Lou Gerstner, IBM’s Transformative CEO (1993–2002): Legacy and Leadership
TL;DR IBM announced the death of Lou Gerstner, who led the company from 1993 to 2002 and is credited with…
Why I Quit LinkedIn: A Case for Deleting the Platform and Regaining Time
TL;DR Writer Joan Westenberg says she deleted her LinkedIn account after growing frustrated with impersonal connections, pitch-driven messages and low-quality…
Victor LaValle’s subversive cosmic-horror novella The Ballad of Black Tom
TL;DR Victor LaValle’s The Ballad of Black Tom retells H.P. Lovecraft’s The Horror at Red Hook from the perspective of…
Users report Google prioritizes local-language results over English searches
TL;DR Several users on Hacker News say Google Search increasingly returns results in their local language and auto-translates content even…
How Nintendo’s infamously bad Power Glove helped shape modern VR
TL;DR The Nintendo Power Glove was an ambitious but flawed late-1980s controller that let players use their body rather than…
Ask HN: Readers Share Their Favorite Podcasts of 2025 — Picks and Notes
TL;DR On an Ask HN thread, readers listed podcasts they found notable in 2025, highlighting shows that critique media narratives,…
Global memory chip shortage reshapes smartphone and PC markets in 2026
TL;DR A surge in demand for memory used in AI data centers has tightened supply of general-purpose DRAM and NAND,…
A ‘Prime’ View of Hacker News: an archival math-themed index of early posts
TL;DR The page is an archival, prime-themed index of Hacker News posts that lists titles, point scores, usernames and ages…