Hackernews posts about DEC

DEC is Digital Equipment Corporation, a pioneering American computer company that played a significant role in shaping the computing industry from the 1950s to the 1990s.

1. Peerweb: Decentralized website hosting via WebTorrent (peerweb.lol)
   377 points by dtj1123 19 days ago | 124 comments
2. The US is flirting with its first-ever population decline (www.bloomberg.com)
   303 points by alephnerd 8 days ago | 1006 comments
3. Apple patches decade-old iOS zero-day, possibly exploited by commercial spyware (www.theregister.com)
   266 points by beardyw 6 days ago | 230 comments
4. I let ChatGPT analyze a decade of my Apple Watch data, then I called my doctor (www.msn.com)
   243 points by zdw 23 days ago | 231 comments
5. The percentage of Show HN posts is increasing, but their scores are decreasing (snubi.net)
   237 points by plastic041 28 days ago | 160 comments
6. A GTA modder has got the 1997 original working on modern PCs and Steam Deck (gtaforums.com)
   226 points by HelloUsername 10 days ago | 118 comments
7. Shifts in U.S. Social Media Use, 2020–2024: Decline, Fragmentation, Polarization (2025) (arxiv.org)
   212 points by vinnyglennon 10 days ago | 209 comments
8. Cells use 'bioelectricity' to coordinate and make group decisions (www.quantamagazine.org)
   186 points by marojejian 18 days ago | 85 comments
9. Resurrecting Crimsonland – Decompiling and preserving a cult 2003 classic game (banteg.xyz)
   180 points by banteg 17 days ago | 49 comments
10. FDA declines to review Moderna's mRNA flu shot (www.nbcnews.com)
    166 points by bikenaga 8 days ago | 118 comments
11. December in Servo: multiple windows, proxy support, better caching, and more (servo.org)
    153 points by t-3 25 days ago | 16 comments
12. UN declares that the world has entered an era of 'global water bankruptcy' (www.smithsonianmag.com)
    134 points by pseudolus 24 days ago | 128 comments
13. Decompiling Xbox games using PDB debug info (i686.me)
    123 points by orange_redditor 23 days ago | 20 comments
14. Recoverable and Irrecoverable Decisions (herbertlui.net)
    95 points by herbertl 6 days ago | 33 comments
15. Eddie Bauer declares bankruptcy (www.cbsnews.com)
    83 points by mgh2 9 days ago | 67 comments
16. Evolving Git for the Next Decade (lwn.net)
    82 points by AndrewDucker 4 days ago | 19 comments
17. The long tail of LLM-assisted decompilation (blog.chrislewis.au)
    80 points by knackers 2 days ago | 30 comments
18. EU must become a 'genuine federation' to avoid deindustrialisation and decline (www.euronews.com)
    79 points by saubeidl 16 days ago | 209 comments
19. 'Tesla is (still) trying to deceive investors into thinking it has SF robotaxis' (electrek.co)
    66 points by MilnerRoute 17 days ago | 6 comments
20. Show HN: Octosphere, a tool to decentralise scientific publishing (octosphere.social)
    64 points by crimsoneer 15 days ago | 36 comments
21. Is liberal democracy in terminal decline? (www.ft.com)
    63 points by alephnerd 26 days ago | 173 comments
22. SCOTUS to decide if 1988 video tape privacy law applies to internet uses (www.jurist.org)
    59 points by voxadam 11 days ago | 27 comments
23. Evolution of car door handles over the decades (newatlas.com)
    55 points by andsoitis 15 days ago | 83 comments
24. Japan Is What Late-Stage Capitalist Decline Looks Like (oceandrops.substack.com)
    55 points by olabolola 1 day ago | 60 comments
25. Declassifying JUMPSEAT: an American pioneer in space (www.nro.gov)
    52 points by mkmk 21 days ago | 26 comments
26. Instruction decoding in the Intel 8087 floating-point chip (www.righto.com)
    51 points by pwg 4 days ago | 14 comments
27. Trump aides declared 16 DHS shootings justified before probes completed (www.washingtonpost.com)
    46 points by boplicity 22 days ago | 7 comments
28. Decentralizing my smartphone with single purpose devices (ambertherambler.bearblog.dev)
    44 points by speckx 15 days ago | 66 comments
29. US population growth slows as immigration declines (www.reuters.com)
    44 points by geox 22 days ago | 10 comments
30. Vargai/SDK – JSX for AI video, declarative programming language for Claude Code (varg.ai)
    43 points by alex_varga 27 days ago | 22 comments