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Hacker News (Jan 2025)

  1. A Woman Has Restored Dry Desert Rivers into Green Oasis Flowing with Water [video]

    19 points • comment • jan 18, 2025

  2. Show HN: I built a credit-based system API

    19 points • comment • jan 17, 2025

  3. Shares of Tencent fall over 5% after US designates it a Chinese military company

    19 points • comment • jan 07, 2025

  4. 2024 general essay questions for Oxford 'All Souls' scholarship [pdf]

    19 points • comment • jan 22, 2025

  5. Coyote Time: What Games Can Teach Us About Forgiveness in Learning

    19 points • comment • jan 10, 2025

  6. Porting the GNAT Ada compiler to macOS/aarch64

    19 points • comment • jan 15, 2025

  7. California Fire Facts

    19 points • comment • jan 13, 2025

  8. The Missing Mentoring Pillar

    19 points • comment • jan 20, 2025

  9. Tomatoes Were Considered Sinful – Until the Salem Tomato Trial of 1820 (2019)

    19 points • comment • jan 03, 2025

  10. From tiny to immense: Geological spotlight on the Alexander Mosaic

    19 points • comment • jan 23, 2025

  11. South Korea's impeached president is arrested over a martial law declaration

    19 points • comment • jan 19, 2025

  12. Chinese Innovations Spawn Wave of Toll Phishing via SMS

    19 points • comment • jan 18, 2025

  13. Killing Orson Welles at Midnight (2011)

    19 points • comment • jan 04, 2025

  14. Anti-science mysticism is enabling autocracy around the globe

    19 points • comment • jan 11, 2025

  15. The Untold History of the United States (2012)

    19 points • comment • jan 01, 2025

  16. Raphtory – In-memory vectorised graph database written in Rust

    19 points • comment • jan 20, 2025

  17. Brainwash an Executive Today

    19 points • comment • jan 14, 2025

  18. Show HN: SupGen, an model-free program synthesizer by examples / dependent types

    19 points • comment • jan 20, 2025

  19. The Washington Post kills off its "Democracy Dies In Darkness" slogan

    19 points • comment • jan 16, 2025

  20. The history of sex toys and what they tell us about ancient women

    19 points • comment • jan 12, 2025

  21. How China could quarantine Taiwan: Mapping out two possible scenarios

    19 points • comment • jan 13, 2025

  22. Leaked Meta Rules: Users Are Free to Post "Mexican Immigrants Are Trash"

    19 points • comment • jan 10, 2025

  23. FEMA May Be Eliminated

    19 points • comment • jan 24, 2025

  24. Private equity-owned healthcare puts 'profits over patients': Senate report

    19 points • comment • jan 09, 2025

  25. $1000 bug bounty for better healthcare with the FDA, CDC, and Kaiser Permanente

