top 20 hacker news stories for 2025-01-22

Show HN: I made an open-source laptop from scratch

https://www.byran.ee/posts/creation/

2 years ago

Ross Ulbricht granted a full pardon

https://twitter.com/Free_Ross/status/1881851923005165704

2 years ago

Mastercard DNS error went unnoticed for years

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2025/01/mastercard-dns-error-went-unnoticed-for-years/

2 years ago

TabBoo – add random jumpscares to websites you're trying to avoid

https://tabboo.xyz/

2 years ago

How to improve your WFH lighting to reduce eye strain

https://rustle.ca/posts/articles/work-from-home-lighting

2 years ago

Life lessons from the first half-century of my career

https://cacm.acm.org/opinion/life-lessons-from-the-first-half-century-of-my-career/

2 years ago

The Tyranny of Structurelessness (1970)

https://www.jofreeman.com/joreen/tyranny.htm

2 years ago

Federal Court (Finally) Rules Backdoor Searches of Data Unconstitutional

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/01/victory-federal-court-finally-rules-backdoor-searches-702-data-unconstitutional

2 years ago

My Struggle with Doom Scrolling

https://allthatjazz.me/posts/doom-scrolling-struggles

2 years ago

C stdlib isn't threadsafe and even safe Rust didn't save us

https://www.edgedb.com/blog/c-stdlib-isn-t-threadsafe-and-even-safe-rust-didn-t-save-us

2 years ago

F-Droid's Progress and What's Coming in 2025

https://f-droid.org/2025/01/21/a-look-back-at-2024-f-droids-progress-and-whats-coming-in-2025.html

2 years ago

Show HN: Stratoshark, a sibling application to Wireshark

https://stratoshark.org/

2 years ago

Show HN: Trolling SMS spammers with Ollama

https://evan.widloski.com/software/sms_llm/

2 years ago

Simple CPU Design

http://simplecpudesign.com/

2 years ago

DHS removes all members of cyber security advisory boards, halts investigations

https://bsky.app/profile/ericjgeller.com/post/3lgbpqmxeok2f

2 years ago

How shut-down Bay Area tech companies ditch their fancy gear

https://www.sfgate.com/tech/article/silicon-valley-disposition-auction-company-20039023.php

2 years ago

What are these bumps on the top of a pull-tab can?

https://old.reddit.com/r/whatisthisthing/comments/1i5ztq4/comment/m8a7m8m/

2 years ago

Using generative AI as part of historical research: three case studies

https://resobscura.substack.com/p/the-leading-ai-models-are-now-very

2 years ago

I made a multiplayer shooter game in Lisp, here is my journey

https://ertu.dev/posts/i-made-an-online-shooter-game-in-lisp/

2 years ago

Isolating complexity is the essence of successful abstractions

https://v5.chriskrycho.com/journal/essence-of-successful-abstractions/

2 years ago