top 50% hacker news stories for 2025-02-06

Paper Apps

https://gladdendesign.com/collections/paper-apps

2 years ago

Hotline for modern Apple systems

https://github.com/mierau/hotline

2 years ago

Programming SDF animations of Rick and Morty

https://danielchasehooper.com/posts/code-animated-rick/

2 years ago

Understanding Reasoning LLMs

https://magazine.sebastianraschka.com/p/understanding-reasoning-llms

2 years ago

Simulating water over terrain

https://lisyarus.github.io/blog/posts/simulating-water-over-terrain.html

2 years ago

Linux Running in a PDF

https://linux.doompdf.dev/linux.pdf

2 years ago

OpenWrt 24.10.0 – First Stable Release

https://openwrt.org/releases/24.10/notes-24.10.0

2 years ago

Show HN: SQLite disk page explorer

https://github.com/QuadrupleA/sqlite-page-explorer

2 years ago

Some terminal frustrations

https://jvns.ca/blog/2025/02/05/some-terminal-frustrations/

2 years ago

I believe 6502 instruction set is a good first assembly language

https://nemanjatrifunovic.substack.com/p/6502-is-a-good-starting-point-for

2 years ago

Microplastics in the human brain

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/the-human-brain-may-contain-as-much-as-a-spoons-worth-of-microplastics-new-research-suggests-180985995/

2 years ago

Aluminum batteries outlive lithium-ion with a pinch of salt

https://spectrum.ieee.org/aluminum-battery

2 years ago

America's Dangerous Movement Toward Oligarchy, Authoritarianism and Kleptocracy

https://www.counterpunch.org/2025/02/04/americas-dangerous-movement-toward-oligarchy-authoritarianism-and-kleptocracy/

2 years ago

U.S. Government Disclosed 39 Zero-Day Vulnerabilities in 2023, First-Ever Report

https://www.zetter-zeroday.com/u-s-government-disclosed-39-zero-day-vulnerabilities-in-2023-per-first-ever-report/

2 years ago

Why LLMs still have problems with OCR

https://www.runpulse.com/blog/why-llms-suck-at-ocr

2 years ago

GitHub Copilot: The Agent Awakens

https://github.blog/news-insights/product-news/github-copilot-the-agent-awakens/

2 years ago

Show HN: An API that takes a URL and returns a file with browser screenshots

https://github.com/US-Artificial-Intelligence/scraper

2 years ago

Frank Lloyd Wright's mile high skyscraper proposal (2021)

https://www.onverticality.com/blog/frank-lloyd-wright-mile-high-skyscraper

2 years ago

What does it mean that MP3 is free?

https://idiallo.com/blog/listen-mp3-is-free

2 years ago

Douglas McIlroy responds to Unix spell article with new implementation details

https://twitter.com/abhi9u/status/1887010136155414602

2 years ago

Scala 3 Migration: Report from the field

https://blog.pierre-ricadat.com/scala-3-migration-report-from-the-field

2 years ago

Subway crime plummets as ridership jumps significantly in congestion pricing era

https://www.amny.com/nyc-transit/nyc-subway-crime-plummets-ridership-jumps-2025/

2 years ago

Show HN: An homage to Tom Dowdy's 1991 screensaver, "Kaos"

https://thestrikeagency.com/kaos/

2 years ago

Pre-Trained Large Language Models Use Fourier Features for Addition (2024)

https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.03445

2 years ago

DOGE staffer resigns over racist posts

https://www.wsj.com/tech/doge-staffer-resigns-over-racist-posts-d9f11a93

2 years ago

US Cloud soon illegal in EU? US punches first hole in EU-US Data Deal

https://noyb.eu/en/us-cloud-soon-illegal-trump-punches-first-hole-eu-us-data-deal

2 years ago

Origami by Meenakshi

https://origamee.net/

2 years ago

The inevitability of the borrow checker

https://yorickpeterse.com/articles/the-inevitability-of-the-borrow-checker/

2 years ago

Implementing a Game Boy emulator in Ruby

https://sacckey.dev/posts/implementing-a-game-boy-emulator-in-ruby/

2 years ago

The superconductivity of layered graphene

https://www.newscientist.com/article/2466930-the-superconductivity-of-layered-graphene-is-surprisingly-strange/

2 years ago

A colorful Game of Life

https://colorlife.quick.jaredforsyth.com

2 years ago

Cloudflare R2 Global Outage

https://www.cloudflarestatus.com

2 years ago

Mystery brain disease patients in New Brunswick say they welcome investigation

https://www.ctvnews.ca/atlantic/new-brunswick/article/good-first-step-nb-mystery-brain-disease-patients-welcome-new-investigation/

