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Hacker News (Feb 2025)

  1. Mozilla introduces a Terms of Use agreement for Firefox

    180 points • comment • feb 28, 2025

  2. Advanced Magnet Manufacturing Begins in the United States

    180 points • comment • feb 09, 2025

  3. It's unlikely that there will be any further releases of mt32-pi

    180 points • comment • feb 05, 2025

  4. Saying goodbye to FFmpegKit

    180 points • comment • feb 14, 2025

  5. Ancient switch to soft food gave us overbite–the ability to pronounce 'f's,'v'

    180 points • comment • feb 20, 2025

  6. Fake VS Code Extension on NPM Spreads Multi-Stage Malware

    180 points • comment • feb 07, 2025

  7. Stop using zip codes for geospatial analysis (2019)

    179 points • comment • feb 07, 2025

  8. Rare Photos from Inside North Korea's 'Hotel of Doom' (2023)

    179 points • comment • feb 17, 2025

  9. Start a computer club in the place that you live (2023)

    179 points • comment • feb 22, 2025

  10. On Bloat

    179 points • comment • feb 14, 2025

  11. How X-Plane Works

    178 points • comment • feb 16, 2025

  12. Multiple Russian Threat Actors Targeting Microsoft Device Code Authentication

    178 points • comment • feb 15, 2025

  13. Mucins keep the brain safe and could guard against ageing

    178 points • comment • feb 28, 2025

  14. Make Your Own Website: A beginner's guide

    178 points • comment • feb 11, 2025

  15. Ask HN: Former employees' RSUs at risk after startup's IPO

    177 points • comment • feb 12, 2025

  16. My Time at MIT

    177 points • comment • feb 17, 2025

  17. ForeverVM: Run AI-generated code in stateful sandboxes that run forever

    176 points • comment • feb 26, 2025

  18. The Miserable State of Modems and Mobile Network Operators

    176 points • comment • feb 26, 2025

  19. Softmax forever, or why I like softmax

    176 points • comment • feb 16, 2025

  20. Schemesh: Fusion between Unix shell and Lisp REPL

    175 points • comment • feb 15, 2025

  21. Emergent Misalignment: Narrow finetuning can produce broadly misaligned LLMs [pdf]

    175 points • comment • feb 25, 2025

  22. Tesla recalls 380k vehicles in US over power steering assist issue

    175 points • comment • feb 21, 2025

  23. Ambsheets: Spreadsheets for Exploring Scenarios

    175 points • comment • feb 04, 2025

  24. Maestro – Next generation mobile UI automation

    175 points • comment • feb 25, 2025

  25. RetroFab: Playable 3D simulations of vintage electronic games

    175 points • comment • feb 09, 2025

  26. Starlink in the Falkland Islands – A national emergency situation?

    175 points • comment • feb 08, 2025

  27. USDA fired officials working on bird flu, now trying to rehire them

    175 points • comment • feb 19, 2025

  28. I coded a Pascal compiler for transputer as a teen in 1993

    175 points • comment • feb 05, 2025

  29. How to scale your model: A systems view of LLMs on TPUs

    175 points • comment • feb 04, 2025

  30. The Zizians and the rationalist death cult

    174 points • comment • feb 01, 2025

  31. GitHub Copilot: The Agent Awakens

    174 points • comment • feb 06, 2025

  32. JJ Cheat Sheet

    174 points • comment • feb 12, 2025

  33. PhD Knowledge Not Required: A Reasoning Challenge for Large Language Models

    174 points • comment • feb 09, 2025

  34. 21st Century C++

    173 points • comment • feb 05, 2025

  35. Show HN: LLM plays Pokémon (open sourced)

    173 points • comment • feb 26, 2025

  36. Ask HN: Recommend resources that helped your game dev journey?

    173 points • comment • feb 25, 2025

  37. Frank Lloyd Wright's mile high skyscraper proposal (2021)

    173 points • comment • feb 06, 2025

  38. Zig; what I think after months of using it

    173 points • comment • feb 05, 2025

  39. NAT Is the Enemy of Low Power Devices

    173 points • comment • feb 10, 2025

  40. Why Does Integer Addition Approximate Float Multiplication?

    172 points • comment • feb 09, 2025

  41. OmniHuman-1: Human Animation Models

    172 points • comment • feb 04, 2025

  42. Postmortem: The singular design of Namco's Katamari Damacy (2004)

    172 points • comment • feb 11, 2025

  43. Photographs of the Old West

    172 points • comment • feb 26, 2025

  44. Cross Views

    171 points • comment • feb 26, 2025

  45. Indigenous engineers are using AI to preserve their culture

    171 points • comment • feb 07, 2025

  46. Building a BitTorrent client from the ground up in Go (2020)

    171 points • comment • feb 24, 2025

  47. Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (February 2025)

