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Hacker News (2025)

NASA chief scientist fired in first round of Trump-ordered cuts
18 points • comment • mar 12, 2025
The world needs more modest, linear growth companies
18 points • comment • may 13, 2025
Bot countermeasures impact on the quality of life on the web
18 points • comment • may 10, 2025
Unlink vs. DEL – A deep dive into how it works internally in Redis
18 points • comment • jan 19, 2025
Cybertruck owners won't get Autosteer feature
18 points • comment • may 08, 2025
What happens to DNA data of millions as 23andMe files bankruptcy?
18 points • comment • mar 27, 2025
Catbench Vector Search Demo Has Postgres SQL Throughput, Latency Monitoring Now
18 points • comment • may 30, 2025
Ask HN: Should I learn COBOL at 14yo in 2025?
18 points • comment • mar 21, 2025
Show HN: I built an app that reduces podcast preparation effort by 95% +
18 points • comment • apr 10, 2025
How to Make Superbabies
18 points • comment • apr 06, 2025
Tristan Davey's Punch Card Archive
18 points • comment • feb 18, 2025
Signalgate lessons: If the goal is a culture of security, America's screwed
18 points • comment • apr 26, 2025
Learning to Love Dandelions (2021)
18 points • comment • mar 18, 2025
Yahtzeeql – Yahtzee solver that's mostly SQL
18 points • comment • may 15, 2025
Too Many People Don't Value the Time of Security Researchers
18 points • comment • jan 21, 2025
Canadian woman sent to Arizona detention for trying to renew her TN visa
18 points • comment • mar 13, 2025
When Microsoft retired Clippy
18 points • comment • apr 11, 2025
Sony's new RGB backlight tech smokes regular Mini LED TVs
18 points • comment • mar 15, 2025
Rare knife showing up at Bay Area restaurant tables, confusing people
18 points • comment • jan 17, 2025
People Are Paying Millions to Dine with Donald Trump at Mar-a-Lago
18 points • comment • mar 06, 2025
'Bright Circle' and 'Margaret Fuller': The Rise of the Transcendental Woman
18 points • comment • apr 23, 2025
AI summaries turn real news into nonsense, BBC finds
18 points • comment • feb 13, 2025
Git Commands That Cover 90% of a Developer's Daily Workflow
18 points • comment • may 02, 2025
Prototyping in Rust
18 points • comment • jan 17, 2025
Japan plans to sell rice from emergency stockpiles to cut prices
18 points • comment • feb 03, 2025
Building a keyboard for a 1985 Casio FX-451 calculator [video]
18 points • comment • jan 18, 2025
Lack of copper, reliance on imports more critical to US than "rare earth" metals
18 points • comment • mar 16, 2025
Constellation's Nuclear Plants to Provide Power for US Government Agencies
18 points • comment • jan 06, 2025
Guiding Electricity with Sound
18 points • comment • feb 07, 2025
Hegseth orders Cyber Command to stand down on Russia planning
18 points • comment • feb 28, 2025
The unexpected legend of WD-40
18 points • comment • mar 22, 2025
Altman testifies that OpenAI will release an Open Source model this Summer
18 points • comment • may 08, 2025
Century-old genetics mystery of Mendel's peas solved
18 points • comment • apr 25, 2025
Teen on Musk's DOGE Team Graduated from 'The Com'
18 points • comment • feb 09, 2025
Microsoft redesigns BSOD, drops QR code, frowning face, blue colour
18 points • comment • mar 31, 2025
Integration of 1,024 silicon quantum dots with on-chip electronics
18 points • comment • jan 25, 2025
Show HN: Image comparison slider in 6 lines of JavaScript
18 points • comment • mar 02, 2025
Anthropic's next major AI model could arrive within weeks
18 points • comment • feb 14, 2025
Blurred Forms: An Unsteady History of Drunkenness (2014)
18 points • comment • jan 28, 2025
'Here lives the monster's brain' The man who exposed Switzerland's dirty secrets
18 points • comment • feb 18, 2025
Farallon Islands live (and controllable) webcam
18 points • comment • mar 04, 2025
Greg Kroah-Hartman Makes Compelling Case for Kernel Drivers Be Written in Rust
18 points • comment • feb 20, 2025
Don't Die of Heart Disease
18 points • comment • may 08, 2025
Manjaro Linux: Making Arch Linux More Accessible
18 points • comment • mar 29, 2025
The iPad's "Sweet Solution"
18 points • comment • mar 21, 2025
Show HN: Kinematic Hand Skeleton Optimization in Jax
18 points • comment • may 02, 2025
Musk's Doge Team Tries to Gain Access to Taxpayer Information
18 points • comment • feb 17, 2025
Oral History of Andy Bechtolsheim (2015) [pdf]
18 points • comment • feb 08, 2025
Oracle Health (formerly Cerner) breach compromises patient data at US hospitals
18 points • comment • mar 28, 2025
WireGuard iOS Not Available in Germany
18 points • comment • feb 18, 2025
Ask HN: Is it worth it to post on the 'Who Wants To Be Hired' thread?
