Hacker News on Saturday, 18 January 2025

Amazon's AI crawler is making my Git server unstable(xeiaso.net)

532 points by OptionOfT 1 year ago | 207 comments

Xe Iaso's blog note describing how Amazon's AI crawler is overloading their self-hosted git server and an nginx ingress snippet used to block it.

VS Code Pets(github.com)

509 points by vortex_ape 1 year ago | 127 comments

GitHub repository for vscode-pets, a VS Code extension by tonybaloney that adds animated pets like cats, dogs and crabs to the editor window.

Show HN: Interactive systemd – a better way to work with systemd units(isd-project.github.io)

504 points by kai-tub 1 year ago | 193 comments

Documentation site for isd (interactive systemd), a terminal UI for managing systemd units with fuzzy search, live previews, and sudo handling.

I've been advocating for RSS support, and you should too(reedybear.bearblog.dev)

381 points by emschwartz 1 year ago | 160 comments

A Bear Blog post in which the author describes advocating for websites to support RSS feeds and urges readers to do the same.

Why do bees die when they sting you? (2021)(subanima.org)

320 points by ohjeez 1 year ago | 225 comments

A SubAnima article explaining at several levels of explanation why honeybees die after stinging, framed around Feynman's point about 'why' questions.

Kalman Filter Tutorial(kalmanfilter.net)

316 points by ColinWright 1 year ago | 66 comments

Can you read this cursive handwriting? The National Archives wants your help(smithsonianmag.com)

238 points by lemonberry 1 year ago | 238 comments

The AMD Radeon Instinct MI300A's Giant Memory Subsystem(chipsandcheese.com)

201 points by pella 1 year ago | 86 comments

Using ChatGPT is not bad for the environment(andymasley.substack.com)

198 points by returningfory2 1 year ago | 243 comments

Garmin's –$40B Pivot(readtrung.com)

180 points by thibautg 1 year ago | 238 comments

EFF statement on U.S. Supreme Court's decision to uphold TikTok ban(eff.org)

173 points by HAL3000 1 year ago | 225 comments

Prime numbers so memorable that people hunt for them(scientificamerican.com)

163 points by georgecmu 1 year ago | 83 comments

Dusa Programming Language (Finite-Choice Logic Programming)(dusa.rocks)

153 points by febin 1 year ago | 36 comments

Windows BitLocker – Screwed Without a Screwdriver(neodyme.io)

147 points by lima 1 year ago | 89 comments

Show HN: I made a mini golf in my lunch time(paper-golf.netlify.app)

143 points by heyarviind2 1 year ago | 66 comments

Google begins requiring JavaScript for Google Search(techcrunch.com)

135 points by ungut 1 year ago | 104 comments

The Toyota Prius transformed the auto industry(spectrum.ieee.org)

128 points by pseudolus 1 year ago | 189 comments

WASM GC isn't ready for realtime graphics(dthompson.us)

128 points by todsacerdoti 1 year ago | 71 comments

Ask HN: Has anyone tried alternative company models (like a co-op) for SaaS?

124 points by snide 1 year ago | 74 comments

Skymont: Intel's E-Cores reach for the Sky(chipsandcheese.com)

117 points by ksec 1 year ago | 66 comments

Nation-scale Matrix deployments will fail using the community version of Synapse(mastodon.matrix.org)

110 points by zaik 1 year ago | 93 comments

O1 isn't a chat model (and that's the point)(latent.space)

108 points by gmays 1 year ago | 75 comments

Pharaoh's Tomb HD – A Remake Made in JavaScript with Kaplay(pt-hd.iocaihost.me)

107 points by JSLegendDev 1 year ago | 38 comments

Honest Ahmed (2011)(bugzilla.mozilla.org)

94 points by bitneuker 1 year ago | 34 comments

Perplexity AI submits bid to merge with TikTok(techcrunch.com)

91 points by ipster_io 1 year ago | 83 comments

Rule-Based Programming in Interactive Fiction(eblong.com)

91 points by ibobev 1 year ago | 16 comments

ATProto and the ownership of identity(anirudh.fi)

89 points by icy 1 year ago | 100 comments

Show HN: Terraform Provider for Inexpensive Switches(github.com)