    171 points • comment • feb 03, 2025

  48. Try thinking and learning without working memory (2008)

    171 points • comment • feb 18, 2025

  49. Decorator JITs: Python as a DSL

    171 points • comment • feb 03, 2025

  50. The largest sofa you can move around a corner

    171 points • comment • feb 14, 2025

  51. London Street Views (1840)

    171 points • comment • feb 03, 2025

  52. Kill the "user": Musings of a disillusioned technologist

    171 points • comment • feb 05, 2025

  53. Hoppscotch: Open source alternative to Postman / Insomnia

    171 points • comment • feb 01, 2025

  54. Ask HN: Who are your favorite photography and generative coding artists?

    171 points • comment • feb 23, 2025

  55. Merlion: A Machine Learning Framework for Time Series Intelligence

    170 points • comment • feb 28, 2025

  56. PAROL6: 3D-printed desktop robotic arm

    170 points • comment • feb 15, 2025

  57. The Floppotron 3.0 (2022)

    170 points • comment • feb 11, 2025

  58. DualPipe: Bidirectional pipeline parallelism algorithm

    170 points • comment • feb 27, 2025

  59. BYD to offer Tesla-like self-driving tech in all models for free

    170 points • comment • feb 11, 2025

  60. 'Everybody is looking at their phones,' says man freed after 30 years in prison

    170 points • comment • feb 23, 2025

  61. Visualizing data is an art

    170 points • comment • feb 12, 2025

  62. LLMs can teach themselves to better predict the future

    170 points • comment • feb 11, 2025

  63. Linux kernel cgroups writeback high CPU troubleshooting

    170 points • comment • feb 14, 2025

  64. The hallucinatory thoughts of the dying mind

    170 points • comment • feb 10, 2025

  65. After layoffs, Meta rewards top executives with a substantial bonus increase

    170 points • comment • feb 22, 2025

  66. Over 90% of U.S. airport towers are understaffed, data shows

    169 points • comment • feb 01, 2025

  67. Show HN: Telescope – an open-source web-based log viewer for logs in ClickHouse

    169 points • comment • feb 26, 2025

  68. Federal data is disappearing. On Thursday, meet the teams working to rescue it

    169 points • comment • feb 13, 2025

  69. Kaspersky exposes hidden malware on GitHub stealing personal data

    168 points • comment • feb 28, 2025

  70. Ugandan runner Jacob Kiplimo completes first ever sub-57 minute half marathon

    168 points • comment • feb 17, 2025

  71. Writing a Gimp 3.0 Plugin

    168 points • comment • feb 12, 2025

  72. The 8-Bit Era's Weird Uncle: The TI-99/4A

    167 points • comment • feb 16, 2025

  73. Police arrest apparent leader of 'Zizian' group

    167 points • comment • feb 17, 2025

  74. DeaDBeeF: The Ultimate Music Player

    167 points • comment • feb 12, 2025

  75. Twitch limiting uploads to 100 hours, deleting the rest starting April 19th

    167 points • comment • feb 20, 2025

  76. A cryptocurrency scam that turned a small town against itself

    166 points • comment • feb 20, 2025

  77. The origins of 60-Hz as a power frequency (1997)

    165 points • comment • feb 07, 2025

  78. Learning fast and accurate absolute pitch judgment in adulthood

    165 points • comment • feb 13, 2025

  79. The state of Rust trying to catch up with Ada [video]

    165 points • comment • feb 10, 2025

  80. Efficient Reasoning with Hidden Thinking

    165 points • comment • feb 03, 2025

  81. Larry Ellison's half-billion-dollar quest to change farming

    165 points • comment • feb 24, 2025

  82. Xonsh – A Python-powered shell

    164 points • comment • feb 21, 2025

  83. Better text rendering in Chromium-based browsers on Windows

    164 points • comment • feb 13, 2025

  84. A study on how turtles navigate using the Earth’s magnetic field

    164 points • comment • feb 14, 2025

  85. Spice86 – A PC emulator for real mode reverse engineering

    164 points • comment • feb 20, 2025

  86. I ate and reviewed every snack in our office kitchen

    164 points • comment • feb 21, 2025

  87. Elements of Programming (2009)

    163 points • comment • feb 11, 2025

  88. Gixy: Nginx Configuration Static Analyzer

    163 points • comment • feb 16, 2025

  89. Animate Anyone 2: High-Fidelity Character Image Animation

    163 points • comment • feb 16, 2025

  90. Douglas McIlroy responds to Unix spell article with new implementation details

    162 points • comment • feb 06, 2025

  91. Didn't realize it was this bad

    162 points • comment • feb 23, 2025

  92. Texas banned abortion, then sepsis rates soared

    162 points • comment • feb 20, 2025

  93. Who needs a sneaker bot when AI can hallucinate a win for you?

    162 points • comment • feb 22, 2025

  94. Bluesky now has 30 million users

    162 points • comment • feb 03, 2025

  95. Show HN: Probly – Spreadsheets, Python, and AI in the browser

    162 points • comment • feb 27, 2025

  96. Google Co-Scientist AI fed previous paper with the answer in it

    161 points • comment • feb 24, 2025

  97. 1% Equity for Founding Engineers Is BS

    161 points • comment • feb 10, 2025

  98. Florida insurers steered money to investors while claiming losses, study says

    161 points • comment • feb 22, 2025

  99. Reviewing the cryptography used by Signal

    161 points • comment • feb 18, 2025

  100. Work at the Mill: The story of Digital Equipment Corporation

    161 points • comment • feb 10, 2025