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Hacker News (2025)

Learning Is Slower Than You Think
107 points • comment • jul 29, 2025
Show HN: GS-Calc – A modern spreadsheet with Python integration
107 points • comment • apr 25, 2025
Toxic Salton Sea dust triggers changes in lung microbiome after just one week
107 points • comment • nov 07, 2025
Elon Musk's Demolition Crew
107 points • comment • feb 07, 2025
If you'd built a "tool" that stupid, why would you advertise the fact?
107 points • comment • oct 14, 2025
The Age of Agent Experience
107 points • comment • feb 07, 2025
Procedural Island Generation (III)
107 points • comment • sep 17, 2025
The exceptional Jordan algebra (2020)
107 points • comment • mar 17, 2025
A Beautiful Maths Game
107 points • comment • sep 20, 2025
A drill bit that can also drive screws
107 points • comment • feb 09, 2025
Fixing Ctrl+C in Rust terminal apps: Child process management
107 points • comment • jul 29, 2025
Propositions as Types (2014) [pdf]
107 points • comment • may 06, 2025
Show HN: The Magic of Code – book about the wonders and weirdness of computation
107 points • comment • jul 22, 2025
Euclid opens data treasure trove, offers glimpse of deep fields
107 points • comment • mar 20, 2025
I Wrote a Compiler
107 points • comment • jun 15, 2025
How one of the world’s major money laundering networks operates
107 points • comment • mar 23, 2025
The enduring puzzle of static electricity
107 points • comment • aug 08, 2025
Show HN Pianoboi – displays sheet music as you play your piano
107 points • comment • mar 28, 2025
David Byrne Radio
107 points • comment • oct 15, 2025
Sales Compensation Simulator
107 points • comment • mar 29, 2025
Affiliates flock to scam gambling machine
107 points • comment • aug 30, 2025
Show HN: Appear as anyone in video calls like zoom or Google meets
107 points • comment • mar 29, 2025
First Hubble telescope images of interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS
107 points • comment • jul 22, 2025
Hacker Laws
107 points • comment • mar 30, 2025
British naval dominance during the age of sail
107 points • comment • may 16, 2025
Scientists witness living plant cells generate cellulose and form cell walls
107 points • comment • apr 02, 2025
Inverting the Xorshift128 random number generator
107 points • comment • aug 31, 2025
Shunpo: Minimalist bash tool to make directory navigation a little bit faster
107 points • comment • jan 27, 2025
Show HN: Modshim – A new alternative to monkey-patching in Python
107 points • comment • oct 16, 2025
Google Wallet launches new age and identity verification features (ZK proofs)
107 points • comment • may 01, 2025
Laptops create systems. Phones feed algorithms. The asymmetry determines power
107 points • comment • oct 05, 2025
Netflix to invest $1B in Mexico over next 4 years
107 points • comment • feb 20, 2025
Google is giving Amazon a leg up in digital book sales
107 points • comment • may 17, 2025
Updated rate limits for unauthenticated requests
107 points • comment • may 09, 2025
Reverse engineering Claude Code
107 points • comment • jun 08, 2025
WeightWatchers files bankruptcy
107 points • comment • may 07, 2025
Why do we need DNSSEC?
