Hacker News on Monday, 6 January 2025

Stimulation Clicker(neal.fun)

2865 points by meetpateltech 1 year ago | 553 comments

Stimulation Clicker is an interactive browser clicker game by Neal Agarwal, starting with a single "Click me" button that escalates into overstimulation.

3blue1brown YouTube Bitcoin video taken down as copyright violation(twitter.com)

753 points by talonx 1 year ago | 363 comments

A post on X by 3Blue1Brown about his YouTube video on Bitcoin being taken down as a copyright violation.

The Future of Htmx(htmx.org)

695 points by polyrand 1 year ago | 357 comments

An essay by Carson Gross and Alex Petros on the future direction of htmx, comparing its intended longevity and stability to jQuery.

Doom, the Gallery Experience(bobatealee.itch.io)

527 points by anigbrowl 1 year ago | 62 comments

An itch.io browser game by bobatealee that reimagines Doom as a gallery-visiting experience; the screenshot shows only the game's loading bar.

Time-Series Anomaly Detection: A Decade Review(arxiv.org)

420 points by belter 1 year ago | 78 comments

arXiv paper surveying a decade of time-series anomaly detection methods, proposing a process-centric taxonomy of approaches.

Ask HN: Books about people who did hard things

406 points by zachlatta 1 year ago | 353 comments

Ask HN thread requesting book recommendations about how hard things like industries and major projects actually got built.

Justin Trudeau promises to resign as PM(cbc.ca)

381 points by sirteno 1 year ago | 903 comments

CBC News live article reporting that Justin Trudeau will resign as Canadian prime minister and has asked the Governor General to prorogue Parliament until March 24.

Apple squandered the Holy Grail(xeiaso.net)

356 points by caust1c 1 year ago | 479 comments

Blog post by Xe Iaso arguing that Apple Intelligence failed despite being built on nearly perfect underlying technology.

We are teen hackers from around the world who code together(hackclub.com)

338 points by mooreds 1 year ago | 80 comments

Homepage of Hack Club, a nonprofit community of teenage programmers offering clubs, hackathons, fiscal sponsorship, and programs like High Seas.

Hitting OKRs vs. Doing Your Job(jessitron.com)

333 points by zdw 1 year ago | 211 comments

A Jessitron blog post discussing the tension between hitting OKRs (objectives and key results) and actually doing your job well.

NYC Congestion Pricing Tracker(congestion-pricing-tracker.com)

325 points by gotmedium 1 year ago | 550 comments

A web dashboard comparing NYC commute times on routes like the Holland Tunnel before and after congestion pricing began on January 5, 2025.

All clocks are 30 seconds late(victorpoughon.fr)

319 points by fouronnes3 1 year ago | 312 comments

Blog post by Victor Poughon arguing that everyday clocks are effectively 30 seconds late because of how they truncate displayed minutes.

Who killed the rave?(ft.com)

309 points by this_weekend 1 year ago | 734 comments

I live my life a quarter century at a time(tla.systems)

266 points by CharlesW 1 year ago | 142 comments

Used Meta AI, now Instagram is using my face on ads targeted at me(old.reddit.com)

265 points by amrrs 1 year ago | 148 comments

Triptych Proposals(alexanderpetros.com)

234 points by felipemesquita 1 year ago | 67 comments

Uncut Currency(usmint.gov)

219 points by nxobject 1 year ago | 384 comments

The evolution of a structural code editor(crowdhailer.me)

218 points by crowdhailer 1 year ago | 96 comments

An autumn bike adventure down the US portion of the Eastern Divide Trail(crazyguyonabike.com)

200 points by kaycebasques 1 year ago | 63 comments

Relax while watching bouncing particles making connections when they get closer(tiki.li)

195 points by tikili 1 year ago | 69 comments

Killed by LLM(r0bk.github.io)

193 points by yz-exodao 1 year ago | 65 comments

Engineer eats efficiently for $2.50 a day (2016)(futureboy.us)

192 points by hwayne 1 year ago | 304 comments

Agents Are Not Enough(arxiv.org)

185 points by awaxman11 1 year ago | 131 comments

Regulations Enabling 6 GHz Wi-Fi(wi-fi.org)

167 points by teleforce 1 year ago | 75 comments

Spline Distance Fields(zone.dog)

166 points by ibobev 1 year ago | 27 comments

Lord of the Io_uring (2020)(unixism.net)

