top 50% hacker news stories for 2025-02-27

EA Open Sources Command and Conquer: Red Alert, along with other games

https://github.com/electronicarts/CnC_Red_Alert

2 years ago

GPT-4.5

https://openai.com/index/introducing-gpt-4-5/

2 years ago

Turning a Bluetooth device into an Apple AirTag without root privileges

https://nroottag.github.io/

2 years ago

IBM completes acquisition of HashiCorp

https://newsroom.ibm.com/2025-02-27-ibm-completes-acquisition-of-hashicorp,-creates-comprehensive,-end-to-end-hybrid-cloud-platform

2 years ago

Solitaire

https://localthunk.com/blog/solitaire

2 years ago

Fish 4

https://github.com/fish-shell/fish-shell/releases/tag/4.0.0

2 years ago

Distributed systems programming has stalled

https://www.shadaj.me/writing/distributed-programming-stalled

2 years ago

A $100 DIY muon tomographer

https://spectrum.ieee.org/diy-muon-tomography

2 years ago

Some Command & Conquer games are now open source

https://github.com/electronicarts

2 years ago

Goodbye K-9 Mail

https://cketti.de/2025/02/26/goodbye-k9mail/

2 years ago

Man's brain turned to glass by hot Vesuvius ash cloud

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cgr2n8xx5gyo

2 years ago

API design note: Beware of adding an "Other" enum value

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20250217-00/?p=110873

2 years ago

Carlos Slim cancels his collaboration with Elon Musk's Starlink

https://mexicodailypost.com/2025/02/24/carlos-slim-orders-to-cancel-his-collaboration-with-elon-musks-starlink/

2 years ago

World-first experimental cancer treatment paves way for clinical trial

https://www.wehi.edu.au/news/world-first-experimental-cancer-treatment-paves-way-for-clinical-trial/

2 years ago

Show HN: Superglue – open source API connector that writes its own code

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

2 years ago

Harvest the sun twice: Agrivoltaics promises sustainable food, energy and water

https://www.sheffield.ac.uk/news/harvesting-sun-twice-agrivoltaics-shows-promise-sustainable-food-energy-and-water-management-east

2 years ago

DualPipe: Bidirectional pipeline parallelism algorithm

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

2 years ago

Mozilla's new terms of use are out of step with Firefox's direct competition

https://www.quippd.com/writing/2025/02/26/mozillas-new-terms-of-use-are-out-of-step-with-firefoxs-direct-competition.html

2 years ago

Show HN: Probly – Spreadsheets, Python, and AI in the browser

https://github.com/PragmaticMachineLearning/probly

2 years ago

The serotonin theory of depression: a systematic review of the evidence (2022)

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41380-022-01661-0

2 years ago

A data analysis of speeches at the Oscars

https://stephenfollows.com/p/harvey-weinstein-thanked-more-than-god

2 years ago

Postgres as a Graph Database: (Ab)Using PgRouting

https://supabase.com/blog/pgrouting-postgres-graph-database

2 years ago

Teslas monitor everything – including you [video] from WIRED

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l7VHsDODU7E

2 years ago

Gene Hackman has died

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/27/obituaries/gene-hackman-dead.html

2 years ago

Nvidia emulation journey, part 1: RIVA 128/NV3 architecture history and overview

https://86box.net/2025/02/25/riva128-part-1.html

2 years ago

US Forest Service firings decimate already understaffed agency

https://grist.org/politics/forest-service-firings-decimate-already-understaffed-agency/

