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Hacker News (2025)

Threlte 8
124 points • comment • jan 24, 2025
NES86 – IBM PC Emulator for the NES
124 points • comment • feb 17, 2025
Writing Programs with Ncurses
124 points • comment • mar 23, 2025
Show HN: Shelgon: A Framework for Building Interactive REPL Shells in Rust
124 points • comment • mar 06, 2025
Hologram: A full-stack isomorphic Elixir web framework
124 points • comment • jan 15, 2025
Arctic sea ice sets a record low maximum in 2025
124 points • comment • mar 28, 2025
Synthesizing Music from JSON
124 points • comment • jan 06, 2025
Show HN: Rust Vector and Quaternion Lib
124 points • comment • mar 06, 2025
Reflections
124 points • comment • jan 06, 2025
A technical history of Acorn Computers
124 points • comment • mar 10, 2025
Data evolution with set-theoretic types
124 points • comment • jan 14, 2025
A Mount Lyell shrew has just been photographed alive
124 points • comment • feb 02, 2025
We can, must, and will simulate nematode brains
124 points • comment • apr 01, 2025
The disappearance of Gaia, ESA spacecraft will be turned off on 27 March 2025
124 points • comment • mar 26, 2025
Why Quantum Cryptanalysis is Bollocks [pdf]
123 points • comment • feb 14, 2025
Urban legend: I think there is a world market for maybe five computers
123 points • comment • jan 22, 2025
They're Close to My Body: A Hagiography of Nine Inch Nails and Robin Finck (2020)
123 points • comment • mar 15, 2025
Rust’s worst feature
123 points • comment • jan 27, 2025
An election forecast that’s 50-50 is not “giving up”
123 points • comment • mar 08, 2025
Tesla protests gain momentum while the hate is dividing Tesla owners
123 points • comment • feb 26, 2025
Show HN: Open-source Deep Research across workplace applications
123 points • comment • mar 03, 2025
Go 1.24 Is Released
123 points • comment • feb 11, 2025
How and Why I Stopped Buying New Laptops (2020)
123 points • comment • jan 01, 2025
Show HN: Time travel debugging AI for more reliable vibe coding
123 points • comment • mar 04, 2025
Grok 3: Another win for the bitter lesson
123 points • comment • feb 20, 2025
We don't need startups, we need Digital-Mittelstand
123 points • comment • feb 24, 2025
A path to O1 open source
123 points • comment • jan 03, 2025
Nebu: A Spreadsheet Editor for Varvara
123 points • comment • mar 02, 2025
H3: For indexing geographies into a hexagonal grid, by Uber
122 points • comment • mar 09, 2025
The race is on to build the most complex machine
122 points • comment • mar 16, 2025
Dynamic Register Allocation on AMD's RDNA 4 GPU Architecture
122 points • comment • apr 05, 2025
Show HN: connet – A P2P reverse proxy with NAT traversal
122 points • comment • jan 02, 2025
The Curse of Ayn Rand's Heir
122 points • comment • apr 04, 2025
Why some DVLA digital services don't work at night
122 points • comment • jan 12, 2025
Launch HN: Modernbanc (YC W20) – Modern and fast accounting software
122 points • comment • mar 19, 2025
There's Math.random(), and then there's Math.random() (2015)
122 points • comment • feb 03, 2025
Apple's AI isn't a letdown. AI is the letdown
122 points • comment • mar 29, 2025
The Tiny Star Explosions Powering Moore's Law
122 points • comment • mar 05, 2025
"Wait, not like that": Free and open access in the age of generative AI
122 points • comment • mar 16, 2025
Mac(OS)talgia
122 points • comment • feb 09, 2025
A tail calling interpreter for Python (already landed in CPython)
122 points • comment • feb 17, 2025
Show HN: iPhone 2005 weird "Blob Keyboard" simulator
122 points • comment • apr 05, 2025
The ultra-fast cancer treatments which could replace conventional radiotherapy
122 points • comment • jan 22, 2025
Hackers stole billions in crypto to keep North Korea’s regime afloat
122 points • comment • apr 03, 2025
Larry Ellison wants to put all America's data in AI, including DNA
122 points • comment • feb 13, 2025
US Cloud soon illegal in EU? US punches first hole in EU-US Data Deal
122 points • comment • feb 06, 2025
Basketball has evolved into a game of calculated decision-making
122 points • comment • feb 15, 2025
The "35-cent" Commodore 64 softmodem
122 points • comment • jan 19, 2025
Nickel superconductor works above -233°C threshold at normal pressure
122 points • comment • mar 09, 2025
TikTok's algorithm exhibited pro-Republican bias during 2024 presidential race
