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Hacker News (2025)

Laser-based device can scan almost any sample of gas and tell you what's in it
140 points • comment • mar 07, 2025
Show HN: Real-Time Gaussian Splatting
140 points • comment • may 15, 2025
Decompiling 2024: A Year of Resurgance in Decompilation Research
140 points • comment • jan 30, 2025
The mysterious flow of fluid in the brain
140 points • comment • mar 27, 2025
Once lush Sahara was home to a surprisingly unique group of humans
140 points • comment • apr 10, 2025
Long Read: Lessons from Building Semantic Search for GitHub and Why I Failed
140 points • comment • mar 08, 2025
Show HN: Colanode, open-source and local-first Slack and Notion alternative
140 points • comment • apr 24, 2025
DuckDuckGo now lets you hide AI-generated images in search results
140 points • comment • jul 18, 2025
Show HN: Printercow – Turn any thermal printer into an API endpoint
140 points • comment • jan 21, 2025
We have made the decision to not continue paying for BBB accreditation
140 points • comment • jul 22, 2025
Structured Errors in Go (2022)
139 points • comment • jun 01, 2025
Don't Be Frupid
139 points • comment • feb 10, 2025
We're not innovating, we're just forgetting slower
139 points • comment • jul 04, 2025
Web apps built with Ruby on Rails
139 points • comment • jan 10, 2025
Show HN: I built a knife steel comparison tool
139 points • comment • may 17, 2025
LINUX is obsolete (1992)
139 points • comment • feb 08, 2025
OpenAI Researchers Find That AI Is Unable to Solve Most Coding Problems
139 points • comment • feb 24, 2025
The inevitability of the borrow checker
139 points • comment • feb 06, 2025
ADHD Didn't Break Me–My Parents Did
139 points • comment • feb 01, 2025
Blind to Disruption – The CEOs Who Missed the Future
139 points • comment • jul 08, 2025
First 2D, non-silicon computer developed
139 points • comment • jun 12, 2025
The Icelandic Voting System (2024)
139 points • comment • apr 19, 2025
The Tedious Heroism of David Ruggles
139 points • comment • jan 10, 2025
docker2exe: Convert a Docker image to an executable
139 points • comment • may 05, 2025
Glicol: Next-generation computer music language
139 points • comment • jan 10, 2025
What Was Quartz?
139 points • comment • apr 07, 2025
The State of SSL Stacks
139 points • comment • may 07, 2025
The LLMentalist Effect
139 points • comment • feb 08, 2025
Hate Radio (2011)
139 points • comment • jun 07, 2025
Rare black iceberg spotted off Labrador coast could be 100k years old
139 points • comment • jun 05, 2025
Converting a large mathematical software package written in C++ to C++20 modules
139 points • comment • jul 01, 2025
Datadog's $65M/year customer mystery solved
139 points • comment • jun 30, 2025
Compilers: Incrementally and Extensibly (2024)
139 points • comment • apr 05, 2025
Sweden Seizes Ship Suspected of Baltic Sea 'Sabotage'
139 points • comment • jan 27, 2025
Show HN: Simplex: Automate browser workflows using code and natural language
139 points • comment • jan 14, 2025
Andrej Karpathy: "I was given early access to Grok 3 earlier today"
139 points • comment • feb 18, 2025
Betting on the Pope was the original prediction market
139 points • comment • mar 07, 2025
Implementing a Forth
139 points • comment • may 31, 2025
Zuckerberg approved training Llama on LibGen [pdf]
139 points • comment • jan 12, 2025
Beginnings of Roman London discovered in office basement
139 points • comment • feb 13, 2025
Gmailtail – Command-line tool to monitor Gmail messages and output them as JSON
139 points • comment • jul 03, 2025
Find Your 2%Ers (2023)
139 points • comment • feb 17, 2025
Benchmarking vision-language models on OCR in dynamic video environments
139 points • comment • feb 14, 2025
Why hasn't commercial air travel gotten any faster since the 1960s? (2009)
139 points • comment • feb 10, 2025
Tech companies are telling immigrant employees on visas not to leave the U.S.
139 points • comment • apr 03, 2025
It’s nearly impossible to buy an original Bob Ross painting (2021)
139 points • comment • jun 15, 2025
WASM GC isn't ready for realtime graphics
139 points • comment • jan 18, 2025
Ask HN: Is anybody building an alternative transformer?
