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Hacker News (2025)

Compiler Explorer and the promise of URLs that last forever
343 points • comment • may 28, 2025
Some critical issues with the SWE-bench dataset
343 points • comment • feb 21, 2025
Suckless.org: software that sucks less
342 points • comment • feb 21, 2025
‘Bluey’s World’: How a Cute Aussie Puppy Became a Juggernaut
342 points • comment • mar 19, 2025
Your phone isn't secretly listening to you, but the truth is more disturbing
342 points • comment • apr 26, 2025
Nix – Death by a Thousand Cuts
342 points • comment • jan 11, 2025
The ideal candidate will be punched in the stomach
342 points • comment • feb 18, 2025
Lossless video compression using Bloom filters
341 points • comment • may 26, 2025
TIL: timeout in Bash scripts
341 points • comment • may 26, 2025
LA wildfires force thousands to evacuate, NASA JPL closed
341 points • comment • jan 08, 2025
Planetfall
341 points • comment • may 22, 2025
Postgres Language Server: Initial Release
341 points • comment • mar 29, 2025
AniSora: Open-source anime video generation model
341 points • comment • may 17, 2025
Japan's IC cards are weird and wonderful
340 points • comment • may 15, 2025
Knowledge-based society, my ass
340 points • comment • apr 29, 2025
Trees not profits: we're giving up our right to ever sell Ecosia (2018)
340 points • comment • mar 10, 2025
Writing an LLM from scratch, part 13 – attention heads are dumb
340 points • comment • may 08, 2025
Salesforce will hire no more software engineers in 2025, says Marc Benioff
340 points • comment • jan 08, 2025
Questions censored by DeepSeek
340 points • comment • jan 28, 2025
Emacs Lisp Elements
340 points • comment • apr 12, 2025
3D reconstruction of the capital of the Aztec empire
339 points • comment • feb 05, 2025
PDF to Text, a challenging problem
339 points • comment • may 13, 2025
Most promoted and blocked domains on Kagi
339 points • comment • mar 27, 2025
Playing in the Creek
339 points • comment • apr 11, 2025
After months of coding with LLMs, I'm going back to using my brain
339 points • comment • may 16, 2025
The side hustle from hell
339 points • comment • apr 28, 2025
Anubis saved our websites from a DDoS attack
339 points • comment • may 01, 2025
Kalman Filter Tutorial
339 points • comment • jan 18, 2025
TinyKVM: Fast sandbox that runs on top of Varnish
338 points • comment • mar 14, 2025
TL;DR of Deep Dive into LLMs Like ChatGPT by Andrej Karpathy
338 points • comment • feb 10, 2025
A laptop stand made from a single sheet of recycled paper
338 points • comment • jan 11, 2025
Minimum effective dose
338 points • comment • feb 02, 2025
Generative AI is not replacing jobs or hurting wages at all, say economists
338 points • comment • apr 29, 2025
Zlib-rs is faster than C
338 points • comment • mar 16, 2025
Glamorous Toolkit
338 points • comment • apr 06, 2025
Watt The Fox?
338 points • comment • feb 15, 2025
Self-contained Python scripts with uv
338 points • comment • mar 29, 2025
Umami is a simple, fast, privacy-focused alternative to Google Analytics
337 points • comment • feb 13, 2025
Federal Court (Finally) Rules Backdoor Searches of Data Unconstitutional
337 points • comment • jan 22, 2025
Advanced Python Features
337 points • comment • apr 23, 2025
Why do bees die when they sting you? (2021)
337 points • comment • jan 18, 2025
Apple unveils new Mac Studio
337 points • comment • mar 05, 2025
Nebula Sans
337 points • comment • apr 05, 2025
If nothing is curated, how do we find things
336 points • comment • may 17, 2025
NASA keeps ancient Voyager 1 spacecraft alive with Hail Mary thruster fix
336 points • comment • may 16, 2025
America desperately needs more air traffic controllers
336 points • comment • feb 04, 2025
O2 VoLTE: locating any customer with a phone call
336 points • comment • may 17, 2025
Calendar.txt
336 points • comment • feb 24, 2025
I made a chair
336 points • comment • may 31, 2025
Supabase raises $200M Series D at $2B valuation
336 points • comment • apr 22, 2025
Show HN: 90s.dev – Game maker that runs on the web
336 points • comment • may 20, 2025
In a high-stress work environment, prioritize relationships
335 points • comment • may 13, 2025
Recent results show that LLMs struggle with compositional tasks
334 points • comment • feb 02, 2025
