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Hacker News (2025)

Apple squandered the Holy Grail
407 points • comment • jan 06, 2025
Practical UX for startups surviving without a designer
407 points • comment • mar 12, 2025
Nvidia's RTX 5090 power connectors are melting
405 points • comment • feb 11, 2025
1 in 5 online job postings are either fake or never filled, study finds
405 points • comment • jan 14, 2025
KOReader: Open-Source eBook Reader
405 points • comment • mar 31, 2025
Senior Developer Skills in the AI Age
404 points • comment • apr 03, 2025
Donald Knuth's 2024 Christmas Lecture: Strong and Weak Components [video]
403 points • comment • feb 07, 2025
Don't "optimize" conditional moves in shaders with mix()+step()
403 points • comment • feb 09, 2025
It’s not mold, it’s calcium lactate (2018)
402 points • comment • mar 31, 2025
Tell Mozilla: it's time to ditch Google
402 points • comment • mar 12, 2025
Improving recommendation systems and search in the age of LLMs
402 points • comment • mar 23, 2025
What if Eye...?
402 points • comment • feb 14, 2025
Reasoning models don't always say what they think
402 points • comment • apr 03, 2025
Generate impressive-looking terminal output, look busy when stakeholders walk by
401 points • comment • mar 16, 2025
Life lessons from the first half-century of my career
401 points • comment • jan 22, 2025
Home Loss File System
400 points • comment • jan 14, 2025
Freelancing: How I found clients, part 1
400 points • comment • feb 24, 2025
Video game workers in North America now have an industry-wide union
400 points • comment • mar 19, 2025
What really happens inside a dating app
399 points • comment • feb 03, 2025
How NAT Traversal Works (2020)
399 points • comment • jan 05, 2025
I built an open source AI tool to find my autoimmune disease
399 points • comment • feb 10, 2025
Invisible Electrostatic Wall at 3M plant (1996)
399 points • comment • jan 21, 2025
But good sir, what is electricity?
399 points • comment • feb 23, 2025
Solarpunk
398 points • comment • mar 02, 2025
MIT 6.S184: Introduction to Flow Matching and Diffusion Models
397 points • comment • mar 03, 2025
What makes code hard to read: Visual patterns of complexity (2023)
397 points • comment • mar 11, 2025
U.S. appeals court strikes down FCC's net neutrality rules
397 points • comment • jan 02, 2025
The Illustrated Guide to a PhD
397 points • comment • jan 12, 2025
Microsoft cancels leases for AI data centers, analyst says
396 points • comment • feb 24, 2025
I stopped everything and started writing C again
396 points • comment • mar 12, 2025
Build an 8-bit computer from scratch (2016)
394 points • comment • mar 31, 2025
Show HN: Breakout with a roguelite/vampire survivor twist
393 points • comment • feb 26, 2025
Ask HN: Organize local communities without Facebook?
393 points • comment • jan 21, 2025
Europe's most wanted man plotted my murder and that of my colleague
393 points • comment • mar 07, 2025
A marriage proposal spoken in office jargon
392 points • comment • jan 15, 2025
Write to Escape Your Default Setting
392 points • comment • feb 28, 2025
Troubleshooting: A skill that never goes obsolete
391 points • comment • feb 25, 2025
YouTube asks channel owner to verify phone, permanently overwrites personal info
391 points • comment • feb 17, 2025
Everyone at NSF overseeing the Platforms for Wireless Experimentation is gone
391 points • comment • feb 25, 2025
Iconography of the PuTTY tools
391 points • comment • mar 12, 2025
Books I Loved Reading in 2024
390 points • comment • jan 01, 2025
Lessons in creating family photos that people want to keep (2018)
390 points • comment • jan 26, 2025
The Alpha Myth: How captive wolves led us astray
390 points • comment • jan 27, 2025
Things I would have told myself before building an autorouter
389 points • comment • mar 28, 2025
How do modern compilers choose which variables to put in registers?
