top 50% 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

NOAA's public weather data powers the local forecasts on your phone and TV

https://theconversation.com/noaas-vast-public-weather-data-powers-the-local-forecasts-on-your-phone-and-tv-a-private-company-alone-couldnt-match-it-249451

2 years ago

BYD to offer Tesla-like self-driving tech in all models for free

https://www.asiafinancial.com/byd-to-offer-tesla-like-self-driving-tech-in-all-models-for-free

2 years ago

How Copyover MUD Servers Worked

http://jackkelly.name/blog/archives/2025/02/06/how_copyover_mud_servers_worked/

2 years ago

Postmortem: The singular design of Namco's Katamari Damacy (2004)

https://www.gamedeveloper.com/design/postmortem-the-singular-design-of-namco-s-katamari-damacy-2004-

2 years ago

LLMs can teach themselves to better predict the future

https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.05253

2 years ago

The Floppotron 3.0 (2022)

https://silent.org.pl/home/2022/06/13/the-floppotron-3-0/

2 years ago

Elements of Programming (2009)

https://www.elementsofprogramming.com/

2 years ago

JetBrains Fleet drops support for Kotlin Multiplatform

https://blog.jetbrains.com/kotlin/2025/02/kotlin-multiplatform-tooling-shifting-gears/

2 years ago

Microsoft open sources PostgreSQL extensions

https://www.theregister.com/2025/02/11/microsoft_postgresql_extensions/

2 years ago

Japan can be a science heavyweight once more if it rethinks funding

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-00394-8

2 years ago

The first yearly drop in average CPU performance in its 20 years of benchmarks

https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/cpus/passmark-sees-the-first-yearly-drop-in-average-cpu-performance-in-its-20-years-of-benchmark-results

2 years ago

IT Unemployment Rises to 5.7% as AI Hits Tech Jobs

https://www.wsj.com/articles/it-unemployment-rises-to-5-7-as-ai-hits-tech-jobs-7726bb1b

2 years ago

Go 1.24 Is Released

https://go.dev/blog/go1.24

2 years ago

TSMC 2nm Process Disclosure – How Does It Measure Up?

https://semiwiki.com/semiconductor-services/techinsights/352972-iedm-2025-tsmc-2nm-process-disclosure-how-does-it-measure-up/

2 years ago

Reviving the joy and honor of working with your hands (2015)

https://richmond.com/holmberg-reviving-the-joy-and-honor-of-working-with-your-hands-will-strengthen-our-nation/article_d8130166-855d-53b6-94e1-cb735edcd7cc.html

2 years ago

Apple software update “bug” enables Apple Intelligence

https://lapcatsoftware.com/articles/2025/2/3.html

2 years ago

Tumblr to join the Fediverse after WordPress migration completes

https://techcrunch.com/2025/02/11/tumblr-to-join-the-fediverse-after-wordpress-migration-completes/

2 years ago

Ways to generate SSA

https://bernsteinbear.com/blog/ssa/

2 years ago

Working from home is here to stay

https://wolfstreet.com/2025/02/10/there-hasnt-been-much-if-any-reduction-in-wfh-in-over-2-years-despite-all-the-hype-about-rto/

2 years ago

Migrate purchases from one Apple Account to another

https://support.apple.com/en-us/117294

2 years ago

Danes sign petition to buy California from U.S.

https://ktla.com/news/california/thousands-of-danes-sign-petition-to-buy-california-from-u-s/amp/

2 years ago

Associated Press Barred from Oval Office for Not Using 'Gulf of America'

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/feb/11/associated-press-oval-office-gulf-of-america

2 years ago

Judge tells agencies to restore webpages and data

https://apnews.com/article/trump-cdc-fda-doctors-for-america-5263fc6b6cbc723ca0c86c4460d02f33

2 years ago

Recurring checklists using Org Mode in Emacs

https://www.naiquev.in/recurring-checklists-using-org-mode-in-emacs.html

2 years ago

Incremental compilation instantly rebuilds the Zig compiler [video]

https://www.youtube.com/clip/Ugkxjn7L0hEfN1XLfH1soaUdCksG3FvJkXIS

2 years ago

RTX 5090 cable overheats to 150 degrees Celsius

https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/gpus/rtx-5090-cable-overheats-to-150-degrees-celsius-uneven-current-distribution-likely-the-culprit

2 years ago

Google Maps now shows the 'Gulf of America'

https://www.theverge.com/news/609772/google-maps-gulf-of-america-rename-mexico

2 years ago

Voters were right about the economy

https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2025/02/11/democrats-tricked-strong-economy-00203464

2 years ago

Anchoreum: A game for learning CSS anchor positioning

https://anchoreum.com

2 years ago

Get in loser. We're rewinding the stack

https://andrews.substack.com/p/get-in-loser-were-rewinding-the-stack

2 years ago

Database of 750 companies building for people with disabilities

https://data.perkins.org/

2 years ago

Sid Meier's Civilization VII

https://civilization.2k.com/civ-vii/buy/

2 years ago

Show HN: Mapping the Unix Magic Poster – An Interactive Annotation Project

https://drio.github.io/unixmagic/

2 years ago

CA Teenager Sentenced to 48 Months in Prison for Nationwide Swatting Spree

https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/california-teenager-sentenced-48-months-prison-nationwide-swatting-spree

2 years ago

Google Calendar removed events like Pride and BHM; retains Black Friday

https://www.theverge.com/news/608858/google-calendar-missing-events-holidays

2 years ago

Zeroperl: Sandboxing Perl with WebAssembly

https://andrews.substack.com/p/zeroperl-sandboxed-perl-with-webassembly

2 years ago

The Mythology of Work (2018)

https://crimethinc.com/2018/09/03/the-mythology-of-work-eight-myths-that-keep-your-eyes-on-the-clock-and-your-nose-to-the-grindstone

2 years ago

'social network' attacking pesticide critics shuts down after investigation

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/feb/10/v-fluence-pesticide-critics

2 years ago

Shopify takes down Ye website selling swastika shirts after Super Bowl ad

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/02/11/shopify-removes-ye-website-selling-swastika-shirts-after-super-bowl-ad.html

2 years ago

More users are watching YouTube on TV than mobile

https://www.engadget.com/entertainment/youtube/more-users-are-watching-youtube-on-tv-than-mobile-140035151.html

2 years ago

Far-right populists much more likely than the left to spread fake news – study

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/feb/11/far-right-mps-fake-news-misinformation-left-study

2 years ago

Nocc – A Distributed C++ Compiler

https://github.com/VKCOM/nocc

2 years ago