Archive
Jan 2025
- Why Tracebit is written in C#
- Tesla Paid Zero Federal Income Tax in 2024, Despite $2.3B in Income
- Musk aides lock government workers out of computer systems at US agency
- Add "fucking" to your Google searches to neutralize AI summaries
- GenAI Art Is the Least Imaginative Use of AI Imaginable
- US government agency argues that money isn't property–so it can take yours
- Federal employees told to remove pronouns from email signatures by end of day
- Global variables are not the problem
- Instagram and Facebook Blocked and Hid Abortion Pill Providers' Posts
- Bypass DeepSeek censorship by speaking in hex
- Meta in talks to reincorporate in Texas or another state, WSJ reports
- OpenAI O3-Mini
- Older adults disproportionately hindered by touch screen interfaces (2023)
- Show HN: Uscope, a new Linux debugger written from scratch
- Apple files emergency motion to become defendant in US vs. Google [pdf]
- Five years of Brexit reshaped Britain
- Ear muscle we thought humans didn't use activates when people listen hard
- Detroit’s revival takes shape after decades of decay
- Llama.cpp supports Vulkan. why doesn't Ollama?
- NSF starts vetting all grants to comply with executive orders
- Hacker News for Gamedev
- Sixos: A nix OS without systemd [video]
- Go Is a Well-Designed Language
- A mouseless tale: trying for a keyboard-driven desktop
- Ask HN: Promoted, but Career Path Derailed
- A better build system for OCaml
- Archivists work to save disappearing data.gov datasets
- Stats – macOS system monitor in your menu bar
- California law enforcement misused state databases more than 7k times in 2023
- Many of the Pokemon playtest cards were likely printed in 2024
- Launch HN: Karsa (YC W25) – Buy and save stablecoins internationally
- Pointers Are Complicated II, or: We need better language specs (2020)
- String of recent killings linked to Bay Area 'Zizians'
- Mistral Small 3
- Antiqua et Nova: Note on the relationship between AI and human intelligence
- Show HN: Audiocube – A 3D DAW for Spatial Audio
- JavaScript Temporal is coming
- Tesla sales in Germany dropped 41% in 2024
- Majority of US teens have lost trust in Big Tech
- Commercial jet collides with Black Hawk helicopter near Reagan airport
- Younger cannabis users have reduced brain function, finds largest study yet
- Some flag emojis aren’t working on Chrome on Windows
- Advice for a friend who wants to start a blog
- An update on Dart macros and data serialization
- From C++ to Clojure: Jank language promises best of both
- Exposed DeepSeek database leaking sensitive information, including chat history
- Soviet Shoe Factory Principle
- Waymo to test its autonomous driving technology in over 10 new cities
- Adding iodine to salt played a role in cognitive improvements: research (2013)
- No Man's Sky's update introduces billions of new stars, planets, and more
- "We're building a new static type checker for Python"
- An analysis of DeepSeek's R1-Zero and R1
- DeepSeek's Hidden Bias: How We Cut It by 76% Without Performance Loss
- On DeepSeek and export controls
- Why DeepSeek had to be open source
- US children fall further behind in reading
- Google Pixel 4a's old firmware is gone, trapping users on buggy battery update
- Complete hardware and software setup for running Deepseek-R1 locally
- Cali's AG Tells AI Companies Almost Everything They're Doing Might Be Illegal
- I do not want AI to "polish" me
- Seagate: 'new' hard drives used for tens of thousands of hours
- Our phones are killing our ability to feel sexy (2024)
- Asteroid Impact on Earth 2032 with Probability 1% and 8Mt Energy
- Nuclear fusion: it's time for a reality check
- Jevons paradox
- Bacteria (and their metabolites) and depression
- We got hit by an alarmingly well-prepared phish spammer
- I still like Sublime Text
- Science YouTuber physicsgirl (Dianna Cowern) stands for the first time in 2 yrs
- OpenAI says it has evidence DeepSeek used its model to train competitor
- Microsoft Probing If DeepSeek-Linked Group Improperly Obtained OpenAI Data
- Apple and SpaceX link up to support Starlink satellite network on iPhones
- Libraries and Well-Being: A Case Study from The New York Public Library
- Goodbye, Slopify
- Deferred resignation email to federal employees
- Questions censored by DeepSeek
- Instagram deals reveal Meta is offering TikTok creators as much as $300k to post
- Ask HN: Are YC startups *actually* hiring?
