top 50% hacker news stories for 2025-01-02

uBlock Origin GPL code being stolen by team behind Honey browser extension

https://old.reddit.com/r/uBlockOrigin/comments/1hr6xjc/ubo_quick_filters_list_being_stolen_by_team/

2 years ago

1057 upvotes – 444 comments

I am rich and have no idea what to do

https://vinay.sh/i-am-rich-and-have-no-idea-what-to-do-with-my-life/

2 years ago

967 upvotes – 1628 comments

iTerm2 critical security release

https://iterm2.com/downloads/stable/iTerm2-3_5_11.changelog

2 years ago

671 upvotes – 438 comments

MitmProxy2Swagger: Automagically reverse-engineer REST APIs

https://github.com/alufers/mitmproxy2swagger

2 years ago

590 upvotes – 71 comments

Tell HN: Impassable Cloudflare challenges are ruining my browsing experience

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42577076

2 years ago

523 upvotes – 304 comments

Advent of Code 2024 in pure SQL

http://databasearchitects.blogspot.com/2024/12/advent-of-code-2024-in-pure-sql.html

2 years ago

484 upvotes – 107 comments

The GPU, not the TPM, is the root of hardware DRM

https://mjg59.dreamwidth.org/70954.html

2 years ago

445 upvotes – 472 comments

Zasper: A Modern and Efficient Alternative to JupyterLab, Built in Go

https://github.com/zasper-io/zasper

2 years ago

425 upvotes – 95 comments

U.S. appeals court strikes down FCC's net neutrality rules

https://www.tvtechnology.com/news/sixth-circuit-of-appeals-strikes-down-fccs-net-neutrality-rules

2 years ago

419 upvotes – 380 comments

Rules for writing software tutorials

https://refactoringenglish.com/chapters/rules-for-software-tutorials/

2 years ago

376 upvotes – 74 comments

Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 2025)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42575537

2 years ago

335 upvotes – 483 comments

Ask HN: Where to Work After 40?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42573875

2 years ago

311 upvotes – 273 comments

Diagnosing an Unusual WiFi Issue (2020)

https://ryuuta.net/blog/diagnosing-an-unsual-wifi-issue/

2 years ago

271 upvotes – 97 comments

XiangShan – Open-source high performance RISC-V processor

https://github.com/OpenXiangShan/XiangShan

2 years ago

270 upvotes – 98 comments

Autodesk deletes old forum posts suddenly

https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/net/regarding-community-content-archiving/td-p/13198106

2 years ago

250 upvotes – 170 comments

What Is miniKanren?

http://minikanren.org/

2 years ago

235 upvotes – 135 comments

The Alder Lake SHLX Anomaly

https://tavianator.com/2025/shlx.html

2 years ago

234 upvotes – 74 comments

Postgres UUIDv7 and per-back end monotonicity

https://brandur.org/fragments/uuid-v7-monotonicity

2 years ago

230 upvotes – 104 comments

Documenting an 1115 ft radio tower climb

https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2024/documenting-1115-ft-radio-tower-climb

2 years ago

223 upvotes – 85 comments

Meta Wants More AI Bots on Facebook and Instagram

https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/meta-wants-more-ai-bots-on-facebook-and-instagram.html

2 years ago

223 upvotes – 393 comments

Kakizome: Japanese way of new-years resolution

https://harimus.github.io//2025/01/02/kakizome.html

2 years ago

222 upvotes – 51 comments

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

https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.07759

2 years ago

218 upvotes – 104 comments

Blogs rot. Wikis wait

https://j3s.sh/thought/blogs-rot-wikis-wait.html

2 years ago

196 upvotes – 126 comments

Myst Markdown – Markdown for technical/scientific document

https://mystmd.org/guide

2 years ago

195 upvotes – 44 comments

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

https://github.com/Cinnamon/kotaemon

2 years ago

191 upvotes – 14 comments

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

https://media.ccc.de/v/38c3-hacking-yourself-a-satellite-recovering-beesat-1

2 years ago

182 upvotes – 15 comments

Dropbox Engineering Career Framework

https://dropbox.github.io/dbx-career-framework/

2 years ago

172 upvotes – 129 comments

Building a Knowledge System That Enhances Rather Than Replaces Thought

https://nsavage.substack.com/p/beyond-rag-building-a-knowledge-management

2 years ago

166 upvotes – 52 comments

Mercure: A WebSocket alternative for server-sent events

https://github.com/dunglas/mercure

2 years ago

156 upvotes – 56 comments

Exercise may be the 'most potent medical intervention ever known'

