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Hacker News (2025)

The ancient discovery that put a Silk Road city back on the map
41 points • comment • jan 28, 2025
LLMs can now identify public figures in images
41 points • comment • jul 28, 2025
Show HN: Time Travel with Your SQL
41 points • comment • apr 10, 2025
AWS crash causes $2k Smart Beds to overheat and get stuck upright
41 points • comment • oct 23, 2025
Gold Is So Popular It's Making People Nervous
41 points • comment • apr 27, 2025
Judge Orders OpenAI to Give Lawyers 20M Private Chats – 'Anonymization'
41 points • comment • nov 13, 2025
On Zero Sum Games (The Informational Meta-Game)
41 points • comment • feb 21, 2025
You are what you launch: how software became a lifestyle brand
41 points • comment • jul 01, 2025
What can we take away from the ‘stochastic parrot’ saga?
41 points • comment • apr 11, 2025
The game is almost over for one of Hong Kong's last mahjong carvers
41 points • comment • jul 27, 2025
The Charlie Sheen effect on HIV testing (2017)
41 points • comment • jan 29, 2025
Ask HN: Gandi is holding my domain hostage. What can I do?
41 points • comment • sep 03, 2025
New Mexico made childcare free. It lifted 120k people out of poverty
41 points • comment • apr 12, 2025
Reminiscences of a Stock Operator (1923)
41 points • comment • dec 27, 2025
Regime Change in the West
41 points • comment • apr 13, 2025
Trump halts construction on nearly complete wind farm off Rhode Island
41 points • comment • aug 25, 2025
Electronic devices used for car thefts set to be banned
41 points • comment • feb 23, 2025
FBI Wanted List: Fraudulent Remote IT Workers from DPRK
41 points • comment • dec 15, 2025
The Creepy, Surprisingly Routine Business of Animal Cloning
41 points • comment • jun 03, 2025
Robin Lakoff has died
41 points • comment • aug 17, 2025
Apple will spend more than $500B in the U.S. over the next four years
41 points • comment • feb 24, 2025
Sweden moves students off digital devices and on to books and handwriting (2023)
41 points • comment • sep 03, 2025
Technicolor likely closing all US operations as of Monday 24th Feb
41 points • comment • feb 23, 2025
Evaluating Agents
41 points • comment • sep 03, 2025
With AI chatbots, Big Tech is moving fast and breaking people
41 points • comment • aug 25, 2025
Blackwater's Erik Prince Muscles Back into the Mercenary Business
41 points • comment • aug 17, 2025
Tencent Releases Hunyuan World Model
41 points • comment • jul 28, 2025
Rocketships and Slingshots
41 points • comment • sep 04, 2025
Loss for Private Equity, UnitedHealth: Oregon Bans Corporate Control of Doctors
41 points • comment • jun 25, 2025
Cybertruck deactivated on road after a cease and desist for using it in a song
41 points • comment • aug 11, 2025
Use singular nouns for database table names
41 points • comment • sep 05, 2025
Conway's pinwheel tiling
41 points • comment • sep 27, 2025
Is sound gradual typing dead? Performance problems in Typed Racket (2016)
41 points • comment • sep 27, 2025
MIT says AI isn't replacing you it's just wasting your boss's money
41 points • comment • sep 05, 2025
FIFA's 2026 ticket scheme is a late-capitalist hellscape
41 points • comment • oct 26, 2025
How sober should a writer be?
41 points • comment • oct 10, 2025
Peeling the Covers Off Germany's Exascale "Jupiter" Supercomputer
41 points • comment • jun 12, 2025
Spending on AI Is at Epic Levels. Will It Ever Pay Off?
