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Hacker News (Jan 2025)

  1. Why Did Pensions Disappear?

    8 points • comment • jan 21, 2025

  2. Programming Should Be Simple (2 min video on Deno)

    8 points • comment • jan 22, 2025

  3. C Is Legal Again

    8 points • comment • jan 26, 2025

  4. Hidden Champions

    8 points • comment • jan 22, 2025

  5. House designed on Passive House principles survives Cali wildfire

    8 points • comment • jan 10, 2025

  6. Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Lex Fridman Podcast #456

    8 points • comment • jan 05, 2025

  7. Getting LLMs to Generate Funny Memes Is Unexpectedly Hard

    8 points • comment • jan 06, 2025

  8. Storage is cheap, but not thinking about logging is expensive

    8 points • comment • jan 21, 2025

  9. Show HN: ProductHunt for Blog Posts

    8 points • comment • jan 27, 2025

  10. Google worked directly with Israel's military on AI tools in Gaza war

    8 points • comment • jan 22, 2025

  11. How quickly will AI improve?

    8 points • comment • jan 24, 2025

  12. Buy something or leave, Starbucks says

    8 points • comment • jan 14, 2025

  13. OpenAI says Chinese rivals using its work for their AI

    8 points • comment • jan 29, 2025

  14. The Borda Count Is the Best Method of Voting

    8 points • comment • jan 14, 2025

  15. First in Chess Championship history, two players agreed to share the title

    8 points • comment • jan 01, 2025

  16. Mac-minivnc – A VNC remote desktop server for vintage Macintosh computers

    8 points • comment • jan 28, 2025

  17. Buh Bye Spotify

    8 points • comment • jan 10, 2025

  18. You'll Never Get Off the Dinner Treadmill

    8 points • comment • jan 08, 2025

  19. NATO to deploy ships, aircraft in Baltic Sea after cable breaches

    8 points • comment • jan 14, 2025

  20. 3D-printed "ghost gun" ring comes to my community–and leaves a man dead

    8 points • comment • jan 25, 2025

  21. The seven people who hold the keys to worldwide internet security (2014)

    8 points • comment • jan 28, 2025

  22. Nvidia calls China's DeepSeek R1 model 'an excellent AI advancement'

    8 points • comment • jan 28, 2025

  23. Ask HN: Want to keep my software engineering skills sharp

    8 points • comment • jan 13, 2025

  24. Ask HN: How can X suspend paid accounts without explanation?

    8 points • comment • jan 17, 2025

  25. The Most Active Volcano in the Northeast Pacific Is Preparing to Erupt

    8 points • comment • jan 30, 2025

  26. Thought UnitedHealthcare couldn't get more awful? They've gone villain mode

    8 points • comment • jan 14, 2025

  27. Powering AI RAG Applications with Vector Embeddings

    8 points • comment • jan 02, 2025

  28. Designing for the web ought to mean making HTML and CSS (2019)

    8 points • comment • jan 21, 2025

  29. Headspace Is Perishable

    8 points • comment • jan 09, 2025

  30. Apple says it's following the law by removing TikTok from the App Store

    8 points • comment • jan 19, 2025

  31. Eye Contact

    8 points • comment • jan 27, 2025

  32. Man who exploded Cybertruck in Las Vegas used ChatGPT in planning, police say

    8 points • comment • jan 07, 2025

  33. Deformable Image Registration KU Repository

    8 points • comment • jan 07, 2025

  34. In search of Europe's rarest wild mushrooms

    8 points • comment • jan 11, 2025

  35. Facebook free bikes dumped by employees and police hassle kids who ride them

    8 points • comment • jan 28, 2025

  36. North Carolina's coastal tourism could decline due to salty tap water

    8 points • comment • jan 03, 2025

  37. YouTube is obsessed with AI [video]

    8 points • comment • jan 03, 2025

  38. American Sellers Lost Amazon to China

    8 points • comment • jan 16, 2025

  39. Bitbucket services "hard down" due to major worldwide outage

    8 points • comment • jan 21, 2025

  40. Vivek Ramaswamy expected to depart DOGE

    8 points • comment • jan 19, 2025

  41. Neil Young pulls out of Glastonbury: festival 'under corporate control' of BBC

    8 points • comment • jan 02, 2025

  42. The "Why I want to leave" list

    8 points • comment • jan 23, 2025

  43. How do non-software engineers feel upon reflection, about their degrees?

    8 points • comment • jan 08, 2025

  44. Show HN: Dribbble for code

    8 points • comment • jan 12, 2025

  45. Cosine Similarity Isn't the Silver Bullet We Thought It Was

    8 points • comment • jan 13, 2025

  46. US Treasury Department breached through remote support platform

    8 points • comment • jan 01, 2025

  47. Ask HN: What's the best book you've read regarding software development?

    8 points • comment • jan 13, 2025

  48. The First Perfect Computer

    8 points • comment • jan 26, 2025

  49. LWN [articles now available] in ePub format

    7 points • comment • jan 29, 2025

  50. Overtourism pushes residents in Spain and Portugal to the limit

    7 points • comment • jan 25, 2025

  51. How Iran moves sanctioned oil around the world

    7 points • comment • jan 07, 2025

  52. Github Incident with Pull Requests and Issues

