top 50% hacker news stories for 2025-01-09

Show HN: Tetris in a PDF

https://th0mas.nl/downloads/pdftris.pdf

2 years ago

Luigi Mangione's account has been renamed on Stack Overflow

https://substack.evancarroll.com/p/the-erasure-of-luigi-mangione

2 years ago

The Tsunami of Burnout Few See

http://charleshughsmith.blogspot.com/2025/01/i-quit-tsunami-of-burnout-few-see.html

2 years ago

Why is my CPU usage always 100%?

https://www.downtowndougbrown.com/2024/04/why-is-my-cpu-usage-always-100-upgrading-my-chumby-8-kernel-part-9/

2 years ago

Show HN: Factorio Blueprint Visualizer

https://github.com/piebro/factorio-blueprint-visualizer

2 years ago

You don't have to pay the Microsoft 365 price increase

https://www.consumer.org.nz/articles/you-don-t-have-to-pay-the-microsoft-365-price-increase

2 years ago

Lines of code that beat A/B testing (2012)

https://stevehanov.ca/blog/index.php?id=132

2 years ago

WorstFit: Unveiling Hidden Transformers in Windows ANSI

https://blog.orange.tw/posts/2025-01-worstfit-unveiling-hidden-transformers-in-windows-ansi/

2 years ago

Scientists uncover how the brain washes itself during sleep

https://www.science.org/content/article/scientists-uncover-how-brain-washes-itself-during-sleep

2 years ago

Datadog acquires Quickwit

https://quickwit.io/blog/quickwit-joins-datadog

2 years ago

Phi 4 available on Ollama

https://ollama.com/library/phi4

2 years ago

Pushing the whole company into the past on purpose

https://rachelbythebay.com/w/2025/01/09/lag/

2 years ago

Celebrating the timeless allure of Tintin's aesthetics

https://collegetowns.substack.com/p/celebrating-the-timeless-allure-of

2 years ago

SQL nulls are weird

https://jirevwe.github.io/sql-nulls-are-weird.html

2 years ago

Soldering the Tek way

https://hackaday.com/2025/01/09/retrotechtacular-soldering-the-tek-way/

2 years ago

Disappointed with the TVs at CES 2025

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/01/ces-2025-teases-alarming-smart-tv-future-loaded-with-unwanted-software-gimmicks/

2 years ago

"Twelfth Night Till Candlemas" – A 40-year book-quest

https://davidallengreen.com/2024/12/twelfth-night-till-candlemas-the-story-of-a-forty-year-book-quest-and-of-its-remarkable-ending/

2 years ago

New 16GB Raspberry Pi 5 on sale now at $120

https://www.raspberrypi.com/news/16gb-raspberry-pi-5-on-sale-now-at-120/

2 years ago

Rational or not? This basic math question took decades to answer

https://www.quantamagazine.org/rational-or-not-this-basic-math-question-took-decades-to-answer-20250108/

2 years ago

How Britain got its first internet connection (2015)

https://theconversation.com/how-britain-got-its-first-internet-connection-by-the-late-pioneer-who-created-the-first-password-on-the-internet-45404

2 years ago

Entropy of a Large Language Model output

https://nikkin.dev/blog/llm-entropy.html

2 years ago

Show HN: Kate's App

https://katesapp.org/hn

2 years ago

VLC tops 6B downloads, previews AI-generated subtitles

https://techcrunch.com/2025/01/09/vlc-tops-6-billion-downloads-previews-ai-generated-subtitles/

2 years ago

Ask HN: A friend has brain cancer: any bio hacks that worked?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42649996

2 years ago

Show HN: TabPFN v2 – A SOTA foundation model for small tabular data

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-08328-6/link

2 years ago

Thank You, Airbnb

https://twitter.com/anammostarac/status/1876872587738833184

2 years ago

Ask HN: How do you backup your Android?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42648597

2 years ago

My Amazon TV Now Unmutes Itself During Prime Video Commercial Breaks

https://old.reddit.com/r/mildlyinfuriating/comments/1hx5wkq/my_amazon_tv_now_unmutes_itself_during_prime/

2 years ago

How hucksters are manipulating Google to promote shady Chrome extensions

https://arstechnica.com/security/2025/01/googles-chrome-web-store-has-a-serious-spam-problem-promoting-shady-extensions/

2 years ago

Stay Gold, America

https://blog.codinghorror.com/stay-gold-america/

2 years ago

My Favorite Self-Hosted Apps Launched in 2024

https://selfh.st/2024-favorite-new-apps/

2 years ago

Show HN: LA Wildfire Satellite Analysis

https://github.com/xingyzt/fire

2 years ago

How to delete your Facebook account

https://www.theverge.com/22231495/delete-facebook-page-account-how-to

2 years ago

Show HN: Ultra-portable Gantt chart tool for very regulated environments

https://github.com/aerugo/simplegantt

2 years ago

Why Rust nextest is process-per-test

https://sunshowers.io/posts/nextest-process-per-test/

2 years ago

Binary modding a water dispenser to save me from pressing a button (2021)

https://practicapp.com/binary-modding-a-watercooler/

2 years ago

Microsoft should be terrified of SteamOS

https://www.pcworld.com/article/2571541/microsoft-should-be-terrified-of-steamos.html

2 years ago

ZType – Typing Game

https://zty.pe/

2 years ago

Aligning Automattic's Sponsored Contributions to WordPress

https://automattic.com/2025/01/09/aligning-automattics-sponsored-contributions-to-wordpress/

2 years ago

The Seven-Action Documentation Model

https://passo.uno/seven-action-model/

2 years ago

Hitler dismantled a democracy in 53 days through constitutional means

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/01/hitler-germany-constitution-authoritarianism/681233/

2 years ago

Directory of remote-only job boards

https://www.jobsearchdb.com/job-board-categories/remote-only

2 years ago

Shaping ligatures in monospace fonts

https://joshleeb.com/posts/monospace-ligatures.html

2 years ago

World's largest pumped storage power plant fully operational in China

https://www.ess-news.com/2025/01/09/worlds-largest-pumped-storage-power-plant-fully-operational-in-china/

2 years ago

Who would buy a Raspberry Pi for $120?

https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2025/who-would-buy-raspberry-pi-120

2 years ago

Who would have won the Simon-Ehrlich bet over different decades?

https://ourworldindata.org/simon-ehrlich-bet

2 years ago

Man trapped inside driverless car as it spins in circles

https://www.bbc.com/news/videos/c70e2g09ng9o

2 years ago

My Experience Biohacking

https://vale.rocks/posts/my-experience-biohacking

2 years ago

What is an invariant? (2023)

https://matklad.github.io/2023/10/06/what-is-an-invariant.html

2 years ago

Poka-Yoke

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poka-yoke

2 years ago