top 50% 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

1304 upvotes – 584 comments

Surnames from nicknames nobody has any more

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

2 years ago

993 upvotes – 449 comments

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

706 upvotes – 978 comments

The Anthropic Economic Index

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

2 years ago

582 upvotes – 225 comments

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

457 upvotes – 570 comments

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

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

2 years ago

451 upvotes – 57 comments

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

451 upvotes – 106 comments

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

412 upvotes – 300 comments

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

384 upvotes – 231 comments

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

381 upvotes – 83 comments

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

306 upvotes – 179 comments

Advertising Is a Cancer on Society (2019)

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

2 years ago

284 upvotes – 272 comments

Bank CEO: Retract your debanking piece? Me: No

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

2 years ago

282 upvotes – 75 comments

SQL pipe syntax available in public preview in BigQuery

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

2 years ago

247 upvotes – 113 comments

Thinkserver: My web-based coding environment

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

2 years ago

242 upvotes – 67 comments

Thomas Aquinas' skull reveals appearance and cause of death

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

2 years ago

232 upvotes – 89 comments

NESFab – A new programming language for creating NES games

https://pubby.games/nesfab.html

2 years ago

219 upvotes – 23 comments

What about K?

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

2 years ago

206 upvotes – 138 comments

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

198 upvotes – 133 comments

An Infinitely Large Napkin [pdf] (2019)

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

2 years ago

193 upvotes – 33 comments

NAT Is the Enemy of Low Power Devices

https://blog.golioth.io/nat-is-the-enemy-of-low-power-devices/

2 years ago

180 upvotes – 175 comments

The hallucinatory thoughts of the dying mind

https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/the-hallucinatory-thoughts-of-the-dying-mind/

2 years ago

179 upvotes – 131 comments

1% Equity for Founding Engineers Is BS

https://fetchfox.ai/a/founding-engineer-compensation

2 years ago

177 upvotes – 237 comments

The state of Rust trying to catch up with Ada [video]

https://fosdem.org/2025/schedule/event/fosdem-2025-5356-the-state-of-rust-trying-to-catch-up-with-ada/

2 years ago

170 upvotes – 192 comments

Work at the Mill: The story of Digital Equipment Corporation

https://www.abortretry.fail/p/work-at-the-mill

2 years ago

170 upvotes – 95 comments

How does Ada's memory safety compare against Rust?

https://ajxs.me/blog/How_Does_Adas_Memory_Safety_Compare_Against_Rust.html

2 years ago

166 upvotes – 158 comments

Patterns for Building Realtime Features

https://zknill.io/posts/patterns-for-building-realtime/

2 years ago

161 upvotes – 45 comments

Hedge Funds Are Pocketing Much of Their Clients' Gains with 'No Limit' Fees

https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2025-hedge-fund-investment-fees/

2 years ago

160 upvotes – 123 comments

TinyX: Small Featured X Server

https://github.com/tinycorelinux/tinyx

2 years ago

156 upvotes – 64 comments

Kaspersky finds hardware backdoor in 5 generations of Apple Silicon (2024)

https://www.xstore.co.za/stuff/2024/01/kaspersky-finds-hardware-backdoor-in-5-generations-of-apple-silicon/

2 years ago

153 upvotes – 35 comments

Show HN: I made a tiny book using a pen-plotter and AI

https://muffinman.io/blog/the-tiny-book-of-great-joys/

2 years ago

150 upvotes – 27 comments

Scaling up test-time compute with latent reasoning: A recurrent depth approach

https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.05171

2 years ago

149 upvotes – 44 comments

Why hasn't commercial air travel gotten any faster since the 1960s? (2009)

https://engineering.mit.edu/engage/ask-an-engineer/why-hasnt-commercial-air-travel-gotten-any-faster-since-the-1960s/

2 years ago

142 upvotes – 667 comments

Don't Be Frupid

https://selix.net/notes/dont-be-frupid

2 years ago

140 upvotes – 126 comments

Fun with C++26 reflection: Keyword Arguments

https://pydong.org/posts/KwArgs/

2 years ago

136 upvotes – 143 comments

Show HN: Global 3D topography explorer

https://topography.jessekv.com

2 years ago

118 upvotes – 36 comments

I Blog with Raw HTML

https://devpoga.org/i-blog-with-raw-html/

2 years ago

114 upvotes – 127 comments

Apple's Best Option: Decentralize iCloud

https://www.mnot.net/blog/2025/02/09/decentralize-icloud

2 years ago

109 upvotes – 127 comments

Starlink and T-Mobile open satellite texting test to all

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2025/02/09/tmobile-starlink-satellite-texting/

2 years ago

107 upvotes – 72 comments

Trump says he has directed Treasury to stop minting new pennies

https://apnews.com/article/trump-penny-treasury-mint-192e3b9ad9891d50e7014997653051ba

2 years ago

104 upvotes – 192 comments

Relational Quantum Mechanics

https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/qm-relational/

2 years ago

103 upvotes – 27 comments

Large magma bodies found beneath dormant volcanoes

https://phys.org/news/2025-01-large-magma-bodies-beneath-dormant.html

2 years ago

101 upvotes – 29 comments

Show HN: A unique generated maze to share with your Valentine

https://love.berk.es/

2 years ago

100 upvotes – 20 comments

Rust kernel policy

https://rust-for-linux.com/rust-kernel-policy

2 years ago

98 upvotes – 117 comments

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

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1nWZtJlPmBD15rGqNxj7u6HroaNvXT6YD-TXktpIwf6c/edit?usp=sharing

2 years ago

90 upvotes – 82 comments

Durable plastic gets a sustainability makeover in novel polymerization process

https://phys.org/news/2025-01-durable-plastic-sustainability-makeover-polymerization.html

2 years ago

89 upvotes – 29 comments

The missing tier for query compilers

https://www.scattered-thoughts.net/writing/the-missing-tier-for-query-compilers/

2 years ago

88 upvotes – 9 comments

Steam makes its ban on in-game ads explicit

https://www.pcgamer.com/gaming-industry/valve-bans-games-that-rely-on-in-game-ads-from-steam-so-no-watch-this-to-continue-playing-stuff-will-be-making-its-way-to-our-pcs/

2 years ago

84 upvotes – 53 comments

Thank You Bootstrap 1

https://kylerego.github.io/thank-you-bootstrap-1

2 years ago

79 upvotes – 64 comments

ReCAPTCHA: 819M hours of wasted human time and billions in Google profits

https://boingboing.net/2025/02/07/recaptcha-819-million-hours-of-wasted-human-time-and-billions-of-dollars-google-profit.html

2 years ago

76 upvotes – 19 comments

Ask HN: Physics PhD at Stanford or Berkeley

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43000792

2 years ago

76 upvotes – 84 comments

Show HN: Infinite horizontal arrays of text editors

https://zeminary.com/arrays/app.html

2 years ago

75 upvotes – 44 comments

A story about USB floppy drives (2004)

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20040409-00/?p=39873

2 years ago

74 upvotes – 46 comments

Why does Mill use Scala?

https://mill-build.org/mill/depth/why-scala.html

2 years ago

73 upvotes – 75 comments

The ABA supports the rule of law

https://www.americanbar.org/news/abanews/aba-news-archives/2025/02/aba-supports-the-rule-of-law/

2 years ago

71 upvotes – 22 comments
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