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Hacker News (Feb 2025)

  1. The average CPU performance of PCs and notebooks fell for the first time

    303 points • comment • feb 12, 2025

  2. How core Git developers configure Git

    303 points • comment • feb 22, 2025

  3. File Pilot: A file explorer built for speed with a modern, robust interface

    302 points • comment • feb 18, 2025

  4. DOGE as a National Cyberattack

    301 points • comment • feb 13, 2025

  5. ElevenReader

    300 points • comment • feb 12, 2025

  6. The legacy of lies in Alzheimer's science

    299 points • comment • feb 02, 2025

  7. The benefits of learning in public

    299 points • comment • feb 24, 2025

  8. Why Clojure?

    298 points • comment • feb 22, 2025

  9. Boris Spassky: 1937–2025

    297 points • comment • feb 28, 2025

  10. When Not to Obey Orders (2019)

    296 points • comment • feb 16, 2025

  11. Costa Rican supermarket wins trademark battle against Nintendo

    296 points • comment • feb 02, 2025

  12. Introducing a terms of use and updated privacy notice for Firefox

    295 points • comment • feb 26, 2025

  13. Nvidia Security Team: “What if we just stopped using C?” (2022)

    295 points • comment • feb 10, 2025

  14. Meta’s Hyperscale Infrastructure: Overview and Insights

    295 points • comment • feb 11, 2025

  15. A secret poker game you can play on the subway

    295 points • comment • feb 18, 2025

  16. Show HN: Lume – OS lightweight CLI for MacOS and Linux VMs on Apple Silicon

    294 points • comment • feb 02, 2025

  17. Bybit loses $1.5B in hack

    294 points • comment • feb 21, 2025

  18. Deepseek R1 Distill 8B Q40 on 4 x Raspberry Pi 5

    293 points • comment • feb 15, 2025

  19. Magma: A foundation model for multimodal AI agents

    292 points • comment • feb 20, 2025

  20. Helix: A vision-language-action model for generalist humanoid control

    291 points • comment • feb 20, 2025

  21. List of DRM-Free Bookshops

    291 points • comment • feb 17, 2025

  22. WASM will replace containers

    290 points • comment • feb 12, 2025

  23. The Deep Research problem

    290 points • comment • feb 21, 2025

  24. OpenWrt 24.10.0 – First Stable Release

    290 points • comment • feb 06, 2025

  25. Thoughts on Daylight Computer

    288 points • comment • feb 19, 2025

  26. German civil activists win victory in election case against X

    287 points • comment • feb 07, 2025

  27. Bald eagles are thriving again after near extinction

    287 points • comment • feb 23, 2025

  28. OpenEuroLLM

    287 points • comment • feb 20, 2025

  29. WhiteSur: macOS-like theme for GTK desktops

    285 points • comment • feb 23, 2025

  30. MapTCHA, the open-source CAPTCHA that improves OpenStreetMap [video]

    285 points • comment • feb 13, 2025

  31. AI killed the tech interview. Now what?

    282 points • comment • feb 19, 2025

  32. Treasury agrees to block DOGE's access to personal taxpayer data at IRS

    280 points • comment • feb 20, 2025

  33. A $100 DIY muon tomographer

    280 points • comment • feb 27, 2025

  34. AMD: Microcode Signature Verification Vulnerability

    280 points • comment • feb 03, 2025

  35. Replace OCR with Vision Language Models

    279 points • comment • feb 26, 2025

  36. The OBS Project is threatening Fedora Linux with legal action

    279 points • comment • feb 13, 2025

  37. Distributed systems programming has stalled

    278 points • comment • feb 27, 2025

  38. Discover the IndieWeb, one blog post at a time

    278 points • comment • feb 22, 2025

  39. Ask HN: Former devs who can't get a job, what did you end up doing for work?

    277 points • comment • feb 24, 2025

  40. I spent five years building a webapp and got my first $1 (2022)

    277 points • comment • feb 01, 2025

  41. Show HN: SQLite disk page explorer

    277 points • comment • feb 06, 2025

  42. HP Acquires Humane's AI Software

    276 points • comment • feb 18, 2025

  43. Ggwave: Tiny Data-over-Sound Library

    276 points • comment • feb 24, 2025

  44. The PS2’s backwards compatibility from the engineer who built it (2020)

    274 points • comment • feb 04, 2025

  45. Show HN: Transform your codebase into a single Markdown doc for feeding into AI

    273 points • comment • feb 14, 2025

  46. Tips for mathematical handwriting (2007)

    273 points • comment • feb 08, 2025

  47. Developer Philosophy

    273 points • comment • feb 03, 2025

  48. The New York Stock Exchange plans to launch NYSE Texas

    272 points • comment • feb 14, 2025

  49. 50 Years of Travel Tips

    271 points • comment • feb 16, 2025

  50. Why does target="_blank" have an underscore in front? (2024)

    271 points • comment • feb 21, 2025

  51. Did missing/corrupt dates in COBOL default to 1875-05-20?

    270 points • comment • feb 16, 2025

  52. 20k federal workers take "buyout" so far, official says

