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Hacker News (2025)

Many of the Pokemon playtest cards were likely printed in 2024
579 points • comment • jan 30, 2025
Triforce – a beamformer for Apple Silicon laptops
578 points • comment • mar 24, 2025
When I say “alphabetical order”, I mean “alphabetical order”
578 points • comment • sep 28, 2025
Kilauea erupts, destroying webcam [video]
578 points • comment • dec 06, 2025
Chat Control proposal fails again after public opposition
578 points • comment • nov 01, 2025
I decided to pay off a school’s lunch debt
577 points • comment • may 04, 2025
Open source and self hostable/private file converter
577 points • comment • apr 12, 2025
How we decreased GitLab repo backup times from 48 hours to 41 minutes
577 points • comment • jun 06, 2025
Secret Documents Show Pepsi and Walmart Colluded to Raise Food Prices
577 points • comment • dec 15, 2025
I Want You to Understand Chicago
577 points • comment • nov 08, 2025
The Microsoft 365 Copilot launch was a disaster
577 points • comment • jan 26, 2025
Show HN: I rewrote my Mac Electron app in Rust
577 points • comment • may 28, 2025
A Fond Farewell
576 points • comment • nov 07, 2025
EU age verification app not planning desktop support
576 points • comment • sep 24, 2025
XOR
576 points • comment • feb 18, 2025
Wikipedia survives while the rest of the internet breaks
575 points • comment • sep 04, 2025
Deep learning gets the glory, deep fact checking gets ignored
575 points • comment • jun 03, 2025
The US stops sharing air quality data from embassies worldwide
574 points • comment • mar 06, 2025
Google Titans architecture, helping AI have long-term memory
574 points • comment • dec 07, 2025
Say No to Palantir in the NHS
573 points • comment • dec 27, 2025
I built physical album cards with NFC tags to teach my son music discovery
573 points • comment • oct 10, 2025
Tree Borrows
573 points • comment • jul 09, 2025
LegoGPT: Generating Physically Stable and Buildable Lego
573 points • comment • may 09, 2025
If AI replaces workers, should it also pay taxes?
573 points • comment • dec 15, 2025
You can't refuse to be scanned by ICE's facial recognition app, DHS document say
573 points • comment • nov 01, 2025
Ban me at the IP level if you don't like me
573 points • comment • aug 25, 2025
Mastercard deflects blame for NSFW games being taken down
572 points • comment • aug 04, 2025
Doom, the Gallery Experience
572 points • comment • jan 06, 2025
Apple takes down ICE tracking apps after pressure from DOJ
572 points • comment • oct 03, 2025
The EU made Apple adopt new Wi-Fi standards, and now Android can support AirDrop
571 points • comment • nov 26, 2025
Shopify, pulling strings at Ruby Central, forces Bundler and RubyGems takeover
571 points • comment • sep 23, 2025
OpenAI are quietly adopting skills, now available in ChatGPT and Codex CLI
571 points • comment • dec 12, 2025
How to write blog posts that developers read
571 points • comment • mar 28, 2025
Jim Lovell, Apollo 13 commander, has died
571 points • comment • aug 08, 2025
“The closer to the train station, the worse the kebab” – a “study”
570 points • comment • feb 24, 2025
Firefox will have an option to disable all AI features
570 points • comment • dec 18, 2025
Amazon’s Ring to partner with Flock
569 points • comment • oct 17, 2025
Launch HN: Vassar Robotics (YC X25) – $219 robot arm that learns new skills
569 points • comment • jun 10, 2025
So you want to build your own data center
569 points • comment • jan 17, 2025
MitmProxy2Swagger: Automagically reverse-engineer REST APIs
569 points • comment • jan 02, 2025
Ticker: Don't die of heart disease
569 points • comment • nov 08, 2025
Anthropic raises $13B Series F
568 points • comment • sep 02, 2025
Waymo granted permit to begin testing in New York City
568 points • comment • aug 22, 2025
Monitor your security cameras with locally processed AI
568 points • comment • aug 05, 2025
You can make up HTML tags
568 points • comment • dec 29, 2025
U.S. government takes 10% stake in Intel
567 points • comment • aug 22, 2025
Plane crashes, overturns during landing at Toronto airport
567 points • comment • feb 17, 2025
Happy 20th Birthday, Django
567 points • comment • jul 13, 2025
Daniel Kahneman opted for assisted suicide in Switzerland
567 points • comment • oct 11, 2025
