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Hacker News (2025)

The complex origin story of domestic cats
133 points • comment • apr 22, 2025
Cleveland police used AI to justify a search warrant. It derailed a murder case
133 points • comment • jan 28, 2025
Standard Ebooks Public Domain Day 2025 in Literature
133 points • comment • jan 02, 2025
Chopstick sleeves as emissaries of Japanese typography and culture
133 points • comment • jan 16, 2025
Snowflake to buy Crunchy Data for $250M
133 points • comment • jun 02, 2025
DESI Opens Access to the Largest 3D Map of the Universe Yet
133 points • comment • mar 19, 2025
The Princeton INTERCAL Compiler's source code
133 points • comment • jun 02, 2025
What's Going on at the FBI?
133 points • comment • feb 04, 2025
Cells are swapping their mitochondria. What does this mean for our health?
133 points • comment • apr 09, 2025
The Comet is a handheld Linux computer that brings extensibility
133 points • comment • jan 08, 2025
Image Processing in C (2000) [pdf]
133 points • comment • mar 14, 2025
Implementing a Game Boy emulator in Ruby
133 points • comment • feb 06, 2025
The Software Engineering Identity Crisis
133 points • comment • mar 23, 2025
Setting up a trusted, self-signed SSL/TLS certificate authority in Linux
133 points • comment • feb 17, 2025
Executive order on advancing United States leadership in AI infrastructure
133 points • comment • jan 14, 2025
Study: The ozone hole is healing, thanks to global reduction of CFCs
133 points • comment • mar 05, 2025
What it's like working for American companies as an Australian
133 points • comment • jan 11, 2025
Waymo to test its autonomous driving technology in over 10 new cities
133 points • comment • jan 29, 2025
A kernel developer plays with Home Assistant
133 points • comment • may 17, 2025
No Pay, No Work; Early Career Lessons
133 points • comment • apr 10, 2025
Show HN: FlakeUI
133 points • comment • mar 03, 2025
Mistral Saba
133 points • comment • feb 17, 2025
Insurers launch cover for losses caused by AI chatbot errors
133 points • comment • may 11, 2025
Sony FX-300 Jackal: A technological marvel of the late 70s (2021)
132 points • comment • feb 18, 2025
The Curious Case of the Pygmy Nuthatch
132 points • comment • may 21, 2025
Napkin Math Tool
132 points • comment • mar 17, 2025
Zebrafish protein unlocks dormant genes for heart repair
132 points • comment • jan 03, 2025
Foundation DB Record Layer SQL API
132 points • comment • may 07, 2025
Nation-scale Matrix deployments will fail using the community version of Synapse
132 points • comment • jan 18, 2025
Nvidia open-source nanite: continuous level of detail (LOD) mesh library
132 points • comment • feb 04, 2025
Paper2Code: Automating Code Generation from Scientific Papers
132 points • comment • apr 25, 2025
Dockerfmt: A Dockerfile Formatter
132 points • comment • apr 09, 2025
Just make it scale: An Aurora DSQL story
132 points • comment • may 27, 2025
Decomposing a Factorial into Large Factors
132 points • comment • mar 28, 2025
BreezeWiki makes wiki pages on Fandom readable
132 points • comment • mar 31, 2025
Show HN: Mermaid Chart VS Code Plugin: Mermaid.js Diagrams in Visual Studio Code
132 points • comment • apr 02, 2025
Video footage appears to contradict Israeli account of Gaza medic killings
132 points • comment • apr 06, 2025
Snake Game in 56 Bytes
132 points • comment • jan 12, 2025
Utah bill aims to make officers disclose AI-written police reports
132 points • comment • feb 22, 2025
The Art of Fugue – Contrapunctus I (2021)
132 points • comment • may 27, 2025
WavePhoenix – Open-source implementation of the Nintendo WaveBird protocol
132 points • comment • may 26, 2025
Ferron – A fast, memory-safe web server written in Rust
132 points • comment • apr 02, 2025
US Marines to get high-speed, radar-evading electric seagliders for rescue ops
132 points • comment • mar 28, 2025
Azure's Weakest Link? How API Connections Spill Secrets
132 points • comment • mar 12, 2025
Release Notes for Ghostty 1.1.0
132 points • comment • jan 31, 2025
BM25 in PostgreSQL
132 points • comment • mar 03, 2025
How to professionally say (2022)
132 points • comment • feb 13, 2025
Beyond Semantics: Unreasonable Effectiveness of Reasonless Intermediate Tokens
132 points • comment • may 23, 2025
Bilinear down/upsampling, aligning pixel grids, and that infamous GPU half pixel (2021)
132 points • comment • jan 27, 2025
