top 50% hacker news stories for 2025-01-13

The Origins of Wokeness

https://paulgraham.com/woke.html

2 years ago

WordPress Is in Trouble

https://anderegg.ca/2025/01/11/wordpress-is-in-trouble

2 years ago

Snyk security researcher deploys malicious NPM packages targeting cursor.com

https://sourcecodered.com/snyk-malicious-npm-package/

2 years ago

Debugging: Indispensable rules for finding even the most elusive problems (2004)

https://dwheeler.com/essays/debugging-agans.html

2 years ago

Fluid Simulation Pendant

https://mitxela.com/projects/fluid-pendant

2 years ago

AI Engineer Reading List

https://www.latent.space/p/2025-papers

2 years ago

Sonos CEO steps down after app update debacle

https://www.reuters.com/business/retail-consumer/sonos-ceo-patrick-spence-steps-down-after-app-update-debacle-2025-01-13/

2 years ago

Cosmos Keyboard: Scan your hand, build a keyboard

https://ryanis.cool/cosmos/

2 years ago

Show HN: Doom (1993) in a PDF

https://doompdf.pages.dev/doom.pdf

2 years ago

Mastodon announces new European non-profit, change of CEO

https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2025/01/the-people-should-own-the-town-square/

2 years ago

Webtop – Alpine,Ubuntu,Fedora,and Arch containers containing full desktop envs

https://docs.linuxserver.io/images/docker-webtop/

2 years ago

Ask HN: How do you prevent the impact of social media on your children?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42683494

2 years ago

GitHub Git Operations Are Down

https://www.githubstatus.com/incidents/qd96yfgvmcf9

2 years ago

Five years of React Native at Shopify

https://shopify.engineering/five-years-of-react-native-at-shopify

2 years ago

Lambda Calculus in 383 Bytes (2022)

https://justine.lol/lambda/

2 years ago

How did they make cars fall apart in old movies (2017)

https://movies.stackexchange.com/questions/79161/how-did-they-make-cars-fall-apart-in-old-movies

2 years ago

The Free Movie: Frame-by-frame, handrawn reproduction of "The Bee Movie" (2023)

https://thefreemovie.buzz/

2 years ago

Euro-cloud provider Anexia moves 12,000 VMs off VMware to homebrew KVM platform

https://www.theregister.com/2025/01/13/anexia_vmware_to_kvm_migration/

2 years ago

Standard patterns in choice-based games (2015)

https://heterogenoustasks.wordpress.com/2015/01/26/standard-patterns-in-choice-based-games/

2 years ago

Understanding Memory Management, Part 1: C

https://educatedguesswork.org/posts/memory-management-1/

2 years ago

Can you complete the Oregon Trail if you wait at a river for 14272 years?

https://moral.net.au/writing/2025/01/11/waiting_for_oregon/

2 years ago

Live London Underground / bus maps taken down by TfL trademark complaint

https://traintimes.org.uk/map/tube/

2 years ago

Physically Based Rendering: From Theory to Implementation

https://pbr-book.org

2 years ago

Ask HN: Is maintaining a personal blog still worth it?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42685534

2 years ago

Hotel booking sites overcharge Bay Area customers

https://www.sfgate.com/travel/article/hotel-booking-sites-overcharge-bay-area-travelers-20025145.php

2 years ago

Disco Elysium Explorer

http://134.0.119.41

2 years ago

Facebook blocks links to Pixelfed, a federated Instagram alternative

https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:n2okvbdq33c32ekbv6hfzdg2/post/3lfjk3mrdds23

2 years ago

The DevOps Engineer's Handbook

https://octopus.com/devops/

2 years ago

How corn syrup took over America

https://thehustle.co/originals/how-corn-syrup-took-over-america

2 years ago

Spain proposes 100% tax on homes bought by non-EU residents

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jan/13/spain-proposes-100-tax-on-homes-bought-by-non-eu-residents

2 years ago

JPMorgan Workers Ponder Union in Wake of Return-to-Office Mandate

https://www.barrons.com/articles/jpmorgan-back-to-office-mandate-union-4206af78

2 years ago

A UC Santa Cruz professor unearthed the oldest alphabet yet

https://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/news/how-uc-santa-cruz-professor-unearthed-oldest-alphabet-yet

2 years ago

Blue Origin New Glenn Mission NG-1 – Live

https://www.blueorigin.com

2 years ago

Let's Quit X

https://www.helloquitx.com

2 years ago

Ask HN: Am I the only one here who can't stand HN's AI obsession?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42682821

2 years ago

Diffusion training from scratch on a micro-budget

https://github.com/SonyResearch/micro_diffusion

2 years ago

Literate programming: Knuth is doing it wrong (2014)

https://akkartik.name/post/literate-programming

2 years ago

Luck Be a Landlord Might Be Banned from Google Play

https://blog.trampolinetales.com/luck-be-a-landlord-might-be-banned-from-google-play-2/

2 years ago

Carnarvon's NASA satellite dish receives first signal in almost 40 years

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-12-03/carnarvon-nasa-dish-receives-signal-repairs/104672866

2 years ago

Why Skyscrapers Became Glass Boxes

https://www.construction-physics.com/p/why-skyscrapers-became-glass-boxes

2 years ago

Show HN: New search engine and free-FOIA-by-fax-via-web for US veteran records

https://www.birls.org

2 years ago

New York starts enforcing $15 broadband law that ISPs tried to kill

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/01/new-york-starts-enforcing-15-broadband-law-that-isps-tried-to-kill/

2 years ago

Titans: Learning to Memorize at Test Time

https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.00663

2 years ago

Voyage-code-3

https://blog.voyageai.com/2024/12/04/voyage-code-3/

2 years ago

Vanished from Google/Bing/LinkedIn: a rebuttal of an anti-net neutrality paper

http://internetthought.blogspot.com/2025/01/vanished-from-index-of-google-bing-and.html

2 years ago

Slum: The Shadow Library Uptime Monitor

https://open-slum.org/

2 years ago

What I Learned Failing to Finish a Game in 2024

https://georgeallen.dev/posts/2024-failures-in-game-development/

2 years ago

Porting the GNAT Ada compiler to macOS/aarch64

https://briancallahan.net/blog/20250112.html

2 years ago

Programming in Lua (first edition) (2003)

https://www.lua.org/pil/contents.html

2 years ago

IRC Driven – modern IRC indexing site and search engine

https://www.ircdriven.com/

2 years ago

Training AI models might not need enormous data centres

https://www.economist.com/science-and-technology/2025/01/08/training-ai-models-might-not-need-enormous-data-centres

2 years ago

An "oh fuck" moment in time

https://ghuntley.com/oh-fuck/

2 years ago

Sonos CEO Patrick Spence steps down after disastrous app launch

https://www.theverge.com/2025/1/13/24342179/sonos-ceo-patrick-spence-resignation-reason-app

2 years ago

Earth breaches 1.5 °C climate limit for the first time: what does it mean?

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-00010-9

2 years ago

Scientists Discover Underground Water Vault in Oregon 3x the Size of Lake Mead

https://scitechdaily.com/scientists-discover-a-massive-underground-water-vault-in-oregon-3x-the-size-of-lake-mead/

2 years ago