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Hacker News (2025)

We fell out of love with Next.js and back in love with Ruby on Rails
500 points • comment • may 03, 2025
Pentagon to terminate $5.1B in IT contracts with Accenture, Deloitte
499 points • comment • apr 11, 2025
Ask HN: What is interviewing like now with everyone using AI?
499 points • comment • feb 02, 2025
Is the world becoming uninsurable?
498 points • comment • jan 17, 2025
The Friendship Recession: The lost art of connecting
498 points • comment • apr 26, 2025
Potatoes in the Mail
498 points • comment • apr 17, 2025
Everything wrong with MCP
497 points • comment • apr 13, 2025
Investigating an “evil” RJ45 dongle
497 points • comment • jan 17, 2025
Anime fans stumbled upon a mathematical proof
497 points • comment • mar 06, 2025
20 years working on the same software product
497 points • comment • feb 21, 2025
Turning a Bluetooth device into an Apple AirTag without root privileges
496 points • comment • feb 27, 2025
23andMe files for bankruptcy to sell itself
496 points • comment • mar 24, 2025
Bletchley code breaker Betty Webb dies aged 101
496 points • comment • apr 01, 2025
Why did Windows 7 log on slower for months if you had a solid color background?
496 points • comment • apr 28, 2025
Ground control to Major Trial
495 points • comment • may 16, 2025
The Visual World of 'Samurai Jack'
494 points • comment • jun 01, 2025
The great displacement is already well underway?
494 points • comment • may 12, 2025
AI is stifling new tech adoption?
494 points • comment • feb 14, 2025
How a single line of code could brick your iPhone
494 points • comment • apr 27, 2025
The <select> element can now be customized with CSS
493 points • comment • mar 31, 2025
The effect of deactivating Facebook and Instagram on users' emotional state
493 points • comment • apr 21, 2025
A Research Preview of Codex
493 points • comment • may 16, 2025
Programming SDF animations of Rick and Morty
493 points • comment • feb 06, 2025
They Thought They Were Free: The Germans, 1933-45 (1955)
492 points • comment • feb 05, 2025
GitHub MCP exploited: Accessing private repositories via MCP
492 points • comment • may 26, 2025
Mistral ships Le Chat – enterprise AI assistant that can run on prem
492 points • comment • may 07, 2025
Y Combinator urges the White House to support Europe's Digital Markets Act
492 points • comment • mar 13, 2025
Bored of It
492 points • comment • apr 04, 2025
Machine Learning in Production (CMU Course)
491 points • comment • jan 28, 2025
The Worst Programmer I Know (2023)
491 points • comment • mar 23, 2025
Boring tech is mature, not old
491 points • comment • feb 11, 2025
Music labels will regret coming for the Internet Archive, sound historian says
491 points • comment • mar 10, 2025
Google’s OAuth login doesn’t protect against purchasing a failed startup domain
491 points • comment • jan 14, 2025
Why Archers Didn't Volley Fire
491 points • comment • may 03, 2025
Deep Learning Is Applied Topology
490 points • comment • may 20, 2025
Nokia's internal presentation after iPhone was launched (2007) [pdf]
489 points • comment • jan 16, 2025
Why young parents should focus on building trust with their kids
489 points • comment • feb 13, 2025
Jacksonpollock.org (2003)
489 points • comment • feb 08, 2025
Show HN: I built a synthesizer based on 3D physics
489 points • comment • may 02, 2025
Right to Repair laws have now been proposed in all U.S. states
488 points • comment • feb 24, 2025
Show HN: I convert videos to printed flipbooks for living
488 points • comment • feb 03, 2025
Tell HN: Impassable Cloudflare challenges are ruining my browsing experience
487 points • comment • jan 02, 2025
Breaking into apartment buildings in five minutes on my phone
487 points • comment • feb 24, 2025
Nvidia announces next-gen RTX 5090 and RTX 5080 GPUs
487 points • comment • jan 07, 2025
The Lost Art of Research as Leisure
487 points • comment • mar 19, 2025
NIH.gov DNS servers down, making PubMed, BLAST, etc. unreachable [fixed]
486 points • comment • mar 02, 2025
Live Map of the London Underground
486 points • comment • apr 11, 2025
Fluid Simulation Pendant
485 points • comment • jan 13, 2025
A faster way to copy SQLite databases between computers
