top 50% hacker news stories for 2025-01-12

I created an open-source Hardware Hacking Wiki – with tutorials for beginners

https://www.hardbreak.wiki

2 years ago

Kenney.nl: Free Game Assets

https://www.kenney.nl/

2 years ago

Bad Apple but it's 6,500 regexes that I search for in Vim

https://eieio.games/blog/bad-apple-with-regex-in-vim/

2 years ago

Uv's killer feature is making ad-hoc environments easy

https://valatka.dev/2025/01/12/on-killer-uv-feature.html

2 years ago

Right to root access

https://medhir.com/blog/right-to-root-access

2 years ago

Backdooring Your Backdoors – Another $20 Domain, More Governments

https://labs.watchtowr.com/more-governments-backdoors-in-your-backdoors/

2 years ago

The Illustrated Guide to a PhD

https://matt.might.net/articles/phd-school-in-pictures/?_nospa=true

2 years ago

I deleted my social media accounts

https://asylumsquare.com/backstage/2025-01-12/why-i-deleted-my-social-media-accounts

2 years ago

Tabby: Self-hosted AI coding assistant

https://github.com/TabbyML/tabby

2 years ago

★ 33.4k Rust

Why I Chose Common Lisp

https://blog.djhaskin.com/blog/why-i-chose-common-lisp/

2 years ago

AI founders will learn the bitter lesson

https://lukaspetersson.com/blog/2025/bitter-vertical/

2 years ago

Aaron Swartz and Sam Altman

https://journa.host/@jeremiak/113811327999722586

2 years ago

The origin of the cargo cult metaphor

https://www.righto.com/2025/01/its-time-to-abandon-cargo-cult-metaphor.html

2 years ago

Mac Mini G4 – The best « classic » Macintosh for retro-gaming?

https://www.xtof.info/MacMiniG4-the-best-classic-macintosh-for-retrogaming.html

2 years ago

The Missing Nvidia GPU Glossary

https://modal.com/gpu-glossary/readme

2 years ago

I spent 18 years in the Linux console

https://eugene-andrienko.com/en/it/2024/01/02/life-in-console

2 years ago

Mullenweg Shuts Down WordPress Sustainability Team, Igniting Backlash

https://www.therepository.email/mullenweg-shuts-down-wordpress-sustainability-team-igniting-backlash

2 years ago

If we had the best product engineering organization, what would it look like?

https://www.jamesshore.com/v2/blog/2025/the-best-product-engineering-org-in-the-world

2 years ago

Adobe Lightroom's AI Remove feature added a Bitcoin to bird in flight photo

https://bsky.app/profile/matthewraifman.bsky.social/post/3lfaqbygva22j

2 years ago

Great things about Rust that aren't just performance

https://ntietz.com/blog/great-things-about-rust-beyond-perf/

2 years ago

The case for letting Malibu burn (1995)

https://longreads.com/2018/12/04/the-case-for-letting-malibu-burn/

2 years ago

Free music archive

https://freemusicarchive.org/home

2 years ago

Qubes OS: A reasonably secure operating system

https://www.qubes-os.org/

2 years ago

The mistake of yearning for the 'friendly' online world of 20 years ago

https://english.elpais.com/lifestyle/2025-01-07/the-internet-hasnt-made-us-bad-we-were-already-like-that-the-mistake-of-yearning-for-the-friendly-online-world-of-20-years-ago.html

2 years ago

The Canva outage: another tale of saturation and resilience

https://surfingcomplexity.blog/2024/12/21/the-canva-outage-another-tale-of-saturation-and-resilience/

2 years ago

Best Pens for 2025

https://www.jetpens.com/blog/The-46-Best-Pens-for-2025-Gel-Ballpoint-Rollerball-and-Fountain-Pens/pt/974

2 years ago

IP addresses through 2024

https://www.potaroo.net/ispcol/2025-01/addr2024.html

2 years ago

From ASCII to ASIC: Porting donut.c to a tiny slice of silicon

https://www.a1k0n.net/2025/01/10/tiny-tapeout-donut.html

2 years ago

Apache DataFusion

https://datafusion.apache.org/

2 years ago

Show HN: Pyper – Concurrent Python Made Simple

https://github.com/pyper-dev/pyper

2 years ago

★ 1.5k Python MIT

Zuckerberg approved training Llama on LibGen [pdf]

https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.cand.415175/gov.uscourts.cand.415175.377.0_1.pdf

2 years ago

Software Folklore

http://beza1e1.tuxen.de/lore/index.html

2 years ago

Rewilding the Self

https://worldsensorium.com/rewilding-the-self/

2 years ago

I will never need to buy a new computer again

https://82mhz.net/posts/2025/01/i-will-never-need-to-buy-a-new-computer-again/

2 years ago

Snake Game in 56 Bytes

https://github.com/donno2048/snake

2 years ago

★ 1.4k Assembly MIT

Das Blinkenlights

https://rodyne.com/?p=1674

2 years ago

Why some DVLA digital services don't work at night

https://dafyddvaughan.uk/blog/2025/why-some-dvla-digital-services-dont-work-at-night/

2 years ago

HMD Key – A lightweight, affordable smartphone

https://www.hmd.com/en_int/press/hmd-key-press-release

2 years ago

Study links sugar-filled drinks to millions of heart disease and diabetes cases

https://bgr.com/science/study-links-sugar-filled-drinks-to-millions-of-heart-disease-and-diabetes-cases-each-year/

2 years ago

Physicists who want to ditch dark energy

https://nautil.us/these-physicists-want-to-ditch-dark-energy-1177085/

2 years ago

Why the Getty Center Is the Safest Place for Art During a Fire (2019)

https://www.getty.edu/news/why-the-getty-center-is-the-safest-place-for-art-during-a-fire/

2 years ago

Employees are bypassing HR, sharing on LinkedIn

https://www.businessinsider.com/new-worker-uprising-hr-out-toxicity-bullying-linkedin-in-2025-1

2 years ago

The consensus on Havana Syndrome is cracking

https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2025/01/havana-syndrome-russia-intelligence/681282/

2 years ago

Getting an all-optical AI to handle non-linear math

https://arstechnica.com/science/2025/01/getting-an-all-optical-ai-to-handle-non-linear-math/

2 years ago

Virtual Vette – Racing Simulator Built from Wrecked Corvette

https://www.instructables.com/Virtual-Vette-Racing-Simulator-Built-From-Wrecked-/

2 years ago

Show HN: Werk, a simple build tool and command runner

https://simonask.github.io/introducing-werk/

2 years ago

Life on a Closed Timelike Curve

https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1361-6382/ad98df#cqgad98dff1

2 years ago

Misty: A secure distributed actor language

https://mistysystem.com/

2 years ago

Lead and cadmium found in muscle-building protein powders, report says

https://www.wqow.com/health-watch/lead-and-cadmium-found-in-muscle-building-protein-powders-report-says/article_882063dc-8b86-5437-ac52-49530da83de0.html

2 years ago

Microsoft Bob: Microsoft's biggest flop of the 1990s

https://dfarq.homeip.net/microsoft-bob-microsofts-biggest-flop-of-the-199

2 years ago