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Hacker News (Jan 2025)

  1. Lessons in creating family photos that people want to keep (2018)

    390 points • comment • jan 26, 2025

  2. The Alpha Myth: How captive wolves led us astray

    390 points • comment • jan 27, 2025

  3. Books I Loved Reading in 2024

    390 points • comment • jan 01, 2025

  4. Using eSIMs with devices that only have a physical SIM slot via a 9eSIM SIM car

    389 points • comment • jan 20, 2025

  5. Visualizing All ISBNs

    383 points • comment • jan 10, 2025

  6. Forgejo: A self-hosted lightweight software forge

    382 points • comment • jan 19, 2025

  7. Apple files emergency motion to become defendant in US vs. Google [pdf]

    382 points • comment • jan 31, 2025

  8. The Tyranny of Structurelessness (1970)

    381 points • comment • jan 22, 2025

  9. Researchers design wearable tech that can sense glucose levels more accurately

    379 points • comment • jan 05, 2025

  10. ZFS 2.3 released with ZFS raidz expansion

    376 points • comment • jan 14, 2025

  11. I do not want AI to "polish" me

    376 points • comment • jan 29, 2025

  12. You don't have to pay the Microsoft 365 price increase

    376 points • comment • jan 09, 2025

  13. YC Graveyard: 821 inactive Y Combinator startups

    374 points • comment • jan 26, 2025

  14. The future of Rebble

    374 points • comment • jan 27, 2025

  15. I deleted my social media accounts

    373 points • comment • jan 12, 2025

  16. Meta is killing off its AI-powered Instagram and Facebook profiles

    373 points • comment • jan 04, 2025

  17. Why the weak nuclear force is short range

    373 points • comment • jan 11, 2025

  18. Cosmos Keyboard: Scan your hand, build a keyboard

    371 points • comment • jan 13, 2025

  19. Wild – A fast linker for Linux

    371 points • comment • jan 24, 2025

  20. Lines of code that beat A/B testing (2012)

    371 points • comment • jan 09, 2025

  21. Phase behavior of Cacio and Pepe sauce

    370 points • comment • jan 03, 2025

  22. Calm tech certification "rewards" less distracting tech

    370 points • comment • jan 21, 2025

  23. Blue Origin reaches orbit on first flight of its titanic New Glenn rocket

    370 points • comment • jan 16, 2025

  24. Seagate: 'new' hard drives used for tens of thousands of hours

    369 points • comment • jan 29, 2025

  25. Homomorphic encryption in iOS 18

    368 points • comment • jan 11, 2025

  26. Open-R1: an open reproduction of DeepSeek-R1

    367 points • comment • jan 28, 2025

  27. Cuttle – a MTG like game using a standard 52 card deck

    366 points • comment • jan 10, 2025

  28. The South Vietnamese pilot who landed a Cessna on a carrier to save his family (2019)

    366 points • comment • jan 26, 2025

  29. I'm Peter Roberts, immigration attorney, who does work for YC and startups. AMA

    366 points • comment • jan 20, 2025

  30. Learning Synths

    365 points • comment • jan 07, 2025

  31. Why is homeschooling becoming fashionable?

    363 points • comment • jan 14, 2025

  32. WorstFit: Unveiling Hidden Transformers in Windows ANSI

    362 points • comment • jan 09, 2025

  33. We are teen hackers from around the world who code together

    361 points • comment • jan 06, 2025

  34. No Bitcoin ETFs at Vanguard (2024)

    361 points • comment • jan 26, 2025

  35. A phishing attack involving g.co, Google's URL shortener

    361 points • comment • jan 24, 2025

  36. All clocks are 30 seconds late

    361 points • comment • jan 06, 2025

  37. GitHub introduces sub-issues, issue types and advanced search

    360 points • comment • jan 16, 2025

  38. Hitting OKRs vs. Doing Your Job

    360 points • comment • jan 06, 2025

  39. Turn any bicycle electric

    359 points • comment • jan 23, 2025

  40. Ask HN: Why buy domains and 301 redirect them to me?

    358 points • comment • jan 24, 2025

  41. SpaceSim

    358 points • comment • jan 03, 2025

  42. Why I Chose Common Lisp

    357 points • comment • jan 12, 2025

  43. My failed attempt to shrink all NPM packages by 5%

    356 points • comment • jan 27, 2025

  44. Taking a $15 Casio F91W 5km underwater

    356 points • comment • jan 31, 2025

  45. Rules for writing software tutorials

    356 points • comment • jan 02, 2025

  46. NYC Congestion Pricing Tracker

    354 points • comment • jan 06, 2025

  47. Show HN: DeepSeek My User Agent

    354 points • comment • jan 26, 2025

  48. Tabby: Self-hosted AI coding assistant

    354 points • comment • jan 12, 2025

  49. Track your devices via Apple FindMy network in Go/TinyGo

    353 points • comment • jan 11, 2025

  50. Show HN: Doom (1993) in a PDF

    352 points • comment • jan 13, 2025

  51. Tilde, My LLVM Alternative

    351 points • comment • jan 21, 2025

  52. Mastodon announces new European non-profit, change of CEO

    349 points • comment • jan 13, 2025

  53. A better build system for OCaml

    345 points • comment • jan 30, 2025

  54. "We're building a new static type checker for Python"

