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Hacker News (Feb 2025)

  1. Don't make fun of renowned author Dan Brown (2013)

    243 points • comment • feb 02, 2025

  2. The U.S. needs a shipbuilding revolution

    242 points • comment • feb 03, 2025

  3. Writing a simple windows driver in Rust

    242 points • comment • feb 08, 2025

  4. PgAssistant: OSS tool to help devs understand and optimize PG performance

    241 points • comment • feb 12, 2025

  5. Transformer – Spreadsheet

    241 points • comment • feb 07, 2025

  6. Tell HN: Y Combinator backing AI company to abuse factory workers

    240 points • comment • feb 25, 2025

  7. Is NixOS truly reproducible?

    239 points • comment • feb 09, 2025

  8. Sniffnet – monitor your Internet traffic

    239 points • comment • feb 02, 2025

  9. Man's brain turned to glass by hot Vesuvius ash cloud

    239 points • comment • feb 27, 2025

  10. SQL pipe syntax available in public preview in BigQuery

    239 points • comment • feb 10, 2025

  11. Goodbye K-9 Mail

    239 points • comment • feb 27, 2025

  12. Software engineering job openings hit five-year low?

    238 points • comment • feb 21, 2025

  13. Microplastics in the human brain

    238 points • comment • feb 06, 2025

  14. South Korean regulator accuses DeepSeek of sharing user data with ByteDance

    238 points • comment • feb 18, 2025

  15. In Defense of Text Labels

    238 points • comment • feb 22, 2025

  16. The best way to use text embeddings portably is with Parquet and Polars

    237 points • comment • feb 24, 2025

  17. I believe 6502 instruction set is a good first assembly language

    237 points • comment • feb 06, 2025

  18. Jeep Introduces Pop-Up Ads That Appear Every Time You Stop

    237 points • comment • feb 11, 2025

  19. Obsidian is now free for work

    237 points • comment • feb 20, 2025

  20. CEO Simulator: Startup Edition

    237 points • comment • feb 19, 2025

  21. We replaced our React front end with Go and WebAssembly

    236 points • comment • feb 11, 2025

  22. Alzheimer's biomarkers now visible up to a decade ahead of symptoms

    235 points • comment • feb 15, 2025

  23. On David Lynch's Revenge of the Jedi (2018)

    235 points • comment • feb 17, 2025

  24. How I use LLMs as a staff engineer

    235 points • comment • feb 04, 2025

  25. Y Combinator deletes posts after a startup's demo goes viral

    233 points • comment • feb 26, 2025

  26. The History of S.u.S.E

    233 points • comment • feb 14, 2025

  27. Basis of the Kalman Filter [pdf]

    233 points • comment • feb 12, 2025

  28. F-Droid Awarded Open Technology Fund's FOSS Sustainability Grant

    233 points • comment • feb 05, 2025

  29. How to turn off Apple Intelligence

    233 points • comment • feb 01, 2025

  30. Show HN: I made a website where you can create your own "Life in Weeks" timeline

    232 points • comment • feb 26, 2025

  31. Thinkserver: My web-based coding environment

    232 points • comment • feb 10, 2025

  32. Advertising Is a Cancer on Society (2019)

    231 points • comment • feb 10, 2025

  33. Phyllis Fong, who was investigating Neuralink, "forcefully removed "

    231 points • comment • feb 01, 2025

  34. Smoke in the cabin of two 737 MAX caused by Load Reduction Device system [video]

    230 points • comment • feb 09, 2025

  35. Fewer students are enrolling in doctoral degrees

    230 points • comment • feb 13, 2025

  36. Does X cause Y? An in-depth evidence review (2021)

    230 points • comment • feb 14, 2025

  37. UnitedHealth hired a defamation law firm to go after social media posts

    229 points • comment • feb 11, 2025

  38. In memoriam

    229 points • comment • feb 23, 2025

  39. Disclosure of personal information to DOGE “is irreparable harm,” judge rules

    229 points • comment • feb 25, 2025

  40. IPv6 Is Hard

    228 points • comment • feb 16, 2025

  41. Page is under construction: A love letter to the personal website

    228 points • comment • feb 22, 2025

  42. BYD has already produced its first solid-state cells

    228 points • comment • feb 23, 2025

  43. Aluminum batteries outlive lithium-ion with a pinch of salt

    228 points • comment • feb 06, 2025

  44. Jujutsu VCS: Introduction and patterns

    228 points • comment • feb 04, 2025

  45. DoppelBot: Replace Your CEO with an LLM

    227 points • comment • feb 04, 2025

  46. TeX and Typst: Layout Models (2024)

    227 points • comment • feb 13, 2025

  47. 5G networks meet consumer needs as mobile data growth slows

    227 points • comment • feb 12, 2025

  48. Thomas Aquinas' skull reveals appearance and cause of death

    227 points • comment • feb 10, 2025

  49. Making any integer with four 2s

    226 points • comment • feb 23, 2025

  50. DeepSearcher: A local open-source Deep Research

    226 points • comment • feb 25, 2025

  51. Google removes pledge to not use AI for weapons from website