485 points • comment • may 01, 2025
The DOJ still wants Google to sell off Chrome
485 points • comment • mar 08, 2025
Apple Debuts iPhone 16e
485 points • comment • feb 19, 2025
How to live on $432 a month in America
483 points • comment • may 23, 2025
Getting AI to write good SQL
483 points • comment • may 16, 2025
In the belly of the MrBeast
483 points • comment • jan 14, 2025
Uv's killer feature is making ad-hoc environments easy
482 points • comment • jan 12, 2025
Show HN: Time Portal – Get dropped into history, guess where you landed
482 points • comment • mar 12, 2025
Silicon Valley crosswalk buttons apparently hacked to imitate Musk, Zuck voices
481 points • comment • apr 13, 2025
OpenAI releases image generation in the API
481 points • comment • apr 24, 2025
Fastplotlib: GPU-accelerated, fast, and interactive plotting library
481 points • comment • mar 11, 2025
Gemma 3 Technical Report [pdf]
480 points • comment • mar 12, 2025
Apple’s Darwin OS and XNU Kernel Deep Dive
480 points • comment • apr 05, 2025
Show HN: I built a website for sharing drum patterns
480 points • comment • mar 23, 2025
Every HTML Element
480 points • comment • jan 25, 2025
Nuclear fusion: WEST beats the world record for plasma duration
480 points • comment • feb 18, 2025
In my life, I've witnessed three elite salespeople at work
480 points • comment • jan 05, 2025
Utah becomes first US state to ban fluoride in its water
480 points • comment • mar 29, 2025
India launches attack on 9 sites in Pakistan and Pakistani Jammu and Kashmir
480 points • comment • may 06, 2025
Take the pedals off the bike
479 points • comment • jan 14, 2025
My washing machine refreshed my thinking on software estimation
479 points • comment • feb 18, 2025
Fintech founder charged with fraud; AI app found to be humans in the Philippines
479 points • comment • apr 10, 2025
Apple will soon receive 'made in America' chips from TSMC's Arizona fab
479 points • comment • jan 14, 2025
Kagi Assistant is now available to all users
478 points • comment • apr 18, 2025
We are the builders
478 points • comment • feb 21, 2025
Visualizing all books of the world in ISBN-Space
478 points • comment • feb 01, 2025
Ask HN: What are good high-information density UIs (screenshots, apps, sites)?
477 points • comment • may 08, 2025
3,200% CPU Utilization
477 points • comment • feb 28, 2025
Bus stops here: Shanghai lets riders design their own routes
475 points • comment • may 14, 2025
Ask HN: Who is hiring? (February 2025)
475 points • comment • feb 03, 2025
DuckDB is probably the most important geospatial software of the last decade
474 points • comment • may 03, 2025
Deep Learning Is Not So Mysterious or Different
474 points • comment • mar 17, 2025
TSMC expected to announce $100B investment in U.S.
474 points • comment • mar 03, 2025
QwQ-32B: Embracing the Power of Reinforcement Learning
473 points • comment • mar 05, 2025
Advent of Code 2024 in pure SQL
473 points • comment • jan 02, 2025
Go Optimization Guide
473 points • comment • mar 31, 2025
Nvidia’s $589B DeepSeek rout
472 points • comment • jan 27, 2025
Infosec 101 for Activists
472 points • comment • feb 04, 2025
Gumroad’s source is available
472 points • comment • apr 04, 2025
Judge Rules Blanket Search of Cell Tower Data Unconstitutional
471 points • comment • apr 18, 2025
Xiaomi MiMo Reasoning Model
471 points • comment • apr 30, 2025
My LLM codegen workflow
471 points • comment • feb 18, 2025
IBM completes acquisition of HashiCorp
470 points • comment • feb 27, 2025
Show HN: I built an active community of trans people online
470 points • comment • jan 23, 2025
108B Pixel Scan of Johannes Vermeer's Girl with a Pearl Earring
470 points • comment • may 01, 2025
Jellyfin: The Free Software Media System
470 points • comment • feb 15, 2025
15,000 lines of verified cryptography now in Python
469 points • comment • apr 18, 2025
I don't like NumPy
469 points • comment • may 15, 2025
InventWood is about to mass-produce wood that's stronger than steel
469 points • comment • may 18, 2025
Jane Street's Figgie card game
468 points • comment • feb 15, 2025
RLHF Book
468 points • comment • feb 01, 2025
AI Engineer Reading List
468 points • comment • jan 13, 2025