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Hacker News (Jan 2025)

  1. Literate programming: Knuth is doing it wrong (2014)

    126 points • comment • jan 13, 2025

  2. Carnarvon's NASA satellite dish receives first signal in almost 40 years

    126 points • comment • jan 13, 2025

  3. GenAI Art Is the Least Imaginative Use of AI Imaginable

    126 points • comment • jan 31, 2025

  4. Allstate used GasBuddy and other apps to track driving behavior: lawsuit

    126 points • comment • jan 14, 2025

  5. Indexing Code at Scale with Glean

    126 points • comment • jan 01, 2025

  6. JReleaser: quick and effortless way to release your project

    125 points • comment • jan 21, 2025

  7. A history of APL in the USSR (1991)

    125 points • comment • jan 30, 2025

  8. US government agency argues that money isn't property–so it can take yours

    125 points • comment • jan 31, 2025

  9. It Matters Who Owns Your Copylefted Copyrights (2021)

    125 points • comment • jan 02, 2025

  10. Skymont: Intel's E-Cores reach for the Sky

    125 points • comment • jan 18, 2025

  11. DeepSeek's AI breakthrough bypasses industry-standard CUDA, uses PTX

    125 points • comment • jan 29, 2025

  12. Fixing E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial for the Atari 2600 (2013)

    125 points • comment • jan 31, 2025

  13. Campsite switches to Creative Commons Non-Commercial license

    125 points • comment • jan 14, 2025

  14. Hologram: A full-stack isomorphic Elixir web framework

    124 points • comment • jan 15, 2025

  15. Threlte 8

    124 points • comment • jan 24, 2025

  16. Data evolution with set-theoretic types

    124 points • comment • jan 14, 2025

  17. Why is zero plural? (2024)

    124 points • comment • jan 22, 2025

  18. Better Know a Ruby Thing: Singleton Classes

    124 points • comment • jan 27, 2025

  19. Reflections

    124 points • comment • jan 06, 2025

  20. Synthesizing Music from JSON

    124 points • comment • jan 06, 2025

  21. Urban legend: I think there is a world market for maybe five computers

    123 points • comment • jan 22, 2025

  22. Rust’s worst feature

    123 points • comment • jan 27, 2025

  23. A path to O1 open source

    123 points • comment • jan 03, 2025

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

    123 points • comment • jan 01, 2025

  25. Why some DVLA digital services don't work at night

    122 points • comment • jan 12, 2025

  26. The ultra-fast cancer treatments which could replace conventional radiotherapy

    122 points • comment • jan 22, 2025

  27. The "35-cent" Commodore 64 softmodem

    122 points • comment • jan 19, 2025

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

    122 points • comment • jan 02, 2025

  29. Build a Database in Four Months with Rust and 647 Open-Source Dependencies

    121 points • comment • jan 15, 2025

  30. Bogus Software

    121 points • comment • jan 02, 2025

  31. Rule-Based Programming in Interactive Fiction

    121 points • comment • jan 18, 2025

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

    121 points • comment • jan 02, 2025

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

    121 points • comment • jan 03, 2025

  34. Optical Frequency Combs

    121 points • comment • jan 30, 2025

  35. Thank You, Airbnb

    121 points • comment • jan 09, 2025

  36. Enhancing your MIDI devices with Perl

    120 points • comment • jan 29, 2025

  37. Luck Be a Landlord Might Be Banned from Google Play

    120 points • comment • jan 13, 2025

  38. A visual demo of Ruby's lazy enumerator

    120 points • comment • jan 08, 2025

  39. Counterculture legend who invented bell-bottom jeans dies at 84

    120 points • comment • jan 01, 2025

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

    119 points • comment • jan 02, 2025

  41. Reviving a Dead Audio Format: The Return of ZZM

    119 points • comment • jan 26, 2025

  42. Reverse engineering my #1 Hacker News article

    119 points • comment • jan 20, 2025

  43. Interview with DeepSeek Founder: We're Done Following. It's Time to Lead

    119 points • comment • jan 30, 2025

  44. Why Skyscrapers Became Glass Boxes

    119 points • comment • jan 13, 2025

  45. Pharaoh's Tomb HD – A Remake Made in JavaScript with Kaplay

    119 points • comment • jan 18, 2025

  46. Meta in talks to reincorporate in Texas or another state, WSJ reports

    119 points • comment • jan 31, 2025

  47. No Billionares at FOSDEM

    118 points • comment • jan 16, 2025

  48. Windows 7 boots slower if you set a solid background color

    118 points • comment • jan 28, 2025

  49. We Need to Talk About Docker Hub

    118 points • comment • jan 24, 2025

  50. Norepinephrine-mediated slow vasomotion drives glymphatic clearance during sleep

    118 points • comment • jan 15, 2025

  51. Zig: What to Expect from Release Month

    118 points • comment • jan 17, 2025