- Windows 7 boots slower if you set a solid background color
- New speculative attacks on Apple CPUs
- Using uv as your shebang line
- Sam Altman said startups with $10M were 'hopeless' competing with OpenAI
- Bitwarden is turning 2FA on by default for new devices
- Boom XB-1 First Supersonic Flight [video]
- Almost one in 10 people use the same four-digit PIN
- IAC confirms existence of a Super-earth in the habitable zone of a Sun-like Star
- Promising results from DeepSeek R1 for code
- Boom Supersonic to break sound barrier during historic test flight today
- HD Hyundai set to debut production 14 ton hydrogen wheeled excavator
- DeepSeek could represent Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang's worst nightmare
- AI, but at What Cost? Breakdown of AI's Carbon Footprint
- US pauses all federal aid and grants
- Cleveland police used AI to justify a search warrant. It derailed a murder case
- US Civil servants are being asked who they voted for in 2024 election
- Run DeepSeek R1 Dynamic 1.58-bit
- FTC takes action against GoDaddy for alleged lax data security
- Open-R1: an open reproduction of DeepSeek-R1
- Why OpenAI's $157B valuation misreads AI's future (Oct 2024)
- I trusted an LLM, now I'm on day 4 of an afternoon project
- Developers should embrace creative coding again
- The Illustrated DeepSeek-R1
- Go 1.24's go tool is one of the best additions to the ecosystem in years
- We're bringing Pebble back
- Google open-sources the Pebble OS
- The Alpha Myth: How captive wolves led us astray
- DeepSeek releases Janus Pro, a text-to-image generator [pdf]
- My failed attempt to shrink all NPM packages by 5%
- Nvidia’s $589B DeepSeek rout
- Facebook ban on discussing Linux?
- Sweden Seizes Ship Suspected of Baltic Sea 'Sabotage'
- One in four 2020 Tesla Model 3 failed the Danish periodic inspection in 2024
- A layoff fundamentally changed how I perceive work
- USA restricts Swiss access to AI computer chips
- Purelymail: Cheap, no-nonsense email
- Rust’s worst feature
- Openhaystack: Build 'AirTags' – track Bluetooth devices via Apple's network
- Lessons in creating family photos that people want to keep (2018)
- Kansas tuberculosis outbreak is America's largest recorded since the 1950s
- Show HN: DeepSeek My User Agent
- Quiet Quitting: Why Employees Are Demanding Fairness and Boundaries
- The only photo of the Concorde flying at supersonic speed
- Another undersea cable damaged in Baltic Sea
- Former tech CEO suing to get the record of his arrest removed from the internet
- No Bitcoin ETFs at Vanguard (2024)
- Ask HN: Would you still choose Ruby on Rails for a startup in 2025?
- Qwen2.5-1M: Deploy your own Qwen with context length up to 1M tokens
- Hard numbers in the Wayland vs. X11 input latency discussion
- The Microsoft 365 Copilot launch was a disaster
- Are Americans' perceptions of the economy and crime broken?
- It's not a crime if we do it with an app
- No one is disrupting banks – at least not the big ones
- Toyota reduces price of new hydrogen car with $15,000 of free fuel
- When AI promises speed but delivers debugging hell
- The protester's guide to smartphone security
- Composable SQL
- YC Graveyard: 821 inactive Y Combinator startups
- Ask HN: Anyone else find LLM related posts causing them to lose interest in HN
- Explainer: What's r1 and everything else?
