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Hacker News (Jan 2025)

  1. Detecting edges of images at the speed of light

    98 points • comment • jan 26, 2025

  2. Matt Mullenweg, Automattic's CEO, Seems Bound and Determined to Wreck WordPress

    98 points • comment • jan 20, 2025

  3. The State of Generative Models

    98 points • comment • jan 04, 2025

  4. 100 years of Bell Labs [pdf]

    97 points • comment • jan 26, 2025

  5. Duolicious – Open-source dating app

    97 points • comment • jan 05, 2025

  6. Property-Based Testing for the People

    97 points • comment • jan 06, 2025

  7. Cloud Virtualization: Red Hat, AWS Firecracker, and Ubicloud internals

    97 points • comment • jan 24, 2025

  8. Notes on the New Deepseek v3

    97 points • comment • jan 02, 2025

  9. Results of "Humanity's Last Exam" benchmark published

    97 points • comment • jan 23, 2025

  10. OpenAI's bot crushed this seven-person company's web site 'like a DDoS attack'

    96 points • comment • jan 10, 2025

  11. Ask HN: Are YC startups *actually* hiring?

    96 points • comment • jan 28, 2025

  12. /bin/sh: the biggest Unix security loophole (1984) [pdf]

    96 points • comment • jan 08, 2025

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

    96 points • comment • jan 01, 2025

  14. Dutch Align with US Export Controls on Some ASML Chip Tools

    96 points • comment • jan 16, 2025

  15. CCL: Categorical Configuration Language

    96 points • comment • jan 06, 2025

  16. Personalized voice recordings by Elwood "You've got mail!" Edwards (2024)

    96 points • comment • jan 14, 2025

  17. Why is hash(-1) == hash(-2) in Python?

    96 points • comment • jan 07, 2025

  18. Collection: More Doctors Smoke Camels

    96 points • comment • jan 07, 2025

  19. Knowing less about AI makes people more open to using it

    96 points • comment • jan 27, 2025

  20. What Have We Forgotten?

    95 points • comment • jan 29, 2025

  21. Beating cuBLAS in Single-Precision General Matrix Multiplication

    95 points • comment • jan 15, 2025

  22. Show HN: Ldump – serialize any Lua data

    95 points • comment • jan 31, 2025

  23. DeepSeek R1 Is Now Available on Azure AI Foundry and GitHub

    95 points • comment • jan 29, 2025

  24. Spotted hyena found in Egypt for the first time in 5k years

    95 points • comment • jan 31, 2025

  25. Porting the GNAT Ada compiler to macOS/aarch64

    94 points • comment • jan 13, 2025

  26. Terence Tao: Trump's Federal Funding Freeze and Mean-Field Game Theory

    94 points • comment • jan 29, 2025

  27. C++26: A Placeholder with No Name

    94 points • comment • jan 08, 2025

  28. Getting an all-optical AI to handle non-linear math

    94 points • comment • jan 12, 2025

  29. AI isn't going to kill the software industry

    94 points • comment • jan 24, 2025

  30. The consensus on Havana Syndrome is cracking

    94 points • comment • jan 12, 2025

  31. David Lodge, British novelist who satirized academic life, has died

    94 points • comment • jan 07, 2025

  32. Project Mini Rack – compact and portable homelabs

    94 points • comment • jan 17, 2025

  33. Review: Superbloom: How Technologies of Connection Tear Us Apart

    94 points • comment • jan 30, 2025

  34. About A comprehensive guide for Linux Network (Socket) programming

    93 points • comment • jan 19, 2025

  35. Nuclear fusion: it's time for a reality check

    93 points • comment • jan 29, 2025

  36. The rise and fall of the English sentence (2017)

    93 points • comment • jan 14, 2025

  37. What Every Hacker Should Know About TLB Invalidation [pdf]

    93 points • comment • jan 14, 2025

  38. Programming in Lua (first edition) (2003)

    93 points • comment • jan 13, 2025

  39. Human corpses keep moving for over a year after death, scientist says (2019)

    93 points • comment • jan 26, 2025

  40. Adding concurrent read/write to DuckDB with Arrow Flight

    93 points • comment • jan 29, 2025

  41. Sony ends production of Blu-ray Disc, recordable MiniDisc, and MiniDV media

    93 points • comment • jan 25, 2025

  42. Learn New Skills

    93 points • comment • jan 05, 2025

  43. IRC Driven – modern IRC indexing site and search engine

    93 points • comment • jan 13, 2025

  44. Fixing my monitor's power button

    92 points • comment • jan 26, 2025

  45. Scalable OLTP in the Cloud: What's the Big Deal?

    92 points • comment • jan 27, 2025

  46. Show HN: I made a service to convert WordPress blogs to Hugo

    92 points • comment • jan 22, 2025

  47. The Debian Publicity Team will no longer post on X/Twitter

    92 points • comment • jan 29, 2025

  48. Scanning ultrasound removes amyloid-β, restores memory in Alzheimer mouse model (2015)

    92 points • comment • jan 11, 2025

  49. OpenAI failed to deliver the opt-out tool it promised by 2025

    91 points • comment • jan 01, 2025

