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Hacker News (Jan 2025)

  1. Rust, Reflection and Access Rules

    38 points • comment • jan 02, 2025

  2. SFPD refuses to say where they've placed 400 automated license plate readers

    38 points • comment • jan 04, 2025

  3. How my indoor air made me sick and dumb (and how I fixed it)

    37 points • comment • jan 04, 2025

  4. C "clockwise/spiral" rule to understand declarations

    37 points • comment • jan 01, 2025

  5. Emacs: Fringe Matters, Finding the Right Difference

    37 points • comment • jan 01, 2025

  6. Adaptation to a Viscous Snowball Earth Ocean as Path to Complex Multicellularity (2021)

    37 points • comment • jan 03, 2025

  7. 200Bn Weights of Responsibility

    37 points • comment • jan 03, 2025

  8. Carvana: A Father-Son Accounting Grift for the Ages – Hindenburg Research

    36 points • comment • jan 03, 2025

  9. Types and Programming Languages

    36 points • comment • jan 05, 2025

  10. Ask HN: How is your job search going? (January 2025)

    36 points • comment • jan 02, 2025

  11. DVD shop owner vows to be 'last man standing'

    36 points • comment • jan 06, 2025

  12. Siri "unintentionally" recorded private convos; Apple agrees to pay $95M

    35 points • comment • jan 02, 2025

  13. Party Squasher, the first guest occupancy counter for homes

    35 points • comment • jan 03, 2025

  14. Visually Compare Retry Algorithms

    35 points • comment • jan 03, 2025

  15. Show HN: I'm tired of sharing code using PasteBin and Slack, so I made this

    35 points • comment • jan 03, 2025

  16. Fixing America's elevators is becoming a heavy lift

    35 points • comment • jan 06, 2025

  17. With 10 months of support remaining, Windows 10 still dominates

    34 points • comment • jan 02, 2025

  18. HTML_slice: Enable Ruby classes the ability to generate reusable pieces of HTML

    34 points • comment • jan 02, 2025

  19. The Maritime Approximation

    34 points • comment • jan 02, 2025

  20. DeepSeek-VL2: MoE Vision-Language Models for Advanced Multimodal Understanding

    34 points • comment • jan 01, 2025

  21. Waymo Robotaxis Much Safer Than Any Human-Driven Cars

    34 points • comment • jan 05, 2025

  22. This Year, RISC-V Laptops Arrive

    34 points • comment • jan 04, 2025

  23. Savoy Style vs. Hollywood Style: A Fight to the Death (Hopefully?) (2011)

    34 points • comment • jan 03, 2025

  24. True crime stories are influencing the real-life justice system

    33 points • comment • jan 05, 2025

  25. A Legendary Exposé of the Brutality of the Soviet Union

    33 points • comment • jan 01, 2025

  26. A Year in Review: Flask in 2024

    32 points • comment • jan 02, 2025

  27. Starship's Seventh Flight Test

    32 points • comment • jan 03, 2025

  28. Show HN: SPath is a Rust lib for query JSONPath over any semi-structured data

    32 points • comment • jan 06, 2025

  29. The Truth About H-1B Visas It's wage theft, pure and simple

    31 points • comment • jan 02, 2025

  30. AI's next leap requires intimate access to your digital life

    30 points • comment • jan 05, 2025

  31. DOS live USB image with tools for writers

    30 points • comment • jan 02, 2025

  32. Richest people surpass $10T in wealth in 2024

    30 points • comment • jan 01, 2025

  33. Show HN: I made a screensaver that solves chess puzzles

    30 points • comment • jan 01, 2025

  34. Build a Better DIY Seismometer

    29 points • comment • jan 02, 2025

  35. Spirituality Is Secure Attachment with Reality

    29 points • comment • jan 02, 2025

  36. A free, unlimited online PDF converter with Privacy focus

    29 points • comment • jan 03, 2025

  37. The huge stakes for free speech in a new Supreme Court case about porn

    29 points • comment • jan 03, 2025

  38. Signalens' SignalSDR Pro Is a Raspberry Pi-Like High-Performance SDR

    29 points • comment • jan 01, 2025

  39. As Gen X Nears Retirement, Many Fear They Can't Afford It

    28 points • comment • jan 06, 2025

  40. Awesome Donations: A repository of FLOSS donation options

    28 points • comment • jan 02, 2025

  41. Chip-8 Emulation Introduction

    28 points • comment • jan 03, 2025

  42. The largest hydroelectric dam in the world has been approved

    27 points • comment • jan 05, 2025

  43. Signalling chaos: Inside the Elizabeth line's two-day breakdown

    27 points • comment • jan 01, 2025

  44. FCC net neutrality rules dead again as appeals court sides with Big Telco

    27 points • comment • jan 05, 2025

  45. Show HN: An SSH based utility to transfer pipes across machines – beam

    27 points • comment • jan 04, 2025

  46. Tesla stock slides after Q4 delivery miss, first yearly sales decline

    27 points • comment • jan 02, 2025

  47. Ozempic economics: How GLP-1s will disrupt the economy in 2025

    27 points • comment • jan 01, 2025

  48. A Note on the Changing Faces of (D)ARPA – By Eric Gilliam

    27 points • comment • jan 03, 2025