    344 points • comment • jan 29, 2025

  55. Webtop – Alpine,Ubuntu,Fedora,and Arch containers containing full desktop envs

    343 points • comment • jan 13, 2025

  56. Nix – Death by a Thousand Cuts

    342 points • comment • jan 11, 2025

  57. LA wildfires force thousands to evacuate, NASA JPL closed

    341 points • comment • jan 08, 2025

  58. Salesforce will hire no more software engineers in 2025, says Marc Benioff

    340 points • comment • jan 08, 2025

  59. Questions censored by DeepSeek

    340 points • comment • jan 28, 2025

  60. Kalman Filter Tutorial

    339 points • comment • jan 18, 2025

  61. A laptop stand made from a single sheet of recycled paper

    338 points • comment • jan 11, 2025

  62. Federal Court (Finally) Rules Backdoor Searches of Data Unconstitutional

    337 points • comment • jan 22, 2025

  63. Why do bees die when they sting you? (2021)

    337 points • comment • jan 18, 2025

  64. Advice for a friend who wants to start a blog

    333 points • comment • jan 29, 2025

  65. My Struggle with Doom Scrolling

    331 points • comment • jan 22, 2025

  66. VoxelSpace: Terrain rendering algorithm in less than 20 lines of code (2020)

    330 points • comment • jan 03, 2025

  67. Google is making AI in Gmail and Docs free, but raising the price of Workspace

    329 points • comment • jan 15, 2025

  68. Caltrain's electric fleet more efficient than expected

    328 points • comment • jan 25, 2025

  69. I'll think twice before using GitHub Actions again

    328 points • comment • jan 20, 2025

  70. 100x defect tolerance: How we solved the yield problem

    328 points • comment • jan 15, 2025

  71. Who killed the rave?

    327 points • comment • jan 06, 2025

  72. The Taylorator – All Your Frequencies Are Belong to Us

    327 points • comment • jan 27, 2025

  73. Scientists uncover how the brain washes itself during sleep

    326 points • comment • jan 09, 2025

  74. Show HN: TypeScript/React/Vue Window Layout Manager (Tabs, Floating, Popouts)

    326 points • comment • jan 11, 2025

  75. What's OAuth2, anyway?

    325 points • comment • jan 26, 2025

  76. GitHub Git Operations Are Down

    324 points • comment • jan 13, 2025

  77. Mathesar – an intutive spreadsheet-like interface to Postgres data

    321 points • comment • jan 30, 2025

  78. Be a property owner and not a renter on the internet

    320 points • comment • jan 03, 2025

  79. Ask HN: How do you prevent the impact of social media on your children?

    320 points • comment • jan 13, 2025

  80. Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 2025)

    320 points • comment • jan 02, 2025

  81. How far can you get in 40 minutes from each subway station in NYC?

    319 points • comment • jan 24, 2025

  82. Rails for everything

    319 points • comment • jan 01, 2025

  83. Infinigen

    317 points • comment • jan 19, 2025

  84. Hunyuan3D 2.0 – High-Resolution 3D Assets Generation

    317 points • comment • jan 21, 2025

  85. Five years of React Native at Shopify

    316 points • comment • jan 13, 2025

  86. Servo Revival: 2023-2024

    315 points • comment • jan 07, 2025

  87. Show HN: Stagehand – an open source browser automation framework powered by AI

    314 points • comment • jan 08, 2025

  88. C stdlib isn't threadsafe and even safe Rust didn't save us

    313 points • comment • jan 22, 2025

  89. Akamai to shut down its CDN operations in China

    312 points • comment • jan 05, 2025

  90. Metacognitive laziness: Effects of generative AI on learning motivation

    312 points • comment • jan 21, 2025

  91. Brood War Korean Translations

    311 points • comment • jan 17, 2025

  92. Understanding gRPC, OpenAPI and REST and when to use them in API design (2020)

    311 points • comment • jan 23, 2025

  93. Show HN: Trolling SMS spammers with Ollama

    310 points • comment • jan 22, 2025

  94. Lambda Calculus in 383 Bytes (2022)

    308 points • comment • jan 13, 2025

  95. B-Trees: More Than I Thought I'd Want to Know

    308 points • comment • jan 03, 2025

  96. FTC takes action against GoDaddy for alleged lax data security

    308 points • comment • jan 28, 2025

  97. Building a Medieval Castle from Scratch

    308 points • comment • jan 23, 2025

  98. Making an intersection unsafe for pedestrians to save seconds for drivers

    307 points • comment • jan 14, 2025

  99. AI founders will learn the bitter lesson

    306 points • comment • jan 12, 2025

  100. Google Pixel 4a's old firmware is gone, trapping users on buggy battery update

    306 points • comment • jan 29, 2025