    19 points • comment • jan 28, 2025

  26. State Department issues immediate, widespread pause on foreign aid

    19 points • comment • jan 25, 2025

  27. Washington Post cartoonist resigns after cartoon satirising Jeff Bezos rejected

    19 points • comment • jan 05, 2025

  28. FOSDEM and DMA updates and 2025 YH4F and Our visions for 2048

    19 points • comment • jan 14, 2025

  29. Ask HN: How to sell a script that will save companies $100k a month?

    19 points • comment • jan 25, 2025

  30. Wi-Fi 7 in 2025: Will this be the year?

    19 points • comment • jan 28, 2025

  31. Why Open Source Misses the Point of Free Software

    19 points • comment • jan 16, 2025

  32. I don't support a Strategic Bitcoin Reserve, and neither should you

    19 points • comment • jan 24, 2025

  33. Show HN: I made an open-source video editor

    19 points • comment • jan 26, 2025

  34. Snakeskin: It's Fashionable, and It Scares Predators Away from Bird Nests

    19 points • comment • jan 26, 2025

  35. Facebook flags Linux topics as 'cybersecurity threats' – posts and users blocked

    19 points • comment • jan 27, 2025

  36. China installed a record capacity of solar and wind in 2024 – in numbers

    19 points • comment • jan 22, 2025

  37. Hermit guardian of Budelli dies after three decades on paradise island

    19 points • comment • jan 08, 2025

  38. U.S. Employee Engagement Sinks to 10-Year Low

    19 points • comment • jan 14, 2025

  39. Will FedACH process ACH payments on the National Day of Mourning, Jan 9, 2025?

    19 points • comment • jan 07, 2025

  40. Why is Big Tech hellbent on making AI opt-out?

    19 points • comment • jan 23, 2025

  41. Are We Multiplanetary Yet?

    18 points • comment • jan 05, 2025

  42. A Retrospective on the Source Code Control System [pdf]

    18 points • comment • jan 07, 2025

  43. Safety Filters make LLMs defective tools

    18 points • comment • jan 02, 2025

  44. Tdf: Terminal-Based PDF Viewer

    18 points • comment • jan 02, 2025

  45. Trump mints $31B with new official $TRUMP crypto meme coin

    18 points • comment • jan 19, 2025

  46. Show HN: Humbug – an open source AI dev environment mostly built by AI

    18 points • comment • jan 20, 2025

  47. Wol: Wake up your devices with a single command or click

    18 points • comment • jan 21, 2025

  48. Non-Western founders say DeepSeek proves innovation need not cost billions

    18 points • comment • jan 31, 2025

  49. Unlink vs. DEL – A deep dive into how it works internally in Redis

    18 points • comment • jan 19, 2025

  50. Boom: America's answer to Concorde completes its first supersonic flight

    18 points • comment • jan 28, 2025

  51. Too Many People Don't Value the Time of Security Researchers

    18 points • comment • jan 21, 2025

  52. Researcher Turns Insecure License Plate Cameras into Open Source Surveillance

    18 points • comment • jan 07, 2025

  53. Rare knife showing up at Bay Area restaurant tables, confusing people

    18 points • comment • jan 17, 2025

  54. Integration of 1,024 silicon quantum dots with on-chip electronics

    18 points • comment • jan 25, 2025

  55. IRS Expands Its Free Tax Filing Option

    18 points • comment • jan 24, 2025

  56. Age verification mandatory for porn sites in the UK starting July

    18 points • comment • jan 16, 2025

  57. Google Maps to Rename 'Gulf of Mexico' to 'Gulf of America' for US Users

    18 points • comment • jan 28, 2025

  58. Blurred Forms: An Unsteady History of Drunkenness (2014)

    18 points • comment • jan 28, 2025

  59. Defederation from Threads

    18 points • comment • jan 10, 2025

  60. AI isn't going to build your startup

    18 points • comment • jan 25, 2025

  61. Norms-Based Intellectual Property Systems: The Case of French Chefs(2008)

    18 points • comment • jan 09, 2025

  62. Transmeta: A CPU Revolution That Never Was [video]

    18 points • comment • jan 18, 2025

  63. Privacy of Photos.app's Enhanced Visual Search

    18 points • comment • jan 01, 2025

  64. Create, Edit and Convert PPT, PPTX and ODP Presentation via Open Source PHP APIs

    18 points • comment • jan 15, 2025

  65. Unit Testing Principles

    18 points • comment • jan 26, 2025

  66. It is time to ban email

    18 points • comment • jan 28, 2025

  67. Aider in Your IDE

    18 points • comment • jan 10, 2025

  68. Guide to Japanese Idioms

    18 points • comment • jan 08, 2025

  69. The Autumn of the Middle Ages

    18 points • comment • jan 03, 2025

  70. EV, hybrid sales reached a record 20% of U.S. vehicle sales in 2024

    18 points • comment • jan 18, 2025

  71. Twinge of Saudade: Biographies of Abba

    18 points • comment • jan 01, 2025

  72. Support for ASHA hearing aids coming to Linux

    18 points • comment • jan 08, 2025

  73. Computer History Resources

    18 points • comment • jan 02, 2025

  74. Mastodon's CEO and creator is handing control to a new nonprofit organization

    18 points • comment • jan 13, 2025

  75. Making a live-mode test payment to yourself = a payment processor ToS violation?

    18 points • comment • jan 27, 2025

  76. OpenAI launches o3-mini, its latest 'reasoning' model

    18 points • comment • jan 31, 2025

  77. Ford CEO on why it's so difficult for legacy car companies to get software right

    18 points • comment • jan 08, 2025

  78. SiFive's P550 Microarchitecture

    18 points • comment • jan 26, 2025

  79. "Policy changes at Meta are deeply troubling" – Mastodon CEO

    18 points • comment • jan 09, 2025

  80. Prototyping in Rust

    18 points • comment • jan 17, 2025

  81. European startups that became unicorns in 2024

    18 points • comment • jan 13, 2025

  82. Constellation's Nuclear Plants to Provide Power for US Government Agencies

    18 points • comment • jan 06, 2025

  83. 'Headed for technofascism': the rightwing roots of Silicon Valley

    18 points • comment • jan 29, 2025

  84. I Won't Invest (2019)

    18 points • comment • jan 22, 2025

  85. Building a keyboard for a 1985 Casio FX-451 calculator [video]

    18 points • comment • jan 18, 2025

  86. A Bivariate Map with Observable Plot

    18 points • comment • jan 04, 2025

  87. In a cold day of late winter a new search experience came out

    18 points • comment • jan 07, 2025

  88. Drone pilot to plead guilty in collision that grounded aircraft

    18 points • comment • jan 31, 2025

  89. Hackers are targeting machine identities;Token Security raised $20M to stop them

    17 points • comment • jan 27, 2025

  90. A Novel 'Kiss and Capture' Event Gave Pluto Its Largest Moon, Charon

    17 points • comment • jan 19, 2025

  91. DJI stops blocking drones flying over airports, wildfires, & the White House

    17 points • comment • jan 15, 2025

  92. Refactoring with Codemods to Automate API Changes

    17 points • comment • jan 08, 2025

  93. Trump says new tariffs on computer chips, semiconductors coming 'soon'

    17 points • comment • jan 28, 2025

  94. Read CV Acquired by Perplexity

    17 points • comment • jan 17, 2025

  95. Lex Fridman Interviews Volodymyr Zelenskyy

    17 points • comment • jan 07, 2025

  96. Meta-Analysis: Weight loss requires >150 minutes per week of aerobic exercise

    17 points • comment • jan 10, 2025

  97. Show HN: WikiTimeline – AI-powered tool to visualize and compare timelines

    17 points • comment • jan 04, 2025

  98. Aaron Swartz left us 12 years ago

    17 points • comment • jan 11, 2025

  99. Mars Exploration: How the CIA's Project Stargate Went to Mars [pdf]

    17 points • comment • jan 03, 2025

  100. An effect system proposal for C2y

    17 points • comment • jan 18, 2025