Unix: An Oral History(princeton.edu)

105 points by zdw 3 years ago | 20 comments

A Brutal Sex Trade Built for American Soldiers(nytimes.com)

20 points by karaokeyoga 3 years ago | 6 comments

LK-99: The live online race for a room-temperature superconductor(forums.spacebattles.com)

489 points by fofoz 3 years ago | 492 comments

A SpaceBattles forum thread discussing claims of the LK-99 room-temperature, ambient-pressure superconductor and the online efforts to replicate it.

Discussing CNET’s content-pruning to improve SEO ranking(tedium.co)

128 points by marban 3 years ago | 61 comments

The Eleuther AI Mafia(latent.space)

70 points by swyx 3 years ago | 38 comments

Insurance companies fill their networks with ‘ghost’ therapists(seattletimes.com)

81 points by apwheele 3 years ago | 70 comments

Happy New Year HN!

1218 points by thunderbong 2 years ago | 232 comments

A Hacker News discussion thread where a user wishes the community a happy 2024 and commenters share why they value HN.

A Skill.md for Commenting on Hacker News(blog.coredump.cx)

10 points by surprisetalk 1 month ago | 0 comments

A satirical blog post by lcamtuf framing Hacker News commenting habits as an AI agent SKILL.md, using dice rolls to pick stereotypical comment patterns.

Happy New Year 2025

1123 points by martynvandijke 1 year ago | 244 comments

A Hacker News discussion thread where users exchange New Year 2025 greetings and reflect on the community.

It's hard to write code for computers, but it's harder to write code for humans(erikbern.com)

429 points by imartin2k 2 years ago | 131 comments

Erik Bernhardsson's blog post arguing that writing code for humans, such as libraries, APIs and tools other developers use, is harder than writing code for computers.

A list of Hacker News's undocumented features and behaviors(github.com)

534 points by ssgodderidge 2 years ago | 208 comments

A GitHub README by minimaxir cataloging undocumented features and behaviors of Hacker News, such as karma effects, ranking penalties, and moderation mechanics.

Startup Winter: Hacker News Lost Its Faith(vincentschmalbach.com)

427 points by vincent_s 1 year ago | 306 comments

Blog post by Vincent Schmalbach arguing that Hacker News commenters have shifted from supporting failed founders in 2013 to cynicism about startups in 2025.