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Hacker News (2025)

Narcolepsy is weird but I didn't notice
276 points • comment • jan 10, 2025
Build It Yourself
276 points • comment • jan 24, 2025
Are people bad at their jobs or are the jobs just bad?
275 points • comment • apr 02, 2025
The 2005 Sony Bravia ad
275 points • comment • mar 12, 2025
How did they make cars fall apart in old movies (2017)
275 points • comment • jan 13, 2025
Generating an infinite world with the Wave Function Collapse algorithm
274 points • comment • jan 14, 2025
Microsoft disguises Bing as Google to fool inattentive searchers
274 points • comment • jan 07, 2025
Astronomers delete asteroid because it turned out to be Tesla Roadster
274 points • comment • jan 26, 2025
The PS2’s backwards compatibility from the engineer who built it (2020)
274 points • comment • feb 04, 2025
How I accepted myself into Canada's largest AI hackathon
273 points • comment • mar 20, 2025
Building Ultra Long Range Toslink
273 points • comment • jan 07, 2025
The Free Movie: Frame-by-frame, handrawn reproduction of "The Bee Movie" (2023)
273 points • comment • jan 13, 2025
Show HN: Transform your codebase into a single Markdown doc for feeding into AI
273 points • comment • feb 14, 2025
Why do transit agencies keep falling for the hydrogen bus myth?
273 points • comment • mar 14, 2025
Tips for mathematical handwriting (2007)
273 points • comment • feb 08, 2025
Developer Philosophy
273 points • comment • feb 03, 2025
The New York Stock Exchange plans to launch NYSE Texas
272 points • comment • feb 14, 2025
The story of my home made pipe organ (2000)
272 points • comment • jan 26, 2025
Chaos in the Cloudflare Lisbon Office
272 points • comment • mar 17, 2025
NixOS and reproducible builds could have detected the xz backdoor
272 points • comment • mar 22, 2025
Ask HN: Who is hiring? (April 2025)
272 points • comment • apr 01, 2025
Interview with Jeff Atwood, Co-Founder of Stack Overflow
272 points • comment • jan 20, 2025
Reversible computing escapes the lab
271 points • comment • jan 10, 2025
Why does target="_blank" have an underscore in front? (2024)
271 points • comment • feb 21, 2025
Haskell: A Great Procedural Language
271 points • comment • jan 19, 2025
Ask HN: What less-popular systems programming language are you using?
271 points • comment • mar 01, 2025
US labour watchdog halts Apple cases after group’s lawyer picked for top job
271 points • comment • apr 02, 2025
First time a Blender-made production has won the Golden Globe
271 points • comment • jan 07, 2025
50 Years of Travel Tips
271 points • comment • feb 16, 2025
Software-Defined Radio for Engineers (2018) [pdf]
271 points • comment • mar 10, 2025
Show HN: Bagels – TUI expense tracker
270 points • comment • jan 26, 2025
20k federal workers take "buyout" so far, official says
270 points • comment • feb 05, 2025
Did missing/corrupt dates in COBOL default to 1875-05-20?
270 points • comment • feb 16, 2025
Facebook is removing stories about pornographic ads
269 points • comment • jan 08, 2025
Parkinsons patient "feels cured" with new adaptive deep brain stimulation device
269 points • comment • jan 28, 2025
Discworld Rules
269 points • comment • mar 08, 2025
Typst 0.13 is out now
269 points • comment • feb 19, 2025
7.7 magnitude earthquake hits Southeast Asia, affecting Myanmar and Thailand
269 points • comment • mar 28, 2025
Bun 1.2 Is Released
269 points • comment • jan 23, 2025
Forum with 2.6M posts being deleted due to UK Online Safety Act
268 points • comment • feb 22, 2025
The case against conversational interfaces
268 points • comment • apr 01, 2025
Cognitive Behaviors That Enable Self-Improving Reasoners
268 points • comment • mar 06, 2025
Diablo hackers uncovered a speedrun scandal
268 points • comment • feb 15, 2025
After 'coding error' triggers firings, top NIH scientists called back to work
267 points • comment • apr 07, 2025
I trusted an LLM, now I'm on day 4 of an afternoon project
267 points • comment • jan 27, 2025
Reverse-engineering and analysis of SanDisk High Endurance microSDXC card (2020)
267 points • comment • feb 02, 2025
Show HN: A Database Written in Golang
267 points • comment • feb 26, 2025
Hydro: Distributed Programming Framework for Rust
267 points • comment • jan 31, 2025
What we learned copying all the best code assistants
267 points • comment • jan 03, 2025
Ask HN: How did the internet discover my subdomain?
