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Hacker News (2025)

1561 Celestial Phenomenon over Nuremberg
106 points • comment • feb 19, 2025
Scientists witness living plant cells generate cellulose and form cell walls
105 points • comment • apr 02, 2025
The “strategic reserve” exposes crypto as the scam it always was
105 points • comment • mar 03, 2025
Why the Getty Center Is the Safest Place for Art During a Fire (2019)
105 points • comment • jan 12, 2025
Datasets from Data.gov Have Disappeared
105 points • comment • feb 01, 2025
Launch HN: Promptless (YC W25) – Automatic updates for customer-facing docs
105 points • comment • feb 18, 2025
Porkbun partners with Proton
105 points • comment • mar 14, 2025
How I built this website on a Raspberry Pi
105 points • comment • jan 15, 2025
Job trends of HN Who Is Hiring?
105 points • comment • jan 28, 2025
Morse Code in Tubular Bells (2021)
105 points • comment • jan 23, 2025
Starlink and T-Mobile open satellite texting test to all
105 points • comment • feb 10, 2025
Ikemen-GO: open-source reimplementation of MUGEN
105 points • comment • mar 19, 2025
Deep Reinforcement Learning: Pong from Pixels (2016)
105 points • comment • feb 06, 2025
Llama.cpp AI Performance with the GeForce RTX 5090 Review
105 points • comment • mar 10, 2025
Show HN: My new wiki for Silicon Graphics stuff
105 points • comment • feb 25, 2025
Motion sickness accessibility in video games
105 points • comment • jan 31, 2025
Render raises $80M in Series C financing
105 points • comment • jan 26, 2025
How My Six Months Working on the Railway Changed My Life
105 points • comment • mar 16, 2025
Tesla Sales Are Tanking in Europe
105 points • comment • jan 14, 2025
Social media distorts perceptions of norms (2024)
105 points • comment • jan 05, 2025
‘The Celts: A Modern History’ by Ian Stewart Review
105 points • comment • mar 21, 2025
Ray Tracing in One Weekend
105 points • comment • jan 02, 2025
America's Dangerous Movement Toward Oligarchy, Authoritarianism and Kleptocracy
105 points • comment • feb 06, 2025
The Begining of the End for ANT+ Wireless
105 points • comment • jan 04, 2025
Studies correlating IQ to genius are mostly bad science
105 points • comment • feb 23, 2025
The 2008 coal ash disaster in Kingston, Tennessee
105 points • comment • mar 14, 2025
Terence Tao – Machine-Assisted Proofs [video]
105 points • comment • feb 22, 2025
Numbering should start at zero (1982)
105 points • comment • mar 21, 2025
Electric Propulsion Magnets Ready for Space Tests
105 points • comment • feb 24, 2025
Clang Static Analyzer and the Z3 constraint solver (2022)
105 points • comment • feb 23, 2025
The weird Hewlett Packard FreeDOS option (2022)
105 points • comment • mar 02, 2025
Oka.wiki
105 points • comment • mar 30, 2025
Hands-on Assignment – Therac-25 (2007)
105 points • comment • jan 22, 2025
You can't optimize your way to being a good person
104 points • comment • jan 07, 2025
SWE-Lancer: a benchmark of freelance software engineering tasks from Upwork
104 points • comment • feb 18, 2025
Take It Down Act: A Flawed Attempt to Protect Victims That'll Lead to Censorship
104 points • comment • mar 08, 2025
Ketamine for Depression: How It Works (2024) [video]
104 points • comment • feb 07, 2025
Anthropic raising funding valuing it at $60B
104 points • comment • jan 07, 2025
ArkFlow – High-performance Rust stream processing engine
104 points • comment • mar 14, 2025
STEPS Toward the Reinvention of Programming (2012) [pdf]
104 points • comment • mar 10, 2025
Wall Street banks prepare to sell up to $3B in X loans next week
104 points • comment • jan 25, 2025
Reinforcement Learning – A Reference
104 points • comment • jan 28, 2025
Can you lose your native tongue? (2024)
104 points • comment • feb 18, 2025
The Prospero Challenge
104 points • comment • mar 24, 2025
Derivatives and Logarithms of 3D Transforms
104 points • comment • mar 21, 2025
Show HN: Zxc – Rust TLS proxy with tmux and Vim as UI, BurpSuite alternative
104 points • comment • apr 03, 2025
Writing C for Curl
104 points • comment • apr 07, 2025
MySQL at Uber
104 points • comment • feb 13, 2025
The Jakt Programming Language
104 points • comment • mar 21, 2025
TMSU: Command-line tool for applying tags and viewing virtual tagged filesystem
104 points • comment • jan 23, 2025
NASA's Asteroid Bennu Sample Reveals Mix of Life's Ingredients
104 points • comment • jan 31, 2025
