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Hacker News (2025)

  1. Tor: How a military project became a lifeline for privacy

    391 points • comment • aug 08, 2025

  2. Shaders: How to draw high fidelity graphics with just x and y coordinates

    391 points • comment • nov 23, 2025

  3. Everyone at NSF overseeing the Platforms for Wireless Experimentation is gone

    391 points • comment • feb 25, 2025

  4. Books I Loved Reading in 2024

    390 points • comment • jan 01, 2025

  5. Lessons in creating family photos that people want to keep (2018)

    390 points • comment • jan 26, 2025

  6. Let's Help NetBSD Cross the Finish Line Before 2025 Ends

    390 points • comment • oct 26, 2025

  7. The Alpha Myth: How captive wolves led us astray

    390 points • comment • jan 27, 2025

  8. OpenAI's new open-source model is basically Phi-5

    390 points • comment • aug 07, 2025

  9. Microsandbox: Virtual Machines that feel and perform like containers

    390 points • comment • may 30, 2025

  10. FFmpeg devs boast of another 100x leap thanks to handwritten assembly code

    390 points • comment • jul 20, 2025

  11. Gemini CLI tips and tricks for agentic coding

    390 points • comment • nov 26, 2025

  12. How do modern compilers choose which variables to put in registers?

    389 points • comment • feb 14, 2025

  13. Myna: Monospace typeface designed for symbol-heavy programming languages

    389 points • comment • nov 07, 2025

  14. 'Hey Number 17 '

    389 points • comment • feb 25, 2025

  15. DuckDB NPM packages 1.3.3 and 1.29.2 compromised with malware

    389 points • comment • sep 09, 2025

  16. Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2025)

