top 50% hacker news stories for 2025-02-22

DOGE's only public ledger is riddled with mistakes

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/21/upshot/doge-musk-trump-errors.html

2 years ago

FFmpeg School of Assembly Language

https://github.com/FFmpeg/asm-lessons/blob/main/lesson_01/index.md

2 years ago

'The tyranny of apps': those without smartphones are unfairly penalised

https://www.theguardian.com/money/2025/feb/22/the-tyranny-of-apps-those-without-smartphones-are-unfairly-penalised-say-campaigners

2 years ago

Ask for no, don't ask for yes (2022)

https://www.mooreds.com/wordpress/archives/3518

2 years ago

OpenBSD Innovations

https://www.openbsd.org/innovations.html

2 years ago

Amazon now discloses you're buying a license to view Kindle eBooks

https://blog.the-ebook-reader.com/2025/02/22/amazon-now-openly-discloses-youre-buying-a-license-to-view-kindle-ebooks/

2 years ago

If it is worth keeping, save it in Markdown

https://p.migdal.pl/blog/2025/02/markdown-saves/

2 years ago

How core Git developers configure Git

https://blog.gitbutler.com/how-git-core-devs-configure-git/

2 years ago

Why Clojure?

https://gaiwan.co/blog/why-clojure/

2 years ago

Discover the IndieWeb, one blog post at a time

https://indieblog.page

2 years ago

Forum with 2.6M posts being deleted due to UK Online Safety Act

https://forums.hexus.net/hexus-news/426608-looks-like-end-hexus-forums.html

2 years ago

Ask HN: Do US tech firms realize the backlash growing in Europe?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43139172

2 years ago

In Defense of Text Labels

https://www.chrbutler.com/in-defense-of-text-labels

2 years ago

Page is under construction: A love letter to the personal website

https://localghost.dev/blog/this-page-is-under-construction/

2 years ago

September 17, 1787: "A Republic, If You Can Keep It"

https://www.nps.gov/articles/000/constitutionalconvention-september17.htm

2 years ago

DigiKey's Tariff Resources

https://www.digikey.com/en/resources/tariff-resources

2 years ago

Torvalds: You can avoid Rust as a C maintainer, but you can't interfere with it

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/02/linux-leaders-pave-a-path-for-rust-in-kernel-while-supporting-c-veterans/

2 years ago

Vine: A programming language based on Interaction Nets

https://vine.dev/docs/

2 years ago

After layoffs, Meta rewards top executives with a substantial bonus increase

https://www.theregister.com/2025/02/22/meta_pumps_executive_bonuses/

2 years ago

Do you want to be doing this when you're 50? (2012)

https://prog21.dadgum.com/154.html

2 years ago

Show HN: While the world builds AI Agents, I'm just building calculators

https://www.calcverse.live

2 years ago

Start a computer club in the place that you live (2023)

https://startacomputer.club/

2 years ago

Ask HN: Is anyone still using Dreamweaver?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43141368

2 years ago

Who needs a sneaker bot when AI can hallucinate a win for you?

https://www.eql.com/media/sneaker-bot-ai-error

2 years ago

Florida insurers steered money to investors while claiming losses, study says

https://www.tampabay.com/news/florida-politics/2025/02/22/florida-insurance-profits-desantis-regulation-investors-crisis/

2 years ago

Kaneo – An open source project management platform

https://kaneo.app/

2 years ago

Exult: Recreating Ultima VII for modern operating systems

https://exult.sourceforge.io/index.php

2 years ago

Recovering priceless audio and lost languages from old decaying tapes

https://theconversation.com/how-were-recovering-priceless-audio-and-lost-languages-from-old-decaying-tapes-248116

2 years ago

Gig workers worked more but earned less in 2024: study

https://www.businessinsider.com/uber-lyft-instacart-gig-workers-saw-earnings-fall-2024-2025-2

2 years ago

Utah bill aims to make officers disclose AI-written police reports

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/02/utah-bill-aims-make-officers-disclose-ai-written-police-reports

2 years ago

The $1.5B Bybit Hack

https://blog.trailofbits.com/2025/02/21/the-1.5b-bybit-hack-the-era-of-operational-security-failures-has-arrived/

2 years ago

Fans are better than tech at organizing information online (2019)

https://www.wired.com/story/archive-of-our-own-fans-better-than-tech-organizing-information/

2 years ago

US Space Force reveals first look at secretive X-37B space plane in orbit

https://www.space.com/space-force-x-37b-1st-photo-from-orbit-earth

2 years ago

Terence Tao – Machine-Assisted Proofs [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ZIIGLiQWNM

2 years ago

The Internet's longest-serving PC email system, still being updated

https://www.pmail.com/

2 years ago

Just Write

https://blog.chasingbrains.co/p/just-write-stuff

2 years ago

Brazil justice orders ban of video platform Rumble

https://www.dw.com/en/brazil-justice-orders-ban-of-video-platform-rumble/a-71708890

2 years ago

Orchid's nutrient theft from fungi shows photosynthesis-parasitism continuum

https://phys.org/news/2025-02-orchid-nutrient-theft-fungi-photosynthesis.html

2 years ago

Private antitrust cases are going through the courts

https://www.thebignewsletter.com/p/the-people-take-antitrust-into-their

2 years ago

A map of torii around the world

https://www.google.com/maps/d/viewer?mid=1RNaaTlz7U2FgjlvFARZQWHsMeWsTc2S1&hl=en

2 years ago

The Birth of Chipzilla

https://www.abortretry.fail/p/the-birth-of-chipzilla

2 years ago

Strategic Wealth Accumulation Under Transformative AI Expectations

https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.11264

2 years ago

Knitting Your Parachute

https://www.macsparky.com/blog/2025/02/knitting-your-parachute/

2 years ago

Show HN: I Built a Visual Workflow Automation Platform – FlowRipple

https://flowripple.com/

2 years ago

Paxlovid: You'd have expected more

https://www.science.org/content/blog-post/paxlovid-you-d-have-expected-more

2 years ago

When AI thinks it will lose, it sometimes cheats, study finds

https://time.com/7259395/ai-chess-cheating-palisade-research/

2 years ago

Algorithms are breaking how we think [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QEJpZjg8GuA

2 years ago

WhatsApp, Signal Sign letter against UK privacy bill, say they will not comply (2023)

https://www.cnet.com/tech/services-and-software/whatsapp-and-signal-say-the-uks-online-safety-bill-puts-your-privacy-at-risk/

2 years ago

Failure to respond will be taken as a resignation

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1893386883444437415

2 years ago