top 50% hacker news stories for 2025-01-24

Show HN: Cs16.css – CSS library based on Counter Strike 1.6 UI

https://cs16.samke.me

2 years ago

819 upvotes – 141 comments

Wild – A fast linker for Linux

https://github.com/davidlattimore/wild

2 years ago

383 upvotes – 208 comments

Ask HN: Why buy domains and 301 redirect them to me?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42812779

2 years ago

382 upvotes – 131 comments

A phishing attack involving g.co, Google's URL shortener

https://gist.github.com/zachlatta/f86317493654b550c689dc6509973aa4

2 years ago

372 upvotes – 158 comments

How far can you get in 40 minutes from each subway station in NYC?

https://subwaysheds.com/#11.27/40.7427/-73.9869

2 years ago

328 upvotes – 202 comments

Show HN: Lightpanda, an open-source headless browser in Zig

https://github.com/lightpanda-io/browser

2 years ago

319 upvotes – 137 comments

Snowdrop OS – a homebrew operating system from scratch, in assembly language

http://sebastianmihai.com/snowdrop/

2 years ago

308 upvotes – 81 comments

Build It Yourself

https://lucumr.pocoo.org/2025/1/24/build-it-yourself/

2 years ago

293 upvotes – 255 comments

Subpixel Snake [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iDwganLjpW0

2 years ago

271 upvotes – 61 comments

How I Use Home Assistant in 2025

https://vpetersson.com/2025/01/22/how-i-use-home-assistant-in-2025.html

2 years ago

268 upvotes – 306 comments

PhysicsForums and the Dead Internet Theory

https://hallofdreams.org/posts/physicsforums/

2 years ago

264 upvotes – 154 comments

The State of Vim

https://lwn.net/Articles/1002342/

2 years ago

264 upvotes – 200 comments

New book-sorting algorithm almost reaches perfection

https://www.quantamagazine.org/new-book-sorting-algorithm-almost-reaches-perfection-20250124/

2 years ago

258 upvotes – 54 comments

A WebAssembly compiler that fits in a tweet

https://wasmgroundup.com/blog/wasm-compiler-in-a-tweet/

2 years ago

244 upvotes – 29 comments

Dragonsweeper — A minesweeper game that requires observation

https://danielben.itch.io/dragonsweeper

2 years ago

235 upvotes – 101 comments

Every System is a Log: Avoiding coordination in distributed applications

https://restate.dev/blog/every-system-is-a-log-avoiding-coordination-in-distributed-applications/

2 years ago

229 upvotes – 155 comments

UI is hell: four-function calculators

https://lcamtuf.substack.com/p/ui-is-hell-four-function-calculators

2 years ago

225 upvotes – 138 comments

Desmos Animated Graphing Calculator

https://www.desmos.com/

2 years ago

213 upvotes – 39 comments

The hidden complexity of scaling WebSockets

https://composehq.com/blog/scaling-websockets-1-23-25

2 years ago

194 upvotes – 68 comments

Trying out Zed after more than a decade of Vim/Neovim

https://sgoel.dev/posts/trying-out-zed-after-more-than-a-decade-of-vim-neovim/

2 years ago

188 upvotes – 149 comments

Weierstrass's Monster

https://www.quantamagazine.org/the-jagged-monstrous-function-that-broke-calculus-20250123/

2 years ago

183 upvotes – 129 comments

A very Chicago gamble

https://www.bitsaboutmoney.com/archive/chicago-casino-investment-offering/

2 years ago

178 upvotes – 90 comments

Little Snitch feature nobody knows about

https://lapcatsoftware.com/articles/2025/1/6.html

2 years ago

176 upvotes – 51 comments

Show HN: Onit – Source-available ChatGPT Desktop with local mode, Claude, Gemini

https://github.com/synth-inc/onit

2 years ago

174 upvotes – 58 comments

How we scaled Slack to support 1000s of developers

https://blog.railway.com/p/slack-overflow

2 years ago

173 upvotes – 118 comments

Supercharge SQLite with Ruby Functions

https://blog.julik.nl/2025/01/supercharge-sqlite-with-ruby-functions

2 years ago

159 upvotes – 43 comments

Lightpanda: Headless browser designed for AI and automation

https://github.com/lightpanda-io/browser

2 years ago

154 upvotes – 1 comments

'Never seen anything like this' – NIH meetings and travel halted abruptly

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-00231-y

2 years ago

150 upvotes – 111 comments

Show HN: A new native app for 20 year old OS X

https://uppercut.chadbibler.com

2 years ago

144 upvotes – 28 comments

Anatomy of a Formal Proof

https://www.ams.org/journals/notices/202502/noti3114/noti3114.html

2 years ago

134 upvotes – 11 comments

We Need to Talk About Docker Hub

https://www.linuxserver.io/blog/we-need-to-talk-about-docker-hub

2 years ago

128 upvotes – 146 comments

Bluesky's science takeover: 70% of Nature poll respondents use platform

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-00177-1

2 years ago

126 upvotes – 176 comments

Threlte 8

https://threlte.xyz/blog/threlte-8

2 years ago

126 upvotes – 19 comments

The past, present, and future of UI at GitHub

https://hawksley.org/2025/01/08/past-present-future-of-UI-at-github.html

2 years ago

119 upvotes – 96 comments

Going Nuts over NIST’s Standard Reference Peanut Butter (2016)

https://www.nist.gov/blogs/taking-measure/going-nuts-over-nists-standard-reference-peanut-butter

