Daily Hacker News for 2025-01-30
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on January 30, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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Building a T1D smartwatch for my son from scratch
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Asteroid Impact on Earth 2032 with Probability 1% and 8Mt Energy
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Seagate: 'new' hard drives used for tens of thousands of hours
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SmolGPT: A minimal PyTorch implementation for training a small LLM from scratch
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Exposed DeepSeek database leaking sensitive information, including chat history
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Commercial jet collides with Black Hawk helicopter near Reagan airport
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JavaScript Temporal is coming
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Antiqua et Nova: Note on the relationship between AI and human intelligence
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Mistral Small 3
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Many of the Pokemon playtest cards were likely printed in 2024
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Daily Hacker News for 2025-01-29
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on January 29, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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IAC confirms existence of a Super-earth in the habitable zone of a Sun-like Star
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Using uv as your shebang line
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OpenAI says it has evidence DeepSeek used its model to train competitor
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Science YouTuber physicsgirl (Dianna Cowern) stands for the first time in 2 yrs
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I still like Sublime Text
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Bacteria (and their metabolites) and depression
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I do not want AI to \"polish\" me
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OpenAI Furious DeepSeek Might Have Stolen All the Data OpenAI Stole from Us
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Why DeepSeek had to be open source
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An analysis of DeepSeek's R1-Zero and R1
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Daily Hacker News for 2025-01-28
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on January 28, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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Lessons in creating family photos that people want to keep (2018)
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Facebook ban on discussing Linux?
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Nvidia’s $589B DeepSeek rout
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The Alpha Myth: How captive wolves led us astray
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The Illustrated DeepSeek-R1
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Machine Learning in Production (CMU Course)
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Run DeepSeek R1 Dynamic 1.58-bit
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Promising results from DeepSeek R1 for code
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Boom XB-1 First Supersonic Flight [video]
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New speculative attacks on Apple CPUs
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Daily Hacker News for 2025-01-27
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on January 27, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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The impact of competition and DeepSeek on Nvidia
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The protester's guide to smartphone security
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The Microsoft 365 Copilot launch was a disaster
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Kansas tuberculosis outbreak is America's largest recorded since the 1950s
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Openhaystack: Build 'AirTags' – track Bluetooth devices via Apple's network
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Marginalia – A search engine that prioritizes non-commercial content
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A layoff fundamentally changed how I perceive work
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DeepSeek releases Janus Pro, a text-to-image generator [pdf]
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Google open-sources the Pebble OS
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We're bringing Pebble back
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Daily Hacker News for 2025-01-26
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on January 26, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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How far can you get in 40 minutes from each subway station in NYC?
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CIA now favors lab leak theory to explain Covid's origins
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OpenRA – Classic strategy games rebuilt for the modern era
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Every HTML Element
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Steam Brick: No screen, no controller, just a power button and a USB port
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The South Vietnamese pilot who landed a Cessna on a carrier to save his family (2019)
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YC Graveyard: 821 inactive Y Combinator startups
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It's not a crime if we do it with an app
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Hard numbers in the Wayland vs. X11 input latency discussion
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No Bitcoin ETFs at Vanguard? Here's why
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Daily Hacker News for 2025-01-25
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on January 25, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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The FizzBuzz that did not get me the job
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Life lessons from the first half-century of my career
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Show HN: Trolling SMS spammers with Ollama
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A phishing attack involving g.co, Google's URL shortener
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Ask HN: Why buy domains and 301 redirect them to me?
