top 50% hacker news stories for 2025-02-16

“A calculator app? Anyone could make that”

https://chadnauseam.com/coding/random/calculator-app

2 years ago

I helped fix sleep-wake hangs on Linux with AMD GPUs

https://nyanpasu64.gitlab.io/blog/amdgpu-sleep-wake-hang/

2 years ago

Uchū – Color palette for internet lovers

https://uchu.style

2 years ago

Half-Life 2 and Dishonored art lead Viktor Antonov has died

https://www.eurogamer.net/half-life-2-and-dishonored-art-lead-viktor-antonov-dies-aged-just-52

2 years ago

Caddy – The Ultimate Server with Automatic HTTPS

https://caddyserver.com/

2 years ago

US government struggles to rehire nuclear safety staff it laid off days ago

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c4g3nrx1dq5o

2 years ago

The Sims Game Design Documents (1997)

https://donhopkins.com/home/TheSimsDesignDocuments/

2 years ago

Kindle is removing download and transfer option on Feb 26th

https://old.reddit.com/r/kindle/comments/1inr9uy/fyi_amazon_is_removing_download_transfer_option/

2 years ago

Flea-Scope: $18 Source Available USB Oscilloscope, Logic Analyzer and More [pdf]

https://rtestardi.github.io/usbte/flea-scope.pdf

2 years ago

670nm red light exposure improved aged mitochondrial function, colour vision

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-021-02311-1

2 years ago

Javier Milei backtracks on $4.4B memecoin after 'insiders' pocket $87M

https://www.coindesk.com/business/2025/02/15/javier-milei-backtracks-on-usd4-4b-memecoin-after-insiders-pocket-usd87m

2 years ago

United States Power Outage Map

https://poweroutage.us/

2 years ago

When Not to Obey Orders (2019)

https://warontherocks.com/2019/07/when-not-to-obey-orders/

2 years ago

50 Years of Travel Tips

https://kk.org/thetechnium/50-years-of-travel-tips/

2 years ago

Did missing/corrupt dates in COBOL default to 1875-05-20?

https://retrocomputing.stackexchange.com/questions/31288/does-or-did-cobol-default-to-1875-05-20-for-corrupt-or-missing-dates

2 years ago

IPv6 Is Hard

https://techlog.jenslink.net/posts/ipv6-is-hard/

2 years ago

Vim after Bram: a core maintainer on how they've kept it going

https://thenewstack.io/vim-after-bram-a-core-maintainer-on-how-theyve-kept-it-going/

2 years ago

Finding Flow: Escaping digital distractions through deep work and slow living

https://www.ssp.sh/blog/finding-flow/

2 years ago

Show HN: Air traffic control radio and chill music for focus

https://www.chillyatc.com/

2 years ago

Grim Fandango Puzzle Document (1996) [pdf]

http://gameshelf.jmac.org/2008/11/13/GrimPuzzleDoc_small.pdf

2 years ago

How X-Plane Works

https://www.x-plane.com/desktop/how-x-plane-works/

2 years ago

Softmax forever, or why I like softmax

https://kyunghyuncho.me/softmax-forever-or-why-i-like-softmax/

2 years ago

Gixy: Nginx Configuration Static Analyzer

https://github.com/dvershinin/gixy

2 years ago

Animate Anyone 2: High-Fidelity Character Image Animation

https://humanaigc.github.io/animate-anyone-2/

2 years ago

The 8-Bit Era's Weird Uncle: The TI-99/4A

https://bumbershootsoft.wordpress.com/2025/02/15/the-8-bit-eras-weird-uncle-the-ti-99-4a/

2 years ago

The number line freaks me out (2016)

https://mathwithbaddrawings.com/2016/12/28/why-the-number-line-freaks-me-out/

2 years ago

Big tech has disrupted the social contract

https://basedfob.substack.com/p/big-tech-has-disrupted-the-social

2 years ago

Meta Project Aria - Smart Glasses Research Kit

https://www.projectaria.com/research-kit/?_fb_noscript=1

2 years ago

Show HN: Blunderchess.net – blunder for your opponent every five moves

https://blunderchess.net

2 years ago

Critics say new Google rules put profits over privacy

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cm21g0052dno

2 years ago

US Forest Service and National Park Service to fire thousands of workers

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/feb/15/us-forest-service-national-park-service-layoffs

2 years ago

How Medical Research Cuts Would Hit Colleges and Hospitals in Every State

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/02/13/upshot/nih-trump-funding-cuts.html

2 years ago

Rust Is Eating JavaScript (2023)

https://leerob.com/n/rust

2 years ago

Dinner at a North Korean Restaurant in Shanghai (2016)

https://simplyfabulicious.wordpress.com/2016/09/09/dinner-at-a-north-korean-restaurant-in-shanghai/

2 years ago

Portable drone jammer uses a Raspberry Pi tactical Software Defined Radio

https://www.tomshardware.com/raspberry-pi/portable-raspberry-pi-tactical-software-defines-radio-doubles-as-a-drone-jammer

2 years ago

Why I'm leaving Elm (2020)

https://lukeplant.me.uk/blog/posts/why-im-leaving-elm/

2 years ago

Trick to find commands in the terminal quickly

https://github.com/madprops/blog/blob/main/docs/cmd_icons.md

2 years ago

Opposing arrows of time can theoretically emerge from certain quantum systems

https://www.surrey.ac.uk/news/physicists-uncover-evidence-two-arrows-time-emerging-quantum-realm

2 years ago

Physics Informed Neural Networks

https://nchagnet.pages.dev/blog/physics-informed-neural-networks/

2 years ago

Blocklist for AI Music on YouTube

https://surasshu.com/blocklist-for-ai-music-on-youtube/

2 years ago

Google defends scrapping AI pledges and DEI goals in all-staff meeting

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/feb/12/google-all-staff-meeting-ai-dei

2 years ago

Why is there a screen that says "It is now safe to turn off your computer"? (2016)

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20160419-00/?p=93315

2 years ago