  52. Map of California roads for cyclers (1895)

    117 points • comment • jan 11, 2025

  53. Rafael Araujo's 20 Mesmerizing Geometrical Masterpieces (2024)

    117 points • comment • jan 21, 2025

  54. How outdated information hides in LLM token generation probabilities

    117 points • comment • jan 10, 2025

  55. A Rust procedural language handler for PostgreSQL

    117 points • comment • jan 30, 2025

  56. American workers' enthusiasm for their jobs falls to a 10-year low

    117 points • comment • jan 14, 2025

  57. Quaternions and spherical trigonometry

    117 points • comment • jan 30, 2025

  58. The past, present, and future of UI at GitHub

    117 points • comment • jan 24, 2025

  59. Sam Altman said startups with $10M were 'hopeless' competing with OpenAI

    117 points • comment • jan 28, 2025

  60. All Lisp indentation schemes are ugly

    116 points • comment • jan 19, 2025

  61. 41% of Employers Worldwide Say They'll Reduce Staff by 2030 Due to AI

    116 points • comment • jan 10, 2025

  62. You should write "without bugs"

    116 points • comment • jan 23, 2025

  63. A FPGA friendly 32 bit RISC-V CPU implementation

    116 points • comment • jan 22, 2025

  64. Dissecting "Tiny Clouds" shadertoy (2017)

    116 points • comment • jan 19, 2025

  65. Nanoimprint Lithography Aims to Take on EUV

    116 points • comment • jan 02, 2025

  66. Xerox Alto Source Code (2014)

    116 points • comment • jan 31, 2025

  67. A physicist's guide to ice cream

    116 points • comment • jan 16, 2025

  68. About availability of TikTok and ByteDance Ltd. apps in the United States

    115 points • comment • jan 19, 2025

  69. Do Files want to be Actors?

    115 points • comment • jan 04, 2025

  70. I Built an Omni-Directional Ball-Wheeled Bike [video]

    115 points • comment • jan 26, 2025

  71. System76 built the fastest Windows Arm PC

    115 points • comment • jan 03, 2025

  72. A video tour of the Standard Model (2021)

    114 points • comment • jan 05, 2025

  73. Immutability Changes Everything (2016) [pdf]

    114 points • comment • jan 25, 2025

  74. Flame: A small language model for spreadsheet formulas (2023)

    114 points • comment • jan 22, 2025

  75. Wildcard: Customize HN using a spreadsheet view (2020)

    114 points • comment • jan 03, 2025

  76. Sigstore: Making sure your software is what it claims to be

    114 points • comment • jan 21, 2025

  77. Tool touted as 'first AI software engineer' is bad at its job, testers claim

    114 points • comment • jan 25, 2025

  78. A swashbuckling tale of Italian software piracy – 1983-1993 (2022)

    114 points • comment • jan 06, 2025

  79. Sparrow, a modern C++ implementation of the Apache Arrow columnar format

    114 points • comment • jan 31, 2025

  80. New York starts enforcing $15 broadband law that ISPs tried to kill

    114 points • comment • jan 13, 2025

  81. Arsenal FC AI Research Engineer job posting

    114 points • comment • jan 25, 2025

  82. Show HN: Distr – open-source distribution platform for on-prem deployments

    114 points • comment • jan 29, 2025

  83. Emotional support across adulthood: A 60-year study of men’s social networks

    113 points • comment • jan 25, 2025

  84. Ask HN: Anyone else find LLM related posts causing them to lose interest in HN

    113 points • comment • jan 26, 2025

  85. Red Hat Woos VMware Shops with OpenShift Virtualization Engine

    113 points • comment • jan 16, 2025

  86. Titans: Learning to Memorize at Test Time

    113 points • comment • jan 13, 2025

  87. Unemployed office workers are having a harder time finding new jobs

    113 points • comment • jan 06, 2025

  88. Why Rust nextest is process-per-test

    113 points • comment • jan 09, 2025

  89. Perplexity AI submits bid to merge with TikTok

    113 points • comment • jan 18, 2025

  90. Microsoft Probing If DeepSeek-Linked Group Improperly Obtained OpenAI Data

    113 points • comment • jan 29, 2025

  91. Large language models think too fast to explore effectively

    113 points • comment • jan 31, 2025

  92. Conscious unbossing

    112 points • comment • jan 04, 2025

  93. A 20-year-old small company

    112 points • comment • jan 28, 2025

  94. A three month review of kagi search and the orion web browser (2024)

    112 points • comment • jan 10, 2025

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

    112 points • comment • jan 01, 2025

  96. Ask HN: How to learn AI from first principles?

    112 points • comment • jan 26, 2025

  97. High-Speed Face-Tracking for Dynamic Facial Projection Mapping

    112 points • comment • jan 31, 2025

  98. Disabling Zen 5's Op Cache and Exploring Its Clustered Decoder

    112 points • comment • jan 23, 2025

  99. On DeepSeek and export controls

    112 points • comment • jan 29, 2025

  100. Going Nuts over NIST’s Standard Reference Peanut Butter (2016)

    112 points • comment • jan 24, 2025