2 years ago

AI by Hand Exercises in Excel

https://github.com/ImagineAILab/ai-by-hand-excel

2 years ago

Out of Africa: celebrating 100 years of human-origins research

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-00282-1

2 years ago

Deep Reinforcement Learning: Pong from Pixels (2016)

http://karpathy.github.io/2016/05/31/rl/

2 years ago

Sand trafficking in Latin America

https://insightcrime.org/news/the-mafias-behind-sand-trafficking-in-latin-america/

2 years ago

R1 Computer Use

https://github.com/agentsea/r1-computer-use

2 years ago

TKey – Security for the New World

https://tillitis.se/products/tkey/

2 years ago

Markdown's Big Brother: Say Hello to AsciiDoc

https://www.git-tower.com/blog/asciidoc-quick-guide/

2 years ago

Show HN: Watch fascism unfold in realtime – an AI-powered tracker

https://www.realtimefascism.com

2 years ago

Good engineers are right, a lot

https://www.seangoedecke.com/being-right-a-lot/

2 years ago

From hours to 360ms: over-engineering a puzzle solution

https://blog.danielh.cc/blog/puzzle

2 years ago

Five coding hats

https://dubroy.com/blog/five-coding-hats/

2 years ago

Microsoft Go 1.24 FIPS changes

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/go/go-1-24-fips-update/

2 years ago

In the trenches: on being an Engineering Manager

https://blog.digital-horror.com/blog/in-the-trenches-what-it-means-to-be-an-engineering-manager/

2 years ago

Ask HN: Is Godaddy Running a Scam?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42967247

2 years ago

It is time to standardize principles and practices for software memory safety

https://cacm.acm.org/opinion/it-is-time-to-standardize-principles-and-practices-for-software-memory-safety/

2 years ago

Science of Microwave Ovens (2016)

https://www.genuineideas.com/ArticlesIndex/wave.html

2 years ago

Disney+ loses 700k subscribers following price increase

https://www.macrumors.com/2025/02/05/disney-plus-subscriber-decrease/

2 years ago

AI-generated Answers experiment on Stack Exchange sites

https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/406307/ai-generated-answers-experiment-on-stack-exchange-sites-that-volunteered-to-part

2 years ago

Show HN: Heap Explorer

https://github.com/heap-exploitation/heap-explorer

2 years ago

Apple Robot Research

https://machinelearning.apple.com/research/elegnt-expressive-functional-movement

2 years ago

I wrote a screenplay for a programming language introduction

https://jan.miksovsky.com/

2 years ago

Periodic Cooking of Eggs

https://www.nature.com/articles/s44172-024-00334-w

2 years ago

HTML Kaleidoscope

https://codepen.io/AAMutlu20/pen/mdYxroj

2 years ago

Versioning versus Coordination

https://brooker.co.za/blog/2025/02/04/versioning.html

2 years ago

An Anonymous Investor Is Spending Millions to Make Underwater Homes

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/feb/03/flooded-quarry-mysterious-millionaire-and-dream-new-atlantis-welsh-border-deep

2 years ago

Grafana: Why observability needs FinOps, and vice versa

https://grafana.com/blog/2025/02/06/why-observability-needs-finops-and-vice-versa-the-vantage-integration-with-grafana-cloud/

2 years ago

Transfinite NIM (the game, not the programming language)

https://jdh.hamkins.org/transfinite-nim/

2 years ago

How to GIF (2025 Edition)

https://fullystacked.net/how-to-gif-2025/

2 years ago

Cameras of 1930s Era

https://licm.org.uk/livingImage/1930Room.html

2 years ago

Show HN: Ricotta – Language Learning to Replace Anki

https://ricotta.affineur.io/

2 years ago

OpenAI Sales Agent Demo

https://twitter.com/charliebitda/status/1887307980338856445

2 years ago

FDIC has released 175 internal documents on "Operation Chokepoint 2.0"

https://www.fdic.gov/foia/correspondence-related-crypto-related-activities

2 years ago

Google scraps diversity 'aspirations,' citing role as federal contractor

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/02/05/google-scraps-diversity-aspirations-as-a-federal-contractor.html

2 years ago

Perpetual stew

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perpetual_stew

2 years ago

Republican Congressman Introduces Bill Seeking Abolishment of OSHA

https://www.hipaajournal.com/biggs-nulify-occupational-safety-health-administration-act-nosha/

2 years ago

Explorable Flexagons: Learn to create and flex flexagons (2020)

http://loki3.com/flex/explore/

2 years ago