top 50% hacker news stories for 2025-01-30

JavaScript Temporal is coming

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/blog/javascript-temporal-is-coming/

2 years ago

Archivists work to save disappearing data.gov datasets

https://www.404media.co/archivists-work-to-identify-and-save-the-thousands-of-datasets-disappearing-from-data-gov/

2 years ago

Commercial jet collides with Black Hawk helicopter near Reagan airport

https://www.mediaite.com/news/breaking-commercial-jet-collides-with-police-chopper-near-reagan-airport/

2 years ago

Mistral Small 3

https://mistral.ai/news/mistral-small-3/

2 years ago

String of recent killings linked to Bay Area 'Zizians'

https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/bay-area-death-cult-zizian-murders-20064333.php

2 years ago

Many of the Pokemon playtest cards were likely printed in 2024

https://www.elitefourum.com/t/many-of-the-pokemon-playtest-cards-were-likely-printed-in-2024/52421

2 years ago

Antiqua et Nova: Note on the relationship between AI and human intelligence

https://www.vatican.va/roman_curia/congregations/cfaith/documents/rc_ddf_doc_20250128_antiqua-et-nova_en.html

2 years ago

California law enforcement misused state databases more than 7k times in 2023

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/01/california-police-misused-state-databases-more-7000-times-2023

2 years ago

Stats – macOS system monitor in your menu bar

https://github.com/exelban/stats

2 years ago

A better build system for OCaml

https://blog.janestreet.com/how-we-accidentally-built-a-better-build-system-for-ocaml-index/

2 years ago

Mathesar – an intutive spreadsheet-like interface to Postgres data

https://github.com/mathesar-foundation/mathesar

2 years ago

Younger cannabis users have reduced brain function, finds largest study yet

https://newatlas.com/brain/young-adult-cannabis-brain-function/

2 years ago

PCBs, copper pours, ground planes, and you

https://lcamtuf.substack.com/p/pcbs-ground-planes-and-you

2 years ago

Show HN: Audiocube – A 3D DAW for Spatial Audio

https://www.audiocube.app

2 years ago

Goose: An open-source, extensible AI agent that goes beyond code suggestions

https://block.github.io/goose/

2 years ago

The US government's open data on Data.gov is currently being scrubbed

https://old.reddit.com/r/climate/comments/1idiliv/the_us_governments_open_data_on_datagov_is/

2 years ago

Majority of US teens have lost trust in Big Tech

https://techcrunch.com/2025/01/29/report-majority-of-u-s-teens-have-lost-trust-in-big-tech/

2 years ago

LibreOffice 400M Downloads, and Counting

https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2025/01/30/400-million-downloads-and-counting/

2 years ago

Pointers Are Complicated II, or: We need better language specs (2020)

https://www.ralfj.de/blog/2020/12/14/provenance.html

2 years ago

Blueskyfeedbot: Post RSS Feeds to Bluesky via GitHub Actions

https://github.com/marketplace/actions/feed-to-bluesky

2 years ago

Decompiling 2024: A Year of Resurgance in Decompilation Research

https://mahaloz.re/dec-progress-2024

2 years ago

Google offering 'voluntary exit' for employees working on Pixel, Android

https://9to5google.com/2025/01/30/pixel-android-voluntary-exit-employees/

2 years ago

Hard Mode Rust (2022)

https://matklad.github.io/2022/10/06/hard-mode-rust.html

2 years ago

Investigating the case of human nose shape and climate adaptation (2017)

https://journals.plos.org/plosgenetics/article?id=10.1371/journal.pgen.1006616

2 years ago

Ask HN: Promoted, but Career Path Derailed

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42883139

2 years ago

Launch HN: Karsa (YC W25) – Buy and save stablecoins internationally

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42879661

2 years ago

Interview with DeepSeek Founder: We're Done Following. It's Time to Lead

https://thechinaacademy.org/interview-with-deepseek-founder-were-done-following-its-time-to-lead/

2 years ago

Optical Frequency Combs

https://www.nist.gov/topics/physics/optical-frequency-combs

2 years ago

A history of APL in the USSR (1991)

https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/130647.130656

2 years ago

Quaternions and spherical trigonometry

https://terrytao.wordpress.com/2024/12/19/quaternions-and-spherical-trigonometry/

2 years ago

A Rust procedural language handler for PostgreSQL

https://github.com/tcdi/plrust

2 years ago

GitHub Is Down

https://www.githubstatus.com

2 years ago

Show HN: Ahey – A simple pub-sub service built on top of web push

https://ahey.io

2 years ago

MySQL at Uber

https://www.uber.com/blog/mysql-at-uber/

2 years ago

Review: Superbloom: How Technologies of Connection Tear Us Apart

https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/the-case-for-kicking-the-stone/

2 years ago

Why Children's Books?

https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v47/n02/katherine-rundell/why-children-s-books

2 years ago

Classic Duck Hunt game made in JavaScript and Kaplay

https://jslegend.itch.io/duck-hunter

2 years ago

Cointelpro

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COINTELPRO

2 years ago

Fake thinking and real thinking

https://joecarlsmith.com/2025/01/28/fake-thinking-and-real-thinking/

2 years ago

A Young Man Used AI to Build a Nuclear Fusor

https://www.corememory.com/p/a-young-man-used-ai-to-build-a-nuclear

2 years ago

I built a website where you can pop confettis for no reason

https://poptheconfetti.website

2 years ago

These Websites Have Been Seized

https://seized.matdoes.dev/

2 years ago

What makes a great mocktail? (2018)

https://www.seriouseats.com/cocktail-science-mocktail-how-to-replicate-the-taste-of-alcohol-in-a-nonalcoholic-drink

2 years ago

The PETG adhesive test [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tyo8vLorpZo

2 years ago

Signs Of Life In A Desert

https://www.noemamag.com/signs-of-life-in-a-desert-of-death/

2 years ago

Ask HN: Is onboard audio still good enough compared to dedicated Sound Cards?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42882699

2 years ago

The Slow Death of OCSP

https://www.feistyduck.com/newsletter/issue_121_the_slow_death_of_ocsp

2 years ago

Durable execution should be lightweight

https://www.dbos.dev/blog/what-is-lightweight-durable-execution

2 years ago