top 50% hacker news stories for 2025-01-01

DOOM CAPTCHA

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

2 years ago

One of my papers got declined today

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

2 years ago

Static search trees: faster than binary search

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

2 years ago

Databases in 2024: A Year in Review

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

2 years ago

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

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

2 years ago

Show HN: API Parrot – Automatically Reverse Engineer HTTP APIs

https://apiparrot.com/

2 years ago

Books I Loved Reading in 2024

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

2 years ago

Rails for everything

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

2 years ago

My favourite computer ergonomics hack

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

2 years ago

Ruby 3.4 Highlights

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

2 years ago

My 25-year adventure in AI and ML

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

2 years ago

Axum 0.8

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

2 years ago

Large Concept Models: Language modeling in a sentence representation space

https://github.com/facebookresearch/large_concept_model

2 years ago

Welcome to the Public Domain in 2025

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

2 years ago

Supernovae evidence for foundational change to cosmological models

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

2 years ago

Cesium for Unreal – Bring the Real World to Unreal Engine

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

2 years ago

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

Indexing Code at Scale with Glean

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

2 years ago

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

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

How the lore of New Year defeated the law of New Year

https://davidallengreen.com/2025/01/how-the-lore-of-new-year-defeated-the-law-of-new-year-how-the-english-state-gave-up-on-insisting-the-new-year-started-on-25-march/

2 years ago

Are there more trees on Earth than stars in the Milky Way? (2016)

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/trees-stars-milky-way/

2 years ago

OpenAI failed to deliver the opt-out tool it promised by 2025

https://techcrunch.com/2025/01/01/openai-failed-to-deliver-the-opt-out-tool-it-promised-by-2025/

2 years ago

Why does storing 2FA codes in your password manager make sense?

https://andygrunwald.com/blog/why-does-storing-two-factor-authentication-codes-in-your-password-manager-make-sense/

2 years ago

Ask HN: Does the Framework laptop stand the test of time?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42564216

2 years ago

You don't need Next.js – Why we migrated from Next to React

https://www.comfydeploy.com/blog/you-dont-need-nextjs

2 years ago

A. A. Milne's Winnie-the-Pooh as an accessible eBook

https://tilde.zone/@gluejar/113749300977151258

2 years ago

The comb jelly can fuse with another (including nervous and digestive systems)

https://www.cnn.com/2024/12/30/science/comb-jellies-fuse-single-organism/index.html

2 years ago

H5N1: Much More Than You Wanted to Know

https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/h5n1-much-more-than-you-wanted-to

2 years ago

Show HN: Discuo – Anonymous discussions with infinite branching and 24h lifespan

https://discuo.com

2 years ago

Hitting the Jackpot: The Birth of the Monte Carlo Method – LANL (2023)

https://www.lanl.gov/media/publications/actinide-research-quarterly/first-quarter-2023/hitting-the-jackpot-the-birth-of-the-monte-carlo-method

2 years ago

Pornhub Is Now Blocked in Almost All of the U.S. South

https://www.404media.co/pornhub-is-now-blocked-in-almost-all-of-the-u-s-south/

2 years ago

Amiga Research Operating System (AROS): Summary of 2024

https://arosnews.github.io/aros-x86-summary-2024/

2 years ago

A Tesla Cybertruck 'blew up' outside Trump's hotel in Las Vegas

https://www.theverge.com/2025/1/1/24333612/cybertruck-fire-explosion-trump-hotel-las-vegas

2 years ago

Sailor poets take over U.S. Navy deck logs on New Year's Day

https://www.twz.com/news-features/how-sailor-poets-take-over-u-s-navy-deck-logs-on-new-years-day

2 years ago

RT-2: Vision-Language-Action Models (2023)

https://robotics-transformer2.github.io/

2 years ago

The psychonaut field manual [pdf]

http://thedaemon.space/files/ThePsychonautFieldManual.pdf

2 years ago