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Hacker News (2025)

France rejects backdoor mandate
987 points • comment • mar 21, 2025
Coding without a laptop: Two weeks with AR glasses and Linux on Android
987 points • comment • may 14, 2025
Bootstrapping a side project into a profitable seven-figure business
981 points • comment • jul 07, 2025
DOGE worker’s code supports NLRB whistleblower
981 points • comment • apr 23, 2025
Spaced repetition systems have gotten better
979 points • comment • may 18, 2025
Judge rules Apple executive lied under oath, makes criminal contempt referral
976 points • comment • may 01, 2025
Signal Secure Backups
975 points • comment • sep 08, 2025
Anthropic agrees to pay $1.5B to settle lawsuit with book authors
973 points • comment • sep 05, 2025
Surnames from nicknames nobody has any more
973 points • comment • feb 10, 2025
Mastercard DNS error went unnoticed for years
972 points • comment • jan 22, 2025
Dumb Pipe
971 points • comment • jul 27, 2025
Show HN: I built a hardware processor that runs Python
970 points • comment • apr 28, 2025
Show HN: I recreated Windows XP as my portfolio
969 points • comment • sep 07, 2025
Next.js is infuriating
966 points • comment • sep 02, 2025
A layoff fundamentally changed how I perceive work
962 points • comment • jan 27, 2025
Apple needs a Snow Sequoia
960 points • comment • mar 27, 2025
YouTube's new anti-adblock measures
959 points • comment • jun 20, 2025
Enough AI copilots, we need AI HUDs
959 points • comment • jul 27, 2025
Promising results from DeepSeek R1 for code
956 points • comment • jan 28, 2025
Slow
955 points • comment • jul 31, 2025
Nine things I learned in ninety years
954 points • comment • sep 23, 2025
Watching o3 guess a photo's location is surreal, dystopian and entertaining
953 points • comment • apr 26, 2025
Thank HN: The puzzle game I posted here 6 weeks ago got licensed by The Atlantic
951 points • comment • apr 08, 2025
FBI raids home of prominent computer scientist who has gone incommunicado
950 points • comment • mar 30, 2025
FBI arrests judge accused of helping man evade immigration authorities
950 points • comment • apr 25, 2025
996
949 points • comment • sep 06, 2025
Show HN: Tinder but it's only pictures of my wife and I can only swipe right
945 points • comment • jul 23, 2025
OpenAI O3-Mini
942 points • comment • jan 31, 2025
Performance and telemetry analysis of Trae IDE, ByteDance's VSCode fork
942 points • comment • jul 27, 2025
Supreme Court upholds TikTok ban, but Trump might offer lifeline
942 points • comment • jan 17, 2025
If you're remote, ramble
941 points • comment • aug 03, 2025
Things you can do with a Software Defined Radio (2024)
940 points • comment • sep 16, 2025
Google is winning on every AI front
940 points • comment • apr 12, 2025
Denmark close to wiping out cancer-causing HPV strains after vaccine roll-out
938 points • comment • sep 16, 2025
Open Social
937 points • comment • sep 26, 2025
Welcome to Ladybird, a truly independent web browser
935 points • comment • feb 28, 2025
We are destroying software
932 points • comment • feb 08, 2025
The Alexa feature "do not send voice recordings" you enabled no longer available
932 points • comment • mar 17, 2025
Gemini 2.5
932 points • comment • mar 25, 2025
Privacy Pass Authentication for Kagi Search
931 points • comment • feb 13, 2025
Nvidia won, we all lost
929 points • comment • jul 04, 2025
Emailing a one-time code is worse than passwords
929 points • comment • aug 07, 2025
FFmpeg 8.0
927 points • comment • aug 22, 2025
My Life in Weeks
927 points • comment • feb 15, 2025
What's happening inside the NIH and NSF
927 points • comment • feb 04, 2025
Linux Reaches 5% Desktop Market Share in USA
927 points • comment • jul 16, 2025
The year I didn't survive
925 points • comment • feb 12, 2025
Magistral — the first reasoning model by Mistral AI
