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Hacker News (Feb 2025)

  1. A vending machine, on the internet

    209 points • comment • feb 18, 2025

  2. Build your own SQLite in Rust, Part 5: Evaluating queries

    209 points • comment • feb 19, 2025

  3. Tesla sales in Europe down 45% in January

    209 points • comment • feb 25, 2025

  4. Balcony solar is taking off

    209 points • comment • feb 07, 2025

  5. LinkedIn is the worst social media I've ever seen

    209 points • comment • feb 14, 2025

  6. DARPA Large Bio-Mechanical Space Structures

    208 points • comment • feb 26, 2025

  7. NESFab – A new programming language for creating NES games

    208 points • comment • feb 10, 2025

  8. Intel's Battlemage Architecture

    207 points • comment • feb 11, 2025

  9. Is software abstraction killing civilization? (2021)

    207 points • comment • feb 08, 2025

  10. OpenLDK: A Java JIT compiler and runtime in Common Lisp

    207 points • comment • feb 05, 2025

  11. Notes on OpenAI o3-mini

    206 points • comment • feb 01, 2025

  12. Copilot stops working on code that contains hardcoded banned words from GitHub (2023)

    206 points • comment • feb 07, 2025

  13. New horizons for Julia

    205 points • comment • feb 20, 2025

  14. Who exactly needs to get approval from an institutional review board (IRB)?

    205 points • comment • feb 13, 2025

  15. World-first experimental cancer treatment paves way for clinical trial

    205 points • comment • feb 27, 2025

  16. Alan Turing's "Delilah" project

    204 points • comment • feb 04, 2025

  17. OpenDAW – a new holistic exploration of music creation inside the browser

    204 points • comment • feb 09, 2025

  18. ICE wants to know if you're posting negative things about it online

    203 points • comment • feb 14, 2025

  19. The Iconic 3DBenchy Enters the Public Domain

    203 points • comment • feb 14, 2025

  20. The XB-70 (2019)

    202 points • comment • feb 25, 2025

  21. Vine: A programming language based on Interaction Nets

    202 points • comment • feb 22, 2025

  22. Radiant Foam: Real-Time Differentiable Ray Tracing

    200 points • comment • feb 04, 2025

  23. Chicory: A JVM native WebAssembly runtime

    200 points • comment • feb 25, 2025

  24. Polish city is using mussels to monitor water quality (2020)

    200 points • comment • feb 03, 2025

  25. A new proposal for how mind emerges from matter

    200 points • comment • feb 26, 2025

  26. How Nissan and Honda's $60B merger talks collapsed

    199 points • comment • feb 12, 2025

  27. What would happen if we didn't use TCP or UDP?

    199 points • comment • feb 25, 2025

  28. Show HN: An API that takes a URL and returns a file with browser screenshots

    198 points • comment • feb 06, 2025

  29. These years in Common Lisp: 2023-2024 in review

    198 points • comment • feb 18, 2025

  30. Imapsync

    197 points • comment • feb 12, 2025

  31. Kokoro WebGPU: Real-time text-to-speech 100% locally in the browser

    197 points • comment • feb 07, 2025

  32. What about K?

    197 points • comment • feb 10, 2025

  33. Pollution from Big Tech's data centre boom costs US public health $5.4bn

    197 points • comment • feb 24, 2025

  34. Spaced repetition can allow for infinite recall (2022)

    197 points • comment • feb 02, 2025

  35. Ghostwriter – use the reMarkable2 as an interface to vision-LLMs

    197 points • comment • feb 08, 2025

  36. Tokio and Prctl = Nasty Bug

    196 points • comment • feb 23, 2025

  37. Is Ketamine Neurotoxic?

    196 points • comment • feb 24, 2025

  38. Common mistakes in architecture diagrams (2020)

    196 points • comment • feb 09, 2025

  39. No-Panic Rust: A Nice Technique for Systems Programming

    195 points • comment • feb 03, 2025

  40. Geometric Algebra

    194 points • comment • feb 26, 2025

  41. Why I'm writing a Scheme implementation in 2025: Async Rust

    194 points • comment • feb 17, 2025

  42. Kevin Mitnik FOIA Final

    193 points • comment • feb 14, 2025

  43. Grim Fandango Puzzle Document (1996) [pdf]

    193 points • comment • feb 16, 2025

  44. Apple pulls encrypted iCloud security feature in UK amid backdoor demands

    193 points • comment • feb 21, 2025

  45. Hell is overconfident developers writing encryption code

    193 points • comment • feb 01, 2025

  46. Markov Chains Explained Visually (2014)

    193 points • comment • feb 28, 2025

  47. Classic Data science pipelines built with LLMs

    193 points • comment • feb 09, 2025

  48. Generating Voronoi diagrams using Fortune's algorithm

    193 points • comment • feb 08, 2025

  49. RISC-V Mainboard for Framework Laptop 13 is now available

    193 points • comment • feb 05, 2025

  50. Woman who had pioneering cancer treatment 18 years ago still in remission

    192 points • comment • feb 17, 2025

  51. Sweden Investigates New Cable Break Under Baltic Sea

    191 points • comment • feb 21, 2025

