top 50% hacker news stories for 2025-02-05

Tell HN: Cloudflare is blocking Pale Moon and other non-mainstream browsers

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42953508

2 years ago

Ingesting PDFs and why Gemini 2.0 changes everything

https://www.sergey.fyi/articles/gemini-flash-2

2 years ago

Fair Pricing

https://kagi.com/changelog#6155

2 years ago

Beej's Guide to Git

https://beej.us/guide/bggit/

2 years ago

Software development topics I've changed my mind on

https://chriskiehl.com/article/thoughts-after-10-years

2 years ago

S1: A $6 R1 competitor?

https://timkellogg.me/blog/2025/02/03/s1

2 years ago

Avoiding outrage fatigue while staying informed

https://www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/episode/how-to-avoid-outrage-fatigue-and-tune-in-without-burning-out/

2 years ago

The FAA’s Hiring Scandal

https://www.tracingwoodgrains.com/p/the-full-story-of-the-faas-hiring

2 years ago

Eggs US – Price – Chart

https://tradingeconomics.com/commodity/eggs-us

2 years ago

Why is Warner Bros. Discovery putting old movies on YouTube?

https://tedium.co/2025/02/05/warner-bros-youtube-full-movie-releases/

2 years ago

Gemini 2.0 is now available to everyone

https://blog.google/technology/google-deepmind/gemini-model-updates-february-2025/

2 years ago

Andrej Karpathy: Deep Dive into LLMs Like ChatGPT [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7xTGNNLPyMI

2 years ago

Suspension of inbound parcels from China and Hong Kong

https://about.usps.com/newsroom/service-alerts/international/suspension-of-inbound-parcels-from-china-and-hong-kong.htm

2 years ago

They Thought They Were Free: The Germans, 1933-45 (1955)

https://press.uchicago.edu/Misc/Chicago/511928.htm

2 years ago

Station of despair: What to do if you get stuck at end of Tokyo Chuo Rapid Line

https://soranews24.com/2024/12/21/station-of-despair-what-to-do-if-you-get-stuck-at-the-end-of-tokyos-chuo-rapid-line/

2 years ago

Servo's progress in 2024

https://servo.org/blog/2025/01/31/servo-in-2024/

2 years ago

Are LLMs able to notice the “gorilla in the data”?

https://chiraaggohel.com/posts/llms-eda/

2 years ago

Okta Bcrypt incident lessons for designing better APIs

https://n0rdy.foo/posts/20250121/okta-bcrypt-lessons-for-better-apis/

2 years ago

3D reconstruction of the capital of the Aztec empire

https://tenochtitlan.thomaskole.nl/

2 years ago

DOGE employees ordered to stop using Slack

https://www.404media.co/doge-employees-ordered-to-stop-using-slack-while-agency-transitions-to-a-records-system-not-subject-to-foia/

2 years ago

20k federal workers take "buyout" so far, official says

https://www.axios.com/2025/02/04/trump-buyout-federal-workers-20000

2 years ago

F-Droid Awarded Open Technology Fund's FOSS Sustainability Grant

https://f-droid.org/2025/02/05/f-droid-awarded-otf-grant.html

2 years ago

Chrome 133 Supports DOM State-Preserving Move with moveBefore()

https://chromestatus.com/feature/5135990159835136

2 years ago

Tesla sales plummet in the UK, France, and Germany

https://arstechnica.com/cars/2025/02/tesla-sales-plummet-in-the-uk-france-and-germany/

2 years ago

OpenLDK: A Java JIT compiler and runtime in Common Lisp

https://github.com/atgreen/openldk

2 years ago

RISC-V Mainboard for Framework Laptop 13 is now available

https://frame.work/gb/en/blog/risc-v-mainboard-for-framework-laptop-13-is-now-available

2 years ago

Microsoft deletes official Windows 11 CPU/TPM bypass for unsupported PCs

https://www.neowin.net/news/microsoft-quietly-removes-official-windows-11-cputpm-bypass-for-unsupported-pcs/

2 years ago

Zig; what I think after months of using it

https://strongly-typed-thoughts.net/blog/zig-2025

2 years ago

Visual explanations of mathematics (2020)

https://agilescientific.com/blog/2020/2/25/visual-explanations-of-mathematics

2 years ago

It's unlikely that there will be any further releases of mt32-pi

https://github.com/dwhinham/mt32-pi/blob/075b52809e77420c6e80828825fe42430336b369/README.md

2 years ago

I coded a Pascal compiler for transputer as a teen in 1993

https://nanochess.org/pascal.html

2 years ago

21st Century C++

https://cacm.acm.org/blogcacm/21st-century-c/

2 years ago

Kill the "user": Musings of a disillusioned technologist

https://www.pastagang.cc/blog/kill-the-user/

2 years ago

I'm Done with Ubuntu

https://ounapuu.ee/posts/2025/02/05/done-with-ubuntu/

2 years ago

Show HN: HN as TikTok, welcome to HN hell

https://hnhell.com

2 years ago

GNU Make Standard Library

https://gmsl.jgc.org/

2 years ago

Steve Meretzky – Working with Douglas Adams on the Hitchhiker's Guide

https://spillhistorie.no/qa-with-game-designer-steve-meretzky/

2 years ago

Google kills diversity hiring targets

https://www.wsj.com/tech/google-kills-diversity-hiring-targets-04433d7c

2 years ago

You're missing your near misses

https://surfingcomplexity.blog/2025/02/01/youre-missing-your-near-misses/

2 years ago

The Sudoku Affair

https://explaining.software/archive/the-sudoku-affair/

2 years ago

Carl Sagan Predicts the Decline of America (1995)

https://www.openculture.com/2025/02/carl-sagan-predicts-the-decline-of-america-unable-to-know-whats-true.html

2 years ago

Zig Guide

https://zig.guide/

2 years ago

Go Data Structures (2009)

https://research.swtch.com/godata

2 years ago

First glimpse inside burnt scroll after 2k years

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c5yvrq7dyg6o

2 years ago

Of Course It's a Coup

https://snyder.substack.com/p/of-course-its-a-coup

2 years ago

Huawei's Ascend 910C delivers 60% of Nvidia H100 inference performance

https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/deepseek-research-suggests-huaweis-ascend-910c-delivers-60-percent-nvidia-h100-inference-performance

2 years ago

21st Century C++

https://cacm.acm.org/blogcacm/21st-century-c/

2 years ago

Show HN: ArXivTok

https://arxivtok.vercel.app/

2 years ago

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

https://www.cnn.com/2025/02/04/politics/fbi-employees-tuesday/index.html

2 years ago

Go Data Structures: Interfaces (2009)

https://research.swtch.com/interfaces

2 years ago

OpenWISP: Multi-device fleet management for OpenWrt routers

https://openwisp.org

2 years ago

Running ArchiveTeam's Warrior in Kubernetes

https://gabrielsimmer.com/blog/archiveteam-warrior-kubernetes

2 years ago

Complex Systems and Quantitative Mereology

https://abeljansma.nl/2025/01/28/mereoPhysics.html

2 years ago