923 points • comment • jun 10, 2025
‘I witnessed war crimes’ in Gaza – former worker at GHF aid site [video]
922 points • comment • jul 28, 2025
Debian 13 “Trixie”
921 points • comment • aug 09, 2025
I won't connect my dishwasher to your cloud
918 points • comment • mar 24, 2025
Show HN: Draw a fish and watch it swim with the others
916 points • comment • jul 29, 2025
FOSS infrastructure is under attack by AI companies
916 points • comment • mar 20, 2025
Kagi News
915 points • comment • sep 30, 2025
More on Apple's Trust-Eroding 'F1 the Movie' Wallet Ad
914 points • comment • jun 29, 2025
Show HN: Ten years of running every day, visualized
914 points • comment • jul 10, 2025
I found a backdoor into my bed
914 points • comment • feb 21, 2025
How each pillar of the First Amendment is under attack
911 points • comment • mar 31, 2025
Valve confirms credit card companies pressured it to delist certain adult games
911 points • comment • jul 18, 2025
AnimeJs v4 Is Here
911 points • comment • apr 03, 2025
Gemini Robotics
909 points • comment • mar 12, 2025
Show HN: Unsure Calculator – back-of-a-napkin probabilistic calculator
906 points • comment • apr 15, 2025
If the moon were only 1 pixel: A tediously accurate solar system model (2014)
903 points • comment • jun 13, 2025
Delete FROM users WHERE location = 'Iran';
902 points • comment • sep 23, 2025
Good system design
902 points • comment • aug 16, 2025
Using Claude Code to modernize a 25-year-old kernel driver
902 points • comment • sep 07, 2025
FBI couldn't get my husband to decrypt his Tor node so he was jailed for 3 years
901 points • comment • sep 16, 2025
Modern-Day Oracles or Bullshit Machines? How to thrive in a ChatGPT world
900 points • comment • feb 09, 2025
The DuckDB Local UI
899 points • comment • mar 12, 2025
Wikipedia’s nonprofit status questioned by D.C. U.S. attorney
898 points • comment • apr 25, 2025
Electron band structure in germanium, my ass (2001)
897 points • comment • apr 01, 2025
Steve Wozniak: Life to me was never about accomplishment, but about happiness
896 points • comment • aug 14, 2025
The last six months in LLMs, illustrated by pelicans on bicycles
896 points • comment • jun 08, 2025
Void: Open-source Cursor alternative
895 points • comment • may 08, 2025
Sora 2
894 points • comment • sep 30, 2025
How I, a non-developer, read the tutorial you, a developer, wrote for me
894 points • comment • sep 22, 2025
I am rich and have no idea what to do
891 points • comment • jan 02, 2025
We were wrong about GPUs
890 points • comment • feb 14, 2025
Watching AI drive Microsoft employees insane
889 points • comment • may 21, 2025
Making Minecraft Spherical
888 points • comment • aug 28, 2025
El Salvador abandons Bitcoin as legal tender
887 points • comment • feb 04, 2025
Luigi Mangione's account has been renamed on Stack Overflow
886 points • comment • jan 09, 2025
Show HN: I built an AI that turns GitHub codebases into easy tutorials
886 points • comment • apr 19, 2025
Asahi Linux lead developer Hector Martin resigns from Linux kernel
885 points • comment • feb 07, 2025
iPhone Air
884 points • comment • sep 09, 2025
Things that helped me get out of the AI 10x engineer imposter syndrome
884 points • comment • aug 05, 2025
DeepSeek releases Janus Pro, a text-to-image generator [pdf]
883 points • comment • jan 27, 2025
A Letter to the American People
881 points • comment • mar 01, 2025
Ty: A fast Python type checker and language server
879 points • comment • may 07, 2025
Cloudlflare builds OAuth with Claude and publishes all the prompts
879 points • comment • jun 02, 2025
Pope Francis has died
879 points • comment • apr 21, 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
Internet in a Box
869 points • comment • apr 27, 2025
Gemini Diffusion
869 points • comment • may 22, 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