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Hacker News (Feb 2025)

  1. I'm Done with Ubuntu

    142 points • comment • feb 05, 2025

  2. Show HN: Letting LLMs Run a Debugger

    141 points • comment • feb 12, 2025

  3. George Eliot's reflections on AGI from 1879

    141 points • comment • feb 14, 2025

  4. A possible future of Python in the browser

    141 points • comment • feb 25, 2025

  5. What's New in Emacs 30.1?

    141 points • comment • feb 24, 2025

  6. Google kills diversity hiring targets

    141 points • comment • feb 05, 2025

  7. Practical Foundations of Mathematics

    140 points • comment • feb 24, 2025

  8. WebShield – A new wide-spectrum content blocker for Safari

    140 points • comment • feb 28, 2025

  9. The Shape of a Mars Mission

    140 points • comment • feb 21, 2025

  10. Scaling up test-time compute with latent reasoning: A recurrent depth approach

    140 points • comment • feb 10, 2025

  11. Radiation belts detected around Earth after solar storm

    140 points • comment • feb 07, 2025

  12. Resident physicians' exam scores tied to patient survival

    140 points • comment • feb 25, 2025

  13. No One Lives Forever (NOLF) Revival Edition

    140 points • comment • feb 23, 2025

  14. Show HN: Benchmarking VLMs vs. Traditional OCR

    140 points • comment • feb 20, 2025

  15. A tale of distros joining forces for a common goal: reproducible builds [video]

    140 points • comment • feb 08, 2025

  16. Andrej Karpathy: "I was given early access to Grok 3 earlier today"

    139 points • comment • feb 18, 2025

  17. Find Your 2%Ers (2023)

    139 points • comment • feb 17, 2025

  18. Ask HN: Is anybody building an alternative transformer?

    139 points • comment • feb 14, 2025

  19. ADHD Didn't Break Me–My Parents Did

    139 points • comment • feb 01, 2025

  20. Why hasn't commercial air travel gotten any faster since the 1960s? (2009)

    139 points • comment • feb 10, 2025

  21. Don't Be Frupid

    139 points • comment • feb 10, 2025

  22. The inevitability of the borrow checker

    139 points • comment • feb 06, 2025

  23. OpenAI Researchers Find That AI Is Unable to Solve Most Coding Problems

    139 points • comment • feb 24, 2025

  24. Beginnings of Roman London discovered in office basement

    139 points • comment • feb 13, 2025

  25. LINUX is obsolete (1992)

    139 points • comment • feb 08, 2025

  26. The LLMentalist Effect

    139 points • comment • feb 08, 2025

  27. Benchmarking vision-language models on OCR in dynamic video environments

    139 points • comment • feb 14, 2025

  28. Julia and JuliaHub: Advancing Innovation and Growth

    138 points • comment • feb 03, 2025

  29. RoboPianist: Dexterous Piano Playing with Deep Reinforcement Learning (2023)

    138 points • comment • feb 27, 2025

  30. Show HN: I created a language called AntiLang – breaking all the conventions

    138 points • comment • feb 23, 2025

  31. Modernist Cuisine: The Art and Science of Cooking

    138 points • comment • feb 24, 2025

  32. Meta slashes staff stock awards as group embarks on AI spending drive

    138 points • comment • feb 23, 2025

  33. 100 Or so Books that shaped a Century of Science (1999)

