top 50% 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

Nearly half Dell's US workforce has rejected RTO. Rather WFH than get promoted (2024)

https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/companies/nearly-half-of-dell-s-full-time-workforce-in-the-u-s-has-rejected-returning-to-the-office-they-d-rather-work-from-home-than-get-promoted/ar-BB1oBygb

2 years ago

196 upvotes – 178 comments

SrsRAN: Open-Source 4G/5G

https://github.com/srsran

2 years ago

195 upvotes – 65 comments

Collusion through Common Leadership [pdf]

https://wwws.law.northwestern.edu/research-faculty/clbe/events/antitrust/documents/prager_collusion_through_common_leadership.pdf

2 years ago

167 upvotes – 79 comments

Reverse Engineering the Constants in the Pentium FPU

http://www.righto.com/2025/01/pentium-floating-point-ROM.html

2 years ago

151 upvotes – 23 comments

How to Debounce a Contact (2014)

https://www.ganssle.com/debouncing.htm

2 years ago

150 upvotes – 79 comments

Writing as Transformation

https://www.newyorker.com/culture/the-weekend-essay/writing-as-transformation-louise-gluck

2 years ago

144 upvotes – 42 comments

Ask HN: Politics Blog Cloudflare Subpoena

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42603292

2 years ago

140 upvotes – 106 comments

Orca that carried dead calf for weeks appears to be in mourning again

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/02/us/mother-orca-tahlequah-calf-dead.html

2 years ago

139 upvotes – 242 comments

My Favorite Book on AI

https://www.gatesnotes.com/The-Coming-Wave

2 years ago

135 upvotes – 110 comments

The Rise of the French Fry Cartel

https://jacobin.com/2025/01/french-fry-price-fixing-antitrust/

2 years ago

134 upvotes – 154 comments

A video tour of the Standard Model (2021)

https://www.quantamagazine.org/a-video-tour-of-the-standard-model-20210716/

2 years ago

119 upvotes – 14 comments

Social media distorts perceptions of norms (2024)

https://osf.io/preprints/psyarxiv/kgcrq

2 years ago

108 upvotes – 118 comments

No-hole surgery: no keyhole, yet surgeons can now still operate under your skin (2023)

https://www.nibib.nih.gov/news-events/newsroom/getting-under-your-skin-3d-printing-technique-builds-structures-through-tissues

2 years ago

107 upvotes – 38 comments

How Do You Like What You've Built?

https://morrisbrodersen.de/how-do-you-like-what-you-built/

2 years ago

104 upvotes – 22 comments

Learn New Skills

https://www.attejuvonen.fi/learn/

2 years ago

103 upvotes – 16 comments

Duolicious – Open-source dating app

https://github.com/duolicious

2 years ago

101 upvotes – 103 comments

Ask HN: Spending Tracking Tools

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42602900

2 years ago

97 upvotes – 105 comments

Game dev in Rust: a year later

https://users.rust-lang.org/t/game-dev-in-rust-a-year-later/123522

2 years ago

96 upvotes – 68 comments

The Evolution of Tunnel Boring Machines (2023)

https://www.construction-physics.com/p/the-evolution-of-tunnel-boring-machines

2 years ago

93 upvotes – 88 comments

Size Optimization Tricks (2022)

https://justine.lol/sizetricks/

2 years ago

92 upvotes – 29 comments

AI-assisted coding will change software engineering: hard truths

https://newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/p/how-ai-will-change-software-engineering

2 years ago

91 upvotes – 109 comments

Reliable system call interception

https://blog.mggross.com/intercepting-syscalls/

2 years ago

89 upvotes – 1 comments

Blur Busters Open Source Display Initiative – Refresh Cycle Shaders

https://blurbusters.com/blur-busters-open-source-display-initative-refresh-cycle-shaders/

2 years ago

87 upvotes – 35 comments

Do It in Jeans First

https://www.gkogan.co/jeans/

2 years ago

86 upvotes – 109 comments

ruffle-rs/ruffle: A Flash Player emulator written in Rust

https://github.com/ruffle-rs/ruffle

2 years ago

81 upvotes – 20 comments

Minimum bipartite matching via Riemann optimization (2023)

https://ocramz.github.io/posts/2023-12-21-assignment-riemann-opt.html

2 years ago

80 upvotes – 23 comments

The world of 1930s public health posters

https://worldhistory.substack.com/p/brush-your-teeth-drink-milk-and-watch

2 years ago

78 upvotes – 30 comments

Refurb Weekend: Atari Stacy

http://oldvcr.blogspot.com/2025/01/refurb-weekend-atari-stacy.html

2 years ago

78 upvotes – 8 comments

Expressive Vector Engine – SIMD in C++

https://github.com/jfalcou/eve

2 years ago

76 upvotes – 36 comments
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