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| 1. | Stoop Coffee: A simple idea transformed my neighborhood (supernuclear.substack.com) | |
| 1652 points | 2025 | author geverett showed up | their comment | thread
“We've been writing the blog for almost five years now, you never know what will go viral! I've spent my adult life living in Istanbul, New York, San Francisco, and San…” | ||
| 2. | What we talk about when we talk about sideloading (f-droid.org) | |
| 1516 points | 2025 | author marcprux showed up | their comment | thread
“I admit I am rather startled by the tone of many comments here and the accusations of disingenuity. Splitting hairs about the origin of the term "sideload" does not…” | ||
| 3. | F-Droid and Google’s developer registration decree (f-droid.org) | |
| 1478 points | 2025 | author marcprux showed up | their comment | thread
“I've also been in various DMA enforcement workshops and consulted with EU regulators on the topic of app distribution. The "strictly necessary and proportionate measures…” | ||
| 4. | JavaScript Temporal is coming (developer.mozilla.org) | |
| 1405 points | 2025 | author bsmth showed up | their comment | thread
“I have to admit I enjoyed your comment. This is because it's mostly reference documentation, so each method of each class has it's own page, for example:” | ||
| 5. | TypeScript types can run DOOM [video] (youtube.com) | |
| 1328 points | 2025 | author dimitropoulos showed up | their comment (+6 more) | thread
“pause on that screen and look at the code displayed on the right (as well as the note at the bottom!) the way to do keyboard inputs is basically exactly what people do…” | ||
| 6. | Ingesting PDFs and why Gemini 2.0 changes everything (sergey.fyi) | |
| 1303 points | 2025 | author serjester showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“measuring accuracy in table parsing is surprisingly challenging. Subtle, almost imperceptible differences in how a table is parsed may not affect the reader's…” | ||
| 7. | A receipt printer cured my procrastination (laurieherault.com) | |
| 1255 points | 2025 | author laurieherault showed up (and submitted it) | their comment (+2 more) | thread
“It’s my first article. I’m a bit nervous but excited to get your feedback. If you deal with procrastination too, I hope this method helps you like it helped me.” | ||
| 8. | Apple's Software Quality Crisis (eliseomartelli.it) | |
| 1196 points | 2025 | author eliseomartelli showed up | their comment (+2 more) | thread
“incredible how much more demanding applications (at least on paper) don't suffer from the same pitfalls of Apple's native apps. By the looks of it, it's a widespread…” | ||
| 9. | I didn't bring my son to a museum to look at screens (sethpurcell.com) | |
| 1185 points | 2025 | author sethpurcell showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“thanks for your comment. I'm really sad to hear that everyone was let go; as I said, I loved TFI like nothing else when I was a kid. I completely understand the…” | ||
| 10. | Tracing the thoughts of a large language model (anthropic.com) | |
| 1072 points | 2025 | author colah3 showed up | their comment | thread | on Y Recombinator
“Hi! I'm one of the authors. There certainly are many interesting parallels here. I often think about this from the perspective of systems biology, in Uri Alon's…” | ||
| 11. | Operating System in 1,000 Lines – Intro (operating-system-in-1000-lines.vercel.app) | |
| 1060 points | 2025 | author nuta showed up | their comment | thread
“I wrote this book so you can spend a boring weekend writing an operating system from scratch. You don’t have to write it in C - you can use your favorite programming…” | ||
| 12. | Bypassing Google's big anti-adblock update (0x44.xyz) | |
| 1044 points | 2025 | author deryilz showed up (and submitted it) | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“sorry. I don't think any open-source extension (especially large adblockers with millions of users) could actually get away with using this bug, because Google is paying…” | ||
| 13. | AlphaEvolve: A Gemini-powered coding agent for designing advanced algorithms (deepmind.google) | |
| 1036 points | 2025 | author alexnovikov showed up | their comment | thread
“We are aware of the Winograd scheme, but note that it only works over commutative rings, which means that it's not applicable recursively to larger matrices (and doesn't…” | ||
| 14. | Google is winning on every AI front (thealgorithmicbridge.com) | |
| 1005 points | 2025 | author AlbertoRomGar showed up | their comment | thread
“It was there since the beginning, just behind the paywall, which I removed due to the amount of interest the topic was receiving.” | ||
