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Hacker News (2025)

Where Poka-Yoke and Cybernetics Meet: Users determine the purpose of any device
24 points • comment • feb 03, 2025
Show HN: Search and chat with millions of court cases using AI.
24 points • comment • mar 23, 2025
Trump Administration Seeks to Expel a Green-Card Holder over Student Protests
24 points • comment • mar 10, 2025
Ask HN: Do programmers generally enjoy some amount of complexity?
24 points • comment • mar 24, 2025
Airbnb CEO says it's still too early for AI trip planning
24 points • comment • feb 15, 2025
The Hidden Costs of Men's Social Isolation
24 points • comment • feb 14, 2025
Longest road and rail tunnel is being built under the Baltic Sea
24 points • comment • mar 10, 2025
ByteCraft: Generating video games and animations through bytes
24 points • comment • mar 19, 2025
National Law Enforcement Accountability Database Deleted
24 points • comment • feb 21, 2025
Columbia University Revokes Degrees of Pro-Palestinian Student Protesters
24 points • comment • mar 18, 2025
The Making of UEFI NYAN 80x25
24 points • comment • jan 08, 2025
An Attempt to Catch Up with JITs: The False Lead of Optimizing Inline Caches
24 points • comment • mar 09, 2025
Reciprocal Tariff Calculations
24 points • comment • apr 05, 2025
A Canadian's Perspective on US Behavior Since the Trump Regime Was Installed
24 points • comment • mar 23, 2025
You can still own music
24 points • comment • feb 13, 2025
Atari ST 40th Anniversary
24 points • comment • jan 09, 2025
Why We're Falling Out of Love with Tesla
24 points • comment • feb 15, 2025
Meritocracy doesn't exist and believing it does is bad for you (2019)
24 points • comment • apr 01, 2025
Chess324 – A Chess Variant to Reduce Draws
24 points • comment • mar 30, 2025
AI is creating a generation of illiterate programmers
24 points • comment • jan 24, 2025
How to miscompile programs with "benign" data races [pdf]
24 points • comment • jan 10, 2025
LEGO Treadmill That Moves in Every Direction [video]
24 points • comment • mar 02, 2025
Why Go's Error Handling Is Awesome
24 points • comment • mar 09, 2025
The Cybertruck that exploded and the New Orleans vehicle both rented using Turo
24 points • comment • jan 02, 2025
Perforator – cluster-wide continuous profiling tool for large data centers
24 points • comment • jan 31, 2025
Google Calendar Removes Holocaust Remembrance, Pride, and Black History month
24 points • comment • feb 11, 2025
Unmarked Vans. Secret Lists. Public Denunciations. Our Police State Has Arrived
24 points • comment • apr 03, 2025
Colossus, the first large-scale electronic computer
24 points • comment • feb 04, 2025
BYD's electric supercar jumps over potholes and spikes
24 points • comment • jan 10, 2025
The WW2 experiment to make pigeon-guided missiles [video]
24 points • comment • feb 05, 2025
Cloudflare: Trapping misbehaving bots in an AI Labyrinth
24 points • comment • mar 20, 2025
Non-caloric sweetener Sucralose stimulates greater hunger response
24 points • comment • mar 26, 2025
Fluoride Exposure and Children's IQ Scores a Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis
24 points • comment • jan 07, 2025
'Social media should be built on protocols, not platforms' says Mastodon CEO
24 points • comment • jan 15, 2025
SOTA on swebench-verified: relearning the bitter lesson
24 points • comment • jan 08, 2025
EU looks to hit Big Tech in crackdown on US services exports
24 points • comment • mar 28, 2025
GDP shock: Venture Capital's government bailout begins
24 points • comment • mar 06, 2025
Lady of the North 55°05'18.2"N 1°37'41.1"W – Google Maps
24 points • comment • mar 02, 2025
Seagate smashes largest HDD world record with 36TB hard drive
24 points • comment • jan 21, 2025
Microsoft Launches Ad-Supported Version of Office Apps for Windows
24 points • comment • feb 25, 2025
German conservatives sound alarm over gold reserves held in US
24 points • comment • apr 05, 2025
DM50 Calculator
24 points • comment • jan 20, 2025
DiscoverGov – search across multiple U.S. Federal Government databases
24 points • comment • jan 03, 2025
Dryers in the US consume ~3% of residential energy budget, 6x washing machines
24 points • comment • mar 10, 2025
ADHD Guide to Spaced Repetition
24 points • comment • feb 27, 2025
RFK Jr. to gut vaccine promotion and HIV prevention office, sources say
24 points • comment • mar 30, 2025
JDK Distributions
24 points • comment • mar 18, 2025
Social Media Is Dead, You Just Haven't Noticed Yet
24 points • comment • jan 24, 2025
It's Still Easier to Imagine the End of the World Than the End of Capitalism
24 points • comment • jan 07, 2025
Rare Earths Reality: Ukraine's Nonexistent Deposits
24 points • comment • mar 09, 2025
Conway's Law (2022)
24 points • comment • feb 03, 2025
Los Angeles fires expose inflated US home prices
24 points • comment • jan 10, 2025
Amazon workers vote against unionizing a North Carolina warehouse
24 points • comment • feb 16, 2025
Antibiotics, vaccinations linked to reduced risk of dementia
24 points • comment • feb 02, 2025
Why everyone in AI is freaking out about DeepSeek
24 points • comment • jan 25, 2025
The Universal Transverse Mercator (UTM) geographic coordinate system
24 points • comment • apr 01, 2025
All-Band Receiver Lets You Listen to All the Radio at Once
24 points • comment • jan 12, 2025
Can foreigners live in Kofu, a small Japanese town? [video]
24 points • comment • jan 26, 2025
The Tranhumanist Cult Test
24 points • comment • mar 24, 2025
How I Ace Midterms at a Top CS School by Studying 1-3 Hours (and Skipping Class)
24 points • comment • mar 03, 2025
Free95: An open-source Windows-compatible operating system
24 points • comment • mar 10, 2025
Uncovering Real GPU NoC Characteristics: Implications on Interconnect Arch.
