The Best Hacker News Posts of January 2025

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Show HN: I made an open-source laptop from scratch byran.ee · byran · 22 Jan 2025

3.2k pts 323 comments

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Stimulation Clicker neal.fun · meetpateltech · 6 Jan 2025

3.1k pts 589 comments

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We're bringing Pebble back repebble.com · erohead · 27 Jan 2025

2.8k pts 738 comments

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Thank HN: My bootstrapped startup got acquired today paraschopra · 23 Jan 2025

2.2k pts 396 comments

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Ross Ulbricht granted a full pardon twitter.com · Ozarkian · 22 Jan 2025

1.9k pts 2.2k comments

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DeepSeek-R1 github.com · meetpateltech · 20 Jan 2025

1.8k pts 663 comments

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I've acquired a new superpower danielwirtz.com · wirtzdan · 10 Jan 2025

1.8k pts 557 comments

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No Calls keygen.sh · ezekg · 16 Jan 2025

1.6k pts 517 comments

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0-click deanonymization attack targeting Signal, Discord, other platforms gist.github.com · hackermondev · 21 Jan 2025

1.5k pts 438 comments

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JavaScript Temporal is coming developer.mozilla.org · SigmundurM · 30 Jan 2025

1.4k pts 399 comments

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OpenAI Furious DeepSeek Might Have Stolen All the Data OpenAI Stole from Us 404media.co · latexr · 29 Jan 2025

1.4k pts 16 comments

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DeepSeek-R1: Incentivizing Reasoning Capability in LLMs via RL arxiv.org · gradus_ad · 25 Jan 2025

1.4k pts 1.1k comments

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I had to take down my course-swapping site or be expelled linkedin.com · jdkaim · 8 Jan 2025

1.3k pts 698 comments

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DOOM CAPTCHA doom-captcha.vercel.app · denysvitali · 1 Jan 2025

1.3k pts 270 comments

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Show HN: Tetris in a PDF th0mas.nl · ThomasRinsma · 9 Jan 2025

1.3k pts 223 comments

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Google open-sources the Pebble OS opensource.googleblog.com · hexxeh · 27 Jan 2025

1.3k pts 200 comments

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David Lynch has died variety.com · wut42 · 16 Jan 2025

1.2k pts 378 comments

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Meta's memo to employees rolling back DEI programs axios.com · bsilvereagle · 10 Jan 2025

1.2k pts 1.7k comments

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I still like Sublime Text ohdoylerules.com · james2doyle · 29 Jan 2025

1.2k pts 602 comments

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TikTok goes dark in the US techcrunch.com · mfiguiere · 19 Jan 2025

1.2k pts 2.5k comments

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New speculative attacks on Apple CPUs predictors.fail · cylo · 28 Jan 2025

1.1k pts 350 comments

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I Met Paul Graham Once okayfail.com · DamonHD · 20 Jan 2025

1.1k pts 767 comments

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Nobody cares grantslatton.com · fzliu · 15 Jan 2025

1.1k pts 976 comments

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Operating System in 1,000 Lines – Intro operating-system-in-1000-lines.vercel.app · ingve · 8 Jan 2025

1.1k pts 121 comments

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uBlock Origin GPL code being stolen by team behind Honey browser extension old.reddit.com · extesy · 2 Jan 2025

1.1k pts 444 comments

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Canon wants us to pay for using our own camera as a webcam romanzipp.com · romanzipp · 17 Jan 2025

1.1k pts 648 comments

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A layoff fundamentally changed how I perceive work mertbulan.com · mertbio · 27 Jan 2025

1k pts 961 comments

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Stargate Project: SoftBank, OpenAI, Oracle, MGX to build data centers apnews.com · tedsanders · 21 Jan 2025

1k pts 1.5k comments

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Mastercard DNS error went unnoticed for years krebsonsecurity.com · todsacerdoti · 22 Jan 2025

1k pts 249 comments

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Luigi Mangione's account has been renamed on Stack Overflow substack.evancarroll.com · OsrsNeedsf2P · 9 Jan 2025