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Wild – A fast linker for Linux
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Snowdrop OS – a homebrew operating system from scratch, in assembly language
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Show HN: Lightpanda, an open-source headless browser in Zig
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Caltrain's electric fleet more efficient than expected
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DeepSeek-R1: Incentivizing Reasoning Capability in LLMs via RL
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Daily Hacker News for 2025-01-24
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on January 24, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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The Most Mario Colors
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Tilde, My LLVM Alternative
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Show HN: I built an active community of trans people online
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Turn any bicycle electric
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Psychedelic Graphics 0: Introduction
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Operator research preview
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Llama.vim – Local LLM-assisted text completion
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Building a Medieval Castle from Scratch
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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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Daily Hacker News for 2025-01-23
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on January 23, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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Master the Art of the Product Manager 'No'
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My Struggle with Doom Scrolling
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C stdlib isn't threadsafe and even safe Rust didn't save us
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How to improve your WFH lighting to reduce eye strain
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F-Droid's Progress and What's Coming in 2025
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Most Influential Papers in Computer Science History
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Tailwind CSS v4.0
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Understanding gRPC, OpenAPI and REST and when to use them in API design (2020)
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Hacking Subaru: Tracking and Controlling Cars via the Starlink Admin Panel
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Thank HN: My bootstrapped startup got acquired today
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Daily Hacker News for 2025-01-22
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on January 22, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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Infinigen
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Calm tech certification \"rewards\" less distracting tech
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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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Hunyuan3D 2.0 – High-Resolution 3D Assets Generation
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Ross Ulbricht granted a full pardon
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The Tyranny of Structurelessness (1970)
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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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Show HN: I Made an Open-Source Laptop from Scratch
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Daily Hacker News for 2025-01-21
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on January 21, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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417-megapixel Andromeda galaxy panorama took over a decade to make
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I'll think twice before using GitHub Actions again
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Using eSIMs with devices that only have a physical SIM slot via a 9eSIM SIM car
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I'm Peter Roberts, immigration attorney, who does work for YC and startups. AMA
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Reverse engineering Call of Duty anti-cheat
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Startup Winter: Hacker News Lost Its Faith
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Ask HN: Organize local communities without Facebook?
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Metacognitive laziness: Effects of generative AI on learning motivation
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0-click deanonymization attack targeting Signal, Discord, other platforms
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Invisible Electrostatic Wall at 3M plant (1996)
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Daily Hacker News for 2025-01-20
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on January 20, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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Haskell: A Great Procedural Language
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Why is Git Autocorrect too fast for Formula One drivers?
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It's time to make computing personal again
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FrontierMath was funded by OpenAI
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UK's hardware talent is being wasted
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Reverse Engineering Bambu Connect
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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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I am (not) a failure: Lessons learned from six failed startup attempts
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Daily Hacker News for 2025-01-19
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on January 19, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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Generating an infinite world with the Wave Function Collapse algorithm
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Build a Database in 3000 Lines with 0 Dependencies
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GitHub introduces sub-issues, issue types and advanced search
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Can you read this cursive handwriting? The National Archives wants your help
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Why do bees die when they sting you? (2021)
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VS Code Pets
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Kalman Filter Tutorial
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TikTok goes dark in the US
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Forgejo: A self-hosted lightweight software forge
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TikTok says it is restoring service for U.S. users
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Daily Hacker News for 2025-01-18
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on January 18, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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DoubleClickjacking: A New type of web hacking technique
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PostgreSQL Anonymizer
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Let's talk about AI and end-to-end encryption
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Brood War Korean Translations
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Higher potassium intake at dinner linked to fewer sleep disturbances – study
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So you want to build your own data center
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Investigating an “evil” RJ45 dongle
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I've been advocating for RSS support, and you should too
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Show HN: Interactive systemd – a better way to work with systemd units
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Amazon's AI crawler is making my Git server unstable
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Daily Hacker News for 2025-01-17
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on January 17, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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Five years of React Native at Shopify
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2k-year-old wine and the uncanny immediacy of the past
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Oh Shit, Git?
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Starship Flight 7
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Learn Yjs Interactively
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Some things to expect in 2025
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Is the world becoming uninsurable?