    7 points • comment • jan 30, 2025

  53. Google won't comply with EU fact-checking law

    7 points • comment • jan 24, 2025

  54. Meta making users automatically follow Trump and Vance on Facebook

    7 points • comment • jan 21, 2025

  55. Intel says Panther Lake is on track for 2H 2025 launch, Nova Lake in 2026

    7 points • comment • jan 31, 2025

  56. Morse Code Clock

    7 points • comment • jan 12, 2025

  57. Ask HN: Looking at AI development, I feel pointless in the work I'm doing

    7 points • comment • jan 23, 2025

  58. New Rust Jobs Site

    7 points • comment • jan 24, 2025

  59. Amazon is quitting Quebec to 'shock and awe' workers worldwide

    7 points • comment • jan 24, 2025

  60. Ask HN: What will be the next trend after AI?

    7 points • comment • jan 21, 2025

  61. Trump's import tariffs could raise the cost of a laptop for Americans by 68%

    7 points • comment • jan 08, 2025

  62. I built a QR code with my bare hands to see how it works [video]

    7 points • comment • jan 15, 2025

  63. Elon's European Invasion Is Pissing Off World Leaders

    7 points • comment • jan 07, 2025

  64. How to Build an Artificial Synapse

    7 points • comment • jan 24, 2025

  65. Ask HN: Cheapest way to run a time-series database in cloud?

    7 points • comment • jan 18, 2025

  66. Jeff Koons on why he has drawn a red line on AI in art: I don't want to be lazy

    7 points • comment • jan 02, 2025

  67. I read 600 books this past decade; these are my recommendations

    7 points • comment • jan 23, 2025

  68. Billionaire says AI surveillance can ensure 'citizens are on best behavior'

    7 points • comment • jan 02, 2025

  69. TikTok Is Harming Children at an Industrial Scale

    7 points • comment • jan 09, 2025

  70. ByteDance Releases UI-TARS Desktop, Alternative to Anthropic's Computer Use

    7 points • comment • jan 23, 2025

  71. Why some individuals with disease-causing mutations remain symptom-free

    7 points • comment • jan 05, 2025

  72. Federal U.S. grant pushes Pacific Northwest high-speed rail proposal forward

    7 points • comment • jan 06, 2025

  73. A Flag on Mars? Maybe Not So Soon

    7 points • comment • jan 31, 2025

  74. You don't need a JavaScript framework to build websites

    7 points • comment • jan 20, 2025

  75. Harnessing 3200 Gbps Network: A Journey with RDMA, EFA, and Libfabric

    7 points • comment • jan 03, 2025

  76. Beyond XX and XY: The Extraordinary Complexity of Sex Determination (2017)

    7 points • comment • jan 22, 2025

  77. Musk praises far-right Alternative For Germany party in live X chat with Weidel

    7 points • comment • jan 10, 2025

  78. Bambu denies their own documented restrictions [video]

    7 points • comment • jan 21, 2025

  79. "Reign of terror over: My weird weekend partying with the triumphant tech right"

    7 points • comment • jan 25, 2025

  80. Ask HN: Can we stop with the political posts?

    7 points • comment • jan 06, 2025

  81. Ask HN: How do you sleep on time?

    7 points • comment • jan 14, 2025

  82. Show HN: I made a simple agentic framework in JavaScript

    7 points • comment • jan 22, 2025

  83. Wall Street Banks Prepare to Sell Billions of Dollars of X Loans

    7 points • comment • jan 24, 2025

  84. Nvidia Project Digits Explained: AI Power in a Compact Package

    7 points • comment • jan 20, 2025

  85. AI's energy obsession just got a reality check

    7 points • comment • jan 28, 2025

  86. AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D and 9900X3D claims 20% faster gaming performance vs. Intel

    7 points • comment • jan 06, 2025

  87. Important Things in Life (Harlan Ellison, 1978)

    7 points • comment • jan 20, 2025

  88. Cosine Similarity: Not the Silver Bullet We Thought It Was

    7 points • comment • jan 18, 2025

  89. Pros and cons of greater pay transparency

    7 points • comment • jan 25, 2025

  90. Walmart boosts some top managers to over $600k a year

    7 points • comment • jan 28, 2025

  91. The Six Codes of Nonverbal Communication (2019)

    7 points • comment • jan 20, 2025

  92. FCC Chair Orders Investigation into NPR and PBS Sponsorships

    7 points • comment • jan 31, 2025

  93. For Russian Forces in Ukraine It's Now Normal to Ride into Battle in Compact Car

    7 points • comment • jan 28, 2025

  94. Trump to sign order opening detention camp at Guantanamo Bay for 30k migrants

    7 points • comment • jan 29, 2025

  95. Show HN: Optics Challenge – Design a solar concentrator for a non-round sun

    7 points • comment • jan 06, 2025

  96. We Use Blockchain Technology Behind the Scenes

    7 points • comment • jan 19, 2025

  97. Hypso-2 satellite monitors harmful algae from space

    7 points • comment • jan 03, 2025

  98. Best Data Visualization Projects of 2024

    7 points • comment • jan 03, 2025

  99. Nothing Is Sacred: AI Generated Slop Has Come for Christmas Music

    7 points • comment • jan 29, 2025

  100. Why the Steam Deck Is the Perfect Mini PC for Hackers

    7 points • comment • jan 02, 2025