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Hacker News (Jan 2025)

  1. Saint Peter Basilica digital experience

    112 points • comment • jan 16, 2025

  2. Conscious unbossing

    112 points • comment • jan 04, 2025

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

    112 points • comment • jan 24, 2025

  4. HMD Key – A lightweight, affordable smartphone

    111 points • comment • jan 12, 2025

  5. Voyage-code-3

    111 points • comment • jan 13, 2025

  6. Chimera Linux works toward a simplified desktop

    111 points • comment • jan 26, 2025

  7. Svelte 5 and the Future of Frameworks: A Chat with Rich Harris

    111 points • comment • jan 28, 2025

  8. Show HN: New search engine and free-FOIA-by-fax-via-web for US veteran records

    111 points • comment • jan 13, 2025

  9. Doorbell camera catches rare footage of meteorite striking home's front walkway

    110 points • comment • jan 25, 2025

  10. Castle Game Engine: Web target – big progress, first 3 demos to try

    110 points • comment • jan 19, 2025

  11. Platforms systematically removed a user because he made "most wanted CEO" cards

    110 points • comment • jan 14, 2025

  12. Show HN: LA Wildfire Satellite Analysis

    110 points • comment • jan 09, 2025

  13. Regency Sex Ed

    110 points • comment • jan 17, 2025

  14. Ratchet effects determine engineer reputation at large companies

    110 points • comment • jan 06, 2025

  15. Rust: Investigating an Out of Memory Error

    110 points • comment • jan 15, 2025

  16. A feature-rich Hacker News client

    109 points • comment • jan 07, 2025

  17. Printf debugging is ok

    109 points • comment • jan 06, 2025

  18. My Amazon TV Now Unmutes Itself During Prime Video Commercial Breaks

    109 points • comment • jan 09, 2025

  19. Lenovo has removed the TrackPoint nub from new ThinkPad laptops

    109 points • comment • jan 19, 2025

  20. Nvidia announces $3k personal AI supercomputer called Digits

    108 points • comment • jan 07, 2025

  21. Cascading Spy Sheets: Exploiting the Complexity of Modern CSS for Fingerprinting

    108 points • comment • jan 07, 2025

  22. Chatbox: Cross-platform desktop client for ChatGPT, Claude and other LLMs

    108 points • comment • jan 22, 2025

  23. TokenVerse: Multi-Concept Personalization in Token Modulation Space by Google

    108 points • comment • jan 26, 2025

  24. Ships must practice celestial navigation

    108 points • comment • jan 10, 2025

  25. GitHub Is Down

    107 points • comment • jan 30, 2025

  26. How to delete your Facebook account

    107 points • comment • jan 09, 2025

  27. Honest Ahmed (2011)

    107 points • comment • jan 18, 2025

  28. My Favorite Self-Hosted Apps Launched in 2024

    107 points • comment • jan 09, 2025

  29. Shunpo: Minimalist bash tool to make directory navigation a little bit faster

    107 points • comment • jan 27, 2025

  30. It sure looks like Meta stole a lot of books to build its AI

    107 points • comment • jan 21, 2025

  31. DeepSeek's Hidden Bias: How We Cut It by 76% Without Performance Loss

    106 points • comment • jan 29, 2025

  32. Binary modding a water dispenser to save me from pressing a button (2021)

    106 points • comment • jan 09, 2025

  33. Proof of location for online polls

    106 points • comment • jan 14, 2025

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

    106 points • comment • jan 01, 2025

  35. ATProto and the ownership of identity

    106 points • comment • jan 18, 2025

  36. Autodesk partially restores old forum posts

    106 points • comment • jan 24, 2025

  37. Dbt Labs acquires SDF Labs

    106 points • comment • jan 14, 2025

  38. Render raises $80M in Series C financing

    105 points • comment • jan 26, 2025

  39. Ray Tracing in One Weekend

    105 points • comment • jan 02, 2025

  40. Tesla Sales Are Tanking in Europe

    105 points • comment • jan 14, 2025

  41. How I built this website on a Raspberry Pi

    105 points • comment • jan 15, 2025

  42. Morse Code in Tubular Bells (2021)

    105 points • comment • jan 23, 2025

  43. Why the Getty Center Is the Safest Place for Art During a Fire (2019)

    105 points • comment • jan 12, 2025

  44. The Begining of the End for ANT+ Wireless

    105 points • comment • jan 04, 2025

  45. Job trends of HN Who Is Hiring?

    105 points • comment • jan 28, 2025

  46. Motion sickness accessibility in video games

    105 points • comment • jan 31, 2025

  47. Hands-on Assignment – Therac-25 (2007)

    105 points • comment • jan 22, 2025

  48. Social media distorts perceptions of norms (2024)

    105 points • comment • jan 05, 2025

  49. TMSU: Command-line tool for applying tags and viewing virtual tagged filesystem

    104 points • comment • jan 23, 2025

  50. Reinforcement Learning – A Reference

    104 points • comment • jan 28, 2025

  51. Anthropic raising funding valuing it at $60B

    104 points • comment • jan 07, 2025