  52. State of emergency declared after blackout plunges most of Chile into darkness

    191 points • comment • feb 26, 2025

  53. Show HN: Superglue – open source API connector that writes its own code

    191 points • comment • feb 27, 2025

  54. Children's arithmetic skills do not transfer between applied and academic math

    191 points • comment • feb 07, 2025

  55. Ask HN: What is the best method for turning a scanned book as a PDF into text?

    191 points • comment • feb 14, 2025

  56. Show HN: Air traffic control radio and chill music for focus

    190 points • comment • feb 16, 2025

  57. Sri Lanka scrambles to restore power after monkey causes islandwide outage

    190 points • comment • feb 13, 2025

  58. DeepRAG: Thinking to retrieval step by step for large language models

    190 points • comment • feb 04, 2025

  59. Espargos: ESP32-based WiFi sensing array

    189 points • comment • feb 17, 2025

  60. An Infinitely Large Napkin [pdf] (2019)

    189 points • comment • feb 10, 2025

  61. CAPTCHAs: 'a tracking cookie farm for profit masquerading as a security service'

    189 points • comment • feb 10, 2025

  62. Netboot Windows 11 with iSCSI and iPXE

    189 points • comment • feb 28, 2025

  63. A Year of Telepathy

    188 points • comment • feb 11, 2025

  64. Representing Graphs in PostgreSQL

    188 points • comment • feb 17, 2025

  65. AWS paywalling select knowledge base articles, requiring Premium Support plan

    188 points • comment • feb 18, 2025

  66. Three Observations

    188 points • comment • feb 09, 2025

  67. Tesla sales plummet in the UK, France, and Germany

    187 points • comment • feb 05, 2025

  68. Microsoft deletes official Windows 11 CPU/TPM bypass for unsupported PCs

    187 points • comment • feb 05, 2025

  69. The secret ingredients of word2vec (2016)

    187 points • comment • feb 17, 2025

  70. Tesla Cybertruck Drives Itself into a Pole, Owner Says 'Thank You Tesla'

    187 points • comment • feb 11, 2025

  71. Show HN: Kreuzberg – Modern async Python library for document text extraction

    187 points • comment • feb 15, 2025

  72. Visual explanations of mathematics (2020)

    187 points • comment • feb 05, 2025

  73. Torvalds: You can avoid Rust as a C maintainer, but you can't interfere with it

    187 points • comment • feb 22, 2025

  74. AWS S3 SDK breaks its compatible services

    186 points • comment • feb 20, 2025

  75. Ask HN: Do you know travel blogs that have animated SVG maps of their travels?

    185 points • comment • feb 04, 2025

  76. Laravel Cloud

    185 points • comment • feb 24, 2025

  77. Relaxed Radix Balanced Trees (2024)

    185 points • comment • feb 19, 2025

  78. SpaceX engineers brought on at FAA after probationary employees were fired

    185 points • comment • feb 21, 2025

  79. Did Semgrep Just Get a Lot More Interesting?

    185 points • comment • feb 15, 2025

  80. How browsers really load web pages [video]

    185 points • comment • feb 17, 2025

  81. Adding Mastodon Comments to Your Blog

    184 points • comment • feb 23, 2025

  82. How Spotify Killed Lo-Fi Hip Hop

    184 points • comment • feb 04, 2025

  83. Pee If You Want to Go Deeper (2021)

    184 points • comment • feb 23, 2025

  84. Do you want to be doing this when you're 50? (2012)

    184 points • comment • feb 22, 2025

  85. I bought a container full of Chinese electric excavators. Here's what showed up

    183 points • comment • feb 04, 2025

  86. Show HN: While the world builds AI Agents, I'm just building calculators

    183 points • comment • feb 22, 2025

  87. Augurs demo

    183 points • comment • feb 18, 2025

  88. Partnering with the Shawnee Tribe for Civilization VII

    183 points • comment • feb 23, 2025

  89. Certificate Transparency in Firefox

    182 points • comment • feb 25, 2025

  90. Svelte 5 is not JavaScript

    182 points • comment • feb 18, 2025

  91. Among top researchers 10% publish at unrealistic levels, analysis finds

    182 points • comment • feb 18, 2025

  92. Bitwarden Authenticator

    182 points • comment • feb 23, 2025

  93. NOAA's public weather data powers the local forecasts on your phone and TV

    181 points • comment • feb 11, 2025

  94. Rwandan scientists develop local yeast for banana wine-makers

    181 points • comment • feb 08, 2025

  95. How Copyover MUD Servers Worked

    181 points • comment • feb 11, 2025

  96. Harvest the sun twice: Agrivoltaics promises sustainable food, energy and water

    181 points • comment • feb 27, 2025

  97. What do people see when they're tripping? Analyzing Erowid's trip reports

    181 points • comment • feb 25, 2025

  98. Remote Code Execution in Marvel Rivals Game

    180 points • comment • feb 03, 2025

  99. Saying goodbye to FFmpegKit

    180 points • comment • feb 14, 2025

  100. Mozilla introduces a Terms of Use agreement for Firefox

    180 points • comment • feb 28, 2025