top 50% hacker news stories for 2025-01-16

No Calls

https://keygen.sh/blog/no-calls/

2 years ago

1603 upvotes – 517 comments

David Lynch has died

https://variety.com/2025/film/news/david-lynch-dead-director-blue-velvet-twin-peaks-1236276106/

2 years ago

1190 upvotes – 378 comments

Nintendo announces the Switch 2 [video]

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

2 years ago

781 upvotes – 975 comments

I ditched the algorithm for RSS

https://joeyehand.com/blog/2025/01/15/i-ditched-the-algorithm-for-rssand-you-should-too/

2 years ago

744 upvotes – 273 comments

Nepenthes is a tarpit to catch AI web crawlers

https://zadzmo.org/code/nepenthes/

2 years ago

714 upvotes – 265 comments

Starship Flight 7

https://www.spacex.com/launches/mission/?missionId=starship-flight-7?submit

2 years ago

678 upvotes – 723 comments

Nokia's internal presentation after iPhone was launched (2007) [pdf]

https://nokia-apple-iphone-was-launched-presentation.tiiny.site/

2 years ago

508 upvotes – 516 comments

Oh Shit, Git?

https://ohshitgit.com/

2 years ago

464 upvotes – 264 comments

Build a Database in 3000 Lines with 0 Dependencies

https://build-your-own.org/blog/20251015_db_in_3000/

2 years ago

422 upvotes – 56 comments

Blue Origin reaches orbit on first flight of its titanic New Glenn rocket

https://arstechnica.com/space/2025/01/blue-origin-reaches-orbit-on-first-flight-of-its-titanic-new-glenn-rocket/

2 years ago

377 upvotes – 265 comments

GitHub introduces sub-issues, issue types and advanced search

https://github.blog/changelog/2025-01-13-evolving-github-issues-public-preview/

2 years ago

368 upvotes – 206 comments

Learn Yjs Interactively

https://learn.yjs.dev/

2 years ago

309 upvotes – 42 comments

Some things to expect in 2025

https://lwn.net/Articles/1003780/

2 years ago

258 upvotes – 180 comments

Australian Open resorts to animated caricatures to bypass broadcast restrictions

https://www.crikey.com.au/2025/01/16/australian-open-animated-cartoon-caricatures-broadcast-restrictions/

2 years ago

247 upvotes – 130 comments

No Billionares at FOSDEM

https://drewdevault.com/2025/01/16/2025-01-16-No-Billionares-at-FOSDEM-please.html

2 years ago

238 upvotes – 195 comments

Test-driven development with an LLM for fun and profit

https://blog.yfzhou.fyi/posts/tdd-llm/

2 years ago

219 upvotes – 89 comments

Bunkers in Albania

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

2 years ago

215 upvotes – 168 comments

How hard would it be to display the contents of an image file on the screen?

https://wolf.nereid.pl/posts/image-viewer/

2 years ago

214 upvotes – 82 comments

Divers recover Phoenician shipwreck that sank 2.6k years ago off coast of Spain

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/divers-recover-ancient-shipwreck-that-sank-2600-years-ago-off-the-coast-of-spain-180985778/

2 years ago

205 upvotes – 106 comments

Intel's Tofino P4 Software Is Now Open Source

https://p4.org/intels-tofino-p4-software-is-now-open-source/

2 years ago

203 upvotes – 76 comments

Six day and IP address certificate options in 2025

https://letsencrypt.org/2025/01/16/6-day-and-ip-certs/

2 years ago

197 upvotes – 159 comments

JTAG 'Hacking' the Original Xbox in 2023

https://blog.ret2.io/2023/08/09/jtag-hacking-the-original-xbox-2023/

2 years ago

189 upvotes – 21 comments

Show HN: I made an open source directory of where to showoff your projects

https://github.com/KingMenes/awesome-launch

2 years ago

185 upvotes – 43 comments

Solving the first 100 Project Euler problems using 100 languages

https://github.com/jaredkrinke/100-languages

2 years ago

184 upvotes – 103 comments

GitHub Linux ARM64 hosted runners now available for free in public repositories

https://github.blog/changelog/2025-01-16-linux-arm64-hosted-runners-now-available-for-free-in-public-repositories-public-preview/

