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Hacker News (2025)

  1. PSA: Libxslt is unmaintained and has 5 unpatched security bugs

    133 points • comment • aug 29, 2025

  2. Breaking the WASM/JS communication performance barrier

    133 points • comment • jul 23, 2025

  3. JavaScript broke the web (and called it progress)

    133 points • comment • jun 20, 2025

  4. Image Processing in C (2000) [pdf]

    133 points • comment • mar 14, 2025

  5. Death to type classes

    132 points • comment • sep 12, 2025

  6. NJ theme park puts animatronic dinosaurs on Facebook Marketplace

    132 points • comment • sep 28, 2025

  7. Video footage appears to contradict Israeli account of Gaza medic killings

    132 points • comment • apr 06, 2025

  8. Release Notes for Ghostty 1.1.0

    132 points • comment • jan 31, 2025

  9. Canal Boat Simulator

    132 points • comment • jun 22, 2025

  10. Show HN: Mermaid Chart VS Code Plugin: Mermaid.js Diagrams in Visual Studio Code

    132 points • comment • apr 02, 2025

  11. Kaspersky finds hardware backdoor in 5 generations of Apple Silicon (2024)

    132 points • comment • feb 10, 2025

  12. The Art of Fugue – Contrapunctus I (2021)

    132 points • comment • may 27, 2025

  13. Foundation DB Record Layer SQL API

    132 points • comment • may 07, 2025

  14. Napkin Math Tool

    132 points • comment • mar 17, 2025

  15. Utah bill aims to make officers disclose AI-written police reports

    132 points • comment • feb 22, 2025

  16. Show HN: Magnitude – Open-source AI browser automation framework

    132 points • comment • jun 26, 2025

  17. The story behind Caesar salad

    132 points • comment • jul 04, 2025

  18. Snake Game in 56 Bytes

    132 points • comment • jan 12, 2025

  19. US Marines to get high-speed, radar-evading electric seagliders for rescue ops

    132 points • comment • mar 28, 2025

  20. RFK Jr. rejects cornerstone of health science: Germ theory

    132 points • comment • may 01, 2025

  21. Universities should be more than toll gates

    132 points • comment • sep 21, 2025

  22. Sony FX-300 Jackal: A technological marvel of the late 70s (2021)

    132 points • comment • feb 18, 2025

  23. Cursed Excel: "1/2"+1=45660

    132 points • comment • apr 03, 2025

  24. Administration will review all 55M visa holders for deportable violations

    132 points • comment • aug 21, 2025

  25. Decomposing a Factorial into Large Factors

    132 points • comment • mar 28, 2025

  26. Nvidia open-source nanite: continuous level of detail (LOD) mesh library

    132 points • comment • feb 04, 2025

  27. Why most product planning is bad and what to do about it

    132 points • comment • oct 02, 2025

  28. Replication of Quantum Factorisation Records with an 8-bit Home Computer [pdf]

    132 points • comment • jul 12, 2025

  29. Beyond Semantics: Unreasonable Effectiveness of Reasonless Intermediate Tokens

    132 points • comment • may 23, 2025

  30. Linux and Secure Boot certificate expiration

    132 points • comment • jul 19, 2025

  31. Model Once, Represent Everywhere: UDA (Unified Data Architecture) at Netflix

    132 points • comment • jun 14, 2025

  32. Paper2Code: Automating Code Generation from Scientific Papers

    132 points • comment • apr 25, 2025

  33. Azure's Weakest Link? How API Connections Spill Secrets

    132 points • comment • mar 12, 2025

  34. Random Attractors – Found using Lyapunov Exponents (2001)

    132 points • comment • sep 30, 2025

  35. Detecting and countering misuse of AI

    132 points • comment • sep 01, 2025

  36. BM25 in PostgreSQL

    132 points • comment • mar 03, 2025

  37. What happens when ambassadors are summoned by the host country?

    132 points • comment • aug 26, 2025

  38. Just make it scale: An Aurora DSQL story

    132 points • comment • may 27, 2025

  39. Tarsnap is cozy

    132 points • comment • sep 10, 2025

  40. An overview of gradient descent optimization algorithms (2016)

    132 points • comment • jan 23, 2025

  41. Tour de France confronts a new threat: Are cyclists using tiny motors?

    132 points • comment • jul 25, 2025

  42. Dockerfmt: A Dockerfile Formatter

    132 points • comment • apr 09, 2025

  43. The Curious Case of the Pygmy Nuthatch

    132 points • comment • may 21, 2025

  44. US national debt reaches a record $37T, the Treasury Department reports

    132 points • comment • aug 13, 2025

  45. Novel hollow-core optical fiber transmits data faster with record low loss

    132 points • comment • sep 03, 2025

  46. Kevo app shutdown

    132 points • comment • sep 22, 2025

  47. Why did books start being divided into chapters? A new history

    132 points • comment • aug 30, 2025

  48. Ferron – A fast, memory-safe web server written in Rust

    132 points • comment • apr 02, 2025

  49. Bilinear down/upsampling, aligning pixel grids, and that infamous GPU half pixel (2021)

    132 points • comment • jan 27, 2025

  50. The Block Stacking Problem

