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Hacker News (Jan 2025)

  1. Stimulation Clicker

    2825 points • comment • jan 06, 2025

  2. DOOM CAPTCHA

    1247 points • comment • jan 01, 2025

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

    997 points • comment • jan 02, 2025

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

    891 points • comment • jan 02, 2025

  5. One of my papers got declined today

    832 points • comment • jan 01, 2025

  6. 3blue1brown YouTube Bitcoin video taken down as copyright violation

    798 points • comment • jan 06, 2025

  7. How I program with LLMs

    779 points • comment • jan 07, 2025

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

    765 points • comment • jan 03, 2025

  9. The Future of Htmx

    743 points • comment • jan 06, 2025

  10. iTerm2 critical security release

    642 points • comment • jan 02, 2025

  11. Self driving 1993 Volvo with open pilot

    636 points • comment • jan 04, 2025

  12. Static search trees: faster than binary search

    627 points • comment • jan 01, 2025

  13. Ending our third party fact-checking program and moving to Community Notes model

    596 points • comment • jan 07, 2025

  14. Nvidia's Project Digits is a 'personal AI supercomputer'

    581 points • comment • jan 07, 2025

  15. MitmProxy2Swagger: Automagically reverse-engineer REST APIs

    569 points • comment • jan 02, 2025

  16. Databases in 2024: A Year in Review

    562 points • comment • jan 01, 2025

  17. Doom, the Gallery Experience

    560 points • comment • jan 06, 2025

  18. 30% drop in O1-preview accuracy when Putnam problems are slightly variated

    544 points • comment • jan 01, 2025

  19. Web page annoyances that I don't inflict on you

    541 points • comment • jan 05, 2025

  20. How to draw an outline in a video game

    540 points • comment • jan 04, 2025

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

    518 points • comment • jan 04, 2025

  22. I made $100K from a dick joke

    514 points • comment • jan 05, 2025

  23. Show HN: I completed shipping my desktop app

    507 points • comment • jan 03, 2025

  24. A minimax chess engine in regular expressions

    504 points • comment • jan 07, 2025

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

    487 points • comment • jan 02, 2025

  26. In my life, I've witnessed three elite salespeople at work

    480 points • comment • jan 05, 2025

  27. Advent of Code 2024 in pure SQL

    473 points • comment • jan 02, 2025

  28. Show HN: Tramway SDK – An unholy union between Half-Life and Morrowind engines

    472 points • comment • jan 07, 2025

  29. Remote code execution via MIDI messages

    459 points • comment • jan 05, 2025

  30. Extracting AI models from mobile apps

    457 points • comment • jan 05, 2025

  31. A messy experiment that changed how I think about AI code analysis

    453 points • comment • jan 05, 2025

  32. Nvidia announces next-gen RTX 5090 and RTX 5080 GPUs

    451 points • comment • jan 07, 2025

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

    440 points • comment • jan 01, 2025

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

    436 points • comment • jan 02, 2025

  35. Justin Trudeau promises to resign as PM

    433 points • comment • jan 06, 2025

  36. Time-Series Anomaly Detection: A Decade Review

    430 points • comment • jan 06, 2025

  37. A mole infiltrated the highest ranks of American militias

    429 points • comment • jan 04, 2025

  38. Zig's comptime is bonkers good

    418 points • comment • jan 07, 2025

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

    414 points • comment • jan 02, 2025

  40. Apple squandered the Holy Grail

    401 points • comment • jan 06, 2025

  41. How NAT Traversal Works (2020)

    399 points • comment • jan 05, 2025

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

    397 points • comment • jan 02, 2025

  43. Books I Loved Reading in 2024

    390 points • comment • jan 01, 2025

  44. Researchers design wearable tech that can sense glucose levels more accurately

    379 points • comment • jan 05, 2025

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

    373 points • comment • jan 04, 2025

  46. Magic/tragic email links: don't make them the only option

    371 points • comment • jan 07, 2025

  47. Phase behavior of Cacio and Pepe sauce

    370 points • comment • jan 03, 2025

  48. Hitting OKRs vs. Doing Your Job

    360 points • comment • jan 06, 2025

  49. All clocks are 30 seconds late

    359 points • comment • jan 06, 2025

