1807
557
I've acquired a new superpower
https://danielwirtz.com/blog/spot-the-difference-superpower
3 weeks ago
1189
1745
Meta's memo to employees rolling back DEI programs
https://www.axios.com/2025/01/10/meta-dei-memo-employees-programs
393
139
Visualizing All ISBNs
https://annas-archive.org/blog/all-isbns.html
384
94
Cuttle – a MTG like game using a standard 52 card deck
https://www.pagat.com/combat/cuttle.html
295
187
I got OpenTelemetry to work. But why was it so complicated?
https://iconsolutions.com/blog/i-got-opentelemetry-to-work-but-why-was-it-so-complicated/
293
172
Railroad Tycoon II
https://www.filfre.net/2025/01/railroad-tycoon-ii/
288
629
Finland's zero homeless strategy (2021)
https://oecdecoscope.blog/2021/12/13/finlands-zero-homeless-strategy-lessons-from-a-success-story/
284
106
Narcolepsy is weird but I didn't notice
https://www.fortressofdoors.com/narcolepsy-is-weird-but-i-didnt-notice/
276
76
Reversible computing escapes the lab
https://spectrum.ieee.org/reversible-computing
260
220
Starlink is now cheaper than leading internet provider in some African countries
https://restofworld.org/2025/starlink-cheaper-internet-africa/
243
185
Predictions Scorecard, 2025 January 01
https://rodneybrooks.com/predictions-scorecard-2025-january-01/
229
75
Learning how to think with Meta Chain-of-Thought
https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.04682
224
290
Before Squid Game, there was Battle Royale
https://www.tokyoweekender.com/entertainment/movies-tv/before-squid-game-there-was-battle-royale/
222
90
How we used GPT-4o for image detection with 350 similar illustrations
https://olup-blog.pages.dev/stories/image-detection-cars
211
133
Formal Methods: Just Good Engineering Practice? (2024)
https://brooker.co.za/blog/2024/04/17/formal
205
26
Building Bauble
https://ianthehenry.com/posts/bauble/building-bauble/
204
24
Shavarsh Karapetyan
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shavarsh_Karapetyan
193
68
Phi-4 Bug Fixes
https://unsloth.ai/blog/phi4
192
105
Very Wrong Math
https://www.charlespetzold.com/blog/2025/01/Very-Wrong-Math.html
190
115
Who Can Understand the Proof? A Window on Formalized Mathematics
https://writings.stephenwolfram.com/2025/01/who-can-understand-the-proof-a-window-on-formalized-mathematics/
189
54
Portals and Quake
https://30fps.net/pages/pvs-portals-and-quake/
109
Candy Crush, Tinder, MyFitnessPal: Apps hijacked to spy on location
https://www.wired.com/story/gravy-location-data-app-leak-rtb/
184
183
TikTok tells staff impacted by wildfires to use sick hours if they can't work
https://techcrunch.com/2025/01/09/tiktok-tells-la-staff-impacted-by-wildfires-to-use-personal-sick-hours-if-they-cant-work-from-home/
50
Tactility: OS for the ESP32 Microcontroller Family
https://tactility.one/#/
182
Gleam v1.7
https://gleam.run/news/improved-performance-and-publishing/
175
Getting silly with C, part (void*)2
https://lcamtuf.substack.com/p/getting-silly-with-c-part-void2
171
21
Glimmer: DSL Framework for Ruby GUI and More
https://github.com/AndyObtiva/glimmer
169
12
Cannonball: An enhanced OutRun engine
https://github.com/djyt/cannonball
162
Northeastern's redesign of the CS curriculum
https://huntnewsnu.com/82511/editorial/op-eds/op-ed-northeasterns-redesign-of-the-khoury-curriculum-abandons-the-fundamentals-of-computer-science/
157
49
Flattening ASTs and other compiler data structures (2023)
https://www.cs.cornell.edu/~asampson/blog/flattening.html
152
122
Web apps built with Ruby on Rails
https://weuserails.com/
150
62
Show HN: 3D Terrain simulation for hiking, skiing etc.
https://github.com/r-follador/CubeTrek
146
117
When a winter storm trapped a luxury passenger train near Donner Pass
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/when-a-deadly-winter-storm-trapped-a-luxury-passenger-train-near-the-donner-pass-for-three-days-180985782/
145
45
Nvidia-Ingest: Multi-modal data extraction
https://github.com/NVIDIA/nv-ingest
143
18
Glicol: Next-generation computer music language
https://glicol.org/
142
Decentralized Syndication – The Missing Internet Protocol
http://tautvilas.lt/decentralized-syndication-the-missing-internet-protocol/
140
22
The Tedious Heroism of David Ruggles
https://commonplace.online/article/the-tedious-heroism-of-david-ruggles/
125
168
41% of Employers Worldwide Say They'll Reduce Staff by 2030 Due to AI
https://gizmodo.com/41-of-employers-worldwide-say-theyll-reduce-staff-by-2030-due-to-ai-2000548131
123
53
How outdated information hides in LLM token generation probabilities
https://blog.anj.ai/2025/01/llm-token-generation-probabilities.html
5
Show HN: Freeact – A Lightweight Library for Code-Action Based Agents
https://github.com/gradion-ai/freeact
121
OpenAI's bot crushed this seven-person company's web site 'like a DDoS attack'
https://techcrunch.com/2025/01/10/how-openais-bot-crushed-this-seven-person-companys-web-site-like-a-ddos-attack/
119
159
A three month review of kagi search and the orion web browser (2024)
https://flatfootfox.com/a-three-month-review-of-kagi-search-the-orion-web-browser/
66
Ask HN: How to approach first days on a new job as a senior engineer?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42656184
114
112
Ships must practice celestial navigation
https://www.usni.org/magazines/proceedings/2025/january/ships-must-practice-celestial-navigation
65
2024 first year to pass 1.5C global warming limit
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cd7575x8yq5o
92
30
Television: Fast general purpose fuzzy finder TUI
https://github.com/alexpasmantier/television
81
15
Mercury's shadowy North Pole revealed by M-CAM 1
https://www.esa.int/ESA_Multimedia/Images/2025/01/Mercury_s_shadowy_north_pole_revealed_by_M-CAM_1
79
64
Ask HN: Work on robotics or agents?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42651226
10
An Introduction to Neural Ordinary Differential Equations [pdf]
https://diposit.ub.edu/dspace/bitstream/2445/208621/2/tfg_baldillou_salse_pau.pdf
78
31
lc: List files in categories (and columns) – from Coherent Unix clone
https://github.com/gdm85/lc
74
85
Show HN: Boulette - Protect you from yourself (even as root).
https://github.com/pipelight/boulette