| 15. | Enough AI copilots, we need AI HUDs (geoffreylitt.com) | |
| 979 points | 2025 | author gklitt showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“Yes, I think the original GitHub Copilot autocomplete UI is (ironically) a good example of a HUD! Tab autocomplete just becomes part of your mental flow. Recent coding…” | ||
| 16. | AnimeJs v4 Is Here (animejs.com) | |
| 973 points | 2025 | author JulianGarnier showed up | their comment (+2 more) | thread
“I'm thinking about making a course on how to re-create the landing page, would that be something you're interested in?” | ||
| 17. | Everyone in Seattle hates AI (jonready.com) | |
| 967 points | 2025 | author mips_avatar showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“Author here if anyone has thoughts” | ||
| 18. | The DuckDB Local UI (duckdb.org) | |
| 926 points | 2025 | author szarnyasg showed up | their comment | thread
“I agree that the wording was confusing – apologies for the confusion. I added a note at the end:” | ||
| 19. | How I program with LLMs (crawshaw.io) | |
| 919 points | 2025 | author crawshaw showed up | their comment | thread
“FIM is a term of art in LLM research for a style of tokens used to implement code completion. In particular, it refers to training an LLM with the extra non-printing…” | ||
| 20. | KDE is now my favorite desktop (kokada.dev) | |
| 892 points | 2025 | author kokada showed up | their comment (+10 more) | thread
“Happy to answer questions.” | ||
| 21. | Cloudlflare builds OAuth with Claude and publishes all the prompts (github.com) | |
| 889 points | 2025 | author kentonv showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread | on Y Recombinator
“Or uhhh... the AI prompter, I guess... I'm also the lead engineer and initial creator of the Cloudflare Workers platform. -------------- Plug: This library is used as…” | ||
| 22. | FFmpeg School of Assembly Language (github.com) | |
| 869 points | 2025 | author kierank showed up | their comment | thread
“Ask me anything.” | ||
| 23. | Claude Code is all you need (dwyer.co.za) | |
| 851 points | 2025 | author sixhobbits showed up (and submitted it) | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“I did feel kinda bad about it as I've always been a 'good' HNer until that point but honestly it didn't feel that spammy to me compared to some human generated slop I…” | ||
| 24. | I gave the AI arms and legs then it rejected me (grell.dev) | |
| 809 points | 2025 | author pentamassiv showed up | their comment | thread
“Thank you for submitting this. If you have any questions feel free to ask and please let me know how the writing was. It's one of my first posts so I'd like to improve” | ||
| 25. | Show HN: Strange Attractors (blog.shashanktomar.com) | |
| 804 points | 2025 | author shashanktomar showed up (and submitted it) | their comment (+2 more) | thread
“I have tried labeling the "More Information" sections as "AI Generated" where it was directly summarized from the wikipedia article, otherwise most of the post is…” | ||
| 26. | Zod 4 (zod.dev) | |
| 782 points | 2025 | author colinmcd showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“AMA! Regarding the versioning: I wrote a fairly detailed writeup here[0] for those who are interested in the reasons for this approach. Ultimately npm is not designed to…” | ||
| 27. | Smuggling arbitrary data through an emoji (paulbutler.org) | |
| 769 points | 2025 | author paulgb showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“some people in this thread and elsewhere asked me about whether an LLM could decode this, and the answer seems to be: not likely by itself, but it often can if it has…” | ||
| 28. | Vibe code is legacy code (blog.val.town) | |
| 758 points | 2025 | author stevekrouse showed up | their comment | thread
“very excited to chat with you all about this :)” | ||
| 29. | Show HN: Nue – Apps lighter than a React button (nuejs.org) | |
| 756 points | 2025 | author tipiirai showed up (and submitted it) | their comment (+6 more) | thread
“To clarify: a button installed via ShadCN/Vite’s official docs () ends up way heavier than a full Nue SPA. It’s not a jab at React devs—just showing how web standards…” | ||
| 30. | Ask for no, don't ask for yes (2022) (mooreds.com) | |
| 749 points | 2025 | author mooreds showed up (and submitted it) | their comment (+2 more) | thread
“Ah, this is interesting feedback. I think that there's some nuance to this approach that I didn't capture in the post. You have to have some level of trust between…” | ||
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