Do-nothing scripting: the key to gradual automation (2019)
567 points • comment • feb 07, 2025
Search all text in New York City
566 points • comment • aug 13, 2025
Websites hosting major US climate reports taken down
566 points • comment • jul 02, 2025
The United States withdraws from UNESCO
566 points • comment • jul 22, 2025
Notes on Managing ADHD
566 points • comment • aug 31, 2025
Vera C. Rubin Observatory first images
566 points • comment • jun 23, 2025
Being poor vs. being broke
566 points • comment • nov 14, 2025
Show HN: Whispering – Open-source, local-first dictation you can trust
565 points • comment • aug 18, 2025
Coding with LLMs in the summer of 2025 – an update
565 points • comment • jul 20, 2025
The Illustrated DeepSeek-R1
565 points • comment • jan 27, 2025
Introducing deep research
565 points • comment • feb 03, 2025
The impossible predicament of the death newts
565 points • comment • jun 05, 2025
SlopStop: Community-driven AI slop detection in Kagi Search
565 points • comment • nov 13, 2025
Horses: AI progress is steady. Human equivalence is sudden
565 points • comment • dec 09, 2025
Turkish university annuls Erdogan rival's degree, preventing run for president
564 points • comment • mar 18, 2025
Antiqua et Nova: Note on the relationship between AI and human intelligence
564 points • comment • jan 30, 2025
How does a screen work?
563 points • comment • jul 13, 2025
Denmark reportedly withdraws Chat Control proposal following controversy
563 points • comment • oct 30, 2025
The Rise of Whatever
563 points • comment • jul 04, 2025
Git Notes: Git's coolest, most unloved feature (2022)
563 points • comment • jun 22, 2025
Snyk security researcher deploys malicious NPM packages targeting cursor.com
563 points • comment • jan 13, 2025
Claude Code on the web
563 points • comment • oct 20, 2025
We already live in social credit, we just don't call it that
562 points • comment • sep 02, 2025
Databases in 2024: A Year in Review
562 points • comment • jan 01, 2025
Betty Crocker broke recipes by shrinking boxes
562 points • comment • sep 14, 2025
Mercury: Ultra-fast language models based on diffusion
562 points • comment • jul 07, 2025
6 weeks of Claude Code
562 points • comment • jul 31, 2025
Stardew Valley developer made a $125k donation to the FOSS C# framework MonoGame
562 points • comment • dec 31, 2025
Show HN: I made a down detector for down detector
562 points • comment • nov 19, 2025
Cozy video games can quell stress and anxiety
561 points • comment • apr 19, 2025
Exploiting the IKKO Activebuds “AI powered” earbuds (2024)
561 points • comment • jul 02, 2025
Recent AI model progress feels mostly like bullshit
561 points • comment • apr 06, 2025
Volkswagen reintroducing physical controls for vital functions
561 points • comment • mar 08, 2025
Succinct data structures
561 points • comment • mar 06, 2025
QGIS is a free, open-source, cross platform geographical information system
561 points • comment • sep 12, 2025
Carbon capture more costly than switching to renewables, researchers find
560 points • comment • feb 15, 2025
Business books are entertainment, not strategic tools
560 points • comment • may 09, 2025
Don't avoid workplace politics
560 points • comment • oct 01, 2025
Google has eliminated 35% of managers overseeing small teams in past year
560 points • comment • aug 27, 2025
MIT Study Finds AI Use Reprograms the Brain, Leading to Cognitive Decline
560 points • comment • sep 03, 2025
US blocks all offshore wind construction, says reason is classified
560 points • comment • dec 22, 2025
The Tsunami of Burnout Few See
560 points • comment • jan 09, 2025
Qwen3-Omni: Native Omni AI model for text, image and video
559 points • comment • sep 22, 2025
Two Slice, a font that's only 2px tall
559 points • comment • sep 13, 2025
Postgres LISTEN/NOTIFY does not scale
559 points • comment • jul 07, 2025
Executive wealth as a factor in return-to-office
559 points • comment • mar 02, 2025
Rsync replaced with openrsync on macOS Sequoia
558 points • comment • apr 06, 2025
Cloudflare 1.1.1.1 Incident on July 14, 2025
558 points • comment • jul 16, 2025
I feel Apple has lost its alignment with me and other long-time customers
558 points • comment • sep 16, 2025
Qwen3-Next
558 points • comment • sep 12, 2025
Why xor eax, eax?
558 points • comment • dec 01, 2025