Top stories from this year

Bloom filters are good for search that does not scale

Why did containers happen?

A story about bypassing air Canada's in-flight network restrictions

Blender 4.5 LTS

Suno Studio, a Generative AI DAW

Conway's Game of Life, but musical

Microsoft doubles down on small modular reactors and fusion energy

'World Models,' an old idea in AI, mount a comeback

The value of hitting the HN front page

Google's Genie is more impressive than GPT5

NautilusTrader: Open-source algorithmic trading platform

Tech oligarchs have turned against the system that made them

Most people who buy games on Steam never play them

Xenharmlib: A music theory library that supports non-western harmonic systems

Brut: A New Web Framework for Ruby

How Frogger 2’s source code was recovered from a destroyed tape [video]

Meta found 'covertly tracking' Android users through Instagram and Facebook

Ask HN: I'm an MIT senior and still unemployed – and so are most of my friends

Falkon: A KDE Web Browser

NASA Shuts Off Voyager Science Instrument