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Hacker News (Jan 2025)

  1. Using black magic to make a fast circular buffer (2017)

    68 points • comment • jan 11, 2025

  2. Show HN: Cardstock- Free TCG Proxy Manager for Magic, Yugioh, & Pokemon

    68 points • comment • jan 08, 2025

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

    68 points • comment • jan 15, 2025

  4. Wends of Texas

    68 points • comment • jan 08, 2025

  5. The psychonaut field manual [pdf]

    68 points • comment • jan 01, 2025

  6. Swc4j: SWC for Java

    68 points • comment • jan 03, 2025

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

    68 points • comment • jan 18, 2025

  8. AI haters build tarpits to trap and trick AI scrapers that ignore robots.txt

    68 points • comment • jan 28, 2025

  9. The Graphics Codex

    68 points • comment • jan 26, 2025

  10. Signs Of Life In A Desert

    67 points • comment • jan 30, 2025

  11. Double-keyed caching: Browser cache partitioning

    67 points • comment • jan 08, 2025

  12. AI and Startup Moats

    67 points • comment • jan 07, 2025

  13. Man trapped inside driverless car as it spins in circles

    67 points • comment • jan 09, 2025

  14. Facebook paid GOP firm to malign TikTok

    67 points • comment • jan 19, 2025

  15. Lunase moon phase watch mechanism

    67 points • comment • jan 14, 2025

  16. Florida man eats diet of butter, cheese, beef; cholesterol oozes from his body

    67 points • comment • jan 22, 2025

  17. Show HN: Filter out engagement bait and politics on your X/Twitter feed

    67 points • comment • jan 06, 2025

  18. Tesla Reported Zero Federal Income Tax on $2B of U.S. Income in 2024

    67 points • comment • jan 31, 2025

  19. Nvidia releases its own brand of world models

    67 points • comment • jan 07, 2025

  20. How can a top scientist be so confidently wrong? R. A. Fisher and smoking (2022)

    67 points • comment • jan 16, 2025

  21. Kodak increases film production capacity to meet commercial, consumer demand

    67 points • comment • jan 04, 2025

  22. Labwc: Wlroots-based window-stacking compositor for Wayland, inspired by openbox

    66 points • comment • jan 04, 2025

  23. Using Linear Programming to find optimal builds in League of Legend

    66 points • comment • jan 22, 2025

  24. Poka-Yoke

    66 points • comment • jan 09, 2025

  25. Optimizing uint64_t Digit Counting: A Method that Beats Lemire's by up to 143%

    66 points • comment • jan 06, 2025

  26. "AI" on a Calculator (2023)

    66 points • comment • jan 03, 2025

  27. China reduced sulphur dioxide emissions by more than two-thirds in past 15 years

    66 points • comment • jan 03, 2025

  28. 17th-century priory in France converted into a medieval-inspired topiary garden

