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Hacker News (Jan 2025)

  1. Most Influential Papers in Computer Science History

    305 points • comment • jan 23, 2025

  2. Learn Yjs Interactively

    305 points • comment • jan 16, 2025

  3. UnitedHealth overcharged cancer patients for drugs by over 1,000%

    304 points • comment • jan 15, 2025

  4. Bringing SerenityOS to real hardware, one driver at a time

    303 points • comment • jan 08, 2025

  5. Show HN: Struggle with CSS Flexbox? This Playground Is for You

    303 points • comment • jan 05, 2025

  6. Show HN: Lightpanda, an open-source headless browser in Zig

    303 points • comment • jan 24, 2025

  7. Snowdrop OS – a homebrew operating system from scratch, in assembly language

    302 points • comment • jan 24, 2025

  8. Show HN: HipScript – Run CUDA in the browser with WebAssembly and WebGPU

    302 points • comment • jan 07, 2025

  9. Show HN: Stratoshark, a sibling application to Wireshark

    302 points • comment • jan 22, 2025

  10. F-Droid's Progress and What's Coming in 2025

    301 points • comment • jan 22, 2025

  11. Simple CPU Design

    300 points • comment • jan 22, 2025

  12. Qwen2.5-1M: Deploy your own Qwen with context length up to 1M tokens

    300 points • comment • jan 26, 2025

  13. Psychedelic Graphics 0: Introduction

    300 points • comment • jan 23, 2025

  14. Goodbye, Slopify

    299 points • comment • jan 29, 2025

  15. Steve Langasek, one of Ubuntu Linux's leading lights, has died

    299 points • comment • jan 08, 2025

  16. Tesla Paid Zero Federal Income Tax in 2024, Despite $2.3B in Income

    298 points • comment • jan 31, 2025

  17. Pixelfed Hit 500K Users

    297 points • comment • jan 25, 2025

  18. Writing a simple pool allocator in C

    296 points • comment • jan 05, 2025

  19. US pauses all federal aid and grants

    296 points • comment • jan 28, 2025

  20. Purelymail: Cheap, no-nonsense email

    296 points • comment • jan 27, 2025

  21. 417-megapixel Andromeda galaxy panorama took over a decade to make

    295 points • comment • jan 17, 2025

  22. An invalid 68030 instruction accidentally allowed the Mac Classic II to boot

    294 points • comment • jan 25, 2025

  23. A day in the life of a prolific voice phishing crew

    291 points • comment • jan 07, 2025

  24. DHS removes all members of cyber security advisory boards, halts investigations

    291 points • comment • jan 22, 2025

  25. Younger cannabis users have reduced brain function, finds largest study yet

    289 points • comment • jan 30, 2025

  26. Used Meta AI, now Instagram is using my face on ads targeted at me

    289 points • comment • jan 06, 2025

  27. Datadog acquires Quickwit

    288 points • comment • jan 09, 2025

  28. I live my life a quarter century at a time

    288 points • comment • jan 06, 2025

  29. Railroad Tycoon II

    288 points • comment • jan 10, 2025

  30. Escape the walled garden and algorithm black boxes with RSS feeds

    287 points • comment • jan 19, 2025

  31. Robotics 101 at UMich: Applied numerical linear algebra as intro linear algebra

    286 points • comment • jan 08, 2025

  32. Some flag emojis aren’t working on Chrome on Windows

    286 points • comment • jan 29, 2025

  33. Moving on from React, a year later

    286 points • comment • jan 20, 2025

  34. Finland's zero homeless strategy (2021)

    285 points • comment • jan 10, 2025

  35. The Evolution of SRE at Google

    285 points • comment • jan 03, 2025

  36. Doomsday Book (2006) [pdf]

    284 points • comment • jan 07, 2025

  37. Instagram and Facebook Blocked and Hid Abortion Pill Providers' Posts

    284 points • comment • jan 31, 2025

  38. It's time to abandon the cargo cult metaphor

    283 points • comment • jan 12, 2025

  39. PostgreSQL Anonymizer

    283 points • comment • jan 14, 2025

  40. Why Canada Should Join the EU

    283 points • comment • jan 03, 2025

  41. De-smarting the Marshall Uxbridge

    281 points • comment • jan 11, 2025

  42. People are bad at reporting what they eat. That's a problem for dietary research

    281 points • comment • jan 21, 2025

  43. How shut-down Bay Area tech companies ditch their fancy gear

    280 points • comment • jan 22, 2025

  44. DeepSeek's multi-head latent attention and other KV cache tricks

    280 points • comment • jan 28, 2025

  45. Aaron Swartz and Sam Altman

    280 points • comment • jan 12, 2025

  46. Go 1.24's go tool is one of the best additions to the ecosystem in years

    280 points • comment • jan 27, 2025

  47. Phi 4 available on Ollama

    280 points • comment • jan 09, 2025

  48. PCBs, copper pours, ground planes, and you

    279 points • comment • jan 30, 2025

  49. I got OpenTelemetry to work. But why was it so complicated?

    278 points • comment • jan 10, 2025

  50. Laid off for the first time in my career, and twice in one year

