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Hacker News (Feb 2025)

  1. RTX 5090 cable overheats to 150 degrees Celsius

    87 points • comment • feb 11, 2025

  2. FBI turns over details of 5000 employees who worked on January 6 cases

    87 points • comment • feb 05, 2025

  3. ScatterBrain: Unmasking the shadow of PoisonPlug's obfuscator

    87 points • comment • feb 02, 2025

  4. I'm glad AI didn't exist when I learned to code

    87 points • comment • feb 18, 2025

  5. UK betting giant's unlawful marketing kept suicidal gambler hooked

    87 points • comment • feb 02, 2025

  6. Y Combinator Supports AI Startup Dehumanizing Factory Workers

    87 points • comment • feb 26, 2025

  7. I built a large language model "from scratch"

    87 points • comment • feb 19, 2025

  8. The missing tier for query compilers

    87 points • comment • feb 10, 2025

  9. OpenWISP: Multi-device fleet management for OpenWrt routers

    87 points • comment • feb 05, 2025

  10. DOGE staffer resigns over racist posts

    86 points • comment • feb 06, 2025

  11. Durable plastic gets a sustainability makeover in novel polymerization process

    86 points • comment • feb 10, 2025

  12. Complex Systems and Quantitative Mereology

    86 points • comment • feb 05, 2025

  13. Court Documents Shed New Light on DOGE Activity at Treasury Department

    86 points • comment • feb 13, 2025

  14. Judge tells agencies to restore webpages and data

    86 points • comment • feb 11, 2025

  15. Database of 750 companies building for people with disabilities

    86 points • comment • feb 11, 2025

  16. Brazilian ship sunk by WWII U-Boat located

    86 points • comment • feb 20, 2025

  17. Turning Off All 8k EV Chargers at All Federal Government Buildings

    85 points • comment • feb 23, 2025

  18. DOOM on Google Sheets

    85 points • comment • feb 07, 2025

  19. Go-msquic: A new QUIC/HTTP3 library for Go

    85 points • comment • feb 19, 2025

  20. Broadcom, TSMC eye possible Intel deals to split storied chipmaker

    85 points • comment • feb 18, 2025

  21. Modular forms, the 'fifth fundamental operation' of math (2023)

    85 points • comment • feb 24, 2025

  22. Anchoreum: A game for learning CSS anchor positioning

    85 points • comment • feb 11, 2025

  23. The APL Challenge

    85 points • comment • feb 04, 2025

  24. Argentina president faces impeachment calls over crypto crash

    85 points • comment • feb 17, 2025

  25. Why aren't we losing our minds over the plastic in our brains?

    85 points • comment • feb 15, 2025

  26. Retaking the web browser, one small step at a time

    85 points • comment • feb 09, 2025

  27. How to help us build open source Pebble software

    85 points • comment • feb 07, 2025

  28. Onlookers freak out as 25-year-old set loose on Treasury computer system

    84 points • comment • feb 04, 2025

  29. Incremental compilation instantly rebuilds the Zig compiler [video]

    84 points • comment • feb 11, 2025

  30. Extreme supersonic winds measured on a planet outside our solar system

    84 points • comment • feb 14, 2025

  31. Show HN: VimLM – A Local, Offline Coding Assistant for Vim

    84 points • comment • feb 14, 2025

  32. How Many School Shootings? All Incidents from 1966-Present

    84 points • comment • feb 23, 2025

  33. Resistance to Rust abstractions for DMA mapping

    84 points • comment • feb 04, 2025

  34. Large Language Models for Mathematicians (2023)

    84 points • comment • feb 01, 2025

  35. How to prove false statements? (Part 1)

    84 points • comment • feb 04, 2025

  36. Project 2025 Observer

    84 points • comment • feb 17, 2025

  37. Estonia to disconnect from the Russian-run electricity network on Saturday

    84 points • comment • feb 07, 2025

  38. We need network societies, not network states (2024)

    84 points • comment • feb 05, 2025

  39. Website for USAID appears to be offline

    83 points • comment • feb 01, 2025

  40. Ask HN: Tired of startups – want a normal job. Help

    83 points • comment • feb 21, 2025

  41. Drone captures narwhals using their tusks to explore, forage and play

    83 points • comment • feb 28, 2025

  42. Understanding Surrogate Pairs: Why Some Windows Filenames Can't Be Read

    83 points • comment • feb 24, 2025

  43. In the trenches: on being an Engineering Manager

    82 points • comment • feb 06, 2025

  44. Solving Sudoku with Tmux

    82 points • comment • feb 07, 2025

  45. Windows 11 – There's still nothing worth my time

    82 points • comment • feb 04, 2025

  46. No longer writing my own damn HTML

    82 points • comment • feb 12, 2025

  47. Making my debug build run 100x faster so that it is finally usable

    82 points • comment • feb 18, 2025

  48. USDS Engineering Director Resigns: 'This Is Not the Mission I Came to Serve'

    82 points • comment • feb 20, 2025

  49. Mercury Coder: frontier diffusion LLM generating 1000+ tok/sec on commodity GPUs

    82 points • comment • feb 26, 2025

  50. General Reasoning: Free, open resource for building large reasoning models

