Best of 2025

The blog posts Hacker News loved most in 2025. 6,220 posts.

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Estrogen: A Trip Report

I have gender dysphoria . I find labels overly reifying; I feel reluctant to call myself transgender , per se: when prompted to state my gender identity or preferred pronouns, I fold my hands into the dhyana mudra and state that I practice emptiness on the concept of gender . Mostly people seem to vibe it, but…

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Darklang Goes Open Source

As part of shutting down Dark Inc. and forming Darklang Inc., we've finally open-sourced all of our repositories. Our source code is now under the Apache License 2.0. For years, we wrestled with questions of sustainability and how to build something that truly empowers developers. We've

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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…