LLM-powered tools amplify developer capabilities rather than replacing them
334 points • comment • apr 21, 2025
Show HN: Rotary Phone Dial Linux Kernel Driver
334 points • comment • may 24, 2025
CERN scientists find evidence of quantum entanglement in sheep
333 points • comment • apr 01, 2025
Advice for a friend who wants to start a blog
333 points • comment • jan 29, 2025
Strengths Are Your Weaknesses
333 points • comment • apr 11, 2025
For algorithms, a little memory outweighs a lot of time
333 points • comment • may 21, 2025
Debugging Hetzner: Uncovering failures with powerstat, sensors, and dmidecode
333 points • comment • feb 19, 2025
GitHub reveals how software engineers are purging federal databases
332 points • comment • feb 04, 2025
Veloren – Voxel action-adventure role-playing
332 points • comment • mar 29, 2025
Decreased CO2 during breathwork: emergence of altered states of consciousness
332 points • comment • apr 15, 2025
Meta got caught gaming AI benchmarks
332 points • comment • apr 08, 2025
In Jail Without a Lawyer: How a Texas Town Fails Poor Defendants
331 points • comment • mar 25, 2025
An open source, self-hosted implementation of the Tailscale control server
331 points • comment • apr 03, 2025
My Struggle with Doom Scrolling
331 points • comment • jan 22, 2025
Mitochondria as you've never seen them
331 points • comment • feb 01, 2025
An Alabama landline that keeps ringing
331 points • comment • may 04, 2025
One Million Chessboards
331 points • comment • apr 28, 2025
BuyMeACoffee silently dropped support for many countries (2024)
330 points • comment • may 16, 2025
Oracle customers confirm data stolen in alleged cloud breach is valid
330 points • comment • mar 26, 2025
VoxelSpace: Terrain rendering algorithm in less than 20 lines of code (2020)
330 points • comment • jan 03, 2025
Abundance isn't going to happen unless politicians are scared of the status quo
330 points • comment • mar 27, 2025
Devs say AI crawlers dominate traffic, forcing blocks on entire countries
330 points • comment • mar 25, 2025
Fossil fuels fall below 50% of US electricity for the first month on record
330 points • comment • apr 21, 2025
Beating Google's kernelCTF PoW using AVX512
330 points • comment • may 30, 2025
Show HN: Porting Terraria and Celeste to WebAssembly
329 points • comment • may 26, 2025
Google is making AI in Gmail and Docs free, but raising the price of Workspace
329 points • comment • jan 15, 2025
Show HN: Typed-FFmpeg 3.0–Typed Interface to FFmpeg and Visual Filter Editor
329 points • comment • may 29, 2025
Business co-founders in tech startups are less valuable than they think
329 points • comment • apr 27, 2025
Waymos crash less than human drivers
329 points • comment • mar 26, 2025
The FTC puts off enforcing its 'click-to-cancel' rule
329 points • comment • may 12, 2025
Goblin.tools: simple, single-task tools to help neurodivergent people with tasks
329 points • comment • mar 24, 2025
100x defect tolerance: How we solved the yield problem
328 points • comment • jan 15, 2025
I'll think twice before using GitHub Actions again
328 points • comment • jan 20, 2025
Caltrain's electric fleet more efficient than expected
328 points • comment • jan 25, 2025
BGP handling bug causes widespread internet routing instability
328 points • comment • may 27, 2025
Vanguard's average fee is now 0.07% after biggest-ever cut
328 points • comment • feb 04, 2025
Knowing where your engineer salary comes from
327 points • comment • apr 06, 2025
The emoji problem (2022)
327 points • comment • may 20, 2025
Who killed the rave?
327 points • comment • jan 06, 2025
Ask HN: What are you working on? (May 2025)
327 points • comment • may 25, 2025
Australian who ordered radioactive materials walks away from court
327 points • comment • apr 26, 2025
Every .gov Domain
327 points • comment • feb 21, 2025
I ditched my laptop for a pocketable mini PC and a pair of AR glasses
327 points • comment • apr 12, 2025
The Taylorator – All Your Frequencies Are Belong to Us
327 points • comment • jan 27, 2025
The hidden cost of AI coding
327 points • comment • apr 23, 2025
Switching from Pyenv to Uv
327 points • comment • mar 09, 2025
Show HN: TypeScript/React/Vue Window Layout Manager (Tabs, Floating, Popouts)
326 points • comment • jan 11, 2025