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Hacker News (2025)

Show HN: I'm a doctor and built a responsive breathing app for anxiety and sleep
96 points • comment • jun 22, 2025
OpenAI's bot crushed this seven-person company's web site 'like a DDoS attack'
96 points • comment • jan 10, 2025
Finland warms up the world's largest sand battery, the economics look appealing
96 points • comment • jun 17, 2025
Show HN: Inscribed, create stop motion animation and slide powered by Excalidraw
96 points • comment • feb 17, 2025
Personalized voice recordings by Elwood "You've got mail!" Edwards (2024)
96 points • comment • jan 14, 2025
DeepConf: Scaling LLM reasoning with confidence, not just compute
96 points • comment • aug 24, 2025
Semantic Line Breaks (2017)
96 points • comment • sep 07, 2025
Building ultra cheap energy storage for solar PV
96 points • comment • aug 23, 2025
Using computers more freely and safely (2023)
96 points • comment • jun 13, 2025
When Louis Armstrong conquered Chicago
96 points • comment • feb 07, 2025
Design patterns you should unlearn in Python
96 points • comment • aug 01, 2025
Firefox Is Finally (Re)Adding Support for Web Apps
96 points • comment • mar 26, 2025
Launch HN: April (YC S25) – Voice AI to manage your email and calendar
96 points • comment • aug 25, 2025
Libre – An anonymous social experiment without likes, followers, or ads
96 points • comment • aug 23, 2025
Redox OS Development Priorities for 2025/26
96 points • comment • sep 25, 2025
Show HN: A rain Pomodoro with brown noise, ASMR, and Middle Eastern music
96 points • comment • jul 08, 2025
The longest train journey is epic – but nobody's ever taken it
96 points • comment • may 17, 2025
Why is hash(-1) == hash(-2) in Python?
96 points • comment • jan 07, 2025
To AI or not to AI
96 points • comment • sep 29, 2025
A Mysterious Website I Stumbled Upon
96 points • comment • jun 24, 2025
/bin/sh: the biggest Unix security loophole (1984) [pdf]
96 points • comment • jan 08, 2025
Why does storing 2FA codes in your password manager make sense?
96 points • comment • jan 01, 2025
Rollercoaster Tycoon (Or, MicroProse's Last Hurrah)
96 points • comment • aug 01, 2025
CCL: Categorical Configuration Language
96 points • comment • jan 06, 2025
Uncommon Uses of Python in Commonly Used Libraries (2022)
96 points • comment • jul 03, 2025
US accidentally sent Maryland father to Salvadorian prison, can't get him back
96 points • comment • apr 01, 2025
Manifest: A 1-file micro-back end
96 points • comment • mar 18, 2025
Map of Near and Middle East Oil 1965
96 points • comment • sep 29, 2025
Knowing less about AI makes people more open to using it
96 points • comment • jan 27, 2025
MAME 0.276
95 points • comment • mar 30, 2025
Hydrogen vs. Battery Buses: A European Transit Reality Check
95 points • comment • apr 16, 2025
DeepSeek R1 Is Now Available on Azure AI Foundry and GitHub
95 points • comment • jan 29, 2025
Aircraft detection at planetary scale
95 points • comment • mar 24, 2025
29 years later, Settlers II gets Amiga release
95 points • comment • aug 13, 2025
Tram Trains
95 points • comment • jul 23, 2025
Europe is breaking its reliance on American science
95 points • comment • aug 04, 2025
Indices, not Pointers
95 points • comment • sep 02, 2025
Agentic Misalignment: How LLMs could be insider threats
95 points • comment • jun 21, 2025
Doge Claimed It Saved $8B in One Contract. It Was $8M
95 points • comment • feb 19, 2025
QEMU Version 10.0.0 Released
95 points • comment • apr 23, 2025
Documenting what you're willing to support (and not)
95 points • comment • jul 12, 2025
Robocode
95 points • comment • feb 18, 2025
21st Century C++
95 points • comment • feb 05, 2025
Doge Is Far Short of Its Goal, and Still Overstating Its Progress
95 points • comment • apr 15, 2025
Bayesian Epistemology (2022)
95 points • comment • feb 03, 2025
Slopsquatting
95 points • comment • aug 06, 2025
Gravitational Effects of Small Primordial Black Hole Passing Through Human Body
95 points • comment • feb 19, 2025
Show HN: Index – New Open Source browser agent
95 points • comment • apr 23, 2025
An origin trial for a new HTML <permission> element (2024)
95 points • comment • jun 15, 2025
Why Do Swallows Fly to the Korean DMZ?