- AI slop, suspicion, and writing back
- Emerging reasoning with reinforcement learning
- The Simplicity of Prolog
- Chimera Linux works toward a simplified desktop
- The South Vietnamese pilot who landed a Cessna on a carrier to save his family (2019)
- Steam Brick: No screen, no controller, just a power button and a USB port
- Larry Ellison: vast AI surveillance can ensure citizens are on best behavior (2024)
- Sony ends production of Blu-ray Disc, recordable MiniDisc, and MiniDV media
- Wall Street banks prepare to sell up to $3B in X loans next week
- Every HTML Element
- OpenRA – Classic strategy games rebuilt for the modern era
- DeepSeek-R1: Incentivizing Reasoning Capability in LLMs via RL
- Emotional support across adulthood: A 60-year study of men’s social networks
- DOGE Takeover of USDS Allows Them to Surveil the US Government from the Inside
- CIA now favors lab leak theory to explain Covid's origins
- Why Northern England is poor
- The impact of competition and DeepSeek on Nvidia
- Arsenal FC AI Research Engineer job posting
- First Look: Loops, by Pixelfed – Decentralised TikTok Competitor (2024)
- Feeling Targeted: Executive Order Ending Wasteful DEIA Efforts
- Caltrain's electric fleet more efficient than expected
- OpenAI just put the final nail in the coffin of the open World Wide Web
- 'Never seen anything like this' – NIH meetings and travel halted abruptly
- Show HN: Lightpanda, an open-source headless browser in Zig
- Trying out Zed after more than a decade of Vim/Neovim
- PhysicsForums and the Dead Internet Theory
- Undiagnosed Cognitive Decline Eats into Seniors' Retirement Savings
- Wild – A fast linker for Linux
- Life expectancy/years of life lost in adults w ADHD in UK: matched cohort study
- Show HN: Cs16.css – CSS library based on Counter Strike 1.6 UI
- How I Use Home Assistant in 2025
- AI is creating a generation of illiterate programmers
- Bluesky's science takeover: 70% of Nature poll respondents use platform
- Every System is a Log: Avoiding coordination in distributed applications
- Ask HN: Why buy domains and 301 redirect them to me?
- Build It Yourself
- Could self-driving buses bring vehicle autonomy home?
- All federal agencies ordered to terminate remote work–ideally within 30 days
- We Need to Talk About Docker Hub
- Dragonsweeper — A minesweeper game that requires observation
- How we scaled Slack to support 1000s of developers
- UI is hell: four-function calculators
- How far can you get in 40 minutes from each subway station in NYC?
- A phishing attack involving g.co, Google's URL shortener
- The State of Vim
- AI isn't going to kill the software industry
- Weierstrass's Monster
- C is not suited to SIMD (2019)
- Building a Medieval Castle from Scratch
- Llama.vim – Local LLM-assisted text completion
- Operator research preview
- Thank HN: My bootstrapped startup got acquired today
- Results of "Humanity's Last Exam" benchmark published
- Working with Files Is Hard (2019)
- Turn any bicycle electric
- Where is London's most central sheep?
- Show HN: I built an active community of trans people online
- Tech takes the Pareto principle too far
- Show HN: I organized Bluesky feeds by categories and growth rankings
- Trae: An AI-powered IDE by ByteDance
- Understanding gRPC, OpenAPI and REST and when to use them in API design (2020)
- Tailwind CSS v4.0
- Most Influential Papers in Computer Science History
- NIH hit with freezes on meetings, travel, communications, and hiring
- Using generative AI as part of historical research: three case studies
- Google Fiber is coming to Las Vegas
- So you wanna write Kubernetes controllers?
- F-Droid's Progress and What's Coming in 2025
- Show HN: I made an open-source laptop from scratch
- How to improve your WFH lighting to reduce eye strain
- Show HN: Trolling SMS spammers with Ollama
- C stdlib isn't threadsafe and even safe Rust didn't save us
- Life lessons from the first half-century of my career
- TabBoo – add random jumpscares to websites you're trying to avoid
- Mastercard DNS error went unnoticed for years
- OpenAI has upped its lobbying efforts nearly sevenfold
- The Tyranny of Structurelessness (1970)
- Show HN: NotepadJs – A cross-platform love letter to Notepad
- My Struggle with Doom Scrolling
- Open Heart Protocol
- How shut-down Bay Area tech companies ditch their fancy gear
- DHS removes all members of cyber security advisory boards, halts investigations
- OpenAI's o1 Playing Codenames
- Tensor Product Attention Is All You Need
- Why is zero plural? (2024)
- Ross Ulbricht granted a full pardon
- Hunyuan3D 2.0 – High-Resolution 3D Assets Generation
- Stargate Project: SoftBank, OpenAI, Oracle, MGX to build data centers
- The FizzBuzz that did not get me the job
- Ask HN: Is anyone doing anything cool with tiny language models?
- Invisible Electrostatic Wall at 3M plant (1996)
- Tilde, My LLVM Alternative
- Show HN: I made a app that uses NFC as a physical switch to block distractions
- Should we use AI and LLMs for Christian apologetics? (2024)
- Calm tech certification "rewards" less distracting tech
- 0-click deanonymization attack targeting Signal, Discord, other platforms
- Metacognitive laziness: Effects of generative AI on learning motivation
- Ask HN: Organize local communities without Facebook?
