• Readsy

On this day

Donald Trump is inaugurated as the 47th President of the United States of America. He is currently the oldest person ever inaugurated.

2025

view article

Joe Biden is inaugurated as the 46th President of the United States of America. At the time of his inauguration, he became the oldest person ever inaugurated. Kamala Harris became the first female and first non-white Vice President of the United States.

2021

view article

A group of four or five gunmen attack The Inter-Continental Hotel in Kabul, Afghanistan, sparking a 12-hour battle. The attack kills 40 people and injures many others.

2018

view article

Syrian civil war: The Government of Turkey announces the initiation of the Afrin offensive and begins shelling Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) positions in Afrin Region.

2018

view article

Donald Trump is inaugurated as the 45th President of the United States of America.

2017

view article

Barack Obama is inaugurated as the 44th President of the United States of America, becoming the first African-American President of the United States.

2009

view article

A protest movement in Iceland culminates as the 2009 Icelandic financial crisis protests start.

2009

view article

President of the Philippines Joseph Estrada is ousted in a nonviolent four-day revolution, and is succeeded by Gloria Macapagal Arroyo.

2001

view article

Air Inter Flight 148, an Airbus A320-111, crashes into a mountain near Strasbourg, France, killing 87 of the 96 people on board.

1992

view article

Sudan's government imposes Islamic law nationwide, worsening the civil war between the country's Muslim north and Christian south.

1991

view article

Protests in Azerbaijan, part of the Dissolution of the Soviet Union.

1990

view article

In the United States, Martin Luther King Jr. Day is celebrated as a federal holiday for the first time.

1986

view article

Leabua Jonathan, Prime Minister of Lesotho, is ousted from power in a coup d'état led by General Justin Lekhanya.

1986

view article

Twenty minutes after Ronald Reagan is inaugurated as the 40th President of the United States of America, Iran releases 52 American hostages.

1981

view article

China gains control over all the Paracel Islands after a military engagement between the naval forces of China and South Vietnam.

1974

view article

Amílcar Cabral, leader of the independence movement in Guinea-Bissau and Cape Verde, is assassinated in Conakry, Guinea.

1973

view article

Pakistan launches its nuclear weapons program, a few weeks after its defeat in the Bangladesh Liberation War, as well as the Indo-Pakistani War of 1971.

1972

view article

John F. Kennedy is inaugurated as the 35th President of the United States of America, becoming the youngest man to be elected into that office, and the first Roman Catholic.

1961

view article

In the United States, the National Negro Network is established with 40 charter member radio stations.

1954

view article

Dwight D. Eisenhower is inaugurated as the 34th President of the United States of America, becoming the first president to begin his presidency on January 20 since the 20th Amendment changed the dates of presidential terms.

1953

view article

World War II: The provisional government of Béla Miklós in Hungary agrees to an armistice with the Allies.

1945

view article

World War II: Germany begins the evacuation of 1.8 million people from East Prussia, a task which will take nearly two months.

1945

view article

World War II: At the Wannsee Conference held in the Berlin suburb of Wannsee, senior Nazi German officials discuss the implementation of the "Final Solution to the Jewish question".

1942

view article

A German officer is killed in Bucharest, Romania, sparking a rebellion and pogrom by the Iron Guard, killing 125 Jews and 30 soldiers.

1941

view article

Franklin D. Roosevelt and John Nance Garner are sworn in for their second terms as U.S. President and U.S. Vice President; it is the first time a Presidential Inauguration takes place on January 20 since the 20th Amendment changed the dates of presidential terms.

1937

view article

The British K-class submarine HMS K5 sinks in the English Channel; all 56 on board die.

1921

view article

The first Constitution of Turkey is adopted, making fundamental changes in the source and exercise of sovereignty by consecrating the principle of national sovereignty.

1921

view article

Newly formed automaker General Motors (GM) buys into the Oakland Motor Car Company, which later becomes GM's long-running Pontiac division.

1909

view article

The United States Senate allows the Navy to lease Pearl Harbor as a naval base.

1887

view article

The last day of the Constantinople Conference results in agreement for political reforms in the Balkans.

1877

view article

The Treaty of Pangkor is signed between the British and Sultan Abdullah of Perak, paving the way for further British colonization of Malaya.

1874

view article

Hong Kong Island is occupied by the British during the First Opium War.

1841

view article

In the Battle of Yungay, Chile defeats an alliance between Peru and Bolivia.

1839

view article

The third and main part of First Fleet arrives at Botany Bay, beginning the British colonization of Australia. Arthur Phillip decides that Port Jackson is a more suitable location for a colony.

1788

view article

Invading Siamese forces attempt to exploit the political chaos in Vietnam, but are ambushed and annihilated at the Mekong river by the Tây Sơn in the Battle of Rạch Gầm-Xoài Mút.

1785

view article

The Kingdom of Great Britain signs preliminary articles of peace with the Kingdom of France, setting the stage for the official end of hostilities in the American Revolutionary War later that year.

1783

view article

J. S. Bach leads the first performance of his cantata Meine Seufzer, meine Tränen (My sighs, my tears), BWV 13, for the second Sunday after Epiphany.