    138 points • comment • feb 04, 2025

  34. Show HN: I made a tiny book using a pen-plotter and AI

    137 points • comment • feb 10, 2025

  35. DOGE Said It Cut $232M from Social Security. It Was Only About Half a Mil

    137 points • comment • feb 20, 2025

  36. Ohm: A user-friendly parsing toolkit for JavaScript and TypeScript

    137 points • comment • feb 08, 2025

  37. Daily omega-3 fatty acids may help human organs stay young

    137 points • comment • feb 09, 2025

  38. Baffled by generational garbage collection – wingolog

    137 points • comment • feb 09, 2025

  39. Brian Krebs: This Administration Is Completely Compromised

    136 points • comment • feb 28, 2025

  40. Fun with C++26 reflection: Keyword Arguments

    136 points • comment • feb 10, 2025

  41. Delphi Is 30

    136 points • comment • feb 14, 2025

  42. Gig workers worked more but earned less in 2024: study

    136 points • comment • feb 22, 2025

  43. Noether's Theorem Revolutionized Physics

    136 points • comment • feb 07, 2025

  44. Xcode Constantly Phones Home

    135 points • comment • feb 25, 2025

  45. A web platform for using YouTube as a drum sequencer

    135 points • comment • feb 18, 2025

  46. Whalesong patterns follow a universal law of human language, new research finds

    135 points • comment • feb 07, 2025

  47. The number line freaks me out (2016)

    135 points • comment • feb 16, 2025

  48. A Comment on Mozilla's Policy Changes

    134 points • comment • feb 28, 2025

  49. U. of Pittsburgh pauses Ph.D. admissions amid research funding uncertainty

    134 points • comment • feb 23, 2025

  50. Robust autonomy emerges from self-play

    134 points • comment • feb 07, 2025

  51. We are the "thin blue line" that is trying to keep the code high quality

    134 points • comment • feb 14, 2025

  52. Deconstructing the "Whimsical Animations" landing page

    134 points • comment • feb 25, 2025

  53. Origami by Meenakshi

    134 points • comment • feb 06, 2025

  54. Git clone –depth 2 is vastly better than –depth 1 if you want to Git push later

    134 points • comment • feb 12, 2025

  55. TSMC 2nm Process Disclosure – How Does It Measure Up?

    134 points • comment • feb 11, 2025

  56. Implementing a Game Boy emulator in Ruby

    133 points • comment • feb 06, 2025

  57. Mistral Saba

    133 points • comment • feb 17, 2025

  58. Sublinear Time Algorithms

    133 points • comment • feb 23, 2025

  59. Setting up a trusted, self-signed SSL/TLS certificate authority in Linux

    133 points • comment • feb 17, 2025

  60. What's Going on at the FBI?

    133 points • comment • feb 04, 2025

  61. How to professionally say (2022)

    132 points • comment • feb 13, 2025

  62. Utah bill aims to make officers disclose AI-written police reports

    132 points • comment • feb 22, 2025

  63. Mad at Meta? Don't Let Them Collect and Monetize Your Personal Data

    132 points • comment • feb 07, 2025

  64. Nvidia open-source nanite: continuous level of detail (LOD) mesh library

    132 points • comment • feb 04, 2025

  65. Kaspersky finds hardware backdoor in 5 generations of Apple Silicon (2024)

    132 points • comment • feb 10, 2025

  66. Sony FX-300 Jackal: A technological marvel of the late 70s (2021)

    132 points • comment • feb 18, 2025

  67. Affixes: The Building Blocks of English

    131 points • comment • feb 26, 2025

  68. Build your own SQLite, Part 4: reading tables metadata

    131 points • comment • feb 04, 2025

  69. Did the Windows 95 setup team forget that MS-DOS can do graphics?

    130 points • comment • feb 17, 2025

  70. The NBA Apple Vision Pro app now has a 3D tabletop view

    130 points • comment • feb 14, 2025

  71. Reviving the joy and honor of working with your hands (2015)

    130 points • comment • feb 11, 2025

  72. White Hat Hackers Expose Iridium Satellite Security Flaws

    130 points • comment • feb 13, 2025

  73. Mystery brain disease patients in New Brunswick say they welcome investigation

    130 points • comment • feb 06, 2025

  74. Revenge of the GPT Wrappers: Defensibility in a world of commoditized AI models

    130 points • comment • feb 07, 2025

  75. Teslas monitor everything – including you [video] from WIRED

    130 points • comment • feb 27, 2025

  76. New maps of the chaotic space-time inside black holes

    130 points • comment • feb 25, 2025

  77. Wyden Releases Draft Bill to Secure Americans' Communications

    130 points • comment • feb 15, 2025

  78. Emergence of a second law of thermodynamics in isolated quantum systems

    129 points • comment • feb 02, 2025

  79. Microsoft Is Dead (2007)

    129 points • comment • feb 04, 2025

  80. The superconductivity of layered graphene

    129 points • comment • feb 06, 2025

  81. You can’t build a moat with AI (redux)

    129 points • comment • feb 20, 2025

  82. Five Kinds of Nondeterminism

    129 points • comment • feb 19, 2025

  83. IT Unemployment Rises to 5.7% as AI Hits Tech Jobs

    128 points • comment • feb 11, 2025

  84. Sparse Voxels Rasterization: Real-Time High-Fidelity Radiance Field Rendering

    128 points • comment • feb 21, 2025

  85. HTML whitespace is broken (2024)

    128 points • comment • feb 07, 2025

  86. TSMC faces tough choices amid rumors for Intel foundry collaboration

    127 points • comment • feb 13, 2025

  87. Linux as co-operative Windows process (2017)

    127 points • comment • feb 09, 2025

  88. Meta Project Aria - Smart Glasses Research Kit

    127 points • comment • feb 16, 2025

  89. Ensuring Accountability for All Agencies

    127 points • comment • feb 19, 2025

  90. Launch HN: SubImage (YC W25) – See your infra from an attacker's perspective

    127 points • comment • feb 24, 2025

  91. A loophole used by Shein/Temu to ship packages to US tax-free (2024)

    126 points • comment • feb 02, 2025

  92. Vinyl carver sparking a craze for cutting records at home

    126 points • comment • feb 25, 2025

  93. Kafka at the low end: how bad can it get?

    126 points • comment • feb 18, 2025

  94. Cloudflare R2 Global Outage

    126 points • comment • feb 06, 2025

  95. Reverse Engineering Apple's typedstream Format

    126 points • comment • feb 03, 2025

  96. Is this the simplest (and most surprising) sorting algorithm ever? (2021)

    126 points • comment • feb 24, 2025

  97. Show HN: Blunderchess.net – blunder for your opponent every five moves

    125 points • comment • feb 16, 2025

  98. Carl Sagan Predicts the Decline of America (1995)

    125 points • comment • feb 05, 2025

  99. Search PPP Loans by Zip Code

    125 points • comment • feb 07, 2025

  100. Lobsters blocking UK users because of the Online Safety Act

    125 points • comment • feb 23, 2025