top 50% hacker news stories for 2025-01-27

We're bringing Pebble back

https://repebble.com/

2 years ago

Google open-sources the Pebble OS

https://opensource.googleblog.com/2025/01/see-code-that-powered-pebble-smartwatches.html

2 years ago

A layoff fundamentally changed how I perceive work

https://mertbulan.com/2025/01/26/once-you-are-laid-off-you-will-never-be-the-same-again/

2 years ago

DeepSeek releases Janus Pro, a text-to-image generator [pdf]

https://github.com/deepseek-ai/Janus/blob/main/janus_pro_tech_report.pdf

2 years ago

Facebook ban on discussing Linux?

https://distrowatch.com/weekly-mobile.php?issue=20250127#sitenews

2 years ago

The Illustrated DeepSeek-R1

https://newsletter.languagemodels.co/p/the-illustrated-deepseek-r1

2 years ago

Marginalia – A search engine that prioritizes non-commercial content

https://marginalia-search.com/

2 years ago

Nvidia’s $589B DeepSeek rout

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/asml-sinks-china-ai-startup-081823609.html

2 years ago

Openhaystack: Build 'AirTags' – track Bluetooth devices via Apple's network

https://github.com/seemoo-lab/openhaystack

2 years ago

The Alpha Myth: How captive wolves led us astray

https://anthonydavidadams.substack.com/p/the-alpha-myth-how-captive-wolves

2 years ago

The future of Rebble

https://rebble.io/2025/01/27/the-future-of-rebble.html

2 years ago

My failed attempt to shrink all NPM packages by 5%

https://evanhahn.com/my-failed-attempt-to-shrink-all-npm-packages-by-5-percent/

2 years ago

The Taylorator – All Your Frequencies Are Belong to Us

https://www.scd31.com/posts/taylorator

2 years ago

Purelymail: Cheap, no-nonsense email

https://purelymail.com/

2 years ago

Go 1.24's go tool is one of the best additions to the ecosystem in years

https://www.jvt.me/posts/2025/01/27/go-tools-124/

2 years ago

I trusted an LLM, now I'm on day 4 of an afternoon project

https://nemo.foo/blog/day-4-of-an-afternoon-project

2 years ago

My Cat Mii

https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2025/01/20/my-cat-mii/

2 years ago

Oliver Heaviside and the theory of transmission lines (2021)

https://www.pa3fwm.nl/technotes/tn28-heaviside-transmission-lines.html

2 years ago

Nvidia sheds almost $600B in market cap

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/01/27/nvidia-sheds-almost-600-billion-in-market-cap-biggest-drop-ever.html

2 years ago

Hedy: Textual programming made easy

https://www.hedy.org/

2 years ago

Show HN: I Made an iOS Podcast Player with Racket

https://defn.io/2024/11/16/podcatcher/

2 years ago

If OpenSSL were a GUI (2022)

https://smallstep.com/blog/if-openssl-were-a-gui/

2 years ago

Operation Leg – a pilot unlike any other (2020)

https://www.rafbf.org/news-and-stories/raf-history/operation-leg-pilot-unlike-any-other

2 years ago

SiFive's P550 Microarchitecture

https://chipsandcheese.com/p/inside-sifives-p550-microarchitecture

2 years ago

One in four 2020 Tesla Model 3 failed the Danish periodic inspection in 2024

https://fdm.dk/nyheder/bilist/2025-01-populaer-tesla-model-dumper-med-et-brag-til-syn

2 years ago

Show HN: Making AR experiences is still painful – had to make my own editor

https://ordinary.space/

2 years ago

Teemoji: Like tee but with emojis

https://github.com/willswire/teemoji

2 years ago

Sweden Seizes Ship Suspected of Baltic Sea 'Sabotage'

https://www.barrons.com/news/sweden-says-has-seized-ship-suspected-of-baltic-sea-sabotage-13ff82f2

2 years ago

The ocean teems with networks of interconnected bacteria

https://www.quantamagazine.org/the-ocean-teems-with-networks-of-interconnected-bacteria-20250106/

2 years ago

Show HN: I Created ErisForge, a Python Library for Abliteration of LLMs

https://github.com/Tsadoq/ErisForge

2 years ago

Bilinear down/upsampling, aligning pixel grids, and that infamous GPU half pixel (2021)

https://bartwronski.com/2021/02/15/bilinear-down-upsampling-pixel-grids-and-that-half-pixel-offset/

2 years ago

Better Know a Ruby Thing: Singleton Classes

https://noelrappin.com/blog/2025/01/better-know-a-ruby-thing-singleton-classes/

2 years ago

Rust’s worst feature

https://mina86.com/2025/rusts-worst-feature/

2 years ago

Shunpo: Minimalist bash tool to make directory navigation a little bit faster

https://github.com/egurapha/Shunpo

2 years ago

Knowing less about AI makes people more open to using it

https://theconversation.com/knowing-less-about-ai-makes-people-more-open-to-having-it-in-their-lives-new-research-247372

2 years ago

Microplastics block blood flow in the brain, mouse study reveals

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-00178-0

2 years ago

Google "We have no moat, and neither does OpenAI" (2023)

https://semianalysis.com/2023/05/04/google-we-have-no-moat-and-neither/

2 years ago

Scalable OLTP in the Cloud: What's the Big Deal?

http://muratbuffalo.blogspot.com/2024/01/scalable-oltp-in-cloud-whats-big-deal.html

2 years ago

DeepSeek FAQ

https://stratechery.com/2025/deepseek-faq/

2 years ago

Developers should embrace creative coding again

https://www.figma.com/blog/why-developers-should-embrace-creative-coding-again/

2 years ago

Interview with Andy Yen, CEO of Proton VPN

https://www.compiler.news/proton-vpn-venezuela-russia/

2 years ago