    82 points • comment • feb 21, 2025

  51. Show HN: I Built a Visual Workflow Automation Platform – FlowRipple

    82 points • comment • feb 22, 2025

  52. HP ditches 15-minute wait time policy due to 'feedback'

    81 points • comment • feb 21, 2025

  53. Backblaze seemingly does not support files greater than 1 TB

    81 points • comment • feb 04, 2025

  54. Addiction Economy

    81 points • comment • feb 01, 2025

  55. Paxlovid: You'd have expected more

    81 points • comment • feb 22, 2025

  56. Google defends scrapping AI pledges and DEI goals in all-staff meeting

    81 points • comment • feb 16, 2025

  57. Show HN: Matle – A Daily Chess Puzzle Inspired by Wordle

    81 points • comment • feb 05, 2025

  58. Pantograph: A Fluid and Typed Structure Editor

    81 points • comment • feb 07, 2025

  59. The Oligarchs Who Came to Regret Supporting Hitler

    80 points • comment • feb 14, 2025

  60. Stargate Project II? Declassified US Government Research in RV and Psi [pdf]

    80 points • comment • feb 19, 2025

  61. Launch HN: Massdriver (YC W22) – Self-serve cloud infra without the red tape

    80 points • comment • feb 21, 2025

  62. Mozilla's New Terms of Use Are Out of Step with Firefox's Direct Competition

    80 points • comment • feb 27, 2025

  63. Muon's magnetic moment exposes a hole in the Standard Model, unless it doesn't

    80 points • comment • feb 27, 2025

  64. What enabled us to create AI is the thing it has the power to erase

    79 points • comment • feb 12, 2025

  65. MichiganTypeScript: A WebAssembly runtime implemented in TypeScript types

    79 points • comment • feb 26, 2025

  66. Append-Only Programming (2024)

    79 points • comment • feb 18, 2025

  67. The Loneliness Epidemic Is a Security Crisis

    79 points • comment • feb 14, 2025

  68. Just barely fitting a full Wi-Fi stack on the nRF9151

    79 points • comment • feb 18, 2025

  69. How Hans Bethe stumbled upon perfect quantum theories

    79 points • comment • feb 12, 2025

  70. Apple ordered to open encrypted user accounts globally to UK spying

    79 points • comment • feb 07, 2025

  71. Show HN: Emdash – Slack/Zoom alternative for distributed team collaboration

    79 points • comment • feb 26, 2025

  72. Nearly half of Steam's users are still using Windows 10

    78 points • comment • feb 14, 2025

  73. The King in Yellow

    78 points • comment • feb 05, 2025

  74. Copyright reform is necessary for national security

    78 points • comment • feb 01, 2025

  75. Show HN: Wireless video streaming on POV bike display

    78 points • comment • feb 27, 2025

  76. Show HN: Torii – a framework agnostic authentication library for Rust

    78 points • comment • feb 28, 2025

  77. Building an "Easy" Web Application

    78 points • comment • feb 07, 2025

  78. Yaak 2.0 – Git, WebSockets, OAuth, and More

    78 points • comment • feb 19, 2025

  79. What are Majorana zero modes?

    78 points • comment • feb 19, 2025

  80. Microsoft is Getting Rusty [video]

    78 points • comment • feb 26, 2025

  81. What happens to SaaS in a world with computer-using agents?

    78 points • comment • feb 10, 2025

  82. Microsoft Go 1.24 FIPS changes

    78 points • comment • feb 06, 2025

  83. EU regulations to look out for in 2025

    77 points • comment • feb 23, 2025

  84. Nginx: try_files Is Evil Too (2024)

    77 points • comment • feb 17, 2025

  85. Starlink to take over $2.4B contract to overhaul air traffic control comms

    77 points • comment • feb 28, 2025

  86. There may not be aha moment in R1-Zero-like training

    77 points • comment • feb 07, 2025

  87. Show HN: Mapping the Unix Magic Poster – An Interactive Annotation Project

    77 points • comment • feb 11, 2025

  88. A few words about indie app business

    77 points • comment • feb 28, 2025

  89. Musk's DOGE seeks access to personal taxpayer data, raising alarm at IRS

    77 points • comment • feb 17, 2025

  90. The CRPG Renaissance, Part 3: TSR Is Dead

    77 points • comment • feb 21, 2025

  91. How to Run DeepSeek R1 Distilled Reasoning Models on RyzenAI and Radeon GPUs

    77 points • comment • feb 02, 2025

  92. NASA rover discovers liquid water 'ripples' carved into Mars rock

    77 points • comment • feb 19, 2025

  93. F8 – an 8 bit architecture designed for C and memory efficiency [video]

    76 points • comment • feb 17, 2025

  94. The lottery of the snakebite antivenom industry

    76 points • comment • feb 13, 2025

  95. Should We Decouple Technology from Everyday Life?

    76 points • comment • feb 23, 2025

  96. Reinforcement Learning: An Overview

    76 points • comment • feb 02, 2025

  97. Federal workers launch a new site to share inside information about DOGE

    76 points • comment • feb 21, 2025

  98. Gradual Disempowerment: How Even Incremental AI Progress Poses Existential Risks

    76 points • comment • feb 01, 2025

  99. YouTube restores SineVibes channel after Peter Kirn & Ars Technica get involved

    76 points • comment • feb 04, 2025

  100. Reasons Not to Refactor

    76 points • comment • feb 04, 2025