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Hacker News (Jan 2025)

  1. French police free kidnapped Ledger executive

    164 points • comment • jan 25, 2025

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

    164 points • comment • jan 17, 2025

  3. The mistake of yearning for the 'friendly' online world of 20 years ago

    164 points • comment • jan 12, 2025

  4. Collusion through Common Leadership [pdf]

    164 points • comment • jan 05, 2025

  5. How corn syrup took over America

    164 points • comment • jan 13, 2025

  6. Living with Nausea: My Story in Six Charts

    164 points • comment • jan 31, 2025

  7. University of Alabama Engineer Pioneers New Process for Recycling Plastics

    163 points • comment • jan 04, 2025

  8. Why we built Vade Studio in Clojure

    163 points • comment • jan 07, 2025

  9. Online Behavioral Ads Fuel the Surveillance Industry

    162 points • comment • jan 07, 2025

  10. Hands-On Graphics Without X11

    162 points • comment • jan 17, 2025

  11. The Toyota Prius transformed the auto industry

    162 points • comment • jan 18, 2025

  12. Supernovae evidence for foundational change to cosmological models

    161 points • comment • jan 01, 2025

  13. Large Concept Models: Language modeling in a sentence representation space

    161 points • comment • jan 01, 2025

  14. Parinfer: Simpler Lisp Editing

    161 points • comment • jan 20, 2025

  15. TikTok tells staff impacted by wildfires to use sick hours if they can't work

    161 points • comment • jan 10, 2025

  16. A couple CSS tricks for HTML Dialog elements

    160 points • comment • jan 11, 2025

  17. Show HN: Making AR experiences is still painful – had to make my own editor

    160 points • comment • jan 27, 2025

  18. Why Twitter is such a big deal (2009)

    160 points • comment • jan 19, 2025

  19. Welcome to the Public Domain in 2025

    160 points • comment • jan 01, 2025

  20. Where do those undergraduate divisibility problems come from?

    160 points • comment • jan 20, 2025

  21. Facebook blocks links to Pixelfed, a federated Instagram alternative

    160 points • comment • jan 13, 2025

  22. Three AM 911 call, 9 AM salesman

    159 points • comment • jan 31, 2025

  23. Nearly all binary searches and mergesorts are broken (2006)

    159 points • comment • jan 11, 2025

  24. Mathematicians discover new way for spheres to 'kiss'

    158 points • comment • jan 16, 2025

  25. Dropbox Engineering Career Framework

    158 points • comment • jan 02, 2025

  26. Show HN: LLMpeg

    158 points • comment • jan 15, 2025

  27. Show HN: Mashups – Resurrecting Yahoo Pipes, my side project

    158 points • comment • jan 06, 2025

  28. Rhai: An embedded scripting language for Rust

    158 points • comment • jan 17, 2025

  29. Ask HN: Has anyone tried alternative company models (like a co-op) for SaaS?

    157 points • comment • jan 18, 2025

  30. Building a Knowledge System That Enhances Rather Than Replaces Thought

    157 points • comment • jan 02, 2025

  31. Tensor Product Attention Is All You Need

    157 points • comment • jan 22, 2025

  32. Northeastern's redesign of the CS curriculum

    157 points • comment • jan 10, 2025

  33. Jensen Huang keynote at CES 2025 [video]

    156 points • comment • jan 07, 2025

  34. Show HN: Personalized Duolingo (kind of) for vocabulary building

    156 points • comment • jan 20, 2025

  35. Show HN: Kate's App

    156 points • comment • jan 09, 2025

  36. A Pixel Parable

    156 points • comment • jan 06, 2025

  37. Cesium for Unreal – Bring the Real World to Unreal Engine

    156 points • comment • jan 01, 2025

  38. Authors seek Meta's torrent client logs and seeding data in AI piracy probe

    156 points • comment • jan 20, 2025

  39. O1 isn't a chat model (and that's the point)

    156 points • comment • jan 18, 2025

  40. FBI, Dutch police disrupt 'Manipulaters' phishing gang

    156 points • comment • jan 31, 2025

  41. Entropy of a Large Language Model output

    156 points • comment • jan 09, 2025

  42. Comment on 2015 mRNA paper suggests data re-used in different contexts

    155 points • comment • jan 16, 2025

  43. Nintendo Switch 2

    155 points • comment • jan 16, 2025

  44. Physicists Magnetize a Material with Light

    155 points • comment • jan 07, 2025

  45. Why Northern England is poor

    155 points • comment • jan 25, 2025

  46. IP addresses through 2024

    154 points • comment • jan 12, 2025

  47. Ask HN: Would you still choose Ruby on Rails for a startup in 2025?

    154 points • comment • jan 26, 2025

  48. UK ICO response to Google's policy change on device fingerprinting

    154 points • comment • jan 03, 2025

  49. Rubywm: An X11 window manager in pure Ruby

    154 points • comment • jan 31, 2025

  50. From ASCII to ASIC: Porting donut.c to a tiny slice of silicon

    154 points • comment • jan 12, 2025

  51. Best Pens for 2025

    154 points • comment • jan 12, 2025

