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Hacker News (2025)

Perplexity Makes Longshot $34.5B Offer for Chrome
20 points • comment • aug 12, 2025
Luculent: Manually hinted monospace font, crisp at tiny sizes (2015)
20 points • comment • apr 27, 2025
Red Hat losing another longtime and prominent Linux kernel engineer
20 points • comment • nov 18, 2025
Arm muscles into server market – but can't wrestle control from x86 just yet
20 points • comment • jun 30, 2025
The Race to Rescue PBS and NPR Stations
20 points • comment • aug 19, 2025
How to Think about Parallel Programming: Not! [video] (2021)
20 points • comment • jun 22, 2025
Dempster-shafer and reasoning about sets
20 points • comment • nov 04, 2025
Why the US just can't quit Middle East wars
20 points • comment • jun 28, 2025
An open hardware printer you can understand, repair, and upgrade
20 points • comment • sep 29, 2025
How the Federal Government Is Undermining Election Security
20 points • comment • apr 17, 2025
Israel wants to train ChatGPT to be more pro-Israel
20 points • comment • sep 29, 2025
Math That Matters: The Case for Probability over Polynomials
20 points • comment • feb 27, 2025
Huawei's star AI model was built on burnout and plagiarism
20 points • comment • jul 15, 2025
Popeye is now Public Domain
20 points • comment • jan 05, 2025
Americans are hungry for community. So why don't we have European-style squares?
20 points • comment • dec 21, 2025
Linux 6.15 lands fix for 3x Nginx regression
20 points • comment • apr 23, 2025
Coldplay kiss-cam flap proves we're our own surveillance state
20 points • comment • jul 18, 2025
CouchDB Prevents Data Corruption: Fsync
20 points • comment • feb 28, 2025
A man who's been waiting in jail for his day in court for 6 years
20 points • comment • nov 26, 2025
Autopen Guide
20 points • comment • jun 05, 2025
Cambridge University launches project to rescue data trapped on old floppy disks
20 points • comment • oct 12, 2025
Bluefishjs: A diagram drawing framework for JavaScript
20 points • comment • jun 24, 2025
She puts the Lord in 'vanlord.' Palo Alto wants to ban her business
20 points • comment • sep 07, 2025
Why agency and cognition are fundamentally not computational
20 points • comment • may 14, 2025
Apple Introduces $2M Bug Bounty for Spyware-Level Exploits
20 points • comment • oct 12, 2025
The Magic of Metalinguistic Programming
20 points • comment • jan 01, 2025
Amazon's Aggressive Push to Get Cops Using AI Surveillance
20 points • comment • dec 15, 2025
Tech Workers are just like the rest of us: miserable at work
20 points • comment • apr 26, 2025
Meta Poaches Two More Apple AI Executives
20 points • comment • jul 18, 2025
Why I think AI take-off is relatively slow
20 points • comment • feb 23, 2025
FAA reducing air traffic by 10% across 40 'high-volume' markets
20 points • comment • nov 05, 2025
Federal employees begin to receive second work accomplishment email
20 points • comment • mar 02, 2025
The Hunger Games Begin
20 points • comment • oct 31, 2025
Disney worker who hacked menus gets 3 years in prison
20 points • comment • apr 27, 2025
Ethiopia reports first outbreak of Marburg, Ebola cousin with no vaccine
20 points • comment • nov 16, 2025
Kotlin 101: Type Classes Quickly Explained
20 points • comment • apr 16, 2025
Buying a Home Is Probably Even Worse Than NYTimes/NerdWallet Calculators Imply
20 points • comment • jul 08, 2025
Splitting from Handmade Network
20 points • comment • feb 02, 2025
Government to shut down after midnight barring last minute breakthrough
20 points • comment • sep 30, 2025
Missing out on jobs because of LeetCode
20 points • comment • jan 09, 2025
Print GitHub Repositories as Books
20 points • comment • sep 07, 2025
The Uncanny Mirror: AI, Self-Doubt, and the Limits of Reflection
20 points • comment • may 02, 2025
Faster Argmin on Floats
20 points • comment • sep 18, 2025
Andreas Kling's Keynote Presentation on the Ladybird Browser [video]
20 points • comment • may 12, 2025
95 per cent of organisations are getting zero return from AI according to MIT
20 points • comment • aug 19, 2025
French city of Lyon ditching Microsoft for open source office and collab tools
20 points • comment • jun 26, 2025
Tetrahedral Analog of the Pythagorean Theorem
20 points • comment • nov 05, 2025
Karen Wynn Fonstad, Who Mapped Tolkien's Middle-Earth
20 points • comment • jan 16, 2025
Brian Eno: What Art Does
20 points • comment • sep 18, 2025
QueryHub
20 points • comment • may 08, 2025
There is 'I am AI researcher' vibecoding psychosis in social media
20 points • comment • oct 09, 2025
Tiny orange beads found by Apollo astronauts reveal Moon's explosive past
20 points • comment • jun 22, 2025
Biggest 4-day work week trial finds workers are happier, feel just as productive
20 points • comment • jul 21, 2025
Matt Mullenweg talks succession – 'I don't want to pass it to a committee'
20 points • comment • mar 05, 2025
Npm packages with over 1b weekly downloads, incl. Chalk, have been compromised.
