top 50% hacker news stories for 2025-01-08

I had to take down my course-swapping site or be expelled

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/jdkaim_github-jdkaimhuskyswap-huskyswap-project-activity-7282609173316415488-1jdb

2 years ago

Operating System in 1,000 Lines – Intro

https://operating-system-in-1000-lines.vercel.app/en

2 years ago

Cracking a 512-bit DKIM key for less than $8 in the cloud

https://dmarcchecker.app/articles/crack-512-bit-dkim-rsa-key

2 years ago

NeuralSVG: An Implicit Representation for Text-to-Vector Generation

https://sagipolaczek.github.io/NeuralSVG/

2 years ago

Show HN: Atlas of Space

https://atlasof.space/

2 years ago

Fidget

https://www.mattkeeter.com/projects/fidget/

2 years ago

LA wildfires force thousands to evacuate, NASA JPL closed

https://www.theregister.com/2025/01/08/los_angeles_fires_jpl/

2 years ago

Salesforce will hire no more software engineers in 2025, says Marc Benioff

https://www.salesforceben.com/salesforce-will-hire-no-more-software-engineers-in-2025-says-marc-benioff/

2 years ago

Show HN: Stagehand – an open source browser automation framework powered by AI

https://github.com/browserbase/stagehand

2 years ago

Steve Langasek, one of Ubuntu Linux's leading lights, has died

https://thenewstack.io/steve-langasek-one-of-ubuntu-linuxs-leading-lights-has-died/

2 years ago

Bringing SerenityOS to real hardware, one driver at a time

https://sdomi.pl/weblog/23-serenityos-realhw/

2 years ago

Robotics 101 at UMich: Applied numerical linear algebra as intro linear algebra

https://robotics.umich.edu/academics/courses/course-offerings/rob101-fall-2020/

2 years ago

Facebook is removing stories about pornographic ads

https://www.404media.co/facebook-is-censoring-404-media-stories-about-facebooks-censorship/

2 years ago

Some programming language ideas

https://jerf.org/iri/post/2025/programming_language_ideas/

2 years ago

The Aging Programmer [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mVWQQeSOD0M

2 years ago

Bye-bye Windows gaming? SteamOS officially expands past the Steam Deck

https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2025/01/bye-bye-windows-gaming-steamos-officially-expands-past-the-steam-deck/

2 years ago

Gate-level simulation of ASIC in browser

https://znah.net/tt09/

2 years ago

A rare alignment of 7 planets is about to take place

https://www.sciencealert.com/a-rare-alignment-of-7-planets-is-about-to-take-place-in-the-sky

2 years ago

28h Days: year 1 update

https://sidhion.com/blog/28h_days_update_1/

2 years ago

Today I learned that bash has hashmaps (2024)

https://xeiaso.net/notes/2024/bash-hashmap/

2 years ago

Annual 'winners' for most egregious US healthcare profiteering announced

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jan/07/annual-awards-healthcare-profiteering

2 years ago

White House unveils Cyber Trust Mark program for consumer devices

https://www.nextgov.com/cybersecurity/2025/01/white-house-unveils-cyber-trust-mark-program-consumer-devices/401991/

2 years ago

The Comet is a handheld Linux computer that brings extensibility

https://mecha.so/comet

2 years ago

Oracle Will Not Voluntarily Withdraw JavaScript Trademark

https://twitter.com/deno_land/status/1876728474666217739

2 years ago

A visual demo of Ruby's lazy enumerator

https://joyofrails.com/articles/simple-trick-to-understand-ruby-lazy-enumerator

2 years ago

/bin/sh: the biggest Unix security loophole (1984) [pdf]

https://www.tuhs.org/Archive/Documentation/TechReports/Bell_Labs/ReedsShellHoles.pdf

2 years ago

C++26: A Placeholder with No Name

https://www.sandordargo.com/blog/2025/01/08/cpp26-unnamed-placeholders

2 years ago

Market Structure Primer (2019)

https://primer.prooftrading.com

2 years ago

Spinal cord injuries from mountain biking exceed hockey, other high-risk sports

https://www.med.ubc.ca/news/spinal-cord-injuries-from-mountain-biking-exceed-hockey-other-high-risk-sports/

2 years ago

Embedding Scheme in Rust

https://raviqqe.com/doc/posts/stak/embedding-scheme-in-rust/

2 years ago

Apple's new AI feature rewords scam messages to make them look more legit

https://www.crikey.com.au/2025/01/08/apple-new-artificial-intelligence-rewords-scam-messages-look-legitimate/

2 years ago

The Fannie and Freddie trade is back

https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2025-01-08/the-fannie-and-freddie-trade-is-back

2 years ago

If GPUs Are So Good, Why Do We Still Use CPUs at All?

https://codingstuff.substack.com/p/if-gpus-are-so-good-why-do-we-still

2 years ago

Schola Latina Europæa and Universalis

http://avitus.alcuinus.net/schola_latina/soni_en.php

2 years ago

Ask HN: Are there any real examples of AI agents doing work?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42629498

2 years ago

Sam Altman's sister files lawsuits against Sam alleging sexual abuse

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/01/07/openais-sam-altman-denies-sexual-abuse-allegations-made-sister-ann.html

2 years ago

Multiplicative Infinitesimals

https://github.com/Ericson2314/baccumulation/blob/main/math/multiplicative-infinitesimals.md

2 years ago

Garmin Connect services were down

https://connect.garmin.com/status/

2 years ago

New questions on Stack Overflow are down 77% compared to 2022

https://gist.github.com/hopeseekr/f522e380e35745bd5bdc3269a9f0b132

2 years ago

Fired from Meta After 1 Week: Here's All the Dirt I Got

https://sebastiancarlos.com/fired-from-meta-after-1-week-heres-all-the-dirt-i-got-855e4e5a0d65

2 years ago

Double-keyed caching: Browser cache partitioning

https://addyosmani.com/blog/double-keyed-caching/

2 years ago

AI in the 80s? How a Simple Animal Guessing Game Pioneered Machine Learning

https://medium.com/@alexey.medvecky/ai-in-the-80s-how-a-simple-animal-guessing-game-pioneered-machine-learning-before-it-was-cool-2f4a63dfe762

2 years ago

When the U.S. tried to replace migrant farmworkers with high schoolers (2018)

https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2018/07/31/634442195/when-the-u-s-government-tried-to-replace-migrant-farmworkers-with-high-schoolers

2 years ago

Show HN: Belshazzar's Clock, luminous paint night clock

https://blog.karliner.net/projects/belshazzars-clock/

2 years ago

Donut Lab's next-generation in-wheel motors

https://www.donutlab.com/motor/

2 years ago

On Priesthoods

https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/on-priesthoods

2 years ago

Wends of Texas

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wends_of_Texas

2 years ago

Show HN: Cardstock- Free TCG Proxy Manager for Magic, Yugioh, & Pokemon

https://cardstock.denta.co

2 years ago