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Hacker News (2025)

How I program with LLMs
877 points • comment • jan 07, 2025
FFmpeg by Example
874 points • comment • jan 14, 2025
The new skill in AI is not prompting, it's context engineering
873 points • comment • jun 30, 2025
Launching RDAP; sunsetting WHOIS
873 points • comment • mar 17, 2025
JavaScript Trademark Update
871 points • comment • jun 28, 2025
Gemini Diffusion
869 points • comment • may 22, 2025
Internet in a Box
869 points • comment • apr 27, 2025
Steam Brick: No screen, no controller, just a power button and a USB port
864 points • comment • jan 25, 2025
AI 2027
861 points • comment • apr 03, 2025
My open source project was relicensed by a YC company [license updated]
857 points • comment • jul 04, 2025
FFmpeg merges WebRTC support
854 points • comment • jun 04, 2025
Local-first software (2019)
851 points • comment • jul 05, 2025
The Origins of Wokeness
850 points • comment • jan 13, 2025
Have I Been Pwned 2.0
850 points • comment • may 19, 2025
Trump administration halts Harvard's ability to enroll international students
849 points • comment • may 22, 2025
Qwen3: Think deeper, act faster
848 points • comment • apr 28, 2025
Facebook ban on discussing Linux?
843 points • comment • jan 27, 2025
Ending our third party fact-checking program and moving to Community Notes model
843 points • comment • jan 07, 2025
Introducing tmux-rs
843 points • comment • jul 03, 2025
Apple announces Foundation Models and Containerization frameworks, etc
841 points • comment • jun 09, 2025
AI Horseless Carriages
840 points • comment • apr 23, 2025
FFmpeg School of Assembly Language
839 points • comment • feb 22, 2025
DOGE has 'god mode' access to government data
836 points • comment • feb 20, 2025
Chat is a bad UI pattern for development tools
835 points • comment • feb 04, 2025
Software development topics I've changed my mind on
834 points • comment • feb 05, 2025
S1: A $6 R1 competitor?
833 points • comment • feb 05, 2025
Mozilla Firefox – Official GitHub repo
832 points • comment • may 13, 2025
Hyperspace
832 points • comment • feb 25, 2025
One of my papers got declined today
832 points • comment • jan 01, 2025
Google is illegally monopolizing online advertising tech, judge rules
831 points • comment • apr 17, 2025
3blue1brown YouTube Bitcoin video taken down as copyright violation
830 points • comment • jan 06, 2025
Working on databases from prison
827 points • comment • jun 16, 2025
Supabase MCP can leak your entire SQL database
825 points • comment • jul 08, 2025
It is as if you were on your phone
823 points • comment • mar 09, 2025
Samsung embeds IronSource spyware app on phones across WANA
823 points • comment • jun 21, 2025
Repairable Flatpack Toaster
823 points • comment • mar 03, 2025
Root shell on a credit card terminal
821 points • comment • jun 01, 2025
The hardest working font in Manhattan
819 points • comment • feb 14, 2025
CDC: Unpublished manuscripts mentioning certain topics must be pulled or revised
818 points • comment • feb 02, 2025
I'm the Canadian who was detained by ICE for two weeks
815 points • comment • mar 19, 2025
Hyatt Hotels are using algorithmic Rest “smoking detectors”
815 points • comment • jul 19, 2025
Show HN: Immersive Gaussian Splat experience of Sutro Tower, San Francisco
814 points • comment • feb 20, 2025
It's not a crime if we do it with an app
807 points • comment • jan 26, 2025
Multiple Russia-aligned threat actors actively targeting Signal Messenger
807 points • comment • feb 19, 2025
If you are useful, it doesn't mean you are valued
805 points • comment • jun 02, 2025
OpenAI to buy AI startup from Jony Ive
803 points • comment • may 21, 2025
Writing toy software is a joy
803 points • comment • jun 24, 2025
Blender-made movie Flow takes Oscar
802 points • comment • mar 03, 2025
Veo 3 and Imagen 4, and a new tool for filmmaking called Flow
801 points • comment • may 20, 2025
Show HN: Live-updating version of the 'What a week, huh?' meme
799 points • comment • feb 18, 2025
Global hack on Microsoft Sharepoint hits U.S., state agencies, researchers say
799 points • comment • jul 20, 2025
