Hacker News on Friday, 31 January 2025

OpenAI O3-Mini(openai.com)

915 points by johnneville 1 year ago | 861 comments

OpenAI's announcement of o3-mini, a cost-efficient reasoning model available in ChatGPT and the API, strong in science, math, and coding.

Add "fucking" to your Google searches to neutralize AI summaries(gizmodo.com)

645 points by jsheard 1 year ago | 298 comments

Gizmodo article explaining that adding a profanity like "fucking" to Google searches suppresses AI Overview summaries in results.

Hacker News for Gamedev(gamedev.city)

434 points by ahub 1 year ago | 190 comments

Gamedev.city, a Hacker News/Lobsters-style link aggregator for game development news, tools, and articles with tagged stories.

Bypass DeepSeek censorship by speaking in hex(substack.com)

412 points by MedadNewman 1 year ago | 229 comments

Substack post by Matt Swann describing how to bypass DeepSeek R1's content filters by encoding prompts as hex charcodes.

Apple files emergency motion to become defendant in US vs. Google [pdf](storage.courtlistener.com)

345 points by zdw 1 year ago | 357 comments

A PDF court filing in which Apple submits an emergency motion to intervene as a defendant in the US v. Google antitrust case.

Taking a $15 Casio F91W 5km underwater(watchesofespionage.com)

310 points by nnnnico 1 year ago | 79 comments

Hydro: Distributed Programming Framework for Rust(hydro.run)

253 points by ardel95 1 year ago | 45 comments

Instagram and Facebook Blocked and Hid Abortion Pill Providers' Posts(nytimes.com)

232 points by ceejayoz 1 year ago | 143 comments

TopoNets: High performing vision and language models with brain-like topography(arxiv.org)

212 points by mayukhdeb 1 year ago | 60 comments

Tesla Paid Zero Federal Income Tax in 2024, Despite $2.3B in Income(truthout.org)

207 points by cdme 1 year ago | 143 comments

Show HN: Uscope, a new Linux debugger written from scratch(github.com)

203 points by jcalabro 1 year ago | 108 comments

Ear muscle we thought humans didn't use activates when people listen hard(frontiersin.org)

200 points by geox 1 year ago | 167 comments

Llama.cpp supports Vulkan. why doesn't Ollama?(github.com)

184 points by buyucu 1 year ago | 156 comments

NSF starts vetting all grants to comply with executive orders(science.org)

171 points by rbanffy 1 year ago | 326 comments

Sixos: A nix OS without systemd [video](media.ccc.de)

161 points by transpute 1 year ago | 211 comments

How to Train an AI Image Model on Yourself(coryzue.com)

160 points by aberoham 1 year ago | 35 comments

Mini-R1: Reproduce DeepSeek R1 "Aha Moment"(philschmid.de)

155 points by jonbaer 1 year ago | 11 comments

Elite on the 6502: The original 6502 assembly source, heavily commented(elite.bbcelite.com)

143 points by CharlesW 1 year ago | 28 comments

Three AM 911 call, 9 AM salesman(a.wholelottanothing.org)

141 points by wawayanda 1 year ago | 63 comments

Detroit’s revival takes shape after decades of decay(theguardian.com)

137 points by PaulHoule 1 year ago | 151 comments

Rubywm: An X11 window manager in pure Ruby(github.com)

134 points by Kerrick 1 year ago | 26 comments

A mouseless tale: trying for a keyboard-driven desktop(lwn.net)

132 points by signa11 1 year ago | 81 comments

The Tensor Cookbook(tensorcookbook.com)

127 points by t55 1 year ago | 15 comments

FBI, Dutch police disrupt 'Manipulaters' phishing gang(krebsonsecurity.com)

125 points by todsacerdoti 1 year ago | 38 comments

Living with Nausea: My Story in Six Charts(c82.net)

121 points by janpio 1 year ago | 55 comments

US government agency argues that money isn't property–so it can take yours(reason.com)

121 points by walterbell 1 year ago | 74 comments

Fixing E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial for the Atari 2600 (2013)(neocomputer.org)

112 points by CharlesW 1 year ago | 36 comments

RamaLama(github.com)

