news, !paper 2025-01-15

1339 I had to take down my course-swapping site or be expelled / linkedin.com / 695

1280 Show HN: Tetris in a PDF / th0mas.nl / 223

1045 Operating System in 1,000 Lines – Intro / operating-system-in-1000-lines.vercel.app / 121

866 Ending our third party fact-checking program and moving to Community Notes model / about.fb.com / 1359

806 Mistakes engineers make in large established codebases / seangoedecke.com / 367

797 Cracking a 512-bit DKIM key for less than $8 in the cloud / dmarcchecker.app / 405

777 NeuralSVG: An Implicit Representation for Text-to-Vector Generation / sagipolaczek.github.io / 72

762 Show HN: Atlas of Space / atlasof.space / 124

704 Magic/tragic email links: don't make them the only option / recyclebin.zip / 504

677 Nobody cares / grantslatton.com / 606

659 Show HN: Tramway SDK – An unholy union between Half-Life and Morrowind engines / racenis.github.io / 238

624 TikTok preparing for U.S. shut-off on Sunday / reuters.com / 1626

604 I have made the decision to disband Hindenburg Research / hindenburgresearch.com / 276

571 The Tsunami of Burnout Few See / charleshughsmith.blogspot.com / 326

556 A minimax chess engine in regular expressions / nicholas.carlini.com / 97

554 Fidget / mattkeeter.com / 55

523 Why is Cloudflare Pages' bandwidth unlimited? / mattsayar.com / 318

448 Show HN: Factorio Blueprint Visualizer / github.com/piebro / 104

437 Nevada court shuts down police use of federal loophole for civil forfeiture / ij.org / 267

427 Type 2 Diabetes and cardiovascular disease attributable to sugar beverages / nature.com / 383

402 Generate audiobooks from E-books with Kokoro-82M / claudio.uk / 233

394 Sweden brings more books and handwriting practice back to its schools (2023) / apnews.com / 264

390 A marriage proposal spoken in office jargon / mcsweeneys.net / 216

387 Israel, Hamas reach ceasefire deal to end 15 months of war in Gaza / reuters.com / 828

381 Learning Synths / learningsynths.ableton.com / 125

373 US will ban cancer-linked Red Dye No. 3 in cereal and other foods / bloomberg.com / 508

373 WorstFit: Unveiling Hidden Transformers in Windows ANSI / blog.orange.tw / 176

341 UnitedHealth overcharged cancer patients for drugs by over 1,000% / fortune.com / 293

339 Scientists uncover how the brain washes itself during sleep / science.org / 274

339 Why the weak nuclear force is short range / profmattstrassler.com / 168

326 Show HN: Stagehand – an open source browser automation framework powered by AI / github.com/browserbase / 86

318 Servo Revival: 2023-2024 / blogs.igalia.com / 117

310 Steve Langasek, one of Ubuntu Linux's leading lights, has died / thenewstack.io / 26

309 Bringing SerenityOS to real hardware, one driver at a time / sdomi.pl / 154

308 Show HN: HipScript – Run CUDA in the browser with WebAssembly and WebGPU / hipscript.lights0123.com / 32

296 A day in the life of a prolific voice phishing crew / krebsonsecurity.com / 113

296 Robotics 101 at UMich: Applied numerical linear algebra as intro linear algebra / robotics.umich.edu / 73

290 Laid off for the first time in my career, and twice in one year / dillonshook.com / 318

285 Doomsday Book (2006) [pdf] / crisesnotes.com / 207

277 Building Ultra Long Range Toslink / blog.benjojo.co.uk / 118

267 WTF Happened in 1971? (2019) / wtfhappenedin1971.com / 256

261 100x defect tolerance: How we solved the yield problem / cerebras.ai / 137

252 Some programming language ideas / jerf.org / 237

249 Google is making AI in Gmail and Docs free, but raising the price of Workspace / theverge.com / 329

244 Hyperview – Native mobile apps, as easy as creating a website / hyperview.org / 140

241 Predictions Scorecard, 2025 January 01 / rodneybrooks.com / 185

239 Streets GL – 3D OpenStreetMap / streets.gl / 62

236 GOG Joins European Federation of Game Archives, Museums & Preservation Projects / gamingonlinux.com / 34

227 Ropey – A UTF8 text rope for manipulating and editing large text / github.com/cessen / 96

220 Gate-level simulation of ASIC in browser / znah.net / 31

213 SQL nulls are weird / jirevwe.github.io / 278

210 Modern JavaScript for Django developers / saaspegasus.com / 114

204 Soldering the Tek way / hackaday.com / 102

199 A rare alignment of 7 planets is about to take place / sciencealert.com / 83

198 Disappointed with the TVs at CES 2025 / arstechnica.com / 272

197 28h Days: year 1 update / sidhion.com / 128

197 The engineering behind the San Antonio River Walk / practical.engineering / 49

196 OpenAI fails to deliver opt-out system for photographers / petapixel.com / 124

195 Show HN: I built a fair alternative to Product Hunt for indie makers / news.ycombinator.com / 74

182 "Twelfth Night Till Candlemas" – A 40-year book-quest / davidallengreen.com / 54

180 Getty Images and Shutterstock to Merge / newsroom.gettyimages.com / 143

176 Today I learned that bash has hashmaps (2024) / xeiaso.net / 133

173 Rational or not? This basic math question took decades to answer / quantamagazine.org / 137

169 How Britain got its first internet connection (2015) / theconversation.com / 93

165 Sky-scanning complete for Gaia / esa.int / 54

160 Show HN: Kate's App / katesapp.org / 180

157 White House unveils Cyber Trust Mark program for consumer devices / nextgov.com / 155

156 dnSpyEx: .NET debugger and assembly editor / github.com/dnSpyEx / 18

154 Ask HN: A friend has brain cancer: any bio hacks that worked? / news.ycombinator.com / 363

152 Show HN: TabPFN v2 – A SOTA foundation model for small tabular data / nature.com / 44

139 Ask HN: How do you backup your Android? / news.ycombinator.com / 219

133 Rsync vulnerabilities / openwall.com / 21

131 Automated accessibility testing at Slack / slack.engineering / 57

124 Norepinephrine-mediated slow vasomotion drives glymphatic clearance during sleep / cell.com / 87

121 Build a Database in Four Months with Rust and 647 Open-Source Dependencies / tisonkun.io / 135

118 Scheduled tasks in ChatGPT / help.openai.com / 66

116 Show HN: LA Wildfire Satellite Analysis / github.com/xingyzt / 60

115 A feature-rich Hacker News client / github.com/Livinglist / 78

110 Qantas South Africa flights delayed by falling debris from SpaceX rockets / theguardian.com / 106

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