20 points • comment • sep 08, 2025
Portugal, the Mamluks, and the Age of Discovery
20 points • comment • may 22, 2025
A Look Back at Research from 1875
20 points • comment • sep 08, 2025
Authy corrupted my 2FA backup and all I got was this lousy blogpost
20 points • comment • may 20, 2025
Tumult and Sympathy – The Letters of Oliver Sacks
20 points • comment • sep 08, 2025
H.R.1161 – Red, White, and Blueland Act of 2025
20 points • comment • may 07, 2025
GPT-5 is a joke. Will it matter?
20 points • comment • aug 13, 2025
Making the Lumon Industries WoeMeter
20 points • comment • mar 05, 2025
EU kills Android bootloader unlock starting August 1
20 points • comment • aug 02, 2025
Why did the US let a child safety bill for social media die?
20 points • comment • mar 05, 2025
Gemini 3 Just Made Larry Page Third Richest Man
20 points • comment • nov 23, 2025
Building Twice: A clone of Once
20 points • comment • may 23, 2025
OpenAI API user data exposed in Mixpanel security breach
20 points • comment • nov 27, 2025
Vulkan Game Engine Series Written in C – Travis Vroman
20 points • comment • mar 05, 2025
2025 Ig Nobel Prize Winners
20 points • comment • sep 18, 2025
Show HN: Podman Desktop a 100% free OSS alternative to Docker Desktop
20 points • comment • may 26, 2025
Funes.world
20 points • comment • dec 30, 2025
DuckDB Is a Protocol
20 points • comment • jun 11, 2025
As the Price of Beef Soars, Restaurants Are in 'Code Red' Mode
20 points • comment • dec 10, 2025
Examples of quick hash tables and dynamic arrays in C
20 points • comment • jan 19, 2025
Palantir might be the most over-valued firm of all time
20 points • comment • aug 13, 2025
Seven injured after SK fighter jet accidentally drops bombs
20 points • comment • mar 06, 2025
Pica Numbers
20 points • comment • oct 13, 2025
Cycling linked to lower dementia risk and better brain health, researchers find
20 points • comment • jun 20, 2025
PEP 779: Free-threaded Python is officially supported
20 points • comment • jul 10, 2025
Hannah Montana Linux
20 points • comment • mar 06, 2025
Now, Together
20 points • comment • aug 20, 2025
25yr Old with Elon Musk Ties Has Direct Access to the Federal Payment System
20 points • comment • feb 04, 2025
Cars are steadily becoming longer, wider and heavier in the UK and across Europe
20 points • comment • dec 03, 2025
Show HN: Ariana – A time travel debugger for PY/JS right in VSCode
20 points • comment • mar 06, 2025
Passengers sue Delta, United over windowless 'window seats'
20 points • comment • aug 20, 2025
Show HN: Talanoa – The email client I always dreamed of (people-first, Kanban)
20 points • comment • apr 27, 2025
Israeli official planned to meet decoy posing as 15-year-old in Las Vegas sting
20 points • comment • aug 20, 2025
A custom version of Firefox, focused on privacy, security and freedom
20 points • comment • feb 27, 2025
EPA rescinds $20M for clean water in pesticide-contaminated rural California
20 points • comment • jul 24, 2025
China responds to tariffs with antitrust investigations of Google, Nvidia
20 points • comment • feb 04, 2025
A 'Tatooine' Planet Directly Imaged
20 points • comment • dec 11, 2025
Moderna's Super-Vaccine for Flu and Covid Works–Now Politics Could Sink It
20 points • comment • may 11, 2025
Inception releases upgraded Mercury dLLM with improved coding and reasoning
20 points • comment • nov 06, 2025
How to Not Get Poisoned in America
20 points • comment • apr 30, 2025
The Invisible Character That Cost Me Too Much Debugging Time
20 points • comment • sep 19, 2025
PSExcel: Excel automation without Excel Overview (2015)
20 points • comment • mar 07, 2025
Ultrasonic device dramatically speeds harvesting of water from the air
20 points • comment • dec 05, 2025
Show HN: 1M+ animated GPU sprites in JavaScript
20 points • comment • jan 31, 2025
A South Dakota county drove away millions in solar energy
20 points • comment • sep 14, 2025
Irony alert: Anthropic says applicants shouldn't use LLMs
20 points • comment • feb 04, 2025