Paxo: A DIY Phone
132 points • comment • jan 26, 2025
RFK Jr. rejects cornerstone of health science: Germ theory
132 points • comment • may 01, 2025
Cursed Excel: "1/2"+1=45660
132 points • comment • apr 03, 2025
A shower thought turned into a Collatz visualization
132 points • comment • may 20, 2025
An overview of gradient descent optimization algorithms (2016)
132 points • comment • jan 23, 2025
Mad at Meta? Don't Let Them Collect and Monetize Your Personal Data
132 points • comment • feb 07, 2025
Kaspersky finds hardware backdoor in 5 generations of Apple Silicon (2024)
132 points • comment • feb 10, 2025
Some __nonstring__ Turbulence
131 points • comment • apr 25, 2025
OpenAI wants to buy Chrome and make it an "AI-first" experience
131 points • comment • apr 23, 2025
Canada considering charging for road access from USA to Alaska
131 points • comment • mar 20, 2025
Airport for DuckDB
131 points • comment • may 19, 2025
Facebook to stop targeting ads at UK woman after legal fight
131 points • comment • mar 22, 2025
SDL2 for macOS 9 “rough draft”
131 points • comment • apr 10, 2025
Build your own SQLite, Part 4: reading tables metadata
131 points • comment • feb 04, 2025
Show HN: Basecoat – shadcn/UI components, no React required
131 points • comment • may 13, 2025
Radio Astronomy Software Defined Radio (Rasdr)
131 points • comment • may 30, 2025
Zinc, a systems programming language prototype
131 points • comment • mar 12, 2025
Show HN: Zero-codegen, no-compile TypeScript type inference from Protobufs
131 points • comment • apr 14, 2025
Bitter Lesson is about AI agents
131 points • comment • mar 23, 2025
How hucksters are manipulating Google to promote shady Chrome extensions
131 points • comment • jan 09, 2025
Copilot for Everything: Training your AI replacement one keystroke at a time
131 points • comment • mar 01, 2025
AI code review: Should the author be the reviewer?
131 points • comment • may 01, 2025
Why OpenAI's $157B valuation misreads AI's future (Oct 2024)
131 points • comment • jan 28, 2025
Affixes: The Building Blocks of English
131 points • comment • feb 26, 2025
Understanding Transformers via N-gram Statistics
131 points • comment • may 17, 2025
The Machine Stops (1909)
131 points • comment • may 21, 2025
Auto-Differentiating Any LLM Workflow: A Farewell to Manual Prompting
131 points • comment • jan 29, 2025
Replicube: A puzzle game about writing code to create shapes
131 points • comment • may 14, 2025
Past, present, and future of Sorbet type syntax
130 points • comment • may 09, 2025
White Hat Hackers Expose Iridium Satellite Security Flaws
130 points • comment • feb 13, 2025
The Newark airport crisis
130 points • comment • may 25, 2025
Projects for Old OS X
130 points • comment • apr 23, 2025
Withnail and I (2001)
130 points • comment • may 17, 2025
Teslas monitor everything – including you [video] from WIRED
130 points • comment • feb 27, 2025
Mystery brain disease patients in New Brunswick say they welcome investigation
130 points • comment • feb 06, 2025
Show HN: Create your own finetuned AI model using Google Sheets
130 points • comment • apr 30, 2025
Anatomy of a Formal Proof
130 points • comment • jan 24, 2025
My five-year experiment with UTC
130 points • comment • may 31, 2025
Pyrefly - A faster Python type checker written in Rust
130 points • comment • apr 29, 2025
Ask HN: Promoted, but Career Path Derailed
130 points • comment • jan 30, 2025
Edgar Allan Poe's life was a mess. But his work was in his command
130 points • comment • mar 14, 2025
The NBA Apple Vision Pro app now has a 3D tabletop view
130 points • comment • feb 14, 2025
Dragonfly's extreme loop-the-loops
130 points • comment • jan 14, 2025
Bigscreen Beyond 2
130 points • comment • mar 21, 2025
Train and Weather Tracker with Raspberry Pi and E-Ink
130 points • comment • mar 29, 2025
The surprising struggle to get a Unix Epoch time from a UTC string in C or C++
130 points • comment • jan 19, 2025
olduse.net
130 points • comment • mar 02, 2025
Revenge of the GPT Wrappers: Defensibility in a world of commoditized AI models
130 points • comment • feb 07, 2025
GitDroid: A third party Android app manager for apps uploaded to GitHub releases
130 points • comment • may 02, 2025
New maps of the chaotic space-time inside black holes
130 points • comment • feb 25, 2025
Wyden Releases Draft Bill to Secure Americans' Communications
130 points • comment • feb 15, 2025