  49. Apple Vision Pro May Now Be Out of Production

    26 points • comment • jan 01, 2025

  50. X.org Server Development Hit a Decade High for the Number of Commits in 2024

    26 points • comment • jan 02, 2025

  51. Windows 365 Link: The New Device That Imprisons Users in Microsofts Cloud

    26 points • comment • jan 05, 2025

  52. 'It didn't use to be like this': woeful US healthcare system

    26 points • comment • jan 05, 2025

  53. Sea level rise is gonna get a whole lot realer

    26 points • comment • jan 01, 2025

  54. 5G NR-U: Bringing the power of 5G to unlicensed spectrum globally

    25 points • comment • jan 03, 2025

  55. Tesla Cybertruck sales are disastrous

    25 points • comment • jan 02, 2025

  56. Chinese Vessel Cuts Taiwan Internet Cable in Apparent Sabotage

    25 points • comment • jan 06, 2025

  57. How I Use Claude

    25 points • comment • jan 02, 2025

  58. Apple will pay $95M to settle Siri privacy lawsuit

    25 points • comment • jan 02, 2025

  59. Over 3.1M fake "stars" on GitHub projects used to boost rankings

    25 points • comment • jan 02, 2025

  60. Computer Cousins: The Atari ST and DOS PCs

    25 points • comment • jan 06, 2025

  61. DiscoverGov – search across multiple U.S. Federal Government databases

    24 points • comment • jan 03, 2025

  62. My approach to running a link blog

    24 points • comment • jan 03, 2025

  63. The Cybertruck that exploded and the New Orleans vehicle both rented using Turo

    24 points • comment • jan 02, 2025

  64. MAGA opponents of Elon Musk claim he stripped them of their X badges

    24 points • comment • jan 01, 2025

  65. What Happens When a Whole Generation Never Grows Up?

    23 points • comment • jan 02, 2025

  66. Ask HN: Is it a bad idea to make an email domain with an uncommon TLD?

    23 points • comment • jan 05, 2025

  67. Tesla shares slide after it reports first drop in annual deliveries

    23 points • comment • jan 02, 2025

  68. Could the Soviet Union have survived?

    23 points • comment • jan 02, 2025

  69. Unifying the Technical Interview (2020)

    23 points • comment • jan 02, 2025

  70. U-Haul Growth Metros and Cities of 2024: Dallas Top Metro for In-Migration

    22 points • comment • jan 04, 2025

  71. Scientists Re-Create the Microbial Dance That Sparked Complex Life

    22 points • comment • jan 03, 2025

  72. SEC Writes Off $10B in Fines It Can't Collect

    22 points • comment • jan 01, 2025

  73. RailsConf 2025 will be the last gathering of its kind

    21 points • comment • jan 04, 2025

  74. You are chasing the wrong goals

    21 points • comment • jan 02, 2025

  75. Boy, 7, found alive five days after going missing in 'lion-infested' game park

    21 points • comment • jan 05, 2025

  76. The Life and Death of Htmx

    21 points • comment • jan 06, 2025

  77. First Live Birth Using Fertilo Procedure That Matures Eggs Outside the Body

    21 points • comment • jan 04, 2025

  78. Everything Google killed in 2024: 8 new entries to the Google Graveyard

    21 points • comment • jan 01, 2025

  79. 21 points • comment • jan 03, 2025

  80. The Evaporative Cooling Effect in Social Networks

    20 points • comment • jan 04, 2025

  81. The Maxwell-Heaviside Equations Explained by the Theory of Informatons

    20 points • comment • jan 02, 2025

  82. Ask HN: Real name vs. Anonymous Username – Which do you use online and Why?

    20 points • comment • jan 03, 2025

  83. The Magic of Metalinguistic Programming

    20 points • comment • jan 01, 2025

  84. The Class Politics of Fine Dining

    20 points • comment • jan 03, 2025

  85. Overcoming Resistance to Extreme Programming

    20 points • comment • jan 03, 2025

  86. Hacking into Apple's new USB-C Controller [video]

    20 points • comment • jan 01, 2025

  87. Popeye is now Public Domain

    20 points • comment • jan 05, 2025

  88. The Plot to Poison Children's Minds

    20 points • comment • jan 02, 2025

  89. Generative AI is not going to build your engineering team for you

    20 points • comment • jan 05, 2025

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

    19 points • comment • jan 03, 2025

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

    19 points • comment • jan 01, 2025

  92. Dell Kills the XPS Brand

    19 points • comment • jan 06, 2025

  93. Killing Orson Welles at Midnight (2011)

    19 points • comment • jan 04, 2025

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

    19 points • comment • jan 05, 2025

  95. Why we invested in Silicon Box and the advanced chiplet packaging

    19 points • comment • jan 03, 2025

  96. Computer History Resources

    18 points • comment • jan 02, 2025

  97. The Autumn of the Middle Ages

    18 points • comment • jan 03, 2025

  98. The Art and Science of Mess Management (1981) [pdf]

    18 points • comment • jan 03, 2025

  99. Are We Multiplanetary Yet?

    18 points • comment • jan 05, 2025

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

    18 points • comment • jan 06, 2025