- Couriers mystified by the algorithms that control their jobs
- Show HN: Using YOLO to Detect Office Chairs in 40M Hotel Photos
- People are bad at reporting what they eat. That's a problem for dietary research
- Show HN: Printercow – Turn any thermal printer into an API endpoint
- Poland fumes over US block on AI chips
- Startup Winter: Hacker News Lost Its Faith
- You probably don't need query builders
- Meta Censoring '#Democrat' on Instagram
- X, Facebook, Instagram, and YouTube sign EU code to tackle hate speech
- Context should go away for Go 2 (2017)
- Ask HN: Can we just admit we want to replace jobs with AI?
- More than 40% of postdocs leave academia, study reveals
- Japan Offers Free Daycare to Boost Tokyo's Falling Birth Rate
- It sure looks like Meta stole a lot of books to build its AI
- Ruff: Python linter and code formatter written in Rust
- Reverse engineering Call of Duty anti-cheat
- Elon Musk appears to make back-to-back fascist salutes at inauguration rally
- Bambu Lab - Setting the Record Straight About Our Security Update
- Migrating Away from Bcachefs
- Did Elon Musk Appear to Sieg Heil at Trump Inauguration?
- Authors seek Meta's torrent client logs and seeding data in AI piracy probe
- ROCm Device Support Wishlist
- I am (not) a failure: Lessons learned from six failed startup attempts
- Master the Art of the Product Manager 'No'
- I'm Peter Roberts, immigration attorney, who does work for YC and startups. AMA
- Mixxx: GPL DJ Software
- Moving on from React, a year later
- The quiet rebellion of a little life
- DeepSeek-R1
- Celestial Navigation for Drones
- Interview with Jeff Atwood, Co-Founder of Stack Overflow
- Using eSIMs with devices that only have a physical SIM slot via a 9eSIM SIM car
- I Met Paul Graham Once
- TypeScript enums: use cases and alternatives
- What does "supports DRM and may not be fully accessible" mean for SATA SDDs?
- I'll think twice before using GitHub Actions again
- Reverse Engineering Bambu Connect
- Ask HN: Is anyone making money selling traditional downloadable software?
- I got a heat pump and my energy bill went up
- UK's hardware talent is being wasted
- FrontierMath was funded by OpenAI
- It's time to make computing personal again
- Minecraft with object impermanence
- Please don't force dark mode
- Escape the walled garden and algorithm black boxes with RSS feeds
- Why is Git Autocorrect too fast for Formula One drivers?
- Why Twitter is such a big deal (2009)
- Using your Apple device as an access card in unsupported systems
- TikTok says it is restoring service for U.S. users
- Lenovo has removed the TrackPoint nub from new ThinkPad laptops
- “The Traitors”, a reality TV show, offers a useful economics lesson
- IsMyXFeedFucked – Analyze How Your X Feed's Impacting You
- About availability of TikTok and ByteDance Ltd. apps in the United States
- Haskell: A Great Procedural Language
- Forgejo: A self-hosted lightweight software forge
- TikTok goes dark in the US
- We need to protect the protocol that runs Bluesky
- Nation-scale Matrix deployments will fail using the community version of Synapse
- Garmin's –$40B Pivot
- Perplexity AI submits bid to merge with TikTok
- WASM GC isn't ready for realtime graphics
- Amazon's AI crawler is making my Git server unstable
- VS Code Pets
- O1 isn't a chat model (and that's the point)
- What if no one misses TikTok?
- Show HN: Interactive systemd – a better way to work with systemd units
- Why do bees die when they sting you? (2021)
- Prime numbers so memorable that people hunt for them
- Ask HN: Has anyone tried alternative company models (like a co-op) for SaaS?
- ATProto and the ownership of identity
- The Toyota Prius transformed the auto industry
- Google begins requiring JavaScript for Google Search
- Ask HN: Which RSS reader do you use?
