top 50% hacker news stories for 2025-02-17

All Kindles can now be jailbroken

https://kindlemodding.org/jailbreaking/WinterBreak/

2 years ago

X users are unable to post “Signal.me” links

https://www.disruptionist.com/p/elon-musks-x-blocks-links-to-signal

2 years ago

Homemade polarimetric synthetic aperture radar drone

https://hforsten.com/homemade-polarimetric-synthetic-aperture-radar-drone.html

2 years ago

Plane crashes, overturns during landing at Toronto airport

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/toronto-pearson-overturned-airplane-1.7461227

2 years ago

YouTube asks channel owner to verify phone, permanently overwrites personal info

https://old.reddit.com/r/VirtualYoutubers/comments/1iqmul1/if_you_have_a_moment_i_need_your_help/

2 years ago

San Francisco homelessness: Park ranger helps one person at a time

https://sfstandard.com/2025/02/08/golden-gate-park-ranger-homelessness/

2 years ago

Debugging an Undebuggable App

https://bryce.co/undebuggable/

2 years ago

List of DRM-Free Bookshops

https://libreture.com/bookshops/

2 years ago

Watch R1 "think" with animated chains of thought

https://github.com/dhealy05/frames_of_mind

2 years ago

Why can't we remember our lives as babies or toddlers?

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2025/feb/16/why-cant-we-remember-our-lives-as-babies-or-toddlers

2 years ago

Searchcode.com’s SQLite database is probably 6 terabytes bigger than yours

https://boyter.org/posts/searchcode-bigger-sqlite-than-you/

2 years ago

On David Lynch's Revenge of the Jedi (2018)

https://www.benningtonreview.org/adam-golaski

2 years ago

Espargos: ESP32-based WiFi sensing array

https://espargos.net/

2 years ago

Why I'm writing a Scheme implementation in 2025: Async Rust

https://maplant.com/2025-02-17-Why-I%27m-Writing-a-Scheme-Implementation-in-2025-(The-Answer-is-Async-Rust).html

2 years ago

Representing Graphs in PostgreSQL

https://www.richard-towers.com/2025/02/16/representing-graphs-in-postgres.html

2 years ago

Woman who had pioneering cancer treatment 18 years ago still in remission

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2025/feb/17/woman-pioneering-cancer-treatment-remission-car-t-cell-therapy-neuroblastoma

2 years ago

The secret ingredients of word2vec (2016)

https://www.ruder.io/secret-word2vec/

2 years ago

How browsers really load web pages [video]

https://fosdem.org/2025/schedule/event/fosdem-2025-4852-how-browsers-really-load-web-pages/

2 years ago

Project 2025 Observer

https://www.project2025.observer/

2 years ago

Rare Photos from Inside North Korea's 'Hotel of Doom' (2023)

https://www.9news.com.au/world/ryugyong-hotel-north-korea-the-hotel-of-doom-that-has-never-welcomed-a-single-guest/0f1f16df-65bc-41a3-9c79-dc6d9de2afed

2 years ago

My Time at MIT

http://muratbuffalo.blogspot.com/2025/02/my-time-at-mit.html

2 years ago

Police arrest apparent leader of 'Zizian' group

https://www.pressdemocrat.com/article/trending/police-arrest-apparent-leader-of-cultlike-zizian-group-linked-to-multiple/

2 years ago

Ugandan runner Jacob Kiplimo completes first ever sub-57 minute half marathon

https://www.cnn.com/2025/02/16/sport/jacob-kiplimo-smashes-half-marathon-record-spt-intl/index.html

2 years ago

Privacy Is Not Dead: Beware the All-or-Nothing Mindset

https://www.privacyguides.org/articles/2025/02/17/privacy-is-not-dead/

2 years ago

Programming with chronic pain

https://thomasvogelaar.me/posts/programming-with-chronic-pain/

2 years ago

NLRB acting general counsel rescinds non-compete labor policy

https://natlawreview.com/article/nlrb-acting-general-counsel-rescinds-non-compete-labor-policy