1726

view article

The High Court of Justice for the trial of Charles I begins its proceedings.

1649

view article

The Mexican city of León is founded by order of the viceroy Don Martín Enríquez de Almanza.

1576

view article

Battle of Rio de Janeiro: Portuguese forces under the command of Estácio de Sá definitively drive the French out of Rio de Janeiro.

1567

view article

Christian II is forced to abdicate as King of Denmark and Norway.

1523

view article

The Taula de canvi (Catalan: "Table of change"), described as Europe's first-ever public bank, began operations inside Barcelona's Llotja de Mar.

1401

view article

Edward Balliol surrenders his claim to the Scottish throne to Edward III in exchange for an English pension.

1356

view article

Duke Wladyslaw Lokietek becomes king of Poland.

1320

view article

The first English parliament to include not only Lords but also representatives of the major towns holds its first meeting in the Palace of Westminster, now commonly known as the "Houses of Parliament".

1265

view article

Finnish peasant Lalli kills English clergyman Henry, the Bishop of Turku, on the ice of Lake Köyliö.

1156

view article

Pope Fabian is martyred during the Decian persecution.

250

view article

Top Stories from Hacker News

Message Queues: A Simple Guide with Analogies (2024)

This guide explains message queues with analogies: databases, warehouses and post offices.

110 points

28 comments

discussionsource

Anthropic made a mistake in cutting off third-party clients

349 points

242 comments

discussionsource

Unauthenticated remote code execution in OpenCode

429 points

142 comments

discussionsource

LLVM: The bad parts

389 points

77 comments

discussionsource

Show HN: AI in SolidWorks

LAD is an AI assistant integrated into SolidWorks that helps you create and modify 3D models through natural language. Create sketches, features, and automate CAD workflows.

191 points

106 comments

discussionsource

Postal Arbitrage

559 points

281 comments

discussionsource

Personal thoughts/notes from working on Zootopia 2

The home of Code & Visuals

350 points

80 comments

discussionsource

Computers that used to be human

Before Macs or mainframes, computers were people: a brief etymology of people becoming tools.,Before Macs or mainframes, computers were people: a brief etymology of people becoming tools.

64 points

20 comments

discussionsource

Reproducing DeepSeek's MHC: When Residual Connections Explode

Taylor Kolasinski - Engineering at FlowMode. ML systems & research, reinforcement learning, robotics. Based in Brooklyn, NY.

121 points

30 comments

discussionsource

Launch a Debugging Terminal into GitHub Actions

Code, Apps and Thoughts @lawrencegripper,Code, Apps and Thoughts @lawrencegripper

155 points

64 comments

discussionsource

Floppy disks turn out to be the greatest TV remote for kids

751 points

418 comments

discussionsource

Clearspace (YC W23) Is Hiring an Applied Researcher (ML)

About Clearspace Clearspace is building the intentionality layer of the internet. Our mission is to build technology as effective at protecting human attention as social media is at exploiting it (infinite scrolling, short-form feeds, manipulative notifications, etc). Our category defining mobile app has been featured on Huberman Lab, New York Times Wirecutter, NPR Marketplace, Forbes, TBPN. People that want a better relationship with their devices have nowhere to turn except for willpower. We are building an agent that achieves this on all devices by processing and filtering network traffic based on natural language rules. About The Role We are looking for an ML-focused engineer that will be responsible for training and improving a model f

1 points

comments

discussionsource

Date is out, Temporal is in

Temporal is the Date system we always wanted in JavaScript. It's extremely close to being available so Mat Marquis thought it would be a good idea to explain exactly what is better about this new JavaScript date system.

463 points

205 comments

discussionsource

Ai, Japanese chimpanzee who counted and painted dies at 49

Ai's cognitive abilities had been studied extensively since she was brought to a Japanese institute in 1977.

192 points

64 comments

discussionsource

Iran has now been offline for 96 hours

164 points

183 comments

discussionsource

TimeCapsuleLLM: LLM trained only on data from 1800-1875

A LLM trained only on data from certain time periods to reduce modern bias - haykgrigo3/TimeCapsuleLLM

737 points

309 comments

discussionsource

Show HN: Yolobox – Run AI coding agents with full sudo without nuking home dir

Let your AI go full send. Your home directory stays home. - finbarr/yolobox

122 points

99 comments

discussionsource

Building a 25 Gbit/s workstation for the SCION Association

Blogpost about building the SCION 25 Gbit/s Workstation - scionassociation/blog-25gbit-workstation

94 points

32 comments

discussionsource

Zen-C: Write like a high-level language, run like C

Write like a high-level language, run like C. Contribute to z-libs/Zen-C development by creating an account on GitHub.

213 points

142 comments

discussionsource

Apple picks Gemini to power Siri

Google's market value surpassed Apple for the first time since 2019 as it rolls out updated artificial intelligence features.,Google's market value surpassed Apple for the first time since 2019 as it rolls out updated artificial intelligence features.

1037 points

651 comments

discussionsource