Happy New Year 2025
1123 points by martynvandijke | 244 comments
A Hacker News discussion thread where users exchange New Year 2025 greetings and reflect on the community.
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Stories posted this day, by points. Rank history starts with the October 2026 rebuild.
Things we learned about LLMs in 2024(simonwillison.net)
871 points by simonw | 530 comments
Simon Willison's blog post reviewing the major developments, themes and pivotal moments in large language models during 2024.
Zildjian, a 400-year-old cymbal-making company in Massachusetts(wbur.org)
485 points by arbesman | 220 comments
WBUR radio feature and article touring Zildjian, the 400-year-old cymbal maker based in Norwell, Massachusetts.
An Unreasonable Amount of Time(allenpike.com)
473 points by memalign | 81 comments
Allen Pike's short essay using a Teller magic trick to illustrate how spending an unreasonable amount of time on something can create magic.
Arnis: Generate cities in Minecraft from OpenStreetMap(github.com)
436 points by jamesy0ung | 64 comments
GitHub repository for Arnis, a Rust tool that generates real-world locations in Minecraft Java Edition from OpenStreetMap data.
Deepseek: The quiet giant leading China’s AI race(chinatalk.media)
428 points by sunny-beast | 362 comments
ChinaTalk article presenting an annotated translation of an interview with DeepSeek CEO Liang Wenfeng about the Chinese AI lab and its R1 model.
Ask HN: How to learn marketing and sales as a solo entrepreneur?
427 points by yu3zhou4 | 164 comments
Ask HN thread where a developer who failed to commercialize several products asks for resources on learning marketing and sales as a solo entrepreneur.
The GTA III port for the Dreamcast has been released(gitlab.com)
420 points by Funes- | 135 comments
GitLab repository for dca3-game, a port of librw and re3 (the GTA III reverse-engineered engine) to the Sega Dreamcast.
Orbit by Mozilla(orbitbymozilla.com)
410 points by blinky88 | 355 comments
Landing page for Orbit by Mozilla, a beta Firefox extension that uses AI to summarize emails, docs, articles, and videos while preserving privacy.
More telcos confirm Salt Typhoon breaches as White House weighs in(theregister.com)
392 points by rntn | 321 comments
The Register article reporting that AT&T, Verizon, and Lumen confirmed Salt Typhoon breaches by Chinese state-backed hackers, with White House comments.
Software Design Is Knowledge Building(olano.dev)
373 points by signa11 | 97 comments
Blog post on olano.dev arguing that software design is a process of building knowledge, illustrated by a generic true story about a company's integration service.
Systems ideas that sound good but almost never work(hardcoresoftware.learningbyshipping.com)
356 points by kaycebasques | 215 comments
Steven Sinofsky's Hardcore Software essay on engineering and systems patterns that sound good ("Let's just...") but almost never work as intended.
Coconut by Meta AI – Better LLM Reasoning with Chain of Continuous Thought?(aipapersacademy.com)
334 points by TaurenHunter | 138 comments
An AI Papers Academy article and video explaining Meta AI's Coconut paper on LLM reasoning via chain of continuous thought in latent space.
Darktable 5.0.0(darktable.org)
286 points by morsch | 98 comments
LineageOS 22(lineageos.org)
220 points by timschumi | 113 comments
Déjà vu: Ghostly CVEs in my terminal title(dgl.cx)
178 points by dgl | 47 comments
Dog Aging Project(dogagingproject.org)
108 points by T-A | 91 comments
Show HN: Org-Supertag(github.com)
87 points by oliverchan2024 | 48 comments
Benchmarking RSA Key Generation(words.filippo.io)
41 points by mfrw | 20 comments
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