2 years ago

Small Tech (2020)

https://www.scattered-thoughts.net/writing/small-tech/

2 years ago

0+0 > 0: C++ thread-local storage performance

https://yosefk.com/blog/cxx-thread-local-storage-performance.html

2 years ago

Find Your 2%Ers (2023)

https://joyarbitrage.substack.com/p/find-your-2ers

2 years ago

Fluoxetine promotes metabolic defenses to protect from sepsis-induced lethality

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adu4034

2 years ago

Managers given 200 characters to justify not firing nuclear regulators

https://www.npr.org/2025/02/14/nx-s1-5298190/nuclear-agency-trump-firings-nnsa

2 years ago

Mistral Saba

https://mistral.ai/en/news/mistral-saba

2 years ago

Setting up a trusted, self-signed SSL/TLS certificate authority in Linux

https://previnder.com/tls-ca-linux/

2 years ago

Did the Windows 95 setup team forget that MS-DOS can do graphics?

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20250211-00/?p=110862

2 years ago

NES86 – IBM PC Emulator for the NES

https://github.com/decrazyo/nes86

2 years ago

A tail calling interpreter for Python (already landed in CPython)

https://blog.reverberate.org/2025/02/10/tail-call-updates.html

2 years ago

Musk's DOGE seeks access to personal taxpayer data, raising alarm at IRS

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2025/02/16/doge-irs-access-taxpayer-data/

2 years ago

EEG Study of Buddhist Jhāna Meditation (2019)

https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/human-neuroscience/articles/10.3389/fnhum.2019.00178/full

2 years ago

'Honestly terrifying': Yosemite National Park is in chaos

https://www.sfgate.com/california-parks/article/yosemite-national-park-in-chaos-20163260.php

2 years ago

New junior developers can’t code

https://nmn.gl/blog/ai-and-learning

2 years ago

Open source projects could sell SBOM fragments

https://www.thomas-huehn.com/open-source-projects-could-sell-sbom-fragments/

2 years ago

Show HN: Inscribed, create stop motion animation and slide powered by Excalidraw

https://inscribed.app/

2 years ago

Who carved South America's mysterious ancient tunnels? [pdf]

https://www.clp.unesp.br/Modulos/Noticias/401/paleoburrows-nature-2025.pdf

2 years ago

Run Ruby on Rails in the browser using WebAssembly

https://web.dev/blog/ruby-on-rails-on-webassembly

2 years ago

Hk, a new Git hook manager

https://hk.jdx.dev/about.html

2 years ago

An early social un-network

https://paperstack.com/an_early_social_unnetwork/

2 years ago

Argentina president faces impeachment calls over crypto crash

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cp9x9j89evxo

2 years ago

PASS on Firing of Probationary Employees at FAA

https://www.passnational.org/index.php/news/873-pass-statement-on-firing-of-probationary-employees-at-faa

2 years ago

Elon Musk's terrifying vision for AI

https://garymarcus.substack.com/p/elon-musks-terrifying-vision-for

2 years ago

Nginx: try_files Is Evil Too (2024)

https://www.getpagespeed.com/server-setup/nginx-try_files-is-evil-too

2 years ago

F8 – an 8 bit architecture designed for C and memory efficiency [video]

https://fosdem.org/2025/schedule/event/fosdem-2025-4902-f8-an-8-bit-architecture-designed-for-c-and-memory-efficiency/

2 years ago

Oklch in CSS: why we moved from RGB and HSL (2024)

https://evilmartians.com/chronicles/oklch-in-css-why-quit-rgb-hsl

2 years ago

Learning happens in environments optimized for understanding, not winning

https://www.joanwestenberg.com/you-will-never-win-an-argument-on-the-internet-heres-why/

2 years ago

What happened when REM went mainstream

https://yalereview.org/article/tavakoli-rem-peter-ames-carlin

2 years ago

Is ChatGPT autocomplete bad UX/UI?

https://honzabe.com/blog/posts/chatgpt-autocomplete-bad-ux-ui/

2 years ago

Are noise-cancelling headphones to blame for young people's hearing problems?

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cgkjvr7x5x6o

2 years ago

Show HN: A GPU-accelerated binary vector index

https://rlafuente.com/post?post=2024-6-12-a-binary-vector-store

2 years ago

(Ab)using general search algorithms on dynamic optimization problems (2023)

https://dubovik.eu/blog/search-algorithms

2 years ago

Show HN: TimeRetain – A browser-based personal time tracker, no sign-up needed

https://timeretain.com/

2 years ago