872
609
It's not a crime if we do it with an app
https://pluralistic.net/2025/01/25/potatotrac/#carbo-loading
2 years ago
610
488
Hard numbers in the Wayland vs. X11 input latency discussion
https://mort.coffee/home/wayland-input-latency/
602
564
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/
479
232
The protester's guide to smartphone security
https://www.privacyguides.org/articles/2025/01/23/activists-guide-securing-your-smartphone/
421
377
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/
404
166
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
398
527
No Bitcoin ETFs at Vanguard (2024)
https://corporate.vanguard.com/content/corporatesite/us/en/corp/articles/no-bitcoin-etfs-at-vanguard-heres-why.html
384
231
YC Graveyard: 821 inactive Y Combinator startups
https://ycgraveyard.iamwillwang.com/
374
179
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/
360
142
Show HN: DeepSeek My User Agent
https://www.jasonthorsness.com/20
341
88
What's OAuth2, anyway?
https://www.romaglushko.com/blog/whats-aouth2/
307
108
Qwen2.5-1M: Deploy your own Qwen with context length up to 1M tokens
https://qwenlm.github.io/blog/qwen2.5-1m/
283
87
Show HN: Bagels – TUI expense tracker
https://github.com/EnhancedJax/Bagels
282
93
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/
272
52
The story of my home made pipe organ (2000)
https://www.sentex.ca/~mwandel/organ/organ.html
271
143
Composable SQL
https://borretti.me/article/composable-sql
262
125
Explainer: What's r1 and everything else?
https://timkellogg.me/blog/2025/01/25/r1
248
211
Emerging reasoning with reinforcement learning
https://hkust-nlp.notion.site/simplerl-reason
241
36
Malimite – iOS and macOS Decompiler
https://github.com/LaurieWired/Malimite
240
61
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
433
No one is disrupting banks – at least not the big ones
https://www.popularfintech.com/p/no-one-is-disrupting-banks
175
AI slop, suspicion, and writing back
https://benjamincongdon.me/blog/2025/01/25/AI-Slop-Suspicion-and-Writing-Back/
227
164
Former tech CEO suing to get the record of his arrest removed from the internet
https://sf.gazetteer.co/a-former-tech-ceo-is-on-a-crusade-to-get-the-record-of-his-arrest-removed-from-the-internet
226
79
Proper decoupling capacitor practices, and why you should leave 100nF behind
https://codeinsecurity.wordpress.com/2025/01/25/proper-decoupling-practices-and-why-you-should-leave-100nf-behind/
205
86
Mark Zuckerberg: This Man Is a Coward
https://www.theindex.media/this-man-is-a-coward/
202
128
The Simplicity of Prolog
https://bitsandtheorems.com/the-simplicity-of-prolog/
253
When AI promises speed but delivers debugging hell
https://nsavage.substack.com/p/when-ai-promises-speed-but-delivers
198
91
Using AI for Coding: My Journey with Cline and LLMs
https://pgaleone.eu/ai/coding/2025/01/26/using-ai-for-coding-my-experience/
196
63
Analysis of Product Hunt products from 2014 to 2021
https://components.one/posts/gamer-and-nihilist-product-hunt
193
Ask HN: Would you still choose Ruby on Rails for a startup in 2025?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42831938
192
95
Turning the database inside-out (2015)
https://martin.kleppmann.com/2015/11/05/database-inside-out-at-oredev.html
177
138
The only photo of the Concorde flying at supersonic speed
https://petapixel.com/2025/01/25/photo-concorde-supersonic-speed-mach-2/
176
157
Another undersea cable damaged in Baltic Sea
https://www.france24.com/en/europe/20250126-another-undersea-cable-damaged-in-baltic-sea-latvia-dispatches-warship
172
42
Watch the path of a raindrop from anywhere in the world
https://river-runner-global.samlearner.com/
151
25
OpenJazz is a free, open-source version of the classic Jazz Jackrabbit games
https://alister.eu/jazz/oj/about.php
147
122
Ask HN: Anyone else find LLM related posts causing them to lose interest in HN
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42827723
145
56
Ask HN: How to learn AI from first principles?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42827913
Paxo: A DIY Phone
https://paxo.fr/
5
Reviving a Dead Audio Format: The Return of ZZM
https://nicole.express/2025/zoo-of-zero-motivation.html
119
16
I Built an Omni-Directional Ball-Wheeled Bike [video]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZVFB2g25OkM
115
123
Chimera Linux works toward a simplified desktop
https://lwn.net/Articles/1004324/
99
Render raises $80M in Series C financing
https://render.com/blog/series-c
23
TokenVerse: Multi-Concept Personalization in Token Modulation Space by Google
https://token-verse.github.io/
102
33
The History of Toontown’s SpeedChat (2007)
http://habitatchronicles.com/2007/03/the-untold-history-of-toontowns-speedchat-or-blockchattm-from-disney-finally-arrives/
101
27
Detecting edges of images at the speed of light
https://phys.org/news/2025-01-edges-images.html
72
Human corpses keep moving for over a year after death, scientist says (2019)
https://www.newsweek.com/human-corpse-year-burial-scientist-1459113
Goethe's "Sorcerer's Apprentice" – power over wisdom
https://wilderutopia.com/performance/literary/goethes-sorcerers-apprentice-power-over-wisdom/
98
2
Qwen2.5-7B-Instruct-1M and Qwen2.5-14B-Instruct-1M
https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jan/26/qwen25-1m/
97
6
100 years of Bell Labs [pdf]
https://novitoll.com/posts/2025-1-25/100_years_of_Bell_Labs.pdf
96
34
Fixing my monitor's power button
https://www.lkhrs.com/blog/2025/monitor-repair/
11
Amsterdam Compiler Kit for Cray X-MP
https://github.com/kej715/ack
89
I don't like Docker or Podman
https://blog.liw.fi/posts/2025/docker/
BrainFlood: Runtime code generation via reflection in .NET
https://sbox.game/churchofmiku/brainflood/news/brainflood-compiling-via-reflection-8089c180
