top 20 hacker news stories for 2025-01-01

DOOM CAPTCHA

https://doom-captcha.vercel.app/

2 years ago

1316 upvotes – 270 comments

One of my papers got declined today

https://mathstodon.xyz/@tao/113721192051328193

2 years ago

853 upvotes – 290 comments

Static search trees: faster than binary search

https://curiouscoding.nl/posts/static-search-tree/

2 years ago

656 upvotes – 232 comments

Databases in 2024: A Year in Review

https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~pavlo/blog/2025/01/2024-databases-retrospective.html

2 years ago

625 upvotes – 209 comments

30% drop in O1-preview accuracy when Putnam problems are slightly variated

https://openreview.net/forum?id=YXnwlZe0yf&noteId=yrsGpHd0Sf

2 years ago

560 upvotes – 526 comments

Show HN: API Parrot – Automatically Reverse Engineer HTTP APIs

https://apiparrot.com/

2 years ago

456 upvotes – 117 comments

Books I Loved Reading in 2024

https://thoughts.wyounas.com/p/books-i-enjoyed-most-in-2024

2 years ago

416 upvotes – 175 comments

Rails for everything

https://literallythevoid.com/blog/rails_for_everything.html

2 years ago

344 upvotes – 243 comments

My favourite computer ergonomics hack

https://blog.jacobvosmaer.nl/0036-beeper/

2 years ago

236 upvotes – 71 comments

Ruby 3.4 Highlights

https://blog.sinjakli.co.uk/2025/01/01/ruby-3-4-highlights/

2 years ago

204 upvotes – 83 comments

My 25-year adventure in AI and ML

https://austinhenley.com/blog/25yearsofai.html

2 years ago

194 upvotes – 37 comments

Axum 0.8

https://tokio.rs/blog/2025-01-01-announcing-axum-0-8-0

2 years ago

178 upvotes – 69 comments

Large Concept Models: Language modeling in a sentence representation space

https://github.com/facebookresearch/large_concept_model

2 years ago

167 upvotes – 58 comments

Welcome to the Public Domain in 2025

https://blog.archive.org/2025/01/01/welcome-to-the-public-domain-in-2025/

2 years ago

165 upvotes – 14 comments

Supernovae evidence for foundational change to cosmological models

https://academic.oup.com/mnrasl/article/537/1/L55/7926647

2 years ago

164 upvotes – 111 comments

Cesium for Unreal – Bring the Real World to Unreal Engine

https://cesium.com/platform/cesium-for-unreal/

2 years ago

158 upvotes – 56 comments

How and Why I Stopped Buying New Laptops (2020)

https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com/2020/12/how-and-why-i-stopped-buying-new-laptops

2 years ago

132 upvotes – 141 comments

Indexing Code at Scale with Glean

https://engineering.fb.com/2024/12/19/developer-tools/glean-open-source-code-indexing/

2 years ago

132 upvotes – 30 comments

Tesla replaces laid-off U.S. workers with foreigners using visas pushed by Musk

https://www.msn.com/en-ca/autos/electric-cars/tesla-replaces-laid-off-u-s-workers-with-foreigners-using-visas-pushed-by-musk-report/ar-AA1wILAQ

2 years ago

129 upvotes – 77 comments

Counterculture legend who invented bell-bottom jeans dies at 84

https://www.sfgate.com/local/article/peggy-caserta-obituary-sf-bell-bottom-jeans-19976707.php

2 years ago

122 upvotes – 41 comments
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