65 points by brennoo 1 year ago | 9 comments

Reverse-engineering a carry-lookahead adder in the Pentium(righto.com)

62 points by DamonHD 1 year ago | 10 comments

Borrowchecker.jl – Designing a borrow checker for Julia(github.com)

60 points by darboux 1 year ago | 6 comments

A notification for you, Apple: There is no husband(techthings.cmail20.com)

60 points by zdw 1 year ago | 43 comments

Looking at some claims that quantum computers won't work(blog.cr.yp.to)

54 points by gjvc 1 year ago | 39 comments

The Greenland Shark, the Longest-Living Vertebrate on Earth (2017)(newyorker.com)

47 points by rbanffy 1 year ago | 39 comments

BYD just launched the largest car carrier to charge up its global EV ambitions(electrek.co)

44 points by zfg 1 year ago | 38 comments

Life in Another Light, 2024 Infrared-Photography-Contest Winners(theatlantic.com)

43 points by zdw 1 year ago | 14 comments

Portrait of the Hilbert Curve (2010)(corte.si)

42 points by ofou 1 year ago | 12 comments

AWS will discontinue support for AWS App Mesh(aws.amazon.com)

42 points by xbeta 1 year ago | 15 comments

ELIZA Reanimated(arxiv.org)

41 points by soheilpro 1 year ago | 14 comments

Under new law, cops bust famous cartoonist for AI-generated CSAM(arstechnica.com)

39 points by LinuxBender 1 year ago | 40 comments

Is the TikTok ban a chance to rethink the whole internet?(newyorker.com)

34 points by mitchbob 1 year ago | 74 comments

Bloodletting recommended for Jersey residents after PFAS contamination(theguardian.com)

29 points by incognitojam 1 year ago | 7 comments

The Los Angeles wildfires are self-inflicted(caseyhandmer.wordpress.com)

28 points by surprisetalk 1 year ago | 6 comments

Fixing a uname bug (Apache NuttX RTOS)(lupyuen.org)

27 points by lupyuen 1 year ago | 6 comments

How to navigate and exit the idea maze(michaelrbock.com)

27 points by vortex_ape 1 year ago | 1 comments

What If No One Misses TikTok?(nytimes.com)

26 points by howard941 1 year ago | 39 comments

Is Atlas Shrugged the New Vibe?(commonreader.co.uk)

25 points by HR01 1 year ago | 26 comments

Thoughts on having SSH allow password authentication from the Internet(utcc.utoronto.ca)

23 points by zdw 1 year ago | 32 comments

Alligator Eggs and Lambda Calculus (2007)(worrydream.com)

23 points by veqq 1 year ago | 3 comments

Ask HN: Which RSS reader do you use?

22 points by ulam2 1 year ago | 26 comments

Shapecatcher – Find Unicode characters by drawing(shapecatcher.com)

21 points by diggan 1 year ago | 9 comments

NASA's Next-Level Discovery: Webb Exposes Dazzling Interstellar Web of Dust(scitechdaily.com)

17 points by Brajeshwar 1 year ago | 3 comments

Building a keyboard for a 1985 Casio FX-451 calculator [video](youtube.com)

16 points by zdw 1 year ago | 0 comments

FTC bans Genshin Impact dev from selling lootboxes to under-16s, fines them $20M(ftc.gov)

15 points by jsheard 1 year ago | 5 comments

Flocken Elektrowagen(en.wikipedia.org)

15 points by hyperific 1 year ago | 1 comments

An effect system proposal for C2y(open-std.org)

13 points by pjmlp 1 year ago | 6 comments

FamiTracker free windows tracker for producing music for the NES/Famicom-systems(famitracker.com)

12 points by Bluestein 1 year ago | 6 comments

Transmeta: A CPU Revolution That Never Was [video](youtube.com)

11 points by ingve 1 year ago | 1 comments

FB fact checks were never going to save us. They just made liberals feel better(theintercept.com)

10 points by L0in 1 year ago | 1 comments

Chinese Innovations Spawn Wave of Toll Phishing via SMS(krebsonsecurity.com)

10 points by LinuxBender 1 year ago | 0 comments

The Future of Analytics Is Invisible: Why You Should Stop Using Google Analytics(iodiasix.com)

9 points by confidenceleery 1 year ago | 0 comments