990 pts 810 comments

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Promising results from DeepSeek R1 for code simonwillison.net · k__ · 28 Jan 2025

979 pts 746 comments

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I am rich and have no idea what to do vinay.sh · vhiremath4 · 2 Jan 2025

967 pts 1.6k comments

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OpenAI O3-Mini openai.com · johnneville · 31 Jan 2025

962 pts 904 comments

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Supreme Court upholds TikTok ban, but Trump might offer lifeline cnbc.com · kjhughes · 17 Jan 2025

960 pts 2.6k comments

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The Origins of Wokeness paulgraham.com · crbelaus · 13 Jan 2025

935 pts 2.2k comments

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FFmpeg by Example ffmpegbyexample.com · piyushsthr · 14 Jan 2025

920 pts 247 comments

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How I program with LLMs crawshaw.io · stpn · 7 Jan 2025

919 pts 332 comments

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DeepSeek releases Janus Pro, a text-to-image generator [pdf] github.com · reissbaker · 27 Jan 2025

912 pts 674 comments

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Steam Brick: No screen, no controller, just a power button and a USB port crastinator-pro.github.io · sbarre · 25 Jan 2025

885 pts 262 comments

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Facebook ban on discussing Linux? distrowatch.com · rogerthis · 27 Jan 2025

874 pts 388 comments

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It's not a crime if we do it with an app pluralistic.net · keepit · 26 Jan 2025

872 pts 609 comments

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Ending our third party fact-checking program and moving to Community Notes model about.fb.com · impish9208 · 7 Jan 2025

870 pts 1.4k comments

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3blue1brown YouTube Bitcoin video taken down as copyright violation twitter.com · talonx · 6 Jan 2025

857 pts 412 comments

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One of my papers got declined today mathstodon.xyz · GavCo · 1 Jan 2025

853 pts 290 comments

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Show HN: Cs16.css – CSS library based on Counter Strike 1.6 UI cs16.samke.me · samke- · 24 Jan 2025

819 pts 141 comments

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Can LLMs write better code if you keep asking them to “write better code”? minimaxir.com · rcarmo · 3 Jan 2025

812 pts 439 comments

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Mistakes engineers make in large established codebases seangoedecke.com · BerislavLopac · 7 Jan 2025

811 pts 368 comments

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Archivists work to save disappearing data.gov datasets 404media.co · johnneville · 30 Jan 2025

801 pts 238 comments

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Cracking a 512-bit DKIM key for less than $8 in the cloud dmarcchecker.app · awulf · 8 Jan 2025

799 pts 408 comments

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The Future of Htmx htmx.org · polyrand · 6 Jan 2025

788 pts 431 comments

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Add "fucking" to your Google searches to neutralize AI summaries gizmodo.com · jsheard · 31 Jan 2025

788 pts 357 comments

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Science YouTuber physicsgirl (Dianna Cowern) stands for the first time in 2 yrs youtube.com · m348e912 · 29 Jan 2025

783 pts 301 comments

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NeuralSVG: An Implicit Representation for Text-to-Vector Generation sagipolaczek.github.io · lnyan · 8 Jan 2025

782 pts 72 comments

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Nintendo announces the Switch 2 [video] youtube.com · HelloUsername · 16 Jan 2025

781 pts 975 comments

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I have made the decision to disband Hindenburg Research hindenburgresearch.com · toomuchtodo · 15 Jan 2025

775 pts 414 comments

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Show HN: Atlas of Space atlasof.space · gordonhart · 8 Jan 2025

770 pts 124 comments

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Run DeepSeek R1 Dynamic 1.58-bit unsloth.ai · noch · 28 Jan 2025

767 pts 332 comments

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Bypass DeepSeek censorship by speaking in hex substack.com · MedadNewman · 31 Jan 2025

755 pts 378 comments

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TabBoo – add random jumpscares to websites you're trying to avoid tabboo.xyz · thatsnotoptimal · 22 Jan 2025

753 pts 133 comments

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TikTok says it is restoring service for U.S. users nbcnews.com · Leary · 19 Jan 2025

752 pts 2.5k comments