Hacker News on Sunday, 19 January 2025

TikTok goes dark in the US(techcrunch.com)

1116 points by mfiguiere 1 year ago | 2140 comments

TechCrunch article reporting that TikTok went offline for users in the United States in January 2025 ahead of the federal ban taking effect.

TikTok says it is restoring service for U.S. users(nbcnews.com)

714 points by Leary 1 year ago | 2270 comments

NBC News article reporting that TikTok began restoring service for U.S. users after President-elect Trump gave assurances to its service providers.

It's time to make computing personal again(vintagecomputing.com)

646 points by mariuz 1 year ago | 296 comments

Benj Edwards essay on Vintage Computing and Gaming arguing that surveillance capitalism and DRM turned home tech against users and computing should be personal again.

UK's hardware talent is being wasted(josef.cn)

567 points by sebg 1 year ago | 997 comments

Blog post by Josef Chen, dated Aug 3, 2024, arguing that the UK's elite hardware engineering talent is being wasted.

FrontierMath was funded by OpenAI(lesswrong.com)

429 points by wujerry2000 1 year ago | 156 comments

A LessWrong shortform post by user meemi, linked as reporting that the FrontierMath AI math benchmark was funded by OpenAI.

Why is Git Autocorrect too fast for Formula One drivers?(blog.gitbutler.com)

409 points by birdculture 1 year ago | 227 comments

GitButler blog post by Scott Chacon explaining why Git's help.autocorrect setting waits only 0.1 seconds before running a mistyped command.

Forgejo: A self-hosted lightweight software forge(forgejo.org)

355 points by thunderbong 1 year ago | 248 comments

Homepage of Forgejo, a self-hosted lightweight software forge developed under Codeberg e.V. as exclusively free software.

Infinigen(infinigen.org)

298 points by galaxyLogic 1 year ago | 31 comments

Haskell: A Great Procedural Language(entropicthoughts.com)

259 points by kqr 1 year ago | 183 comments

Escape the walled garden and algorithm black boxes with RSS feeds(johnwalker.nl)

243 points by rekl 1 year ago | 86 comments

The Fuzzing Book(fuzzingbook.org)

232 points by chautumn 1 year ago | 8 comments

Using your Apple device as an access card in unsupported systems(github.com)

223 points by ValentineC 1 year ago | 94 comments

How Unix spell ran in 64kb RAM(blog.codingconfessions.com)

223 points by madmax108 1 year ago | 43 comments

Build a tiny CA for your homelab with a Raspberry Pi(smallstep.com)

214 points by timkq 1 year ago | 50 comments

Please don't force dark mode(iamvishnu.com)

210 points by vishnuharidas 1 year ago | 184 comments

Minecraft with object impermanence(aiweirdness.com)

193 points by sohkamyung 1 year ago | 116 comments

The Most Detailed Map of US Waters That You've Ever Seen (2023)(esri.com)

187 points by surprisetalk 1 year ago | 29 comments

We need to protect the protocol that runs Bluesky(technologyreview.com)

173 points by srameshc 1 year ago | 231 comments

How do interruptions impact different software engineering activities(rdel.substack.com)

173 points by kiyanwang 1 year ago | 51 comments

SRCL: Open-source React project to build web apps with terminal aesthetics(sacred.computer)

169 points by CharlesW 1 year ago | 24 comments

The Ribbon Microphone(khz.ac)

169 points by glittershark 1 year ago | 58 comments

Yek: Serialize your code repo (or part of it) to feed into any LLM(github.com)

164 points by mohsen1 1 year ago | 67 comments

Why Twitter is such a big deal (2009)(paulgraham.com)

147 points by Olshansky 1 year ago | 233 comments

“The Traitors”, a reality TV show, offers a useful economics lesson(economist.com)

119 points by helsinkiandrew 1 year ago | 113 comments

The surprising struggle to get a Unix Epoch time from a UTC string in C or C++(berthub.eu)

116 points by PascalW 1 year ago | 67 comments

All Lisp indentation schemes are ugly(aartaka.me)

110 points by birdculture 1 year ago | 63 comments

Tomatoes roaming the fields and canaries in the coalmine(deevybee.blogspot.com)

105 points by mathgenius 1 year ago | 21 comments

The "35-cent" Commodore 64 softmodem(oldvcr.blogspot.com)

