Hacker News on Wednesday, 1 January 2025

DOOM CAPTCHA(doom-captcha.vercel.app)

1239 points by denysvitali 1 year ago | 264 comments

A playful CAPTCHA demo where users must play DOOM in the browser and kill at least three monsters, built with v0 and Vercel by @rauchg.

One of my papers got declined today(mathstodon.xyz)

788 points by GavCo 1 year ago | 256 comments

A Mastodon post by mathematician Terence Tao noting a journal rejected one of his papers and reflecting on how common, yet rarely discussed, rejection is in academia.

Static search trees: faster than binary search(curiouscoding.nl)

585 points by atombender 1 year ago | 196 comments

A long blog post by Ragnar Groot Koerkamp implementing and optimizing a static S+ search tree for high-throughput sorted-data search, reaching up to 40x faster than binary search.

Databases in 2024: A Year in Review(cs.cmu.edu)

545 points by avinassh 1 year ago | 175 comments

Andy Pavlo's annual blog retrospective on the database industry in 2024, covering acquisitions, license changes, and other notable events.

30% drop in O1-preview accuracy when Putnam problems are slightly variated(openreview.net)

529 points by optimalsolver 1 year ago | 490 comments

OpenReview paper page reporting that OpenAI's o1-preview loses about 30% accuracy on slightly varied Putnam math competition problems.

Show HN: API Parrot – Automatically Reverse Engineer HTTP APIs(apiparrot.com)

417 points by pvarghav 1 year ago | 97 comments

Landing page for API Parrot, a desktop tool for reverse engineering websites' HTTP APIs to automate, integrate, or scrape sites without public APIs.

Books I Loved Reading in 2024(thoughts.wyounas.com)

374 points by simplegeek 1 year ago | 149 comments

A Substack post by Waqas Younas listing and discussing the books he most enjoyed reading in 2024.

Rails for everything(literallythevoid.com)

309 points by FigurativeVoid 1 year ago | 175 comments

My favourite computer ergonomics hack(blog.jacobvosmaer.nl)

201 points by vortex_ape 1 year ago | 57 comments

Ruby 3.4 Highlights(blog.sinjakli.co.uk)

174 points by mscccc 1 year ago | 73 comments

My 25-year adventure in AI and ML(austinhenley.com)

169 points by ibobev 1 year ago | 30 comments

Supernovae evidence for foundational change to cosmological models(academic.oup.com)

153 points by JumpCrisscross 1 year ago | 91 comments

Large Concept Models: Language modeling in a sentence representation space(github.com)

149 points by batata_frita 1 year ago | 51 comments

Axum 0.8(tokio.rs)

145 points by minimaxir 1 year ago | 46 comments

Cesium for Unreal – Bring the Real World to Unreal Engine(cesium.com)

133 points by doodlesdev 1 year ago | 45 comments

Welcome to the Public Domain in 2025(blog.archive.org)

128 points by ecliptik 1 year ago | 11 comments

Indexing Code at Scale with Glean(engineering.fb.com)

114 points by GavCo 1 year ago | 27 comments

Counterculture legend who invented bell-bottom jeans dies at 84(sfgate.com)

113 points by anigbrowl 1 year ago | 34 comments

Are there more trees on Earth than stars in the Milky Way? (2016)(snopes.com)

103 points by alexmolas 1 year ago | 74 comments

How the lore of New Year defeated the law of New Year(davidallengreen.com)

96 points by quickfox 1 year ago | 53 comments

A. A. Milne's Winnie-the-Pooh as an accessible eBook(tilde.zone)

86 points by sohkamyung 1 year ago | 14 comments

The comb jelly can fuse with another (including nervous and digestive systems)(cnn.com)

86 points by alok-g 1 year ago | 21 comments

Why does storing 2FA codes in your password manager make sense?(andygrunwald.com)

83 points by andygrunwald 1 year ago | 97 comments

You don't need Next.js – Why we migrated from Next to React(comfydeploy.com)

76 points by bennykokmusic 1 year ago | 50 comments

H5N1: Much More Than You Wanted to Know(astralcodexten.com)

73 points by feross 1 year ago | 54 comments

Amiga Research Operating System (AROS): Summary of 2024(arosnews.github.io)

70 points by doener 1 year ago | 2 comments

Sailor Poets Take over U.S. Navy Deck Logs on New Year's Day(twz.com)

69 points by throw0101d 1 year ago | 12 comments

Ask HN: Does the Framework laptop stand the test of time?