  50. The Evolution of Tunnel Boring Machines (2023)

    91 points • comment • jan 05, 2025

  51. Second-Hand Bookshops in Britain: 2024 Report

    91 points • comment • jan 15, 2025

  52. Life on a Closed Timelike Curve

    91 points • comment • jan 12, 2025

  53. How many Alpine packages can you install at once? (2024)

    91 points • comment • jan 21, 2025

  54. Amsterdam Compiler Kit for Cray X-MP

    91 points • comment • jan 26, 2025

  55. Show HN: DeepSeek Your HN Profile

    90 points • comment • jan 28, 2025

  56. The Seven-Action Documentation Model

    90 points • comment • jan 09, 2025

  57. Musings on Tracing in PyPy

    90 points • comment • jan 06, 2025

  58. Picasso was suspected of stealing the 'Mona Lisa'

    90 points • comment • jan 07, 2025

  59. A Proper x86 Assembler in Haskell Using the Escardó-Oliva Functional

    90 points • comment • jan 20, 2025

  60. You don't need Next.js – Why we migrated from Next to React

    90 points • comment • jan 01, 2025

  61. Robinhood to pay $45M SEC settlement over data breach, other violations

    90 points • comment • jan 14, 2025

  62. Open-source browser port of Pitfall from the Atari 2600

    90 points • comment • jan 22, 2025

  63. Virtual Vette – Racing Simulator Built from Wrecked Corvette

    90 points • comment • jan 12, 2025

  64. Embedding Scheme in Rust

    90 points • comment • jan 08, 2025

  65. Physicists have shown that an idealized form of magnetism is heatproof

    90 points • comment • jan 16, 2025

  66. PyPI Blog: Project Quarantine

    90 points • comment • jan 02, 2025

  67. Making glow-in-the-dark Strontium Aluminate

    90 points • comment • jan 19, 2025

  68. MySQL at Uber

    89 points • comment • jan 30, 2025

  69. How to build your own ZX80/ZX81 (2019)

    89 points • comment • jan 23, 2025

  70. Show HN: Amurex – An open source AI meeting copilot

    89 points • comment • jan 21, 2025

  71. I got a heat pump and my energy bill went up

    89 points • comment • jan 20, 2025

  72. Black boxes from Jeju Air 2216 stopped recording four minutes before crash

    89 points • comment • jan 11, 2025

  73. MessagePack: It's like JSON, but fast and small.

    89 points • comment • jan 11, 2025

  74. US Civil servants are being asked who they voted for in 2024 election

    89 points • comment • jan 28, 2025

  75. Market Structure Primer (2019)

    89 points • comment • jan 08, 2025

  76. I wrote my own “proper” programming language (2020)

    89 points • comment • jan 22, 2025

  77. Size Optimization Tricks (2022)

    89 points • comment • jan 05, 2025

  78. Apple's new AI feature rewords scam messages to make them look more legit

    88 points • comment • jan 08, 2025

  79. Hackers get $886,250 for 49 zero-days at Pwn2Own Automotive 2025

    88 points • comment • jan 24, 2025

  80. Passengers Say Turkish Airlines Flights Have Unwelcome Guests: Bedbugs

    88 points • comment • jan 02, 2025

  81. Classic Duck Hunt game made in JavaScript and Kaplay

    88 points • comment • jan 30, 2025

  82. Keymapper: A cross-platform context-aware key remapper

    88 points • comment • jan 29, 2025

  83. Game dev in Rust: a year later

    88 points • comment • jan 05, 2025

  84. Groundwater Movement (Interactive)

    87 points • comment • jan 16, 2025

  85. Show HN: Terraform Provider for Inexpensive Switches

    87 points • comment • jan 18, 2025

  86. TikTok should lose its big Supreme Court case

    87 points • comment • jan 06, 2025

  87. Qwen2.5-1M: Deploy your own Qwen with context length up to 1M tokens

    87 points • comment • jan 26, 2025

  88. How saffron became an American cash crop

    87 points • comment • jan 03, 2025

  89. Society for Technical Communication to permanently close its doors

    87 points • comment • jan 29, 2025

  90. Misty: A secure distributed actor language

    87 points • comment • jan 12, 2025

  91. MacBASIC

    87 points • comment • jan 06, 2025

  92. HD Hyundai set to debut production 14 ton hydrogen wheeled excavator

    87 points • comment • jan 28, 2025

  93. Microplastics block blood flow in the brain, mouse study reveals

    87 points • comment • jan 27, 2025

  94. Show HN: Werk, a simple build tool and command runner

    86 points • comment • jan 12, 2025

  95. Ford's electric Mach-E outsold the gas-powered Mustang in 2024

    86 points • comment • jan 11, 2025

  96. Reliable system call interception

    86 points • comment • jan 05, 2025

  97. Blur Busters Open Source Display Initiative – Refresh Cycle Shaders

    86 points • comment • jan 05, 2025

  98. Google "We have no moat, and neither does OpenAI" (2023)

    86 points • comment • jan 27, 2025

  99. How to triangulate a polyline with thickness

    86 points • comment • jan 03, 2025

  100. Working with The Associated Press to provide fresh results for the Gemini app

    86 points • comment • jan 15, 2025