107 points • comment • jun 19, 2025
History of “Adventure” for the Atari 2600
107 points • comment • may 05, 2025
Dead Framework Theory
107 points • comment • nov 07, 2025
The Turkish İ Problem and Why You Should Care (2012)
107 points • comment • may 06, 2025
Advanced Scheme Techniques (2004) [pdf]
107 points • comment • sep 12, 2025
I built a pixel art editor after playing Octopath Traveler II
107 points • comment • may 02, 2025
Caches: LRU vs. Random
107 points • comment • jul 31, 2025
VR Design Unpacked: The secret to Beat Saber's fun
107 points • comment • may 02, 2025
KumoRFM: A Foundation Model for In-Context Learning on Relational Data
107 points • comment • may 23, 2025
You cannot have our user's data
107 points • comment • apr 15, 2025
Lisp-stat: Lisp environment for statistical computing
107 points • comment • jun 14, 2025
GitHub Is Down
107 points • comment • jan 30, 2025
Picturing Mathematics
107 points • comment • oct 18, 2025
Kernighan's Lever
107 points • comment • dec 19, 2025
Princeton NuEnergy's battery recycling tech recovers 97% of lithium-ion material
107 points • comment • aug 16, 2025
CapROS: Capability-Based Reliable Operating System
107 points • comment • dec 15, 2025
Launch HN: Webhound (YC S23) – Research agent that builds datasets from the web
107 points • comment • sep 25, 2025
Show HN: Backlog – a public repository of real work problems
107 points • comment • dec 22, 2025
A Lisp in 99LOC
107 points • comment • aug 16, 2025
Fizz Buzz in CSS
107 points • comment • dec 05, 2025
The drawbridges come up: the dream of a interconnected context ecosystem is over
107 points • comment • jun 17, 2025
Grok and the Naked King: The Ultimate Argument Against AI Alignment
107 points • comment • dec 26, 2025
A queasy selling of the family heirlooms
107 points • comment • sep 03, 2025
Stoolap: High-performance embedded SQL database in pure Rust
107 points • comment • dec 12, 2025
Agent-C: a 4KB AI agent
107 points • comment • aug 25, 2025
Attempting to Make the Smallest* Electric Motor [video]
107 points • comment • jun 14, 2025
I played 1k hands of online poker and built a web app with Cursor AI
107 points • comment • oct 08, 2025
Jürgen Schmidhuber：the Father of Generative AI Without Turing Award
107 points • comment • jun 20, 2025
Orange Pi RV2 $40 RISC-V SBC: Friendly Gateway to IoT and AI Projects
107 points • comment • sep 15, 2025
Entry-level jobs down by a third since launch of ChatGPT
107 points • comment • jun 30, 2025
Petabit-class transmission over > 1000 km using standard 19-core optical fiber
107 points • comment • jul 13, 2025
How to build vector tiles from scratch
107 points • comment • sep 04, 2025
Show HN: Core – open source memory graph for LLMs – shareable, user owned
107 points • comment • jul 01, 2025
Launch HN: Uplift (YC S25) – Voice models for under-served languages
107 points • comment • aug 19, 2025
Docker Was Too Slow, So We Replaced It: Nix in Production [video]
107 points • comment • sep 27, 2025
Contacts let you see in the dark with your eyes closed
107 points • comment • may 22, 2025
The Road That Killed Legend Jenkins Was Working as Designed
107 points • comment • aug 18, 2025
SATisfying Solutions to Difficult Problems
107 points • comment • oct 22, 2025
TextKit 2 – The Promised Land
107 points • comment • aug 15, 2025
Work disincentives hit the near-poor hardest (2022)
107 points • comment • dec 02, 2025
A lost Amazon world just reappeared in Bolivia
107 points • comment • dec 01, 2025
Constant-time support coming to LLVM: Protecting cryptographic code
107 points • comment • nov 25, 2025
Show HN: Build the habit of writing meaningful commit messages
107 points • comment • nov 22, 2025
When would you ever want bubblesort? (2023)
106 points • comment • dec 10, 2025
Defiant loyalists paid dearly for choosing wrong side in the American Revolution
106 points • comment • jun 09, 2025
Common Lisp, ASDF, and Quicklisp: packaging explained
106 points • comment • dec 10, 2025
White House fires CDC director Monarez after she refuses to resign
106 points • comment • aug 28, 2025
Inside PostHog: SSRF, ClickHouse SQL Escape and Default Postgres Creds to RCE
106 points • comment • dec 17, 2025
Microsoft is Cutting 3% of All Workers
106 points • comment • may 13, 2025
Iced 0.14 has been released (Rust GUI library)
106 points • comment • dec 07, 2025
The hamburger-menu icon today: Is it recognizable?
106 points • comment • jun 17, 2025
2026: The Year of Java in the Terminal?
106 points • comment • dec 31, 2025
The day someone created 184 billion Bitcoin (2020)
106 points • comment • jul 11, 2025
Ultrathink is a Claude Code a magic word
106 points • comment • apr 19, 2025
A GPU Calculator That Helps Calculate What GPU to Use
106 points • comment • jul 24, 2025
David Tong Lectures on Theoretical Physics
106 points • comment • apr 22, 2025
I'm Worried It Might Get Bad
106 points • comment • aug 13, 2025
Show HN: An interactive demo of QR codes' error correction
106 points • comment • apr 25, 2025
Spain and Brazil push global action to tax the super-rich and curb inequality
106 points • comment • jul 02, 2025
Binary modding a water dispenser to save me from pressing a button (2021)
106 points • comment • jan 09, 2025
Octobass
106 points • comment • jun 16, 2025
'Obelisks', a new class of life living inside humans
106 points • comment • feb 02, 2025
Fossabot: AI code review for Dependabot/Renovate on breaking changes and impacts
106 points • comment • oct 01, 2025
ATProto and the ownership of identity
106 points • comment • jan 18, 2025