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Hacker News (2025)

I convinced HP's board to buy Palm and watched them kill it
663 points • comment • jun 13, 2025
The Death of Daydreaming
662 points • comment • may 05, 2025
Raspberry Pi Lidar Scanner
661 points • comment • apr 19, 2025
It's time to make computing personal again
660 points • comment • jan 19, 2025
Thoughts on thinking
659 points • comment • may 16, 2025
I made my VM think it has a CPU fan
658 points • comment • jun 29, 2025
Greg K-H: "Writing new code in Rust is a win for all of us"
658 points • comment • feb 19, 2025
Ukrainian hackers destroyed the IT infrastructure of Russian drone manufacturer
657 points • comment • jul 16, 2025
Commercial jet collides with Black Hawk helicopter near Reagan airport
657 points • comment • jan 30, 2025
A year of uv: pros, cons, and should you migrate
656 points • comment • feb 18, 2025
Quarkdown: A modern Markdown-based typesetting system
656 points • comment • jun 03, 2025
How to improve your WFH lighting to reduce eye strain
654 points • comment • jan 22, 2025
Chatterbox TTS
654 points • comment • jun 11, 2025
Brazil's government-run payments system has become dominant
654 points • comment • apr 08, 2025
Honey has now lost 4M Chrome users after shady tactics were revealed
653 points • comment • mar 31, 2025
We hacked Gemini's Python sandbox and leaked its source code (at least some)
652 points • comment • mar 28, 2025
The Who Cares Era
651 points • comment • may 28, 2025
Uchū – Color palette for internet lovers
650 points • comment • feb 16, 2025
OpenAI reaches agreement to buy Windsurf for $3B
650 points • comment • may 06, 2025
Why fastDOOM is fast
649 points • comment • mar 04, 2025
DDoSecrets publishes 410 GB of heap dumps, hacked from TeleMessage
649 points • comment • may 20, 2025
A new PNG spec
648 points • comment • jun 24, 2025
Apple takes UK to court over 'backdoor' order
648 points • comment • mar 05, 2025
At Least 13 People Died by Suicide Amid U.K. Post Office Scandal, Report Says
648 points • comment • jul 11, 2025
A new pyramid-like shape always lands the same side up
647 points • comment • jun 25, 2025
Stop syncing everything
646 points • comment • mar 31, 2025
The impact of competition and DeepSeek on Nvidia
645 points • comment • jan 25, 2025
Hacker News now runs on top of Common Lisp
645 points • comment • may 26, 2025
Show HN: Tramway SDK – An unholy union between Half-Life and Morrowind engines
644 points • comment • jan 07, 2025
iTerm2 critical security release
642 points • comment • jan 02, 2025
Mistral Releases Deep Research, Voice, Projects in Le Chat
642 points • comment • jul 17, 2025
Don't guess my language
641 points • comment • may 19, 2025
Httptap: View HTTP/HTTPS requests made by any Linux program
641 points • comment • feb 03, 2025
OpenRA – Classic strategy games rebuilt for the modern era
641 points • comment • jan 25, 2025
Ask HN: Is anyone doing anything cool with tiny language models?
637 points • comment • jan 21, 2025
Inheriting is becoming nearly as important as working
637 points • comment • feb 28, 2025
Self driving 1993 Volvo with open pilot
636 points • comment • jan 04, 2025
Synology Lost the Plot with Hard Drive Locking Move
636 points • comment • apr 19, 2025
Animals Made from 13 Circles (2016)
635 points • comment • apr 02, 2025
How to post when no one is reading
635 points • comment • jun 02, 2025
I used o3 to find a remote zeroday in the Linux SMB implementation
635 points • comment • may 24, 2025
OpenAI Audio Models
634 points • comment • mar 20, 2025
A Reddit bot drove me insane
633 points • comment • apr 13, 2025
Xfinity using WiFi signals in your house to detect motion
633 points • comment • jun 30, 2025
Apple Invites
632 points • comment • feb 04, 2025
Tailscale has raised $160M
632 points • comment • apr 08, 2025
400 reasons to not use Microsoft Azure
632 points • comment • feb 28, 2025
Proton joins suit against Apple for practices that harm developers and consumers
632 points • comment • jun 30, 2025
Age Verification Laws: A Backdoor to Surveillance
632 points • comment • mar 07, 2025
Coordinating the Superbowl's visual fidelity with Elixir
631 points • comment • mar 26, 2025
Writing "/etc/hosts" breaks the Substack editor
631 points • comment • apr 25, 2025
The demoscene as a UNESCO heritage in Sweden
631 points • comment • mar 31, 2025
Phoenix.new – Remote AI Runtime for Phoenix
630 points • comment • jun 20, 2025
I asked police to send me their public surveillance footage of my car
629 points • comment • mar 28, 2025
How to Use Em Dashes (–), En Dashes (–), and Hyphens (-)
629 points • comment • mar 27, 2025
Why is Warner Bros. Discovery putting old movies on YouTube?
