Best of 2025

The blog posts Hacker News loved most in 2025. 146 posts.

Tools & Productivity
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Positron, a New Data Science IDE

We are excited to introduce Positron , a free, next-generation Integrated Development Environment (IDE) for data science by Posit PBC. Positron brings the spectrum of exploration and production work together in one environment so you can move from ideation to insight to application without switching context…

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Robotics and ROS 2 Essentials

Learn Robotics and ROS 2 Have you been looking for a good place to start your robotics and ROS 2 learning journey? Look no further! We are proud to announce that together with the University of Eastern Finland, we have open-sourced the robotics part from our “Robotics & XR” master’s-level course. You can find the […]