Hacker News on Friday, 4 July 2025

Nvidia won, we all lost(blog.sebin-nyshkim.net)

821 points by todsacerdoti 1 year ago | 459 comments

A personal blog post titled "NVIDIA is full of shit" by Sebin Nyshkim, criticizing Nvidia's recent GPU products and business practices.

My open source project was relicensed by a YC company [license updated](twitter.com)

669 points by sohzm 1 year ago | 343 comments

A tweet by a developer saying a Y Combinator-backed company relicensed his open source project, with a later update about the license being changed.

Being too ambitious is a clever form of self-sabotage(maalvika.substack.com)

652 points by alihm 1 year ago | 183 comments

A Substack essay by Maalvika arguing that excessive ambition and perfectionism keep creators from starting and finishing their work.

The Rise of Whatever(eev.ee)

433 points by cratermoon 1 year ago | 339 comments

Blog essay by Eevee on fuzzy notepad arguing computers became less fun, tracing a thread through Bitcoin and later tech trends toward a culture of 'whatever'.

Mini NASes marry NVMe to Intel's efficient chip(jeffgeerling.com)

422 points by ingve 1 year ago | 213 comments

Jeff Geerling blog post reviewing compact mini NAS devices that combine NVMe SSD storage with Intel's efficient low-power processors.

Major reversal in ocean circulation detected in the Southern Ocean(icm.csic.es)

407 points by riffraff 1 year ago | 272 comments

Institut de Ciències del Mar (ICM-CSIC) news release on a major reversal in Southern Ocean circulation detected using satellite data processing algorithms, with climate implications.

OBBB signed: Reinstates immediate expensing for U.S.-based R&D(kbkg.com)

395 points by tareqak 1 year ago | 315 comments

KBKG article on the House passing the One Big Beautiful Bill tax package, which reinstates immediate expensing of domestic R&D costs.

Why I left my tech job to work on chronic pain(sailhealth.substack.com)

353 points by glasscannon 1 year ago | 216 comments

Substack post by Dan Sutherland on why he left his tech job to work on chronic pain after years of persistent unexplained pains.

Larry (cat)(en.wikipedia.org)

326 points by dcminter 1 year ago | 72 comments

Wikipedia article about Larry, the tabby cat serving as Chief Mouser to the Cabinet Office at 10 Downing Street since 2011.

Can an email go 500 miles in 2025?(flak.tedunangst.com)

292 points by zdw 1 year ago | 112 comments

Show HN: I AI-coded a tower defense game and documented the whole process(github.com)

291 points by M4v3R 1 year ago | 142 comments

The first time I was almost fired from Apple(engineersneedart.com)

278 points by chmaynard 1 year ago | 115 comments

EverQuest(filfre.net)

262 points by dmazin 1 year ago | 148 comments

Data on AI-related Show HN posts(ryanfarley.co)

254 points by rfarley04 1 year ago | 143 comments

Writing a Game Boy Emulator in OCaml (2022)(linoscope.github.io)

251 points by ibobev 1 year ago | 59 comments

Neanderthals operated prehistoric “fat factory” on German lakeshore(archaeologymag.com)

250 points by hilux 1 year ago | 187 comments

Is an Intel N100 or N150 a better value than a Raspberry Pi?(jeffgeerling.com)

247 points by transpute 1 year ago | 219 comments

Everything around LLMs is still magical and wishful thinking(dmitriid.com)

231 points by troupo 1 year ago | 236 comments

Zig breaking change – Initial Writergate(github.com)

216 points by Retro_Dev 1 year ago | 200 comments

Incapacitating Google Tag Manager (2022)(backlit.neocities.org)

207 points by fsflover 1 year ago | 143 comments

The chemical secrets that help keep honey fresh for so long(bbc.com)

207 points by bookofjoe 1 year ago | 147 comments

Epanet-JS(macwright.com)

202 points by surprisetalk 1 year ago | 22 comments

Hymn to Babylon, missing for a millennium, has been discovered(phys.org)

197 points by wglb 1 year ago | 91 comments

Lightfastness Testing of Colored Pencils(sarahrenaeclark.com)

183 points by picture 1 year ago | 45 comments

Show HN: Piano Trainer – Learn piano scales, chords and more using MIDI(github.com)

180 points by FinalDestiny 1 year ago | 55 comments

Why are there no good dinosaur films?(briannazigler.substack.com)