629 points • comment • feb 05, 2025
Mixxx: GPL DJ Software
628 points • comment • jan 20, 2025
RubyLLM: A delightful Ruby way to work with AI
627 points • comment • mar 11, 2025
Resurrecting a dead torrent tracker and finding 3M peers
627 points • comment • jun 17, 2025
Static search trees: faster than binary search
627 points • comment • jan 01, 2025
Oracle attempt to hide cybersecurity incident from customers?
626 points • comment • mar 31, 2025
The scientific “unit” we call the decibel
626 points • comment • may 22, 2025
UK's hardware talent is being wasted
625 points • comment • jan 19, 2025
Open guide to equity compensation
625 points • comment • apr 13, 2025
Backblaze Drive Stats for 2024
624 points • comment • feb 11, 2025
Eggs US – Price – Chart
624 points • comment • feb 05, 2025
Only Teslas exempt from new auto tariffs thanks to 85% domestic content rule
622 points • comment • apr 29, 2025
Zoom outage caused by accidental 'shutting down' of the zoom.us domain
622 points • comment • apr 17, 2025
ALICE detects the conversion of lead into gold at the LHC
622 points • comment • may 09, 2025
My new deadline: 20 years to give away virtually all my wealth
619 points • comment • may 08, 2025
Grok3 Launch [video]
618 points • comment • feb 18, 2025
Are we the baddies?
618 points • comment • jul 06, 2025
Human coders are still better than LLMs
617 points • comment • may 29, 2025
Fun with uv and PEP 723
617 points • comment • jun 24, 2025
The Startup CTO's Handbook
616 points • comment • mar 11, 2025
German parliament votes as a Git contribution graph
615 points • comment • mar 24, 2025
Merlin Bird ID
615 points • comment • jun 04, 2025
Cops say criminals use a Google Pixel with GrapheneOS – I say that's freedom
613 points • comment • jul 23, 2025
Pico.sh – SSH powered services for developers
611 points • comment • apr 02, 2025
Show HN: Dia, an open-weights TTS model for generating realistic dialogue
611 points • comment • apr 21, 2025
Made a scroll bar buddy that walks down the page when you scroll
610 points • comment • mar 03, 2025
All four major web browsers are about to lose 80% of their funding
609 points • comment • apr 28, 2025
Whistleblower: DOGE Siphoned NLRB Case Data
608 points • comment • apr 22, 2025
Starting July 1, academic publishers can't paywall NIH-funded research
608 points • comment • may 01, 2025
Harper – an open-source alternative to Grammarly
608 points • comment • jun 20, 2025
An intro to DeepSeek's distributed file system
606 points • comment • apr 17, 2025
I maintain a 17 year old ThinkPad
605 points • comment • apr 03, 2025
How I program with agents
604 points • comment • jun 09, 2025
The Guardian flourishes without a paywall
604 points • comment • mar 29, 2025
Apple is open sourcing Swift Build
604 points • comment • feb 01, 2025
XMLUI
604 points • comment • jul 20, 2025
CLion Is Now Free for Non-Commercial Use
604 points • comment • may 07, 2025
Cursor told me I should learn coding instead of asking it to generate it
604 points • comment • mar 13, 2025
Broken legs and ankles heal better if you walk on them within weeks
604 points • comment • feb 19, 2025
Apple says it will add 20k jobs, spend $500B, produce AI servers in US
604 points • comment • feb 24, 2025
Mistral Small 3
603 points • comment • jan 30, 2025
CIA now favors lab leak theory to explain Covid's origins
602 points • comment • jan 25, 2025
Claude's system prompt is over 24k tokens with tools
602 points • comment • may 06, 2025
Nvidia's Project Digits is a 'personal AI supercomputer'
602 points • comment • jan 07, 2025
DigiCert: Threat of legal action to stifle Bugzilla discourse
601 points • comment • feb 25, 2025