top 50% hacker news stories for 2025-02-13

Resigning as Asahi Linux project lead

https://marcan.st/2025/02/resigning-as-asahi-linux-project-lead/

2 years ago

Privacy Pass Authentication for Kagi Search

https://blog.kagi.com/kagi-privacy-pass

2 years ago

LibreOffice still kicking at 40, now with browser tricks and real-time collab

https://www.theregister.com/2025/02/13/libreoffice_wasm_zetaoffice/

2 years ago

Why young parents should focus on building trust with their kids

https://desunit.com/blog/marshmallow-test-and-parenting/

2 years ago

Phind 2: AI search with visual answers and multi-step reasoning

https://www.phind.com/blog/phind-2

2 years ago

Show HN: SQL Noir – Learn SQL by solving crimes

https://www.sqlnoir.com

2 years ago

DOGE as a National Cyberattack

https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2025/02/doge-as-a-national.html

2 years ago

Cheap blood test detects pancreatic cancer before it spreads

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-00438-z

2 years ago

U.K. demand for a back door to Apple data threatens Americans, lawmakers say

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2025/02/13/apple-uk-security-back-door-adp/

2 years ago

Umami is a simple, fast, privacy-focused alternative to Google Analytics

https://github.com/umami-software/umami

2 years ago

The OBS Project is threatening Fedora Linux with legal action

https://gitlab.com/fedora/sigs/flatpak/fedora-flatpaks/-/issues/39#note_2344970813

2 years ago

MapTCHA, the open-source CAPTCHA that improves OpenStreetMap [video]

https://fosdem.org/2025/schedule/event/fosdem-2025-5879-maptcha-the-open-source-captcha-that-improves-openstreetmap/

2 years ago

TeX and Typst: Layout Models (2024)

https://laurmaedje.github.io/posts/layout-models/

2 years ago

Fewer students are enrolling in doctoral degrees

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-00425-4

2 years ago

Self hosted FLOSS fitness/workout tracker

https://github.com/wger-project/wger

2 years ago

Trump's firing of the U.S. government archivist is far worse than it might seem

https://www.fastcompany.com/91277620/trump-firing-national-archivist-colleen-shogan

2 years ago

Who exactly needs to get approval from an institutional review board (IRB)?

https://dynomight.net/irb/

2 years ago

Sri Lanka scrambles to restore power after monkey causes islandwide outage

https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/sri-lanka-scrambles-restore-power-after-monkey-causes-islandwide-outage-2025-02-13/

2 years ago

DOGE staffer is trying to reroute FEMA funds

https://www.dropsitenews.com/p/doge-fema-funding-access-social-security-numbers

2 years ago

Federal data is disappearing. On Thursday, meet the teams working to rescue it

https://www.muckrock.com/news/archives/2025/feb/10/federal-data-is-disappearing-on-thursday-meet-the-teams-working-to-rescue-it-and-learn-how-you-can-help/

2 years ago

Better text rendering in Chromium-based browsers on Windows

https://developer.chrome.com/blog/better-text-rendering-in-chromium-based-browsers-on-windows

2 years ago

Learning fast and accurate absolute pitch judgment in adulthood

https://link.springer.com/article/10.3758/s13423-024-02620-2

2 years ago

DOGE Has Started Gutting a Key US Technology Agency

https://www.wired.com/story/doge-tts-fired/

2 years ago

'It's a money game to them':son takes on UnitedHealth over elderly father's care

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/feb/13/unitedhealth-lawsuit-elderly-patients-care

2 years ago

Spacetime maps: A map that warps to show travel time

https://maps.vvolhejn.com

2 years ago

Anno 1800: Shadows of Beauty

https://simonschreibt.de/gat/anno-1800-shadows-of-beauty/

2 years ago

Gold Is Worth More in New York

https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2025-02-13/gold-is-worth-more-in-new-york

2 years ago

How to professionally say (2022)

https://github.com/AkashRajpurohit/howtoprofessionallysay

2 years ago

Beginnings of Roman London discovered in office basement

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cx2jdnv0ywyo

2 years ago

White Hat Hackers Expose Iridium Satellite Security Flaws

https://spectrum.ieee.org/iridium-satellite

2 years ago

Amazon ends kindle ebooks "Download and Transfer via USB"

https://goodereader.com/blog/kindle/amazon-removing-download-and-transfer-on-the-kindle-feb-26th