69 points by encroach 1 year ago | 36 comments

Hitting the Jackpot: The Birth of the Monte Carlo Method – LANL (2023)(lanl.gov)

69 points by ioblomov 1 year ago | 12 comments

RT-2: Vision-Language-Action Models (2023)(robotics-transformer2.github.io)

65 points by elsewhen 1 year ago | 12 comments

How and Why I Stopped Buying New Laptops (2020)(solar.lowtechmagazine.com)

63 points by mgd 1 year ago | 56 comments

OpenAI failed to deliver the opt-out tool it promised by 2025(techcrunch.com)

61 points by marban 1 year ago | 9 comments

Tesla replaces laid-off U.S. workers with foreigners using visas pushed by Musk(msn.com)

60 points by nabla9 1 year ago | 26 comments

The psychonaut field manual [pdf](thedaemon.space)

53 points by andsoitis 1 year ago | 16 comments

Object that fell from the skies identified as separation ring from a rocket(nation.africa)

49 points by dltj 1 year ago | 39 comments

Show HN: Discuo – Anonymous discussions with infinite branching and 24h lifespan(discuo.com)

44 points by drdruide 1 year ago | 55 comments

Pornhub Is Now Blocked in Almost All of the U.S. South(404media.co)

40 points by pavel_lishin 1 year ago | 10 comments

2025 Banished Words List(lssu.edu)

35 points by OldGuyInTheClub 1 year ago | 28 comments

Finland Finds Anchor Drag Marks Left by Tanker That Broke Cables(gcaptain.com)

34 points by tomohawk 1 year ago | 8 comments

C "clockwise/spiral" rule to understand declarations(c-faq.com)

33 points by galkk 1 year ago | 38 comments

A Legendary Exposé of the Brutality of the Soviet Union(smithsonianmag.com)

29 points by eadmund 1 year ago | 30 comments

Crawling More Politely Than Big Tech(cameronboehmer.com)

27 points by pkghost 1 year ago | 11 comments

Signalens' SignalSDR Pro Is a Raspberry Pi-Like High-Performance SDR(hackster.io)

23 points by teleforce 1 year ago | 3 comments

Show HN: I made a screensaver that solves chess puzzles(screensaverchess.com)

23 points by binaryinitials 1 year ago | 6 comments

Apple Vision Pro May Now Be Out of Production(macrumors.com)

22 points by uladzislau 1 year ago | 8 comments

Signalling chaos: Inside the Elizabeth line's two-day breakdown(ianvisits.co.uk)

20 points by edward 1 year ago | 7 comments

How extreme car dependency is driving Americans to unhappiness(theguardian.com)

16 points by doener 1 year ago | 6 comments

Twinge of Saudade: Biographies of Abba(lrb.co.uk)

15 points by avidly 1 year ago | 10 comments

Should you do a newspaper workout?(elsbethvaino.com)

15 points by whatever3 1 year ago | 4 comments

In Search of Types (2014) [pdf](humprog.org)

13 points by fanf2 1 year ago | 2 comments

Show HN: GitHub-style screen time visualizer on iOS(apps.apple.com)

12 points by anteloper 1 year ago | 2 comments

The Magic of Metalinguistic Programming(ericnormand.substack.com)

11 points by matesz 1 year ago | 1 comments

Human in the Loop and the Missing Productivity Growth(everything.intellectronica.net)

8 points by intellectronica 1 year ago | 5 comments

AI Predictions for 2025, from Gary Marcus(garymarcus.substack.com)

8 points by mentalgear 1 year ago | 2 comments

SF Purity Test(sfpurity.com)

6 points by glowingvoices 1 year ago | 0 comments

Privacy of Photos.app's Enhanced Visual Search(mjtsai.com)

6 points by latexr 1 year ago | 1 comments

Oliver Stone Documentary: The Untold History of the USA(watchdocumentaries.com)

5 points by SanjayMehta 1 year ago | 0 comments

At least 10 killed after vehicle hits crowd of people in New Orleans(news.sky.com)

5 points by austinallegro 1 year ago | 1 comments