Guided by the beauty of our test suite
104 points • comment • jan 21, 2025
India's Tata Consultancy Was Gaming the US Visa System
103 points • comment • feb 18, 2025
Show HN: Ultra-portable Gantt chart tool for very regulated environments
103 points • comment • jan 09, 2025
I recreated Shazam's algorithm with Go [video]
103 points • comment • feb 24, 2025
Trump's firing of the U.S. government archivist is far worse than it might seem
103 points • comment • feb 13, 2025
A History of Early Microcontrollers, Part 1: Calculator Chips Came First (2022)
103 points • comment • jan 04, 2025
MTR: 'traceroute' and 'ping' in a single tool
103 points • comment • feb 03, 2025
Disk I/O bottlenecks in GitHub Actions
103 points • comment • mar 28, 2025
Climbers using xenon gas to climb Everest
103 points • comment • jan 14, 2025
Everything about Google Translate crashing React (and other web apps)
103 points • comment • feb 12, 2025
Show HN: ArXivTok
103 points • comment • feb 05, 2025
Bad Smart Watch Authentication
103 points • comment • feb 09, 2025
Micro Journal: Distraction-Free Writing Device
103 points • comment • feb 24, 2025
YouTube's New Hue
103 points • comment • feb 13, 2025
UK quietly scrubs encryption advice from government websites
103 points • comment • mar 06, 2025
Blue Ghost lander captures sunset shots on moon before falling silent
103 points • comment • mar 19, 2025
Turning my ESP32 into a DNS sinkhole to fight doomscrolling
103 points • comment • feb 28, 2025
Qwen2.5-Max: Exploring the intelligence of large-scale MoE model
103 points • comment • jan 28, 2025
Mexico issues legal threat to Google
103 points • comment • feb 20, 2025
Simulating Time in Square-Root Space
103 points • comment • feb 25, 2025
Scammers Steal $1T a Year – Mostly from Americans
103 points • comment • mar 29, 2025
The latest fake literary agencies
103 points • comment • jan 06, 2025
The Evaporative Cooling Effect in Social Networks (2010)
103 points • comment • jan 04, 2025
Trump's 'Crypto Reserve' Is Such Brazen Corruption
103 points • comment • mar 05, 2025
Show HN: Ahey – A simple pub-sub service built on top of web push
103 points • comment • jan 30, 2025
ICE Arrested and Detained a US Citizen for Hours Because He Looked Mexican
102 points • comment • mar 30, 2025
Show HN: A website that makes your text look cool anywhere online using Unicode
102 points • comment • mar 14, 2025
Osaka bans smoking on all of its streets, vaping included
102 points • comment • jan 28, 2025
When eBPF pt_regs reads return garbage on the latest Linux kernels, blame Fred
102 points • comment • mar 01, 2025
Cheap solar power is sending electrical grids into a death spiral
102 points • comment • feb 13, 2025
Simulated Economy Tutorial
102 points • comment • apr 02, 2025
The Sikh Practice of Langar, a Free Meal Where Everyone Is Equal
102 points • comment • jan 14, 2025
No-hole surgery: no keyhole, yet surgeons can now still operate under your skin (2023)
102 points • comment • jan 05, 2025
Tesla Cybertruck deliveries on hold as trims are flying off 'bulletproof' truck
102 points • comment • mar 14, 2025
Who's Afraid of Peter Thiel? A New Biography Suggests We All Should Be (2021)
102 points • comment • mar 05, 2025
PFAS in fertilisers blamed for killing livestock in Texas and wreaking havoc
102 points • comment • mar 03, 2025
May 5, Microsoft's Skype will shut down for good
102 points • comment • feb 28, 2025
Show HN: Globstar – Open-source static analysis toolkit
102 points • comment • feb 28, 2025
Tracing Military Command Chains Through Time and Location
102 points • comment • jan 16, 2025
Firebase bill is usually $50, but I was surprised to see a $70k bill in one day
102 points • comment • jan 17, 2025
DIY PTP Grandmaster Clock with a Raspberry Pi
102 points • comment • mar 28, 2025
ArXiv LaTeX Cleaner: Clean the LaTeX code of your paper to submit to ArXiv
102 points • comment • jan 31, 2025
Towards a test suite for TOTP codes
102 points • comment • mar 02, 2025
Show HN: TalkNotes – A site that turns your ideas into tasks
102 points • comment • feb 01, 2025
How Do You Like What You've Built?
102 points • comment • jan 05, 2025
HP avoids monetary damages over bricked printers in class-action settlement
102 points • comment • mar 24, 2025
EFF Border Search Pocket Guide
102 points • comment • mar 21, 2025
Just Write
102 points • comment • feb 22, 2025
Reassessing Wayland
102 points • comment • feb 13, 2025