Hacker News Weekly

Weekly Hacker News for the 7 days ending 2025-01-25

The 20 highest-rated articles on Hacker News in the 7 days ending January 25, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Weekly are:

• Amazon's AI crawler is making my Git server unstable
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• TikTok goes dark in the US
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• TikTok says it is restoring service for U.S. users
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• It's time to make computing personal again
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• UK's hardware talent is being wasted
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• I Met Paul Graham Once
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• DeepSeek-R1
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• Mixxx: GPL DJ Software
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• The Most Mario Colors
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• 0-click deanonymization attack targeting Signal, Discord, other platforms
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• Ask HN: Is anyone doing anything cool with tiny language models?
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• Stargate Project: SoftBank, OpenAI, Oracle, MGX to build data centers
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• Ross Ulbricht granted a full pardon
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• Mastercard DNS error went unnoticed for years
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• TabBoo – add random jumpscares to websites you're trying to avoid
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• How to improve your WFH lighting to reduce eye strain
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• Show HN: I made an open-source laptop from scratch
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• Thank HN: My bootstrapped startup got acquired today
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• A QR code that sends you to a different destination – lenticular and adversarial
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• Show HN: Cs16.css – CSS library based on Counter Strike 1.6 UI
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Weekly Hacker News for the 7 days ending 2025-01-18

The 20 highest-rated articles on Hacker News in the 7 days ending January 18, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Weekly are:

• The Tsunami of Burnout Few See
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• I created an open-source Hardware Hacking Wiki – with tutorials for beginners
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• Bad Apple but it's 6,500 regexes that I search for in Vim
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• The Origins of Wokeness
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• WordPress Is in Trouble
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• Snyk security researcher deploys malicious NPM packages targeting cursor.com
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• FFmpeg by Example
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• Nobody cares
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• TikTok preparing for U.S. shut-off on Sunday
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• Why is Cloudflare Pages' bandwidth unlimited?
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• I have made the decision to disband Hindenburg Research
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• I ditched the algorithm for RSS
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• Nintendo announces the Switch 2 [video]
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• Nepenthes is a tarpit to catch AI web crawlers
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• No Calls
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• David Lynch has died
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• Starship Flight 7
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• Canon wants us to pay for using our own camera as a webcam
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• Supreme Court upholds TikTok ban, but Trump might offer lifeline
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• So you want to build your own data center
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Weekly Hacker News for the 7 days ending 2025-01-11

The 20 highest-rated articles on Hacker News in the 7 days ending January 11, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Weekly are:

• Self driving 1993 Volvo with open pilot
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• Stimulation Clicker
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• 3blue1brown YouTube Bitcoin video taken down as copyright violation
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• The Future of Htmx
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• How I program with LLMs
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• Nvidia's Project Digits is a 'personal AI supercomputer'
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• Ending our third party fact-checking program and moving to Community Notes model
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• Show HN: Tramway SDK – An unholy union between Half-Life and Morrowind engines
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• Mistakes engineers make in large established codebases
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• Magic/tragic email links: don't make them the only option
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• Operating System in 1,000 Lines – Intro
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• Cracking a 512-bit DKIM key for less than $8 in the cloud
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• Fidget
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• Show HN: Atlas of Space
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• NeuralSVG: An Implicit Representation for Text-to-Vector Generation
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• I had to take down my course-swapping site or be expelled
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• Luigi Mangione's account has been renamed on Stack Overflow
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• Show HN: Tetris in a PDF
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• I've acquired a new superpower
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• Meta's memo to employees rolling back DEI programs
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Weekly Hacker News for the 7 days ending 2025-01-04

The 20 highest-rated articles on Hacker News in the 7 days ending January 04, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Weekly are:

• Where can you go in Europe by train in 8h?
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• I automated my job application process
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• Apple Photos phones home on iOS 18 and macOS 15
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• Fish 4.0: The Fish of Theseus
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• Jimmy Carter has died
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• I keep turning my Google Sheets into phone-friendly webapps
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• AI companies cause most of traffic on forums
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• Tell HN: John Friel my father, internet pioneer and creator of QModem, has died
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• Things we learned about LLMs in 2024
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• Happy New Year 2025
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• Static search trees: faster than binary search
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• 30% drop in O1-preview accuracy when Putnam problems are slightly variated
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• DOOM CAPTCHA
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• Databases in 2024: A Year in Review
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• One of my papers got declined today
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• MitmProxy2Swagger: Automagically reverse-engineer REST APIs
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• uBlock Origin GPL code being stolen by team behind honey browser extension
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• iTerm2 critical security release
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• I am rich and have no idea what to do
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• Can LLMs write better code if you keep asking them to “write better code”?
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