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Hacker News (2025)

People are just as bad as my LLMs
192 points • comment • mar 10, 2025
Building Bauble
192 points • comment • jan 10, 2025
I still don't think companies serve you ads based on your microphone
192 points • comment • jan 03, 2025
Extracting content from an LCP “protected” ePub
192 points • comment • mar 16, 2025
Woman who had pioneering cancer treatment 18 years ago still in remission
192 points • comment • feb 17, 2025
Exeter's unassuming co-op worker leads double life as 'Lord of the Logos'
192 points • comment • apr 05, 2025
Analysis of Product Hunt products from 2014 to 2021
192 points • comment • jan 26, 2025
Children's arithmetic skills do not transfer between applied and academic math
191 points • comment • feb 07, 2025
Jevons paradox
191 points • comment • jan 29, 2025
Kagi for Kids
191 points • comment • mar 31, 2025
Ask HN: What is the best method for turning a scanned book as a PDF into text?
191 points • comment • feb 14, 2025
Dagger: A shell for the container age
191 points • comment • mar 26, 2025
Sweden Investigates New Cable Break Under Baltic Sea
191 points • comment • feb 21, 2025
A filmmaker and a crooked lawyer shattered Denmark's self-image
191 points • comment • mar 27, 2025
How to Train an AI Image Model on Yourself
191 points • comment • jan 31, 2025
A Post Mortem on the Gino Case
191 points • comment • mar 09, 2025
Disappointed with the TVs at CES 2025
191 points • comment • jan 09, 2025
State of emergency declared after blackout plunges most of Chile into darkness
191 points • comment • feb 26, 2025
DeepSeek's smallpond: Bringing Distributed Computing to DuckDB
191 points • comment • mar 04, 2025
Show HN: Superglue – open source API connector that writes its own code
191 points • comment • feb 27, 2025
China is the manufacturing superpower
190 points • comment • jan 04, 2025
Blogs rot. Wikis wait
190 points • comment • jan 02, 2025
How do interruptions impact different software engineering activities
190 points • comment • jan 19, 2025
Build a Container Image from Scratch
190 points • comment • mar 18, 2025
DeepSeek focuses on research over revenue
190 points • comment • mar 14, 2025
Show HN: Air traffic control radio and chill music for focus
190 points • comment • feb 16, 2025
Bird-inspired drone uses legs to walk and jump into the air
190 points • comment • jan 07, 2025
Gödel's theorem debunks the most important AI myth – Roger Penrose [video]
190 points • comment • mar 02, 2025
Sri Lanka scrambles to restore power after monkey causes islandwide outage
190 points • comment • feb 13, 2025
DeepRAG: Thinking to retrieval step by step for large language models
190 points • comment • feb 04, 2025
Fedora 42 Beta
190 points • comment • mar 18, 2025
Estimates of plant CO2 uptake rise by nearly one third
190 points • comment • jan 14, 2025
SrsRAN: Open-Source 4G/5G
190 points • comment • jan 05, 2025
An Infinitely Large Napkin [pdf] (2019)
189 points • comment • feb 10, 2025
'Naive' science fan faces jail for plutonium import
189 points • comment • mar 22, 2025
Netboot Windows 11 with iSCSI and iPXE
189 points • comment • feb 28, 2025
My 25-year adventure in AI and ML
189 points • comment • jan 01, 2025
Ask HN: Favorite blog in 2024?
189 points • comment • jan 05, 2025
Ask HN: Where do seasoned devs look for short-term work?
189 points • comment • mar 13, 2025
The Tensor Cookbook (2024)
189 points • comment • jan 31, 2025
Ruff: Python linter and code formatter written in Rust
189 points • comment • jan 21, 2025
CAPTCHAs: 'a tracking cookie farm for profit masquerading as a security service'
189 points • comment • feb 10, 2025
Reintroductions of beavers into the wild in several parts of England
189 points • comment • mar 03, 2025
Linux kernel 6.14 is a big leap forward in performance and Windows compatibility
189 points • comment • mar 26, 2025
Ask HN: Is anyone making money selling traditional downloadable software?
