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Hacker News (Jan 2025)

  1. Turning the database inside-out (2015)

    188 points • comment • jan 26, 2025

  2. Soviet Shoe Factory Principle

    188 points • comment • jan 29, 2025

  3. We got hit by an alarmingly well-prepared phish spammer

    188 points • comment • jan 29, 2025

  4. Kotaemon: An open-source RAG-based tool for chatting with your documents

    187 points • comment • jan 02, 2025

  5. Windows BitLocker – Screwed Without a Screwdriver

    187 points • comment • jan 18, 2025

  6. Myst Markdown – Markdown for technical/scientific document

    187 points • comment • jan 02, 2025

  7. Rewriting my website in plain HTML and CSS

    187 points • comment • jan 14, 2025

  8. The hidden complexity of scaling WebSockets

    187 points • comment • jan 24, 2025

  9. Very Wrong Math

    187 points • comment • jan 10, 2025

  10. Majority of US teens have lost trust in Big Tech

    186 points • comment • jan 30, 2025

  11. JTAG 'Hacking' the Original Xbox in 2023

    186 points • comment • jan 16, 2025

  12. Portals and Quake

    186 points • comment • jan 10, 2025

  13. Phi-4 Bug Fixes

    186 points • comment • jan 10, 2025

  14. First Look: Loops, by Pixelfed – Decentralised TikTok Competitor (2024)

    184 points • comment • jan 25, 2025

  15. Trusting clients is probably a security flaw

    184 points • comment • jan 17, 2025

  16. Who Can Understand the Proof? A Window on Formalized Mathematics

    184 points • comment • jan 10, 2025

  17. PrivTracker – Private BitTorrent tracker for everyone

    184 points • comment • jan 11, 2025

  18. Wikenigma – an Encyclopedia of Unknowns

    184 points • comment • jan 25, 2025

  19. Ingrid Daubechies awarded National Medal of Science

    183 points • comment • jan 11, 2025

  20. Ozempic and Wegovy are selected for Medicare's price negotiations

    183 points • comment • jan 17, 2025

  21. Qantas South Africa flights delayed by falling debris from SpaceX rockets

    183 points • comment • jan 15, 2025

  22. In Colorado, a marriage of solar energy and farming

    183 points • comment • jan 04, 2025

  23. Great things about Rust that aren't just performance

    183 points • comment • jan 12, 2025

  24. Solving the first 100 Project Euler problems using 100 languages

    181 points • comment • jan 16, 2025

  25. Coping with dumb LLMs using classic ML

    181 points • comment • jan 22, 2025

  26. Parsing PDFs (and more) in Elixir using Rust

    181 points • comment • jan 29, 2025

  27. Trying out Zed after more than a decade of Vim/Neovim

    181 points • comment • jan 24, 2025

  28. General Motors Is Banned from Selling Driving Behavior Data for 5 Years

    181 points • comment • jan 17, 2025

  29. If OpenSSL were a GUI (2022)

    181 points • comment • jan 27, 2025

  30. "Twelfth Night Till Candlemas" – A 40-year book-quest

    181 points • comment • jan 09, 2025

  31. Prime numbers so memorable that people hunt for them

    181 points • comment • jan 18, 2025

  32. Branchless UTF-8 Encoding

    180 points • comment • jan 17, 2025

  33. Tactility: OS for the ESP32 Microcontroller Family

    180 points • comment • jan 10, 2025

  34. Hacking yourself a satellite – recovering BEESAT-1 [video]

    180 points • comment • jan 02, 2025

  35. What does "supports DRM and may not be fully accessible" mean for SATA SDDs?

    180 points • comment • jan 20, 2025

  36. LibreOffice 400M Downloads, and Counting

    179 points • comment • jan 30, 2025

  37. SRCL: Open-source React project to build web apps with terminal aesthetics

    178 points • comment • jan 19, 2025

  38. Mandelbrot deep zoom theory and practice (2021)

    178 points • comment • jan 03, 2025

  39. Cali's AG Tells AI Companies Almost Everything They're Doing Might Be Illegal

    177 points • comment • jan 29, 2025

  40. Gleam v1.7

    177 points • comment • jan 10, 2025

  41. Candy Crush, Tinder, MyFitnessPal: Apps hijacked to spy on location

    177 points • comment • jan 10, 2025

  42. Show HN: 3D printing giant things with a Python jigsaw generator

    176 points • comment • jan 23, 2025

  43. Show HN: I made an open source directory of where to showoff your projects

    176 points • comment • jan 16, 2025

  44. Google Fiber is coming to Las Vegas

    176 points • comment • jan 22, 2025

  45. Spline Distance Fields

    176 points • comment • jan 06, 2025

  46. Mini-R1: Reproduce DeepSeek R1 "Aha Moment"

    176 points • comment • jan 31, 2025

  47. The case for letting Malibu burn (1995)

    175 points • comment • jan 12, 2025

  48. Weierstrass's Monster

    175 points • comment • jan 24, 2025

  49. Getty Images and Shutterstock to Merge

    175 points • comment • jan 07, 2025

