top 50% hacker news stories for 2025-02-01

CDC data are disappearing

https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2025/01/cdc-dei-scientific-data/681531/

2 years ago

749 upvotes – 589 comments

Macrodata Refinement

https://lumon-industries.com/

2 years ago

722 upvotes – 369 comments

Apple is open sourcing Swift Build

https://www.swift.org/blog/the-next-chapter-in-swift-build-technologies/

2 years ago

612 upvotes – 283 comments

Visualizing all books of the world in ISBN-Space

https://phiresky.github.io/blog/2025/visualizing-all-books-in-isbn-space/

2 years ago

486 upvotes – 91 comments

RLHF Book

https://rlhfbook.com/

2 years ago

479 upvotes – 37 comments

How to Run DeepSeek R1 671B Locally on a $2000 EPYC Server

https://digitalspaceport.com/how-to-run-deepseek-r1-671b-fully-locally-on-2000-epyc-rig/

2 years ago

463 upvotes – 283 comments

Bzip3: A spiritual successor to BZip2

https://github.com/kspalaiologos/bzip3

2 years ago

355 upvotes – 176 comments

Mitochondria as you've never seen them

https://www.nature.com/immersive/d41586-025-00269-y/

2 years ago

343 upvotes – 87 comments

Show HN: ESP32 RC Cars

https://github.com/mattsroufe/esp32_rc_cars

2 years ago

335 upvotes – 63 comments

The government information crisis is bigger than you think it is

https://freegovinfo.info/node/14747/

2 years ago

330 upvotes – 270 comments

Avoid ISP Routers (2024)

https://routersecurity.org/ISProuters.php

2 years ago

316 upvotes – 204 comments

Earthstar – A database for private, distributed, offline-first applications

https://earthstar-project.org/

2 years ago

310 upvotes – 42 comments

I spent five years building a webapp and got my first $1 (2022)

https://codingcafe.jp/posts/signal-5yrs

2 years ago

280 upvotes – 100 comments

Phyllis Fong, who was investigating Neuralink, "forcefully removed "

https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/technology/tech-news/phyllis-fong-who-was-investigating-elon-musks-brain-implant-startup-neuralink-forcefully-removed-from-office-after-refusing-termination-order/articleshow/117800543.cms

2 years ago

263 upvotes – 214 comments

How to turn off Apple Intelligence

https://www.asurion.com/connect/tech-tips/turn-off-apple-intelligence/

2 years ago

240 upvotes – 179 comments

Oracle Cloud deleting active user accounts without possibility for data recovery

https://mastodon.de/@ErikUden/113930010311998246

2 years ago

240 upvotes – 110 comments

Philip Low Unmasking Musk

https://bsky.app/profile/brainking.bsky.social/post/3lgsco7cdnc26

2 years ago

222 upvotes – 70 comments

A bookmarklet to kill sticky headers (2013)

https://alisdair.mcdiarmid.org/kill-sticky-headers/

2 years ago

219 upvotes – 88 comments

Notes on OpenAI o3-mini

https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jan/31/o3-mini/

2 years ago

211 upvotes – 76 comments

Hell is overconfident developers writing encryption code

https://soatok.blog/2025/01/31/hell-is-overconfident-developers-writing-encryption-code/

2 years ago

201 upvotes – 238 comments

The Zizians and the rationalist death cult

https://maxread.substack.com/p/the-zizians-and-the-rationalist-death

2 years ago

185 upvotes – 205 comments

Over 90% of U.S. airport towers are understaffed, data shows

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/over-90-percent-u-s-airport-towers-understaffed-air-traffic-controllers-data-shows/

2 years ago

184 upvotes – 226 comments

Hoppscotch: Open source alternative to Postman / Insomnia

https://github.com/hoppscotch/hoppscotch

2 years ago

177 upvotes – 126 comments

Decision to dump water from Tulare County lakes altered after confusing locals

https://sjvwater.org/decision-to-dump-water-from-tulare-county-lakes-altered-after-sending-locals-in-mad-scramble/

2 years ago

166 upvotes – 77 comments

Push Notifications for Decentralized Services

https://unifiedpush.org/news/20250131_push_for_decentralized/

2 years ago

164 upvotes – 52 comments

Dell ends hybrid work policy, demands RTO despite remote work pledge

https://www.theregister.com/2025/01/31/dell_ends_hybrid_work_policy/

2 years ago

162 upvotes – 244 comments

ADHD Didn't Break Me–My Parents Did

https://claimingattention.substack.com/p/adhd-did-not-break-me-my-parents-did

2 years ago

160 upvotes – 178 comments

The origin and unexpected evolution of the word "mainframe"

https://www.righto.com/2025/02/origin-of-mainframe-term.html

2 years ago

160 upvotes – 44 comments

Python 3, Pygame, and Debian Bookworm on the Miyoo A30

https://www.jtolio.com/2025/02/py3-pygame-miyoo-a30/

2 years ago

158 upvotes – 29 comments

Ratzilla

https://orhun.dev/ratzilla/demo/

2 years ago

150 upvotes – 32 comments

FOSDEM 2025: Streaming Schedule

https://fosdem.org/2025/schedule/streaming/

2 years ago

147 upvotes – 27 comments

Elon Musk's DOGE reportedly gained "full access" to the federal payment system

https://www.theverge.com/news/604762/auto-draft

2 years ago

121 upvotes – 36 comments

Hytradboi 2025 Program

https://www.hytradboi.com/2025/

2 years ago

120 upvotes – 10 comments

All CDC data is no longer visible to comply with executive orders

https://www.cdc.gov/datainfo.html

2 years ago

119 upvotes – 44 comments

YouTube audio quality – How good does it get? (2022)

https://www.audiomisc.co.uk/YouTube/SpotTheDifference.html

2 years ago

116 upvotes – 102 comments

List of 200 UK companies that moved to 4-day working week

https://future4days.com/list-of-200-uk-companies-that-moved-to-4-day-working-week/

