top 20 hacker news stories for 2025-02-11

I tasted Honda’s spicy rodent-repelling tape and I will do it again (2021)

https://haterade.substack.com/p/i-tasted-hondas-spicy-rodent-repelling

2 years ago

Firing programmers for AI is a mistake

https://defragzone.substack.com/p/techs-dumbest-mistake-why-firing

2 years ago

Backblaze Drive Stats for 2024

https://www.backblaze.com/blog/backblaze-drive-stats-for-2024/

2 years ago

Boring tech is mature, not old

https://rubenerd.com/boring-tech-is-mature-not-old/

2 years ago

Nvidia's RTX 5090 power connectors are melting

https://www.theverge.com/news/609207/nvidia-rtx-5090-power-connector-melting-burning-issues

2 years ago

Thomson Reuters wins first major AI copyright case in the US

https://www.wired.com/story/thomson-reuters-ai-copyright-lawsuit/

2 years ago

The subtle art of designing physical controls for cars

https://www.theturnsignalblog.com/the-subtle-art-of-designing-physical-control-for-cars/

2 years ago

DeepScaleR: Surpassing O1-Preview with a 1.5B Model by Scaling RL

https://pretty-radio-b75.notion.site/DeepScaleR-Surpassing-O1-Preview-with-a-1-5B-Model-by-Scaling-RL-19681902c1468005bed8ca303013a4e2

2 years ago

Meta’s Hyperscale Infrastructure: Overview and Insights

https://cacm.acm.org/research/metas-hyperscale-infrastructure-overview-and-insights/

2 years ago

Jeep Introduces Pop-Up Ads That Appear Every Time You Stop

https://tech.slashdot.org/story/25/02/11/0016258/jeep-introduces-pop-up-ads-that-appear-every-time-you-stop

2 years ago

Launch HN: A0.dev (YC W25) – React Native App Generator

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43015267

2 years ago

We replaced our React front end with Go and WebAssembly

https://dagger.io/blog/replaced-react-with-go

2 years ago

UnitedHealth hired a defamation law firm to go after social media posts

https://fortune.com/2025/02/10/unitedhealth-defamation-law-firm-social-media/

2 years ago

How about trailing commas in SQL?

http://peter.eisentraut.org/blog/2025/02/11/how-about-trailing-commas-in-sql

2 years ago

FLAC 1.5 Delivers Multi-Threaded Encoding

https://www.phoronix.com/news/FLAC-1.5-Released

2 years ago

Intel's Battlemage Architecture

https://chipsandcheese.com/p/intels-battlemage-architecture

2 years ago

Tesla Cybertruck Drives Itself into a Pole, Owner Says 'Thank You Tesla'

https://www.thedrive.com/news/tesla-cybertruck-drove-itself-into-a-pole-owner-says-thank-you-tesla

2 years ago

A Year of Telepathy

https://neuralink.com/blog/a-year-of-telepathy/

2 years ago

E Ink’s color ePaper tech gets supersized for outdoor displays

https://newatlas.com/technology/e-ink-kaleido-outdoor-3-75-inch-displays/

2 years ago

Make Your Own Website: A beginner's guide

https://web.pixelshannon.com/make/

2 years ago