41 points • comment • sep 27, 2025
AI accounts impersonating doctors on social media [video]
41 points • comment • aug 18, 2025
I'm turning 41, but I don't feel like celebrating
41 points • comment • oct 10, 2025
In the long run, GPL code becomes irrelevant (2015)
41 points • comment • jul 18, 2025
We are all mercantilists now
41 points • comment • aug 11, 2025
Raycast for Windows
41 points • comment • nov 23, 2025
U.S. Department of War
41 points • comment • sep 06, 2025
Europeans recognize Zohran Mamdani's policies as 'normal'
41 points • comment • nov 06, 2025
The AI bubble is bigger than you think
41 points • comment • nov 20, 2025
Understanding conflict resolution and avoidance in PostgreSQL: a complete guide
41 points • comment • oct 11, 2025
Which Humans? (2023)
41 points • comment • dec 29, 2025
Stop talking
41 points • comment • dec 03, 2025
Looking for Hidden Gems in Scientific Literature
41 points • comment • nov 12, 2025
Russian Propaganda Campaign Targets France with AI-Fabricated Scandals
40 points • comment • apr 17, 2025
LLMs Are Bad Judges. So Use Our Classifier Instead
40 points • comment • sep 28, 2025
Copyright Office suggests AI copyright debate was settled in 1965
40 points • comment • jan 31, 2025
Cmapv2: A high performance, concurrent map
40 points • comment • jun 16, 2025
FEMA: Never donate clothing (it is never needed)
40 points • comment • jan 16, 2025
The CoPilot Productivity Paradox
40 points • comment • sep 07, 2025
PanGui – A cross-platform UI library with a razor sharp focus on performance
40 points • comment • feb 26, 2025
I spent over $31k on Whiteout Survival
40 points • comment • aug 27, 2025
Elon Musk is wrong about GDP
40 points • comment • apr 29, 2025
Sloppy AI defenses take cybersecurity back to the 1990s, researchers say
40 points • comment • aug 12, 2025
Show HN: Real-time 4/20 cannabis sales dashboard using Estuary and Tinybird
40 points • comment • apr 20, 2025
Coral Protocol: Open infrastructure connecting the internet of agents
40 points • comment • oct 12, 2025
EU says it will enforce digital rules irrespective of CEO and location
40 points • comment • apr 21, 2025
How to Secure a Linux Server
40 points • comment • aug 01, 2025
Is there a balance to be struck between simple hierarchical models and
40 points • comment • may 07, 2025
GPT-5 Thinking in ChatGPT (a.k.a. Research Goblin) is shockingly good at search
40 points • comment • sep 07, 2025
Trump will kill CHIPS Act by gutting NIST employees
40 points • comment • feb 23, 2025
Sharp Bilinear Filters: Big Clean Pixels for Pixel Art
40 points • comment • oct 12, 2025
Trump putting 'pause' on most US Government websites, source says
40 points • comment • jan 31, 2025
Still using Firefox – but not because of its vision
40 points • comment • dec 30, 2025
Show HN: Iterm-Mcp – AI Terminal/REPL Control for iTerm2
40 points • comment • jan 30, 2025
Natural rubber with high resistance to crack growth
40 points • comment • jun 13, 2025
Using physics simulations to find targeting strategies in tenpin bowling
40 points • comment • apr 22, 2025
Reverse Engineering the Firmware Loader for an X-Rite Spectrophotometer
40 points • comment • jul 10, 2025
CTO / cofounder exit deal after 1.5y at 600k revenue without SHA
40 points • comment • jan 05, 2025
Wikipedia row erupts as Jimmy Wales intervenes on 'Gaza genocide' page
40 points • comment • nov 03, 2025
What we get wrong about athleticism
40 points • comment • feb 01, 2025
Show HN: I built a daily sunlight tracker
40 points • comment • jun 26, 2025
The Nabataeans Are Coming
40 points • comment • mar 01, 2025
CEO killed at industrial site by worker operating forklift
40 points • comment • dec 24, 2025
Blood droplets on inclined surfaces reveal new cracking patterns
40 points • comment • may 01, 2025
Private equity firms are snapping up mobile home parks, driving out residents
40 points • comment • nov 17, 2025
Trump's EV Rollback Could Cost Taxpayers $1B
40 points • comment • mar 01, 2025
Show HN: Chonky – a neural text semantic chunking goes multilingual
40 points • comment • oct 25, 2025
Bioinspired weather-responsive adaptive shading
40 points • comment • jan 17, 2025
Steam on Linux Use Easily Hits an All-Time High in November
40 points • comment • dec 02, 2025
Under new law, cops bust famous cartoonist for AI-generated CSAM
40 points • comment • jan 18, 2025
Just How Bad Would an AI Bubble Be?
40 points • comment • sep 07, 2025
AI realtime mock interview tool
40 points • comment • feb 02, 2025
Fixing the mechanics of my bullet chess
40 points • comment • jun 14, 2025
From ACS to Altair: The Rise of the Hobby Computer
40 points • comment • mar 02, 2025
Linux is 34 years old today
40 points • comment • aug 26, 2025
Palm phytoliths in subarctic Canada imply ice-free winters 48M years ago
40 points • comment • mar 02, 2025
Trying to play an isomorphic piano (2022) [video]
40 points • comment • jul 24, 2025
Gamers Nexus to open an investigation into Nvidia's shady business tactics
40 points • comment • may 20, 2025
US layoffs for October surge to two-decade high
40 points • comment • nov 06, 2025
An equation of state for dense nuclear matter such as neutron stars
40 points • comment • mar 03, 2025
Constraint satisfaction to optimize item selection for bundles in Minecraft
40 points • comment • oct 12, 2025
Mutool – all purpose tool for dealing with PDF files
40 points • comment • feb 02, 2025
Rotating Sandwiches
40 points • comment • oct 12, 2025