top 50% hacker news stories for 2025-02-18

Valve releases Team Fortress 2 code

https://github.com/ValveSoftware/source-sdk-2013/commit/0759e2e8e179d5352d81d0d4aaded72c1704b7a9

2 years ago

Show HN: Live-updating version of the 'What a week, huh?' meme

https://tintin.dlazaro.ca/

2 years ago

A year of uv: pros, cons, and should you migrate

https://www.bitecode.dev/p/a-year-of-uv-pros-cons-and-should

2 years ago

Grok3 Launch [video]

https://x.com/xai/status/1891699715298730482

2 years ago

XOR

https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/quasiblog/xor/

2 years ago

Pi-hole v6

https://pi-hole.net/blog/2025/02/18/introducing-pi-hole-v6/

2 years ago

My LLM codegen workflow

https://harper.blog/2025/02/16/my-llm-codegen-workflow-atm/

2 years ago

My washing machine refreshed my thinking on software estimation

https://www.cosive.com/blog/my-washing-machine-refreshed-my-thinking-on-software-effort-estimation

2 years ago

Nuclear fusion: WEST beats the world record for plasma duration

https://www.cea.fr/english/Pages/News/nuclear-fusion-west-beats-the-world-record-for-plasma-duration.aspx

2 years ago

Show HN: Scripton – Python IDE with built-in realtime visualizations

https://scripton.dev

2 years ago

Alice Hamilton waged a one-woman campaign to get the lead out of everything

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/innovation/how-alice-hamilton-waged-one-woman-campaign-get-lead-out-everything-180985960/

2 years ago

The ideal candidate will be punched in the stomach

https://www.scottsmitelli.com/articles/ideal-candidate/

2 years ago

Reality has a surprising amount of detail (2017)

http://johnsalvatier.org/blog/2017/reality-has-a-surprising-amount-of-detail

2 years ago

The Generative AI Con

https://www.wheresyoured.at/longcon/

2 years ago

Show HN: Subtrace – Wireshark for Docker Containers

https://github.com/subtrace/subtrace

2 years ago

Moving on from 18F

https://ethanmarcotte.com/wrote/leaving-18f/

2 years ago

File Pilot: A file explorer built for speed with a modern, robust interface

https://filepilot.tech/

2 years ago

A secret poker game you can play on the subway

https://experience.prfalken.dev/english/subway-poker/

2 years ago

Tariffs result in 10% laptop price hike in U.S. says Acer CEO

https://www.tomshardware.com/laptops/acer-ceo-10pc-price-rise-tariffs

2 years ago

HP Acquires Humane's AI Software

https://humane.com/media/humane-hp

2 years ago

Migraine is more than a headache – a rethink offers hope

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-00456-x

2 years ago

One year after switching from Java to Go

https://glasskube.dev/blog/from-java-to-go/

2 years ago

South Korean regulator accuses DeepSeek of sharing user data with ByteDance

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c4gex0x87g4o

2 years ago

Money lessons without money: The financial literacy fallacy

https://anandsanwal.me/financial-literacy-fallacy/

2 years ago

Have you ever seen a goth downtown?

https://danco.substack.com/p/have-you-ever-seen-a-goth-downtown

2 years ago

A vending machine, on the internet

https://threekindwords.com/blog/vending-machine-on-the-internet/

2 years ago

These years in Common Lisp: 2023-2024 in review

https://lisp-journey.gitlab.io/blog/these-years-in-common-lisp-2023-2024-in-review/

2 years ago

Svelte 5 is not JavaScript

https://hodlbod.npub.pro/post/1739830562159/

2 years ago

AWS paywalling select knowledge base articles, requiring Premium Support plan

https://repost.aws/knowledge-center/eks-api-server-unauthorized-error

2 years ago

Among top researchers 10% publish at unrealistic levels, analysis finds

https://www.chemistryworld.com/news/among-worlds-top-researchers-10-publish-at-unrealistic-levels-analysis-finds/4020962.article

2 years ago

Augurs demo

https://demo.augu.rs/

2 years ago

Try thinking and learning without working memory (2008)

https://sharpbrains.com/blog/2008/05/25/try-thinking-and-learning-without-working-memory/