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/how-exercise-may-be-the-most-potent-medical-intervention-ever-known

2 years ago

151 upvotes – 160 comments

Standard Ebooks Public Domain Day 2025 in Literature

https://standardebooks.org/blog/public-domain-day-2025

2 years ago

141 upvotes – 25 comments

PlasticList's Advice for Food Companies

https://twitter.com/natfriedman/status/1874884925587087434

2 years ago

134 upvotes – 99 comments

Show HN: connet – A P2P reverse proxy with NAT traversal

https://github.com/connet-dev/connet

2 years ago

130 upvotes – 29 comments

Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (January 2025)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42575535

2 years ago

128 upvotes – 382 comments

It Matters Who Owns Your Copylefted Copyrights (2021)

https://sfconservancy.org/blog/2021/jun/30/who-should-own-foss-copyrights/

2 years ago

125 upvotes – 204 comments

Bogus Software

https://minesweepergame.com/history/bogus-software.php

2 years ago

121 upvotes – 28 comments

Nanoimprint Lithography Aims to Take on EUV

https://spectrum.ieee.org/nanoimprint-lithography

2 years ago

118 upvotes – 77 comments

Ray Tracing in One Weekend

https://raytracing.github.io/books/RayTracingInOneWeekend.html

2 years ago

110 upvotes – 14 comments

Ask HN: How are you using LLMs for traversing decompiler output?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42573232

2 years ago

105 upvotes – 45 comments

Notes on the New Deepseek v3

https://composio.dev/blog/notes-on-new-deepseek-v3/

2 years ago

99 upvotes – 24 comments

Passengers Say Turkish Airlines Flights Have Unwelcome Guests: Bedbugs

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/01/travel/bedbugs-turkish-airlines-flights.html

2 years ago

98 upvotes – 62 comments

Tesla reports 1.1% sales drop for 2024, first annual decline in at least 9 years

https://apnews.com/article/tesla-sales-2024-drop-electric-vehicles-69af17c4e606625694af8293db25b2f3

2 years ago

93 upvotes – 270 comments

PyPI Blog: Project Quarantine

https://blog.pypi.org/posts/2024-12-30-quarantine/

2 years ago

92 upvotes – 60 comments

Ask HN: Share your "LLM screwed us over" stories?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42576647

2 years ago

91 upvotes – 95 comments

UK's biggest dinosaur footprint site unearthed

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c24nzeqq1l2o

2 years ago

87 upvotes – 14 comments

A Private Life – Nikolai Tolstoy Remembers Patrick O'Brian

https://www.unseenhistories.com/tolstoy-patrick-o-brian

2 years ago

82 upvotes – 31 comments

The Peter Principle still resonates

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/peter-principle-vancouver-history-1.7415994

2 years ago

81 upvotes – 75 comments

Siri "unintentionally" recorded private convos; Apple agrees to pay $95M

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/01/apple-agrees-to-pay-95m-delete-private-conversations-siri-recorded/

2 years ago

78 upvotes – 26 comments

1972 Mercedes-Benz 600 Kompressor [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4LnHdWgLlFI

2 years ago

74 upvotes – 22 comments

Show HN: WebGPU + TypeScript Slime Mold

https://github.com/SuboptimalEng/slime-sim-webgpu

2 years ago

71 upvotes – 11 comments

Morgan Stanley Follows Citi, BofA in Quitting Climate Group

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-01-02/morgan-stanley-leaves-net-zero-alliance-for-banks

2 years ago

71 upvotes – 92 comments
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