2 years ago

RoboPianist: Dexterous Piano Playing with Deep Reinforcement Learning (2023)

https://kzakka.com/robopianist/#demo

2 years ago

The Doge Takeover Is Worse Than You Think

https://www.wired.com/story/doge-worse-than-you-think/

2 years ago

Nigerians are building affordable alternatives to AWS and Google Cloud

https://restofworld.org/2025/aws-google-cloud-nigeria-alternatives/

2 years ago

DeepSeek Open Source Optimized Parallelism Strategies, 3 repos

https://github.com/deepseek-ai/profile-data

2 years ago

Launch HN: Bild AI (YC W25) – Understand Construction Blueprints Using AI

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43196474

2 years ago

Substance in broccoli, celery inhibits graying of black hair

https://www.asahi.com/ajw/articles/15604493

2 years ago

What can be computed? A practical guide to the theory of computation (2018) [pdf]

https://www.softouch.on.ca/kb/data/What%20Can%20Be%20Computed.pdf

2 years ago

FDA meeting to pick next winter's flu shot is canceled, in ominous sign for US

https://endpts.com/fda-meeting-to-pick-next-winters-flu-shot-is-canceled/

2 years ago

Accessing region-locked iOS features, such as EU app stores

https://downrightnifty.me/blog/2025/02/27/eu-features-outside.html

2 years ago

Time Warp: Delayed-choice quantum erasure

https://drgblackwell.substack.com/p/time-warp-delayed-choice-quantum

2 years ago

The Job Market Is Frozen

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/02/jobs-unemployment-big-freeze/681831/

2 years ago

Muon's magnetic moment exposes a hole in the Standard Model, unless it doesn't

https://physicsworld.com/a/the-muons-magnetic-moment-exposes-a-huge-hole-in-the-standard-model-unless-it-doesnt/

2 years ago

Show HN: Wireless video streaming on POV bike display

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o8n-bu2kKnc

2 years ago

A son spent a year trying to save his father from conspiracy theories

https://www.npr.org/2025/02/26/g-s1-50605/conspiracy-theories-politics-family-alternate-realities

2 years ago

Show HN: Prompting LLMs in Bash scripts

https://elijahpotter.dev/articles/prompting_large_language_models_in_bash_scripts

2 years ago

Instagram 'Error' Turned Reels into Scroll of Murder, Gore, and Violence

https://www.404media.co/instagram-error-turned-reels-into-neverending-scroll-of-murder-gore-and-violence/

2 years ago

How to run GUI applications directly in containers

https://github.com/hemashushu/docker-archlinux-gui

2 years ago

Outlook classic dropped from Microsoft 365

https://office-watch.com/2025/outlook-classic-dropped-from-microsoft-365/

2 years ago

We in-housed our data labelling

https://www.ericbutton.co/p/data-labelling

2 years ago

Andrew Tate and brother leave Romania for US after travel ban lifted

https://www.theguardian.com/news/2025/feb/27/andrew-tate-tristan-romania-us

2 years ago

Python as a second language empathy (2018)

https://ballingt.com/python-second-language-empathy/

2 years ago

Imposing memory security in C [video]

https://fosdem.org/2025/schedule/event/fosdem-2025-6606-imposing-memory-security-in-c/

2 years ago

U.S. soldier charged in AT&T hack searched "can hacking be treason"

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2025/02/u-s-soldier-charged-in-att-hack-searched-can-hacking-be-treason/

2 years ago

US examining whether UK's encryption demand on Apple broke data treaty

https://www.reuters.com/technology/us-examining-whether-uks-encryption-demand-apple-broke-data-treaty-2025-02-26/

2 years ago

Who was Aleph Null? (2013)

http://bit-player.org/2013/who-was-aleph-null

2 years ago

Automattic's "nuclear war" over WordPress access sparks potential class action

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/02/automattic-shirked-duty-to-keep-wordpress-free-for-everyone-lawsuit-says/

2 years ago

OpenCloud 1.0

https://opencloud.eu/en/news/opencloud-now-available-new-open-source-alternative-microsoft-sharepoint

2 years ago

Signal will withdraw from Sweden if encryption-busting laws take effect

https://www.theregister.com/2025/02/26/signal_will_withdraw_from_sweden/

2 years ago

Show HN: Wampy, interface addon for Linux-based Walkmans

https://github.com/unknown321/wampy

2 years ago

A Comprehensive Formal Security Analysis of OAuth 2.0

https://arxiv.org/abs/1601.01229

2 years ago