top 50% hacker news stories for 2025-02-14

Anyone can push updates to the doge.gov website

https://www.404media.co/anyone-can-push-updates-to-the-doge-gov-website-2/

3 weeks ago

1125 upvotes – 1124 comments

We were wrong about GPUs

https://fly.io/blog/wrong-about-gpu/

3 weeks ago

921 upvotes – 576 comments

The hardest working font in Manhattan

https://aresluna.org/the-hardest-working-font-in-manhattan/

3 weeks ago

857 upvotes – 118 comments

You're not a senior engineer until you've worked on a legacy project (2023)

https://www.infobip.com/developers/blog/seniors-working-on-a-legacy-project

3 weeks ago

783 upvotes – 412 comments

A decade later, a decade lost (2024)

https://meyerweb.com/eric/thoughts/2024/06/07/a-decade-later-a-decade-lost/

3 weeks ago

548 upvotes – 170 comments

Zed now predicts your next edit with Zeta, our new open model

https://zed.dev/blog/edit-prediction

3 weeks ago

516 upvotes – 290 comments

AI is stifling new tech adoption?

https://vale.rocks/posts/ai-is-stifling-tech-adoption

3 weeks ago

508 upvotes – 426 comments

OCR4all

https://www.ocr4all.org/

3 weeks ago

436 upvotes – 124 comments

What if Eye...?

https://eyes.mit.edu/

3 weeks ago

414 upvotes – 91 comments

How do modern compilers choose which variables to put in registers?

https://langdev.stackexchange.com/questions/4325/how-do-modern-compilers-choose-which-variables-to-put-in-registers

3 weeks ago

400 upvotes – 65 comments

If you ever stacked cups in gym class, blame my dad

https://defector.com/if-you-ever-stacked-cups-in-gym-class-blame-my-dad

3 weeks ago

320 upvotes – 47 comments

Show HN: Transform your codebase into a single Markdown doc for feeding into AI

https://tesserato.web.app/posts/2025-02-12-CodeWeaver-launch/index.html

3 weeks ago

281 upvotes – 164 comments

LinkedIn is the worst social media I've ever seen

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43052409

3 weeks ago

277 upvotes – 125 comments

DA, sheriff, who shared woman's nude photos on phone are covered by QI

https://www.oregonlive.com/crime/2025/02/an-oregon-womans-nude-cellphone-photos-ended-up-the-talk-of-town-she-tracked-it-back-to-the-da.html

3 weeks ago

277 upvotes – 153 comments

The New York Stock Exchange plans to launch NYSE Texas

https://ir.theice.com/press/news-details/2025/The-New-York-Stock-Exchange-to-Launch-NYSE-Texas/default.aspx

3 weeks ago

277 upvotes – 242 comments

The History of S.u.S.E

https://www.abortretry.fail/p/the-history-of-suse

3 weeks ago

243 upvotes – 128 comments

ICE wants to know if you're posting negative things about it online

https://theintercept.com/2025/02/11/ice-immigration-social-media-surveillance/

3 weeks ago

235 upvotes – 130 comments

Does X cause Y? An in-depth evidence review (2021)

https://www.cold-takes.com/does-x-cause-y-an-in-depth-evidence-review/

3 weeks ago

232 upvotes – 103 comments

Extensible WASM Applications with Go

https://go.dev/blog/wasmexport

3 weeks ago

229 upvotes – 123 comments

Visualize Ownership and Lifetimes in Rust

https://github.com/cordx56/rustowl

3 weeks ago

221 upvotes – 59 comments

Complex dynamics require complex solutions

https://mathstodon.xyz/@tao/113873092369347147

3 weeks ago

214 upvotes – 144 comments

The Iconic 3DBenchy Enters the Public Domain

https://www.nti-group.com/home/information/news/3dbenchy/

3 weeks ago

207 upvotes – 29 comments

Ask HN: What is the best method for turning a scanned book as a PDF into text?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43048698

3 weeks ago

206 upvotes – 108 comments

Kevin Mitnik FOIA Final

https://vault.fbi.gov/kevin-mitnick/kevin-mitnick-part-01-final/view

3 weeks ago

200 upvotes – 94 comments

The largest sofa you can move around a corner

https://www.quantamagazine.org/the-largest-sofa-you-can-move-around-a-corner-20250214/

3 weeks ago

185 upvotes – 90 comments

On Bloat

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/e/2PACX-1vSmIbSwh1_DXKEMU5YKgYpt5_b4yfOfpfEOKS5_cvtLdiHsX6zt-gNeisamRuCtDtCb2SbTafTI8V47/pub?start=false&loop=false&delayms=3000

3 weeks ago

183 upvotes – 136 comments

Saying goodbye to FFmpegKit

https://tanersener.medium.com/saying-goodbye-to-ffmpegkit-33ae939767e1

3 weeks ago

181 upvotes – 96 comments

Linux kernel cgroups writeback high CPU troubleshooting

https://dasl.cc/2025/01/01/debugging-our-new-linux-kernel/

3 weeks ago

178 upvotes – 27 comments

A study on how turtles navigate using the Earth’s magnetic field

https://www.unc.edu/posts/2025/02/12/dancing-turtles-unlock-scientific-discovery/

