Hacker News on Friday, 24 January 2025

Show HN: Cs16.css – CSS library based on Counter Strike 1.6 UI(cs16.samke.me)

764 points by samke- 1 year ago | 124 comments

Documentation and demo page for cs16.css, a CSS library styling web components after the Counter-Strike 1.6 game UI.

Wild – A fast linker for Linux(github.com)

362 points by hkalbasi 1 year ago | 183 comments

GitHub repository for Wild, a very fast linker for Linux by David Lattimore, licensed under Apache-2.0 and MIT.

Ask HN: Why buy domains and 301 redirect them to me?

345 points by HughParry 1 year ago | 114 comments

Ask HN thread where a SaaS owner asks why someone bought lookalike domains and 301-redirected them to his site, wondering if it's phishing or a resale scheme.

A phishing attack involving g.co, Google's URL shortener(gist.github.com)

345 points by zachlatta 1 year ago | 147 comments

A GitHub Gist by Zach Latta describing a sophisticated phone-based phishing attempt impersonating Google that abused the g.co domain to steal Google accounts.

How far can you get in 40 minutes from each subway station in NYC?(subwaysheds.com)

300 points by jxmorris12 1 year ago | 182 comments

Snowdrop OS – a homebrew operating system from scratch, in assembly language(sebastianmihai.com)

292 points by ksec 1 year ago | 71 comments

Show HN: Lightpanda, an open-source headless browser in Zig(github.com)

284 points by fbouvier 1 year ago | 131 comments

Subpixel Snake [video](youtube.com)

255 points by codetrotter 1 year ago | 49 comments

How I Use Home Assistant in 2025(vpetersson.com)

235 points by ingve 1 year ago | 249 comments

New book-sorting algorithm almost reaches perfection(quantamagazine.org)

231 points by isaacfrond 1 year ago | 50 comments

The State of Vim(lwn.net)

230 points by signa11 1 year ago | 132 comments

A WebAssembly compiler that fits in a tweet(wasmgroundup.com)

220 points by todsacerdoti 1 year ago | 27 comments

Build It Yourself(lucumr.pocoo.org)

219 points by todsacerdoti 1 year ago | 180 comments

Desmos Animated Graphing Calculator(desmos.com)

200 points by sonicrocketman 1 year ago | 35 comments

UI is hell: four-function calculators(lcamtuf.substack.com)

198 points by surprisetalk 1 year ago | 115 comments

PhysicsForums and the Dead Internet Theory(hallofdreams.org)

192 points by TheCog 1 year ago | 105 comments

Dragonsweeper — A minesweeper game that requires observation(danielben.itch.io)

188 points by guigui 1 year ago | 72 comments

Every System is a Log: Avoiding coordination in distributed applications(restate.dev)

184 points by sewen 1 year ago | 131 comments

How we scaled Slack to support 1000s of developers(blog.railway.com)

166 points by eckles 1 year ago | 102 comments

The hidden complexity of scaling WebSockets(composehq.com)

164 points by atul-jalan 1 year ago | 57 comments

Trying out Zed after more than a decade of Vim/Neovim(sgoel.dev)

164 points by siddhant 1 year ago | 115 comments

Weierstrass's Monster(quantamagazine.org)

163 points by pseudolus 1 year ago | 103 comments

A very Chicago gamble(bitsaboutmoney.com)

150 points by gregorymichael 1 year ago | 77 comments

Lightpanda: Headless browser designed for AI and automation(github.com)

148 points by tosh 1 year ago | 59 comments

Show HN: Onit – open-source ChatGPT Desktop with local mode, Claude, Gemini(github.com)

134 points by telenardo 1 year ago | 44 comments

Show HN: A new native app for 20 year old OS X(uppercut.chadbibler.com)

133 points by chadkeck 1 year ago | 25 comments

Supercharge SQLite with Ruby Functions(blog.julik.nl)

132 points by julik 1 year ago | 37 comments

Anatomy of a Formal Proof(ams.org)

119 points by bikenaga 1 year ago | 10 comments

Little Snitch feature nobody knows about(lapcatsoftware.com)

112 points by ingve 1 year ago | 33 comments

Threlte 8(threlte.xyz)