  50. Operation Leg – a pilot unlike any other (2020)

    175 points • comment • jan 27, 2025

  51. SQLook – A free online SQLite database manager with a Windows 2000 interface

    175 points • comment • jan 25, 2025

  52. Ask HN: Is maintaining a personal blog still worth it?

    175 points • comment • jan 13, 2025

  53. Axum 0.8

    174 points • comment • jan 01, 2025

  54. Citations on the Anthropic API

    174 points • comment • jan 23, 2025

  55. Qubes OS: A reasonably secure operating system

    174 points • comment • jan 12, 2025

  56. Show HN: Interactive game teaching dark patterns in UX design

    174 points • comment • jan 17, 2025

  57. Regulations Enabling 6 GHz Wi-Fi

    174 points • comment • jan 06, 2025

  58. Laser mapping reveals oldest Amazonian cities, built 2500 years ago (2024)

    174 points • comment • jan 03, 2025

  59. Free music archive

    174 points • comment • jan 12, 2025

  60. Surface-Stable Fractal Dithering

    174 points • comment • jan 23, 2025

  61. Case Study: ByteDance Uses eBPF to Enhance Networking Performance

    174 points • comment • jan 29, 2025

  62. Sky-scanning complete for Gaia

    173 points • comment • jan 15, 2025

  63. 'Once-in-a-century' discovery reveals luxury of Pompeii

    173 points • comment • jan 17, 2025

  64. GitHub Linux ARM64 hosted runners now available for free in public repositories

    173 points • comment • jan 16, 2025

  65. The Family Bass - Music with an NES

    173 points • comment • jan 17, 2025

  66. Sixos: A nix OS without systemd [video]

    173 points • comment • jan 31, 2025

  67. Bye-bye Windows gaming? SteamOS officially expands past the Steam Deck

    172 points • comment • jan 08, 2025

  68. The DevOps Engineer's Handbook

    171 points • comment • jan 13, 2025

  69. TypeScript enums: use cases and alternatives

    171 points • comment • jan 20, 2025

  70. Nearly half Dell's US workforce has rejected RTO. Rather WFH than get promoted (2024)

    170 points • comment • jan 05, 2025

  71. The Shepherd 1.0.0 released

    170 points • comment • jan 14, 2025

  72. Self-Hostable Form Back End – OSS Alternative to Formspree

    170 points • comment • jan 06, 2025

  73. Rational or not? This basic math question took decades to answer

    170 points • comment • jan 09, 2025

  74. Dead Games

    170 points • comment • jan 29, 2025

  75. How we scaled Slack to support 1000s of developers

    169 points • comment • jan 24, 2025

  76. Software is eating the world, all right (2024)

    169 points • comment • jan 06, 2025

  77. Lord of the Io_uring (2020)

    169 points • comment • jan 06, 2025

  78. The only photo of the Concorde flying at supersonic speed

    169 points • comment • jan 26, 2025

  79. Show HN: I made a mini golf in my lunch time

    168 points • comment • jan 18, 2025

  80. A very Chicago gamble

    168 points • comment • jan 24, 2025

  81. Nokia Design Archive

    168 points • comment • jan 16, 2025

  82. The Honorable Parts

    168 points • comment • jan 06, 2025

  83. A standards-first web framework

    168 points • comment • jan 16, 2025

  84. How Britain got its first internet connection (2015)

    167 points • comment • jan 09, 2025

  85. C: Simple Defer, Ready to Use

    167 points • comment • jan 06, 2025

  86. Another undersea cable damaged in Baltic Sea

    167 points • comment • jan 26, 2025

  87. Little Snitch feature nobody knows about

    166 points • comment • jan 24, 2025

  88. Choosing an op-amp for your project

    166 points • comment • jan 03, 2025

  89. Glimmer: DSL Framework for Ruby GUI and More

    166 points • comment • jan 10, 2025

  90. The Canva outage: another tale of saturation and resilience

    166 points • comment • jan 12, 2025

  91. Getting silly with C, part (void*)2

    166 points • comment • jan 10, 2025

  92. LLMs and Code Optimization

    166 points • comment • jan 06, 2025

  93. Dusa Programming Language (Finite-Choice Logic Programming)

    166 points • comment • jan 18, 2025

  94. Today I learned that bash has hashmaps (2024)

    165 points • comment • jan 08, 2025

  95. Should we use AI and LLMs for Christian apologetics? (2024)

    165 points • comment • jan 21, 2025

  96. Watch the path of a raindrop from anywhere in the world

    165 points • comment • jan 26, 2025

  97. Cannonball: An enhanced OutRun engine

    165 points • comment • jan 10, 2025

  98. Pointers Are Complicated II, or: We need better language specs (2020)

    165 points • comment • jan 30, 2025

  99. Show HN: Onit – Source-available ChatGPT Desktop with local mode, Claude, Gemini

    165 points • comment • jan 24, 2025

  100. Ask HN: How can I realistically change careers?

    164 points • comment • jan 17, 2025