top 20 hacker news stories for 2025-01-05

Web page annoyances that I don't inflict on you

http://rachelbythebay.com/w/2025/01/04/cruft/

2 years ago

569 upvotes – 294 comments

I made $100K from a dick joke

https://imgur.com/gallery/KZ4u3c4

2 years ago

532 upvotes – 260 comments

In my life, I've witnessed three elite salespeople at work

https://slate.com/life/2024/12/work-jobs-sales-telemarketing-america.html

2 years ago

504 upvotes – 287 comments

Remote code execution via MIDI messages

https://psi3.ru/blog/swl01u/

2 years ago

471 upvotes – 75 comments

Extracting AI models from mobile apps

https://altayakkus.substack.com/p/you-wouldnt-download-an-ai

2 years ago

467 upvotes – 236 comments

A messy experiment that changed how I think about AI code analysis

https://nmn.gl/blog/ai-senior-developer

2 years ago

463 upvotes – 228 comments

How NAT Traversal Works (2020)

https://tailscale.com/blog/how-nat-traversal-works

2 years ago

408 upvotes – 89 comments

Researchers design wearable tech that can sense glucose levels more accurately

https://uwaterloo.ca/news/media/no-more-needles-tracking-blood-sugar-your-wrist

2 years ago

385 upvotes – 165 comments

Akamai to shut down its CDN operations in China

https://content.akamai.com/index.php/email/emailWebview?email=NjQyLVNLTi00NDkAAAGWBQgHSPFMp0ow2aF67IAbDOB0c1pNppYjWH8ZCkGxrVi4pDs7pT_120NiLvARghhVOBbaIJqps_3Ii2OZlixo3IPjhpR79JsTe-0&trk=comments_comments-list_comment-text

2 years ago

327 upvotes – 143 comments

Show HN: Struggle with CSS Flexbox? This Playground Is for You

https://yoavsbg.github.io/css-flexbox-playground/

2 years ago

315 upvotes – 115 comments

Writing a simple pool allocator in C

https://8dcc.github.io/programming/pool-allocator.html

2 years ago

307 upvotes – 143 comments

Guten: A Tiny Newspaper Printer

https://amanvir.com/guten

2 years ago

265 upvotes – 106 comments

Back to basics: Why we chose long-polling over websockets

https://www.inferable.ai/blog/posts/postgres-nodejs-longpolling.mdx

2 years ago

258 upvotes – 163 comments

A story on home server security

https://raniseth.com/blog/2025-01-04-Home-Server-Security.html

2 years ago

237 upvotes – 281 comments

Ads chew through half of mobile data

https://www.nextpit.com/ads-consume-half-of-your-mobile-data

2 years ago

220 upvotes – 245 comments

Ask HN: Favorite blog in 2024?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42604529

2 years ago

215 upvotes – 85 comments

Human study on AI spear phishing campaigns

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/GCHyDKfPXa5qsG2cP/human-study-on-ai-spear-phishing-campaigns

2 years ago

205 upvotes – 112 comments

Hacker gains access to the RP2350 OTP secret by glitching the RISC-V cores

https://www.tomshardware.com/raspberry-pi/it-looks-like-the-raspberry-pi-rp2350-hacking-challenge-has-been-beaten-hacker-gains-access-to-the-otp-secret-by-glitching-the-risc-v-cores-to-enable-debugging

2 years ago

203 upvotes – 30 comments

Olympians turn to OnlyFans to fund dreams due to 'broken' finance system (2024)

https://www.cbc.ca/sports/olympics/summer/athletics/onlyfans-alysha-newman-canada-olympics-1.7290724

2 years ago

202 upvotes – 382 comments

Republishing my Simpsons fan site, twenty years later

https://www.bingeclock.com/blog/post/republishing-my-simpsons-fan-site-twenty-years-later

2 years ago

198 upvotes – 81 comments
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