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Hacker News (2025)

Decompiling 2024: A Year of Resurgance in Decompilation Research
140 points • comment • jan 30, 2025
Laser-based device can scan almost any sample of gas and tell you what's in it
140 points • comment • mar 07, 2025
Show HN: Printercow – Turn any thermal printer into an API endpoint
140 points • comment • jan 21, 2025
The Anti-Social Century
140 points • comment • jan 11, 2025
The mysterious flow of fluid in the brain
140 points • comment • mar 27, 2025
The good times in tech are over
140 points • comment • mar 16, 2025
Compilers: Incrementally and Extensibly (2024)
139 points • comment • apr 05, 2025
Find Your 2%Ers (2023)
139 points • comment • feb 17, 2025
Betting on the Pope was the original prediction market
139 points • comment • mar 07, 2025
Don't Be Frupid
139 points • comment • feb 10, 2025
OpenAI Researchers Find That AI Is Unable to Solve Most Coding Problems
139 points • comment • feb 24, 2025
An update on Dart macros and data serialization
139 points • comment • jan 29, 2025
The Tedious Heroism of David Ruggles
139 points • comment • jan 10, 2025
Sweden Seizes Ship Suspected of Baltic Sea 'Sabotage'
139 points • comment • jan 27, 2025
Web apps built with Ruby on Rails
139 points • comment • jan 10, 2025
SciOp torrents: download, seed erased US Gov sites and datasets
139 points • comment • apr 06, 2025
Tech companies are telling immigrant employees on visas not to leave the U.S.
139 points • comment • apr 03, 2025
The LLMentalist Effect
139 points • comment • feb 08, 2025
Ask HN: Is anybody building an alternative transformer?
139 points • comment • feb 14, 2025
The ocean teems with networks of interconnected bacteria
139 points • comment • jan 27, 2025
Glicol: Next-generation computer music language
139 points • comment • jan 10, 2025
LINUX is obsolete (1992)
139 points • comment • feb 08, 2025
WASM GC isn't ready for realtime graphics
139 points • comment • jan 18, 2025
Show HN: Simplex: Automate browser workflows using code and natural language
139 points • comment • jan 14, 2025
Why hasn't commercial air travel gotten any faster since the 1960s? (2009)
139 points • comment • feb 10, 2025
ADHD Didn't Break Me–My Parents Did
139 points • comment • feb 01, 2025
Zuckerberg approved training Llama on LibGen [pdf]
139 points • comment • jan 12, 2025
LLM based agents as Dungeon Masters
139 points • comment • jan 14, 2025
Andrej Karpathy: "I was given early access to Grok 3 earlier today"
139 points • comment • feb 18, 2025
Benchmarking vision-language models on OCR in dynamic video environments
139 points • comment • feb 14, 2025
Beginnings of Roman London discovered in office basement
139 points • comment • feb 13, 2025
Tmux – The Essentials (2019)
139 points • comment • mar 05, 2025
The inevitability of the borrow checker
139 points • comment • feb 06, 2025
The British Micro Behemoth
138 points • comment • jan 23, 2025
North America Is Dripping from Below, Geoscientists Discover
138 points • comment • apr 05, 2025
Show HN: I created a language called AntiLang – breaking all the conventions
138 points • comment • feb 23, 2025
RoboPianist: Dexterous Piano Playing with Deep Reinforcement Learning (2023)
138 points • comment • feb 27, 2025
Body Doubling
138 points • comment • mar 04, 2025
100 Or so Books that shaped a Century of Science (1999)
138 points • comment • feb 04, 2025
Building Statically Linked Go Executables with CGO and Zig
138 points • comment • mar 28, 2025
Nvidia-Ingest: Multi-modal data extraction
138 points • comment • jan 10, 2025
Shell-ish scripting in Go with ease
138 points • comment • jan 31, 2025
Met Police smash down door of Quaker meeting house to arrest activists
138 points • comment • mar 30, 2025
Shef
138 points • comment • mar 11, 2025
Modernist Cuisine: The Art and Science of Cooking
138 points • comment • feb 24, 2025
uBlock Origin Forcefully Removed by Chrome
138 points • comment • mar 05, 2025
Getting hit by lightning is good for some tropical trees
138 points • comment • mar 28, 2025
'Dark oxygen': a deep-sea discovery that has split scientists
138 points • comment • mar 17, 2025
Minimal 64x4 Home Computer
138 points • comment • jan 22, 2025
Julia and JuliaHub: Advancing Innovation and Growth
138 points • comment • feb 03, 2025
Meta slashes staff stock awards as group embarks on AI spending drive
138 points • comment • feb 23, 2025
In Zig, what's a writer?
