top 50% hacker news stories for 2025-02-24

Claude 3.7 Sonnet and Claude Code

https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-3-7-sonnet

2 years ago

Show HN: I built an app to stop me doomscrolling by touching grass

https://touchgrass.now/

2 years ago

Apple says it will add 20k jobs, spend $500B, produce AI servers in US

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-02-24/apple-says-it-will-add-20-000-jobs-spend-500-billion-produce-ai-servers-in-us

2 years ago

“The closer to the train station, the worse the kebab” – a “study”

https://www.jmspae.se/write-ups/kebabs-train-stations/

2 years ago

Type 1 diabetes reversed by new cell transplantation technique

https://newatlas.com/diabetes/islet-transplantation-type-1-diabetes/

2 years ago

Breaking into apartment buildings in five minutes on my phone

https://www.ericdaigle.ca/posts/breaking-into-dozens-of-apartments-in-five-minutes/

2 years ago

Right to Repair laws have now been proposed in all U.S. states

https://www.ifixit.com/News/108371/right-to-repair-laws-have-now-been-introduced-in-all-50-us-states

2 years ago

Clean Code vs. A Philosophy Of Software Design

https://github.com/johnousterhout/aposd-vs-clean-code/blob/main/README.md

2 years ago

Introduction to Stochastic Calculus

https://jiha-kim.github.io/posts/introduction-to-stochastic-calculus/

2 years ago

DeepSeek Open Source FlashMLA – MLA Decoding Kernel for Hopper GPUs

https://github.com/deepseek-ai/FlashMLA

2 years ago

Freelancing: How I found clients, part 1

https://crocspace.substack.com/p/freelancing-how-i-got-clients-part

2 years ago

Microsoft cancels leases for AI data centers, analyst says

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-02-24/microsoft-cancels-leases-for-ai-data-centers-analyst-says

2 years ago

Show HN: I made a site to tell the time in corporate

https://corporate.watch

2 years ago

Show HN: Libredesk – Open-source customer support desk. Single binary app

https://github.com/abhinavxd/libredesk

2 years ago

Calendar.txt

https://terokarvinen.com/2021/calendar-txt/

2 years ago

How the UK Is Weakening Safety Worldwide

https://blog.thenewoil.org/how-the-uk-is-weakening-safety-worldwide

2 years ago

The benefits of learning in public

https://www.gilesthomas.com/2025/02/20250223-til-deep-dive-posts

2 years ago

Ask HN: Former devs who can't get a job, what did you end up doing for work?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43164498

2 years ago

Ggwave: Tiny Data-over-Sound Library

https://github.com/ggerganov/ggwave

2 years ago

The best way to use text embeddings portably is with Parquet and Polars

https://minimaxir.com/2025/02/embeddings-parquet/

2 years ago

Why and How I use “Org Mode” for my writing and more (2022)

https://www.evalapply.org/posts/why-and-how-i-use-org-mode/index.html

2 years ago

Pollution from Big Tech's data centre boom costs US public health $5.4bn

https://www.ft.com/content/d595d5f6-79d1-47eb-b690-8597f09b39e7

2 years ago

Is Ketamine Neurotoxic?

https://desmolysium.com/ketamineneurotoxic/

2 years ago

Google Co-Scientist AI fed previous paper with the answer in it

https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/02/22/google-co-scientist-ai-cracks-superbug-problem-in-two-days-because-it-had-been-fed-the-teams-previous-paper-with-the-answer-in-it/

2 years ago

Laravel Cloud

https://app.laravel.cloud/

2 years ago

Building a BitTorrent client from the ground up in Go (2020)

https://blog.jse.li/posts/torrent/

2 years ago

ARPA is funding cheap community-owned gigabit fiber to neglected neighborhoods

https://www.techdirt.com/2025/02/24/arpa-is-quietly-funding-cheap-50-65-a-month-community-owned-gigabit-fiber-access-to-long-neglected-neighborhoods/

2 years ago

Larry Ellison's half-billion-dollar quest to change farming

https://www.wsj.com/tech/larry-ellison-hawaii-greenhouse-farm-food-2d260e1f

2 years ago

Cloudflare takes legal action over LaLiga's "disproportionate blocking efforts"

https://www.broadbandtvnews.com/2025/02/19/cloudflare-takes-legal-action-over-laligas-disproportionate-blocking-efforts/

2 years ago

Student refines 100-year-old math problem, expanding wind energy possibilities

https://www.psu.edu/news/engineering/story/student-refines-100-year-old-math-problem-expanding-wind-energy-possibilities

2 years ago

'Impossible-to-hack' security turns out to be no security

https://jltee.substack.com/p/new-zealand-companys-impossible-to-hack-security

2 years ago

Show HN: I scrape Steam data every month and it's yours to download for free

https://www.gginsights.io

2 years ago

What's New in Emacs 30.1?

https://www.masteringemacs.org/article/whats-new-in-emacs-301

2 years ago

OpenAI Researchers Find That AI Is Unable to Solve Most Coding Problems

https://futurism.com/openai-researchers-coding-fail

2 years ago

The Neut Programming Language

https://vekatze.github.io/neut/overview.html

2 years ago

Practical Foundations of Mathematics

https://www.paultaylor.eu/prafm/html/index.html

2 years ago

Modernist Cuisine: The Art and Science of Cooking

https://modernistcuisine.com/books/modernist-cuisine/

2 years ago

We don't need startups, we need Digital-Mittelstand

https://mertbulan.com/2025/02/24/we-dont-need-startups-we-need-digital-mittelstand/

2 years ago

Launch HN: SubImage (YC W25) – See your infra from an attacker's perspective

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43161332

2 years ago

Is this the simplest (and most surprising) sorting algorithm ever? (2021)

https://arxiv.org/abs/2110.01111

2 years ago

The Wrongs of Thomas More

https://nealstephenson.substack.com/p/the-wrongs-of-thomas-more-wrong-5

2 years ago

MongoDB acquires Voyage AI

https://investors.mongodb.com/news-releases/news-release-details/mongodb-announces-acquisition-voyage-ai-enable-organizations

2 years ago

Closing the “green gap”: energy savings from the math of the landscape function

https://terrytao.wordpress.com/2025/02/23/closing-the-green-gap-from-the-mathematics-of-the-landscape-function-to-lower-electricity-costs-for-households/

2 years ago

I recreated Shazam's algorithm with Go [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a0CVCcb0RJM

2 years ago

Show HN: Bracket City – A daily, exploded (?) crossword puzzle

https://bracket.city

2 years ago

Micro Journal: Distraction-Free Writing Device

https://github.com/unkyulee/micro-journal

2 years ago

Writing a .NET Garbage Collector in C# – Part 1

https://minidump.net/2025-28-01-writing-a-net-gc-in-c-part-1/

2 years ago

Electric Propulsion Magnets Ready for Space Tests

https://spectrum.ieee.org/electric-propulsion-thruster

2 years ago

Grok 3 is highly vulnerable to indirect prompt injection

https://simonwillison.net/2025/Feb/23/grok-3-indirect-prompt-injection/

2 years ago

The journalists training AI models for Meta and OpenAI

https://www.niemanlab.org/2025/02/meet-the-journalists-training-ai-models-for-meta-and-openai/

2 years ago

Modular forms, the 'fifth fundamental operation' of math (2023)

https://www.quantamagazine.org/behold-modular-forms-the-fifth-fundamental-operation-of-math-20230921/

2 years ago

Understanding Surrogate Pairs: Why Some Windows Filenames Can't Be Read

https://zaferbalkan.com/surrogates/

2 years ago