  50. SpaceSim

    358 points • comment • jan 03, 2025

  51. Rules for writing software tutorials

    356 points • comment • jan 02, 2025

  52. NYC Congestion Pricing Tracker

    342 points • comment • jan 06, 2025

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

    330 points • comment • jan 03, 2025

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

    320 points • comment • jan 02, 2025

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

    320 points • comment • jan 03, 2025

  56. Rails for everything

    319 points • comment • jan 01, 2025

  57. Akamai to shut down its CDN operations in China

    312 points • comment • jan 05, 2025

  58. Mistakes engineers make in large established codebases

    309 points • comment • jan 07, 2025

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

    308 points • comment • jan 03, 2025

  60. Show HN: Struggle with CSS Flexbox? This Playground Is for You

    303 points • comment • jan 05, 2025

  61. Used Meta AI, now Instagram is using my face on ads targeted at me

    289 points • comment • jan 06, 2025

  62. The Evolution of SRE at Google

    285 points • comment • jan 03, 2025

  63. Why Canada Should Join the EU

    283 points • comment • jan 03, 2025

  64. I live my life a quarter century at a time

    280 points • comment • jan 06, 2025

  65. My little sister's use of ChatGPT for homework is heartbreaking

    277 points • comment • jan 06, 2025

  66. First time a Blender-made production has won the Golden Globe

    271 points • comment • jan 07, 2025

  67. Doomsday Book (2006) [pdf]

    270 points • comment • jan 07, 2025

  68. What we learned copying all the best code assistants

    267 points • comment • jan 03, 2025

  69. Type 2 Diabetes and cardiovascular disease attributable to sugar beverages

    266 points • comment • jan 07, 2025

  70. Ask HN: Where to Work After 40?

    265 points • comment • jan 02, 2025

  71. Diagnosing an Unusual WiFi Issue (2020)

    263 points • comment • jan 02, 2025

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

    263 points • comment • jan 02, 2025

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

    262 points • comment • jan 03, 2025

  74. Guten: A Tiny Newspaper Printer

    258 points • comment • jan 05, 2025

  75. Microsoft disguises Bing as Google to fool inattentive searchers

    249 points • comment • jan 07, 2025

  76. In Memoriam: Noah Gibbs

    247 points • comment • jan 03, 2025

  77. Back to basics: Why we chose long-polling over websockets

    247 points • comment • jan 05, 2025

  78. DeepFace: A lightweight deep face recognition library for Python

    246 points • comment • jan 03, 2025

  79. Autodesk deletes old forum posts suddenly

    241 points • comment • jan 02, 2025

  80. Triptych Proposals

    241 points • comment • jan 06, 2025

  81. Yemeni Coffee Shops in Texas

    237 points • comment • jan 03, 2025

  82. Engineer eats efficiently for $2.50 a day (2016)

    236 points • comment • jan 06, 2025

  83. Uncut Currency

    234 points • comment • jan 06, 2025

  84. Perplexity got ads

    230 points • comment • jan 03, 2025

  85. The evolution of a structural code editor

    230 points • comment • jan 06, 2025

  86. What Is miniKanren?

    230 points • comment • jan 02, 2025

  87. The Alder Lake SHLX Anomaly

    229 points • comment • jan 02, 2025

  88. My favourite computer ergonomics hack

    226 points • comment • jan 01, 2025

  89. Postgres UUIDv7 and per-back end monotonicity

    226 points • comment • jan 02, 2025

  90. F-Droid Fake Signer PoC

    225 points • comment • jan 03, 2025

  91. One Dog vs. the Windows 3.1 Graphics Stack

    225 points • comment • jan 04, 2025

  92. A story on home server security

    224 points • comment • jan 05, 2025

  93. Documenting an 1115 ft radio tower climb

    218 points • comment • jan 02, 2025

  94. Kakizome: Japanese way of new-years resolution

    217 points • comment • jan 02, 2025

  95. Meta Wants More AI Bots on Facebook and Instagram

    214 points • comment • jan 02, 2025

  96. I'm quitting the Washington Post

    212 points • comment • jan 04, 2025

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

    212 points • comment • jan 02, 2025

  98. An autumn bike adventure down the US portion of the Eastern Divide Trail

    208 points • comment • jan 06, 2025

  99. ELKS: Linux for 16-bit Intel Processors

    207 points • comment • jan 04, 2025

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

    204 points • comment • jan 04, 2025