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Hacker News (Feb 2025)

  1. A data analysis of speeches at the Oscars

    161 points • comment • feb 27, 2025

  2. Student refines 100-year-old math problem, expanding wind energy possibilities

    161 points • comment • feb 24, 2025

  3. A gracious end to Webb-site

    161 points • comment • feb 12, 2025

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

    161 points • comment • feb 24, 2025

  5. ARPA is funding cheap community-owned gigabit fiber to neglected neighborhoods

    160 points • comment • feb 24, 2025

  6. Tiny Pointers

    160 points • comment • feb 12, 2025

  7. Implementing LLaMA3 in 100 Lines of Pure Jax

    160 points • comment • feb 19, 2025

  8. Show HN: HN as TikTok, welcome to HN hell

    160 points • comment • feb 05, 2025

  9. Yocto, RockPi and SBOMs: Building modern embedded Linux images

    159 points • comment • feb 21, 2025

  10. Spacetime maps: A map that warps to show travel time

    158 points • comment • feb 13, 2025

  11. The European VAT Is Not a Discriminatory Tax Against US Exports

    158 points • comment • feb 15, 2025

  12. Detecting AI agent use and abuse

    158 points • comment • feb 14, 2025

  13. Push Notifications for Decentralized Services

    158 points • comment • feb 01, 2025

  14. Cloudflare takes legal action over LaLiga's "disproportionate blocking efforts"

    158 points • comment • feb 24, 2025

  15. The serotonin theory of depression: a systematic review of the evidence (2022)

    158 points • comment • feb 27, 2025

  16. Postgres as a Graph Database: (Ab)Using PgRouting

    157 points • comment • feb 27, 2025

  17. Dogs may have domesticated themselves because they liked snacks, model suggests

    157 points • comment • feb 25, 2025

  18. Programming with chronic pain

    157 points • comment • feb 17, 2025

  19. History of CAD

    157 points • comment • feb 25, 2025

  20. Show HN: Marksmith – a GitHub-style Markdown editor for Ruby on Rails

    157 points • comment • feb 03, 2025

  21. JetBrains Fleet drops support for Kotlin Multiplatform

    156 points • comment • feb 11, 2025

  22. What does it mean that MP3 is free?

    156 points • comment • feb 06, 2025

  23. NLRB acting general counsel rescinds non-compete labor policy

    156 points • comment • feb 17, 2025

  24. Japan can be a science heavyweight once more if it rethinks funding

    155 points • comment • feb 11, 2025

  25. League of Legends data scraping the hard and tedious way for fun

    155 points • comment • feb 12, 2025

  26. Privacy Is Not Dead: Beware the All-or-Nothing Mindset

    155 points • comment • feb 17, 2025

  27. Go 1.24

    155 points • comment • feb 18, 2025

  28. EdgeDB is now Gel and Postgres is the future

    155 points • comment • feb 25, 2025

  29. Steve Meretzky – Working with Douglas Adams on the Hitchhiker's Guide

    155 points • comment • feb 05, 2025

  30. GNU Make Standard Library

    155 points • comment • feb 05, 2025

  31. Show HN: I scrape Steam data every month and it's yours to download for free

    155 points • comment • feb 24, 2025

  32. The origin and unexpected evolution of the word "mainframe"

    154 points • comment • feb 01, 2025

  33. Kanata: Cross-platform multi-layer keyboard remapper with advanced customization

    154 points • comment • feb 09, 2025

  34. Python 3, Pygame, and Debian Bookworm on the Miyoo A30

    154 points • comment • feb 01, 2025

  35. The Joy of Nand2Tetris

    154 points • comment • feb 15, 2025

  36. Hedge Funds Are Pocketing Much of Their Clients' Gains with 'No Limit' Fees

    153 points • comment • feb 10, 2025

  37. DOGE Has Started Gutting a Key US Technology Agency

    153 points • comment • feb 13, 2025

  38. Patterns for Building Realtime Features

    153 points • comment • feb 10, 2025

  39. BritCSS: Fixes CSS to use non-American English

    153 points • comment • feb 21, 2025

  40. Scala 3 Migration: Report from the field

    153 points • comment • feb 06, 2025

  41. What happens to your online accounts when you die?

    153 points • comment • feb 09, 2025

  42. Perma.cc – Permanent Link Service

    152 points • comment • feb 07, 2025

  43. Show HN: An homage to Tom Dowdy's 1991 screensaver, "Kaos"

    152 points • comment • feb 06, 2025

  44. Decision to dump water from Tulare County lakes altered after confusing locals

    152 points • comment • feb 01, 2025

  45. The Art of Dithering and Retro Shading for the Web (2024)

    152 points • comment • feb 02, 2025

  46. Gene Hackman has died

    151 points • comment • feb 27, 2025

  47. Ask HN: Is anyone still using Dreamweaver?

    151 points • comment • feb 22, 2025

  48. OpenVINO AI effects for Audacity

    150 points • comment • feb 14, 2025

  49. DOGE staffer is trying to reroute FEMA funds

    150 points • comment • feb 13, 2025

