Stories posted this day, by points. Rank history starts with the October 2026 rebuild.
1370 points by hackermondev | 417 comments
A GitHub Gist writeup by a 15-year-old researcher describing a 0-click deanonymization attack that locates users of Signal, Discord and other apps within about 250 miles.
971 points by tedsanders | 1382 comments
AP News article on Trump announcing the Stargate Project, a $500 billion AI infrastructure partnership of SoftBank, OpenAI, Oracle and MGX to build data centers.
569 points by ingve | 71 comments
Blog post by Louie Mantia analyzing the colors used in the multicolor polygonal Super Mario logo style introduced with Super Mario World.
525 points by prettyblocks | 271 comments
Ask HN thread asking what people have built with tiny 0.5B–3B parameter language models, such as those available on Ollama.
427 points by vincent_s | 306 comments
Blog post by Vincent Schmalbach arguing that Hacker News commenters have shifted from supporting failed founders in 2013 to cynicism about startups in 2025.
391 points by Simon_O_Rourke | 215 comments
Bill Beaty's 1996 amasci.com page recounting a reported invisible electrostatic wall formed by charged plastic film at a 3M adhesive tape plant.
368 points by Andugal | 307 comments
A Notion blog post recounting a FizzBuzz technical interview exercise with evolving rules, written in TypeScript, that did not lead to a job offer.
358 points by headalgorithm | 114 comments
IEEE Spectrum news article on the Calm Tech certification for less distracting devices, with the first certified products shown at CES 2025.
344 points by recvonline | 336 comments
Ask HN thread seeking self-hosted or federated alternatives to Facebook for organizing small rural town communities.
329 points by davikr | 130 comments
Blog post by Yasser introducing Tilde (TB), a compiler backend library intended as a faster, smaller alternative to LLVM, tested with a C compiler.
188 points by bschne | 44 comments
75 points by Archit3ch | 13 comments
37 points by elric | 34 comments
![Screenshot of doc.ic.ac.uk: Compiler Fuzzing in Continuous Integration: A Case Study on Dafny [pdf]](https://hn.urlbox.com/shots/renders/2025/1/24/04ae7dc5-a7d9-4302-bc2e-26f51e5c79b7.jpg)