2 years ago

116 upvotes – 91 comments

Datasets from Data.gov Have Disappeared

https://mashable.com/article/government-datasets-disappear-since-trump-inauguration

2 years ago

113 upvotes – 1 comments

Macintosh Allegro Common Lisp

https://www.macintoshrepository.org/1799-macintosh-allegro-common-lisp

2 years ago

111 upvotes – 33 comments

Falsehoods programmers believe about null pointers

https://purplesyringa.moe/blog/falsehoods-programmers-believe-about-null-pointers/

2 years ago

103 upvotes – 104 comments

Show HN: TalkNotes – A site that turns your ideas into tasks

https://www.talknotes.tech/

2 years ago

103 upvotes – 43 comments

I Use Cline for AI Engineering

https://addyo.substack.com/p/why-i-use-cline-for-ai-engineering

2 years ago

100 upvotes – 30 comments

It's OK to hardcode feature flags

https://code.mendhak.com/hardcode-feature-flags/

2 years ago

99 upvotes – 107 comments

New thermogalvanic tech paves way for more efficient fridges

https://cosmosmagazine.com/science/chemistry/improved-fridge-technology/

2 years ago

91 upvotes – 51 comments

Large Language Models for Mathematicians (2023)

https://arxiv.org/abs/2312.04556

2 years ago

89 upvotes – 28 comments

Copyright reform is necessary for national security

https://annas-archive.org/blog/ai-copyright.html

2 years ago

88 upvotes – 109 comments

Addiction Economy

https://www.profgalloway.com/addiction-economy/

2 years ago

88 upvotes – 46 comments

Gradual Disempowerment: How Even Incremental AI Progress Poses Existential Risks

https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.16946

2 years ago

87 upvotes – 84 comments

Elon Musk staff has been caught installing drives inside the OPM office

https://bsky.app/profile/altnps.bsky.social/post/3lh3dl3rkgc2u

2 years ago

87 upvotes – 80 comments

Website for USAID appears to be offline

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/website-usaid-appears-be-offline-2025-02-01/

2 years ago

87 upvotes – 11 comments

Treasury official retires after clash with DOGE over access to payment system

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/01/musks-doge-clashes-with-treasury-over-access-to-payment-system-report-says/

2 years ago

86 upvotes – 19 comments

USDA Inspector General Who Refused to Leave Escorted from Office by Security

https://gizmodo.com/usda-inspector-general-who-refused-to-leave-post-escorted-from-office-by-security-2000556605

2 years ago

84 upvotes – 52 comments

Trump slaps tariffs on Mexico, Canada and China

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/02/01/tariffs-trump-mexico-canada-china-imports-white-house.html

2 years ago

82 upvotes – 158 comments

Reflections on Palantir

https://nabeelqu.co/reflections-on-palantir

2 years ago

80 upvotes – 59 comments

New California bill might block the "AI did it" defense in civil cases

https://www.veeto.app/bill/1941749?tab=Overview

2 years ago

78 upvotes – 73 comments

Show HN: Perforator – cluster-wide profiling tool for large data centers

https://github.com/yandex/perforator

2 years ago

78 upvotes – 13 comments

Island residents are still dealing with the fallout of exploded Starship

https://www.cnn.com/2025/01/30/science/spacex-starship-explosion-debris-turks-caicos/index.html

2 years ago

76 upvotes – 46 comments

JPMorgan's $4B delivery of gold adds to fear tariffs will reshape global trade

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2025/feb/01/jpmorgan-gold-bullion-trump-tariffs

2 years ago

75 upvotes – 17 comments

The Zizians (2020)

https://zizians.info/

2 years ago

75 upvotes – 7 comments

The FAA's Real Air Traffic Control Crisis Runs Much Deeper

https://viewfromthewing.com/collision-on-final-approach-sparks-dei-blame-game-the-faas-real-air-traffic-control-crisis-runs-much-deeper/

2 years ago

75 upvotes – 99 comments

Ask HN: Are you tired of all LLM posts on HN?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42900076

2 years ago

73 upvotes – 49 comments

Elon Musk's Doge Wants Access to the Treasury's Payment Systems

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/elon-musk-doge-treasury-payment-systems-report-1235252444/

2 years ago

72 upvotes – 16 comments

NTSB forces reporters to get plane crash updates on X

https://thedesk.net/2025/02/ntsb-moves-plane-crash-press-updates-x-twitter/

2 years ago

72 upvotes – 13 comments

The Severance writer and cast on corporate cults, sci-fi, and more

https://arstechnica.com/culture/2025/01/the-severance-writer-and-cast-on-corporate-cults-sci-fi-and-more/

2 years ago

69 upvotes – 54 comments

Pyramid structure discovered near Caral Peru

https://omniletters.com/hidden-pyramid-structure-discovered-near-caral/

2 years ago

69 upvotes – 27 comments

Natural fission reactors in the Franceville basin, Gabon

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0016703796002451

2 years ago

68 upvotes – 20 comments
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