  50. I conditioned myself to fail

    150 points • comment • feb 03, 2025

  51. Show HN: Slime OS – An open-source app launcher for RP2040 based devices

    150 points • comment • feb 21, 2025

  52. Microsoft open sources PostgreSQL extensions

    149 points • comment • feb 11, 2025

  53. Words flagged in search of current NSF awards

    149 points • comment • feb 04, 2025

  54. Small Tech (2020)

    149 points • comment • feb 17, 2025

  55. Surgery implants tooth material in eye as scaffolding for lens

    149 points • comment • feb 28, 2025

  56. Watchdog ponders why Apple doesn't apply its strict app tracking rules to itself

    149 points • comment • feb 14, 2025

  57. Nping – ping, but with a graph or table view

    148 points • comment • feb 12, 2025

  58. 0+0 > 0: C++ thread-local storage performance

    148 points • comment • feb 17, 2025

  59. TinyX: Small Featured X Server

    148 points • comment • feb 10, 2025

  60. Kaneo – An open source project management platform

    147 points • comment • feb 22, 2025

  61. You're missing your near misses

    147 points • comment • feb 05, 2025

  62. Run structured extraction on documents/images locally with Ollama and Pydantic

    147 points • comment • feb 20, 2025

  63. Dell ends hybrid work policy, demands RTO despite remote work pledge

    146 points • comment • feb 01, 2025

  64. Exult: Recreating Ultima VII for modern operating systems

    146 points • comment • feb 22, 2025

  65. Subway crime plummets as ridership jumps significantly in congestion pricing era

    146 points • comment • feb 06, 2025

  66. Neut Programming Language

    146 points • comment • feb 24, 2025

  67. Defragging my old Dell's UEFI NVRAM

    146 points • comment • feb 23, 2025

  68. NASA's James Webb Space Telescope faces potential 20% budget cut

    146 points • comment • feb 21, 2025

  69. Ratzilla

    146 points • comment • feb 01, 2025

  70. Virtual museum of socialist era graphic design in Bulgaria

    146 points • comment • feb 28, 2025

  71. jj: a Git-compatible VCS that is both simple and powerful

    146 points • comment • feb 12, 2025

  72. Please Commit More Blatant Academic Fraud (2021)

    146 points • comment • feb 21, 2025

  73. A Defense of Weird Research

    146 points • comment • feb 25, 2025

  74. The Sudoku Affair

    145 points • comment • feb 05, 2025

  75. 'It's a money game to them':son takes on UnitedHealth over elderly father's care

    145 points • comment • feb 13, 2025

  76. 'Impossible-to-hack' security turns out to be no security

    145 points • comment • feb 24, 2025

  77. Show HN: Play with real quantum physics in your browser

    145 points • comment • feb 04, 2025

  78. Anno 1800: Shadows of Beauty

    145 points • comment • feb 13, 2025

  79. Surface-Stable Fractal Dither on Playdate

    145 points • comment • feb 18, 2025

  80. The Profitable Startup

    144 points • comment • feb 21, 2025

  81. Gold Is Worth More in New York

    144 points • comment • feb 13, 2025

  82. Fluoxetine promotes metabolic defenses to protect from sepsis-induced lethality

    144 points • comment • feb 17, 2025

  83. Show HN: Yaak – An open source, Git-friendly desktop API client

    144 points • comment • feb 26, 2025

  84. How does Ada's memory safety compare against Rust?

    144 points • comment • feb 10, 2025

  85. Show HN: Searchable library of free audiobooks

    144 points • comment • feb 09, 2025

  86. Nvidia emulation journey, part 1: RIVA 128/NV3 architecture history and overview

    144 points • comment • feb 27, 2025

  87. Recovering priceless audio and lost languages from old decaying tapes

    144 points • comment • feb 22, 2025

  88. FOSDEM 2025: Streaming Schedule

    144 points • comment • feb 01, 2025

  89. Easy 6502

    144 points • comment • feb 07, 2025

  90. Hard disk fraud: long runtimes on new Seagate hard disks

    144 points • comment • feb 09, 2025

  91. Persistent packages on Steam Deck using Nix

    144 points • comment • feb 09, 2025

  92. 12 years of Backblaze data center storage drives, visualized

    143 points • comment • feb 18, 2025

  93. Pre-Trained Large Language Models Use Fourier Features for Addition (2024)

    143 points • comment • feb 06, 2025

  94. OWASP Non-Human Identities Top 10

    143 points • comment • feb 04, 2025

  95. Compiling Java into native binaries with Graal and Mill

    143 points • comment • feb 02, 2025

  96. Go Data Structures (2009)

    143 points • comment • feb 05, 2025

  97. Stone Soup AI (2024)

    143 points • comment • feb 25, 2025

  98. First glimpse inside burnt scroll after 2k years

    143 points • comment • feb 05, 2025

  99. I'm Done with Ubuntu

    142 points • comment • feb 05, 2025

  100. The first yearly drop in average CPU performance in its 20 years of benchmarks

    142 points • comment • feb 11, 2025