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Hacker News (Jan 2025)

  1. Antiqua et Nova: Note on the relationship between AI and human intelligence

    564 points • comment • jan 30, 2025

  2. Snyk security researcher deploys malicious NPM packages targeting cursor.com

    563 points • comment • jan 13, 2025

  3. Databases in 2024: A Year in Review

    562 points • comment • jan 01, 2025

  4. The Tsunami of Burnout Few See

    560 points • comment • jan 09, 2025

  5. Marginalia – A search engine that prioritizes non-commercial content

    557 points • comment • jan 27, 2025

  6. California law enforcement misused state databases more than 7k times in 2023

    552 points • comment • jan 30, 2025

  7. 30% drop in O1-preview accuracy when Putnam problems are slightly variated

    544 points • comment • jan 01, 2025

  8. Fidget

    544 points • comment • jan 08, 2025

  9. I Switched to Firefox and Never Looked Back

    543 points • comment • jan 14, 2025

  10. The FizzBuzz that did not get me the job

    543 points • comment • jan 21, 2025

  11. A minimax chess engine in regular expressions

    543 points • comment • jan 07, 2025

  12. Web page annoyances that I don't inflict on you

    541 points • comment • jan 05, 2025

  13. How to draw an outline in a video game

    540 points • comment • jan 04, 2025

  14. Hacker News for Gamedev

    536 points • comment • jan 31, 2025

  15. A QR code that sends you to a different destination – lenticular and adversarial

    536 points • comment • jan 23, 2025

  16. VS Code Pets

    534 points • comment • jan 18, 2025

  17. Hacking Subaru: Tracking and controlling cars via the admin panel

    530 points • comment • jan 23, 2025

  18. Why is my CPU usage always 100%?

    529 points • comment • jan 09, 2025

  19. Reverse Engineering Bambu Connect

    528 points • comment • jan 20, 2025

  20. I am (not) a failure: Lessons learned from six failed startup attempts

    527 points • comment • jan 20, 2025

  21. Show HN: Interactive systemd – a better way to work with systemd units

    525 points • comment • jan 18, 2025

  22. Stop Trying to Schedule a Call with Me

    523 points • comment • jan 11, 2025

  23. Debugging: Indispensable rules for finding even the most elusive problems (2004)

    522 points • comment • jan 13, 2025

  24. Combining 15s interval whole-sky-camera photos to form a 4y spanning keogram

    518 points • comment • jan 04, 2025

  25. Llama.vim – Local LLM-assisted text completion

    517 points • comment • jan 23, 2025

  26. Asteroid Impact on Earth 2032 with Probability 1% and 8Mt Energy

    515 points • comment • jan 29, 2025

  27. I made $100K from a dick joke

    514 points • comment • jan 05, 2025

  28. Why DeepSeek had to be open source

    509 points • comment • jan 29, 2025

  29. Show HN: I completed shipping my desktop app

    507 points • comment • jan 03, 2025

  30. Reverse engineering Call of Duty anti-cheat

    506 points • comment • jan 20, 2025

  31. Startup Winter: Hacker News Lost Its Faith

    505 points • comment • jan 21, 2025

  32. Is the world becoming uninsurable?

    498 points • comment • jan 17, 2025

  33. Investigating an “evil” RJ45 dongle

    497 points • comment • jan 17, 2025

  34. Google’s OAuth login doesn’t protect against purchasing a failed startup domain

    491 points • comment • jan 14, 2025

  35. Machine Learning in Production (CMU Course)

    491 points • comment • jan 28, 2025

  36. Nokia's internal presentation after iPhone was launched (2007) [pdf]

    489 points • comment • jan 16, 2025

  37. Nvidia announces next-gen RTX 5090 and RTX 5080 GPUs

    487 points • comment • jan 07, 2025

  38. Tell HN: Impassable Cloudflare challenges are ruining my browsing experience

    487 points • comment • jan 02, 2025

  39. Fluid Simulation Pendant

    485 points • comment • jan 13, 2025

  40. In the belly of the MrBeast

    483 points • comment • jan 14, 2025

  41. Uv's killer feature is making ad-hoc environments easy

    482 points • comment • jan 12, 2025

  42. In my life, I've witnessed three elite salespeople at work

    480 points • comment • jan 05, 2025

  43. Every HTML Element

    480 points • comment • jan 25, 2025

  44. Take the pedals off the bike

    479 points • comment • jan 14, 2025

  45. Apple will soon receive 'made in America' chips from TSMC's Arizona fab

    479 points • comment • jan 14, 2025

  46. Advent of Code 2024 in pure SQL

    473 points • comment • jan 02, 2025

  47. Nvidia’s $589B DeepSeek rout

    472 points • comment • jan 27, 2025

  48. Show HN: I built an active community of trans people online

    470 points • comment • jan 23, 2025

  49. AI Engineer Reading List

    468 points • comment • jan 13, 2025

  50. FrontierMath was funded by OpenAI

    466 points • comment • jan 19, 2025

