top 50% hacker news stories for 2025-02-12

Leaking the email of any YouTube user for $10k

https://brutecat.com/articles/leaking-youtube-emails

2 years ago

The year I didn't survive

https://bessstillman.substack.com/p/the-year-i-didnt-survive

2 years ago

Smuggling arbitrary data through an emoji

https://paulbutler.org/2025/smuggling-arbitrary-data-through-an-emoji/

2 years ago

US and UK refuse to sign AI safety declaration at summit

https://arstechnica.com/ai/2025/02/us-and-uk-refuse-to-sign-ai-safety-declaration-at-summit/

2 years ago

TL;DW: Too Long; Didn't Watch Distill YouTube Videos to the Relevant Information

https://tldw.tube/

2 years ago

WASM will replace containers

https://creston.blog/wasm-will-replace-containers/

2 years ago

The Prophet of Parking: A eulogy for the great Donald Shoup

https://www.worksinprogress.news/p/the-prophet-of-parking

2 years ago

Tiny JITs for a Faster FFI

https://railsatscale.com/2025-02-12-tiny-jits-for-a-faster-ffi/

2 years ago

The average CPU performance of PCs and notebooks fell for the first time

https://www.cpubenchmark.net/year-on-year.html

2 years ago

ElevenReader

https://elevenreader.io

2 years ago

Resist Authoritarianism by Refusing to Obey in Advance (2017)

https://lithub.com/resist-authoritarianism-by-refusing-to-obey-in-advance/

2 years ago

Most-Watched Software Engineering Talks of 2024

https://www.techtalksweekly.io/p/100-most-watched-software-engineering

2 years ago

Show HN: Game Bub – open-source FPGA retro emulation handheld

https://eli.lipsitz.net/posts/introducing-gamebub/

2 years ago

PgAssistant: OSS tool to help devs understand and optimize PG performance

https://github.com/nexsol-technologies/pgassistant

2 years ago

Basis of the Kalman Filter [pdf]

https://github.com/tpn/pdfs/blob/master/Understanding%20the%20Basis%20of%20the%20Kalman%20Filter%20Via%20a%20Simple%20and%20Intuitive%20Derivation%20%282012%29.pdf

2 years ago

5G networks meet consumer needs as mobile data growth slows

https://spectrum.ieee.org/5g-bandwidth

2 years ago

Record-breaking neutrino is most energetic ever detected

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-00444-1

2 years ago

I wrote a static web page and accidentally started a community (2023)

https://localfirstweb.dev/blog/2023-05-29-i-wrote-a-static-web-page

2 years ago

Show HN: I made my own OS from scratch because I was bored

https://jotalea.com.ar/misc/jotaleaos/

2 years ago

How Nissan and Honda's $60B merger talks collapsed

https://www.reuters.com/markets/deals/inside-collapse-nissan-hondas-60-billion-mega-deal-2025-02-12/

2 years ago

Imapsync

https://imapsync.lamiral.info/

2 years ago

JJ Cheat Sheet

https://justinpombrio.net/2025/02/11/jj-cheat-sheet.html

2 years ago

Ask HN: Former employees' RSUs at risk after startup's IPO

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43026774

2 years ago

Visualizing data is an art

https://perthirtysix.com/visualizing-data-is-an-art

2 years ago

Writing a Gimp 3.0 Plugin

https://schoenitzer.de/blog/2025/Gimp%203.0%20Plugin%20Ressources.html

2 years ago

DeaDBeeF: The Ultimate Music Player

https://deadbeef.sourceforge.io/

2 years ago

A gracious end to Webb-site

https://webb-site.com/articles/shutdown.asp

2 years ago

Tiny Pointers

https://arxiv.org/abs/2111.12800

2 years ago

League of Legends data scraping the hard and tedious way for fun

https://maknee.github.io/blog/2025/League-Data-Scraping/

2 years ago

jj: a Git-compatible VCS that is both simple and powerful

https://github.com/jj-vcs/jj

2 years ago

Nping – ping, but with a graph or table view

https://github.com/hanshuaikang/Nping

2 years ago

Show HN: Letting LLMs Run a Debugger

https://github.com/mohsen1/llm-debugger-vscode-extension

2 years ago

Git clone –depth 2 is vastly better than –depth 1 if you want to Git push later

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/66431436/pushing-to-github-after-a-shallow-clone-is-horribly-slow

