Jan 22, 2025 | Signal, Discord vulnerable; Ulbricht pardoned; Stargate Project

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Jan 22, 2025.

0-click deanonymization attack targeting Signal, Discord, other platforms
HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42780816
Link: https://gist.github.com/hackermondev/45a3cdfa52246f1d1201c1e8cdef6117
Points: 1196 | Comments: 74

Ross Ulbricht granted a full pardon
HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42786962
Link: https://twitter.com/Free_Ross/status/1881851923005165704
Points: 982 | Comments: 87

Stargate Project: SoftBank, OpenAI, Oracle, MGX to build data centers
HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42785891
Link: https://apnews.com/article/trump-ai-openai-oracle-softbank-son-altman-ellison-be261f8a8ee07a0623d4170397348c41
Points: 628 | Comments: 115

Ask HN: Is anyone doing anything cool with tiny language models?
HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42784365
Points: 385 | Comments: 47

Invisible Electrostatic Wall at 3M plant (1996)
HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42782914
Link: http://amasci.com/weird/unusual/e-wall.html
Points: 332 | Comments: 29

Calm tech certification "rewards" less distracting tech
HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42780953
Link: https://spectrum.ieee.org/calm-tech
Points: 275 | Comments: 25

Hunyuan3D 2.0 – High-Resolution 3D Assets Generation
HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42786040
Link: https://github.com/Tencent/Hunyuan3D-2
Points: 196 | Comments: 7

Moving on from React, a year later
HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42769822
Link: https://kellysutton.com/2025/01/18/moving-on-from-react-a-year-later.html
Points: 195 | Comments: 27

What are these bumps on the top of a pull-tab can?
HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42788455
Link: https://old.reddit.com/r/whatisthisthing/comments/1i5ztq4/comment/m8a7m8m/
Points: 158 | Comments: 6

Mercator: Extreme
HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42783948
Link: https://mrgris.com/projects/merc-extreme/
Points: 153 | Comments: 16