  51. The protester's guide to smartphone security

    463 points • comment • jan 26, 2025

  52. Right to root access

    462 points • comment • jan 12, 2025

  53. Remote code execution via MIDI messages

    459 points • comment • jan 05, 2025

  54. Nevada court shuts down police use of federal loophole for civil forfeiture

    459 points • comment • jan 15, 2025

  55. Ask HN: Books about people who did hard things

    459 points • comment • jan 06, 2025

  56. Extracting AI models from mobile apps

    457 points • comment • jan 05, 2025

  57. A messy experiment that changed how I think about AI code analysis

    453 points • comment • jan 05, 2025

  58. Zig's comptime is bonkers good

    452 points • comment • jan 07, 2025

  59. Openhaystack: Build 'AirTags' – track Bluetooth devices via Apple's network

    451 points • comment • jan 27, 2025

  60. Using uv as your shebang line

    451 points • comment • jan 28, 2025

  61. Israel, Hamas reach ceasefire deal to end 15 months of war in Gaza

    444 points • comment • jan 15, 2025

  62. Tailwind CSS v4.0

    441 points • comment • jan 23, 2025

  63. Show HN: API Parrot – Automatically Reverse Engineer HTTP APIs

    440 points • comment • jan 01, 2025

  64. Show HN: Factorio Blueprint Visualizer

    439 points • comment • jan 09, 2025

  65. Oh Shit, Git?

    437 points • comment • jan 16, 2025

  66. Stats – macOS system monitor in your menu bar

    436 points • comment • jan 30, 2025

  67. The GPU, not the TPM, is the root of hardware DRM

    436 points • comment • jan 02, 2025

  68. Bacteria (and their metabolites) and depression

    435 points • comment • jan 29, 2025

  69. Time-Series Anomaly Detection: A Decade Review

    435 points • comment • jan 06, 2025

  70. Why is Git Autocorrect too fast for Formula One drivers?

    434 points • comment • jan 19, 2025

  71. Justin Trudeau promises to resign as PM

    433 points • comment • jan 06, 2025

  72. Matt Mullenweg deactivates WordPress accounts of contributors planning a fork

    432 points • comment • jan 11, 2025

  73. Sonos CEO steps down after app update debacle

    430 points • comment • jan 13, 2025

  74. A mole infiltrated the highest ranks of American militias

    429 points • comment • jan 04, 2025

  75. Operator research preview

    428 points • comment • jan 23, 2025

  76. Backdooring Your Backdoors – Another $20 Domain, More Governments

    424 points • comment • jan 12, 2025

  77. SmolGPT: A minimal PyTorch implementation for training a small LLM from scratch

    424 points • comment • jan 29, 2025

  78. I've been advocating for RSS support, and you should too

    421 points • comment • jan 18, 2025

  79. Don't use cosine similarity carelessly

    421 points • comment • jan 14, 2025

  80. Sweden brings more books and handwriting practice back to its schools (2023)

    420 points • comment • jan 15, 2025

  81. IAC confirms existence of a Super-earth in the habitable zone of a Sun-like Star

    418 points • comment • jan 28, 2025

  82. US will ban cancer-linked Red Dye No. 3 in cereal and other foods

    417 points • comment • jan 15, 2025

  83. Build a Database in 3000 Lines with 0 Dependencies

    415 points • comment • jan 16, 2025

  84. Zasper: A Modern and Efficient Alternative to JupyterLab, Built in Go

    414 points • comment • jan 02, 2025

  85. Generate audiobooks from E-books with Kokoro-82M

    411 points • comment • jan 15, 2025

  86. Master the Art of the Product Manager 'No'

    411 points • comment • jan 20, 2025

  87. TSMC begins producing 4-nanometer chips in Arizona

    409 points • comment • jan 11, 2025

  88. Type 2 Diabetes and cardiovascular disease attributable to sugar beverages

    409 points • comment • jan 07, 2025

  89. Be Aware of the Makefile Effect

    408 points • comment • jan 11, 2025

  90. Kansas tuberculosis outbreak is America's largest recorded since the 1950s

    407 points • comment • jan 26, 2025

  91. Apple squandered the Holy Grail

    407 points • comment • jan 06, 2025

  92. 1 in 5 online job postings are either fake or never filled, study finds

    405 points • comment • jan 14, 2025

  93. Life lessons from the first half-century of my career

    401 points • comment • jan 22, 2025

  94. Home Loss File System

    400 points • comment • jan 14, 2025

  95. How NAT Traversal Works (2020)

    399 points • comment • jan 05, 2025

  96. Invisible Electrostatic Wall at 3M plant (1996)

    399 points • comment • jan 21, 2025

  97. The Illustrated Guide to a PhD

    397 points • comment • jan 12, 2025

  98. U.S. appeals court strikes down FCC's net neutrality rules

    397 points • comment • jan 02, 2025

  99. Ask HN: Organize local communities without Facebook?

    393 points • comment • jan 21, 2025

  100. A marriage proposal spoken in office jargon

    392 points • comment • jan 15, 2025