85. Ask HN: Anyone pursuing this AI image idea (images to list of insured losses)?

    11 points • comment • feb 07, 2025

  86. Duolingo Handbook

    11 points • comment • feb 10, 2025

  87. Can ISPs NetFlow data be used to track traffic going through VPNs?

    11 points • comment • feb 20, 2025

  88. A New Postgres Block Storage Layout for Full Text Search

    11 points • comment • feb 02, 2025

  89. Unexpected shape of lead-208 nucleus prompts reevaluation of atomic nuclei model

    11 points • comment • feb 23, 2025

  90. Landing a model rocket like SpaceX [video]

    11 points • comment • feb 19, 2025

  91. Show HN: I indexed 10M Shopify products to build an API

    11 points • comment • feb 03, 2025

  92. US Travel Assoc Warns of Tourism Disaster as Canadians Cancel Trips

    11 points • comment • feb 05, 2025

  93. Gleam v1.8.0 Released

    11 points • comment • feb 07, 2025

  94. Scoop: Why Trump Targets AP

    11 points • comment • feb 17, 2025

  95. GOP bill proposes 20 years in jail for anyone who downloads a Chinese AI models [pdf]

    11 points • comment • feb 03, 2025

  96. Browser spec to eventually replace GDPR and cookie banners

    11 points • comment • feb 05, 2025

  97. Nature loves patterns

    11 points • comment • feb 15, 2025

  98. Polarization-dependent photoluminescence of Ce-implanted MgO and MgAl2O4

    11 points • comment • feb 02, 2025

  99. Google Cloud will start charging $1.50 / alert

    11 points • comment • feb 12, 2025

  100. Google Says "Links Matter Less"–We Looked at 1M SERPs to See If It's True

    11 points • comment • feb 04, 2025