2 years ago

Tesla sales dropped 60% in Germany

https://electrek.co/2025/02/05/tesla-sales-dropped-60-in-germany/

2 years ago

Parents were injured in a Tesla crash. She ended up having to pay Tesla damages

https://apnews.com/article/tesla-china-lawsuits-musk-investigation-58b10ccace488784fcc63646ab78b410

2 years ago

Vanishing Culture: Punch Card Knitting

https://blog.archive.org/2025/02/12/vanishing-culture-punch-card-knitting/

2 years ago

Spanish 'running of the bulls' festival reveals crowd movements can be predicted

https://phys.org/news/2025-02-spanish-bulls-festival-reveals-crowd.html

2 years ago

Everything about Google Translate crashing React (and other web apps)

https://martijnhols.nl/blog/everything-about-google-translate-crashing-react

2 years ago

Ask HN: What's the best implementation of Conway's Game of Life?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43023875

2 years ago

Apache Iceberg now supports geospatial data types natively

https://wherobots.com/apache-iceberg-and-parquet-now-support-geo/

2 years ago

WASM-Native Orchestration

https://wasmcloud.com/

2 years ago

No longer writing my own damn HTML

https://claytonwramsey.com/blog/no-html/

2 years ago

What enabled us to create AI is the thing it has the power to erase

https://www.chrbutler.com/the-productive-void

2 years ago

How Hans Bethe stumbled upon perfect quantum theories

https://www.quantamagazine.org/how-hans-bethe-stumbled-upon-perfect-quantum-theories-20250212/

2 years ago

Hackers leak cop manuals for departments after breaching major provider

https://www.dailydot.com/debug/lexipol-data-leak-puppygirl-hacker-polycule/

2 years ago

DOGE Is Hacking America

https://foreignpolicy.com/2025/02/11/doge-cyberattack-united-states-treasury/

2 years ago

Show HN: A no-build fullstack SSR TypeScript web framework

https://jsr.io/@fullsoak/fullsoak

2 years ago

EFF Sues DOGE and the Office of Personnel Management

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/02/eff-sues-doge-and-office-personnel-management-halt-ransacking-federal-data

2 years ago

Syria just hosted its first international tech conference in 50 years

https://restofworld.org/2025/syria-international-tech-conference-sync-25/

2 years ago

Alt.Anonymous.Messages Newsgroup

http://wudewasa.blogspot.com/2017/05/altanonymousmessages-newsgroup.html

2 years ago

Darcs, Friendly Version Control

https://darcsbook.acmelabs.space/

2 years ago

Codeberg Down

https://blog.codeberg.org/we-stay-strong-against-hate-and-hatred.html

2 years ago

The dream of offshore rocket launches is finally blasting off

https://www.technologyreview.com/2025/02/11/1111467/the-dream-of-offshore-rocket-launches-is-finally-blasting-off/

2 years ago

Automated Capability Discovery via Foundation Model Self-Exploration

https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.07577

2 years ago

Show HN: yknotify – Notify when YubiKey needs touch on macOS

https://github.com/noperator/yknotify

2 years ago

Terraform Config Root Setups

https://www.resourcely.io/post/10-terraform-config-root-setups

2 years ago

GigSlave Goes Public with $84B Valuation

https://theonion.com/gigslave-goes-public-with-84-billion-valuation/

2 years ago

The art of calling out room dynamics (2024)

https://leadership.garden/calling-out-room-dynamics/

2 years ago

I Paid $70 for an AI Boyfriend. It Was So Worth It

https://www.harpersbazaar.com/culture/features/a63510531/ai-boyfriend-emotional-labor-explained-essay/

2 years ago

As a nonsense phrase of shady provenance makes the rounds, Elsevier defends it

https://retractionwatch.com/2025/02/10/vegetative-electron-microscopy-fingerprint-paper-mill/

2 years ago

Intensional Joy (a concatenative account of internal structure)

https://pithlessly.github.io/intensionaljoy.html

2 years ago

Show HN: Skies-adsb 2.0 – my 3D plane-tracking web app

https://github.com/llopisdon/skies-adsb

2 years ago