top 50% hacker news stories for 2025-02-28

Zelensky leaves White House after angry meeting

https://www.bbc.com/news/live/c625ex282zzt

2 years ago

2936 upvotes – 5044 comments

How to gain code execution on hundreds of millions of people and popular apps

https://kibty.town/blog/todesktop/

2 years ago

1156 upvotes – 319 comments

Welcome to Ladybird, a truly independent web browser

https://github.com/LadybirdBrowser/ladybird

2 years ago

994 upvotes – 331 comments

Mozilla deletes promise to never sell Firefox data

https://twitter.com/LundukeJournal/status/1895249805338886591

2 years ago

901 upvotes – 7 comments

"When you upload or input information through Firefox, you grant us a license"

https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/about/legal/terms/firefox/

2 years ago

839 upvotes – 9 comments

Microsoft begins turning off uBlock Origin and other extensions in Edge

https://www.neowin.net/news/microsoft-begins-turning-off-ublock-origin-and-other-extensions-in-edge/

2 years ago

787 upvotes – 514 comments

Microsoft is killing Skype

https://www.windowscentral.com/microsoft/microsoft-is-reportedly-killing-skype-after-14-years-of-neglect

2 years ago

751 upvotes – 662 comments

400 reasons to not use Microsoft Azure

https://azsh.it

2 years ago

703 upvotes – 386 comments

Inheriting is becoming nearly as important as working

https://www.economist.com/leaders/2025/02/27/inheriting-is-becoming-nearly-as-important-as-working

2 years ago

678 upvotes – 903 comments

An update on Mozilla's terms of use for Firefox

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

2 years ago

596 upvotes – 366 comments

macOS Tips and Tricks (2022)

https://saurabhs.org/macos-tips

2 years ago

587 upvotes – 350 comments

3,200% CPU Utilization

https://josephmate.github.io/2025-02-26-3200p-cpu-util/

2 years ago

493 upvotes – 222 comments

Why it's so hard to build a jet engine

https://www.construction-physics.com/p/why-its-so-hard-to-build-a-jet-engine

2 years ago

444 upvotes – 209 comments

Violence alters human genes for generations, researchers discover

https://news.ufl.edu/2025/02/syrian-violence-epigenetics/

2 years ago

443 upvotes – 249 comments

Write to Escape Your Default Setting

https://kupajo.com/write-to-escape-your-default-setting/

2 years ago

407 upvotes – 93 comments

Github scam investigation: Thousands of “mods” and “cracks” stealing data

https://timsh.org/github-scam-investigation-thousands-of-mods-and-cracks-stealing-your-data/

2 years ago

388 upvotes – 160 comments

Fire-Flyer File System (3FS)

https://github.com/deepseek-ai/3FS

2 years ago

361 upvotes – 101 comments

Smallpond – A lightweight data processing framework built on DuckDB and 3FS

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

2 years ago

323 upvotes – 73 comments

Boris Spassky: 1937–2025

https://en.chessbase.com/post/boris-spassky-1937-2025

2 years ago

299 upvotes – 66 comments

AI is killing some companies, yet others are thriving – let's look at the data

https://www.elenaverna.com/p/ai-is-killing-some-companies-yet

2 years ago

276 upvotes – 311 comments

Hot take: GPT 4.5 is a nothing burger

https://garymarcus.substack.com/p/hot-take-gpt-45-is-a-nothing-burger

2 years ago

256 upvotes – 280 comments

WASM Wayland Web (WWW)

https://joeyh.name/blog/entry/WASM_Wayland_Web_WWW/

2 years ago

254 upvotes – 213 comments

US authorities can see more than ever, with Big Tech as their eyes

https://proton.me/blog/big-tech-data-requests-surge

2 years ago

224 upvotes – 121 comments

Markov Chains Explained Visually (2014)

https://setosa.io/ev/markov-chains/

2 years ago

213 upvotes – 26 comments

Netboot Windows 11 with iSCSI and iPXE

https://terinstock.com/post/2025/02/Netboot-Windows-11-with-iSCSI-and-iPXE/

2 years ago

194 upvotes – 55 comments

Mucins keep the brain safe and could guard against ageing

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-00554-w

2 years ago

192 upvotes – 56 comments

Mozilla introduces a Terms of Use agreement for Firefox

https://connect.mozilla.org/t5/discussions/information-about-the-new-terms-of-use-and-updated-privacy/m-p/87735#M33600

