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Hacker News (Jan 2025)

  1. Mercator: Extreme

    215 points • comment • jan 21, 2025

  2. Making the video that made Gorillaz

    215 points • comment • jan 29, 2025

  3. Show HN: A blocklist to remove spam and bad websites from search results

    215 points • comment • jan 14, 2025

  4. Gate-level simulation of ASIC in browser

    214 points • comment • jan 08, 2025

  5. UI is hell: four-function calculators

    214 points • comment • jan 24, 2025

  6. Meta Wants More AI Bots on Facebook and Instagram

    214 points • comment • jan 02, 2025

  7. Bitwarden is turning 2FA on by default for new devices

    214 points • comment • jan 28, 2025

  8. Physically Based Rendering: From Theory to Implementation

    214 points • comment • jan 13, 2025

  9. Airflow – Stream media files directly from macOS to AirPlay devices

    214 points • comment • jan 29, 2025

  10. Show HN: Using YOLO to Detect Office Chairs in 40M Hotel Photos

    213 points • comment • jan 21, 2025

  11. Test-driven development with an LLM for fun and profit

    213 points • comment • jan 16, 2025

  12. Celestial Navigation for Drones

    213 points • comment • jan 20, 2025

  13. TinyStories: How Small Can Language Models Be and Still Speak Coherent English? (2023)

    212 points • comment • jan 02, 2025

  14. I'm quitting the Washington Post

    212 points • comment • jan 04, 2025

  15. Mullenweg Shuts Down WordPress Sustainability Team, Igniting Backlash

    211 points • comment • jan 12, 2025

  16. Our phones are killing our ability to feel sexy (2024)

    210 points • comment • jan 29, 2025

  17. I spent 18 years in the Linux console

    209 points • comment • jan 12, 2025

  18. The AMD Radeon Instinct MI300A's Giant Memory Subsystem

    209 points • comment • jan 18, 2025

  19. Foundations of Large Language Models

    209 points • comment • jan 23, 2025

  20. Hotel booking sites overcharge Bay Area customers

    209 points • comment • jan 13, 2025

  21. Janus Pro 1B running 100% locally in-browser on WebGPU

    209 points • comment • jan 28, 2025

  22. An autumn bike adventure down the US portion of the Eastern Divide Trail

    208 points • comment • jan 06, 2025

  23. Desmos Animated Graphing Calculator

    208 points • comment • jan 24, 2025

  24. How hard would it be to display the contents of an image file on the screen?

    208 points • comment • jan 16, 2025

  25. More than 40% of postdocs leave academia, study reveals

    208 points • comment • jan 21, 2025

  26. Bunkers in Albania

    208 points • comment • jan 16, 2025

  27. If we had the best product engineering organization, what would it look like?

    208 points • comment • jan 12, 2025

  28. Elite on the 6502: The original 6502 assembly source, heavily commented

    207 points • comment • jan 31, 2025

  29. ELKS: Linux for 16-bit Intel Processors

    207 points • comment • jan 04, 2025

  30. Bypassing disk encryption on systems with automatic TPM2 unlock

    207 points • comment • jan 17, 2025

  31. Servo vs. steppers: Speed, Torque and Accuracy [video]

    207 points • comment • jan 14, 2025

  32. Official DeepSeek R1 Now on Ollama

    206 points • comment • jan 20, 2025

  33. USB On-The-Go

    206 points • comment • jan 03, 2025

  34. SQL nulls are weird

    205 points • comment • jan 09, 2025

  35. Couriers mystified by the algorithms that control their jobs

    205 points • comment • jan 21, 2025

  36. US newspapers are deleting old crime stories, offering subjects a 'clean slate'

    204 points • comment • jan 04, 2025

  37. The Most Detailed Map of US Waters That You've Ever Seen (2023)

    204 points • comment • jan 19, 2025

  38. Programming as Theory Building (1985) [pdf]

    204 points • comment • jan 04, 2025

  39. ROCm Device Support Wishlist

    204 points • comment • jan 20, 2025

  40. Taking a Look at Compression Algorithms

    204 points • comment • jan 20, 2025

  41. Divers recover Phoenician shipwreck that sank 2.6k years ago off coast of Spain

    204 points • comment • jan 16, 2025

  42. Formal Methods: Just Good Engineering Practice? (2024)

    204 points • comment • jan 10, 2025

  43. OpenAI has upped its lobbying efforts nearly sevenfold

    203 points • comment • jan 22, 2025

  44. Killed by LLM

    202 points • comment • jan 06, 2025

  45. dnSpyEx: .NET debugger and assembly editor

    202 points • comment • jan 15, 2025

  46. Hacker infects 18,000 "script kiddies" with fake malware builder

    201 points • comment • jan 25, 2025

  47. Show HN: WASM-powered codespaces for Python notebooks on GitHub

    201 points • comment • jan 14, 2025

  48. Shavarsh Karapetyan

    200 points • comment • jan 10, 2025

  49. The Ribbon Microphone

