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Hacker News (Jan 2025)

  1. Two Hard Things (2009)

    77 points • comment • jan 20, 2025

  2. Preserves: An Expressive Data Language

    77 points • comment • jan 29, 2025

  3. The Chaos (1922)

    77 points • comment • jan 11, 2025

  4. File Systems: The Original Hypermedia

    76 points • comment • jan 21, 2025

  5. Show HN: DBOS TypeScript – Lightweight Durable Execution Built on Postgres

    76 points • comment • jan 16, 2025

  6. Trapped in the dark for 35 hours – Red Sea dive-boat survivors tell of escapes

    76 points • comment • jan 15, 2025

  7. Sailor poets take over U.S. Navy deck logs on New Year's Day

    76 points • comment • jan 01, 2025

  8. lc: List files in categories (and columns) – from Coherent Unix clone

    76 points • comment • jan 10, 2025

  9. Hackers crack Subaru's connected services to access data, door locks and more

    76 points • comment • jan 28, 2025

  10. Meta Censoring '#Democrat' on Instagram

    76 points • comment • jan 21, 2025

  11. Don't Clobber the Frame Pointer

    75 points • comment • jan 03, 2025

  12. Show HN: Open Rewind – POC for audio and screen and video streaming to S3

    75 points • comment • jan 04, 2025

  13. The Recursive Book of Recursion

    75 points • comment • jan 03, 2025

  14. Show HN: Open-Source Alternative to OpenAI Platform, for Local Models

    75 points • comment • jan 29, 2025

  15. Open Socrates by Agnes Callard review – a design for life

    75 points • comment • jan 22, 2025

  16. The Nix NGI Team: Advancing Open Source with Nix

    75 points • comment • jan 24, 2025

  17. Show HN: News Minimalist – News ranked by significance

    75 points • comment • jan 15, 2025

  18. The first release of OpenVox, the OSS implementation of Puppet

    75 points • comment • jan 22, 2025

  19. Designing a Star Tracker for Astronaut Don Pettit to Use on the ISS

    75 points • comment • jan 14, 2025

  20. The world of 1930s public health posters

    75 points • comment • jan 05, 2025

  21. Imaging mounted disk volumes under duress (2021)

    75 points • comment • jan 12, 2025

  22. Refurb Weekend: Atari Stacy

    75 points • comment • jan 05, 2025

  23. MuJoco Playground

    75 points • comment • jan 16, 2025

  24. Mineral Oil Cooled PC (2014)

    74 points • comment • jan 24, 2025

  25. Kvrocks: Redis-compatible distributed key value NoSQL database

    74 points • comment • jan 21, 2025

  26. The doctor who gave himself an ulcer and solved a medical mystery (2010)

    74 points • comment • jan 29, 2025

  27. Ask HN: Are there any real examples of AI agents doing work?

    74 points • comment • jan 08, 2025

  28. MillenniumDB: Property graph and RDF engine, still in development

    74 points • comment • jan 31, 2025

  29. Show HN: Mcp-Agent – Build effective agents with Model Context Protocol

    74 points • comment • jan 29, 2025

  30. 1972 Mercedes-Benz 600 Kompressor [video]