3 weeks ago

166 upvotes – 67 comments

Watchdog ponders why Apple doesn't apply its strict app tracking rules to itself

https://www.theregister.com/2025/02/14/apple_app_tracking_probe/

3 weeks ago

161 upvotes – 68 comments

Detecting AI agent use and abuse

https://stytch.com/blog/detecting-ai-agent-use-abuse/

3 weeks ago

160 upvotes – 99 comments

We are the "thin blue line" that is trying to keep the code high quality

https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/[email protected]/

3 weeks ago

160 upvotes – 168 comments

OpenVINO AI effects for Audacity

https://www.audacityteam.org/blog/openvino-ai-effects/

3 weeks ago

151 upvotes – 29 comments

Ask HN: Is anybody building an alternative transformer?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43052427

3 weeks ago

148 upvotes – 93 comments

George Eliot's reflections on AGI from 1879

https://www.learningfromexamples.com/p/reflections-on-superintelligence

3 weeks ago

145 upvotes – 56 comments

Delphi Is 30

https://blog.marcocantu.com/blog/2025-february-delphi-is-30.html

3 weeks ago

142 upvotes – 88 comments

Benchmarking vision-language models on OCR in dynamic video environments

https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.06445

3 weeks ago

142 upvotes – 58 comments

The NBA Apple Vision Pro app now has a 3D tabletop view

https://www.uploadvr.com/nba-apple-vision-pro-app-tabletop-view/

3 weeks ago

133 upvotes – 108 comments

Apple Resumes Advertising on X

https://daringfireball.net/linked/2025/02/12/apple-advertising-x

3 weeks ago

133 upvotes – 108 comments

TikTok is back in the App Store

https://www.theverge.com/news/612768/tiktok-app-store-apple-google-us-ban

3 weeks ago

131 upvotes – 219 comments

Why Quantum Cryptanalysis is Bollocks [pdf]

https://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/~pgut001/pubs/bollocks.pdf

3 weeks ago

130 upvotes – 115 comments

Sunsetting Create React App

https://react.dev/blog/2025/02/14/sunsetting-create-react-app

3 weeks ago

128 upvotes – 146 comments

CDC Study Finds Silent Bird Flu Infections in Dairy Veterinarians

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/13/science/cdc-bird-flu-infections.html

3 weeks ago

125 upvotes – 60 comments

Germany says its warships were sabotaged

https://www.businessinsider.com/german-navy-says-warships-were-sabotaged-warns-of-russian-threat-2025-2

3 weeks ago

122 upvotes – 144 comments

Ricochet: Peer-to-peer instant messaging system built on Tor hidden services (2017)

https://github.com/ricochet-im/ricochet

3 weeks ago

117 upvotes – 30 comments

Siren Call of SQLite on the Server

https://pid1.dev/posts/siren-call-of-sqlite-on-the-server/

3 weeks ago

114 upvotes – 102 comments

"Homotopical macrocosms for higher category theory" identified as woke DEI grant

https://mathstodon.xyz/@johncarlosbaez/114000054766059217

3 weeks ago

108 upvotes – 146 comments

CDC cuts expected to decimate Epidemic Intelligence Service

https://www.statnews.com/2025/02/14/trump-cdc-cuts-include-epidemic-intelligence-service-outbreak-investigators/

3 weeks ago

104 upvotes – 61 comments

DOGE Exposes Once-Secret Government Networks, Making Cyber-Espionage Easier Than

https://cyberintel.substack.com/p/doge-exposes-once-secret-government

3 weeks ago

99 upvotes – 29 comments

Marsha P Johnson: A Chrome extension to highlight trans erasure

https://github.com/HamptonMakes/marsha-p-johnson

3 weeks ago

96 upvotes – 45 comments

Elon Musk's DOGE Posts Classified Data on Its New Website

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/elon-musk-doge-posts-classified-data_n_67ae646de4b0513a8d767112

3 weeks ago

94 upvotes – 33 comments

DOGE 'Audits': A Mask for Corruption, Not Efficiency

https://medium.com/less-than-a-minute/doge-audits-a-mask-for-corruption-not-efficiency-3668b846a364

3 weeks ago

94 upvotes – 61 comments

Neovim tee.exe binary dependency exhibiting illegitimate / unauthorized behavior

https://github.com/neovim/neovim/issues/32431

3 weeks ago

94 upvotes – 12 comments

Show HN: VimLM – A Local, Offline Coding Assistant for Vim

https://github.com/JosefAlbers/VimLM

3 weeks ago

93 upvotes – 18 comments

The Loneliness Epidemic Is a Security Crisis

https://www.wired.com/story/loneliness-epidemic-romance-scams-security-crisis/

3 weeks ago

88 upvotes – 74 comments

The Oligarchs Who Came to Regret Supporting Hitler

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/02/hitler-oligarchs-hugenberg-nazi/681584/

3 weeks ago

88 upvotes – 29 comments

Extreme supersonic winds measured on a planet outside our solar system

https://phys.org/news/2025-01-extreme-supersonic-planet-solar.html

3 weeks ago

85 upvotes – 58 comments

Nearly half of Steam's users are still using Windows 10

https://www.pcguide.com/news/nearly-half-of-steams-users-are-still-using-windows-10-with-end-of-life-fast-approaching/

3 weeks ago

83 upvotes – 147 comments

Trump administration to fire thousands at health agencies

https://www.statnews.com/2025/02/14/federal-employee-layoffs-at-hhs-cdc-on-first-day-robert-kennedy-health-secretary/

3 weeks ago

82 upvotes – 47 comments
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