Daily Hacker News 25-01-2025

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Daily Hacker News

1. Life lessons from the first half-century of my career cacm.acm.org comments
2. Show HN: Cs16.css – CSS library based on Counter Strike 1.6 UI cs16.samke.me comments
3. File Explorer is merged to Helix editor github.com comments
4. Show HN: Trolling SMS spammers with Ollama evan.widloski.com comments
5. Do cookie-free analytics need cookie banners? jfagerberg.me comments
6. TinyZero github.com comments
7. Show HN: Using YOLO to Detect Office Chairs in 40M Hotel Photos comments
8. First Look: Loops, by Pixelfed – Decentralised TikTok Competitor (2024) wedistribute.org comments
9. Wild – A fast linker for Linux github.com comments
10. Show HN: Lightpanda, an open-source headless browser in Zig github.com comments
11. A phishing attack involving g.co, Google's URL shortener gist.github.com comments
12. Snowdrop OS – a homebrew operating system from scratch, in assembly language sebastianmihai.com comments
13. Deadly and Imminent; The Pentagon's Mad Dash for Silicon Valley's AI Weapons www.citizen.org comments
14. The hidden complexity of scaling WebSockets composehq.com comments
15. Her dad, the 10k records he left behind and a viral lesson in grief www.washingtonpost.com comments
16. Subpixel Snake [video] www.youtube.com comments
17. You could have invented Fenwick trees www.cambridge.org comments
18. Show HN: Onit – open-source ChatGPT Desktop with local mode, Claude, Gemini github.com comments
19. New book-sorting algorithm almost reaches perfection www.quantamagazine.org comments
20. Caltrain's electric fleet more efficient than expected www.caltrain.com comments
21. Chatbox: Cross-platform desktop client for ChatGPT, Claude and other LLMs github.com comments
22. Ask HN: Why buy domains and 301 redirect them to me? comments
23. How I Use Home Assistant in 2025 vpetersson.com comments
24. Anatomy of a Formal Proof www.ams.org comments
25. A very Chicago gamble www.bitsaboutmoney.com comments