top 50% 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

Ruff: Python linter and code formatter written in Rust

https://github.com/astral-sh/ruff

2 years ago

Should we use AI and LLMs for Christian apologetics? (2024)

https://lukeplant.me.uk/blog/posts/should-we-use-llms-for-christian-apologetics/

2 years ago

You probably don't need query builders

https://mattrighetti.com/2025/01/20/you-dont-need-sql-builders

2 years ago

Show HN: Printercow – Turn any thermal printer into an API endpoint

https://www.printercow.com/

2 years ago

Concept cells help your brain abstract information and build memories

https://www.quantamagazine.org/concept-cells-help-your-brain-abstract-information-and-build-memories-20250121/

2 years ago

It sure looks like Meta stole a lot of books to build its AI

https://lithub.com/it-sure-looks-like-meta-stole-a-lot-of-books-to-build-its-ai/

2 years ago

Context should go away for Go 2 (2017)

https://faiface.github.io/post/context-should-go-away-go2/

2 years ago

JReleaser: quick and effortless way to release your project

https://jreleaser.org/

2 years ago

United States Digital Service renamed to DOGE

https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/01/establishing-and-implementing-the-presidents-department-of-government-efficiency/

2 years ago

Rafael Araujo's 20 Mesmerizing Geometrical Masterpieces (2024)

https://abakcus.com/rafael-araujo-geometrical-masterpieces/

2 years ago

Sigstore: Making sure your software is what it claims to be

https://www.sigstore.dev/

2 years ago

Guided by the beauty of our test suite

https://www.mattkeeter.com/blog/2025-01-20-guided/

2 years ago

We've lost our respect for complexity

https://wilsoniumite.com/2025/01/21/weve-lost-our-respect-for-complexity/

2 years ago

Poland fumes over US block on AI chips

https://www.politico.eu/article/poland-fumes-us-block-joe-biden-ai-chips-cap-export/

2 years ago

Trump signs executive order withdrawing from the World Health Organization

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-signs-executive-withdrawing-world-health-organization-2025-01-21/

2 years ago

What I've learned about writing AI apps so far

https://seldo.com/posts/what-ive-learned-about-writing-ai-apps-so-far

2 years ago

How many Alpine packages can you install at once? (2024)

https://www.naff.dev/blog/all-the-packages

2 years ago

Show HN: Amurex – An open source AI meeting copilot

https://sansyrox.github.io/amurex_ce/

2 years ago

Ask HN: Can we just admit we want to replace jobs with AI?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42777379

2 years ago

A Cold War Satellite Program Called Parcae Revolutionized Signals Intelligence

https://spectrum.ieee.org/reconnaissance-satellite

2 years ago

RealtimeSanitizer for Rust

https://steck.tech/posts/rtsan-in-rust/

2 years ago

The Peppermills of Jens Quistgaard

https://www.quistgaardpepper.com

2 years ago

File Systems: The Original Hypermedia

https://jon.work/og/

2 years ago

Why do regexes use `$` and `^` as line anchors? (2024)

https://buttondown.com/hillelwayne/archive/why-do-regexes-use-and-as-line-anchors/

2 years ago

Kvrocks: Redis-compatible distributed key value NoSQL database

https://kvrocks.apache.org/

2 years ago

Liskov Substitution: The real meaning of inheritance

https://cekrem.github.io/posts/liskov-substitution-the-real-meaning-of-inheritance/

2 years ago

Ask HN: How are you preparing for PEPPOL?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42777669

2 years ago

Show HN: Magenta.nvim – AI coding plugin for Neovim focused on tool use

https://github.com/dlants/magenta.nvim

2 years ago

Show HN: Pica – Rust-based agentic AI infrastructure (open-source)

https://www.picaos.com/

2 years ago

Show HN: Chat with multiple LLMs: o1-high-effort, Sonnet 3.5, GPT-4o, and more

https://polychat.co

2 years ago

President signs order refusing to enforce TikTok ban for 75 days

https://www.theverge.com/2025/1/20/24348213/trump-tiktok-ban-executive-order-sale-delay-china

2 years ago

Statement on planned protests during the upcoming FOSDEM 2025

https://fosdem.org/2025/news/2025-01-16-protests/

2 years ago

Show HN: A submarine combat game in the browser

https://bearingsonly.net/

2 years ago

How the strengths of Lisp facilitate complex and flexible applications (2016)

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC5952920/

2 years ago

Interesting BiCMOS circuits in the Pentium, reverse-engineered

https://www.righto.com/2025/01/pentium-reverse-engineering-bicmos.html

2 years ago