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Hacker News (2025)

The Prophet of Parking: A eulogy for the great Donald Shoup
315 points • comment • feb 12, 2025
Hard problems that reduce to document ranking
315 points • comment • feb 25, 2025
Show HN: Stagehand – an open source browser automation framework powered by AI
314 points • comment • jan 08, 2025
TL;DW: Too Long; Didn't Watch Distill YouTube Videos to the Relevant Information
313 points • comment • feb 12, 2025
C stdlib isn't threadsafe and even safe Rust didn't save us
313 points • comment • jan 22, 2025
Leaking Passwords and more on macOS
313 points • comment • mar 20, 2025
India's repair culture gives new life to dead laptops
312 points • comment • apr 08, 2025
George Foreman has died
312 points • comment • mar 22, 2025
Akamai to shut down its CDN operations in China
312 points • comment • jan 05, 2025
Metacognitive laziness: Effects of generative AI on learning motivation
312 points • comment • jan 21, 2025
Why are QR Codes with capital letters smaller than QR codes with lower case?
312 points • comment • feb 23, 2025
Why is the world losing color?
312 points • comment • apr 02, 2025
Apple's long-lost hidden recovery partition from 1994 has been found
312 points • comment • mar 16, 2025
Git without a forge
311 points • comment • mar 05, 2025
Understanding gRPC, OpenAPI and REST and when to use them in API design (2020)
311 points • comment • jan 23, 2025
Capitol Trades: Tracking Stock Market Transactions of Politicians
311 points • comment • apr 06, 2025
Show HN: A personal YouTube frontend based on yt-dlp
311 points • comment • mar 15, 2025
Brood War Korean Translations
311 points • comment • jan 17, 2025
Show HN: Trolling SMS spammers with Ollama
310 points • comment • jan 22, 2025
United States Power Outage Map
310 points • comment • feb 16, 2025
RIP Val Kilmer: Real Genius .. the Film Nerd Culture Deserves (2015)
310 points • comment • apr 02, 2025
Linux Running in a PDF
309 points • comment • feb 06, 2025
TinyCompiler: A compiler in a week-end
309 points • comment • feb 20, 2025
The 'Judicial Black Hole' of El Salvador's Prisons Is a Warning for Americans
309 points • comment • apr 04, 2025
Javier Milei backtracks on $4.4B memecoin after 'insiders' pocket $87M
309 points • comment • feb 16, 2025
3dfx: So powerful, it's kind of ridiculous (2023)
309 points • comment • mar 07, 2025
Lambda Calculus in 383 Bytes (2022)
308 points • comment • jan 13, 2025
Building a Medieval Castle from Scratch
308 points • comment • jan 23, 2025
FTC takes action against GoDaddy for alleged lax data security
308 points • comment • jan 28, 2025
Don’t let an LLM make decisions or execute business logic
308 points • comment • apr 01, 2025
DOGE employees ordered to stop using Slack
308 points • comment • feb 05, 2025
If you ever stacked cups in gym class, blame my dad
308 points • comment • feb 14, 2025
B-Trees: More Than I Thought I'd Want to Know
308 points • comment • jan 03, 2025
The insecurity of telecom stacks in the wake of Salt Typhoon
308 points • comment • mar 12, 2025
Earthstar – A database for private, distributed, offline-first applications
308 points • comment • feb 01, 2025
How the UK Is Weakening Safety Worldwide
307 points • comment • feb 24, 2025
Show HN: A website that heatmaps your city based on your housing preferences
307 points • comment • feb 07, 2025
Making an intersection unsafe for pedestrians to save seconds for drivers
307 points • comment • jan 14, 2025
NASA Successfully Acquires GPS Signals on Moon
307 points • comment • mar 05, 2025
What made the Irish famine so deadly
307 points • comment • mar 10, 2025
Avoid ISP Routers (2024)
307 points • comment • feb 01, 2025
AI founders will learn the bitter lesson
306 points • comment • jan 12, 2025
Apple will soon support encrypted RCS messaging with Android users
306 points • comment • mar 14, 2025
The top 10% owns 87% of the stocks
306 points • comment • mar 03, 2025
Mozilla flamed by Firefox fans after reneging on promises to not sell their data
306 points • comment • mar 02, 2025
Google Pixel 4a's old firmware is gone, trapping users on buggy battery update
306 points • comment • jan 29, 2025
Sidekick: Local-first native macOS LLM app
306 points • comment • mar 09, 2025
Egg prices are soaring. Are backyard chickens the answer?
