Hacker News on Tuesday, 25 March 2025

Stories posted this day, by points. Rank history starts with the October 2026 rebuild.

Screenshot of supernuclear.substack.com: Stoop Coffee: A simple idea transformed my neighborhood

Stoop Coffee: A simple idea transformed my neighborhood (supernuclear.substack.com)

1485 points by surprisetalk 1 year ago | 454 comments

A guest post on the Supernuclear Substack by Patty Smith describing how a weekly stoop coffee tradition built community in her neighborhood.

community-building neighborhoods stoop-coffee supernuclear

Screenshot of openai.com: 4o Image Generation

4o Image Generation (openai.com)

976 points by meetpateltech 1 year ago | 524 comments

OpenAI's March 2025 announcement introducing native image generation in GPT-4o, available in ChatGPT.

openai gpt-4o image-generation chatgpt

Gemini 2.5 (blog.google)

910 points by meetpateltech 1 year ago | 450 comments

Google blog post announcing Gemini 2.5 Pro Experimental, a thinking model that leads common benchmarks with strong reasoning and coding capabilities.

gemini google-deepmind llm reasoning-models

Screenshot of refactoringenglish.com: The highest-ranking personal blogs of Hacker News

The highest-ranking personal blogs of Hacker News (refactoringenglish.com)

396 points by sharjeelsayed 1 year ago | 113 comments

An interactive leaderboard from Refactoring English ranking personal blog domains by their total Hacker News score, filterable by date range.

hacker-news personal-blogs rankings blogging

Screenshot of solipsys.co.uk: Sell yourself, sell your work

Sell yourself, sell your work (solipsys.co.uk)

391 points by ColinWright 1 year ago | 152 comments

Colin Wright's essay arguing that technically brilliant work is wasted unless you write it up clearly and communicate it to others.

communication technical-writing self-promotion engineering-culture

Screenshot of nytimes.com: Has the decline of knowledge work begun?

Has the decline of knowledge work begun?(nytimes.com)

351 points by pseudolus 1 year ago | 615 comments

New York Times article on white-collar layoffs and whether knowledge work is in decline; the page loaded only a captcha.

white-collar-jobs layoffs knowledge-work labor-market

Screenshot of toad.social: Spammers are better at SPF, DKIM, and DMARC than everyone else

Spammers are better at SPF, DKIM, and DMARC than everyone else (toad.social)

345 points by pabs3 1 year ago | 182 comments

Mastodon post by Bill Cole citing SpamAssassin mass-scan stats showing spammers implement SPF, DKIM, and DMARC better than legitimate senders.

email-authentication spf dkim dmarc

Screenshot of github.com: MCP server for Ghidra

MCP server for Ghidra (github.com)

337 points by tanelpoder 1 year ago | 64 comments

GitHub repository for GhidraMCP, a Model Context Protocol server that lets LLMs interact with the Ghidra reverse engineering tool.

ghidra mcp reverse-engineering llm

Screenshot of arstechnica.com: Devs say AI crawlers dominate traffic, forcing blocks on entire countries

Devs say AI crawlers dominate traffic, forcing blocks on entire countries (arstechnica.com)

329 points by LinuxBender 1 year ago | 232 comments

Ars Technica article reporting that open source developers face overwhelming AI crawler traffic, leading some to block entire countries to keep FOSS sites online.

ai-crawlers web-scraping foss-infrastructure bot-traffic

Screenshot of nytimes.com: In Jail Without a Lawyer: How a Texas Town Fails Poor Defendants