189 points • comment • jan 20, 2025
Espargos: ESP32-based WiFi sensing array
189 points • comment • feb 17, 2025
Honey Bunnies
188 points • comment • mar 13, 2025
AWS paywalling select knowledge base articles, requiring Premium Support plan
188 points • comment • feb 18, 2025
A Year of Telepathy
188 points • comment • feb 11, 2025
Representing Graphs in PostgreSQL
188 points • comment • feb 17, 2025
We got hit by an alarmingly well-prepared phish spammer
188 points • comment • jan 29, 2025
Turning the database inside-out (2015)
188 points • comment • jan 26, 2025
63 Chinese Cuisines: The Complete Guide (2024)
188 points • comment • mar 24, 2025
28h Days: year 1 update
188 points • comment • jan 08, 2025
Kerosene did not save the sperm whale (2024)
188 points • comment • apr 04, 2025
Three Observations
188 points • comment • feb 09, 2025
Skynet won and destroyed humanity
188 points • comment • mar 05, 2025
Soviet Shoe Factory Principle
188 points • comment • jan 29, 2025
Visual explanations of mathematics (2020)
187 points • comment • feb 05, 2025
Torvalds: You can avoid Rust as a C maintainer, but you can't interfere with it
187 points • comment • feb 22, 2025
The secret ingredients of word2vec (2016)
187 points • comment • feb 17, 2025
Walt Disney's MultiPlane Camera (Filmed Feb. 13, 1957) [video]
187 points • comment • mar 07, 2025
Windows BitLocker – Screwed Without a Screwdriver
187 points • comment • jan 18, 2025
Tesla sales plummet in the UK, France, and Germany
187 points • comment • feb 05, 2025
British tourist detained by US authorities for 10 days over visa issue
187 points • comment • mar 10, 2025
Microsoft deletes official Windows 11 CPU/TPM bypass for unsupported PCs
187 points • comment • feb 05, 2025
Show HN: Kreuzberg – Modern async Python library for document text extraction
187 points • comment • feb 15, 2025
Rewriting my website in plain HTML and CSS
187 points • comment • jan 14, 2025
Myst Markdown – Markdown for technical/scientific document
187 points • comment • jan 02, 2025
Kotaemon: An open-source RAG-based tool for chatting with your documents
187 points • comment • jan 02, 2025
Tesla Cybertruck Drives Itself into a Pole, Owner Says 'Thank You Tesla'
187 points • comment • feb 11, 2025
Finland applies the “Housing First” concept (2020)
187 points • comment • mar 06, 2025
Very Wrong Math
187 points • comment • jan 10, 2025
The hidden complexity of scaling WebSockets
187 points • comment • jan 24, 2025
JTAG 'Hacking' the Original Xbox in 2023
186 points • comment • jan 16, 2025
Majority of US teens have lost trust in Big Tech
186 points • comment • jan 30, 2025
AWS S3 SDK breaks its compatible services
186 points • comment • feb 20, 2025
They Might Be Giants Flood EPK Promo (1990) [video]
186 points • comment • mar 27, 2025
Apple's Cubify Anything: Scaling Indoor 3D Object Detection
186 points • comment • mar 31, 2025
Phi-4 Bug Fixes
186 points • comment • jan 10, 2025
Portals and Quake
186 points • comment • jan 10, 2025
Laravel Cloud
185 points • comment • feb 24, 2025
“Vibe Coding” vs. Reality
185 points • comment • mar 22, 2025
When you deleted /lib on Linux while still connected via SSH (2022)
185 points • comment • mar 22, 2025
How browsers really load web pages [video]
185 points • comment • feb 17, 2025
Why I run FreeBSD for my home servers (2024)
185 points • comment • mar 31, 2025
Did Semgrep Just Get a Lot More Interesting?
185 points • comment • feb 15, 2025
Ask HN: Do you know travel blogs that have animated SVG maps of their travels?
185 points • comment • feb 04, 2025
SpaceX engineers brought on at FAA after probationary employees were fired
185 points • comment • feb 21, 2025
Relaxed Radix Balanced Trees (2024)
185 points • comment • feb 19, 2025
Wikenigma – an Encyclopedia of Unknowns
184 points • comment • jan 25, 2025
Mayo Clinic's secret weapon against AI hallucinations: Reverse RAG in action
184 points • comment • mar 11, 2025
OpenVertebrate Presents a Database of 13K 3D Scans of Specimens
184 points • comment • apr 05, 2025
Trusting clients is probably a security flaw
184 points • comment • jan 17, 2025
Japanese scientists create new plastic that dissolves in saltwater overnight
184 points • comment • mar 28, 2025
Posthog/.cursorrules
184 points • comment • mar 09, 2025
Bill to block OpenAI's for-profit conversion gets mysteriously gutted
184 points • comment • apr 07, 2025
VGGT: Visual Geometry Grounded Transformer
184 points • comment • mar 25, 2025
How Spotify Killed Lo-Fi Hip Hop
184 points • comment • feb 04, 2025
Adding Mastodon Comments to Your Blog
184 points • comment • feb 23, 2025