    66 points • comment • jan 08, 2025

  29. Show HN: WebGPU + TypeScript Slime Mold

    66 points • comment • jan 02, 2025

  30. Philosophy Eats AI

    66 points • comment • jan 19, 2025

  31. Judge ends man's 11-year quest to dig up landfill and recover $765M in Bitcoin

    66 points • comment • jan 14, 2025

  32. Looking at some claims that quantum computers won't work

    65 points • comment • jan 18, 2025

  33. Surveillance and the suppression of civil society in Serbia

    65 points • comment • jan 03, 2025

  34. TikTok ban: data reveals sharp traffic decline and rapid shift to alternatives

    65 points • comment • jan 19, 2025

  35. Real-time, river sections downstream of sewage discharges from storm overflows

    65 points • comment • jan 28, 2025

  36. Subway Stories

    65 points • comment • jan 13, 2025

  37. Object that fell from the skies identified as separation ring from a rocket

    65 points • comment • jan 01, 2025

  38. Show HN: Decentralized robots (and things) orchestration system

    65 points • comment • jan 14, 2025

  39. On Priesthoods

    65 points • comment • jan 08, 2025

  40. Bambu Connect's Authentication X.509 Certificate and Private Key Extracted

    65 points • comment • jan 20, 2025

  41. The history and use of /etc/glob in early Unixes

    65 points • comment • jan 13, 2025

  42. Amidst the noise and haste, Google has successfully pulled a SpaceX

    65 points • comment • jan 06, 2025

  43. Thanks to Nvidia, there's a new generation of PCs coming and they'll run Linux

    64 points • comment • jan 12, 2025

  44. How to solve computational science problems with AI: PINNs

    64 points • comment • jan 20, 2025

  45. Morgan Stanley Follows Citi, BofA in Quitting Climate Group

    64 points • comment • jan 02, 2025

  46. Proof of concept WMI virus (zero-day)

    64 points • comment • jan 29, 2025

  47. What I wish I knew before I quit my job

    64 points • comment • jan 13, 2025

  48. The Hunt for Error -22

    64 points • comment • jan 22, 2025

  49. Show HN: voidDB – A transactional key-value DB written in Go for 64-bit Linux

    64 points • comment • jan 31, 2025

  50. Donut Lab's next-generation in-wheel motors

    64 points • comment • jan 08, 2025

  51. Show HN: Design/build of some parametric speaker cabinets with OpenSCAD

    64 points • comment • jan 28, 2025

  52. United Airlines to launch Starlink wi-fi in spring 2025

    64 points • comment • jan 05, 2025

  53. The quiet rebellion of a little life

    64 points • comment • jan 20, 2025

  54. Code reviews: A success story

    64 points • comment • jan 13, 2025

  55. Siri Is Super Dumb and Getting Dumber

    64 points • comment • jan 24, 2025

  56. Ask HN: Share your "LLM screwed us over" stories?

    64 points • comment • jan 02, 2025

  57. Musk aides lock government workers out of computer systems at US agency

    64 points • comment • jan 31, 2025

  58. JPMorgan reportedly ending remote work for more than 300k employees

    63 points • comment • jan 11, 2025

  59. OpenAI just put the final nail in the coffin of the open World Wide Web

    63 points • comment • jan 25, 2025

  60. Hacker of the year nominee: Gromit the Dog

    63 points • comment • jan 06, 2025

  61. Arm releases Chiplet System Architecture spec beta version

    63 points • comment • jan 22, 2025

  62. Walgreens replaced fridge doors with smart screens. It's now a $200M fiasco

    63 points • comment • jan 16, 2025

  63. Basel has to buy domain name in the Bahamas after mishap

    63 points • comment • jan 31, 2025

  64. Fossilised fish vomit found in Denmark from sixty-six million years ago

    63 points • comment • jan 29, 2025

  65. It's Time to Switch to OpenTofu

    63 points • comment • jan 22, 2025

  66. Apple starts pushing AirPods owners into Transparency mode, with no easy opt out

    63 points • comment • jan 14, 2025

  67. Trump signs executive order withdrawing from the World Health Organization

    63 points • comment • jan 21, 2025

  68. Durable execution should be lightweight

    63 points • comment • jan 30, 2025

  69. Frustration Tolerance: An Essential for Surviving Large Orgs

    63 points • comment • jan 20, 2025

  70. The Complete Text of "All Watched over by Machines of Loving Grace"

    62 points • comment • jan 09, 2025

  71. Show HN: Magenta.nvim – AI coding plugin for Neovim focused on tool use

    62 points • comment • jan 21, 2025

  72. Two Turntables and a Microphone (2006)

    62 points • comment • jan 03, 2025

  73. When Greedy Algorithms Can Be Faster [C++]

    62 points • comment • jan 28, 2025

  74. Apple won't return TikTok to the App Store until it's sold to a U.S. buyer

    62 points • comment • jan 23, 2025

  75. Find the oldest line in your repo

    62 points • comment • jan 27, 2025

  76. Cheating Is All You Need

    62 points • comment • jan 13, 2025

  77. Do cookie-free analytics need cookie banners?

    62 points • comment • jan 22, 2025

  78. Company of One: Why Staying Small Is the Next Big Thing for Business

    62 points • comment • jan 14, 2025

  79. Feeling Targeted: Executive Order Ending Wasteful DEIA Efforts

    62 points • comment • jan 25, 2025

  80. Show HN: Pica – Rust-based agentic AI infrastructure (open-source)

    62 points • comment • jan 21, 2025

  81. (Right-Nulled) Generalised LR Parsing

    61 points • comment • jan 12, 2025

  82. The Day Instagram Blocked Democracy

    61 points • comment • jan 22, 2025

  83. George R.R. Martin has co-authored a physics paper

    61 points • comment • jan 23, 2025

  84. Bambu Lab - Setting the Record Straight About Our Security Update

    61 points • comment • jan 20, 2025

  85. Mullenweg the Coward (2010)

    61 points • comment • jan 11, 2025

  86. Pornhub Is Now Blocked in Almost All of the U.S. South

    61 points • comment • jan 01, 2025

  87. DIY Web Archiving Zine

    61 points • comment • jan 22, 2025

  88. Ask HN: Is onboard audio still good enough compared to dedicated Sound Cards?

    61 points • comment • jan 30, 2025

  89. Young Persons Guide to BCPL Programming on the Raspberry Pi [pdf]

    61 points • comment • jan 12, 2025

  90. Recreating Delicious Library in 2025?

    61 points • comment • jan 29, 2025

  91. Parallel-hashmap: drop-in replacement for unordered_map, unordered_set

    61 points • comment • jan 05, 2025

  92. Young men now spend more of their free time alone than any other group

    61 points • comment • jan 23, 2025

  93. Xiaomi global bootloader unlock policy has changed

    61 points • comment • jan 02, 2025

  94. Linux Cracking Bible – The GNU Testament

    61 points • comment • jan 04, 2025

  95. Ask HN: To LinkedIn Am I Just Collateral Damage of a Barely Functioning System

    61 points • comment • jan 28, 2025

  96. RCA and the Roaring Twenties

    60 points • comment • jan 29, 2025

  97. Self Unhelped: On psychoanalysis and therapeutic culture

    60 points • comment • jan 02, 2025

  98. The Slow Death of OCSP

    60 points • comment • jan 30, 2025

  99. Microsoft won't support Office apps on Windows 10 after October 14th

    60 points • comment • jan 15, 2025

  100. Fault Tolerance in Tandem Computer Systems (1986) [pdf]

    60 points • comment • jan 25, 2025