- I've been advocating for RSS support, and you should too
- Using ChatGPT is not bad for the environment
- Can you read this cursive handwriting? The National Archives wants your help
- A notification for you, Apple: There is no husband
- EFF statement on U.S. Supreme Court's decision to uphold TikTok ban
- Robotics and ROS 2 Essentials
- Investigating an “evil” RJ45 dongle
- So you want to build your own data center
- Higher potassium intake at dinner linked to fewer sleep disturbances – study
- Brood War Korean Translations
- Supreme Court upholds TikTok ban, but Trump might offer lifeline
- Ozempic and Wegovy are selected for Medicare's price negotiations
- 'Once-in-a-century' discovery reveals luxury of Pompeii
- Ask HN: How can I realistically change careers?
- Canon wants us to pay for using our own camera as a webcam
- Trusting clients is probably a security flaw
- Thoughts on a month with Devin
- Let's talk about AI and end-to-end encryption
- General Motors Is Banned from Selling Driving Behavior Data for 5 Years
- Bypassing disk encryption on systems with automatic TPM2 unlock
- Is the world becoming uninsurable?
- Firebase bill is usually $50, but I was surprised to see a $70k bill in one day
- Some things to expect in 2025
- Solving the first 100 Project Euler problems using 100 languages
- Starship Flight 7
- Divers recover Phoenician shipwreck that sank 2.6k years ago off coast of Spain
- Framework for Artificial Intelligence Diffusion
- How can a top scientist be so confidently wrong? R. A. Fisher and smoking (2022)
- Dutch Align with US Export Controls on Some ASML Chip Tools
- Oh Shit, Git?
- David Lynch has died
- Bunkers in Albania
- California's future depends on how leaders rebuild after the Los Angeles fires
- Walgreens replaced fridge doors with smart screens. It's now a $200M fiasco
- Six day and IP address certificate options in 2025
- Device uses wind to create ammonia out of air
- GitHub introduces sub-issues, issue types and advanced search
- No Calls
- Nepenthes is a tarpit to catch AI web crawlers
- No Billionares at FOSDEM
- Nokia's internal presentation after iPhone was launched (2007) [pdf]
- Nintendo announces the Switch 2 [video]
- I ditched the algorithm for RSS
- Apple interoperability efforts under EU law falls short, advocacy groups argue
- A standards-first web framework
- Blue Origin reaches orbit on first flight of its titanic New Glenn rocket
- Australian Open resorts to animated caricatures to bypass broadcast restrictions
- OpenAI fails to deliver opt-out system for photographers
- I have made the decision to disband Hindenburg Research
- 100x defect tolerance: How we solved the yield problem
- Israel, Hamas reach ceasefire deal to end 15 months of war in Gaza
- UnitedHealth overcharged cancer patients for drugs by over 1,000%
- Sweden brings more books and handwriting practice back to its schools (2023)
- A marriage proposal spoken in office jargon
- Banning TikTok Is Unconstitutional. The Supreme Court Must Step In
- Qantas South Africa flights delayed by falling debris from SpaceX rockets
- AI Brad Pitt dupes French woman out of €830k
- Show HN: I built a fair alternative to Product Hunt for indie makers
- Why is Cloudflare Pages' bandwidth unlimited?
- Ropey – A UTF8 text rope for manipulating and editing large text
- WTF Happened in 1971? (2019)
- Build a Database in Four Months with Rust and 647 Open-Source Dependencies
- US will ban cancer-linked Red Dye No. 3 in cereal and other foods
- Modern JavaScript for Django developers
- Google is making AI in Gmail and Docs free, but raising the price of Workspace
- German economy contracts 0.2% in 2024 in second consecutive annual slowdown
- TikTok preparing for U.S. shut-off on Sunday
- Generate audiobooks from E-books with Kokoro-82M
- Has LLM killed traditional NLP?
- Nevada court shuts down police use of federal loophole for civil forfeiture
- Nobody cares
- Climbers using xenon gas to climb Everest
- Rewriting my website in plain HTML and CSS
- GPT-4o with scheduled tasks (jawbone) is available in beta
- Road signs to help people limit radiation exposure in contaminated areas
- Platforms systematically removed a user because he made "most wanted CEO" cards
- Home Loss File System
- Executive order on advancing United States leadership in AI infrastructure
- Meta announces 5% cuts in preparation for 'intense year'
- Apple will soon receive 'made in America' chips from TSMC's Arizona fab
- Allstate used GasBuddy and other apps to track driving behavior: lawsuit
- Google’s OAuth login doesn’t protect against purchasing a failed startup domain
- Why is homeschooling becoming fashionable?