  52. Supercharge SQLite with Ruby Functions

    153 points • comment • jan 24, 2025

  53. One in four 2020 Tesla Model 3 failed the Danish periodic inspection in 2024

    153 points • comment • jan 27, 2025

  54. IsMyXFeedFucked – Analyze How Your X Feed's Impacting You

    153 points • comment • jan 19, 2025

  55. A mouseless tale: trying for a keyboard-driven desktop

    153 points • comment • jan 31, 2025

  56. Intel doesn't know how to be a foundry, Tim Cook reportedly said in 2011

    153 points • comment • jan 29, 2025

  57. Parasitic worms 'manipulate' mantises onto asphalt roads, say researchers

    152 points • comment • jan 03, 2025

  58. White House unveils Cyber Trust Mark program for consumer devices

    152 points • comment • jan 08, 2025

  59. Show HN: Meelo, self-hosted music server for collectors and music maniacs

    152 points • comment • jan 28, 2025

  60. Spain proposes 100% tax on homes bought by non-EU residents

    151 points • comment • jan 13, 2025

  61. Framework for Artificial Intelligence Diffusion

    151 points • comment • jan 16, 2025

  62. Transformer^2: Self-Adaptive LLMs

    151 points • comment • jan 15, 2025

  63. Parsing the C64 Bubble Bobble Wind Currents

    150 points • comment • jan 06, 2025

  64. Google offers 'voluntary exit' to all US platforms and devices employees

    150 points • comment • jan 31, 2025

  65. Common misconceptions about the complexity in robotics vs. AI (2024)

    150 points • comment • jan 07, 2025

  66. Blueskyfeedbot: Post RSS Feeds to Bluesky via GitHub Actions

    150 points • comment • jan 30, 2025

  67. Teemoji: Like tee but with emojis

    149 points • comment • jan 27, 2025

  68. Shifting Cyber Norms: Microsoft security POST-ing to you

    149 points • comment • jan 23, 2025

  69. “The Traitors”, a reality TV show, offers a useful economics lesson

    149 points • comment • jan 19, 2025

  70. Lossless Compression of Vector IDs for Approximate Nearest Neighbor Search

    149 points • comment • jan 22, 2025

  71. Annual 'winners' for most egregious US healthcare profiteering announced

    149 points • comment • jan 08, 2025

  72. New 16GB Raspberry Pi 5 on sale now at $120

    148 points • comment • jan 09, 2025

  73. Show HN: TabPFN v2 – A SOTA foundation model for small tabular data

    148 points • comment • jan 09, 2025

  74. Lightpanda: Headless browser designed for AI and automation

    148 points • comment • jan 24, 2025

  75. Flattening ASTs and other compiler data structures (2023)

    148 points • comment • jan 10, 2025

  76. Google begins requiring JavaScript for Google Search

    148 points • comment • jan 18, 2025

  77. Titans: Learning to Memorize at Test Time

    148 points • comment • jan 15, 2025

  78. Reverse Engineering the Constants in the Pentium FPU

    148 points • comment • jan 05, 2025

  79. Show HN: A Better Log Service

    148 points • comment • jan 11, 2025

  80. Apache DataFusion

    148 points • comment • jan 12, 2025

  81. Mercure: A WebSocket alternative for server-sent events

    148 points • comment • jan 02, 2025

  82. How to Debounce a Contact (2014)

    147 points • comment • jan 05, 2025

  83. Linux running inside a PDF file via a RISC-V emulator

    147 points • comment • jan 31, 2025

  84. David Lynch, Twin Peaks and Muholland Drive director, dies aged 78

    147 points • comment • jan 16, 2025

  85. Using LLMs and Cursor to finish side projects

    146 points • comment • jan 04, 2025

  86. Oracle Will Not Voluntarily Withdraw JavaScript Trademark

    146 points • comment • jan 08, 2025

  87. Almost one in 10 people use the same four-digit PIN

    146 points • comment • jan 28, 2025

  88. The DIY Multideck

    145 points • comment • jan 03, 2025

  89. When a winter storm trapped a luxury passenger train near Donner Pass

    145 points • comment • jan 10, 2025

  90. Blue Origin New Glenn Mission NG-1 – Live

    145 points • comment • jan 13, 2025

  91. JPMorgan Workers Ponder Union in Wake of Return-to-Office Mandate

    145 points • comment • jan 13, 2025

  92. Show HN: 3D Terrain simulation for hiking, skiing etc.

    145 points • comment • jan 10, 2025

  93. Susctl CVE-2024-54507: A particularly 'sus' sysctl in the XNU kernel

    145 points • comment • jan 23, 2025

  94. Device uses wind to create ammonia out of air

    145 points • comment • jan 16, 2025

  95. Rewilding the Self

    145 points • comment • jan 12, 2025

  96. A UC Santa Cruz professor unearthed the oldest alphabet yet

    145 points • comment • jan 13, 2025

  97. RamaLama

    145 points • comment • jan 31, 2025

  98. A story about restoring and upgrading a Commodore Amiga 1000

    145 points • comment • jan 29, 2025

  99. Larry Ellison: vast AI surveillance can ensure citizens are on best behavior (2024)

    144 points • comment • jan 25, 2025

  100. Her dad, the 10k records he left behind and a viral lesson in grief

    144 points • comment • jan 22, 2025