    278 points • comment • jan 07, 2025

  51. My little sister's use of ChatGPT for homework is heartbreaking

    277 points • comment • jan 06, 2025

  52. Narcolepsy is weird but I didn't notice

    276 points • comment • jan 10, 2025

  53. Build It Yourself

    276 points • comment • jan 24, 2025

  54. How did they make cars fall apart in old movies (2017)

    275 points • comment • jan 13, 2025

  55. Generating an infinite world with the Wave Function Collapse algorithm

    274 points • comment • jan 14, 2025

  56. Astronomers delete asteroid because it turned out to be Tesla Roadster

    274 points • comment • jan 26, 2025

  57. Microsoft disguises Bing as Google to fool inattentive searchers

    274 points • comment • jan 07, 2025

  58. The Free Movie: Frame-by-frame, handrawn reproduction of "The Bee Movie" (2023)

    273 points • comment • jan 13, 2025

  59. Building Ultra Long Range Toslink

    273 points • comment • jan 07, 2025

  60. The story of my home made pipe organ (2000)

    272 points • comment • jan 26, 2025

  61. Interview with Jeff Atwood, Co-Founder of Stack Overflow

    272 points • comment • jan 20, 2025

  62. Haskell: A Great Procedural Language

    271 points • comment • jan 19, 2025

  63. First time a Blender-made production has won the Golden Globe

    271 points • comment • jan 07, 2025

  64. Reversible computing escapes the lab

    271 points • comment • jan 10, 2025

  65. Show HN: Bagels – TUI expense tracker

    270 points • comment • jan 26, 2025

  66. Parkinsons patient "feels cured" with new adaptive deep brain stimulation device

    269 points • comment • jan 28, 2025

  67. Facebook is removing stories about pornographic ads

    269 points • comment • jan 08, 2025

  68. Bun 1.2 Is Released

    269 points • comment • jan 23, 2025

  69. What we learned copying all the best code assistants

    267 points • comment • jan 03, 2025

  70. I trusted an LLM, now I'm on day 4 of an afternoon project

    267 points • comment • jan 27, 2025

  71. Hydro: Distributed Programming Framework for Rust

    267 points • comment • jan 31, 2025

  72. Pushing the whole company into the past on purpose

    266 points • comment • jan 09, 2025

  73. Ask HN: Where to Work After 40?

    265 points • comment • jan 02, 2025

  74. My Cat Mii

    264 points • comment • jan 27, 2025

  75. Road signs to help people limit radiation exposure in contaminated areas

    264 points • comment • jan 14, 2025

  76. Oliver Heaviside and the theory of transmission lines (2021)

    263 points • comment • jan 27, 2025

  77. XiangShan – Open-source high performance RISC-V processor

    263 points • comment • jan 02, 2025

  78. Euro-cloud provider Anexia moves 12,000 VMs off VMware to homebrew KVM platform

    263 points • comment • jan 13, 2025

  79. Diagnosing an Unusual WiFi Issue (2020)

    263 points • comment • jan 02, 2025

  80. What are these bumps on the top of a pull-tab can?

    262 points • comment • jan 22, 2025

  81. BlogScroll – An open directory of personal sites and blogs

    262 points • comment • jan 03, 2025

  82. Subpixel Snake [video]

    262 points • comment • jan 24, 2025

  83. Thoughts on a month with Devin

    261 points • comment • jan 17, 2025

  84. Composable SQL

    261 points • comment • jan 26, 2025

  85. Let's talk about AI and end-to-end encryption

    261 points • comment • jan 17, 2025

  86. Higher potassium intake at dinner linked to fewer sleep disturbances – study

    260 points • comment • jan 17, 2025

  87. Guten: A Tiny Newspaper Printer

    258 points • comment • jan 05, 2025

  88. We need to protect the protocol that runs Bluesky

    258 points • comment • jan 19, 2025

  89. Please don't force dark mode

    257 points • comment • jan 19, 2025

  90. WTF Happened in 1971? (2019)

    256 points • comment • jan 15, 2025

  91. How I Use Home Assistant in 2025

    256 points • comment • jan 24, 2025

  92. Show HN: Open-source AI video editor

    255 points • comment • jan 23, 2025

  93. Explainer: What's r1 and everything else?

    254 points • comment • jan 26, 2025

  94. PhysicsForums and the Dead Internet Theory

    253 points • comment • jan 24, 2025

  95. From C++ to Clojure: Jank language promises best of both

    252 points • comment • jan 29, 2025

  96. Tech takes the Pareto principle too far

    251 points • comment • jan 23, 2025

  97. Can you read this cursive handwriting? The National Archives wants your help

    251 points • comment • jan 18, 2025

  98. Show HN: Uscope, a new Linux debugger written from scratch

    251 points • comment • jan 31, 2025

  99. Standard patterns in choice-based games (2015)

    250 points • comment • jan 13, 2025

  100. Using generative AI as part of historical research: three case studies

    250 points • comment • jan 22, 2025