103 points by thunderbong 1 year ago | 13 comments

'Never seen anything like this' – NIH meetings and travel halted abruptly(nature.com)

102 points by anigbrowl 1 year ago | 43 comments

Peanut Butter Day: Going Nuts over NIST's Standard Reference Peanut Butter (2016)(nist.gov)

97 points by rbanffy 1 year ago | 56 comments

Autodesk partially restores old forum posts(forums.autodesk.com)

96 points by nsoonhui 1 year ago | 26 comments

The past, present, and future of UI at GitHub(hawksley.org)

84 points by mooreds 1 year ago | 66 comments

Cloud Virtualization: Red Hat, AWS Firecracker, and Ubicloud internals(ubicloud.com)

83 points by umur 1 year ago | 12 comments

We Need to Talk About Docker Hub(linuxserver.io)

79 points by darthShadow 1 year ago | 99 comments

Trae: AI Code Editor from ByteDance(trae.ai)

74 points by gniting 1 year ago | 48 comments

The Nix NGI Team: Advancing Open Source with Nix(discourse.nixos.org)

68 points by idabzo 1 year ago | 15 comments

Hackers get $886,250 for 49 zero-days at Pwn2Own Automotive 2025(bleepingcomputer.com)

67 points by LinuxBender 1 year ago | 39 comments

AI isn't going to kill the software industry(dustinewers.com)

65 points by mooreds 1 year ago | 70 comments

Mineral Oil Cooled PC (2014)(pugetsystems.com)

61 points by LorenDB 1 year ago | 50 comments

Undiagnosed Cognitive Decline Eats into Seniors' Retirement Savings(wsj.com)

59 points by petethomas 1 year ago | 55 comments

Supercharge vector search with ColBERT rerank in PostgreSQL(blog.vectorchord.ai)

54 points by gaocegege 1 year ago | 14 comments

Wikenigma – An Encyclopedia of Unknowns(wikenigma.org.uk)

52 points by kawera 1 year ago | 3 comments

VIC 20 Elite(vic20elite.wordpress.com)

51 points by todsacerdoti 1 year ago | 15 comments

C++26: Pack Indexing(sandordargo.com)

49 points by HeliumHydride 1 year ago | 51 comments

Court rules FBI's warrantless searches violated Fourth Amendment(arstechnica.com)

45 points by pitwin 1 year ago | 6 comments

Life expectancy/years of life lost in adults w ADHD in UK: matched cohort study(cambridge.org)

43 points by bookofjoe 1 year ago | 39 comments

South Korea's Democracy Saved Itself (2024)(carnegieendowment.org)

43 points by huijzer 1 year ago | 32 comments

Looking for work is a full time job(resumevue.com)

42 points by Dallas_B 1 year ago | 36 comments

IOC long shot Watanabe hopes 'crazy' Olympic idea sparks debate(japantimes.co.jp)

40 points by PaulHoule 1 year ago | 39 comments

Bluesky's science takeover: 70% of Nature poll respondents use platform(nature.com)

40 points by ironyman 1 year ago | 17 comments

The Vikings also used crampons to avoid slipping on ice(sciencenorway.no)

38 points by dxs 1 year ago | 15 comments

tele-present wind(dwbowen.com)

37 points by thunderbong 1 year ago | 9 comments

New electrical code could doom most common EV charging(motortrend.com)

37 points by zdw 1 year ago | 61 comments

Amazon UK to stop selling Bloomsbury's books(thebookseller.com)

36 points by nickcotter 1 year ago | 26 comments

Nuclear Proliferation and the "Nth Country Experiment"(nsarchive.gwu.edu)

34 points by nabla9 1 year ago | 6 comments

All federal agencies ordered to terminate remote work–ideally within 30 days(arstechnica.com)

30 points by ralphsebastian 1 year ago | 26 comments

100% Unemployment: on keeping busy when the robots take over (2013)(hyponymo.us)

29 points by yamrzou 1 year ago | 30 comments

It's Called a Premortem–and It's the Most Productive Thing You'll Do All Year(wsj.com)

28 points by monkeydust 1 year ago | 14 comments