389 points • comment • feb 14, 2025
'Hey Number 17 '
389 points • comment • feb 25, 2025
Using eSIMs with devices that only have a physical SIM slot via a 9eSIM SIM car
389 points • comment • jan 20, 2025
DeepGEMM: clean and efficient FP8 GEMM kernels with fine-grained scaling
388 points • comment • feb 26, 2025
Botswana launches first satellite BOTSAT-1 aboard SpaceX Falcon 9
388 points • comment • mar 26, 2025
Overengineered Anchor Links
387 points • comment • apr 03, 2025
Glubux's Powerwall (2016)
386 points • comment • apr 01, 2025
YouTube DRM added on ALL videos with TV (TVHTML5) clients
386 points • comment • mar 10, 2025
Open Deep Research
386 points • comment • feb 04, 2025
Interviewing a software engineer who prepared with AI
385 points • comment • apr 04, 2025
Ex-Facebook director's new book paints brutal image of Mark Zuckerberg
385 points • comment • mar 14, 2025
Layoffs Don't Work
385 points • comment • mar 09, 2025
Life is more than an engineering problem
384 points • comment • feb 02, 2025
Cheap blood test detects pancreatic cancer before it spreads
384 points • comment • feb 13, 2025
Thomson Reuters wins first major AI copyright case in the US
384 points • comment • feb 11, 2025
Visualizing All ISBNs
383 points • comment • jan 10, 2025
LIMO: Less Is More for Reasoning
383 points • comment • feb 09, 2025
Apple files emergency motion to become defendant in US vs. Google [pdf]
382 points • comment • jan 31, 2025
Forgejo: A self-hosted lightweight software forge
382 points • comment • jan 19, 2025
New tools for building agents
381 points • comment • mar 11, 2025
The Tyranny of Structurelessness (1970)
381 points • comment • jan 22, 2025
Learn electricity and electronics fundamentals without taking a formal course
380 points • comment • apr 05, 2025
Simulating water over terrain
379 points • comment • feb 06, 2025
Public health data disappeared. RestoredCDC.org is bringing it back
379 points • comment • mar 04, 2025
Researchers design wearable tech that can sense glucose levels more accurately
379 points • comment • jan 05, 2025
Github scam investigation: Thousands of “mods” and “cracks” stealing data
379 points • comment • feb 28, 2025
Building a personal, private AI computer on a budget
378 points • comment • feb 10, 2025
Ask HN: What are you working on? (March 2025)
378 points • comment • mar 30, 2025
The Golden Age of Japanese Pencils (2022)
377 points • comment • mar 03, 2025
Jeff Bezos exerts more control of Washington Post opinion
377 points • comment • feb 26, 2025
Are LLMs able to notice the “gorilla in the data”?
377 points • comment • feb 05, 2025
Ask HN: Who is hiring? (March 2025)
377 points • comment • mar 03, 2025
Feds Link Cyberheist to 2022 LastPass Hacks
376 points • comment • mar 08, 2025
Coolify: Open-source and self-hostable Heroku / Netlify / Vercel alternative
376 points • comment • apr 02, 2025
I do not want AI to "polish" me
376 points • comment • jan 29, 2025
Crossing the uncanny valley of conversational voice
376 points • comment • mar 02, 2025
Xee: A Modern XPath and XSLT Engine in Rust
376 points • comment • mar 28, 2025
ZFS 2.3 released with ZFS raidz expansion
376 points • comment • jan 14, 2025
You don't have to pay the Microsoft 365 price increase
376 points • comment • jan 09, 2025
Part two of Grant Sanderson's video with Terry Tao on the cosmic distance ladder
374 points • comment • feb 23, 2025
Reality has a surprising amount of detail (2017)
374 points • comment • feb 18, 2025
A note on the USB-to-PS/2 mouse adapter that came with Microsoft mouse devices
374 points • comment • mar 28, 2025
YC Graveyard: 821 inactive Y Combinator startups
374 points • comment • jan 26, 2025
The future of Rebble
374 points • comment • jan 27, 2025
Fewer Foreign Passengers Are Flying to the US
374 points • comment • apr 07, 2025
U.K. demand for a back door to Apple data threatens Americans, lawmakers say
373 points • comment • feb 13, 2025
Show HN: I made a site to tell the time in corporate
373 points • comment • feb 24, 2025
Vietnamese Graphic Design
373 points • comment • feb 23, 2025
I deleted my social media accounts
373 points • comment • jan 12, 2025
NCSC, GCHQ, UK Gov't expunge advice to “use Apple encryption”
373 points • comment • mar 05, 2025
Why the weak nuclear force is short range
373 points • comment • jan 11, 2025
Meta is killing off its AI-powered Instagram and Facebook profiles
373 points • comment • jan 04, 2025
Has the decline of knowledge work begun?
373 points • comment • mar 25, 2025
No elephants: Breakthroughs in image generation
372 points • comment • apr 05, 2025
How Kerala got rich
372 points • comment • mar 28, 2025
Lines of code that beat A/B testing (2012)
371 points • comment • jan 09, 2025