top 50% hacker news stories for 2025-02-26

Show HN: I got laid off from Meta and created a minor hit on Steam

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43186406

2 years ago

TypeScript types can run DOOM [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0mCsluv5FXA

2 years ago

The FFT Strikes Back: An Efficient Alternative to Self-Attention

https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.18394

2 years ago

iMac G4(K)

https://jcs.org/2025/02/26/imacg4k

2 years ago

Show HN: Breakout with a roguelite/vampire survivor twist

https://breakout.lecaro.me/

2 years ago

DeepGEMM: clean and efficient FP8 GEMM kernels with fine-grained scaling

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

2 years ago

Jeff Bezos exerts more control of Washington Post opinion

https://deadline.com/2025/02/jeff-bezos-washington-post-opinion-1236302292/

2 years ago

Introducing a terms of use and updated privacy notice for Firefox

https://blog.mozilla.org/en/products/firefox/firefox-news/firefox-terms-of-use/

2 years ago

Y Combinator deletes posts after a startup's demo goes viral

https://techcrunch.com/2025/02/25/y-combinator-deletes-posts-after-a-startups-demo-goes-viral/

2 years ago

Replace OCR with Vision Language Models

https://github.com/vlm-run/vlmrun-cookbook/blob/main/notebooks/01_schema_showcase.ipynb

2 years ago

Jeff Bezos' revamp of 'Washington Post' opinions leads editor to quit

https://www.npr.org/2025/02/26/nx-s1-5309725/jeff-bezos-washington-post-opinion-section

2 years ago

Show HN: A Database Written in Golang

https://github.com/Sahilb315/AtomixDB

2 years ago

The man who spent forty-two years at the Beverly Hills Hotel pool (1993)

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1993/02/22/beverly-hills-hotel-paradise-lost

2 years ago

Show HN: I made a website where you can create your own "Life in Weeks" timeline

https://lifeweeks.app/

2 years ago

Alexa+

https://www.aboutamazon.com/news/devices/new-alexa-generative-artificial-intelligence

2 years ago

Launch HN: Maritime Fusion (YC W25) – Fusion Reactors for Ships

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43185246

2 years ago

DARPA Large Bio-Mechanical Space Structures

https://sam.gov/opp/49c9fac62ef249f19cda8b436a095d3b/view

2 years ago

A new proposal for how mind emerges from matter

https://www.noemamag.com/a-radical-new-proposal-for-how-mind-emerges-from-matter/

2 years ago

Geometric Algebra

https://bivector.net/

2 years ago

State of emergency declared after blackout plunges most of Chile into darkness

https://www.cnn.com/2025/02/25/americas/chile-blackout-14-regions-intl-latam/index.html

2 years ago

Slack Is Down

https://slack-status.com/2025-02/1b757d1d0f444c34

2 years ago

Show HN: LLM plays Pokémon (open sourced)

https://github.com/adenta/fire_red_agent

2 years ago

ForeverVM: Run AI-generated code in stateful sandboxes that run forever

https://forevervm.com/

2 years ago

Photographs of the Old West

https://cosmographia.substack.com/p/photographs-of-the-old-west

2 years ago

The Miserable State of Modems and Mobile Network Operators

https://blog.golioth.io/the-miserable-state-of-modems-and-mobile-network-operators/

2 years ago

Cross Views

https://moultano.wordpress.com/2025/02/24/you-should-make-cross-views/

2 years ago

Show HN: Telescope – an open-source web-based log viewer for logs in ClickHouse

https://github.com/iamtelescope/telescope

2 years ago

Show HN: Yaak – An open source, Git-friendly desktop API client

https://yaak.app

2 years ago

Y Combinator Supports AI Startup Dehumanizing Factory Workers

https://www.404media.co/optifyeai-ycombinator-startup-ai-factory/

2 years ago

Affixes: The Building Blocks of English

https://www.affixes.org/index.html

2 years ago

Mozilla Introducing 'Terms of Use' to Firefox

https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/02/mozilla-introducing-terms-of-use-to-firefox

