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Hacker News (Jan 2025)

  1. PostgreSQL is the Database Management System of the Year 2024

    249 points • comment • jan 14, 2025

  2. Obvious things C should do

    249 points • comment • jan 11, 2025

  3. New book-sorting algorithm almost reaches perfection

    247 points • comment • jan 24, 2025

  4. Some programming language ideas

    247 points • comment • jan 08, 2025

  5. How has DeepSeek improved the Transformer architecture?

    247 points • comment • jan 28, 2025

  6. In Memoriam: Noah Gibbs

    247 points • comment • jan 03, 2025

  7. Back to basics: Why we chose long-polling over websockets

    247 points • comment • jan 05, 2025

  8. DeepFace: A lightweight deep face recognition library for Python

    246 points • comment • jan 03, 2025

  9. World's darkest and clearest skies at risk from industrial megaproject

    246 points • comment • jan 11, 2025

  10. How rqlite is tested

    246 points • comment • jan 14, 2025

  11. Ropey – A UTF8 text rope for manipulating and editing large text

    246 points • comment • jan 15, 2025

  12. NIH hit with freezes on meetings, travel, communications, and hiring

    245 points • comment • jan 23, 2025

  13. A major Postgres upgrade with zero downtime

    245 points • comment • jan 29, 2025

  14. Maxima in the browser using Embedded Common Lisp on WASM

    244 points • comment • jan 28, 2025

  15. Using ChatGPT is not bad for the environment

    244 points • comment • jan 18, 2025

  16. Ear muscle we thought humans didn't use activates when people listen hard

    243 points • comment • jan 31, 2025

  17. The State of Vim

    243 points • comment • jan 24, 2025

  18. Triptych Proposals

    243 points • comment • jan 06, 2025

  19. Some things to expect in 2025

    243 points • comment • jan 16, 2025

  20. Australian Open resorts to animated caricatures to bypass broadcast restrictions

    242 points • comment • jan 16, 2025

  21. Where is London's most central sheep?

    242 points • comment • jan 23, 2025

  22. Mac Mini G4 – The best « classic » Macintosh for retro-gaming?

    241 points • comment • jan 12, 2025

  23. Show HN: Audiocube – A 3D DAW for Spatial Audio

    241 points • comment • jan 30, 2025

  24. Predictions Scorecard, 2025 January 01

    241 points • comment • jan 10, 2025

  25. Autodesk deletes old forum posts suddenly

    241 points • comment • jan 02, 2025

  26. Starlink is now cheaper than leading internet provider in some African countries

    241 points • comment • jan 10, 2025

  27. Hyperview – Native mobile apps, as easy as creating a website

    240 points • comment • jan 07, 2025

  28. Discovery Coding

    240 points • comment • jan 29, 2025

  29. How Unix spell ran in 64kb RAM

    239 points • comment • jan 19, 2025

  30. GOG Joins European Federation of Game Archives, Museums & Preservation Projects

    239 points • comment • jan 15, 2025

  31. Emerging reasoning with reinforcement learning

    239 points • comment • jan 26, 2025

  32. The Fuzzing Book

    238 points • comment • jan 19, 2025

  33. Garmin's –$40B Pivot

    238 points • comment • jan 18, 2025

  34. Show HN: I built a fair alternative to Product Hunt for indie makers

    237 points • comment • jan 15, 2025

  35. A WebAssembly compiler that fits in a tweet

    237 points • comment • jan 24, 2025

  36. Yemeni Coffee Shops in Texas

    237 points • comment • jan 03, 2025

  37. Using coding skills to make passive income

    237 points • comment • jan 14, 2025

  38. Goose: An open-source, extensible AI agent that goes beyond code suggestions

    236 points • comment • jan 30, 2025

  39. Using your Apple device as an access card in unsupported systems

    236 points • comment • jan 19, 2025

  40. 2k-year-old wine and the uncanny immediacy of the past

    236 points • comment • jan 15, 2025

  41. Complete hardware and software setup for running Deepseek-R1 locally

    236 points • comment • jan 29, 2025

  42. Trae: An AI-powered IDE by ByteDance

    236 points • comment • jan 23, 2025

  43. So you wanna write Kubernetes controllers?

    236 points • comment • jan 22, 2025

  44. Engineer eats efficiently for $2.50 a day (2016)

    236 points • comment • jan 06, 2025

  45. I made a multiplayer shooter game in Lisp, here is my journey

    236 points • comment • jan 22, 2025

  46. Streets GL – 3D OpenStreetMap

    236 points • comment • jan 07, 2025

  47. Isolating complexity is the essence of successful abstractions

    236 points • comment • jan 22, 2025

  48. Why Tracebit is written in C#

    235 points • comment • jan 31, 2025

  49. Is XYplorer really written in VB6?

    235 points • comment • jan 07, 2025

  50. Uncut Currency

    234 points • comment • jan 06, 2025

  51. Modern JavaScript for Django developers

