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Hacker News (Jan 2025)

  1. 'Don't feed the troll': German chancellor responds to Elon Musk comments

    5 points • comment • jan 05, 2025

  2. Google URL Shortener Shutdowns This Year

    5 points • comment • jan 04, 2025

  3. Yeah, America can still build stuff

    5 points • comment • jan 07, 2025

  4. The Curious Gems of the River Thames

    5 points • comment • jan 08, 2025

  5. Stay Safe from Wildfires When Seconds Count

    5 points • comment • jan 08, 2025

  6. Starship's Seventh Flight Test

    5 points • comment • jan 03, 2025

  7. Show HN: Signify – FOSS tool to generate Email signatures (HTML and PNG)

    5 points • comment • jan 04, 2025

  8. The Players on the Eve of Destruction

    5 points • comment • jan 02, 2025

  9. Counting the digits of 64-bit integers

    5 points • comment • jan 08, 2025

  10. Ask HN: Math (Academy) Discord Group

    5 points • comment • jan 03, 2025

  11. Judge denies Uber's motion to block Seattle law regulating driver deactivation

    5 points • comment • jan 03, 2025

  12. US appeals court blocks Biden administration effort to restore net-neutrality

    5 points • comment • jan 02, 2025

  13. 2.01 (Buran-Class Spacecraft)

