Hackernews posts about Oxford

Oxford is a renowned British university that has made significant contributions to various fields, including medicine and research.

University of Oxford Is Older Than the Aztec Empire and Other Facts of History (2013) (www.smithsonianmag.com)

69 points by thunderbong 2 days ago | 19 comments
Oxford Uni student data pwned yet again, this time via career platform breach (www.theregister.com)

6 points by Bender 29 days ago | discuss
Oxford University discloses data breach after careers platform hack (www.bleepingcomputer.com)

4 points by Brajeshwar 28 days ago | discuss
Oxford's top maths professor: 'The devil could use AI to destroy the world' (www.telegraph.co.uk)

2 points by 01-_- 13 days ago | discuss
Oxford Digital News Report 2026 (reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk)

2 points by thm 20 days ago | discuss
OED Text Visualizer (oed-text-visualizer.oxfordlanguages.com)

2 points by loughnane 7 days ago | discuss
Corca raised a $7.8M seed led by NEA, NVenture to democratize math for everyone (twitter.com)

3 points by OxfordCommand 26 days ago | discuss
Matthias Wandel's web page overflow area (matt.wandel.ca)

1 points by OJFord 18 days ago | discuss
Oxford loses top 3 university ranking in the UK (hotminute.co.uk)

271 points by ilamont 10 months ago | 428 comments
’Brain rot‘ named Oxford Word of the Year 2024 (corp.oup.com)

210 points by ChrisArchitect over 1 year ago | 164 comments
Oxford accused of relying on young academics employed on gig-economy terms (www.theguardian.com)

191 points by Michelangelo11 over 1 year ago | 115 comments
Oxfordshire clock still keeping village on time after 500 years (www.bbc.com)

165 points by 1659447091 about 1 year ago | 88 comments
C++26: The Oxford Variadic Comma (www.sandordargo.com)

123 points by ingve 4 months ago | 77 comments
Isengard in Oxford (lareviewofbooks.org)

117 points by lermontov 7 months ago | 17 comments
Oxford commercializes its 20% more powerful solar panels in the US (electrek.co)

91 points by peutetre almost 2 years ago | 50 comments
Of mice and men and Magdalen: C. S. Lewis’s Oxford (thecritic.co.uk)

61 points by drdee almost 2 years ago | 23 comments
We Shall Fight in the Buttery – Oxford's War 1939–1945 (literaryreview.co.uk)

55 points by andrewl over 1 year ago | 11 comments
Oxford All Souls College General Examination (2025) [pdf] (www.asc.ox.ac.uk)

53 points by gregsadetsky 2 months ago | 55 comments
The Oxford Comma – Why and Why Not (2024) (www.deborahcourtbooks.com)

43 points by taubek 3 months ago | 60 comments
Don't "buy" e-books from Oxford University Press (kelar.org)

36 points by pvdebbe about 1 year ago | 18 comments
Oxford's Philosophy of Mathematics YouTube series [video] (www.youtube.com)

36 points by FarhadG almost 2 years ago | 2 comments
Can you take an ox to Oxford? (alexwlchan.net)

35 points by surprisetalk 8 months ago | 72 comments
2024 general essay questions for Oxford 'All Souls' scholarship [pdf] (www.asc.ox.ac.uk)

22 points by thundergolfer over 1 year ago | 15 comments
XML Summer School, Oxford. 14th to 19th Sept 2025 (xmlsummerschool.org)

20 points by adamretter 12 months ago | 14 comments
Two Oxford Minds Are Redefining Photoshop: Turn Any Photo into a Meme (techcrunch.com)

17 points by arnabgho almost 2 years ago | discuss
Oxford might be best described as a city of books (thecritic.co.uk)

13 points by pepys 9 months ago | discuss
Larry Ellison Is Spending Billions to Reshape Oxford and His Own Legacy (www.wsj.com)

12 points by bookofjoe 10 months ago | 3 comments
Oxford Union believes Israel is a greater threat to regional stability than Iran (www.oxfordstudent.com)

9 points by hggh 8 months ago | 5 comments
Over a pint in Oxford, we may have stumbled upon the holy grail of agriculture (www.theguardian.com)

9 points by 6LLvveMx2koXfwn 7 months ago | 1 comments
Oxford Electric Bell (en.wikipedia.org)

8 points by thunderbong over 1 year ago | discuss
Oxford explains what made Earth shake "every 90 seconds over nine days" in 2023 (www.neowin.net)

7 points by Bluestein 12 months ago | 1 comments
Oxford Word of the Year 2025 is rage bait (corp.oup.com)

6 points by ChrisArchitect 7 months ago | 5 comments
'Rage Bait' Named Oxford Word of the Year 2025 (www.bbc.com)

6 points by skx001 7 months ago | discuss
Oxford's AI Chair: LLMs are a hack [video] (www.youtube.com)

6 points by mgh2 12 months ago | discuss
More accurate than lightning: Oxford's new quantum gate (www.sciencedaily.com)

5 points by karlperera about 1 year ago | 1 comments
Sophie Germain and Prime Numbers – James Maynard (Oxford Mathematics) [video] (www.youtube.com)

5 points by vismit2000 2 months ago | discuss
Oxford's one-in-6.7M quantum breakthrough (www.sciencedaily.com)

5 points by colinprince 12 months ago | discuss
Oxford scientists achieve teleportation with quantum supercomputer (www.independent.co.uk)

5 points by pseudolus over 1 year ago | discuss