110 points by johlo 1 year ago | 21 comments

Shell-ish scripting in Go with ease(github.com)

110 points by begoon 1 year ago | 40 comments

GenAI Art Is the Least Imaginative Use of AI Imaginable(hai.stanford.edu)

109 points by jebarker 1 year ago | 97 comments

Zusie – My Relay Computer(nablaman.com)

108 points by xk3 1 year ago | 29 comments

LinuxPDF(github.com)

107 points by shantara 1 year ago | 20 comments

Meta in talks to reincorporate in Texas or another state, WSJ reports(reuters.com)

104 points by belter 1 year ago | 95 comments

Xerox Alto Source Code (2014)(computerhistory.org)

102 points by todsacerdoti 1 year ago | 21 comments

Large Language Models Think Too Fast to Explore Effectively(arxiv.org)

102 points by bikenaga 1 year ago | 34 comments

High-Speed Face-Tracking for Dynamic Facial Projection Mapping(vision.ict.e.titech.ac.jp)

100 points by bukka 1 year ago | 23 comments

Release Notes for Ghostty 1.1.0(ghostty.org)

100 points by ksec 1 year ago | 52 comments

Scientists find links between Alzheimer's, herpes, and head trauma(statnews.com)

98 points by wglb 1 year ago | 29 comments

Google offers 'voluntary exit' to all US platforms and devices employees(theverge.com)

94 points by unsnap_biceps 1 year ago | 22 comments

Theoretical limitations of multi-layer Transformer(arxiv.org)

93 points by fovc 1 year ago | 17 comments

ArXiv LaTeX Cleaner: Clean the LaTeX code of your paper to submit to ArXiv(github.com)

92 points by t55 1 year ago | 32 comments

Images reveal exocomets around nearby stars(skyandtelescope.org)

88 points by gmays 1 year ago | 12 comments

Show HN: Ldump – serialize any Lua data(github.com)

88 points by girvel 1 year ago | 39 comments

NASA's Asteroid Bennu Sample Reveals Mix of Life's Ingredients(nasa.gov)

86 points by zrkrlc 1 year ago | 18 comments

Spotted hyena found in Egypt for the first time in 5k years(phys.org)

84 points by wglb 1 year ago | 42 comments

Motion sickness accessibility in video games(madelinemiller.dev)

80 points by headalgorithm 1 year ago | 71 comments

Global variables are not the problem(codestyleandtaste.com)

72 points by levodelellis 1 year ago | 124 comments

Traffic spikes are bad for your product(andrewchen.substack.com)

64 points by twapi 1 year ago | 68 comments

MillenniumDB: Property graph and RDF engine, still in development(github.com)

63 points by robsalasco 1 year ago | 29 comments

Sparrow, a Modern C++ Implementation of the Apache Arrow Columnar Format(johan-mabille.medium.com)

58 points by SylvainCorlay 1 year ago | 9 comments

How many ants live on Earth? (2022)(science.org)

57 points by slyrus 1 year ago | 46 comments

Discovery of collagen in fossil bone could unlock new insights into dinosaurs(news.liverpool.ac.uk)

57 points by gnufx 1 year ago | 14 comments

Google Pixel 4a update to "improve stability" of the battery cuts life in half(liliputing.com)

57 points by nfriedly 1 year ago | 24 comments

Why do War Thunder players leak classified information? [video](youtube.com)

54 points by zdw 1 year ago | 61 comments

Show HN: voidDB – A transactional key-value DB written in Go for 64-bit Linux(github.com)

53 points by joel-ling 1 year ago | 13 comments

Go Is a Well-Designed Language(mattjhall.co.uk)

53 points by PaulHoule 1 year ago | 64 comments

Why Tracebit is written in C#(tracebit.com)

52 points by mrcsharp 1 year ago | 35 comments

Basel has to buy domain name in the Bahamas after mishap(bluewin.ch)

50 points by lukasgelbmann 1 year ago | 19 comments

The Forbidden Garden of Leningrad: Science and Sacrifice in a City Under Siege(lrb.co.uk)

49 points by mitchbob 1 year ago | 36 comments

Building a Mesh Using Spherical Embedding(andrews.wiki)

48 points by CarpeQueso 1 year ago | 5 comments