101 points by todsacerdoti 1 year ago | 14 comments

Dissecting "Tiny Clouds" shadertoy (2017)(blog.demofox.org)

101 points by Lammy 1 year ago | 3 comments

IsMyXFeedFucked – Analyze How Your X Feed's Impacting You(ismyxfeedfucked.com)

98 points by natdude 1 year ago | 134 comments

Castle Game Engine: Web target – big progress, first 3 demos to try(castle-engine.io)

97 points by zfg 1 year ago | 20 comments

Hacking the Yamaha DX9 to Turn It into a DX7 (2023)(ajxs.me)

90 points by elvis70 1 year ago | 21 comments

Making glow-in-the-dark Strontium Aluminate(maurycyz.com)

80 points by LorenDB 1 year ago | 31 comments

Lenovo has removed the TrackPoint nub from new ThinkPad laptops(pcworld.com)

73 points by taimurkazmi 1 year ago | 99 comments

About A comprehensive guide for Linux Network (Socket) programming(github.com)

68 points by ncmv92 1 year ago | 12 comments

Apple removed all ByteDance apps from the [US] App Store(support.apple.com)

62 points by DrBenCarson 1 year ago | 50 comments

Philosophy Eats AI(sloanreview.mit.edu)

48 points by robg 1 year ago | 37 comments

TikTok Shut Down: Data Shows 85% Drop in US Access (and Surge to Alternatives)(blog.cloudflare.com)

46 points by emot 1 year ago | 47 comments

VPTERNLOG: when three is 100% more than two(pvk.ca)

42 points by signa11 1 year ago | 2 comments

Origins of Common Unix Programs(darwinsys.com)

40 points by leonry 1 year ago | 18 comments

Staffers unload on Amazon 'leadership' after return-to-office for desk shortage(msn.com)

39 points by belter 1 year ago | 11 comments

Icelandic turf houses: Laufas, Glaumbaer and others(rachelsruminations.com)

38 points by thunderbong 1 year ago | 20 comments

Invisible Epidemic: The Loneliness Epidemic(pudding.cool)

37 points by kamikazeturtles 1 year ago | 9 comments

Open Dylan(opendylan.org)

35 points by ofrzeta 1 year ago | 9 comments

Zuckerberg appeared to know Llama trained on Libgen(rollingstone.com)

34 points by bn-l 1 year ago | 24 comments

Mark Zuckerberg blamed Sheryl Sandberg for Meta 'inclusivity' push: report(msn.com)

33 points by impish9208 1 year ago | 28 comments

Japan's elderly are lonely and struggling. Some women choose to go to jail(cnn.com)

30 points by Tomte 1 year ago | 16 comments

Ask HN: Songwriters, what software do you use?

30 points by ArlenBales 1 year ago | 39 comments

Masters of Allusion: The Art of Poetic Reference(nytimes.com)

30 points by tintinnabula 1 year ago | 20 comments

TikTok users posting cat videos do not threaten UK national security, minister(theguardian.com)

29 points by pseudolus 1 year ago | 24 comments

Wildfires are erasing California's climate gains, research shows(news.uchicago.edu)

29 points by amichail 1 year ago | 12 comments

The Sonnenschein-Mantel-Debreu Results After Thirty Years(citeseerx.ist.psu.edu)

25 points by gone35 1 year ago | 24 comments

The world is an objectively worse place because of tech-bro oligarchs(irishexaminer.com)

25 points by stuaxo 1 year ago | 2 comments

A System for the Sixties-and-a-Half: The Toshiba Visicom COM-100(nicole.express)

23 points by ingve 1 year ago | 3 comments

Examples of quick hash tables and dynamic arrays in C(nullprogram.com)

20 points by grep_it 1 year ago | 7 comments

Unlink vs. DEL – A deep dive into how it works internally in Redis(pankajtanwar.in)

17 points by pankajtanwar 1 year ago | 11 comments

TikTok is back after executive order stalling ban(twitter.com)

16 points by freeqaz 1 year ago | 7 comments

Calculator Forensics (2002)(rskey.org)

16 points by todsacerdoti 1 year ago | 0 comments

Games Workshop and the big ambition of a miniatures business(bbc.com)

16 points by defrost 1 year ago | 8 comments

Mark Zuckerberg paid lobby$7.6M to aid in TikTok ban(readsludge.com)

13 points by taimurkazmi 1 year ago | 1 comments