Hacker News on Friday, 10 January 2025

I've acquired a new superpower(danielwirtz.com)

1641 points by wirtzdan 1 year ago | 530 comments

Personal blog post by Daniel Wirtz about learning to quickly spot differences between two similar images, inspired by a German TV show video of a 9-year-old girl.

Meta's memo to employees rolling back DEI programs(axios.com)

1035 points by bsilvereagle 1 year ago | 1470 comments

Axios article publishing Meta's internal memo to employees announcing the rollback of its diversity, equity and inclusion programs.

Visualizing All ISBNs(annas-archive.org)

370 points by RyanShook 1 year ago | 125 comments

Anna's Archive blog post visualizing all ISBNs by file availability and announcing a $10k bounty for better visualizations by 2025-01-31.

Cuttle – a MTG like game using a standard 52 card deck(pagat.com)

344 points by 7thaccount 1 year ago | 79 comments

Pagat.com rules page for Cuttle, a two-player combat card game played with a standard 52-card deck, covering setup, play, card effects and variants.

Finland's zero homeless strategy (2021)(oecdecoscope.blog)

268 points by zdw 1 year ago | 482 comments

Railroad Tycoon II(filfre.net)

267 points by doppp 1 year ago | 156 comments

Reversible computing escapes the lab(spectrum.ieee.org)

264 points by jasondavies 1 year ago | 65 comments

Narcolepsy is weird but I didn't notice(fortressofdoors.com)

259 points by bfelbo 1 year ago | 91 comments

I got OpenTelemetry to work. But why was it so complicated?(iconsolutions.com)

256 points by paltaie 1 year ago | 165 comments

Predictions Scorecard, 2025 January 01(rodneybrooks.com)

228 points by timr 1 year ago | 172 comments

Learning how to think with Meta Chain-of-Thought(arxiv.org)

216 points by drcwpl 1 year ago | 56 comments

Before Squid Game, there was Battle Royale(tokyoweekender.com)

205 points by ecliptik 1 year ago | 272 comments

Starlink is now cheaper than leading internet provider in some African countries(restofworld.org)

203 points by impish9208 1 year ago | 159 comments

How we used GPT-4o for image detection with 350 similar illustrations(olup-blog.pages.dev)

200 points by olup 1 year ago | 82 comments

Formal Methods: Just Good Engineering Practice? (2024)(brooker.co.za)

197 points by aiono 1 year ago | 115 comments

Shavarsh Karapetyan(en.wikipedia.org)

182 points by handfuloflight 1 year ago | 23 comments

Portals and Quake(30fps.net)

181 points by ibobev 1 year ago | 47 comments

Who Can Understand the Proof? A Window on Formalized Mathematics(writings.stephenwolfram.com)

177 points by ColinWright 1 year ago | 97 comments

Tactility: OS for the ESP32 Microcontroller Family(tactility.one)

176 points by freetonik 1 year ago | 46 comments

Phi-4 Bug Fixes(unsloth.ai)

171 points by danielhanchen 1 year ago | 50 comments

Very Wrong Math(charlespetzold.com)

161 points by breadbox 1 year ago | 82 comments

Cannonball: An enhanced OutRun engine(github.com)

160 points by fidotron 1 year ago | 12 comments

Glimmer: DSL Framework for Ruby GUI and More(github.com)

159 points by thunderbong 1 year ago | 21 comments

Building Bauble(ianthehenry.com)

150 points by ianthehenry 1 year ago | 19 comments

Getting silly with C, part (void*)2(lcamtuf.substack.com)

147 points by justmarc 1 year ago | 80 comments

TikTok tells staff impacted by wildfires to use sick hours if they can't work(techcrunch.com)

144 points by sylvainkalache 1 year ago | 109 comments

Show HN: 3D Terrain simulation for hiking, skiing etc.(github.com)

137 points by folli 1 year ago | 53 comments

Flattening ASTs and other compiler data structures (2023)(cs.cornell.edu)