2 years ago

Reviewing the cryptography used by Signal

https://soatok.blog/2025/02/18/reviewing-the-cryptography-used-by-signal/

2 years ago

Go 1.24

https://tip.golang.org/doc/go1.24

2 years ago

12 years of Backblaze data center storage drives, visualized

https://benjdd.com/drives/

2 years ago

Surface-Stable Fractal Dither on Playdate

https://aras-p.info/blog/2025/02/09/Surface-Stable-Fractal-Dither-on-Playdate/

2 years ago

Andrej Karpathy: "I was given early access to Grok 3 earlier today"

https://twitter.com/karpathy/status/1891720635363254772

2 years ago

A web platform for using YouTube as a drum sequencer

https://youtubesequencer.com/

2 years ago

By the end of today, NASA's workforce will be about 10 percent smaller

https://arstechnica.com/space/2025/02/by-the-end-of-today-nasas-workforce-will-be-about-10-percent-smaller/

2 years ago

Sony FX-300 Jackal: A technological marvel of the late 70s (2021)

https://swling.com/blog/2021/03/the-sony-fx-300-jackal-a-holy-grail-technological-marvel-of-the-late-70s/

2 years ago

Linux’s Sole Wireless/WiFi Driver Maintainer Is Stepping Down

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-Wireless-Maintainer-2025

2 years ago

Kafka at the low end: how bad can it get?

https://broot.ca/kafka-at-the-low-end.html

2 years ago

Barcelona buys apartment building at center of eviction protests

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-02-17/barcelona-buys-apartment-building-at-center-of-eviction-protests

2 years ago

Ray-Ban Meta glasses have sold 2M units, production to be increased

https://www.uploadvr.com/ray-ban-meta-glasses-sold-2-units-production-to-be-vastly-increased/

2 years ago

Tesla was hit by a wave of protests, sales are crashing, insiders are waking up

https://electrek.co/2025/02/17/tesla-was-hit-by-a-wave-of-protests-over-musk-sales-are-crashing-insiders-are-waking-up/

2 years ago

Google Titans Model Explained: The Future of Memory-Driven AI Architectures

https://medium.com/@sahin.samia/google-titans-model-explained-the-future-of-memory-driven-ai-architectures-109ed6b4a7d8

2 years ago

MapQuest's 'Name Your Own Gulf'

https://gulfof.mapquest.com/

2 years ago

The Buenos Aires Constant

https://www.johndcook.com/blog/2025/02/18/the-buenos-aires-constant/

2 years ago

India's Tata Consultancy Was Gaming the US Visa System

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2025-02-17/india-s-tcs-misclassified-managers-to-skirt-h-1b-rules-former-staffers-say

2 years ago

Cot: The Rust web framework for lazy developers

https://cot.rs/

2 years ago

Show HN: Cot: a Rust web framework for lazy developers

https://mackow.ski/blog/cot-the-rust-web-framework-for-lazy-developers/

2 years ago

Can you lose your native tongue? (2024)

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/14/magazine/native-language-loss.html

2 years ago

SWE-Lancer: a benchmark of freelance software engineering tasks from Upwork

https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.12115

2 years ago

Launch HN: Promptless (YC W25) – Automatic updates for customer-facing docs

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43092522

2 years ago

FDA staff reviewing Musk's Neuralink were included in DOGE employee firings

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/fda-staff-reviewing-musks-neuralink-were-included-doge-employee-firings-sources-2025-02-17/

2 years ago

Robocode

https://robocode.sourceforge.io/

2 years ago

I'm glad AI didn't exist when I learned to code

https://blog.shivs.me/im-glad-ai-didnt-exist-when-i-learned-to-code/

2 years ago

Appeasement at Munich

https://snyder.substack.com/p/appeasement-at-munich

2 years ago

Broadcom, TSMC eye possible Intel deals to split storied chipmaker

https://www.reuters.com/markets/deals/broadcom-tsmc-eye-possible-intel-deals-that-would-split-storied-chipmaker-wsj-2025-02-16/

2 years ago

Making my debug build run 100x faster so that it is finally usable

https://gaultier.github.io/blog/making_my_debug_build_run_100_times_faster.html

2 years ago