    200 points • comment • jan 19, 2025

  50. Ads chew through half of mobile data

    200 points • comment • jan 05, 2025

  51. Intel's Tofino P4 Software Is Now Open Source

    200 points • comment • jan 16, 2025

  52. Zork: The Great Inner Workings (2020)

    200 points • comment • jan 20, 2025

  53. Human study on AI spear phishing campaigns

    200 points • comment • jan 05, 2025

  54. Ruby 3.4 Highlights

    199 points • comment • jan 01, 2025

  55. Agents Are Not Enough

    199 points • comment • jan 06, 2025

  56. Bunster: Compile bash scripts to self contained executables

    199 points • comment • jan 23, 2025

  57. Searching for DeepSeek's glitch tokens

    198 points • comment • jan 25, 2025

  58. Meta announces 5% cuts in preparation for 'intense year'

    198 points • comment • jan 14, 2025

  59. Olympians turn to OnlyFans to fund dreams due to 'broken' finance system (2024)

    198 points • comment • jan 05, 2025

  60. Roman Empire's use of lead lowered IQ levels across Europe, study finds

    198 points • comment • jan 07, 2025

  61. Kimi K1.5: Scaling Reinforcement Learning with LLMs

    197 points • comment • jan 21, 2025

  62. Llama.cpp supports Vulkan. why doesn't Ollama?

    196 points • comment • jan 31, 2025

  63. EFF statement on U.S. Supreme Court's decision to uphold TikTok ban

    196 points • comment • jan 18, 2025

  64. Soldering the Tek way

    196 points • comment • jan 09, 2025

  65. Apache Iceberg

    196 points • comment • jan 23, 2025

  66. TinyZero

    196 points • comment • jan 25, 2025

  67. OpenAI fails to deliver opt-out system for photographers

    196 points • comment • jan 15, 2025

  68. Republishing my Simpsons fan site, twenty years later

    195 points • comment • jan 05, 2025

  69. The engineering behind the San Antonio River Walk

    195 points • comment • jan 07, 2025

  70. When AI promises speed but delivers debugging hell

    195 points • comment • jan 26, 2025

  71. Six day and IP address certificate options in 2025

    195 points • comment • jan 16, 2025

  72. Working with Files Is Hard (2019)

    194 points • comment • jan 23, 2025

  73. Breaking Up with Long Tasks or: how I learned to group loops and wield the yield

    194 points • comment • jan 04, 2025

  74. Show HN: I built a DIY plane spotting system at home

    194 points • comment • jan 25, 2025

  75. Hacker gains access to the RP2350 OTP secret by glitching the RISC-V cores

    194 points • comment • jan 05, 2025

  76. Disco Elysium Explorer

    194 points • comment • jan 13, 2025

  77. Adobe Lightroom's AI Remove feature added a Bitcoin to bird in flight photo

    193 points • comment • jan 12, 2025

  78. NSF starts vetting all grants to comply with executive orders

    193 points • comment • jan 31, 2025

  79. A rare alignment of 7 planets is about to take place

    193 points • comment • jan 08, 2025

  80. Yek: Serialize your code repo (or part of it) to feed into any LLM

    193 points • comment • jan 19, 2025

  81. I still don't think companies serve you ads based on your microphone

    192 points • comment • jan 03, 2025

  82. Analysis of Product Hunt products from 2014 to 2021

    192 points • comment • jan 26, 2025

  83. The Simplicity of Prolog

    192 points • comment • jan 26, 2025

  84. Using AI for Coding: My Journey with Cline and LLMs

    192 points • comment • jan 26, 2025

  85. Building Bauble

    192 points • comment • jan 10, 2025

  86. Jevons paradox

    191 points • comment • jan 29, 2025

  87. Disappointed with the TVs at CES 2025

    191 points • comment • jan 09, 2025

  88. How to Train an AI Image Model on Yourself

    191 points • comment • jan 31, 2025

  89. Estimates of plant CO2 uptake rise by nearly one third

    190 points • comment • jan 14, 2025

  90. How do interruptions impact different software engineering activities

    190 points • comment • jan 19, 2025

  91. Blogs rot. Wikis wait

    190 points • comment • jan 02, 2025

  92. China is the manufacturing superpower

    190 points • comment • jan 04, 2025

  93. Bird-inspired drone uses legs to walk and jump into the air

    190 points • comment • jan 07, 2025

  94. SrsRAN: Open-Source 4G/5G

    190 points • comment • jan 05, 2025

  95. Ask HN: Is anyone making money selling traditional downloadable software?

    189 points • comment • jan 20, 2025

  96. My 25-year adventure in AI and ML

    189 points • comment • jan 01, 2025

  97. Ruff: Python linter and code formatter written in Rust

    189 points • comment • jan 21, 2025

  98. Ask HN: Favorite blog in 2024?

    189 points • comment • jan 05, 2025

  99. The Tensor Cookbook (2024)

    189 points • comment • jan 31, 2025

  100. 28h Days: year 1 update

    188 points • comment • jan 08, 2025