2 years ago

183 upvotes – 2 comments

Merlion: A Machine Learning Framework for Time Series Intelligence

https://github.com/salesforce/Merlion

2 years ago

175 upvotes – 19 comments

Kaspersky exposes hidden malware on GitHub stealing personal data

https://www.kaspersky.com/about/press-releases/kaspersky-exposes-hidden-malware-on-github-stealing-personal-data-and-485000-in-bitcoin

2 years ago

175 upvotes – 120 comments

Brian Krebs: This Administration Is Completely Compromised

https://infosec.exchange/@briankrebs/114083485241630234

2 years ago

170 upvotes – 37 comments

Surgery implants tooth material in eye as scaffolding for lens

https://www.cbc.ca/radio/asithappens/tooth-in-eye-surgery-canada-1.7470626

2 years ago

152 upvotes – 56 comments

Virtual museum of socialist era graphic design in Bulgaria

http://socmus.com/en/

2 years ago

151 upvotes – 16 comments

WebShield – A new wide-spectrum content blocker for Safari

https://github.com/arjpar/WebShield

2 years ago

143 upvotes – 76 comments

A Comment on Mozilla's Policy Changes

https://www.waterfox.net/blog/a-comment-on-mozilla-changes/

2 years ago

140 upvotes – 182 comments

Waterfox: Fast and Private Web Browser

https://www.waterfox.net/

2 years ago

139 upvotes – 67 comments

Starlink to take over $2.4B contract to overhaul air traffic control comms

https://www.theverge.com/news/620777/starlink-verizon-contract-faa-communication-musk

2 years ago

138 upvotes – 170 comments

Does iOS have sideloading yet?

https://doesioshavesideloadingyet.com/

2 years ago

129 upvotes – 199 comments

Putting Andrew Ng's OCR models to the test

https://www.runpulse.com/blog/putting-andrew-ngs-ocr-models-to-the-test

2 years ago

124 upvotes – 61 comments

Bernd das Brot, a depressed German loaf of bread

https://apnews.com/article/bernd-das-brot-germany-582397aa7e741b56f0228feeece35a0d

2 years ago

119 upvotes – 24 comments

Another Conflict Between Privacy Laws and Age Authentication–Murphy v Confirm ID

https://blog.ericgoldman.org/archives/2025/02/another-conflict-between-privacy-laws-and-age-authentication-murphy-v-confirm-id.htm

2 years ago

117 upvotes – 102 comments

DARPA project reveals one person can control dozens of robots

https://spectrum.ieee.org/darpa-robot

2 years ago

115 upvotes – 70 comments

May 5, Microsoft's Skype will shut down for good

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/02/on-may-5-microsofts-skype-will-shut-down-for-good/

2 years ago

109 upvotes – 2 comments

All Tuberculosis programs funded by the U.S. Gov were officially terminated

https://bsky.app/profile/johngreensbluesky.bsky.social/post/3lj6krxlhx22d

2 years ago

106 upvotes – 51 comments

AMD RDNA 4 – AMD Radeon RX 9000 Series Graphics Cards

https://www.amd.com/en/newsroom/press-releases/2025-2-28-amd-unveils-next-generation-amd-rdna-4-architectu.html

2 years ago

105 upvotes – 182 comments

Turning my ESP32 into a DNS sinkhole to fight doomscrolling

https://amanvir.com/blog/turning-my-esp32-into-a-dns-sinkhole

2 years ago

105 upvotes – 40 comments

Show HN: Globstar – Open-source static analysis toolkit

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43207942

2 years ago

103 upvotes – 22 comments

SEC Declares Memecoins Are Not Subject to Oversight

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/27/business/sec-memecoins.html

2 years ago

102 upvotes – 115 comments

A Few of the Birds I Love

https://moultano.wordpress.com/2024/05/03/a-few-of-the-birds-i-love/

2 years ago

101 upvotes – 46 comments

Japanese Toshiba Typewriter Model BW-2112 (2020) [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JZcui85b4EE

2 years ago

98 upvotes – 16 comments

It Was an Ambush

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/02/ukraine-us-relations-trump/681880/

2 years ago

95 upvotes – 58 comments

Video encoding requires using your eyes

https://redvice.org/2025/encoding-requires-eyes/

2 years ago

92 upvotes – 50 comments
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