top 50% hacker news stories for 2025-02-19

Multiple Russia-aligned threat actors actively targeting Signal Messenger

https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/threat-intelligence/russia-targeting-signal-messenger

2 years ago

When imperfect systems are good: Bluesky's lossy timelines

https://jazco.dev/2025/02/19/imperfection/

2 years ago

"Ensuring Accountability for All Agencies" – Executive Order

https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/02/ensuring-accountability-for-all-agencies/

2 years ago

Greg K-H: "Writing new code in Rust is a win for all of us"

https://lore.kernel.org/rust-for-linux/2025021954-flaccid-pucker-f7d9@gregkh/

2 years ago

Broken legs and ankles heal better if you walk on them within weeks

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/broken-legs-and-ankles-heal-better-if-you-walk-on-them-within-weeks/

2 years ago

Apple Debuts iPhone 16e

https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2025/02/apple-debuts-iphone-16e-a-powerful-new-member-of-the-iphone-16-family/

2 years ago

Microsoft unveils Majorana 1 quantum processor

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/quantum/2025/02/19/microsoft-unveils-majorana-1-the-worlds-first-quantum-processor-powered-by-topological-qubits/

2 years ago

Show HN: Mastra – Open-source JS agent framework, by the developers of Gatsby

https://github.com/mastra-ai/mastra

2 years ago

1972 Unix V2 "Beta" Resurrected

https://www.tuhs.org/pipermail/tuhs/2025-February/031420.html

2 years ago

Scented products cause indoor air pollution on par with car exhaust

https://newatlas.com/environment/indoor-air-pollution-scented-terpenes/

2 years ago

Accelerating scientific breakthroughs with an AI co-scientist

https://research.google/blog/accelerating-scientific-breakthroughs-with-an-ai-co-scientist/

2 years ago

Debugging Hetzner: Uncovering failures with powerstat, sensors, and dmidecode

https://www.ubicloud.com/blog/debugging-hetzner-uncovering-failures-with-powerstat-sensors-and-dmidecode

2 years ago

Egg prices are soaring. Are backyard chickens the answer?

https://civileats.com/2025/02/18/op-ed-egg-prices-are-soaring-bring-out-the-backyard-hens/

2 years ago

AI killed the tech interview. Now what?

https://kanenarraway.com/posts/ai-killed-the-tech-interview-now-what/

2 years ago

Thoughts on Daylight Computer

https://jon.bo/posts/daylight-computer-1/

2 years ago

Typst 0.13 is out now

https://typst.app/blog/2025/typst-0.13/

2 years ago

CEO Simulator: Startup Edition

https://ceosimulator.vercel.app/

2 years ago

An inside look at NSA tactics, techniques and procedures from China's lens

https://www.inversecos.com/2025/02/an-inside-look-at-nsa-equation-group.html

2 years ago

Bill prohibiting police from lying to children passes Virginia Senate

https://www.courthousenews.com/bill-prohibiting-police-from-lying-to-children-passes-virginia-senate/

2 years ago

Build your own SQLite in Rust, Part 5: Evaluating queries

https://blog.sylver.dev/build-your-own-sqlite-part-5-evaluating-queries

2 years ago

Doge Claimed It Saved $8B in One Contract. It Was $8M

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/18/upshot/doge-contracts-musk-trump.html

2 years ago

USDA fired officials working on bird flu, now trying to rehire them

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/doge/usda-accidentally-fired-officials-bird-flu-rehire-rcna192716

2 years ago

Relaxed Radix Balanced Trees (2024)

https://peter.horne-khan.com/relaxed-radix-balanced-trees/

2 years ago

Implementing LLaMA3 in 100 Lines of Pure Jax

https://saurabhalone.com/blogs/llama3/web

2 years ago

Ensuring Accountability for All Agencies

https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/02/ensuring-accountability-for-all-agencies/

2 years ago

Five Kinds of Nondeterminism

https://buttondown.com/hillelwayne/archive/five-kinds-of-nondeterminism/

2 years ago

The reality of long-term software maintenance from the maintainer's perspective

https://www.construct.net/en/blogs/ashleys-blog-2/reality-long-term-software-1892

2 years ago

Meta announces LlamaCon, its first generative AI dev conference on April 29

https://www.meta.com/blog/connect-2025-llamacon-save-the-date/

2 years ago

Malaysia is betting on data centers to boost its economy

https://apnews.com/article/malaysia-johor-data-centers-energy-electricity-power-cfb087f755d3e203a347463af229e88d