    74 points • comment • jan 02, 2025

  31. An experiment of adding recommendation engine to your app using pgvector search

    74 points • comment • jan 23, 2025

  32. A new ability to pinpoint sources of fast radio bursts

    74 points • comment • jan 28, 2025

  33. AI in the 80s? How a Simple Animal Guessing Game Pioneered Machine Learning

    73 points • comment • jan 08, 2025

  34. RT-2: Vision-Language-Action Models (2023)

    73 points • comment • jan 01, 2025

  35. Expressive Vector Engine – SIMD in C++

    73 points • comment • jan 05, 2025

  36. Show HN: I created a PoC for live descriptions of the surroundings for the blind

    73 points • comment • jan 04, 2025

  37. United States Digital Service Renamed to DOGE

    73 points • comment • jan 21, 2025

  38. Why do regexes use `$` and `^` as line anchors? (2024)

    73 points • comment • jan 21, 2025

  39. Developers should embrace creative coding again

    73 points • comment • jan 27, 2025

  40. Small Data [video]

    73 points • comment • jan 06, 2025

  41. Borrowchecker.jl – Designing a borrow checker for Julia

    73 points • comment • jan 18, 2025

  42. The PETG adhesive test [video]

    73 points • comment • jan 30, 2025

  43. Amiga Research Operating System (AROS): Summary of 2024

    73 points • comment • jan 01, 2025

  44. Deadly and Imminent; The Pentagon's Mad Dash for Silicon Valley's AI Weapons

    73 points • comment • jan 25, 2025

  45. The Egg, an at Home Nuclear Reactor

    73 points • comment • jan 07, 2025

  46. The Curious Gems of the River Thames

    73 points • comment • jan 13, 2025

  47. What Is To Be Done? The book that helped spark the Russian Revolution

    73 points • comment • jan 03, 2025

  48. Show HN: Belshazzar's Clock, luminous paint night clock

    73 points • comment • jan 08, 2025

  49. CVSS Is Dead to Us

    72 points • comment • jan 23, 2025

  50. Customasm – An assembler for custom, user-defined instruction sets

    72 points • comment • jan 12, 2025

  51. Show HN: Browse Anime from the Terminal

    72 points • comment • jan 26, 2025

  52. Only 1 in 10 Oracle Java users want to stay with Big Red

    72 points • comment • jan 29, 2025

  53. My Experience Biohacking

    72 points • comment • jan 09, 2025

  54. Boom Supersonic to break sound barrier during historic test flight today

    71 points • comment • jan 28, 2025

  55. Who would have won the Simon-Ehrlich bet over different decades?

    71 points • comment • jan 09, 2025

  56. VIC 20 Elite

    71 points • comment • jan 24, 2025

  57. How many ants live on Earth? (2022)

    71 points • comment • jan 31, 2025

  58. Dual-Link QR Code Generator

    71 points • comment • jan 25, 2025

  59. Show HN: A daily digest for reMarkable

    71 points • comment • jan 12, 2025

  60. Who would buy a Raspberry Pi for $120?

    71 points • comment • jan 09, 2025

  61. Show HN: Boulette - Protect you from yourself (even as root).

    71 points • comment • jan 10, 2025

  62. These Websites Have Been Seized

    71 points • comment • jan 30, 2025

  63. Ask HN: Work on robotics or agents?

    71 points • comment • jan 10, 2025

  64. Supercharge vector search with ColBERT rerank in PostgreSQL

    71 points • comment • jan 24, 2025

  65. Why are corporations cutting managers?

    71 points • comment • jan 06, 2025

  66. The Conundrum of Life's Origin

    70 points • comment • jan 16, 2025

  67. Orbit Spirograph (2019)

    70 points • comment • jan 23, 2025

  68. Quiet Quitting: Why Employees Are Demanding Fairness and Boundaries

    70 points • comment • jan 26, 2025

  69. Let's talk about bird tongues (2014)

    70 points • comment • jan 13, 2025

  70. Two Bites of Data Science in K

    70 points • comment • jan 26, 2025

  71. ruffle-rs/ruffle: A Flash Player emulator written in Rust

    70 points • comment • jan 05, 2025

  72. Ask HN: How can I learn to better command people's attention when speaking?

    70 points • comment • jan 06, 2025

  73. Russia's Hidden War Debt

    70 points • comment • jan 12, 2025

  74. Two fire experts interviewed about L.A. wildfires

    70 points • comment • jan 12, 2025

  75. Complexity physics finds crucial tipping points in chess games

    70 points • comment • jan 26, 2025

  76. Hyundai just launched its cheapest EV in Japan

    70 points • comment • jan 11, 2025

  77. Liskov Substitution: The real meaning of inheritance

    70 points • comment • jan 21, 2025

  78. Let's Quit X

    70 points • comment • jan 13, 2025

  79. Penn Station Can Handle the Load: New York Is Ready for Through-Running

    70 points • comment • jan 16, 2025

  80. DeepSeek FAQ

    70 points • comment • jan 27, 2025

  81. 47% of 160 Top Selling Protein Powders Tested Exceed P65 Limit for Toxic Metals [pdf]

    69 points • comment • jan 14, 2025

  82. TiDB – cloud-native, distributed SQL database written in Go

    69 points • comment • jan 03, 2025

  83. What is an invariant? (2023)

    69 points • comment • jan 09, 2025

  84. James Thomson on the Origins of the macOS Dock

    69 points • comment • jan 11, 2025

  85. How to run DeepSeek R1 locally

    69 points • comment • jan 29, 2025

  86. When the U.S. tried to replace migrant farmworkers with high schoolers (2018)

    69 points • comment • jan 08, 2025

  87. Uiua – A stack-based array programming language

    69 points • comment • jan 03, 2025

  88. Wikipedia searches reveal differing styles of curiosity

    69 points • comment • jan 10, 2025

  89. Pathfinding to a moving target in evolving terrain

    69 points • comment • jan 10, 2025

  90. Show HN: TubePen – My attempt to get more out of YouTube learning

    69 points • comment • jan 07, 2025

  91. Lenovo Officially Announces the Legion Go S Handheld with SteamOS

    69 points • comment • jan 07, 2025

  92. FCC chair helps ISPs and landlords make deals that renters can't escape

    69 points • comment • jan 28, 2025

  93. The Making of Community Notes (2024)

    69 points • comment • jan 20, 2025

  94. Nvidia Blackwell GeForce RTX 50 Series Opens New World of AI Computer Graphics

    69 points • comment • jan 07, 2025

  95. Swc4j: SWC for Java

    68 points • comment • jan 03, 2025

  96. Reverse-engineering a carry-lookahead adder in the Pentium

    68 points • comment • jan 18, 2025

  97. What makes a great mocktail? (2018)

    68 points • comment • jan 30, 2025

  98. The Graphics Codex

    68 points • comment • jan 26, 2025

  99. YC X25, the spring 2025 batch

    68 points • comment • jan 20, 2025

  100. Show HN: I made a tool to save multimedia from various platforms

    68 points • comment • jan 15, 2025