    132 points • comment • aug 18, 2025

  51. BreezeWiki makes wiki pages on Fandom readable

    132 points • comment • mar 31, 2025

  52. A shower thought turned into a Collatz visualization

    132 points • comment • may 20, 2025

  53. Apache HTTP Server: 'RewriteCond expr' always evaluates to true

    132 points • comment • jul 24, 2025

  54. Windows-Use: an AI agent that interacts with Windows at GUI layer

    132 points • comment • sep 09, 2025

  55. Paxo: A DIY Phone

    132 points • comment • jan 26, 2025

  56. Boring work needs tension

    132 points • comment • sep 15, 2025

  57. Nation-scale Matrix deployments will fail using the community version of Synapse

    132 points • comment • jan 18, 2025

  58. WavePhoenix – Open-source implementation of the Nintendo WaveBird protocol

    132 points • comment • may 26, 2025

  59. How to professionally say (2022)

    132 points • comment • feb 13, 2025

  60. Cell Towers Can Double as Cheap Radar Systems for Ports and Harbors (2014)

    132 points • comment • jun 29, 2025

  61. Mad at Meta? Don't Let Them Collect and Monetize Your Personal Data

    132 points • comment • feb 07, 2025

  62. Datalog in miniKanren

    132 points • comment • jun 15, 2025

  63. Zebrafish protein unlocks dormant genes for heart repair

    132 points • comment • jan 03, 2025

  64. A New Geometry for Einstein's Theory of Relativity

    132 points • comment • jul 18, 2025

  65. Accumulation of Cognitive Debt When Using an AI Assistant for Essay Writing Task

    132 points • comment • jun 17, 2025

  66. A brief history of children sent through the mail (2016)

    132 points • comment • jun 27, 2025

  67. How hucksters are manipulating Google to promote shady Chrome extensions

    131 points • comment • jan 09, 2025

  68. Canada considering charging for road access from USA to Alaska

    131 points • comment • mar 20, 2025

  69. Build your own SQLite, Part 4: reading tables metadata

    131 points • comment • feb 04, 2025

  70. Service members deserve the right to repair

    131 points • comment • aug 28, 2025

  71. Show HN: Zero-codegen, no-compile TypeScript type inference from Protobufs

    131 points • comment • apr 14, 2025

  72. Replicube: A puzzle game about writing code to create shapes

    131 points • comment • may 14, 2025

  73. OpenAI wants to buy Chrome and make it an "AI-first" experience

    131 points • comment • apr 23, 2025

  74. Anscombe's Quartet

    131 points • comment • sep 08, 2025

  75. A new database on police use of force and misconduct in California

    131 points • comment • aug 05, 2025

  76. Auto-Differentiating Any LLM Workflow: A Farewell to Manual Prompting

    131 points • comment • jan 29, 2025

  77. Radio Astronomy Software Defined Radio (Rasdr)

    131 points • comment • may 30, 2025

  78. Website is served from nine Neovim buffers on my old ThinkPad

    131 points • comment • aug 18, 2025

  79. 2025 Nikon Small World in Motion Competition Winners

    131 points • comment • sep 27, 2025

  80. Bitter Lesson is about AI agents

    131 points • comment • mar 23, 2025

  81. Why OpenAI's $157B valuation misreads AI's future (Oct 2024)

    131 points • comment • jan 28, 2025

  82. Understanding Transformers via N-gram Statistics

    131 points • comment • may 17, 2025

  83. Igor Babuschkin, a co-founder of xAI, has announced his departure

    131 points • comment • aug 13, 2025

  84. AI code review: Should the author be the reviewer?

    131 points • comment • may 01, 2025

  85. The Machine Stops (1909)

    131 points • comment • may 21, 2025

  86. Show HN: Basecoat – shadcn/UI components, no React required

    131 points • comment • may 13, 2025

  87. The Humble Programmer (1972)

    131 points • comment • jun 17, 2025

  88. Zinc, a systems programming language prototype

    131 points • comment • mar 12, 2025

  89. SDL2 for macOS 9 “rough draft”

    131 points • comment • apr 10, 2025

  90. Subreply – An open source text-only social network

    131 points • comment • jul 20, 2025

  91. Deno 2.4

    131 points • comment • jul 07, 2025

  92. Some __nonstring__ Turbulence

    131 points • comment • apr 25, 2025

  93. Show HN: Eyesite – Experimental website combining computer vision and web design

    131 points • comment • jun 12, 2025

  94. Facebook to stop targeting ads at UK woman after legal fight

    131 points • comment • mar 22, 2025

  95. Pump the Brakes on Your Police Department's Use of Flock Safety

    131 points • comment • sep 04, 2025

  96. Affixes: The Building Blocks of English

    131 points • comment • feb 26, 2025

  97. Code Execution Through Email: How I Used Claude to Hack Itself

    131 points • comment • jul 17, 2025

  98. Multics

    131 points • comment • aug 06, 2025

  99. Sharing everything I could understand about gradient noise

    131 points • comment • jun 06, 2025

  100. WinBoat: Run Windows apps on Linux with seamless integration

    131 points • comment • sep 02, 2025