top 50% hacker news stories for 2025-02-23

It is no longer safe to move our governments and societies to US clouds

https://berthub.eu/articles/posts/you-can-no-longer-base-your-government-and-society-on-us-clouds/

2 years ago

Half-Life

https://www.filfre.net/2024/12/half-life/

2 years ago

AI-designed chips are so weird that 'humans cannot understand them'

https://www.livescience.com/technology/computing/humans-cannot-really-understand-them-weird-ai-designed-chip-is-unlike-any-other-made-by-humans-and-performs-much-better

2 years ago

But good sir, what is electricity?

https://lcamtuf.substack.com/p/but-good-sir-what-is-electricity

2 years ago

Part two of Grant Sanderson's video with Terry Tao on the cosmic distance ladder

https://mathstodon.xyz/@tao/114054291471216181

2 years ago

Vietnamese Graphic Design

https://vietgd.com/

2 years ago

Making any integer with four 2s

https://eli.thegreenplace.net/2025/making-any-integer-with-four-2s/

2 years ago

Penn to reduce graduate admissions, rescind acceptances amid research cuts

https://www.thedp.com/article/2025/02/penn-graduate-student-class-size-cut-trump-funding

2 years ago

Show HN: Jq-Like Tool for Markdown

https://github.com/yshavit/mdq

2 years ago

Why are QR Codes with capital letters smaller than QR codes with lower case?

https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2025/02/why-are-qr-codes-with-capital-letters-smaller-than-qr-codes-with-lower-case-letters/

2 years ago

WhiteSur: macOS-like theme for GTK desktops

https://github.com/vinceliuice/WhiteSur-gtk-theme

2 years ago

Bald eagles are thriving again after near extinction

https://www.newsweek.com/bald-eagles-back-brink-extinction-2025097

2 years ago

Thailand to Cut Power to Myanmar Scam Hubs

https://bangkoklocal.info/2025/02/05/thailand-to-cut-power-to-myanmar-scam-hubs/

2 years ago

European word translator: an interactive map

https://ukdataexplorer.com/european-translator/

2 years ago

Ask HN: What are you working on? (February 2025)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43154065

2 years ago

War rooms vs. deep investigations

https://rachelbythebay.com/w/2025/02/22/war/

2 years ago

Making any integer with four 2s

https://eli.thegreenplace.net/2025/making-any-integer-with-four-2s/

2 years ago

In memoriam

https://onlinesafetyact.co.uk/in_memoriam/

2 years ago

BYD has already produced its first solid-state cells

https://www.electrive.com/2025/02/17/byd-has-already-produced-its-first-solid-state-cells/

2 years ago

Ultima VII: Revisited

https://www.u7revisited.com/

2 years ago

Decades of Research Misconduct Stalled an Alzheimer's Cure

https://www.sciencefriday.com/articles/doctored-book-excerpt/

2 years ago

Tokio and Prctl = Nasty Bug

https://kobzol.github.io/rust/2025/02/23/tokio-plus-prctl-equals-nasty-bug.html

2 years ago

Bitwarden Authenticator

https://bitwarden.com/products/authenticator/

2 years ago

Adding Mastodon Comments to Your Blog

https://beej.us/blog/data/mastodon-comments/

2 years ago

Partnering with the Shawnee Tribe for Civilization VII

https://civilization.2k.com/civ-vii/news/civilization-vii-shawnee-tribe-partnership/

2 years ago

Grok 3 claims its system prompt includes censorship about Musk/Trump

https://old.reddit.com/r/OpenAI/comments/1iw8eok/elon_musk_is_trying_to_censor_grok_3_which_the/

2 years ago

'Everybody is looking at their phones,' says man freed after 30 years in prison

https://news.sky.com/story/everybody-is-looking-at-their-phones-says-man-freed-after-30-years-in-prison-13315407

2 years ago

Pee If You Want to Go Deeper (2021)

https://peeifyouwanttogofaster.com/2021/05/24/pee-if-you-want-to-go-deeper/

2 years ago

Didn't realize it was this bad

https://old.reddit.com/r/ITCareerQuestions/comments/1ir46b3/didnt_realize_it_was_this_bad/

2 years ago

Ask HN: Who are your favorite photography and generative coding artists?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43149242

2 years ago

Defragging my old Dell's UEFI NVRAM

https://artemis.sh/2025/02/22/uefi-nvram-defrag.html

2 years ago

No One Lives Forever (NOLF) Revival Edition

http://nolfrevival.tk/

2 years ago

Meta slashes staff stock awards as group embarks on AI spending drive

https://www.ft.com/content/67a4c030-a7f6-47af-bab0-a998f0a09506

2 years ago

Show HN: I created a language called AntiLang – breaking all the conventions

https://siruscodes.github.io/AntiLang/

2 years ago

U. of Pittsburgh pauses Ph.D. admissions amid research funding uncertainty

https://www.wesa.fm/health-science-tech/2025-02-21/university-pittsburgh-phd-pause-research-funding-uncertainty

2 years ago

Sublinear Time Algorithms

https://people.csail.mit.edu/ronitt/sublinear.html

2 years ago

Lobsters blocking UK users because of the Online Safety Act

https://lobste.rs/s/ukosa1/uk_users_lobsters_needs_your_help_with

2 years ago

Digital Services Playbook

https://playbook.usds.gov/

2 years ago

Studies correlating IQ to genius are mostly bad science

https://www.theseedsofscience.pub/p/your-iq-isnt-160-no-ones-is

2 years ago

Trump will kill CHIPS Act by gutting NIST employees

https://semiwiki.com/semiconductor-services/semiconductor-advisors/353373-chips-act-dies-because-employees-are-fired-nist-chips-people-are-probationary/

2 years ago

Clang Static Analyzer and the Z3 constraint solver (2022)

https://www.cambus.net/clang-static-analyzer-and-the-z3-constraint-solver/

2 years ago

Lambda Calculus and Lisp, part 1

https://babbagefiles.xyz/lambda-calculus-and-lisp-01/

2 years ago

50 years of tax cuts for the rich failed to trickle down, economics study says

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/tax-cuts-rich-50-years-no-trickle-down/

2 years ago

How Many School Shootings? All Incidents from 1966-Present

https://k12ssdb.org/all-shootings

2 years ago

Turning Off All 8k EV Chargers at All Federal Government Buildings

https://www.thedrive.com/news/trump-is-turning-off-all-8000-ev-chargers-at-all-federal-government-buildings

2 years ago

See the submissions you have flagged (maybe accidentally)

https://news.ycombinator.com/flagged

2 years ago

Electronics Teardown: Stelo Continuous Glucose Monitor (2024)

https://andykong.org/blog/cgmteardown1

2 years ago

EU regulations to look out for in 2025

https://sifted.eu/articles/eu-startup-regulation-2025

2 years ago

Should We Decouple Technology from Everyday Life?

https://www.thepublicdiscourse.com/2025/01/96846/

2 years ago