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Hacker News (Jan 2025)

  1. DOOM CAPTCHA

    1247 points • comment • jan 01, 2025

  2. uBlock Origin GPL code being stolen by team behind honey browser extension

    997 points • comment • jan 02, 2025

  3. I am rich and have no idea what to do

    891 points • comment • jan 02, 2025

  4. One of my papers got declined today

    832 points • comment • jan 01, 2025

  5. Can LLMs write better code if you keep asking them to “write better code”?

    754 points • comment • jan 03, 2025

  6. iTerm2 critical security release

    642 points • comment • jan 02, 2025

  7. Static search trees: faster than binary search

    627 points • comment • jan 01, 2025

  8. MitmProxy2Swagger: Automagically reverse-engineer REST APIs

    569 points • comment • jan 02, 2025

  9. Databases in 2024: A Year in Review

    562 points • comment • jan 01, 2025

  10. 30% drop in O1-preview accuracy when Putnam problems are slightly variated

    544 points • comment • jan 01, 2025

  11. Self driving 1993 Volvo with open pilot

    529 points • comment • jan 04, 2025

  12. Show HN: I completed shipping my desktop app

    497 points • comment • jan 03, 2025

  13. Tell HN: Impassable Cloudflare challenges are ruining my browsing experience

    487 points • comment • jan 02, 2025

  14. Advent of Code 2024 in pure SQL

    473 points • comment • jan 02, 2025

  15. Show HN: API Parrot – Automatically Reverse Engineer HTTP APIs

    440 points • comment • jan 01, 2025

  16. The GPU, not the TPM, is the root of hardware DRM

    436 points • comment • jan 02, 2025

  17. How to draw an outline in a video game

    425 points • comment • jan 04, 2025

  18. Zasper: A Modern and Efficient Alternative to JupyterLab, Built in Go

    414 points • comment • jan 02, 2025

  19. U.S. appeals court strikes down FCC's net neutrality rules

    396 points • comment • jan 02, 2025

  20. Books I Loved Reading in 2024

    390 points • comment • jan 01, 2025

  21. A mole infiltrated the highest ranks of American militias

    378 points • comment • jan 04, 2025

  22. Combining 15s interval whole-sky-camera photos to form a 4y spanning keogram

    371 points • comment • jan 04, 2025

  23. Rules for writing software tutorials

    356 points • comment • jan 02, 2025

  24. SpaceSim

    351 points • comment • jan 03, 2025

  25. Phase behavior of Cacio and Pepe sauce

    328 points • comment • jan 03, 2025

  26. VoxelSpace: Terrain rendering algorithm in less than 20 lines of code (2020)

    326 points • comment • jan 03, 2025

  27. Be a property owner and not a renter on the internet

    320 points • comment • jan 03, 2025

  28. Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 2025)