139 points • comment • feb 14, 2025
An update on Dart macros and data serialization
139 points • comment • jan 29, 2025
Mexican Navy ship crashes into Brooklyn Bridge leaving two people dead
139 points • comment • may 18, 2025
SciOp torrents: download, seed erased US Gov sites and datasets
139 points • comment • apr 06, 2025
The ocean teems with networks of interconnected bacteria
139 points • comment • jan 27, 2025
Tmux – The Essentials (2019)
139 points • comment • mar 05, 2025
LLM based agents as Dungeon Masters
139 points • comment • jan 14, 2025
Nvidia-Ingest: Multi-modal data extraction
138 points • comment • jan 10, 2025
The Future of Compute: Nvidia's Crown Is Slipping
138 points • comment • apr 21, 2025
Modernist Cuisine: The Art and Science of Cooking
138 points • comment • feb 24, 2025
'Dark oxygen': a deep-sea discovery that has split scientists
138 points • comment • mar 17, 2025
Building Statically Linked Go Executables with CGO and Zig
138 points • comment • mar 28, 2025
Procolored printer drivers contained malware
138 points • comment • may 17, 2025
The British Micro Behemoth
138 points • comment • jan 23, 2025
FAA to eliminate floppy disks used in air traffic control systems
138 points • comment • jun 08, 2025
The DEA is now abandoning body cameras
138 points • comment • may 06, 2025
The Academic Pipeline Stall: Why Industry Must Stand for Academia
138 points • comment • may 12, 2025
Shell-ish scripting in Go with ease
138 points • comment • jan 31, 2025
Requiem for a Solar Plant
138 points • comment • jun 21, 2025
Fundamentals of garbage collection (2023)
138 points • comment • jul 09, 2025
uBlock Origin Forcefully Removed by Chrome
138 points • comment • mar 05, 2025
Body Doubling
138 points • comment • mar 04, 2025
Stop Killing Games
138 points • comment • jul 05, 2025
Getting hit by lightning is good for some tropical trees
138 points • comment • mar 28, 2025
Met Police smash down door of Quaker meeting house to arrest activists
138 points • comment • mar 30, 2025
North America Is Dripping from Below, Geoscientists Discover
138 points • comment • apr 05, 2025
From LLM to AI Agent: What's the Real Journey Behind AI System Development?
138 points • comment • jun 19, 2025
Firefox-patch-bin, librewolf-fix-bin AUR packages contain malware
138 points • comment • jul 18, 2025
Munich from a Hamburger's perspective
138 points • comment • jun 15, 2025
RoboPianist: Dexterous Piano Playing with Deep Reinforcement Learning (2023)
138 points • comment • feb 27, 2025
Helmdar: 3D Scanning Brooklyn on Rollerblades
138 points • comment • may 04, 2025
Fang, the CLI Starter Kit
138 points • comment • jun 18, 2025
Show HN: PunchCard Key Backup
138 points • comment • may 31, 2025
A high-throughput parser for the Zig programming language
138 points • comment • apr 16, 2025
Microsoft researchers developed a hyper-efficient AI model that can run on CPUs
138 points • comment • apr 16, 2025
100 Or so Books that shaped a Century of Science (1999)
138 points • comment • feb 04, 2025
Visiting Us
138 points • comment • apr 21, 2025
Minimal 64x4 Home Computer
138 points • comment • jan 22, 2025
Show HN: I created a language called AntiLang – breaking all the conventions
138 points • comment • feb 23, 2025
Serving 200M requests per day with a CGI-bin
138 points • comment • jul 04, 2025
The US has approved CRISPR pigs for food
138 points • comment • may 03, 2025
Shef
138 points • comment • mar 11, 2025
Julia and JuliaHub: Advancing Innovation and Growth
138 points • comment • feb 03, 2025
Incus – Next-generation system container, application container, and VM manager
138 points • comment • jul 12, 2025
Meta slashes staff stock awards as group embarks on AI spending drive
138 points • comment • feb 23, 2025
I think it's time to give Nix a chance
138 points • comment • may 26, 2025
Panjandrum: The ‘giant firework’ built to break Hitler's Atlantic Wall
138 points • comment • jun 05, 2025
Reading RSS content is a skilled activity
138 points • comment • apr 26, 2025
A Ford executive who kept score of colleagues' verbal flubs
138 points • comment • apr 11, 2025
Daily omega-3 fatty acids may help human organs stay young
137 points • comment • feb 09, 2025
The Unsustainability of Moore's Law
137 points • comment • jun 29, 2025
New Aarch64 Back End
137 points • comment • jul 24, 2025
Sailing from Berkeley to Hawaii in a 19ft Sailboat
137 points • comment • apr 02, 2025