Size of Life(neal.fun)
2521 points by eatonphil | 277 comments
An interactive Neal.fun page comparing the sizes of living things, from tiny organisms to the largest creatures.
Hacker News on
Stories posted this day, by points. Rank history starts with the October 2026 rebuild.
Rust in the kernel is no longer experimental(lwn.net)
892 points by rascul | 660 comments
LWN brief reporting that kernel maintainers agreed at the Maintainers Summit that Rust in the Linux kernel is no longer experimental and is here to stay.
Getting a Gemini API key is an exercise in frustration(ankursethi.com)
785 points by speckx | 307 comments
A blog post by Ankur Sethi describing the frustrating process of obtaining a Google Gemini API key to try Gemini 3 Pro for a React side project.
Valve: HDMI Forum Continues to Block HDMI 2.1 for Linux(heise.de)
785 points by OsrsNeedsf2P | 437 comments
Heise news article reporting that the HDMI Forum still blocks an open-source HDMI 2.1 driver for Linux, preventing Valve and AMD from enabling it on the Steam Machine.
Auto-grading decade-old Hacker News discussions with hindsight(karpathy.bearblog.dev)
637 points by __rito__ | 261 comments
Andrej Karpathy blog post about using LLMs to grade decade-old Hacker News discussions and commenters' predictions with hindsight, presented as an "HN Time Capsule" site.
In New York City, congestion pricing leads to marked drop in pollution(e360.yale.edu)
360 points by Brajeshwar | 350 comments
Yale Environment 360 digest item reporting that New York City's congestion pricing program has led to a marked drop in air pollution.
Israel used Palantir technologies in pager attack in Lebanon(the307.substack.com)
359 points by cramsession | 322 comments
A Substack post from The Dissident claiming a new book reveals Israel used Palantir technologies in the 2024 pager attack in Lebanon.
Rubio stages font coup: Times New Roman ousts Calibri(reuters.com)
359 points by italophil | 615 comments
Reuters article reporting that Secretary of State Marco Rubio ordered the State Department to switch from Calibri back to Times New Roman; captured page shows a captcha.
EFF launches Age Verification Hub(eff.org)
343 points by iamnothere | 296 comments
EFF press release announcing its Age Verification Hub, a resource opposing age verification laws, plus a Reddit AMA and livestreamed panel.
Useful patterns for building HTML tools(simonwillison.net)
331 points by simonw | 93 comments
Simon Willison's blog post describing useful patterns for building single-file HTML/JavaScript/CSS tools, mostly written with LLMs, with examples.
Super Mario 64 for the PS1(github.com)
266 points by LaserDiscMan | 101 comments
Is it a bubble?(oaktreecapital.com)
246 points by saigrandhi | 391 comments
Cat Gap(en.wikipedia.org)
185 points by Petiver | 55 comments
Getting into public speaking(james.brooks.page)
140 points by jbrooksuk | 43 comments
Stop Breaking TLS(markround.com)
115 points by todsacerdoti | 77 comments
The future of Terraform CDK(github.com)
114 points by mfornasa | 112 comments
Factor 0.101 now available(re.factorcode.org)
113 points by birdculture | 14 comments
Apple Services Experiencing Outage(apple.com)
110 points by rock_artist | 53 comments
Dependable C(dependablec.org)
48 points by RossBencina | 39 comments
No-Tifier (2017)(subject.space)
32 points by aebtebeten | 11 comments
Making macOS Bearable(seg6.space)
27 points by seg6 | 31 comments