    232 points • comment • jan 15, 2025

  52. The evolution of a structural code editor

    231 points • comment • jan 06, 2025

  53. Perplexity got ads

    230 points • comment • jan 03, 2025

  54. Malimite – iOS and macOS Decompiler

    230 points • comment • jan 26, 2025

  55. Nvidia sheds almost $600B in market cap

    230 points • comment • jan 27, 2025

  56. What Is miniKanren?

    230 points • comment • jan 02, 2025

  57. File Explorer is merged to Helix editor

    230 points • comment • jan 25, 2025

  58. The US government's open data on Data.gov is currently being scrubbed

    230 points • comment • jan 30, 2025

  59. OpenAI's o1 Playing Codenames

    230 points • comment • jan 22, 2025

  60. Celebrating the timeless allure of Tintin's aesthetics

    229 points • comment • jan 09, 2025

  61. The Alder Lake SHLX Anomaly

    229 points • comment • jan 02, 2025

  62. Understanding Memory Management, Part 1: C

    229 points • comment • jan 13, 2025

  63. Open Heart Protocol

    227 points • comment • jan 22, 2025

  64. Can you complete the Oregon Trail if you wait at a river for 14272 years?

    227 points • comment • jan 13, 2025

  65. DoubleClickjacking: A New type of web hacking technique

    227 points • comment • jan 14, 2025

  66. Minecraft with object impermanence

    226 points • comment • jan 19, 2025

  67. Postgres UUIDv7 and per-back end monotonicity

    226 points • comment • jan 02, 2025

  68. No one is disrupting banks – at least not the big ones

    226 points • comment • jan 26, 2025

  69. My favourite computer ergonomics hack

    226 points • comment • jan 01, 2025

  70. The Missing Nvidia GPU Glossary

    226 points • comment • jan 12, 2025

  71. Hedy: Textual programming made easy

    226 points • comment • jan 27, 2025

  72. One Dog vs. the Windows 3.1 Graphics Stack

    225 points • comment • jan 04, 2025

  73. F-Droid Fake Signer PoC

    225 points • comment • jan 03, 2025

  74. Libraries and Well-Being: A Case Study from The New York Public Library

    225 points • comment • jan 29, 2025

  75. Apple and SpaceX link up to support Starlink satellite network on iPhones

    225 points • comment • jan 29, 2025

  76. Using the most unhinged AVX-512 instruction to make fastest phrase search algo

    224 points • comment • jan 23, 2025

  77. Former tech CEO suing to get the record of his arrest removed from the internet

    224 points • comment • jan 26, 2025

  78. A story on home server security

    224 points • comment • jan 05, 2025

  79. Brazil bans Sam Altman's tech firm Tools for Humanity from paying for iris scans

    224 points • comment • jan 26, 2025

  80. Show HN: GUI for editing Mermaid class diagrams

    223 points • comment • jan 17, 2025

  81. Relax while watching bouncing particles making connections when they get closer

    223 points • comment • jan 06, 2025

  82. The Mythical IO-Bound Rails App

    223 points • comment • jan 25, 2025

  83. Dragonsweeper — A minesweeper game that requires observation

    222 points • comment • jan 24, 2025

  84. Learning how to think with Meta Chain-of-Thought

    222 points • comment • jan 10, 2025

  85. Show HN: I Made an iOS Podcast Player with Racket

    222 points • comment • jan 27, 2025

  86. AI slop, suspicion, and writing back

    221 points • comment • jan 26, 2025

  87. Every System is a Log: Avoiding coordination in distributed applications

    221 points • comment • jan 24, 2025

  88. The Aging Programmer [video]

    221 points • comment • jan 08, 2025

  89. Adding iodine to salt played a role in cognitive improvements: research (2013)

    220 points • comment • jan 29, 2025

  90. TopoNets: High performing vision and language models with brain-like topography

    220 points • comment • jan 31, 2025

  91. Lightcell: An engine that uses light to make electricity

    220 points • comment • jan 14, 2025

  92. Show HN: I made a app that uses NFC as a physical switch to block distractions

    219 points • comment • jan 21, 2025

  93. Before Squid Game, there was Battle Royale

    219 points • comment • jan 10, 2025

  94. Documenting an 1115 ft radio tower climb

    218 points • comment • jan 02, 2025

  95. Proper decoupling capacitor practices, and why you should leave 100nF behind

    218 points • comment • jan 26, 2025

  96. Live London Underground / bus maps taken down by TfL trademark complaint

    217 points • comment • jan 13, 2025

  97. Kakizome: Japanese way of new-years resolution

    217 points • comment • jan 02, 2025

  98. Scientists find links between Alzheimer's, herpes, and head trauma

    217 points • comment • jan 31, 2025

  99. How we used GPT-4o for image detection with 350 similar illustrations

    217 points • comment • jan 10, 2025

  100. Build a tiny CA for your homelab with a Raspberry Pi

    216 points • comment • jan 19, 2025