2 years ago

181 upvotes – 52 comments

Nintendo Switch 2

https://www.nintendo.com/successor/en-gb/index.html

2 years ago

179 upvotes – 1 comments

A standards-first web framework

https://nuejs.org/blog/standards-first-web-framework/

2 years ago

174 upvotes – 215 comments

Nokia Design Archive

https://nokiadesignarchive.aalto.fi

2 years ago

172 upvotes – 58 comments

Mathematicians discover new way for spheres to 'kiss'

https://www.quantamagazine.org/mathematicians-discover-new-way-for-spheres-to-kiss-20250115/

2 years ago

161 upvotes – 71 comments

Comment on 2015 mRNA paper suggests data re-used in different contexts

https://pubpeer.com/publications/323E84675EB2E849C56097D73D55FD#1

2 years ago

159 upvotes – 81 comments

David Lynch, Twin Peaks and Muholland Drive director, dies aged 78

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2025/jan/16/david-lynch-twin-peaks-and-muholland-drive-director-dies-aged-78

2 years ago

158 upvotes – 2 comments

Framework for Artificial Intelligence Diffusion

https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2025/01/15/2025-00636/framework-for-artificial-intelligence-diffusion

2 years ago

154 upvotes – 130 comments

Device uses wind to create ammonia out of air

https://spectrum.ieee.org/ammonia-fuel-2670794408

2 years ago

147 upvotes – 116 comments

Suchir Balaji Case Reopened: From ‘Suicide' to 'Active Investigation’

https://www.republicbiz.com/companies/suchir-balaji-case-reopened-from-suicide-to-active-investigation

2 years ago

138 upvotes – 38 comments

Chopstick sleeves as emissaries of Japanese typography and culture

https://letterformarchive.org/news/this-just-in-chopstick-sleeves-as-emissaries-of-japanese-typography-and-culture/

2 years ago

134 upvotes – 17 comments

A physicist's guide to ice cream

https://physicsworld.com/a/a-physicists-guide-to-ice-cream-the-complex-science-behind-one-of-the-worlds-most-popular-desserts/

2 years ago

122 upvotes – 60 comments

Red Hat Woos VMware Shops with OpenShift Virtualization Engine

https://www.nextplatform.com/2025/01/15/red-hat-woos-vmware-shops-with-openshift-virtualization-engine/

2 years ago

119 upvotes – 72 comments

Saint Peter Basilica digital experience

https://virtual.basilicasanpietro.va/en

2 years ago

114 upvotes – 23 comments

Google.com search now refusing to search for FF esr 128 without JavaScript

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42719865

2 years ago

113 upvotes – 85 comments

Apple interoperability efforts under EU law falls short, advocacy groups argue

https://www.theregister.com/2025/01/16/apple_dma_compliance_criticized/

2 years ago

107 upvotes – 156 comments

Dutch Align with US Export Controls on Some ASML Chip Tools

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-01-15/dutch-align-with-us-export-controls-on-some-asml-chip-tools

2 years ago

106 upvotes – 245 comments

Potoooooooo

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

2 years ago

104 upvotes – 42 comments

Tracing Military Command Chains Through Time and Location

https://www.dot.studio/en/notes/case-study-under-whose-command/

2 years ago

103 upvotes – 30 comments

Physicists have shown that an idealized form of magnetism is heatproof

https://www.quantamagazine.org/heat-destroys-all-order-except-for-in-this-one-special-case-20250116/

2 years ago

93 upvotes – 14 comments

Walgreens replaced fridge doors with smart screens. It's now a $200M fiasco

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2025-01-16/walgreens-fridge-fight-bodes-poorly-for-future-of-retail

2 years ago

89 upvotes – 103 comments

Groundwater Movement (Interactive)

https://has.concord.org/groundwater-movement.html

2 years ago

88 upvotes – 6 comments

Setting Up an RK3588 SBC QEMU Hypervisor with ZFS on Debian

https://blog.kumio.org/posts/2025/01/bananapim7-hvm.html

2 years ago

86 upvotes – 33 comments

Anthropic achieves ISO 42001 certification for responsible AI

https://www.anthropic.com/news/anthropic-achieves-iso-42001-certification-for-responsible-ai

2 years ago

84 upvotes – 84 comments

Penn Station Can Handle the Load: New York Is Ready for Through-Running

https://www.etany.org/penn-station-can-handle-the-load

2 years ago

79 upvotes – 81 comments

MuJoco Playground

https://playground.mujoco.org/

2 years ago

78 upvotes – 6 comments

Show HN: DBOS TypeScript – Lightweight Durable Execution Built on Postgres

https://github.com/dbos-inc/dbos-transact-ts

2 years ago

77 upvotes – 49 comments
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