137 points • comment • jan 28, 2025
Imagine telling 2010 devs that in 2025, collapsing a div would require $8/ month
137 points • comment • mar 21, 2025
Show HN: I organized Bluesky feeds by categories and growth rankings
137 points • comment • jan 23, 2025
Ohm: A user-friendly parsing toolkit for JavaScript and TypeScript
137 points • comment • feb 08, 2025
Show HN: I made a tiny book using a pen-plotter and AI
137 points • comment • feb 10, 2025
GPT-4o with scheduled tasks (jawbone) is available in beta
137 points • comment • jan 14, 2025
Experimental Tauri Verso Integration
137 points • comment • mar 29, 2025
'Never seen anything like this' – NIH meetings and travel halted abruptly
137 points • comment • jan 24, 2025
Happy 10k Day
137 points • comment • mar 12, 2025
European Cloud Computing Platforms
137 points • comment • mar 10, 2025
VLC tops 6B downloads, previews AI-generated subtitles
137 points • comment • jan 09, 2025
SheepShaver is an open source PowerPC Apple Macintosh emulator
137 points • comment • mar 16, 2025
Stay Gold, America
137 points • comment • jan 07, 2025
Sailing from Berkeley to Hawaii in a 19ft Sailboat
137 points • comment • apr 02, 2025
Daily omega-3 fatty acids may help human organs stay young
137 points • comment • feb 09, 2025
DOGE Said It Cut $232M from Social Security. It Was Only About Half a Mil
137 points • comment • feb 20, 2025
Investigating the case of human nose shape and climate adaptation (2017)
137 points • comment • jan 30, 2025
Baffled by generational garbage collection – wingolog
137 points • comment • feb 09, 2025
Noether's Theorem Revolutionized Physics
136 points • comment • feb 07, 2025
The case of the critical section that let multiple threads enter a block of code
136 points • comment • mar 23, 2025
The State of Vim
136 points • comment • jan 11, 2025
Brian Krebs: This Administration Is Completely Compromised
136 points • comment • feb 28, 2025
OnlyFangs has made 'World of Warcraft' into Twitch's best soap opera
136 points • comment • jan 03, 2025
Proton: We're giving away over $1M to support a better internet
136 points • comment • jan 14, 2025
Show HN: Monkeys.zip – 3000 Monkeys on Typewriters
136 points • comment • apr 03, 2025
Show HN: Editable Games
136 points • comment • mar 10, 2025
Apple Loses Top Court Fight Over German Antitrust Crackdown
136 points • comment • mar 19, 2025
Decentralized Syndication – The Missing Internet Protocol
136 points • comment • jan 10, 2025
Gig workers worked more but earned less in 2024: study
136 points • comment • feb 22, 2025
Stupid Smart Pointers in C
136 points • comment • mar 17, 2025
We are still using 88x31 buttons
136 points • comment • apr 05, 2025
Hard Mode Rust (2022)
136 points • comment • jan 30, 2025
Delphi Is 30
136 points • comment • feb 14, 2025
Karatsuba Matrix Multiplication and Its Efficient Hardware Implementations
136 points • comment • mar 15, 2025
Fun with C++26 reflection: Keyword Arguments
136 points • comment • feb 10, 2025
Orca that carried dead calf for weeks appears to be in mourning again
136 points • comment • jan 05, 2025
Bel in Clojure (2022)
136 points • comment • mar 07, 2025
Global coffee trade grinding to a halt, hit hard by brutal price hikes
136 points • comment • mar 09, 2025
Xcode Constantly Phones Home
135 points • comment • feb 25, 2025
Real Chilling Effects
135 points • comment • mar 10, 2025
Trump's attacks on universities get darker, with shadows reaching our shores
135 points • comment • mar 29, 2025
McLaren invented new carbon fiber tape to build even more complex parts
135 points • comment • mar 17, 2025
Whalesong patterns follow a universal law of human language, new research finds
135 points • comment • feb 07, 2025
The number line freaks me out (2016)
135 points • comment • feb 16, 2025
Show HN: Evolving Agents Framework
135 points • comment • mar 09, 2025
Backyard Cyanide
135 points • comment • mar 11, 2025
Why Does Claude Speak Byzantine Music Notation?
135 points • comment • apr 01, 2025
Show HN: I Created ErisForge, a Python Library for Abliteration of LLMs
135 points • comment • jan 27, 2025
A web platform for using YouTube as a drum sequencer
135 points • comment • feb 18, 2025