- LLM based agents as Dungeon Masters
- Making an intersection unsafe for pedestrians to save seconds for drivers
- Tesla Sales Are Tanking in Europe
- 1 in 5 online job postings are either fake or never filled, study finds
- American workers' enthusiasm for their jobs falls to a 10-year low
- Take the pedals off the bike
- Lightcell: An engine that uses light to make electricity
- Using coding skills to make passive income
- In the belly of the MrBeast
- Estimates of plant CO2 uptake rise by nearly one third
- I Switched to Firefox and Never Looked Back
- PostgreSQL is the Database Management System of the Year 2024
- FFmpeg by Example
- ZFS 2.3 released with ZFS raidz expansion
- The Sikh Practice of Langar, a Free Meal Where Everyone Is Equal
- DoubleClickjacking: A New type of web hacking technique
- 43K fewer drivers on Manhattan roads after congestion pricing turned on
- Campsite switches to Creative Commons Non-Commercial license
- Why do small children in Japan ride the subway alone?
- GitHub Git Operations Are Down
- Cheating Is All You Need
- Spain proposes 100% tax on homes bought by non-EU residents
- Snyk security researcher deploys malicious NPM packages targeting cursor.com
- Five years of React Native at Shopify
- JPMorgan Workers Ponder Union in Wake of Return-to-Office Mandate
- Sonos CEO steps down after app update debacle
- New York starts enforcing $15 broadband law that ISPs tried to kill
- How corn syrup took over America
- WordPress Is in Trouble
- Mark Zuckerberg says AI could soon do the work of Meta's midlevel engineers
- Let's Quit X
- Ask HN: Is maintaining a personal blog still worth it?
- An "oh fuck" moment in time
- Sonos CEO Patrick Spence steps down after disastrous app launch
- Hotel booking sites overcharge Bay Area customers
- Luck Be a Landlord Might Be Banned from Google Play
- Ask HN: How do you prevent the impact of social media on your children?
- Literate programming: Knuth is doing it wrong (2014)
- Ask HN: Am I the only one here who can't stand HN's AI obsession?
- Can you complete the Oregon Trail if you wait at a river for 14272 years?
- Earth breaches 1.5 °C climate limit for the first time: what does it mean?
- Euro-cloud provider Anexia moves 12,000 VMs off VMware to homebrew KVM platform
- Debugging: Indispensable rules for finding even the most elusive problems (2004)
- The Origins of Wokeness
- Mastodon announces new European non-profit, change of CEO
- Apple asks investors to block proposal to scrap diversity programmes
- Disco Elysium Explorer
- How did they make cars fall apart in old movies (2017)
- The consensus on Havana Syndrome is cracking
- Right to root access
- Qubes OS: A reasonably secure operating system
- I deleted my social media accounts
- Russia's Hidden War Debt
- Microsoft Bob: Microsoft's biggest flop of the 1990s
- Why some DVLA digital services don't work at night
- Uv's killer feature is making ad-hoc environments easy
- Best Pens for 2025
- Study links sugar-filled drinks to millions of heart disease and diabetes cases
- If we had the best product engineering organization, what would it look like?
- Tabby: Self-hosted AI coding assistant
- The case for letting Malibu burn (1995)
- Great things about Rust that aren't just performance
- The origin of the cargo cult metaphor
- I will never need to buy a new computer again
- Two fire experts interviewed about L.A. wildfires
- Mac Mini G4 – The best « classic » Macintosh for retro-gaming?