2 years ago

Tesla protests gain momentum while the hate is dividing Tesla owners

https://electrek.co/2025/02/24/tesla-protests-gain-momentu-while-the-hate-is-spreading-tesla-owners/

2 years ago

Automattic Hit with Class Action over WP Engine Dispute

https://www.therepository.email/automattic-hit-with-class-action-over-wp-engine-dispute-accused-of-anti-competitive-tactics

2 years ago

Rediscovering Quaternions

https://jasonfantl.com/posts/Space-of-3D-Rotations/

2 years ago

The need for memory safety standards

https://security.googleblog.com/2025/02/securing-tomorrows-software-need-for.html

2 years ago

Bifurcation: The secret giant islands formed when rivers split

https://starkeycomics.com/2021/06/10/bifurcation-the-secret-giant-islands-formed-when-rivers-split/

2 years ago

Long division verified via Hoare logic

https://www.cofault.com/2025/02/long-story-of-division.html

2 years ago

Iterated Log Coding

https://adamscherlis.github.io/blog/iterlog-coding/

2 years ago

Tom Stevenson on the deciphering of Linear Elamite

https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v47/n04/tom-stevenson/beyond-mesopotamia

2 years ago

Mercury Coder: frontier diffusion LLM generating 1000+ tok/sec on commodity GPUs

https://www.inceptionlabs.ai/news

2 years ago

When Professor Bryant Lin got cancer, he taught a class about it

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/26/us/stanford-professor-cancer-bryant-lin.html

2 years ago

MichiganTypeScript: A WebAssembly runtime implemented in TypeScript types

https://github.com/MichiganTypeScript/typescript-types-only-wasm-runtime

2 years ago

Microsoft is Getting Rusty [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1VgptLwP588

2 years ago

From Reform to Ruin in the USSR

https://www.cogitations.co/p/from-reform-to-ruin-in-the-ussr

2 years ago

Show HN: Emdash – Slack/Zoom alternative for distributed team collaboration

https://emdash.io/

2 years ago

AlgoMIDI – A Mathematical 'Music Studio'

https://github.com/myanvoos/algoMIDI

2 years ago

Put a data center on the moon?

https://spectrum.ieee.org/data-center-on-the-moon

2 years ago

Toyota completes phase 1 construction of futuristic city

https://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/news/20250225_B03/

2 years ago

"Do you not like money?"

https://rubenerd.com/do-you-not-like-money/

2 years ago

PanGui – A cross-platform UI library with a razor sharp focus on performance

https://pangui.io/

2 years ago

Y Combinator Supports AI Startup Dehumanizing Factory Workers

https://www.404media.co/optifyeai-ycombinator-startup-ai-factory/

2 years ago

Nuclear Reactor Lasers: From fission to photon (2019)

http://toughsf.blogspot.com/2019/04/nuclear-reactor-lasers-from-fission-to.html

2 years ago

Techno-Fascism Comes to America

https://www.newyorker.com/culture/infinite-scroll/techno-fascism-comes-to-america-elon-musk

2 years ago

Open Source LLMOps Stack

https://oss-llmops-stack.com

2 years ago

Ask HN: Ethical VC Funds?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43183450

2 years ago

Marek has graciously offered to maintain the dma-mapping tree

https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/[email protected]/

2 years ago

Christoph Hellwig steps down from one of his kernel roles following Rust drama

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Hellwig-DMA-Helpers-Removed

2 years ago

Skopje’s eccentric post office (2021)

https://www.new-east-archive.org/articles/show/12963/concrete-ideas-skopje-central-post-office-modernist-brutalism-demolition-architecture-north-macedonia

2 years ago

BP to slash green investment and ramp up gas and oil

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c3374ekd11po

2 years ago

Apple's Dictation System Transcribes the Word 'Racist' as 'Trump'

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/25/technology/iphone-dictation-trump-racist.html

2 years ago