3237
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Show HN: I made an open-source laptop from scratch
https://www.byran.ee/posts/creation/
2 years ago
1864
2233
Ross Ulbricht granted a full pardon
https://twitter.com/Free_Ross/status/1881851923005165704
1007
249
Mastercard DNS error went unnoticed for years
https://krebsonsecurity.com/2025/01/mastercard-dns-error-went-unnoticed-for-years/
753
133
TabBoo – add random jumpscares to websites you're trying to avoid
https://tabboo.xyz/
695
297
How to improve your WFH lighting to reduce eye strain
https://rustle.ca/posts/articles/work-from-home-lighting
419
160
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/
387
149
The Tyranny of Structurelessness (1970)
https://www.jofreeman.com/joreen/tyranny.htm
354
83
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
343
320
My Struggle with Doom Scrolling
https://allthatjazz.me/posts/doom-scrolling-struggles
327
362
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
321
100
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
50
Show HN: Stratoshark, a sibling application to Wireshark
https://stratoshark.org/
318
126
Show HN: Trolling SMS spammers with Ollama
https://evan.widloski.com/software/sms_llm/
316
48
Simple CPU Design
http://simplecpudesign.com/
300
370
DHS removes all members of cyber security advisory boards, halts investigations
https://bsky.app/profile/ericjgeller.com/post/3lgbpqmxeok2f
286
227
How shut-down Bay Area tech companies ditch their fancy gear
https://www.sfgate.com/tech/article/silicon-valley-disposition-auction-company-20039023.php
268
What are these bumps on the top of a pull-tab can?
https://old.reddit.com/r/whatisthisthing/comments/1i5ztq4/comment/m8a7m8m/
252
203
Using generative AI as part of historical research: three case studies
https://resobscura.substack.com/p/the-leading-ai-models-are-now-very
246
54
I made a multiplayer shooter game in Lisp, here is my journey
https://ertu.dev/posts/i-made-an-online-shooter-game-in-lisp/
244
80
Isolating complexity is the essence of successful abstractions
https://v5.chriskrycho.com/journal/essence-of-successful-abstractions/
119
So you wanna write Kubernetes controllers?
https://ahmet.im/blog/controller-pitfalls/
234
129
OpenAI's o1 Playing Codenames
https://suveenellawela.com/thoughts/codenames-ai
231
Open Heart Protocol
https://openheart.fyi/
219
199
OpenAI has upped its lobbying efforts nearly sevenfold
https://www.technologyreview.com/2025/01/21/1110260/openai-ups-its-lobbying-efforts-nearly-seven-fold/
184
78
Coping with dumb LLMs using classic ML
https://softwaredoug.com/blog/2025/01/21/llm-judge-decision-tree
183
225
Google Fiber is coming to Las Vegas
https://fiber.googleblog.com/2025/01/las-vegas-get-ready-for-your-close-up.html
104
Tensor Product Attention Is All You Need
https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.06425
151
6
Lossless Compression of Vector IDs for Approximate Nearest Neighbor Search
https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.10479
148
82
Her dad, the 10k records he left behind and a viral lesson in grief
https://www.washingtonpost.com/style/2025/01/18/vinyl-albums-grief-music-healing/
145
114
Show HN: NotepadJs – A cross-platform love letter to Notepad
https://github.com/itamarom/notepadjs
142
34
Minimal 64x4 Home Computer
https://github.com/slu4coder/Minimal-64x4-Home-Computer
131
73
Urban legend: I think there is a world market for maybe five computers
https://geekhistory.com/content/urban-legend-i-think-there-world-market-maybe-five-computers
The ultra-fast cancer treatments which could replace conventional radiotherapy
https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20250121-the-physics-transforming-cancer
127
75
The Day Instagram Blocked Democracy
https://docpop.org/2025/01/the-day-instagram-blocked-democracy/
125
200
Why is zero plural? (2024)
https://ell.stackexchange.com/questions/352455/why-is-zero-plural
121
A FPGA friendly 32 bit RISC-V CPU implementation
https://github.com/SpinalHDL/VexRiscv
117
18
Flame: A small language model for spreadsheet formulas (2023)
https://arxiv.org/abs/2301.13779
110
23
Chatbox: Cross-platform desktop client for ChatGPT, Claude and other LLMs
https://github.com/Bin-Huang/chatbox
106
57
Hands-on Assignment – Therac-25 (2007)
http://web.mit.edu/6.033/2007/wwwdocs/assignments/handson-therac.html
98
42
Show HN: I made a service to convert WordPress blogs to Hugo
https://wp2hugo.blogdb.org/
93
27
I wrote my own “proper” programming language (2020)
https://mukulrathi.com/create-your-own-programming-language/intro-to-compiler/
92
31
Open-source browser port of Pitfall from the Atari 2600
https://meatfighter.com/pitfall-web/
88
Florida man eats diet of butter, cheese, beef; cholesterol oozes from his body
https://arstechnica.com/health/2025/01/florida-man-eats-diet-of-butter-cheese-beef-cholesterol-oozes-from-his-body/
85
21
Show HN: BrowserAI – Run LLMs directly in browser using WebGPU (open source)
https://github.com/sauravpanda/BrowserAI
84
Building a full-text search engine in 150 lines of Python code (2021)
https://bart.degoe.de/building-a-full-text-search-engine-150-lines-of-code/