161 points by LAC-Tech 1 year ago | 54 comments

Industrial photographer Christopher Payne spotlights the good in American labor(scopeofwork.net)

161 points by speckx 1 year ago | 35 comments

Self-Hostable Form Back End – OSS Alternative to Formspree(github.com)

153 points by Oia20 1 year ago | 32 comments

Software is eating the world, all right (2024)(medium.com)

150 points by pegasus 1 year ago | 71 comments

C: Simple Defer, Ready to Use(gustedt.wordpress.com)

148 points by ingve 1 year ago | 116 comments

Parsing the C64 Bubble Bobble Wind Currents(geon.github.io)

146 points by geon 1 year ago | 29 comments

Show HN: Mashups – Resurrecting Yahoo Pipes, my side project(mashups.io)

139 points by pyromaker 1 year ago | 33 comments

My little sister's use of ChatGPT for homework is heartbreaking(old.reddit.com)

139 points by ajdude 1 year ago | 246 comments

LLMs and Code Optimization(wiredream.com)

139 points by dgacmu 1 year ago | 22 comments

A Pixel Parable(olano.dev)

131 points by facundo_olano 1 year ago | 12 comments

Synthesizing Music from JSON(phoboslab.org)

112 points by bangonkeyboard 1 year ago | 16 comments

Printf debugging is ok(polymonster.co.uk)

108 points by thunderbong 1 year ago | 127 comments

A swashbuckling tale of Italian software piracy – 1983-1993 (2022)(genesistemple.com)

96 points by alberto-m 1 year ago | 42 comments

The Latest Fake Literary Agencies(writerbeware.blog)

95 points by Tomte 1 year ago | 33 comments

Ratchet effects determine engineer reputation at large companies – sean goedecke(seangoedecke.com)

95 points by rbanffy 1 year ago | 36 comments

Property-Based Testing for the People(repository.upenn.edu)

92 points by matt_d 1 year ago | 56 comments

CCL: Categorical Configuration Language(chshersh.com)

82 points by SchwKatze 1 year ago | 33 comments

Musings on Tracing in PyPy(pypy.org)

80 points by 082349872349872 1 year ago | 7 comments

MacBASIC(apple.fandom.com)

77 points by rbanffy 1 year ago | 55 comments

Fold-... and Monoids(funcall.blogspot.com)

75 points by ykm 1 year ago | 40 comments

TikTok should lose its big Supreme Court case(vox.com)

72 points by nabla9 1 year ago | 60 comments

Unemployed office workers are having a harder time finding new jobs(wsj.com)

71 points by squirrel6 1 year ago | 26 comments

Reflections(blog.samaltman.com)

70 points by davidbarker 1 year ago | 75 comments

The cases of consumer-grade routers on puny power supplies(blog.apnic.net)

69 points by fanf2 1 year ago | 43 comments

AMD 'Strix Halo' Ryzen AI Max+ Debuts with RDNA 3.5 Graphics and Zen 5 CPU Cores(tomshardware.com)

66 points by kcb 1 year ago | 51 comments

Raising of Chicago(en.wikipedia.org)

65 points by lukasgelbmann 1 year ago | 22 comments

Small Data [video](youtube.com)

65 points by spacechild1 1 year ago | 10 comments

IPv6-only Network based on Jool(taoshu.in)

60 points by unclet 1 year ago | 26 comments

Amidst the Noise and Haste, Google Has Successfully Pulled a SpaceX(markmaunder.com)

56 points by mmaunder 1 year ago | 38 comments

Hacker of the year nominee: Gromit the Dog(cybershow.uk)

54 points by nonrandomstring 1 year ago | 2 comments

Show HN: Filter out engagement bait and politics on your X/Twitter feed(unbaited.danielpetho.com)

54 points by danielpetho 1 year ago | 106 comments

Optimizing uint64_t Digit Counting: A Method that Beats Lemire's by up to 143%(github.com)

51 points by realtimechris 1 year ago | 15 comments

Human judgment must remain central to health insurance claims: California law(mercurynews.com)

47 points by bentocorp 1 year ago | 29 comments

Why are corporations cutting managers?(arnoldkling.substack.com)

47 points by mooreds 1 year ago | 31 comments

2DGD_F0TH A compendium of the community knowledge on game design and development(github.com)

47 points by linkdd 1 year ago | 2 comments