167 points by fremden 1 year ago | 418 comments

ChatGPT creates phisher's paradise by serving the wrong URLs for major companies(theregister.com)

164 points by josephcsible 1 year ago | 17 comments

What Microchip doesn't (officially) tell you about the VSC8512(serd.es)

158 points by ahlCVA 1 year ago | 81 comments

Sleeping beauty Bitcoin wallets wake up after 14 years to the tune of $2B(marketwatch.com)

156 points by aorloff 1 year ago | 365 comments

Kepler.gl(kepler.gl)

153 points by 9woc 1 year ago | 19 comments

WASM Agents: AI agents running in the browser(blog.mozilla.ai)

146 points by selvan 1 year ago | 38 comments

Bcachefs may be headed out of the kernel(lwn.net)

134 points by ksec 1 year ago | 219 comments

# [derive(Clone)] Is Broken(rgbcu.be)

124 points by RGBCube 1 year ago | 94 comments

The story behind Caesar salad(nationalgeographic.com)

122 points by Bluestein 1 year ago | 82 comments

We're Not Innovating, We're Just Forgetting Slower(elektormagazine.com)

112 points by obscurette 1 year ago | 102 comments

Air pollution may contribute to development of lung cancer in never-smokers(today.ucsd.edu)

111 points by gmays 1 year ago | 44 comments

Serving 200M requests per day with a CGI-bin(jacob.gold)

108 points by feep 1 year ago | 47 comments

Eight dormant Satoshi-era Bitcoin wallets reactivated after 14 yrs(twitter.com)

103 points by amrrs 1 year ago | 69 comments

LooksMapping(looksmapping.com)

99 points by elsewhen 1 year ago | 52 comments

I want to leave tech: what do I do?(write.as)

99 points by todsacerdoti 1 year ago | 89 comments

Gremllm(github.com)

95 points by andreabergia 1 year ago | 13 comments

LLM-assisted writing in biomedical publications through excess vocabulary(science.org)

90 points by em3rgent0rdr 1 year ago | 78 comments

As a Labrador swam by me out to sea his owner said I hope he doesn't meet a seal(irishtimes.com)

89 points by austinallegro 1 year ago | 53 comments

Compression Dictionary Transport(developer.mozilla.org)

83 points by todsacerdoti 1 year ago | 27 comments

Is Anybody Using This Private Key(isanybodyusingthisprivatekey.com)

82 points by black6 1 year ago | 43 comments

Show HN: BunkerWeb – the open-source and cloud-native WAF(docs.bunkerweb.io)

81 points by bnkty 1 year ago | 28 comments

The US dollar is on track for its worst year in modern history(semafor.com)

75 points by harambae 1 year ago | 61 comments

Show HN: AirBending – Hand gesture based macOS app MIDI controller(nanassound.com)

70 points by bepitulaz 1 year ago | 19 comments

Prompting LLMs is not engineering(dmitriid.com)

67 points by Bluestein 1 year ago | 48 comments

The Amiga 3000 Unix and Sun Microsystems: Deal or No Deal?(datagubbe.se)

63 points by wicket 1 year ago | 19 comments

DRM Panic QR code generator(rust-for-linux.com)

62 points by weinzierl 1 year ago | 27 comments

What is going on in Unix with errno's limited nature(utcc.utoronto.ca)

61 points by ingve 1 year ago | 38 comments

So you wanna build an aging company(librariesforthefuture.bio)

58 points by apsec112 1 year ago | 60 comments

Lessons from creating my first text adventure(entropicthoughts.com)

57 points by kqr 1 year ago | 8 comments

Can Large Language Models Play Text Games Well? (2023)(arxiv.org)

56 points by willvarfar 1 year ago | 43 comments

The Cat's Meat Man: Feeding Felines in Victorian London(publicdomainreview.org)

52 points by ohjeez 1 year ago | 6 comments

When Your Exit Strategy Dream Is My Customer Nightmare(my-notes.dragas.net)

52 points by edent 1 year ago | 28 comments

Memstop: Use LD_PRELOAD to delay process execution when low on memory(github.com)

51 points by ingve 1 year ago | 38 comments

A compact bitset implementation used in Ocarina of Time save files(github.com)

47 points by todsacerdoti 1 year ago | 38 comments

The ITTAGE indirect branch predictor(blog.nelhage.com)

47 points by Bogdanp 1 year ago | 12 comments