top 50% hacker news stories for 2025-01-19

TikTok goes dark in the US

https://techcrunch.com/2025/01/18/tiktok-goes-dark-in-the-u-s/

2 years ago

TikTok says it is restoring service for U.S. users

https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/tiktok-says-restoring-service-us-users-rcna188320

2 years ago

It's time to make computing personal again

https://www.vintagecomputing.com/index.php/archives/3292/the-pc-is-dead-its-time-to-make-computing-personal-again

2 years ago

UK's hardware talent is being wasted

https://josef.cn/blog/uk-talent

2 years ago

FrontierMath was funded by OpenAI

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/cu2E8wgmbdZbqeWqb/meemi-s-shortform

2 years ago

Why is Git Autocorrect too fast for Formula One drivers?

https://blog.gitbutler.com/why-is-git-autocorrect-too-fast-for-formula-one-drivers/

2 years ago

Forgejo: A self-hosted lightweight software forge

https://forgejo.org/

2 years ago

Infinigen

https://infinigen.org/

2 years ago

Escape the walled garden and algorithm black boxes with RSS feeds

https://www.johnwalker.nl/posts/escape-the-walled-garden-with-rss

2 years ago

Haskell: A Great Procedural Language

https://entropicthoughts.com/haskell-procedural-programming

2 years ago

Please don't force dark mode

https://iamvishnu.com/posts/please-dont-force-dark-mode

2 years ago

We need to protect the protocol that runs Bluesky

https://www.technologyreview.com/2025/01/17/1110063/we-need-to-protect-the-protocol-that-runs-bluesky/

2 years ago

How Unix spell ran in 64kb RAM

https://blog.codingconfessions.com/p/how-unix-spell-ran-in-64kb-ram

2 years ago

The Fuzzing Book

https://www.fuzzingbook.org/

2 years ago

Using your Apple device as an access card in unsupported systems

https://github.com/kormax/apple-device-as-access-card

2 years ago

Minecraft with object impermanence

https://www.aiweirdness.com/minecraft-with-object-impermanence/

2 years ago

Build a tiny CA for your homelab with a Raspberry Pi

https://smallstep.com/blog/build-a-tiny-ca-with-raspberry-pi-yubikey/

2 years ago

The Most Detailed Map of US Waters That You've Ever Seen (2023)

https://www.esri.com/arcgis-blog/products/arcgis-living-atlas/water/the-most-detailed-map-of-us-waters-that-youve-ever-seen/

2 years ago

The Ribbon Microphone

https://khz.ac/sound/ribbon-mic/

2 years ago

Yek: Serialize your code repo (or part of it) to feed into any LLM

https://github.com/bodo-run/yek

2 years ago

How do interruptions impact different software engineering activities

https://rdel.substack.com/p/rdel-75-how-do-interruptions-impact

2 years ago

SRCL: Open-source React project to build web apps with terminal aesthetics

https://www.sacred.computer

2 years ago

Why Twitter is such a big deal (2009)

https://paulgraham.com/twitter.html

2 years ago

IsMyXFeedFucked – Analyze How Your X Feed's Impacting You

https://www.ismyxfeedfucked.com/

2 years ago

“The Traitors”, a reality TV show, offers a useful economics lesson

https://www.economist.com/finance-and-economics/2025/01/16/the-traitors-a-reality-tv-show-offers-a-useful-economics-lesson

2 years ago

Tomatoes roaming the fields and canaries in the coalmine

http://deevybee.blogspot.com/2025/01/tomatoes-roaming-fields-and-canaries-in.html

2 years ago

The surprising struggle to get a Unix Epoch time from a UTC string in C or C++

https://berthub.eu/articles/posts/how-to-get-a-unix-epoch-from-a-utc-date-time-string/

2 years ago

The "35-cent" Commodore 64 softmodem

http://oldvcr.blogspot.com/2025/01/the-35-cent-commodore-64-softmodem.html

2 years ago

Dissecting "Tiny Clouds" shadertoy (2017)

https://blog.demofox.org/2017/11/26/dissecting-tiny-clouds/

2 years ago

About availability of TikTok and ByteDance Ltd. apps in the United States

https://support.apple.com/en-us/121596

2 years ago

Lenovo has removed the TrackPoint nub from new ThinkPad laptops

https://www.pcworld.com/article/2566195/lenovo-has-removed-its-iconic-trackpoint-nub-from-new-thinkpad-laptops.html

2 years ago

All Lisp indentation schemes are ugly

https://aartaka.me/lisp-indent.html

2 years ago

Castle Game Engine: Web target – big progress, first 3 demos to try

https://castle-engine.io/wp/2025/01/06/web-target-big-progress-first-3-demos-to-try/

2 years ago

About A comprehensive guide for Linux Network (Socket) programming

https://github.com/nguyenchiemminhvu/LinuxNetworkProgramming

2 years ago

Hacking the Yamaha DX9 to Turn It into a DX7 (2023)

https://ajxs.me/blog/Hacking_the_Yamaha_DX9_To_Turn_It_Into_a_DX7.html

2 years ago

Staffers unload on Amazon 'leadership' after return-to-office for desk shortage

https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/companies/staffers-unload-on-amazon-leadership-after-return-to-office-plagued-by-thefts-lack-of-parking-and-a-desk-shortage-report/ar-AA1xodwf

2 years ago

Making glow-in-the-dark Strontium Aluminate

https://maurycyz.com/projects/strontium_aluminate/

2 years ago

Facebook paid GOP firm to malign TikTok

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/03/30/facebook-tiktok-targeted-victory/

2 years ago

The world is an objectively worse place because of tech-bro oligarchs

https://www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle-columnists/arid-41555305.html

2 years ago

TikTok ban: data reveals sharp traffic decline and rapid shift to alternatives

https://blog.cloudflare.com/tiktok-ban-traffic-decline-alternatives-rednote/

2 years ago

Philosophy Eats AI

https://sloanreview.mit.edu/article/philosophy-eats-ai/

2 years ago