Keep Android Open
Discussions revolve around app verification, malware sources, and security measures on Android, with some skepticism about the effectiveness of stricter control…
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Best Hacker News stories of 2025
The top 50 stories by score from Birbla's archive for 2025, updated monthly. These evergreen pages compound in search — unlike date-stamped daily archives.
10M people watched a YouTuber shim a lock; the lock company sued him – bad idea
1585 pts, 632 comments
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What we talk about when we talk about sideloading
1516 pts, 629 comments
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It's insulting to read AI-generated blog posts
1300 pts, 540 comments
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Mr TIFF
1052 pts, 150 comments
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Minecraft removing obfuscation in Java Edition
1027 pts, 464 comments
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Israel demanded Google and Amazon use secret 'wink' to sidestep legal orders
963 pts, 437 comments
963 points · 437 comments · Add your take →
Facts about throwing good parties
963 pts, 412 comments
963 points · 412 comments · Add your take →
Free software scares normal people
941 pts, 623 comments
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Tell HN: Azure outage
885 pts, 806 comments
885 points · 806 comments · Add your take →
Linux gamers on Steam cross over the 3% mark
832 pts, 536 comments
832 points · 536 comments · Add your take →
ChatGPT's Atlas: The Browser That's Anti-Web
800 pts, 351 comments
800 points · 351 comments · Add your take →
Strange Attractors
790 pts, 78 comments
790 points · 78 comments · Add your take →
EuroLLM: LLM made in Europe built to support all 24 official EU languages
773 pts, 606 comments
773 points · 606 comments · Add your take →
AWS to bare metal two years later: Answering your questions about leaving AWS
727 pts, 491 comments
727 points · 491 comments · Add your take →
Zohran Mamdani wins the New York mayoral race
707 pts, 1168 comments
707 points · 1168 comments · Add your take →
New gel restores dental enamel and could revolutionise tooth repair
685 pts, 258 comments
685 points · 258 comments · Add your take →
China has added forest the size of Texas since 1990
673 pts, 631 comments
673 points · 631 comments · Add your take →
987654321 / 123456789
636 pts, 107 comments
636 points · 107 comments · Add your take →
Tell HN: X is opening any tweet link in a webview whether you press it or not
614 pts, 517 comments
614 points · 517 comments · Add your take →
Attention lapses due to sleep deprivation due to flushing fluid from brain
614 pts, 291 comments
614 points · 291 comments · Add your take →
Tiny electric motor can produce more than 1,000 horsepower
606 pts, 598 comments
606 points · 598 comments · Add your take →
Chat Control proposal fails again after public opposition
595 pts, 157 comments
595 points · 157 comments · Add your take →
You can't refuse to be scanned by ICE's facial recognition app, DHS document say
595 pts, 509 comments
595 points · 509 comments · Add your take →
Denmark reportedly withdraws Chat Control proposal following controversy
575 pts, 235 comments
575 points · 235 comments · Add your take →
Kafka is Fast – I'll use Postgres
557 pts, 401 comments
557 points · 401 comments · Add your take →
Who needs Graphviz when you can build it yourself?
521 pts, 108 comments
521 points · 108 comments · Add your take →
How I use every Claude Code feature
521 pts, 188 comments
521 points · 188 comments · Add your take →
I took all my projects off the cloud, saving thousands of dollars
520 pts, 395 comments
520 points · 395 comments · Add your take →
The AirPods Pro 3 flight problem
513 pts, 274 comments
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URLs are state containers
512 pts, 213 comments
512 points · 213 comments · Add your take →
John Carmack on mutable variables
512 pts, 627 comments
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Tips for stroke-surviving software engineers
505 pts, 189 comments
505 points · 189 comments · Add your take →
Updated practice for review articles and position papers in ArXiv CS category
498 pts, 236 comments
498 points · 236 comments · Add your take →
Visopsys: OS maintained by a single developer since 1997
494 pts, 145 comments
494 points · 145 comments · Add your take →
I’m worried that they put co-pilot in Excel
494 pts, 334 comments
494 points · 334 comments · Add your take →
How the cochlea computes (2024)
482 pts, 150 comments
482 points · 150 comments · Add your take →
You can't cURL a Border
471 pts, 278 comments
471 points · 278 comments · Add your take →
Tinkering is a way to acquire good taste
470 pts, 381 comments
470 points · 381 comments · Add your take →
AI's Dial-Up Era
469 pts, 433 comments
469 points · 433 comments · Add your take →
Claude Code can debug low-level cryptography
465 pts, 208 comments
465 points · 208 comments · Add your take →
Leaker reveals which Pixels are vulnerable to Cellebrite phone hacking
464 pts, 355 comments
464 points · 355 comments · Add your take →
Dithering – Part 1
461 pts, 96 comments
461 points · 96 comments · Add your take →
Why Nextcloud feels slow to use
453 pts, 350 comments
453 points · 350 comments · Add your take →
YouTube erased more than 700 videos documenting Israeli human rights violations
453 pts, 126 comments
453 points · 126 comments · Add your take →
uBlock Origin Lite in Apple App Store
443 pts, 238 comments
443 points · 238 comments · Add your take →
Futurelock: A subtle risk in async Rust
441 pts, 245 comments
441 points · 245 comments · Add your take →
My Truck Desk
440 pts, 113 comments
440 points · 113 comments · Add your take →
This week in 1988, Robert Morris unleashed his eponymous worm
437 pts, 183 comments
437 points · 183 comments · Add your take →
Simple trick to increase coverage: Lying to users about signal strength
437 pts, 181 comments
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