top 20 hacker news stories for 2025-01-21

0-click deanonymization attack targeting Signal, Discord, other platforms

https://gist.github.com/hackermondev/45a3cdfa52246f1d1201c1e8cdef6117

2 years ago

Stargate Project: SoftBank, OpenAI, Oracle, MGX to build data centers

https://apnews.com/article/trump-ai-openai-oracle-softbank-son-altman-ellison-be261f8a8ee07a0623d4170397348c41

2 years ago

Ask HN: Is anyone doing anything cool with tiny language models?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42784365

2 years ago

The Most Mario Colors

https://lmnt.me/blog/the-most-mario-colors.html

2 years ago

The FizzBuzz that did not get me the job

https://kranga.notion.site/The-fizzbuzz-that-did-not-get-me-the-job-180e7c22ef3b80c3a386f7f8de720ac7

2 years ago

Startup Winter: Hacker News Lost Its Faith

https://www.vincentschmalbach.com/startup-winter-hacker-news-lost-its-faith/

2 years ago

Ask HN: Organize local communities without Facebook?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42779776

2 years ago

Invisible Electrostatic Wall at 3M plant (1996)

http://amasci.com/weird/unusual/e-wall.html

2 years ago

Calm tech certification "rewards" less distracting tech

https://spectrum.ieee.org/calm-tech

2 years ago

Tilde, My LLVM Alternative

https://yasserarg.com/tb

2 years ago

Metacognitive laziness: Effects of generative AI on learning motivation

https://bera-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/bjet.13544

2 years ago

Hunyuan3D 2.0 – High-Resolution 3D Assets Generation

https://github.com/Tencent/Hunyuan3D-2

2 years ago

People are bad at reporting what they eat. That's a problem for dietary research

https://www.science.org/content/article/people-are-bad-reporting-what-they-eat-s-problem-dietary-research

2 years ago

Meta Censoring '#Democrat' on Instagram

https://mstdn.chrisalemany.ca/@chris/113864600222476627

2 years ago

Show HN: I made a app that uses NFC as a physical switch to block distractions

https://www.foqos.app

2 years ago

Show HN: Using YOLO to Detect Office Chairs in 40M Hotel Photos

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42779330

2 years ago

Mercator: Extreme

https://mrgris.com/projects/merc-extreme/

2 years ago

More than 40% of postdocs leave academia, study reveals

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-00142-y

2 years ago

Couriers mystified by the algorithms that control their jobs

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2025/jan/21/its-a-nightmare-couriers-mystified-by-the-algorithms-that-control-their-jobs

2 years ago

Kimi K1.5: Scaling Reinforcement Learning with LLMs

https://github.com/MoonshotAI/Kimi-k1.5

2 years ago