812
439
Can LLMs write better code if you keep asking them to “write better code”?
https://minimaxir.com/2025/01/write-better-code/
2 years ago
526
293
Show HN: I completed shipping my desktop app
https://pimosa.app/
381
192
Phase behavior of Cacio and Pepe sauce
https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.00536
366
46
SpaceSim
https://pavelsevecek.github.io/
339
89
VoxelSpace: Terrain rendering algorithm in less than 20 lines of code (2020)
https://github.com/s-macke/VoxelSpace
330
257
Be a property owner and not a renter on the internet
https://den.dev/blog/be-a-property-owner-not-a-renter-on-the-internet/
319
16
B-Trees: More Than I Thought I'd Want to Know (2021)
https://benjamincongdon.me/blog/2021/08/17/B-Trees-More-Than-I-Thought-Id-Want-to-Know/
295
767
Why Canada Should Join the EU
https://www.economist.com/europe/2025/01/02/why-canada-should-join-the-eu
141
The Evolution of SRE at Google
https://www.usenix.org/publications/loginonline/evolution-sre-google
276
82
What we learned copying all the best code assistants
https://blog.val.town/blog/fast-follow/
81
BlogScroll – An open directory of personal sites and blogs
https://blogscroll.com/
Show HN: DeepFace – A lightweight deep face recognition library for Python
https://github.com/serengil/deepface
249
38
In Memoriam: Noah Gibbs
https://blog.schwad.org/schwogs/6
242
200
Yemeni Coffee Shops in Texas
https://www.texasmonthly.com/food/yemeni-coffee-shops-booming-in-texas/
237
361
Perplexity got ads
https://twitter.com/damengchen/status/1875296442417607072
234
90
F-Droid Fake Signer PoC
https://github.com/obfusk/fdroid-fakesigner-poc
210
343
I still don't think companies serve you ads based on your microphone
https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jan/2/they-spy-on-you-but-not-like-that/
208
103
USB On-The-Go
https://computer.rip/2024-01-06-usb-on-the-go.html
183
60
Mandelbrot deep zoom theory and practice (2021)
https://mathr.co.uk/blog/2021-05-14_deep_zoom_theory_and_practice.html
178
97
Laser mapping reveals oldest Amazonian cities, built 2500 years ago (2024)
https://www.science.org/content/article/laser-mapping-reveals-oldest-amazonian-cities-built-2500-years-ago
170
87
Choosing an op-amp for your project
https://lcamtuf.substack.com/p/choosing-an-op-amp-for-your-project
158
96
UK ICO response to Google's policy change on device fingerprinting
https://ico.org.uk/about-the-ico/media-centre/news-and-blogs/2024/12/our-response-to-google-s-policy-change-on-fingerprinting/
156
146
Court strikes down US net neutrality rules
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c4gl417l757o
154
107
Parasitic worms 'manipulate' mantises onto asphalt roads, say researchers
https://mainichi.jp/english/articles/20241115/p2a/00m/0sc/009000c
147
50
The DIY Multideck
https://diymultideck.mauri.app/manual/
138
100
OnlyFangs has made 'World of Warcraft' into Twitch's best soap opera
https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/rs-gaming/world-of-warcraft-onlyfangs-twitch-roleplay-1235222436/
135
61
Zebrafish protein unlocks dormant genes for heart repair
https://www.hubrecht.eu/zebrafish-protein-unlocks-dormant-genes-for-heart-repair/
133
80
A path to O1 open source
https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.14135
129
48
Kuvasz-streamer: open-source CDC for Postgres for low latency replication
https://streamer.kuvasz.io/
126
63
System76 built the fastest Windows Arm PC
https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2025/system76-built-fastest-windows-arm-pc
115
11
Wildcard: Customize HN using a spreadsheet view (2020)
https://www.geoffreylitt.com/wildcard/
102
0
Using watermarks to coordinate change data capture in Postgres
https://blog.sequinstream.com/using-watermarks-to-coordinate-change-data-capture-in-postgres/
93
Show HN: AI that generates 3blue1brown-style explainer videos
https://tma.live
54
Apple auto-opts everyone into having their photos analyzed by AI for landmarks
https://www.theregister.com/2025/01/03/apple_enhanced_visual_search/
How saffron became an American cash crop
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/02/dining/saffron-farming-crop.html
31
Einsum in Depth
https://einsum.joelburget.com/
12
How to triangulate a polyline with thickness
https://jvernay.fr/en/blog/polyline-triangulation/
34
Transcendental Syntax
https://github.com/engboris/transcendental-syntax
10
42 - Spacecraft Simulation
https://github.com/ericstoneking/42
79
153
What Is To Be Done? The book that helped spark the Russian Revolution
https://onepercentrule.substack.com/p/what-is-to-be-done
52
The Recursive Book of Recursion
https://inventwithpython.com/recursion/
77
42
Don't Clobber the Frame Pointer
https://nsrip.com/posts/clobberfp.html
75
Covid 5 years later: Learning from a pandemic many are forgetting
https://www.science.org/content/article/covid-5-years-later-learning-pandemic-many-are-forgetting
58
China reduced sulphur dioxide emissions by more than two-thirds in past 15 years
https://ourworldindata.org/data-insights/china-has-reduced-sulphur-dioxide-emissions-by-more-than-two-thirds-in-the-last-15-years
74
76
Dark Energy May Not Exist: Something Stranger Might Explain the Universe
https://www.sciencealert.com/dark-energy-may-not-exist-something-stranger-might-explain-the-universe
6
Uiua – A stack-based array programming language
https://www.uiua.org/
4
Why Canada should join the EU
72
65
TiDB – cloud-native, distributed SQL database written in Go
https://github.com/pingcap/tidb
71
44
Surveillance and the suppression of civil society in Serbia
https://www.amnesty.org/en/documents/eur70/8813/2024/en/
70
19
"AI" on a Calculator (2023)
https://z80.me/blog/calculator-ai-part-1/
17
Swc4j: SWC for Java
https://github.com/caoccao/swc4j
68
45
Her Treatment Was Helping. That's Why Insurance Cut Off Her Coverage
https://www.propublica.org/article/mental-health-insurance-denials-patient-progress
66
18
Ireland has lost almost all its native forests
https://worldsensorium.com/ireland-has-lost-almost-all-of-its-native-forests-heres-how-to-bring-them-back/
Two Turntables and a Microphone (2006)
https://goodfuzzysounds.com/ma/docs/funnyversion.htm
8
The Art and Science of Mess Management (1981) [pdf]
https://www.systemswisdom.com/sites/default/files/Ackoff-1981-Mess-Management_0.pdf