top 50% hacker news stories for 2025-01-23

Thank HN: My bootstrapped startup got acquired today

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42806247

2 years ago

Hacking Subaru: Tracking and controlling cars via the admin panel

https://samcurry.net/hacking-subaru

2 years ago

A QR code that sends you to a different destination – lenticular and adversarial

https://mstdn.social/@isziaui/113874436953157913

2 years ago

Llama.vim – Local LLM-assisted text completion

https://github.com/ggml-org/llama.vim

2 years ago

Show HN: I built an active community of trans people online

https://t4t.social/

2 years ago

Tailwind CSS v4.0

https://tailwindcss.com/blog/tailwindcss-v4

2 years ago

Operator research preview

https://openai.com/index/introducing-operator/

2 years ago

Turn any bicycle electric

https://dhruvvidyut.co.in/

2 years ago

Most Influential Papers in Computer Science History

https://terriblesoftware.org/2025/01/22/the-7-most-influential-papers-in-computer-science-history/

2 years ago

Understanding gRPC, OpenAPI and REST and when to use them in API design (2020)

https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/api-management/understanding-grpc-openapi-and-rest-and-when-to-use-them

2 years ago

Building a Medieval Castle from Scratch

https://www.guedelon.fr/en/

2 years ago

Psychedelic Graphics 0: Introduction

https://benpence.com/blog/post/psychedelic-graphics-0

2 years ago

NIH hit with freezes on meetings, travel, communications, and hiring

https://www.science.org/content/article/trump-hits-nih-devastating-freezes-meetings-travel-communications-and-hiring

2 years ago

Bun 1.2 Is Released

https://bun.sh/blog/bun-v1.2

2 years ago

Show HN: Open-source AI video editor

https://github.com/fal-ai-community/video-starter-kit

2 years ago

Tech takes the Pareto principle too far

https://bobbylox.com/blog/tech-takes-the-pareto-principle-too-far/

2 years ago

Trae: An AI-powered IDE by ByteDance

https://www.trae.ai/home

2 years ago

Where is London's most central sheep?

https://diamondgeezer.blogspot.com/2025/01/londons-most-central-sheep.html

2 years ago

Using the most unhinged AVX-512 instruction to make fastest phrase search algo

https://gab-menezes.github.io/2025/01/13/using-the-most-unhinged-avx-512-instruction-to-make-the-fastest-phrase-search-algo.html

2 years ago

Foundations of Large Language Models

https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.09223

2 years ago

Apache Iceberg

https://iceberg.apache.org/

2 years ago

Bunster: Compile bash scripts to self contained executables

https://github.com/yassinebenaid/bunster

2 years ago

Working with Files Is Hard (2019)

https://danluu.com/deconstruct-files/

2 years ago

Surface-Stable Fractal Dithering

https://github.com/runevision/Dither3D

2 years ago

Show HN: 3D printing giant things with a Python jigsaw generator

https://calbryant.uk/blog/3d-printing-giant-things-with-jigsaw-generator/

2 years ago

Citations on the Anthropic API

https://www.anthropic.com/news/introducing-citations-api

2 years ago

Shifting Cyber Norms: Microsoft security POST-ing to you

https://berthub.eu/articles/posts/shifting-cyber-norms-microsoft-post/

2 years ago

Susctl CVE-2024-54507: A particularly 'sus' sysctl in the XNU kernel

https://jprx.io/cve-2024-54507/

2 years ago

The British Micro Behemoth

https://www.abortretry.fail/p/the-british-micro-behemoth

2 years ago

Show HN: I organized Bluesky feeds by categories and growth rankings

https://www.bskyinfo.com/feeds/

2 years ago

An overview of gradient descent optimization algorithms (2016)

https://www.ruder.io/optimizing-gradient-descent/

2 years ago

You should write "without bugs"

https://korshakov.com/posts/no-bugs

2 years ago

Disabling Zen 5's Op Cache and Exploring Its Clustered Decoder

https://chipsandcheese.com/p/disabling-zen-5s-op-cache-and-exploring

2 years ago

Morse Code in Tubular Bells (2021)

https://madpsy.uk/link-between-the-soundtrack-of-the-exorcist-and-amateur-radio/

2 years ago

TMSU: Command-line tool for applying tags and viewing virtual tagged filesystem

https://tmsu.org/

2 years ago

Edge TTS

https://github.com/rany2/edge-tts

2 years ago

Results of "Humanity's Last Exam" benchmark published

https://scale.com/blog/humanitys-last-exam-results

2 years ago

How to build your own ZX80/ZX81 (2019)

http://searle.x10host.com/zx80/zx80.html

2 years ago

C is not suited to SIMD (2019)

http://blog.vmchale.com/article/notes-c-simd

2 years ago

A Faster Quantum Fourier Transform

https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.12414

2 years ago

Using 2 Editors Because Xcode Is Dumb

https://christiantietze.de/posts/2025/01/using-2-editors-because-xcode-is-dumb/

2 years ago

CVSS Is Dead to Us

https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2025/01/23/cvss-is-dead-to-us/

2 years ago

Leaked documents expose deep ties between Israeli army and Microsoft

https://www.972mag.com/microsoft-azure-openai-israeli-army-cloud/

2 years ago

An experiment of adding recommendation engine to your app using pgvector search

https://silk.us/blog/vector-search-ai-integration/

2 years ago

Orbit Spirograph (2019)

https://www.redblobgames.com/x/1903-orbit-spirograph/

2 years ago

Young men now spend more of their free time alone than any other group

https://flowingdata.com/2025/01/22/young-and-alone/

2 years ago

Dualities in functional programming

http://dicioccio.fr/on-dualities.html

2 years ago

Apple won't return TikTok to the App Store until it's sold to a U.S. buyer

https://appleinsider.com/articles/25/01/21/apple-wont-return-tiktok-to-the-app-store-until-its-sold-to-a-us-buyer

2 years ago

After 18 years, Sony's Blu-ray media production draws to a close

https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/storage/after-18-years-blu-ray-media-production-draws-to-a-close-sony-shuts-its-last-factory-in-feb

2 years ago

Amazon removed statements advocating for LGBTQ rights and racial equity

https://www.irishstar.com/news/us-news/jeff-bezos-deletes-lgbtq-rights-34533955

2 years ago

George R.R. Martin has co-authored a physics paper

https://arstechnica.com/science/2025/01/george-r-r-martin-has-co-authored-a-physics-paper/

2 years ago

Bacteria in Polymers Form Cables That Grow into Living Gels

https://www.caltech.edu/about/news/bacteria-in-polymers-form-cables-that-grow-into-living-gels

2 years ago