top 50% hacker news stories for 2025-01-18

Amazon's AI crawler is making my Git server unstable

https://xeiaso.net/notes/2025/amazon-crawler/

2 years ago

VS Code Pets

https://github.com/tonybaloney/vscode-pets

2 years ago

Show HN: Interactive systemd – a better way to work with systemd units

https://isd-project.github.io/isd/

2 years ago

I've been advocating for RSS support, and you should too

https://reedybear.bearblog.dev/ive-been-advocating-for-rss-support-and-you-should-too/

2 years ago

Kalman Filter Tutorial

https://www.kalmanfilter.net/default.aspx

2 years ago

Why do bees die when they sting you? (2021)

https://www.subanima.org/bees/

2 years ago

Can you read this cursive handwriting? The National Archives wants your help

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/can-you-read-this-cursive-handwriting-the-national-archives-wants-your-help-180985833/

2 years ago

Using ChatGPT is not bad for the environment

https://andymasley.substack.com/p/individual-ai-use-is-not-bad-for

2 years ago

Garmin's –$40B Pivot

https://www.readtrung.com/p/garmins-40b-pivot

2 years ago

The AMD Radeon Instinct MI300A's Giant Memory Subsystem

https://chipsandcheese.com/p/inside-the-amd-radeon-instinct-mi300as

2 years ago

EFF statement on U.S. Supreme Court's decision to uphold TikTok ban

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/01/eff-statement-us-supreme-courts-decision-uphold-tiktok-ban

2 years ago

Windows BitLocker – Screwed Without a Screwdriver

https://neodyme.io/en/blog/bitlocker_screwed_without_a_screwdriver/

2 years ago

Prime numbers so memorable that people hunt for them

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/these-prime-numbers-are-so-memorable-that-people-hunt-for-them/

2 years ago

Google begins requiring JavaScript for Google Search

https://techcrunch.com/2025/01/17/google-begins-requiring-javascript-for-google-search/

2 years ago

Dusa Programming Language (Finite-Choice Logic Programming)

https://dusa.rocks/docs/

2 years ago

Show HN: I made a mini golf in my lunch time

https://paper-golf.netlify.app/

2 years ago

The Toyota Prius transformed the auto industry

https://spectrum.ieee.org/toyota-prius-transformed-auto-industry

2 years ago

Ask HN: Has anyone tried alternative company models (like a co-op) for SaaS?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42748394

2 years ago

O1 isn't a chat model (and that's the point)

https://www.latent.space/p/o1-skill-issue

2 years ago

WASM GC isn't ready for realtime graphics

https://dthompson.us/posts/wasm-gc-isnt-ready-for-realtime-graphics.html

2 years ago

Nation-scale Matrix deployments will fail using the community version of Synapse

https://mastodon.matrix.org/@element/113842786942364269

2 years ago

A notification for you, Apple: There is no husband

https://techthings.cmail20.com/t/d-e-sjrttn-dykjyuhruh-r/

2 years ago

Skymont: Intel's E-Cores reach for the Sky (2024)

https://chipsandcheese.com/p/skymont-intels-e-cores-reach-for-the-sky

2 years ago

Rule-Based Programming in Interactive Fiction

https://eblong.com/zarf/essays/rule-based-if/index.html

2 years ago

Pharaoh's Tomb HD – A Remake Made in JavaScript with Kaplay

https://pt-hd.iocaihost.me/

2 years ago

Perplexity AI submits bid to merge with TikTok

https://techcrunch.com/2025/01/18/perplexity-ai-submits-bid-to-merge-with-tiktok/

2 years ago

Honest Ahmed (2011)

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=647959

2 years ago

ATProto and the ownership of identity

https://anirudh.fi/blog/identity/

2 years ago

Show HN: Terraform Provider for Inexpensive Switches

https://github.com/brennoo/terraform-provider-hrui

2 years ago

Borrowchecker.jl – Designing a borrow checker for Julia

https://github.com/MilesCranmer/BorrowChecker.jl

2 years ago

2-Year Call of Duty False Permanent Ban Reversed by Court Case

https://antiblizzard.win/2025/01/18/my-two-year-fight-against-activisions-false-cod-ban-unbanned/

2 years ago

Reverse-engineering a carry-lookahead adder in the Pentium

https://www.righto.com/2025/01/pentium-carry-lookahead-reverse-engineered.html

2 years ago

Looking at some claims that quantum computers won't work

https://blog.cr.yp.to/20250118-flight.html

2 years ago

The Los Angeles wildfires are self-inflicted

https://caseyhandmer.wordpress.com/2025/01/17/the-los-angeles-wildfires-are-self-inflicted/

2 years ago

Ask HN: Which RSS reader do you use?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42746682

2 years ago

ELIZA Reanimated

https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.06707

2 years ago

Life in Another Light, 2024 Infrared-Photography-Contest Winners

https://www.theatlantic.com/photo/2025/01/infrared-photography-contest-winners-2024/681316/

2 years ago

Bloodletting recommended for Jersey residents after PFAS contamination

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/jan/16/bloodletting-recommended-for-jersey-residents-after-pfas-contamination

2 years ago

AWS will discontinue support for AWS App Mesh

https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/containers/migrating-from-aws-app-mesh-to-amazon-ecs-service-connect/

2 years ago

Trump Launches Meme Coin

https://www.axios.com/2025/01/18/trump-meme-coin-25-billion

2 years ago

BYD just launched the largest car carrier to charge up its global EV ambitions

https://electrek.co/2025/01/17/byd-launches-worlds-largest-car-carrier-fuel-global-ev-takeover/

2 years ago

The Greenland Shark, the Longest-Living Vertebrate on Earth (2017)

https://www.newyorker.com/tech/annals-of-technology/the-strange-and-gruesome-story-of-the-greenland-shark-the-longest-living-vertebrate-on-earth

2 years ago

Portrait of the Hilbert Curve (2010)

https://corte.si/posts/code/hilbert/portrait/

2 years ago