133 points by aw1621107 1 year ago | 32 comments

When a winter storm trapped a luxury passenger train near Donner Pass(smithsonianmag.com)

133 points by pseudolus 1 year ago | 102 comments

Gleam v1.7(gleam.run)

132 points by akkad33 1 year ago | 12 comments

Candy Crush, Tinder, MyFitnessPal: Apps hijacked to spy on location(wired.com)

130 points by gnabgib 1 year ago | 57 comments

The Tedious Heroism of David Ruggles(commonplace.online)

128 points by samclemens 1 year ago | 18 comments

Nvidia-Ingest: Multi-modal data extraction(github.com)

125 points by mihaid150 1 year ago | 35 comments

Web apps built with Ruby on Rails(weuserails.com)

123 points by kyrylo 1 year ago | 90 comments

Northeastern's redesign of the CS curriculum(huntnewsnu.com)

122 points by nickmain 1 year ago | 122 comments

Decentralized Syndication – The Missing Internet Protocol(tautvilas.lt)

119 points by brisky 1 year ago | 77 comments

Glicol: Next-generation computer music language(glicol.org)

105 points by Bluestein 1 year ago | 13 comments

How outdated information hides in LLM token generation probabilities(blog.anj.ai)

95 points by anjsimmo 1 year ago | 41 comments

Ships must practice celestial navigation(usni.org)

94 points by HR01 1 year ago | 100 comments

41% of Employers Worldwide Say They'll Reduce Staff by 2030 Due to AI(gizmodo.com)

93 points by miles 1 year ago | 89 comments

A three month review of kagi search and the orion web browser (2024)(flatfootfox.com)

88 points by Apocryphon 1 year ago | 95 comments

OpenAI's bot crushed this seven-person company's web site 'like a DDoS attack'(techcrunch.com)

72 points by vednig 1 year ago | 55 comments

Mercury's shadowy North Pole revealed by M-CAM 1(esa.int)

70 points by divbzero 1 year ago | 15 comments

lc: List files in categories (and columns) – from Coherent Unix clone(github.com)

70 points by networked 1 year ago | 27 comments

An Introduction to Neural Ordinary Differential Equations [pdf](diposit.ub.edu)

69 points by gballan 1 year ago | 4 comments

Ask HN: How to approach first days on a new job as a senior engineer?

63 points by rolothrow 1 year ago | 39 comments

Show HN: Boulette - Protect you from yourself (even as root).(github.com)

62 points by jean_dupont 1 year ago | 63 comments

Pathfinding to a moving target in evolving terrain(holm.dog)

58 points by friendshaver 1 year ago | 4 comments

Television: Fast general purpose fuzzy finder TUI(github.com)

58 points by thunderbong 1 year ago | 13 comments

Toyota rethinks its bet on hydrogen(ft.com)

54 points by JumpCrisscross 1 year ago | 39 comments

Wikipedia searches reveal differing styles of curiosity(scientificamerican.com)

53 points by ripe 1 year ago | 24 comments

Time Dilation Formula / Calculator(timedilationformula.com)

49 points by mpclarkson 1 year ago | 38 comments

Comptime as Configuration(openmymind.net)

49 points by todsacerdoti 1 year ago | 7 comments

Making Beautiful API Keys(docs.agentstation.ai)

48 points by savannahkc 1 year ago | 69 comments

Ask HN: Work on robotics or agents?

48 points by _js4b 1 year ago | 39 comments

Ask HN: How to approach first days on a new job as a senior PM?

45 points by LifeIsBio 1 year ago | 37 comments

The War Against Headlight Brightness(theringer.com)

41 points by pavel_lishin 1 year ago | 37 comments

Samsung Display to Begin Mass Production of Rollable OLED for Laptops(global.samsungdisplay.com)

40 points by gnabgib 1 year ago | 41 comments

Experiments with Byte Matrix Multiplication(github.com)

36 points by serge-ss-paille 1 year ago | 3 comments

The Siren Song of Little Languages(wilfred.me.uk)

36 points by Qem 1 year ago | 17 comments