top 20 hacker news stories for 2025-02-10

Undergraduate shows that searches within hash tables can be much faster

https://www.quantamagazine.org/undergraduate-upends-a-40-year-old-data-science-conjecture-20250210/

2 years ago

Surnames from nicknames nobody has any more

https://blog.plover.com/lang/etym/nickname-names.html

2 years ago

Musk-led group makes $97B bid for control of OpenAI

https://www.reuters.com/markets/deals/elon-musk-led-group-makes-974-billion-bid-control-openai-wsj-reports-2025-02-10/

2 years ago

The Anthropic Economic Index

https://www.anthropic.com/news/the-anthropic-economic-index

2 years ago

To buy a Tesla Model 3, only to end up in hell

https://www.myteslaexperience.com/2025-02-01/to-buy-a-tesla-mode-3-only-to-end-up-in-hell

2 years ago

Show HN: HTML visualization of a PDF file's internal structure

https://github.com/desgeeko/pdfsyntax/blob/main/docs/browse.md

2 years ago

I built an AI company to save my open source project

https://timefold.ai/blog/how-i-built-an-ai-company-to-save-my-open-source-project

2 years ago

I built an open source AI tool to find my autoimmune disease

https://old.reddit.com/r/selfhosted/comments/1ij7s4m/how_i_built_an_open_source_ai_tool_to_find_my/

2 years ago

Building a personal, private AI computer on a budget

https://ewintr.nl/posts/2025/building-a-personal-private-ai-computer-on-a-budget/

2 years ago

TL;DR of Deep Dive into LLMs Like ChatGPT by Andrej Karpathy

https://anfalmushtaq.com/articles/deep-dive-into-llms-like-chatgpt-tldr

2 years ago

Nvidia Security Team: “What if we just stopped using C?” (2022)

https://blog.adacore.com/nvidia-security-team-what-if-we-just-stopped-using-c

2 years ago

Advertising Is a Cancer on Society (2019)

https://jacek.zlydach.pl/blog/2019-07-31-ads-as-cancer.html

2 years ago

Bank CEO: Retract your debanking piece? Me: No

https://www.kalzumeus.com/2025/02/10/retraction-request-denied/

2 years ago

SQL pipe syntax available in public preview in BigQuery

https://cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs/pipe-syntax-guide

2 years ago

Thinkserver: My web-based coding environment

https://checkmyworking.com/posts/2025/02/thinkserver-my-web-based-coding-environment/

2 years ago

Thomas Aquinas' skull reveals appearance and cause of death

https://www.ncregister.com/blog/face-of-aquinas-revealed-after-750-years

2 years ago

NESFab – A new programming language for creating NES games

https://pubby.games/nesfab.html

2 years ago

What about K?

https://xpqz.github.io/kbook/Introduction.html

2 years ago

CAPTCHAs: 'a tracking cookie farm for profit masquerading as a security service'

https://www.pcgamer.com/gaming-industry/a-2023-study-concluded-captchas-are-a-tracking-cookie-farm-for-profit-masquerading-as-a-security-service-that-made-us-spend-819-billion-hours-clicking-on-traffic-lights-to-generate-nearly-usd1-trillion-for-google/

2 years ago

An Infinitely Large Napkin [pdf] (2019)

https://venhance.github.io/napkin/Napkin.pdf

2 years ago