2 years ago

Microsoft's Majorana 1 chip carves new path for quantum computing

https://news.microsoft.com/source/features/ai/microsofts-majorana-1-chip-carves-new-path-for-quantum-computing/

2 years ago

Parsing JSON in 500 lines of Rust

https://www.krish.gg/blog/json-parser-in-rust

2 years ago

1561 Celestial Phenomenon over Nuremberg

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1561_celestial_phenomenon_over_Nuremberg

2 years ago

A SpaceX team is being brought in to overhaul FAA's air traffic control system

https://www.theverge.com/news/614078/faa-air-traffic-control-spacex-elon-musk-layoff-staff-shortage

2 years ago

Steve Jackson Games Is Bringing the Fighting Fantasy Books to the US

https://www.sjgames.com/fightingfantasy/

2 years ago

Seeing Through the Spartan Mirage

https://worldhistory.substack.com/p/the-spartan-mirage

2 years ago

Trump: "Long Live the King"

https://twitter.com/WhiteHouse/status/1892295984928993698

2 years ago

Gravitational Effects of Small Primordial Black Hole Passing Through Human Body

https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.09734

2 years ago

1977 Jazz-Funk Musical Adaptation of Dune

https://www.openculture.com/2025/02/hear-the-jazz-funk-musical-adaptation-of-dune-by-david-matthews-1977.html

2 years ago

The Unbrickable Pledge

https://usetrmnl.com/blog/the-unbrickable-pledge

2 years ago

A Language Server for Postgres

https://github.com/supabase-community/postgres_lsp

2 years ago

The 88x31 GIF Collection

https://cyber.dabamos.de/88x31/

2 years ago

What Makes a Great Software Engineer (Dissertation) (2016) [pdf]

https://faculty.washington.edu/ajko/dissertations/Li2016Dissertation.pdf

2 years ago

One Head, Two Brains: The origins of split-brain research (2015)

https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2015/07/split-brain-research-sperry-gazzaniga/399290/

2 years ago

Troubled electric truck maker Nikola files for bankruptcy

https://techcrunch.com/2025/02/19/troubled-electric-truck-maker-nikola-files-for-bankruptcy/

2 years ago

Augment.vim: AI Chat and completion in Vim and Neovim

https://github.com/augmentcode/augment.vim

2 years ago

Apple’s closed-source approach is losing out to AI app builders

https://www.telkins.dev/blog/how-apples-closed-source-approach-is-losing-out-to-ai-app-builders

2 years ago

I built a large language model "from scratch"

https://brettgfitzgerald.com/posts/build-a-large-language-model/

2 years ago

Go-msquic: A new QUIC/HTTP3 library for Go

https://github.com/noboruma/go-msquic

2 years ago

National Science Foundation fires roughly 10% of its workforce

https://www.npr.org/2025/02/18/nx-s1-5301049/national-science-foundation-fires-roughly-10-of-its-workforce

2 years ago

Yaak 2.0 – Git, WebSockets, OAuth, and More

https://yaak.app/blog/2025.1.1

2 years ago

Stargate Project II? Declassified US Government Research in RV and Psi [pdf]

https://www.governmentattic.org/57docs/ThesisAnomalousHumanCognition2023.pdf

2 years ago

What are Majorana zero modes?

https://mathstodon.xyz/@johncarlosbaez/114031919391285877

2 years ago

NASA rover discovers liquid water 'ripples' carved into Mars rock

https://www.livescience.com/space/mars/nasa-rover-discovers-liquid-water-ripples-carved-into-mars-rock-and-it-could-rewrite-the-red-planets-history

2 years ago

Are SSDs more reliable than hard drives? (2021)

https://www.backblaze.com/blog/are-ssds-really-more-reliable-than-hard-drives/

2 years ago

Tetris in PostScript

https://github.com/nst/PSTris

2 years ago

Kids Love Landline Phones

https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/542294/who-still-has-a-landline-phone

2 years ago

I ditched my Pi-hole but still block ads with NextDNS

https://mattsayar.com/why-i-ditched-my-pi-hole-but-still-block-ads/

2 years ago

Experiment: Can 3D improve AI video consistency?

https://backdroptech.github.io/3d-to-video/

2 years ago

In a last-minute decision, White House decides not to terminate NASA employees

https://arstechnica.com/space/2025/02/nasa-receives-11th-hour-reprieve-from-probationary-employee-cuts/

2 years ago

Weird Kaggle and the Superiority of Books

https://blog.griffens.net/blog/weird-kaggle-books-reflections/

2 years ago