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Thoughts on a Month with Devin
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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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Daily Hacker News for 2025-01-16
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on January 16, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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Nobody cares
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Sweden brings more books and handwriting practice back to its schools (2023)
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Israel, Hamas reach ceasefire deal to end 15 months of war in Gaza
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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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Nokia's internal presentation after iPhone was launched (2007) [pdf]
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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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Daily Hacker News for 2025-01-15
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on January 15, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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TSMC begins producing 4-nanometer chips in Arizona
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Cosmos Keyboard: Scan your hand, build a keyboard
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FFmpeg by Example
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Take the pedals off the bike
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Home Loss File System
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Don't use cosine similarity carelessly
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Nevada Court Shuts Down Police Use of Federal Loophole for Civil Forfeiture
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Generate audiobooks from E-books with Kokoro-82M
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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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Daily Hacker News for 2025-01-14
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on January 14, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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Lines of code that beat A/B testing (2012)
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Fluid Simulation Pendant
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AI Engineer Reading List
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Sonos CEO steps down after app update debacle
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Snyk security researcher deploys malicious NPM packages targeting cursor.com
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I Switched to Firefox and Never Looked Back
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In the belly of the MrBeast
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1 in 5 online job postings are either fake or never filled, study finds
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Google’s OAuth login doesn’t protect against purchasing a failed startup domain
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Apple will soon receive 'made in America' chips from TSMC's Arizona fab
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Daily Hacker News for 2025-01-13
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on January 13, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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Why is my CPU usage always 100%?
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I created an open-source Hardware Hacking Wiki – with tutorials for beginners
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Backdooring Your Backdoors – Another $20 Domain, More Governments
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Tabby: Self-hosted AI coding assistant
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Uv's killer feature is making ad-hoc environments easy
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I deleted my social media accounts
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Right to root access
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The Origins of Wokeness
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Debugging: Indispensable rules for finding even the most elusive problems (2004)
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WordPress Is in Trouble
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Daily Hacker News for 2025-01-12
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on January 12, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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Phi 4 available on Ollama
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Show HN: TypeScript/React/Vue Window Layout Manager (Tabs, Floating, Popouts)
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De-smarting the Marshall Uxbridge
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Matt Mullenweg deactivates WordPress accounts of contributors planning a fork
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Stop Trying to Schedule a Call with Me
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Why I Chose Common Lisp
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Kenney.nl: Free Game Assets
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The Illustrated Guide to a PhD
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AI founders will learn the bitter lesson
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Bad Apple but it's 6,500 regexes that I search for in Vim
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Daily Hacker News for 2025-01-11
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on January 11, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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Is XYplorer really written in VB6?
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The Tsunami of Burnout Few See
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Datadog acquires Quickwit
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Before Squid Game, there was Battle Royale
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Learning how to think with Meta Chain-of-Thought
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I got OpenTelemetry to work. But why was it so complicated?
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Finland's zero homeless strategy (2021)
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Cuttle – a MTG like game using a standard 52 card deck
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Be Aware of the Makefile Effect
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Track your devices via Apple FindMy network in Go/TinyGo
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Daily Hacker News for 2025-01-10
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on January 10, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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Writing a simple pool allocator in C
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We are teen hackers from around the world who code together
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Ask HN: Books about people who did hard things
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Scientists uncover how the brain washes itself during sleep
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WorstFit: Unveiling Hidden Transformers in Windows ANSI
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Predictions Scorecard, 2025 January 01
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Visualizing All ISBNs
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I've acquired a new superpower
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Starlink is now cheaper than leading internet provider in some African countries
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Meta's memo to employees rolling back DEI programs
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Daily Hacker News for 2025-01-09
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on January 09, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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Who killed the rave?
