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Hacker News (2025)

Relaxed Radix Balanced Trees (2024)
185 points • comment • feb 19, 2025
The Hidden Engineering of Niagara Falls
184 points • comment • oct 21, 2025
First Look: Loops, by Pixelfed – Decentralised TikTok Competitor (2024)
184 points • comment • jan 25, 2025
A lifetime of social ties adds up to healthy aging
184 points • comment • sep 27, 2025
Do you want to be doing this when you're 50? (2012)
184 points • comment • feb 22, 2025
Nix Derivation Madness
184 points • comment • oct 31, 2025
Czech Republic: Petition for open source in public administration
184 points • comment • jun 06, 2025
Japanese scientists create new plastic that dissolves in saltwater overnight
184 points • comment • mar 28, 2025
Compression culture is making you stupid and uninteresting
184 points • comment • jul 22, 2025
SSL certificate requirements are becoming obnoxious
184 points • comment • aug 26, 2025
Fine-tuning LLMs is a waste of time
184 points • comment • jun 10, 2025
Read your code
184 points • comment • aug 04, 2025
PrivTracker – Private BitTorrent tracker for everyone
184 points • comment • jan 11, 2025
The Dawn of Nvidia's Technology
184 points • comment • may 20, 2025
OpenVertebrate Presents a Database of 13K 3D Scans of Specimens
184 points • comment • apr 05, 2025
GitHub partial outage
184 points • comment • nov 13, 2025
Posthog/.cursorrules
184 points • comment • mar 09, 2025
Two recently found works of J.S. Bach presented in Leipzig [video]
184 points • comment • nov 17, 2025
In a milestone for Manhattan, a pair of coyotes has made Central Park their home
184 points • comment • jul 01, 2025
Mayo Clinic's secret weapon against AI hallucinations: Reverse RAG in action
184 points • comment • mar 11, 2025
A platform-jumping prince – History of Prince of Persia's 1990s Ports
184 points • comment • sep 26, 2025
People Keep Inventing Prolly Trees
184 points • comment • jun 28, 2025
About AI Evals
184 points • comment • jul 01, 2025
Bill to block OpenAI's for-profit conversion gets mysteriously gutted
184 points • comment • apr 07, 2025
Adding Mastodon Comments to Your Blog
184 points • comment • feb 23, 2025
SIMD within a register: How I doubled hash table lookup performance
184 points • comment • jul 28, 2025
Trusting clients is probably a security flaw
184 points • comment • jan 17, 2025
Want to meet people, try charging them for it?
184 points • comment • jun 30, 2025
Wikenigma – an Encyclopedia of Unknowns
184 points • comment • jan 25, 2025
Who Can Understand the Proof? A Window on Formalized Mathematics
184 points • comment • jan 10, 2025
Linux in Excel
184 points • comment • apr 30, 2025
How Spotify Killed Lo-Fi Hip Hop
184 points • comment • feb 04, 2025
VGGT: Visual Geometry Grounded Transformer
184 points • comment • mar 25, 2025
Static Web Hosting on the Intel N150
184 points • comment • nov 19, 2025
Planes are having their GPS hacked. Could new clocks keep them safe?
184 points • comment • mar 07, 2025
Bat: Cat with syntax highlighting
184 points • comment • oct 05, 2025
Pee If You Want to Go Deeper (2021)
184 points • comment • feb 23, 2025
X-ray scans reveal the hidden risks of cheap batteries
184 points • comment • oct 04, 2025
UUIDv47: Store UUIDv7 in DB, emit UUIDv4 outside (SipHash-masked timestamp)
184 points • comment • sep 17, 2025
A glitch in an online survey replaced the word 'yes' with 'forks'
184 points • comment • mar 21, 2025
SuperSight: A graphical enhancement mod for Brøderbund's "Stunts"
183 points • comment • aug 13, 2025
Ozempic and Wegovy are selected for Medicare's price negotiations
183 points • comment • jan 17, 2025
Scm2wasm: A Scheme to WASM compiler in 600 lines of C, making use of WASM GC
183 points • comment • sep 28, 2025
Building AI products in the probabilistic era
183 points • comment • aug 21, 2025
I have released a 69.0MB version of Windows 7 x86
183 points • comment • oct 30, 2025
In Colorado, a marriage of solar energy and farming
183 points • comment • jan 04, 2025
Local Deep Research – ArXiv, wiki and other searches included
183 points • comment • mar 11, 2025
Launch HN: Magic Patterns (YC W23) – AI Design and Prototyping for Product Teams
183 points • comment • apr 21, 2025
Running a million-board chess MMO in a single process
183 points • comment • jul 12, 2025
BorgBackup 2 has no server-side append-only anymore
183 points • comment • jun 07, 2025
US hits $38T in debt. Fastest accumulation of $1T outside pandemic
