top 20 hacker news stories for 2025-01-26

It's not a crime if we do it with an app

https://pluralistic.net/2025/01/25/potatotrac/#carbo-loading

a week ago

870 upvotes – 608 comments

Hard numbers in the Wayland vs. X11 input latency discussion

https://mort.coffee/home/wayland-input-latency/

a week ago

609 upvotes – 487 comments

The Microsoft 365 Copilot launch was a disaster

https://www.zdnet.com/home-and-office/work-life/the-microsoft-365-copilot-launch-was-a-total-disaster/

a week ago

600 upvotes – 564 comments

The protester's guide to smartphone security

https://www.privacyguides.org/articles/2025/01/23/activists-guide-securing-your-smartphone/

a week ago

478 upvotes – 232 comments

Kansas tuberculosis outbreak is America's largest recorded since the 1950s

https://www.cjonline.com/story/news/politics/government/2025/01/24/kansas-tuberculosis-outbreak-is-largest-in-recorded-history-in-u-s/77881467007/

a week ago

421 upvotes – 377 comments

Lessons in creating family photos that people want to keep (2018)

https://estherschindler.medium.com/the-old-family-photos-project-lessons-in-creating-family-photos-that-people-want-to-keep-ea3909129943

a week ago

402 upvotes – 165 comments

No Bitcoin ETFs at Vanguard (2024)

https://corporate.vanguard.com/content/corporatesite/us/en/corp/articles/no-bitcoin-etfs-at-vanguard-heres-why.html

a week ago

398 upvotes – 527 comments

YC Graveyard: 821 inactive Y Combinator startups

https://ycgraveyard.iamwillwang.com/

a week ago

383 upvotes – 231 comments

The South Vietnamese pilot who landed a Cessna on a carrier to save his family (2019)

https://www.historynet.com/maj-buang-lys-daring-feat-to-save-his-family/

2 weeks ago

373 upvotes – 179 comments

Show HN: DeepSeek My User Agent

https://www.jasonthorsness.com/20

a week ago

360 upvotes – 142 comments

What's OAuth2, anyway?

https://www.romaglushko.com/blog/whats-aouth2/

a week ago

340 upvotes – 88 comments

Qwen2.5-1M: Deploy your own Qwen with context length up to 1M tokens

https://qwenlm.github.io/blog/qwen2.5-1m/

a week ago

307 upvotes – 108 comments

Astronomers delete asteroid because it turned out to be Tesla Roadster

https://www.astronomy.com/science/astronomers-just-deleted-an-asteroid-because-it-turned-out-to-be-elon-musks-tesla-roadster/

a week ago

282 upvotes – 93 comments

Show HN: Bagels – TUI expense tracker

https://github.com/EnhancedJax/Bagels

a week ago

281 upvotes – 88 comments

The story of my home made pipe organ (2000)

https://www.sentex.ca/~mwandel/organ/organ.html

a week ago

272 upvotes – 52 comments

Composable SQL

https://borretti.me/article/composable-sql

a week ago

271 upvotes – 143 comments

Explainer: What's r1 and everything else?

https://timkellogg.me/blog/2025/01/25/r1

a week ago

261 upvotes – 125 comments

Emerging reasoning with reinforcement learning

https://hkust-nlp.notion.site/simplerl-reason

a week ago

248 upvotes – 211 comments

Malimite – iOS and macOS Decompiler

https://github.com/LaurieWired/Malimite

a week ago

241 upvotes – 36 comments

Brazil bans Sam Altman's tech firm Tools for Humanity from paying for iris scans

https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/tech/technology/brazil-bans-sam-altmans-tech-firm-tools-for-humanity-from-paying-for-iris-scans/articleshow/117540826.cms?from=mdr

a week ago

240 upvotes – 61 comments
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