121 points • comment • feb 04, 2025
Huawei targeted in new European Parliament corruption probe
121 points • comment • mar 13, 2025
Mathematics in the 20th century, by Michael Atiyah [pdf] (2002)
121 points • comment • feb 09, 2025
Thank You, Airbnb
121 points • comment • jan 09, 2025
Nigerians are building affordable alternatives to AWS and Google Cloud
121 points • comment • feb 27, 2025
Solving First Order Differential Equations with Julia
121 points • comment • mar 03, 2025
Rickover's Lessons
121 points • comment • mar 23, 2025
First Known Photographs of Living Specimens
121 points • comment • mar 20, 2025
Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (January 2025)
121 points • comment • jan 02, 2025
Bogus Software
121 points • comment • jan 02, 2025
Fauna Service Winding Down
121 points • comment • mar 19, 2025
Brain Hyperconnectivity in Children with Autism and Its Links to Social Deficits (2013)
121 points • comment • feb 09, 2025
Big tech has disrupted the social contract
121 points • comment • feb 16, 2025
Raising Kids to Have an Analog Childhood in a Digital World
121 points • comment • mar 30, 2025
Ray-Ban Meta glasses have sold 2M units, production to be increased
121 points • comment • feb 18, 2025
Benchmarking LLM social skills with an elimination game
121 points • comment • apr 04, 2025
I Built a Mechanical Calculator [video]
121 points • comment • mar 12, 2025
Emacs Tree-sitter custom highlighting
121 points • comment • mar 01, 2025
Build a Database in Four Months with Rust and 647 Open-Source Dependencies
121 points • comment • jan 15, 2025
Rule-Based Programming in Interactive Fiction
121 points • comment • jan 18, 2025
Show HN: Open-source, native audio turn detection model
121 points • comment • mar 06, 2025
California bill aims to phase out harmful ultra-processed foods in schools
121 points • comment • mar 27, 2025
Putting Andrew Ng's OCR models to the test
121 points • comment • feb 28, 2025
Automattic Hit with Class Action over WP Engine Dispute
121 points • comment • feb 26, 2025
Kuvasz-streamer: open-source CDC for Postgres for low latency replication
121 points • comment • jan 03, 2025
Switching to BunnyCDN in Less Than 2 Hours
121 points • comment • mar 11, 2025
Optical Frequency Combs
121 points • comment • jan 30, 2025
A visual demo of Ruby's lazy enumerator
120 points • comment • jan 08, 2025
Europe's Largest Makerspace
120 points • comment • mar 26, 2025
Is the ArXiv safe from the current US Government attacks?
120 points • comment • feb 15, 2025
Enhancing your MIDI devices with Perl
120 points • comment • jan 29, 2025
GrapheneOS blocked exploitation of 3 Android zero-days used by Cellebrite
120 points • comment • mar 01, 2025
Counterculture legend who invented bell-bottom jeans dies at 84
120 points • comment • jan 01, 2025
Luck Be a Landlord Might Be Banned from Google Play
120 points • comment • jan 13, 2025
OpenStreetMap Calendar
120 points • comment • feb 09, 2025
The Cantonese Scrolls – A Cantonese language learning mental RPG
120 points • comment • feb 03, 2025
CDC Study Finds Silent Bird Flu Infections in Dairy Veterinarians
120 points • comment • feb 14, 2025
Google calls Gemma 3 the most powerful AI model you can run on one GPU
120 points • comment • mar 20, 2025
Contra Chrome: How Google's browser became a threat to privacy and democracy
120 points • comment • mar 10, 2025
The Impact of Generative AI on Critical Thinking [pdf]
120 points • comment • feb 15, 2025
If you believe in "Artificial Intelligence", take five minutes to ask it
120 points • comment • feb 15, 2025
Little Sisyphus A physics-based platformer for the NES
120 points • comment • feb 15, 2025
Paul A. M. Dirac, Interview by Friedrich Hund (1982) [video]
119 points • comment • mar 22, 2025
Quitting an Intel x86 Hypervisor
119 points • comment • mar 22, 2025
Why Skyscrapers Became Glass Boxes
119 points • comment • jan 13, 2025
Reverse engineering my #1 Hacker News article
119 points • comment • jan 20, 2025
Rediscovering Quaternions
119 points • comment • feb 26, 2025
Tell HN: Camelgate NPM Outage (Cloudflare)
119 points • comment • apr 01, 2025
Looking Ahead at Intel's Xe3 GPU Architecture
119 points • comment • mar 19, 2025
Hytradboi 2025 Program
119 points • comment • feb 01, 2025
Escaping surprise bills and over-engineered messes: Why I left AWS
119 points • comment • feb 04, 2025