    270 points • comment • feb 05, 2025

  53. Typst 0.13 is out now

    269 points • comment • feb 19, 2025

  54. Forum with 2.6M posts being deleted due to UK Online Safety Act

    268 points • comment • feb 22, 2025

  55. Diablo hackers uncovered a speedrun scandal

    268 points • comment • feb 15, 2025

  56. Show HN: A Database Written in Golang

    267 points • comment • feb 26, 2025

  57. Reverse-engineering and analysis of SanDisk High Endurance microSDXC card (2020)

    267 points • comment • feb 02, 2025

  58. AI is killing some companies, yet others are thriving – let's look at the data

    266 points • comment • feb 28, 2025

  59. Most-Watched Software Engineering Talks of 2024

    265 points • comment • feb 12, 2025

  60. I put my heart and soul into this AI but nobody cares

    265 points • comment • feb 20, 2025

  61. Show HN: Game Bub – open-source FPGA retro emulation handheld

    265 points • comment • feb 12, 2025

  62. He went to jail for stealing someone's identity, but it was his all along

    264 points • comment • feb 03, 2025

  63. Jeff Bezos' revamp of 'Washington Post' opinions leads editor to quit

    264 points • comment • feb 26, 2025

  64. Thailand to Cut Power to Myanmar Scam Hubs

    264 points • comment • feb 23, 2025

  65. European word translator: an interactive map

    264 points • comment • feb 23, 2025

  66. The man who spent forty-two years at the Beverly Hills Hotel pool (1993)

    263 points • comment • feb 26, 2025

  67. California bill would require bots to disclose that they are bots

    262 points • comment • feb 07, 2025

  68. Tariffs result in 10% laptop price hike in U.S. says Acer CEO

    262 points • comment • feb 18, 2025

  69. When your last name is Null, nothing works

    262 points • comment • feb 20, 2025

  70. Some terminal frustrations

    261 points • comment • feb 06, 2025

  71. Order Declassifying JFK and MLK Assassination Records [pdf]

    260 points • comment • feb 04, 2025

  72. Bank CEO: Retract your debanking piece? Me: No

    259 points • comment • feb 10, 2025

  73. Watch R1 "think" with animated chains of thought

    258 points • comment • feb 17, 2025

  74. The government information crisis is bigger than you think it is

    258 points • comment • feb 01, 2025

  75. DA, sheriff, who shared woman's nude photos on phone are covered by QI

    257 points • comment • feb 14, 2025

  76. How to change your settings to make yourself less valuable to Meta

    257 points • comment • feb 25, 2025

  77. Launch HN: A0.dev (YC W25) – React Native App Generator

    256 points • comment • feb 11, 2025

  78. Launch HN: Browser Use (YC W25) – open-source web agents

    256 points • comment • feb 25, 2025

  79. Fish 4

    256 points • comment • feb 27, 2025

  80. A Coup Is in Progress in America

    256 points • comment • feb 04, 2025

  81. Analyzing the codebase of Caffeine, a high performance caching library

    255 points • comment • feb 02, 2025

  82. Show HN: Tach – Visualize and untangle your Python codebase

    255 points • comment • feb 25, 2025

  83. Show HN: Transductive regular expressions for text editing

    253 points • comment • feb 07, 2025

  84. Bookshop.org launches Kindle alternative, sends e-book sales to local bookstores

    253 points • comment • feb 15, 2025

  85. Some Command & Conquer games are now open source

    250 points • comment • feb 27, 2025

  86. Nine – seemingly impossible C64 demo

    250 points • comment • feb 04, 2025

  87. Migraine is more than a headache – a rethink offers hope

    250 points • comment • feb 18, 2025

  88. Why can't we remember our lives as babies or toddlers?

    249 points • comment • feb 17, 2025

  89. Discord client that works on Win95*, Win98 and above

    249 points • comment • feb 03, 2025

  90. New SF public health chief was part of McKinsey opioid-marketing operation

    248 points • comment • feb 15, 2025

  91. Hot take: GPT 4.5 is a nothing burger

    247 points • comment • feb 28, 2025

  92. Ask HN: What are you working on? (February 2025)

    247 points • comment • feb 23, 2025

  93. Popular Linux orgs Freedesktop and Alpine Linux are scrambling for new webhost

    246 points • comment • feb 04, 2025

  94. War rooms vs. deep investigations

    246 points • comment • feb 23, 2025

  95. Anything threatening to be a subculture is commodified before it can walk (2014)

    245 points • comment • feb 03, 2025

  96. WASM Wayland Web (WWW)

    245 points • comment • feb 28, 2025

  97. One year after switching from Java to Go

    245 points • comment • feb 18, 2025

  98. AI cracks superbug problem in two days that took scientists years

    245 points • comment • feb 20, 2025

  99. Show HN: FlashSpace – fast, open-source, macOS Spaces replacement

    244 points • comment • feb 08, 2025

  100. A brief history of code signing at Mozilla

    244 points • comment • feb 07, 2025