2 years ago

TSMC faces tough choices amid rumors for Intel foundry collaboration

https://techsoda.substack.com/p/tsmc-faces-tough-choices-amid-rumors

2 years ago

Larry Ellison wants to put all America's data in AI, including DNA

https://www.theregister.com/2025/02/12/larry_ellison_wants_all_data/

2 years ago

Why cryptography is not based on NP-complete problems

https://blintzbase.com/posts/cryptography-is-not-based-on-np-hard-problems/

2 years ago

Product Development Processes You Might Not Have Heard of (2022)

https://www.departmentofproduct.com/blog/product-development-processes-you-might-not-have-heard-of/

2 years ago

YouTube's New Hue

https://design.google/library/youtube-new-red-color

2 years ago

Explaining my fast 6502 code generator (2023)

https://pubby.games/codegen.html

2 years ago

LM2: Large Memory Models

https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.06049

2 years ago

Reassessing Wayland

https://dudemanguy.github.io/blog/posts/2025-02-03-wayland-xorg-2/wayland-xorg-2.html

2 years ago

OpenAI scrubs diversity commitment web page from its site

https://techcrunch.com/2025/02/13/openai-scrubs-diversity-commitment-web-page-from-its-site/

2 years ago

I built a failed startups goods website and named it VcSubsidized.com

https://vcsubsidized.com/

2 years ago

Cheap solar power is sending electrical grids into a death spiral

https://www.economist.com/finance-and-economics/2025/02/13/cheap-solar-power-is-sending-electrical-grids-into-a-death-spiral

2 years ago

MySQL at Uber

https://www.uber.com/blog/mysql-at-uber/?uclick_id=8d2a6f71-8db1-4c60-b724-fc9bd70cd9fd

2 years ago

AI can interpret animal emotions better than humans

https://www.science.org/content/article/can-ai-read-pain-and-other-emotions-your-dog-s-face

2 years ago

Court Documents Shed New Light on DOGE Activity at Treasury Department

https://www.zetter-zeroday.com/court-documents-shed-new-light-on-doge-access-and-activity-at-treasury-department/

2 years ago

Bezos' Blue Origin to layoff about 10% across its space, launch business

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/02/13/bezos-blue-origin-to-layoff-about-10percent-across-its-space-launch-business-.html

2 years ago

JesseSort: A novel sorting algorithm that is faster than Python's default sort.

https://github.com/lewj85/jessesort

2 years ago

USAID funding freeze disrupts global tuberculosis control efforts

https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/tuberculosis/usaid-funding-freeze-disrupts-global-tuberculosis-control-efforts

2 years ago

Cybertrucks Are Deadlier Than Infamous Ford Pintos

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/02/report-cybertruck-safety-ford-pinto/

2 years ago

Apple is once again advertising on X, more than a year after stopping all ads

https://appleinsider.com/articles/25/02/13/apple-is-once-again-advertising-on-x-more-than-a-year-after-stopping-all-ads-on-the-platform

2 years ago

The lottery of the snakebite antivenom industry

https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2025/feb/13/its-a-cowboy-show-out-there-the-deadly-lottery-of-the-snakebite-antivenom-industry

2 years ago

I pulled data on 1378 restaurants from Google Maps to rank them in order

https://mattsayar.com/ranking-the-best-restaurants-in-colorado-springs/

2 years ago

The Path to American Authoritarianism

https://www.foreignaffairs.com/united-states/path-american-authoritarianism-trump

2 years ago

Why is everyone trying to replace Software Engineers?

https://toddle.dev/blog/why-is-everyone-trying-to-replace-software-engineers

2 years ago

The Death of the Web (2024)

https://garry.net/posts/the-death-of-the-web

2 years ago

Magnetic field sorting of superconducting graphite particles with Tc>400K (2024)

https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.18020

2 years ago

Federal workers say they increasingly distrust platforms like Facebook

https://www.theverge.com/news/610951/federal-workers-privacy-surveillance-signal-facebook-messenger

2 years ago

RFK Jr Will Be Confirmed as Secretary of Health and Human Services

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-health-nominee-kennedy-secures-enough-us-senate-votes-confirmation-2025-02-13/

2 years ago

TSforge: Reverse Engineering the Windows Software Protection Platform

https://massgrave.dev/blog/tsforge

2 years ago

Tolerating full cloud outages with Monzo Stand-in

https://monzo.com/blog/tolerating-full-cloud-outages-with-monzo-stand-in

2 years ago

Open Source Software and Corporate Influence

https://www.alilleybrinker.com/blog/open-source-software-and-corporate-influence/

2 years ago