17 points • comment • feb 08, 2025
Configure Azure Entra ID as IdP on Keycloak
17 points • comment • mar 17, 2025
Do Insects Feel Pain?
17 points • comment • jan 29, 2025
Israeli military organises tourist tours of newly occupied Syrian territory
17 points • comment • apr 11, 2025
Ask HN: Are You Polite to AI?
17 points • comment • mar 21, 2025
White House proposal would slash NASA science budget and cancel major missions
17 points • comment • apr 13, 2025
Americans Are Heading for the Exits
17 points • comment • feb 22, 2025
STASI's Zersetzung and Modern Psychological Warfare
17 points • comment • apr 27, 2025
Fire at Tesla dealership near Rome destroys 17 cars
17 points • comment • mar 31, 2025
Show HN: rtcollector - A modular, RedisTimeSeries-native observability agent
17 points • comment • may 22, 2025
6 days to change 1 line of code (2012)
17 points • comment • feb 26, 2025
Use ramoops for logging under Linux (2021)
17 points • comment • may 24, 2025
Jeju Air jet black boxes stopped recording before crash: transport ministry
17 points • comment • jan 11, 2025
'Enough Is Enuf' Review: A Dream of Simpler Spelling
17 points • comment • apr 15, 2025
Russian Drone Damages Radiation Shield at Chernobyl, Ukraine Says
17 points • comment • feb 14, 2025
North American Aviation's 1965 Plan for Piloted Planetary Flybys in the 1970s
17 points • comment • apr 24, 2025
Show HN: A self hostable forum like news.Y Combinator.com
17 points • comment • jan 10, 2025
Why So Many Ultra-Expensive Supercars Have Montana License Plates
17 points • comment • may 17, 2025
What is there left to believe in?
17 points • comment • jan 20, 2025
Refactoring with Codemods to Automate API Changes
17 points • comment • jan 08, 2025
The Tragic Story Behind the Infamous '4 Children for Sale' Photograph (2023)
17 points • comment • may 04, 2025
Sniffle: A sniffer for Bluetooth 5 and 4.x LE
17 points • comment • apr 17, 2025
Researcher Captures Contents of 'DEI.gov' Before It Was Hidden Behind a Password
17 points • comment • feb 14, 2025
Fake CBC ads have flooded X with sketchy headlines. We looked for the source
17 points • comment • jan 27, 2025
Born in the Wrong Generation
17 points • comment • apr 06, 2025
Kea DHCP: Local Vulnerabilities in Many Linux and BSD Distributions
17 points • comment • may 29, 2025
I spent 181 minutes waiting for the Zig compiler this week
17 points • comment • mar 16, 2025
What do executives do, anyway? (2019)
17 points • comment • may 16, 2025
The Labyrinth of Villa Pisani in Stra, an Intricate Pathway
17 points • comment • apr 19, 2025
AI Is Not Your Friend
17 points • comment • may 09, 2025
Instagram tests Reels pause feature as TikTok remains in limbo
17 points • comment • jan 31, 2025
Lex Fridman Interviews Volodymyr Zelenskyy
17 points • comment • jan 07, 2025
Biden Blocks Sale of U.S. Steel to Nippon Steel
17 points • comment • jan 03, 2025
Microsoft employees protest at 50th anniversary party over Israel contract
17 points • comment • apr 06, 2025
The ongoing story of seconds on the taskbar
17 points • comment • apr 24, 2025
French Scientist Reportedly Denied U.S. Entry Due to Trump Criticism
17 points • comment • mar 19, 2025
Show HN: I made it easy to create invoices
17 points • comment • jan 06, 2025
Before NATO goes away, A website to spell anything using NATO phonetic Alphabet
17 points • comment • feb 20, 2025
Exploring Emergent "Self-Awareness" in Claude 3.5
17 points • comment • jan 07, 2025
Musk Fires The People Actually Doing What DOGE Pretends To Do
17 points • comment • mar 03, 2025
Entity-Component-System Architecture in Kubernetes
17 points • comment • feb 07, 2025
So you've installed `fzf`. Now what?
17 points • comment • feb 16, 2025
Europe's Nuclear Trilemma:Difficult and Dangerous Options for Post-US Deterrence
17 points • comment • mar 31, 2025
Exceptionally rare radio sources detected in the distant universe
17 points • comment • may 07, 2025
The end of an AI that shocked the world: OpenAI retires GPT-4
17 points • comment • may 02, 2025
Evolution of Whois Protocol to RDAP (2019)
17 points • comment • feb 10, 2025
They lied to you, building software is hard
17 points • comment • mar 23, 2025
Mars Exploration: How the CIA's Project Stargate Went to Mars [pdf]
17 points • comment • jan 03, 2025
Sketch-Programming: A Minimalist Paradigm for Code Design
17 points • comment • mar 13, 2025
A Dyson Swarm Made of Solar Panels Would Make Earth Uninhabitable
17 points • comment • mar 22, 2025