Databases in 2025: A Year in Review(cs.cmu.edu)
640 points by viveknathani_ | 173 comments
Andy Pavlo's annual blog post reviewing the major trends and happenings in the database industry during 2025.
#year-in-review on Hacker News
9 stories tagged year-in-review, newest first.
2025 Letter(danwang.co)
337 points by Amorymeltzer | 254 comments
Dan Wang's 2025 annual letter, a year-in-review essay comparing Silicon Valley and the Chinese Communist Party, among other reflections.
2025: The Year in LLMs(simonwillison.net)
823 points by simonw | 451 comments
Simon Willison's annual blog post reviewing major LLM trends of 2025, including reasoning models, coding agents, Chinese open weight models, and Gemini.
Last Year on My Mac: Look Back in Disbelief(eclecticlight.co)
381 points by vitosartori | 280 comments
An Eclectic Light Company blog post by Howard Oakley looking back at the past year of Mac and macOS developments with disbelief.
The best things and stuff of 2025(blog.fogus.me)
370 points by adityaathalye | 82 comments
Fogus's annual personal list of favorite posts, articles, videos, books, and other things discovered in 2025, with short commentary on each.
LLM Year in Review(karpathy.bearblog.dev)
324 points by swyx | 121 comments
Andrej Karpathy's blog post reviewing major developments in large language models during 2025, dated December 19, 2025.
Databases in 2024: A Year in Review(cs.cmu.edu)
545 points by avinassh | 175 comments
Andy Pavlo's annual blog retrospective on the database industry in 2024, covering acquisitions, license changes, and other notable events.
Things we learned about LLMs in 2024(simonwillison.net)
871 points by simonw | 530 comments
Simon Willison's blog post reviewing the major developments, themes and pivotal moments in large language models during 2024.
Deno in 2023(deno.com)
382 points by olestr | 183 comments
Deno company blog post reviewing the Deno JavaScript/TypeScript runtime's releases and developments during 2023.