306 points • comment • feb 19, 2025
Show HN: Physical Pomodoro Timer with ESP32 and e-paper screen
306 points • comment • mar 29, 2025
Learn Yjs Interactively
305 points • comment • jan 16, 2025
I-cant-believe-its-not-webusb: Hacking around lack of WebUSB support in Firefox
305 points • comment • mar 14, 2025
Tiny JITs for a Faster FFI
305 points • comment • feb 12, 2025
Smallpond – A lightweight data processing framework built on DuckDB and 3FS
305 points • comment • feb 28, 2025
Most Influential Papers in Computer Science History
305 points • comment • jan 23, 2025
AI Demos
304 points • comment • feb 09, 2025
Embedding Python in Elixir, it's fine
304 points • comment • feb 25, 2025
UnitedHealth overcharged cancer patients for drugs by over 1,000%
304 points • comment • jan 15, 2025
Sign in as anyone: Bypassing SAML SSO authentication with parser differentials
304 points • comment • mar 15, 2025
OlmOCR: Open-source tool to extract plain text from PDFs
304 points • comment • feb 25, 2025
Show HN: Berlin Swapfest – Electronics flea market
304 points • comment • mar 01, 2025
The average CPU performance of PCs and notebooks fell for the first time
303 points • comment • feb 12, 2025
James Harrison, whose blood donations saved >2M babies, has died
303 points • comment • mar 03, 2025
Show HN: Struggle with CSS Flexbox? This Playground Is for You
303 points • comment • jan 05, 2025
Show HN: My iOS app to practice sight reading (10 years in the App Store)
303 points • comment • mar 23, 2025
Show HN: Lightpanda, an open-source headless browser in Zig
303 points • comment • jan 24, 2025
Vtm: Text-Based Desktop Environment
303 points • comment • mar 07, 2025
How core Git developers configure Git
303 points • comment • feb 22, 2025
Self-Hosting a Firefox Sync Server
303 points • comment • mar 01, 2025
Google will develop Android OS behind closed doors starting next week
303 points • comment • mar 26, 2025
Bringing SerenityOS to real hardware, one driver at a time
303 points • comment • jan 08, 2025
Map Features in OpenStreetMap with Computer Vision
302 points • comment • mar 22, 2025
Giant, fungus-like organism may be a completely unknown branch of life
302 points • comment • mar 27, 2025
Show HN: HipScript – Run CUDA in the browser with WebAssembly and WebGPU
302 points • comment • jan 07, 2025
Snowdrop OS – a homebrew operating system from scratch, in assembly language
302 points • comment • jan 24, 2025
Things we've learned about building products
302 points • comment • mar 05, 2025
File Pilot: A file explorer built for speed with a modern, robust interface
302 points • comment • feb 18, 2025
Show HN: Stratoshark, a sibling application to Wireshark
302 points • comment • jan 22, 2025
Plain – a web framework for building products with Python
302 points • comment • mar 29, 2025
F-Droid's Progress and What's Coming in 2025
301 points • comment • jan 22, 2025
New USPTO Memo Makes Fighting Patent Trolls Even Harder
301 points • comment • mar 21, 2025
Project Aardvark: reimagining AI weather prediction
301 points • comment • mar 23, 2025
DOGE as a National Cyberattack
301 points • comment • feb 13, 2025
20 years of Git
301 points • comment • apr 07, 2025
Installing air filters in classrooms has surprisingly large educational benefits (2020)
300 points • comment • mar 31, 2025
ElevenReader
300 points • comment • feb 12, 2025
Simple CPU Design
300 points • comment • jan 22, 2025
Excitable cells
300 points • comment • mar 28, 2025
Qwen2.5-1M: Deploy your own Qwen with context length up to 1M tokens
300 points • comment • jan 26, 2025
Psychedelic Graphics 0: Introduction
300 points • comment • jan 23, 2025
MLB says Yankees’ new “torpedo bats” are legal and likely coming
300 points • comment • mar 31, 2025
Goodbye, Slopify
299 points • comment • jan 29, 2025
The benefits of learning in public
299 points • comment • feb 24, 2025
Steve Langasek, one of Ubuntu Linux's leading lights, has died
299 points • comment • jan 08, 2025
The legacy of lies in Alzheimer's science
299 points • comment • feb 02, 2025
Memory safety for web fonts
298 points • comment • mar 19, 2025
Let’s code a TCP/IP stack, 1: Ethernet and ARP (2016)
298 points • comment • mar 04, 2025
Presenterm: Markdown Slideshows in the Terminal
298 points • comment • mar 08, 2025
Tesla Paid Zero Federal Income Tax in 2024, Despite $2.3B in Income
298 points • comment • jan 31, 2025
Why Clojure?
298 points • comment • feb 22, 2025
Boris Spassky: 1937–2025
297 points • comment • feb 28, 2025