Hacker News Daily top 30


Hacker News top 30 - 2025-01-20

  1. TikTok says it is restoring service for U.S. users www.nbcnews.com - 1726 comments 570 points
  2. It’s time to make computing personal again www.vintagecomputing.com - 144 comments 389 points
  3. FrontierMath was funded by OpenAI www.lesswrong.com - 85 comments 306 points
  4. Escape the walled garden and algorithm black boxes with RSS feeds www.johnwalker.nl - 89 comments 258 points
  5. Haskell: A Great Procedural Language entropicthoughts.com - 174 comments 251 points
  6. Please don’t force dark mode iamvishnu.com - 203 comments 232 points
  7. Why is Git Autocorrect too fast for Formula One drivers? blog.gitbutler.com - 133 comments 226 points
  8. The Fuzzing Book www.fuzzingbook.org - 6 comments 190 points
  9. Using your Apple device as an access card in unsupported systems github.com - 74 comments 177 points
  10. Build a tiny CA for your homelab with a Raspberry Pi smallstep.com - 45 comments 174 points
  11. Reverse Engineering Bambu Connect wiki.rossmanngroup.com - 69 comments 152 points
  12. UK’s hardware talent is being wasted josef.cn - 162 comments 148 points
  13. “The Traitors”, a reality TV show, offers a useful economics lesson www.economist.com - 118 comments 131 points
  14. Ask HN: Is anyone making money selling traditional downloadable software? news.ycombinator.com - 64 comments 124 points
  15. About availability of TikTok and ByteDance Ltd. apps in the United States support.apple.com - 143 comments 113 points
  16. Lenovo has removed the TrackPoint nub from new ThinkPad laptops www.pcworld.com - 130 comments 110 points
  17. The “35-cent” Commodore 64 softmodem oldvcr.blogspot.com - 17 comments 110 points
  18. IsMyXFeedFucked – Analyze How Your X Feed’s Impacting You www.ismyxfeedfucked.com - 139 comments 104 points
  19. The surprising struggle to get a Unix Epoch time from a UTC string in C or C++ berthub.eu - 48 comments 100 points
  20. All Lisp indentation schemes are ugly aartaka.me - 40 comments 85 points
  21. Making glow-in-the-dark Strontium Aluminate maurycyz.com - 32 comments 82 points
  22. About A comprehensive guide for Linux Network - Socket programming github.com - 15 comments 80 points
  23. Staffers unload on Amazon ’leadership’ after return-to-office for desk shortage www.msn.com - 52 comments 78 points
  24. Why Twitter is such a big deal - 2009 paulgraham.com - 101 comments 73 points
  25. TikTok ban: data reveals sharp traffic decline and rapid shift to alternatives blog.cloudflare.com - 93 comments 68 points
  26. How do interruptions impact different software engineering activities rdel.substack.com - 2 comments 66 points
  27. Hacking the Yamaha DX9 to Turn It into a DX7 - 2023 ajxs.me - 13 comments 65 points
  28. Open Dylan opendylan.org - 22 comments 58 points
  29. Zuckerberg appeared to know Llama trained on Libgen www.rollingstone.com - 70 comments 57 points
  30. Philosophy Eats AI sloanreview.mit.edu - 45 comments 57 points