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Learning Synths
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Show HN: Stagehand – an open source browser automation framework powered by AI
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Bringing SerenityOS to real hardware, one driver at a time
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I had to take down my course-swapping site or be expelled
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LA wildfires force thousands to evacuate, NASA JPL closed
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You don't have to pay the Microsoft 365 price increase
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Luigi Mangione's account has been renamed on Stack Overflow
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Show HN: Factorio Blueprint Visualizer
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Show HN: Tetris in a PDF
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Daily Hacker News for 2025-01-08
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on January 08, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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Show HN: HipScript – Run CUDA in the browser with WebAssembly and WebGPU
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Type 2 Diabetes and cardiovascular disease attributable to sugar beverages
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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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Servo Revival: 2023-2024
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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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Daily Hacker News for 2025-01-07
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on January 07, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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Apple squandered the Holy Grail
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All clocks are 30 seconds late
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NYC Congestion Pricing Tracker
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How I program with LLMs
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Zig's comptime is bonkers good
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Nvidia announces next-gen RTX 5090 and RTX 5080 GPUs
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Nvidia's Project Digits is a 'personal AI supercomputer'
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A minimax chess engine in regular expressions
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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 – The Unholy Union Between Half-Life and Morrowind Engines
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Daily Hacker News for 2025-01-06
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on January 06, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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Remote code execution via MIDI messages
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I made $100K from a dick joke
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In my life, I've witnessed three elite salespeople at work
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Hitting OKRs vs. Doing Your Job
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Doom, the Gallery Experience
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Time-Series Anomaly Detection: A Decade Review
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Stimulation Clicker
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Justin Trudeau promises to resign as PM
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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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Daily Hacker News for 2025-01-05
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on January 05, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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Meta is killing off its AI-powered Instagram and Facebook profiles
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One Dog vs. the Windows 3.1 Graphics Stack
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Web page annoyances that I don't inflict on you
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Researchers design wearable tech that can sense glucose levels more accurately
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Guten: A Tiny Newspaper Printer
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Show HN: Struggle with CSS Flexbox? This Playground Is for You
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How NAT Traversal Works (2020)
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Extracting AI models from mobile apps
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A messy experiment that changed how I think about AI code analysis
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Akamai to shut down its CDN operations in China
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Daily Hacker News for 2025-01-04
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on January 04, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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B-Trees: More Than I Thought I'd Want to Know
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The Evolution of SRE at Google
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Show HN: I completed shipping my desktop app
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Phase behavior of Cacio and Pepe sauce
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SpaceSim
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VoxelSpace: Terrain rendering algorithm in less than 20 lines of code (2020)
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Self driving 1993 Volvo with open pilot
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How to draw an outline in a video game
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A mole infiltrated the highest ranks of American militias
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Combining 15s interval whole-sky-camera photos to form a 4y spanning keogram
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Daily Hacker News for 2025-01-03
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on January 03, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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Ask HN: How to learn marketing and sales as a solo entrepreneur?
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Zildjian, a 400-year-old cymbal-making company in Massachusetts
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Rules for writing software tutorials
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Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 2025)
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U.S. appeals court strikes down FCC's net neutrality rules
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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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Be a property owner and not a renter on the internet
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BlogScroll – An open directory of personal sites and blogs
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Can LLMs write better code if you keep asking them to “write better code”?
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Daily Hacker News for 2025-01-02
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on January 02, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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Software Design Is Knowledge Building
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Books I Loved Reading in 2024
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Show HN: API Parrot – Automatically Reverse Engineer HTTP APIs
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Rails for everything
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The GPU, not the TPM, is the root of hardware DRM
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Zasper: A Modern and Efficient Alternative to JupyterLab, Built in Go
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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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Tell HN: Impassable Cloudflare challenges are ruining my browsing experience
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Advent of Code 2024 in pure SQL
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Daily Hacker News for 2025-01-01
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on January 01, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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An Unreasonable Amount of Time
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Systems ideas that sound good but almost never work
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The GTA III port for the Dreamcast has been released
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Arnis: Generate cities in Minecraft from OpenStreetMap
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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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Terence Tao: One of my papers got declined today
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Daily Hacker News for 2024-12-31
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on December 31, 2024 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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Debugging memory corruption: who the hell writes \"2\" into my stack? (2016)
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I keep turning my Google Sheets into phone-friendly webapps
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Dumping Memory to Bypass BitLocker on Windows 11
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“A Course of Pure Mathematics” – G. H. Hardy (1921) [pdf]
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I wrote a Game Boy Advance game in Zig
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Coconut by Meta AI – Better LLM Reasoning with Chain of Continuous Thought?
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Orbit by Mozilla
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More telcos confirm Salt Typhoon breaches as White House weighs in
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Deepseek: The quiet giant leading China’s AI race
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Things we learned about LLMs in 2024
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