Technical analysis of the Signal clone used by Trump officials
797 points • comment • may 02, 2025
My 16-month theanine self-experiment
795 points • comment • mar 09, 2025
Show HN: Workout.cool – Open-source fitness coaching platform
794 points • comment • jun 18, 2025
Mozilla deletes promise to never sell Firefox data
794 points • comment • feb 28, 2025
OpenAI adds MCP support to Agents SDK
794 points • comment • mar 26, 2025
"When you upload or input information through Firefox, you grant us a license"
792 points • comment • feb 28, 2025
Blender releases their Oscar winning version tool
792 points • comment • mar 27, 2025
America underestimates the difficulty of bringing manufacturing back
791 points • comment • apr 15, 2025
Design for 3D-Printing
790 points • comment • may 04, 2025
MCP: An (Accidentally) Universal Plugin System
790 points • comment • jun 28, 2025
Archivists work to save disappearing data.gov datasets
790 points • comment • jan 30, 2025
The Burnout Machine
789 points • comment • mar 20, 2025
Cracking a 512-bit DKIM key for less than $8 in the cloud
787 points • comment • jan 08, 2025
Office is too slow, so Microsoft is making it load at Windows startup
785 points • comment • may 01, 2025
The world could run on older hardware if software optimization was a priority
785 points • comment • may 13, 2025
I wrote to the address in the GPLv2 license notice (2022)
784 points • comment • apr 24, 2025
Show HN: Cs16.css – CSS library based on Counter Strike 1.6 UI
784 points • comment • jan 24, 2025
Jemalloc Postmortem
783 points • comment • jun 13, 2025
LibreLingo – FOSS Alternative to Duolingo
779 points • comment • apr 29, 2025
xAI has acquired X, xAI now valued at $80B
778 points • comment • mar 28, 2025
An end to all this prostate trouble?
777 points • comment • apr 26, 2025
Firefox tab groups are here
775 points • comment • apr 29, 2025
What is HDR, anyway?
773 points • comment • may 14, 2025
Mistakes engineers make in large established codebases
773 points • comment • jan 07, 2025
You're not a senior engineer until you've worked on a legacy project (2023)
773 points • comment • feb 14, 2025
Let me pay for Firefox
772 points • comment • jul 13, 2025
Kill your Feeds – Stop letting algorithms dictate what you think
770 points • comment • mar 08, 2025
Zod 4
767 points • comment • may 19, 2025
Can LLMs write better code if you keep asking them to “write better code”?
765 points • comment • jan 03, 2025
A hackable AI assistant using a single SQLite table and a handful of cron jobs
764 points • comment • apr 14, 2025
Tailscale is pretty useful
764 points • comment • mar 05, 2025
OpenAI asks White House for relief from state AI rules
762 points • comment • mar 13, 2025
Firefly ‘Blue Ghost’ lunar lander touches down on the moon
762 points • comment • mar 02, 2025
NeuralSVG: An Implicit Representation for Text-to-Vector Generation
758 points • comment • jan 08, 2025
Nintendo announces the Switch 2 [video]
758 points • comment • jan 16, 2025
Garfield Minus Garfield
758 points • comment • apr 10, 2025
'The tyranny of apps': those without smartphones are unfairly penalised
757 points • comment • feb 22, 2025
Show HN: Free, in-browser PDF editor
757 points • comment • may 03, 2025
Smuggling arbitrary data through an emoji
756 points • comment • feb 12, 2025
When imperfect systems are good: Bluesky's lossy timelines
756 points • comment • feb 19, 2025
Find Your People
756 points • comment • may 23, 2025
Science YouTuber physicsgirl (Dianna Cowern) stands for the first time in 2 yrs
755 points • comment • jan 29, 2025
I helped fix sleep-wake hangs on Linux with AMD GPUs
754 points • comment • feb 16, 2025
Research suggests Big Bang may have taken place inside a black hole
753 points • comment • jun 11, 2025
Debian bookworm live images now reproducible
753 points • comment • mar 26, 2025
How to Firefox
752 points • comment • jul 22, 2025
Finland Bans Smartphones in Schools
751 points • comment • apr 30, 2025
Containerization is a Swift package for running Linux containers on macOS
751 points • comment • jun 09, 2025
TV Garden
750 points • comment • mar 30, 2025