    320 points • comment • jan 02, 2025

  29. Rails for everything

    319 points • comment • jan 01, 2025

  30. B-Trees: More Than I Thought I'd Want to Know

    293 points • comment • jan 03, 2025

  31. Meta is killing off its AI-powered Instagram and Facebook profiles

    288 points • comment • jan 04, 2025

  32. The Evolution of SRE at Google

    282 points • comment • jan 03, 2025

  33. Why Canada Should Join the EU

    274 points • comment • jan 03, 2025

  34. Ask HN: Where to Work After 40?

    265 points • comment • jan 02, 2025

  35. Diagnosing an Unusual WiFi Issue (2020)

    263 points • comment • jan 02, 2025

  36. XiangShan – Open-source high performance RISC-V processor

    263 points • comment • jan 02, 2025

  37. BlogScroll – An open directory of personal sites and blogs

    262 points • comment • jan 03, 2025

  38. What we learned copying all the best code assistants

    253 points • comment • jan 03, 2025

  39. In Memoriam: Noah Gibbs

    247 points • comment • jan 03, 2025

  40. Autodesk deletes old forum posts suddenly

    241 points • comment • jan 02, 2025

  41. What Is miniKanren?

    230 points • comment • jan 02, 2025

  42. The Alder Lake SHLX Anomaly

    229 points • comment • jan 02, 2025

  43. My favourite computer ergonomics hack

    226 points • comment • jan 01, 2025

  44. Postgres UUIDv7 and per-back end monotonicity

    226 points • comment • jan 02, 2025

  45. F-Droid Fake Signer PoC

    222 points • comment • jan 03, 2025

  46. Perplexity got ads

    221 points • comment • jan 03, 2025

  47. Meta Wants More AI Bots on Facebook and Instagram

    214 points • comment • jan 02, 2025

  48. I'm quitting the Washington Post

    212 points • comment • jan 04, 2025

  49. TinyStories: How Small Can Language Models Be and Still Speak Coherent English? (2023)

    212 points • comment • jan 02, 2025

  50. Yemeni Coffee Shops in Texas

    211 points • comment • jan 03, 2025

  51. Ruby 3.4 Highlights

    199 points • comment • jan 01, 2025

  52. Blogs rot. Wikis wait

    190 points • comment • jan 02, 2025

  53. My 25-year adventure in AI and ML

    189 points • comment • jan 01, 2025

  54. Kotaemon: An open-source RAG-based tool for chatting with your documents

    187 points • comment • jan 02, 2025

  55. Breaking Up with Long Tasks or: how I learned to group loops and wield the yield

    185 points • comment • jan 04, 2025

  56. Programming as Theory Building (1985) [pdf]

    184 points • comment • jan 04, 2025

  57. US newspapers are deleting old crime stories, offering subjects a 'clean slate'

    182 points • comment • jan 04, 2025

  58. In Colorado, a marriage of solar energy and farming

    179 points • comment • jan 04, 2025

  59. Mandelbrot deep zoom theory and practice (2021)

    178 points • comment • jan 03, 2025

  60. China is the manufacturing superpower

    178 points • comment • jan 04, 2025

  61. I still don't think companies serve you ads based on your microphone

    174 points • comment • jan 03, 2025

  62. Laser mapping reveals oldest Amazonian cities, built 2500 years ago (2024)

    174 points • comment • jan 03, 2025

  63. One Dog vs. the Windows 3.1 Graphics Stack

    172 points • comment • jan 04, 2025

  64. Nearly half Dell's US workforce has rejected RTO. Rather WFH than get promoted (2024)

    170 points • comment • jan 05, 2025

  65. Large Concept Models: Language modeling in a sentence representation space

    161 points • comment • jan 01, 2025

  66. Welcome to the Public Domain in 2025

    160 points • comment • jan 01, 2025

  67. Dropbox Engineering Career Framework

    158 points • comment • jan 02, 2025

  68. Building a Knowledge System That Enhances Rather Than Replaces Thought

    157 points • comment • jan 02, 2025

  69. Cesium for Unreal – Bring the Real World to Unreal Engine

    156 points • comment • jan 01, 2025

  70. UK ICO response to Google's policy change on device fingerprinting

    154 points • comment • jan 03, 2025

  71. Mercure: A WebSocket alternative for server-sent events

    148 points • comment • jan 02, 2025

  72. Using LLMs and Cursor to finish side projects

    146 points • comment • jan 04, 2025

  73. Parasitic worms 'manipulate' mantises onto asphalt roads, say researchers

    141 points • comment • jan 03, 2025

  74. Court strikes down US net neutrality rules

    140 points • comment • jan 03, 2025

  75. OnlyFangs has made 'World of Warcraft' into Twitch's best soap opera

    136 points • comment • jan 03, 2025

  76. Standard Ebooks Public Domain Day 2025 in Literature

    133 points • comment • jan 02, 2025

  77. Zebrafish protein unlocks dormant genes for heart repair

    130 points • comment • jan 03, 2025

  78. PlasticList's Advice for Food Companies

    128 points • comment • jan 02, 2025

  79. Indexing Code at Scale with Glean

    126 points • comment • jan 01, 2025

  80. Hacking yourself a satellite – recovering BEESAT-1 [video]

    124 points • comment • jan 02, 2025

  81. How and Why I Stopped Buying New Laptops (2020)

    123 points • comment • jan 01, 2025

  82. A path to O1 open source

    123 points • comment • jan 03, 2025

  83. ELKS: Linux for 16-bit Intel Processors

    122 points • comment • jan 04, 2025

  84. Show HN: connet – A P2P reverse proxy with NAT traversal

    122 points • comment • jan 02, 2025

  85. Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (January 2025)

    121 points • comment • jan 02, 2025

  86. Kuvasz-streamer: open-source CDC for Postgres for low latency replication

    121 points • comment • jan 03, 2025

  87. Bogus Software

    121 points • comment • jan 02, 2025

  88. Exercise may be the 'most potent medical intervention ever known'

    119 points • comment • jan 02, 2025

  89. System76 built the fastest Windows Arm PC

    115 points • comment • jan 03, 2025

  90. Conscious unbossing

    112 points • comment • jan 04, 2025

  91. How the lore of New Year defeated the law of New Year

    112 points • comment • jan 01, 2025

  92. The DIY Multideck

    108 points • comment • jan 03, 2025

  93. Are there more trees on Earth than stars in the Milky Way? (2016)

    106 points • comment • jan 01, 2025

  94. Ray Tracing in One Weekend

    105 points • comment • jan 02, 2025

  95. Do Files want to be Actors?

    105 points • comment • jan 04, 2025

  96. A Return to Polymathy (2015) [pdf]

    104 points • comment • jan 04, 2025

  97. A. A. Milne's Winnie-the-Pooh as an accessible eBook

    100 points • comment • jan 01, 2025

  98. The State of Generative Models

    98 points • comment • jan 04, 2025

  99. Notes on the New Deepseek v3

    97 points • comment • jan 02, 2025

  100. Why does storing 2FA codes in your password manager make sense?

    96 points • comment • jan 01, 2025