    5 points • comment • jan 01, 2025

  14. Ultra-Processed Diets Cause Excess Calorie Intake, Weight Gain, Inpatient Trial

    5 points • comment • jan 07, 2025

  15. Ukraine Drone Boat Shot Down Russian Mi-8 Helicopter with Surface-to-Air Missile

    5 points • comment • jan 01, 2025

  16. Elon Musk Uses Cybertruck Explosion to Show Tesla Can Remotely Unlock / Monitor

    5 points • comment • jan 02, 2025

  17. The Online Sports Gambling Experiment Has Failed

    5 points • comment • jan 04, 2025

  18. What Happens When a Whole Generation Never Grows Up?

    5 points • comment • jan 01, 2025

  19. Why won't Mercedes let owners open the hood? [video]

    5 points • comment • jan 01, 2025

  20. Counterintuitive Effects of Minimum Prices

    5 points • comment • jan 04, 2025

  21. Climate Models Can't Explain What's Happening to Earth

    5 points • comment • jan 06, 2025

  22. Popular browser extension Honey accused of shady business practices

    5 points • comment • jan 01, 2025

  23. Why the Left needs to watch Star Trek

    5 points • comment • jan 05, 2025

  24. Understanding DOGE as Procurement Capture

    5 points • comment • jan 06, 2025

  25. EU rules to improve Gender Balance in corporate boards enter into application

    5 points • comment • jan 04, 2025

  26. Pink Floyd's Young Lust telephone signalling explained

    5 points • comment • jan 02, 2025

  27. Slides that convinced Boris Johnson about global warming (2022)

    5 points • comment • jan 02, 2025

  28. Apple has reportedly stopped production on its Vision Pro due to lack of demand

    5 points • comment • jan 03, 2025

  29. High schoolers capture Earth from balloon in stratosphere

    5 points • comment • jan 06, 2025

  30. The Teenager Who Lived a Secret Double Life as a Millionaire Crypto Bandit

    5 points • comment • jan 05, 2025

  31. Nearly Half of US Unicorns Have Immigrants Founders

    5 points • comment • jan 02, 2025

  32. Noah Smith: How do we measure whether China's economy is "ahead" of America's?

    5 points • comment • jan 07, 2025

  33. Elon Musk Is Posting Nonstop Falsehoods About 'Grooming Gangs'

    5 points • comment • jan 05, 2025

  34. New Japanese Maglev Bullet Train over 600 KPH

    5 points • comment • jan 02, 2025

  35. Why is PayPal being sued by YouTubers? It's over the Honey extension

    5 points • comment • jan 09, 2025

  36. Ask HN: Google login has circular dependency

    5 points • comment • jan 03, 2025

  37. Drawing Animals with Margaret Mead

    5 points • comment • jan 06, 2025

  38. Washington Post Cartoonist Quits After Jeff Bezos Cartoon Is Killed

    5 points • comment • jan 07, 2025

  39. Ask HN: x = 53; 4.times{ print (x = ( 139\*x - 12169 ) % 444).chr }

    5 points • comment • jan 04, 2025

  40. Sam Altman says "we are now confident we know how to build AGI"

    5 points • comment • jan 08, 2025

  41. Class Action Lawsuit Against Honey PayPal

    5 points • comment • jan 03, 2025

  42. China's Economy Won't Overtake the U.S., Some Now Predict

    5 points • comment • jan 02, 2025

  43. The Magic Function

    4 points • comment • jan 06, 2025

  44. One Killed as Tesla Cybertruck Explodes at Trump Las Vegas Hotel

    4 points • comment • jan 01, 2025

  45. Washington Post cartoonist resigns over refusal publishing cartoon of Jeff Bezos

    4 points • comment • jan 04, 2025

  46. Chinese RISC-V project teases 2025 debut of freely licensed advanced chip design

    4 points • comment • jan 08, 2025

  47. Pornhub ban now covers more than a third of US states

    4 points • comment • jan 02, 2025

  48. Spherical robocop in China offers glimpse into future of law enforcement

    4 points • comment • jan 05, 2025

  49. Ask HN: How to correctly search for jobs on LinkedIn?

    4 points • comment • jan 06, 2025

  50. Substitute religions are reshaping the world

    4 points • comment • jan 03, 2025

  51. I accidentally found an IDOR bug in Google slides and rewarded $3,133.70

    4 points • comment • jan 05, 2025

  52. Understanding Doge as Procurement Capture

    4 points • comment • jan 05, 2025

  53. EPA Report Finds That Formaldehyde Presents "Unreasonable Risk" to Public Health

    4 points • comment • jan 04, 2025

  54. DAC: Revolutionizing LLM Accuracy in Mathematical Applications

    4 points • comment • jan 01, 2025

  55. Baby red handfish 'thriving' in captive-breeding program in Tasmania

    4 points • comment • jan 02, 2025

  56. The Architecture of Open Source Applications

    4 points • comment • jan 07, 2025

  57. Korean Assembly Speaker's adherence to procedure key to making troops stand down

    4 points • comment • jan 02, 2025

  58. Californians Say X Blocked Them from Viewing Amber Alert

    4 points • comment • jan 05, 2025

  59. Ohio Puts Police Bodycam Footage Behind a Paywall

    4 points • comment • jan 04, 2025

  60. Experimental evidence photon can spend negative amount of time in an atom cloud

    4 points • comment • jan 01, 2025

  61. Upwork Projects Analysis 2024

    4 points • comment • jan 07, 2025

  62. Apple says it will update AI feature after BBC complaint

    4 points • comment • jan 07, 2025

  63. Being Functionless: How to Develop a Serverless Mindset to Write Less Code

    4 points • comment • jan 05, 2025

  64. Phase 2 China shock is coming: Adam Tooze on Europe, America and manufacturing

    4 points • comment • jan 02, 2025

  65. Tel Dan Stele

    4 points • comment • jan 02, 2025

  66. VS Code Remote Dev and Dev Containers are not security boundaries

    4 points • comment • jan 04, 2025

  67. Show HN: Generate random colors from text with SHA-256

    4 points • comment • jan 02, 2025

  68. How to Activate the Value Flywheel Effect with Your Data

    4 points • comment • jan 05, 2025

  69. US Treasury dept sanctions Chinese cybersecurity company for multiple intrusions

    4 points • comment • jan 05, 2025

  70. Scientists Discover Common Virus Could Be Causing a Type of Alzheimer's

    4 points • comment • jan 06, 2025

  71. A brief history of Time Scales

    4 points • comment • jan 02, 2025

  72. Did OpenAI's O1 Decipher the Indus Valley Script?

    4 points • comment • jan 07, 2025

  73. Hitler dismantled a democracy in 53 days through constitutional means

    4 points • comment • jan 09, 2025

  74. X is testing a standalone app for Grok, its AI chatbot

    4 points • comment • jan 05, 2025

  75. Visually Mediated Motor Planning in the Escape Response of Drosophila (2008)

    4 points • comment • jan 03, 2025

  76. U.S. Surgeon General Calls for Cancer Warnings on Alcoholic Beverages

    4 points • comment • jan 03, 2025

  77. Ask HN: Do you prefer working as a solo developer or as part of a team?

    4 points • comment • jan 08, 2025

  78. "America Is in Decline": Truth or Informational Indoctrination?

    4 points • comment • jan 07, 2025

  79. Kim Jong-un bans hotdogs for North Koreans, cooking them an act of treason

    4 points • comment • jan 06, 2025

  80. What a world to live in, Anti Consumer is trend and Pro consumer is niche

    4 points • comment • jan 07, 2025

  81. There are different sorts of WireGuard setups with different difficulties

    4 points • comment • jan 05, 2025

  82. Billionaires want you to know they could have done physics [video]

    4 points • comment • jan 01, 2025

  83. Now Trump's import tariffs could raise the cost of a laptop for Americans by 68%

    4 points • comment • jan 08, 2025

  84. Canada PM Trudeau is likely to announce resignation, source says

    4 points • comment • jan 06, 2025

  85. LLMs Are Directing Open Source Licensing

    3 points • comment • jan 07, 2025

  86. How to build $1k/mo mobile app

    3 points • comment • jan 07, 2025

  87. Treasury Sanctions Entities in Iran and Russia (2024 Election)

    3 points • comment • jan 01, 2025

  88. The end-to-end principle in distributed systems

    3 points • comment • jan 01, 2025

  89. 100 Slaps: The Breaking News the Games Industry Ignored in 2024 [video]

    3 points • comment • jan 07, 2025

  90. HDMI Forum Announces Version 2.2 of the HDMI Specification

    3 points • comment • jan 06, 2025

  91. Bridging Science and Art: Exploring the World of Scientific Illustrations

    3 points • comment • jan 03, 2025

  92. Meta to get rid of factcheckers and recommend more political content

    3 points • comment • jan 07, 2025

  93. HTML Is a Programming Language. Fight Me

    3 points • comment • jan 06, 2025

  94. Things we think will happen in 2025

    3 points • comment • jan 02, 2025

  95. How Chinese Hackers Graduated from Clumsy Corporate Thieves to Military Weapons

    3 points • comment • jan 05, 2025

  96. Van Halen and Brown M&Ms

    3 points • comment • jan 04, 2025

  97. Four Years a Founder: Time

    3 points • comment • jan 05, 2025

  98. The Psychology of Phishing: Why Smart People Fall for Scams

    3 points • comment • jan 04, 2025

  99. Intel's Reign of Terror [video]

    3 points • comment • jan 06, 2025

  100. Cloudflare's VPN app among half-dozen pulled from Indian app stores

    3 points • comment • jan 03, 2025