183 points • comment • oct 23, 2025
The /o in Ruby regex stands for "oh the humanity "
183 points • comment • aug 02, 2025
Solving SICP
183 points • comment • mar 04, 2025
Augurs demo
183 points • comment • feb 18, 2025
AI Slop vs. OSS Security
183 points • comment • nov 06, 2025
Speeding up PyTorch inference on Apple devices with AI-generated Metal kernels
183 points • comment • sep 03, 2025
Reinforcement learning, explained with a minimum of math and jargon
183 points • comment • jun 24, 2025
The challenge of maintaining curl
183 points • comment • sep 12, 2025
Zhaoxin's KX-7000
183 points • comment • apr 30, 2025
Show HN: Vibe Kanban – Kanban board to manage your AI coding agents
183 points • comment • jul 11, 2025
How Slide Rules Work
183 points • comment • nov 19, 2025
Ingrid Daubechies awarded National Medal of Science
183 points • comment • jan 11, 2025
Partnering with the Shawnee Tribe for Civilization VII
183 points • comment • feb 23, 2025
Show HN: Formalizing Principia Mathematica using Lean
183 points • comment • apr 25, 2025
Mosquitoes discovered in Iceland for the first time
183 points • comment • oct 21, 2025
Ethersync: Peer-to-peer collaborative editing of local text files
183 points • comment • jul 29, 2025
Nearly 1 in 3 Starlink satellites detected within the SKA-Low frequency band
183 points • comment • aug 13, 2025
Google Revisits JPEG XL in Chromium After Earlier Removal
183 points • comment • nov 23, 2025
The Book of Shaders (2015)
183 points • comment • jun 26, 2025
Major AI conference flooded with peer reviews written by AI
183 points • comment • nov 29, 2025
I fought in Ukraine and here's why FPV drones kind of suck
183 points • comment • jun 26, 2025
Show HN: While the world builds AI Agents, I'm just building calculators
183 points • comment • feb 22, 2025
Paracetamol disrupts early embryogenesis by cell cycle inhibition
183 points • comment • aug 24, 2025
10k pushups and other silly exercise quests that changed my life
183 points • comment • oct 02, 2025
Unauthorized experiment on r/changemyview involving AI-generated comments
183 points • comment • apr 26, 2025
Great things about Rust that aren't just performance
183 points • comment • jan 12, 2025
Launch HN: Bitrig (YC S25) – Build Swift apps on your iPhone
183 points • comment • aug 27, 2025
Qantas South Africa flights delayed by falling debris from SpaceX rockets
183 points • comment • jan 15, 2025
I bought a container full of Chinese electric excavators. Here's what showed up
183 points • comment • feb 04, 2025
New adaptive optics shows details of our star's atmosphere
182 points • comment • may 31, 2025
Are polynomial features the root of all evil? (2024)
182 points • comment • apr 22, 2025
That viral video of a 'deactivated' Tesla Cybertruck is a fake
182 points • comment • aug 12, 2025
Vaultwarden commit introduces SSO using OpenID Connect
182 points • comment • aug 15, 2025
Yggdrasil is an experimental compact routing scheme that is fully decentralised
182 points • comment • may 07, 2025
Ask HN: What are people doing to get off of VMware?
182 points • comment • oct 19, 2025
Svelte 5 is not JavaScript
182 points • comment • feb 18, 2025
How the AI bubble ate Y Combinator
182 points • comment • sep 30, 2025
Meta's Llama 3.1 can recall 42 percent of the first Harry Potter book
182 points • comment • jun 15, 2025
Payment processors' bar on Japanese adult content endangers democracy (2024)
182 points • comment • jul 20, 2025
Microsoft CTO says he wants to swap most AMD and Nvidia GPUs for homemade chips
182 points • comment • oct 03, 2025
Bitwarden Authenticator
182 points • comment • feb 23, 2025
Zero ASIC releases Wildebeest, the highest performance FPGA synthesis tool
182 points • comment • sep 29, 2025
De-anonymization attacks against the privacy coin XMR
182 points • comment • may 28, 2025
Btop: A better modern alternative of htop with a gamified interface
182 points • comment • nov 08, 2025
Certificate Transparency in Firefox
182 points • comment • feb 25, 2025
The Joy of Linux Theming in the Age of Bootable Containers
182 points • comment • apr 20, 2025
Among top researchers 10% publish at unrealistic levels, analysis finds
182 points • comment • feb 18, 2025
A new Sudoku layout with 81 uniquely shaped cells
182 points • comment • mar 13, 2025
Microsoft rewarded for security failures with another US Government contract
182 points • comment • sep 02, 2025
If you are good at code review, you will be good at using AI agents
182 points • comment • sep 20, 2025