- I spent 18 years in the Linux console
- Zuckerberg approved training Llama on LibGen [pdf]
- The mistake of yearning for the 'friendly' online world of 20 years ago
- HMD Key – A lightweight, affordable smartphone
- I created an open-source Hardware Hacking Wiki – with tutorials for beginners
- AI founders will learn the bitter lesson
- Physicists who want to ditch dark energy
- Mullenweg Shuts Down WordPress Sustainability Team, Igniting Backlash
- The Illustrated Guide to a PhD
- Aaron Swartz and Sam Altman
- Why I Chose Common Lisp
- Adobe Lightroom's AI Remove feature added a Bitcoin to bird in flight photo
- Why the weak nuclear force is short range
- 'So immoral': gig economy workers forced to pay fee to receive their wages
- Stop Trying to Schedule a Call with Me
- What it's like working for American companies as an Australian
- Obvious things C should do
- Chatham House Rule is suddenly everywhere in the Bay Area
- World's darkest and clearest skies at risk from industrial megaproject
- Matt Mullenweg deactivates WordPress accounts of contributors planning a fork
- Homomorphic encryption in iOS 18
- Nix – Death by a Thousand Cuts
- TSMC begins producing 4-nanometer chips in Arizona
- Track your devices via Apple FindMy network in Go/TinyGo
- Nearly all binary searches and mergesorts are broken (2006)
- Be Aware of the Makefile Effect
- The Anti-Social Century
- A laptop stand made from a single sheet of recycled paper
- Very Wrong Math
- OpenAI's bot crushed this seven-person company's web site 'like a DDoS attack'
- H-1B visa lottery is shutting out top talent
- Meta's memo to employees rolling back DEI programs
- Starlink is now cheaper than leading internet provider in some African countries
- When a winter storm trapped a luxury passenger train near Donner Pass
- Getting silly with C, part (void*)2
- Railroad Tycoon II
- Ships must practice celestial navigation
- Finland's zero homeless strategy (2021)
- Web apps built with Ruby on Rails
- Formal Methods: Just Good Engineering Practice? (2024)
- I've acquired a new superpower
- Making Beautiful API Keys
- Northeastern's redesign of the CS curriculum
- I got OpenTelemetry to work. But why was it so complicated?
- Who Can Understand the Proof? A Window on Formalized Mathematics
- Narcolepsy is weird but I didn't notice
- Before Squid Game, there was Battle Royale
- Visualizing All ISBNs
- A three month review of kagi search and the orion web browser (2024)
- 41% of Employers Worldwide Say They'll Reduce Staff by 2030 Due to AI
- TikTok tells staff impacted by wildfires to use sick hours if they can't work
- Predictions Scorecard, 2025 January 01
- Candy Crush, Tinder, MyFitnessPal: Apps hijacked to spy on location
- Celebrating the timeless allure of Tintin's aesthetics
- Lines of code that beat A/B testing (2012)
- Disappointed with the TVs at CES 2025
- Pushing the whole company into the past on purpose
- Soldering the Tek way
- Ask HN: A friend has brain cancer: any bio hacks that worked?
- How to delete your Facebook account
- Why is my CPU usage always 100%?
- Can we communally deprecate git checkout?
- Ask HN: How do you backup your Android?
- Datadog acquires Quickwit
- WorstFit: Unveiling Hidden Transformers in Windows ANSI
- Show HN: Kate's App
- The Tsunami of Burnout Few See
- Show HN: Tetris in a PDF
- SQL nulls are weird
- Why aren't we all serverless yet?
- Rational or not? This basic math question took decades to answer
- Not every user owns an iPhone
- Microsoft should be terrified of SteamOS
- Man trapped inside driverless car as it spins in circles
- Stay Gold, America
- Scientists uncover how the brain washes itself during sleep
- Show HN: Factorio Blueprint Visualizer
- VLC tops 6B downloads, previews AI-generated subtitles
- Who would buy a Raspberry Pi for $120?
- Phi 4 available on Ollama
- New 16GB Raspberry Pi 5 on sale now at $120
- Luigi Mangione's account has been renamed on Stack Overflow
- You don't have to pay the Microsoft 365 price increase
- 28h Days: year 1 update
- Salesforce will hire no more software engineers in 2025, says Marc Benioff
- LA wildfires force thousands to evacuate, NASA JPL closed
- I had to take down my course-swapping site or be expelled
- Some programming language ideas
- Facebook is removing stories about pornographic ads
- White House unveils Cyber Trust Mark program for consumer devices
- C++26: A Placeholder with No Name
- Bringing SerenityOS to real hardware, one driver at a time
- Show HN: Atlas of Space
- Cracking a 512-bit DKIM key for less than $8 in the cloud
- Ask HN: What sub $200 product improved your 2024
- Bye-bye Windows gaming? SteamOS officially expands past the Steam Deck
- Spinal cord injuries from mountain biking exceed hockey, other high-risk sports
- The Aging Programmer [video]
- Operating System in 1,000 Lines – Intro
- Today I learned that bash has hashmaps (2024)
- Annual 'winners' for most egregious US healthcare profiteering announced
- A day in the life of a prolific voice phishing crew
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