2 years ago

113 upvotes – 65 comments

Autodesk partially restores old forum posts

https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/community-announcements/update-on-archiving-idea-boards-and-forums/td-p/13276594

2 years ago

109 upvotes – 32 comments

AI isn't going to kill the software industry

https://dustinewers.com/ignore-the-grifters/

2 years ago

108 upvotes – 147 comments

Undiagnosed Cognitive Decline Eats into Seniors' Retirement Savings

https://www.wsj.com/personal-finance/retirement/cognitive-decline-retirement-savings-4672b604

2 years ago

102 upvotes – 101 comments

Cloud Virtualization: Red Hat, AWS Firecracker, and Ubicloud internals

https://www.ubicloud.com/blog/cloud-virtualization-red-hat-aws-firecracker-and-ubicloud-internals

2 years ago

99 upvotes – 14 comments

Hackers get $886,250 for 49 zero-days at Pwn2Own Automotive 2025

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/hackers-get-886-250-for-49-zero-days-at-pwn2own-automotive-2025/

2 years ago

90 upvotes – 43 comments

Trae: AI Code Editor from ByteDance

https://www.trae.ai

2 years ago

85 upvotes – 61 comments

All federal agencies ordered to terminate remote work–ideally within 30 days

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/01/all-federal-agencies-ordered-to-terminate-remote-work-ideally-within-30-days/

2 years ago

80 upvotes – 134 comments

The Nix NGI Team: Advancing Open Source with Nix

https://discourse.nixos.org/t/nix-ngi-making-open-source-software-run-smoothly/59229

2 years ago

78 upvotes – 29 comments

Siri Is Super Dumb and Getting Dumber

https://daringfireball.net/2025/01/siri_is_super_dumb_and_getting_dumber

2 years ago

76 upvotes – 59 comments

VIC 20 Elite

https://vic20elite.wordpress.com/

2 years ago

75 upvotes – 22 comments

Mineral Oil Cooled PC (2014)

https://www.pugetsystems.com/mineral-oil-pc/

2 years ago

74 upvotes – 61 comments

Supercharge vector search with ColBERT rerank in PostgreSQL

https://blog.vectorchord.ai/supercharge-vector-search-with-colbert-rerank-in-postgresql

2 years ago

72 upvotes – 14 comments

AI is creating a generation of illiterate programmers

https://nmn.gl/blog/ai-illiterate-programmers

2 years ago

69 upvotes – 117 comments

South Korea's Democracy Saved Itself (2024)

https://carnegieendowment.org/emissary/2024/12/south-korea-democracy-yoon-protests?lang=en

2 years ago

64 upvotes – 75 comments

Court rules FBI's warrantless searches violated Fourth Amendment

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/01/court-rules-fbis-warrantless-searches-violated-fourth-amendment/

2 years ago

63 upvotes – 23 comments

Life expectancy/years of life lost in adults w ADHD in UK: matched cohort study

https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/the-british-journal-of-psychiatry/article/life-expectancy-and-years-of-life-lost-for-adults-with-diagnosed-adhd-in-the-uk-matched-cohort-study/30B8B109DF2BB33CC51F72FD1C953739

2 years ago

61 upvotes – 114 comments

C++26: Pack Indexing

https://www.sandordargo.com/blog/2025/01/22/cpp26-pack-indexing

2 years ago

60 upvotes – 79 comments

Wikenigma – An Encyclopedia of Unknowns

https://wikenigma.org.uk/

2 years ago

56 upvotes – 3 comments

The Vikings also used crampons to avoid slipping on ice

https://www.sciencenorway.no/ice-viking-age-winter/the-vikings-also-used-crampons-to-avoid-slipping-on-ice/2456603

2 years ago

54 upvotes – 16 comments

100% Unemployment: on keeping busy when the robots take over (2013)

https://hyponymo.us/2013/01/29/100-percent-unemployment/

2 years ago

53 upvotes – 81 comments

Protecting your time from predators in large tech companies

https://www.seangoedecke.com/predators/

2 years ago

51 upvotes – 38 comments

tele-present wind

https://www.dwbowen.com/telepresent-wind

2 years ago

50 upvotes – 10 comments

Looking for work is a full time job

https://www.resumevue.com/board

2 years ago

50 upvotes – 52 comments

Amazon UK to stop selling Bloomsbury's books

https://www.thebookseller.com/news/amazon-uk-to-stop-selling-bloomsburys-books

2 years ago

49 upvotes – 49 comments

IOC long shot Watanabe hopes 'crazy' Olympic idea sparks debate

https://www.japantimes.co.jp/olympics/2025/01/14/ioc-watanabe-debate/

2 years ago

47 upvotes – 53 comments
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