24 points • comment • jan 13, 2025
Bird flu variant found in Nevada cows shows signs of adaptation to mammals
24 points • comment • feb 08, 2025
I'm a 17-Year-Old TikTok Junkie. I Need This Ban
24 points • comment • jan 19, 2025
Bambu Connect's Authentication X.509 Certificate and Private Key Extracted
24 points • comment • jan 19, 2025
IEEE Credentialing Program
24 points • comment • jan 25, 2025
Usaid.gov
24 points • comment • feb 02, 2025
Technical Mathematics (1954) [pdf]
24 points • comment • mar 17, 2025
Trump's science advisers: how they could influence his second presidency
24 points • comment • jan 21, 2025
USDA cancels $1B in local food purchasing for schools, food banks
24 points • comment • mar 11, 2025
Ask HN: What's your blog / portfolio stack?
24 points • comment • mar 05, 2025
23andMe Site Went Down as Customers Struggled to Delete Data
24 points • comment • mar 26, 2025
I think we need a bigger boot partition
24 points • comment • mar 15, 2025
MKWS – Simple Static Site Generator
24 points • comment • feb 21, 2025
Harvard study finds seed oils healthier than butter – The Western Producer
24 points • comment • mar 19, 2025
The Biggest Glitch in Final Fantasy VII Explained [video]
24 points • comment • mar 12, 2025
Navajo Code Talkers get DEI label as military info disappears under Trump order
24 points • comment • mar 17, 2025
The Soviet Collapse: Grain and Oil by Yegor Gaidar [pdf] (2007)
24 points • comment • jan 10, 2025
Ask HN: What books have been worth your time?
24 points • comment • apr 07, 2025
A simplified analysis of the Chernobyl accident (2021)
24 points • comment • jan 22, 2025
Show HN: LLM-docs, software documentation intended for consumption by LLMs
24 points • comment • mar 14, 2025
Why Matt Should Resign (2010)
24 points • comment • jan 12, 2025
MacBooks account for 86% of total Mac sales; Mac desktops just 14%
24 points • comment • mar 22, 2025
Thought Leader (2016) [video]
24 points • comment • feb 27, 2025
The Gang of Four is wrong and you don't understand delegation (2012)
24 points • comment • mar 26, 2025
Fake Homebrew site leverages Google ads to target macOS, Linux devices
24 points • comment • jan 26, 2025
Nvidia GeForce GTX 980 Through GeForce RTX 5080/5090 GPU Compute Performance
24 points • comment • feb 18, 2025
Python Is the New Basic
24 points • comment • jan 11, 2025
The Hallucinatory Thoughts of the Dying Mind
24 points • comment • feb 12, 2025
Daylight saving time and early school start times cost billions
24 points • comment • mar 08, 2025
China to impose additional 34% tariffs on all US goods as countermeasure
24 points • comment • apr 04, 2025
Scorpi – A Modern Hypervisor (For macOS)
24 points • comment • mar 16, 2025
Trump pardons Nikola founder Trevor Milton in securities fraud case
24 points • comment • mar 30, 2025
The Imaginary Engineer – Karl Hans Janke's Flights of Fancy
24 points • comment • mar 04, 2025
"Physics community has never split like this": row erupts over plans for new LHC
24 points • comment • mar 30, 2025
Dutch parliament calls for end to reliance on US software
24 points • comment • mar 18, 2025
Ask HN: How to automate collecting HAR file while user is browsing
24 points • comment • jan 24, 2025
Show HN: A Valentine's Day experience for people who aren't celebrating
24 points • comment • feb 14, 2025
Joe Biden says 'oligarchy' emerging in US in final White House address
24 points • comment • jan 16, 2025
Literate Programming in Quarto
24 points • comment • feb 09, 2025