95 points • comment • jun 28, 2025
Bethesda Thinks Fan Remaster of Oblivion Is 'Very Special' and Supports It
95 points • comment • may 03, 2025
AMD RDNA 4 – AMD Radeon RX 9000 Series Graphics Cards
95 points • comment • feb 28, 2025
Wikipedia's Most Translated Articles
95 points • comment • may 19, 2025
Laptop Support and Usability (LSU): July 2025 Report
95 points • comment • aug 07, 2025
Breaking My Security Assignments
95 points • comment • jun 12, 2025
A CarFax for Used PCs; Hewlett Packard wants to give old laptops new life
95 points • comment • jun 30, 2025
Dear Mr. Vice President, Please Take Off Your Apple Watch
95 points • comment • feb 09, 2025
Show HN: Ldump – serialize any Lua data
95 points • comment • jan 31, 2025
Writing a basic service for GNU Guix
95 points • comment • aug 03, 2025
The Gentoo Perl versioning scheme
95 points • comment • jul 19, 2025
Burning a Magnesium NeXT Cube (1993)
95 points • comment • jul 10, 2025
In the Network of the Conclav: How we "guessed" the Pope using network science
95 points • comment • may 09, 2025
Dokploy is the sweet spot between PaaS and EC2
95 points • comment • aug 13, 2025
With waters at 32C, Mediterranean tropicalization shifts into high gear
95 points • comment • aug 15, 2025
Instant Checkout for Merchants in ChatGPT
95 points • comment • sep 29, 2025
Spotted hyena found in Egypt for the first time in 5k years
95 points • comment • jan 31, 2025
TIC-80 – Tiny Computer
95 points • comment • sep 15, 2025
Jane Austen's Boldest Novel Is Also Her Least Understood
95 points • comment • jun 27, 2025
2B people don't have safe drinking water: what does this mean for them?
95 points • comment • jun 23, 2025
Tail Call Recursion in Java with ASM (2023)
95 points • comment • mar 30, 2025
Improvements to OCaml code editing: the basics of a refactor engine
95 points • comment • aug 20, 2025
Non-Uniform Memory Access (NUMA) is reshaping microservice placement
95 points • comment • aug 18, 2025
Writing a competitive BZip2 encoder in Ada from scratch in a few days – part 3
95 points • comment • sep 20, 2025
I Use Cline for AI Engineering
95 points • comment • feb 01, 2025
Twelve months at 1.5 °C signals earlier than expected breach of Paris Agreement
95 points • comment • feb 15, 2025
From hours to 360ms: over-engineering a puzzle solution
95 points • comment • feb 06, 2025
Philip Low Unmasking Musk
95 points • comment • feb 01, 2025
Making reliable distributed systems in the presence of software errors (2003) [pdf]
95 points • comment • aug 11, 2025
Dynamical origin of Theia, the last giant impactor on Earth
95 points • comment • jul 08, 2025
1977 Jazz-Funk Musical Adaptation of Dune
95 points • comment • feb 19, 2025
I built an ADHD app with interactive coping tools, noise mixer and self-test
95 points • comment • jun 26, 2025
Paul Dirac and the religion of mathematical beauty (2011) [video]
95 points • comment • jul 26, 2025
US government shuts down after Senate fails to pass last-ditch funding plan
95 points • comment • oct 01, 2025
Show HN: QuickTunes: Apple Music player for Mac with iPod vibes
95 points • comment • jul 26, 2025
Depending in Common Lisp – Using the CLOS dependent maintenance protocol (2022)
95 points • comment • feb 25, 2025
Recurring checklists using Org Mode in Emacs
95 points • comment • feb 11, 2025
Browser extension (Firefox, Chrome, Opera, Edge) to redirect URLs based on regex
95 points • comment • jun 01, 2025
The math of shuffling cards almost brought down an online poker empire
95 points • comment • sep 05, 2025
Llama Fund: Crowdfund AI Models
95 points • comment • aug 25, 2025
AI is going great for the blind (2023)
95 points • comment • sep 03, 2025
SimpleIDE
95 points • comment • aug 20, 2025
Tldraw SDK 4.0
95 points • comment • sep 18, 2025
Beating cuBLAS in Single-Precision General Matrix Multiplication
95 points • comment • jan 15, 2025
Using the Matrix Cores of AMD RDNA 4 architecture GPUs
95 points • comment • jul 18, 2025
The Whimsical Investor
95 points • comment • apr 14, 2025
What is algebraic about algebraic effects?
95 points • comment • sep 22, 2025
A webshell and a normal file that have the same MD5
95 points • comment • sep 21, 2025
MeshCore, a new lightweight, hybrid routing mesh protocol for packet radios
95 points • comment • apr 15, 2025
Cohere Launches Embed 4
95 points • comment • apr 15, 2025
Generative AI Hype Peaking
95 points • comment • mar 10, 2025