267 points • comment • mar 06, 2025
Pushing the whole company into the past on purpose
266 points • comment • jan 09, 2025
AI is killing some companies, yet others are thriving – let's look at the data
266 points • comment • feb 28, 2025
Most-Watched Software Engineering Talks of 2024
265 points • comment • feb 12, 2025
Things I Won't Work With: Dioxygen Difluoride (2010)
265 points • comment • mar 31, 2025
The polar vortex is hitting the brakes
265 points • comment • mar 22, 2025
Ask HN: Where to Work After 40?
265 points • comment • jan 02, 2025
Show HN: Game Bub – open-source FPGA retro emulation handheld
265 points • comment • feb 12, 2025
I put my heart and soul into this AI but nobody cares
265 points • comment • feb 20, 2025
NASA to launch space observatory that will map 450M galaxies
265 points • comment • mar 08, 2025
He went to jail for stealing someone's identity, but it was his all along
264 points • comment • feb 03, 2025
Glamorous Toolkit
264 points • comment • apr 06, 2025
Road signs to help people limit radiation exposure in contaminated areas
264 points • comment • jan 14, 2025
Jeff Bezos' revamp of 'Washington Post' opinions leads editor to quit
264 points • comment • feb 26, 2025
Thailand to Cut Power to Myanmar Scam Hubs
264 points • comment • feb 23, 2025
European word translator: an interactive map
264 points • comment • feb 23, 2025
My Cat Mii
264 points • comment • jan 27, 2025
Powers of 2 with all even digits
263 points • comment • mar 20, 2025
XiangShan – Open-source high performance RISC-V processor
263 points • comment • jan 02, 2025
The man who spent forty-two years at the Beverly Hills Hotel pool (1993)
263 points • comment • feb 26, 2025
Euro-cloud provider Anexia moves 12,000 VMs off VMware to homebrew KVM platform
263 points • comment • jan 13, 2025
Hacking the Xbox 360 Hypervisor Part 2: The Bad Update Exploit
263 points • comment • mar 03, 2025
Diagnosing an Unusual WiFi Issue (2020)
263 points • comment • jan 02, 2025
The power of interning: making a time series database smaller
263 points • comment • mar 03, 2025
Oliver Heaviside and the theory of transmission lines (2021)
263 points • comment • jan 27, 2025
The US island that speaks Elizabethan English
263 points • comment • mar 11, 2025
Open-sourcing OpenPubkey SSH (OPKSSH): integrating single sign-on with SSH
262 points • comment • mar 25, 2025
Tj-actions/changed-files GitHub Action Compromised – used by over 23K repos
262 points • comment • mar 14, 2025
Popular GitHub Action tj-actions/changed-files is compromised
262 points • comment • mar 15, 2025
Subpixel Snake [video]
262 points • comment • jan 24, 2025
Tariffs result in 10% laptop price hike in U.S. says Acer CEO
262 points • comment • feb 18, 2025
Search My Site – open-source search engine for personal and independent websites
262 points • comment • mar 25, 2025
BlogScroll – An open directory of personal sites and blogs
262 points • comment • jan 03, 2025
California bill would require bots to disclose that they are bots
262 points • comment • feb 07, 2025
What are these bumps on the top of a pull-tab can?
262 points • comment • jan 22, 2025
When your last name is Null, nothing works
262 points • comment • feb 20, 2025
Let's talk about AI and end-to-end encryption
261 points • comment • jan 17, 2025
Thoughts on a month with Devin
261 points • comment • jan 17, 2025
xlskubectl – a spreadsheet to control your Kubernetes cluster
261 points • comment • mar 13, 2025
Some terminal frustrations
261 points • comment • feb 06, 2025
Composable SQL
261 points • comment • jan 26, 2025
Order Declassifying JFK and MLK Assassination Records [pdf]
260 points • comment • feb 04, 2025
Higher potassium intake at dinner linked to fewer sleep disturbances – study
260 points • comment • jan 17, 2025
Automatically tagging politician when they use their phone on the livestreams
259 points • comment • mar 06, 2025
Making o1, o3, and Sonnet 3.7 hallucinate for everyone
259 points • comment • mar 01, 2025
America Is Missing The New Labor Economy – Robotics Part 1
259 points • comment • mar 11, 2025
What to Do
259 points • comment • mar 29, 2025
The SeL4 Microkernel: An Introduction [pdf]
259 points • comment • mar 23, 2025
Bank CEO: Retract your debanking piece? Me: No
259 points • comment • feb 10, 2025
Unofficial Windows 7 Service Pack 2
259 points • comment • mar 22, 2025
Guten: A Tiny Newspaper Printer
258 points • comment • jan 05, 2025