    389 points • comment • nov 03, 2025

  17. I wrote a book called “Crap Towns”. It seemed funny at the time

    389 points • comment • apr 26, 2025

  18. Using eSIMs with devices that only have a physical SIM slot via a 9eSIM SIM car

    389 points • comment • jan 20, 2025

  19. Long live American Science and Surplus

    389 points • comment • may 28, 2025

  20. Celebrating 20 Years of MDN

    389 points • comment • jul 25, 2025

  21. Things I would have told myself before building an autorouter

    389 points • comment • mar 28, 2025

  22. The email they shouldn't have read

    389 points • comment • oct 08, 2025

  23. Let us git rid of it, angry GitHub users say of forced Copilot features

    388 points • comment • sep 06, 2025

  24. Botswana launches first satellite BOTSAT-1 aboard SpaceX Falcon 9

    388 points • comment • mar 26, 2025

  25. Judge said Meta illegally used books to build its AI

    388 points • comment • may 05, 2025

  26. DeepGEMM: clean and efficient FP8 GEMM kernels with fine-grained scaling

    388 points • comment • feb 26, 2025

  27. Python on the Edge: Fast, sandboxed, and powered by WebAssembly

    388 points • comment • sep 24, 2025

  28. How University Students Use Claude

    388 points • comment • apr 09, 2025

  29. Generative AI coding tools and agents do not work for me

    388 points • comment • jun 17, 2025

  30. Ask HN: Our AWS account got compromised after their outage

    387 points • comment • oct 21, 2025

  31. Overengineered Anchor Links

    387 points • comment • apr 03, 2025

  32. Melbourne man discovers extensive model train network underneath house

    387 points • comment • jun 30, 2025

  33. A Fast 64-Bit Date Algorithm (30–40% faster by counting dates backwards)

    387 points • comment • nov 23, 2025

  34. Things you can do with diodes

    387 points • comment • nov 03, 2025

  35. Chess grandmaster Daniel Naroditsky has died

    387 points • comment • oct 20, 2025

  36. Norway reviews cybersecurity after remote-access feature found in Chinese buses

    387 points • comment • nov 05, 2025

  37. Your data model is your destiny

    387 points • comment • oct 14, 2025

  38. Easy RISC-V

    387 points • comment • oct 27, 2025

  39. Users only care about 20% of your application

    387 points • comment • sep 27, 2025

  40. A server that wasn't meant to exist

    387 points • comment • may 14, 2025

  41. Brian Wilson has died

    387 points • comment • jun 11, 2025

  42. How I fell in love with Erlang

    387 points • comment • nov 01, 2025

  43. A gigantic jet caught on camera: A spritacular moment for NASA astronaut

    386 points • comment • aug 15, 2025

  44. Glubux's Powerwall (2016)

    386 points • comment • apr 01, 2025

  45. YouTube DRM added on ALL videos with TV (TVHTML5) clients

    386 points • comment • mar 10, 2025

  46. Whistleblower tells senators that Meta undermined U.S. security, interests

    386 points • comment • apr 09, 2025

  47. How big a solar battery do I need to store all my home's electricity?

    386 points • comment • sep 15, 2025

  48. Pico-Banana-400k

    386 points • comment • oct 26, 2025

  49. Apple vs the Law

    386 points • comment • jul 11, 2025

  50. Open Deep Research

    386 points • comment • feb 04, 2025

  51. Unsafe and Unpredictable: My Volvo EX90 Experience

    386 points • comment • jul 22, 2025

  52. Valetudo: Cloud replacement for vacuum robots enabling local-only operation

    386 points • comment • oct 20, 2025

  53. Valve Announces New Steam Machine, Steam Controller and Steam Frame

    386 points • comment • nov 12, 2025

  54. Show HN: Chili3d – A open-source, browser-based 3D CAD application

    386 points • comment • jun 10, 2025

  55. OpenAI Progress

    386 points • comment • aug 16, 2025

  56. Wikimedia Foundation Challenges UK Online Safety Act Regulations

    386 points • comment • jul 29, 2025

  57. Scientific conferences are leaving the US amid border fears

    386 points • comment • may 24, 2025

  58. Largest cargo sailboat completes first Atlantic crossing

    386 points • comment • nov 08, 2025

  59. ACM Transitions to Full Open Access

    386 points • comment • jul 29, 2025

  60. The One-Person Framework in Practice

    386 points • comment • apr 28, 2025

  61. DeepSeek-Prover-V2

    386 points • comment • apr 30, 2025

  62. Layoffs Don't Work

    385 points • comment • mar 09, 2025

  63. Microsoft has urged its employees on H-1B and H-4 visas to return immediately

    385 points • comment • sep 20, 2025

  64. Code review can be better

    385 points • comment • aug 20, 2025

  65. Why I love OCaml (2023)

    385 points • comment • nov 07, 2025

  66. Ex-Facebook director's new book paints brutal image of Mark Zuckerberg

    385 points • comment • mar 14, 2025

  67. European Commission fines Google €2.95B over abusive ad tech practices

    385 points • comment • sep 05, 2025

  68. Addiction Markets

    385 points • comment • oct 31, 2025

  69. When flat rate movers won't answer your calls

    385 points • comment • may 03, 2025

  70. Alternative Layout System

    385 points • comment • jun 26, 2025

  71. “Fewer Users” Warning Hurting Specialized and New Apps

    385 points • comment • may 02, 2025

  72. ./watch

    385 points • comment • oct 18, 2025

  73. Show HN: We built an open source, zero webhooks payment processor

    385 points • comment • nov 25, 2025

  74. Nostr

    385 points • comment • sep 19, 2025

  75. A Love Letter to People Who Believe in People

    385 points • comment • apr 24, 2025

  76. Exit Tax: Leave Germany before your business gets big

    384 points • comment • aug 07, 2025

  77. I wasted weeks hand optimizing assembly because I benchmarked on random data

    384 points • comment • jul 21, 2025

  78. Cheap blood test detects pancreatic cancer before it spreads

    384 points • comment • feb 13, 2025

  79. Thomson Reuters wins first major AI copyright case in the US

    384 points • comment • feb 11, 2025

  80. Life is more than an engineering problem

    384 points • comment • feb 02, 2025

  81. JSLinux

    384 points • comment • apr 14, 2025

  82. JMAP for Calendars, Contacts and Files Now in Stalwart

    384 points • comment • oct 22, 2025

  83. My experience with Claude Code after two weeks of adventures

    384 points • comment • jul 17, 2025

  84. Illinois limits the use of AI in therapy and psychotherapy

    384 points • comment • aug 13, 2025

  85. Anthropic tightens usage limits for Claude Code without telling users

    384 points • comment • jul 17, 2025

  86. Pyrefly vs. Ty: Comparing Python's two new Rust-based type checkers

    384 points • comment • may 27, 2025

  87. LIMO: Less Is More for Reasoning

    383 points • comment • feb 09, 2025

  88. XSLT – Native, zero-config build system for the Web

    383 points • comment • jun 27, 2025

  89. Staying cool without refrigerants: Next-generation Peltier cooling

    383 points • comment • jul 20, 2025

  90. How good engineers write bad code at big companies

    383 points • comment • nov 28, 2025

  91. Olmo 3: Charting a path through the model flow to lead open-source AI

    383 points • comment • nov 21, 2025

  92. Synadia and TigerBeetle Commit $512k USD to the Zig Software Foundation

    383 points • comment • oct 25, 2025

  93. Visualizing All ISBNs

    383 points • comment • jan 10, 2025

  94. Finding a 27-year-old easter egg in the Power Mac G3 ROM

    383 points • comment • jun 24, 2025

  95. Lead pigment in turmeric is the culprit in a global poisoning mystery (2024)

    382 points • comment • jul 11, 2025

  96. Show HN: I wrote a new BitTorrent tracker in Elixir

    382 points • comment • jun 19, 2025

  97. Forgejo: A self-hosted lightweight software forge

    382 points • comment • jan 19, 2025

  98. Mercury: Commercial-scale diffusion language model

    382 points • comment • apr 30, 2025

  99. Why can't HTML alone do includes?

    382 points • comment • may 03, 2025

  100. Apple files emergency motion to become defendant in US vs. Google [pdf]

    382 points • comment • jan 31, 2025