    225 points • comment • feb 04, 2025

  52. Chrome 133 Supports DOM State-Preserving Move with moveBefore()

    224 points • comment • feb 05, 2025

  53. Extensible WASM Applications with Go

    224 points • comment • feb 14, 2025

  54. Record-breaking neutrino is most energetic ever detected

    224 points • comment • feb 12, 2025

  55. Resist Authoritarianism by Refusing to Obey in Advance (2017)

    223 points • comment • feb 12, 2025

  56. An inside look at NSA tactics, techniques and procedures from China's lens

    223 points • comment • feb 19, 2025

  57. Vim after Bram: a core maintainer on how they've kept it going

    223 points • comment • feb 16, 2025

  58. API design note: Beware of adding an "Other" enum value

    223 points • comment • feb 27, 2025

  59. Fly To Podman: a script that will help you to migrate from Docker

    222 points • comment • feb 21, 2025

  60. Money lessons without money: The financial literacy fallacy

    222 points • comment • feb 18, 2025

  61. Ultima VII: Revisited

    221 points • comment • feb 23, 2025

  62. Storytelling lessons I learned from Steve Jobs (2022)

    221 points • comment • feb 09, 2025

  63. How about trailing commas in SQL?

    221 points • comment • feb 11, 2025

  64. Alexa+

    220 points • comment • feb 26, 2025

  65. Gleam, Coming from Erlang

    220 points • comment • feb 25, 2025

  66. Customizable HTML Select

    219 points • comment • feb 20, 2025

  67. I wrote a static web page and accidentally started a community (2023)

    219 points • comment • feb 12, 2025

  68. September 17, 1787: "A Republic, If You Can Keep It"

    219 points • comment • feb 22, 2025

  69. U.S. Government Disclosed 39 Zero-Day Vulnerabilities in 2023, First-Ever Report

    218 points • comment • feb 06, 2025

  70. Finding Flow: Escaping digital distractions through deep work and slow living

    217 points • comment • feb 16, 2025

  71. Show HN: I made my own OS from scratch because I was bored

    216 points • comment • feb 12, 2025

  72. Decades of Research Misconduct Stalled an Alzheimer's Cure

    216 points • comment • feb 23, 2025

  73. DigiKey's Tariff Resources

    216 points • comment • feb 22, 2025

  74. US authorities can see more than ever, with Big Tech as their eyes

    216 points • comment • feb 28, 2025

  75. Government planned it 7 years, beavers built a dam in 2 days and saved $1M

    215 points • comment • feb 04, 2025

  76. The Ren'Py Visual Novel Engine

    215 points • comment • feb 21, 2025

  77. Oracle Cloud deleting active user accounts without possibility for data recovery

    215 points • comment • feb 01, 2025

  78. Three-nanite: Unreal Nanite in Three.js

    215 points • comment • feb 07, 2025

  79. Searchcode.com’s SQLite database is probably 6 terabytes bigger than yours

    214 points • comment • feb 17, 2025

  80. Have you ever seen a goth downtown?

    214 points • comment • feb 18, 2025

  81. Alibaba/T-HEAD's Xuantie C910

    214 points • comment • feb 04, 2025

  82. Show HN: ExpenseOwl – Simple, self-hosted expense tracker

    214 points • comment • feb 07, 2025

  83. Carlos Slim cancels his collaboration with Elon Musk's Starlink

    214 points • comment • feb 27, 2025

  84. DeepDive in everything of Llama3: revealing detailed insights and implementation

    213 points • comment • feb 21, 2025

  85. Obscura VPN – Privacy that's more than a promise

    213 points • comment • feb 20, 2025

  86. Users don't care about your tech stack

    213 points • comment • feb 21, 2025

  87. Complex dynamics require complex solutions

    213 points • comment • feb 14, 2025

  88. Shwe Kokko is accused of being a city built on scams

    213 points • comment • feb 07, 2025

  89. Visualize Ownership and Lifetimes in Rust

    213 points • comment • feb 14, 2025

  90. Why and How I use “Org Mode” for my writing and more (2022)

    212 points • comment • feb 24, 2025

  91. Why LLMs still have problems with OCR

    212 points • comment • feb 06, 2025

  92. Launch HN: Maritime Fusion (YC W25) – Fusion Reactors for Ships

    212 points • comment • feb 26, 2025

  93. A bookmarklet to kill sticky headers (2013)

    212 points • comment • feb 01, 2025

  94. Analysis of 2024 election results in Clark County indicates manipulation

    212 points • comment • feb 09, 2025

  95. FLAC 1.5 Delivers Multi-Threaded Encoding

    212 points • comment • feb 11, 2025

  96. The Amazon Appstore for Android devices will be discontinued on August 20, 2025

    212 points • comment • feb 20, 2025

  97. Build a link blog like Simon Willison

    211 points • comment • feb 04, 2025

  98. Self hosted FLOSS fitness/workout tracker

    210 points • comment • feb 13, 2025

  99. Bill prohibiting police from lying to children passes Virginia Senate

    210 points • comment • feb 19, 2025

  100. Ancient-DNA study identifies originators of Indo-European language family

    210 points • comment • feb 07, 2025