  52. You can't optimize your way to being a good person

    104 points • comment • jan 07, 2025

  53. Wall Street banks prepare to sell up to $3B in X loans next week

    104 points • comment • jan 25, 2025

  54. NASA's Asteroid Bennu Sample Reveals Mix of Life's Ingredients

    104 points • comment • jan 31, 2025

  55. Guided by the beauty of our test suite

    104 points • comment • jan 21, 2025

  56. Climbers using xenon gas to climb Everest

    103 points • comment • jan 14, 2025

  57. Qwen2.5-Max: Exploring the intelligence of large-scale MoE model

    103 points • comment • jan 28, 2025

  58. The latest fake literary agencies

    103 points • comment • jan 06, 2025

  59. Show HN: Ahey – A simple pub-sub service built on top of web push

    103 points • comment • jan 30, 2025

  60. The Evaporative Cooling Effect in Social Networks (2010)

    103 points • comment • jan 04, 2025

  61. Show HN: Ultra-portable Gantt chart tool for very regulated environments

    103 points • comment • jan 09, 2025

  62. A History of Early Microcontrollers, Part 1: Calculator Chips Came First (2022)

    103 points • comment • jan 04, 2025

  63. Tracing Military Command Chains Through Time and Location

    102 points • comment • jan 16, 2025

  64. Osaka bans smoking on all of its streets, vaping included

    102 points • comment • jan 28, 2025

  65. No-hole surgery: no keyhole, yet surgeons can now still operate under your skin (2023)

    102 points • comment • jan 05, 2025

  66. Firebase bill is usually $50, but I was surprised to see a $70k bill in one day

    102 points • comment • jan 17, 2025

  67. What I Learned Failing to Finish a Game in 2024

    102 points • comment • jan 13, 2025

  68. The Sikh Practice of Langar, a Free Meal Where Everyone Is Equal

    102 points • comment • jan 14, 2025

  69. ArXiv LaTeX Cleaner: Clean the LaTeX code of your paper to submit to ArXiv

    102 points • comment • jan 31, 2025

  70. Theoretical limitations of multi-layer Transformer

    102 points • comment • jan 31, 2025

  71. How Do You Like What You've Built?

    102 points • comment • jan 05, 2025

  72. Using watermarks to coordinate change data capture in Postgres

    102 points • comment • jan 03, 2025

  73. Old Games Magazines

    101 points • comment • jan 28, 2025

  74. What Is the "MFFAM" Policy?

    101 points • comment • jan 11, 2025

  75. Natrium 'advanced nuclear' power plant wins Wyoming permit

    101 points • comment • jan 15, 2025

  76. Apple's interoperability efforts aren't meeting spirit or letter of EU law

    101 points • comment • jan 16, 2025

  77. Vanished from Google/Bing/LinkedIn: a rebuttal of an anti-net neutrality paper

    101 points • comment • jan 13, 2025

  78. Undiagnosed Cognitive Decline Eats into Seniors' Retirement Savings

    101 points • comment • jan 24, 2025

  79. Physicists who want to ditch dark energy

    101 points • comment • jan 12, 2025

  80. Images reveal exocomets around nearby stars

    100 points • comment • jan 31, 2025

  81. LA Times Flips Anti-RFK Jr. Op-Ed into Pro-Kennedy Propaganda

    100 points • comment • jan 31, 2025

  82. The History of Toontown’s SpeedChat (2007)

    100 points • comment • jan 26, 2025

  83. Ask HN: How are you using LLMs for traversing decompiler output?

    100 points • comment • jan 02, 2025

  84. Study links sugar-filled drinks to millions of heart disease and diabetes cases

    100 points • comment • jan 12, 2025

  85. Edge TTS

    100 points • comment • jan 23, 2025

  86. Potoooooooo

    100 points • comment • jan 16, 2025

  87. Show HN: Pretty-print your chess games using Prettier

    100 points • comment • jan 04, 2025

  88. ZType – Typing Game

    100 points • comment • jan 09, 2025

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

    100 points • comment • jan 01, 2025

  90. Public Access OpenVMS System

    100 points • comment • jan 28, 2025

  91. 2024 first year to pass 1.5C global warming limit

    99 points • comment • jan 10, 2025

  92. Slum: The Shadow Library Uptime Monitor

    99 points • comment • jan 13, 2025

  93. The comb jelly can fuse with another (including nervous and digestive systems)

    99 points • comment • jan 01, 2025

  94. We've lost our respect for complexity

    99 points • comment • jan 21, 2025

  95. Employees are bypassing HR, sharing on LinkedIn

    99 points • comment • jan 12, 2025

  96. The State of Generative Models

    98 points • comment • jan 04, 2025

  97. Goethe's "Sorcerer's Apprentice" – power over wisdom

    98 points • comment • jan 26, 2025

  98. AstroForge selects target for “high risk, seat of the pants” asteroid mission

    98 points • comment • jan 29, 2025

  99. Hacking the Yamaha DX9 to Turn It into a DX7 (2023)

    98 points • comment • jan 19, 2025

  100. Texas Is Enforcing Its State Data Privacy Law. So Should Other States

    98 points • comment • jan 25, 2025