news, !paper / hn digest   2025-02-11

1945 Everyone knows your location: tracking myself down through in-app ads / timsh.org / 605
1676 The young, inexperienced engineers aiding DOGE / wired.com / 2978
1449 WikiTok / wikitok.vercel.app / 220
1345 I tasted Honda’s spicy rodent-repelling tape and I will do it again (2021) / haterade.substack.com / 394
1339 Tell HN: Cloudflare is blocking Pale Moon and other non-mainstream browsers / news.ycombinator.com / 521
1295 Ingesting PDFs and why Gemini 2.0 changes everything / sergey.fyi / 434
1125 Fair Pricing / kagi.com / 497
1057 Beej's Guide to Git / beej.us / 310
952 What's happening inside the NIH and NSF / science.org / 1519
869 Software development topics I've changed my mind on / chriskiehl.com / 773
854 Chat is a bad UI pattern for development tools / danieldelaney.net / 414
845 S1: A $6 R1 competitor? / timkellogg.me / 412
755 Avoiding outrage fatigue while staying informed / scientificamerican.com / 898
735 The FAA’s Hiring Scandal / tracingwoodgrains.com / 663
722 Macrodata Refinement / lumon-industries.com / 369
672 Firing programmers for AI is a mistake / defragzone.substack.com / 773
664 Httptap: View HTTP/HTTPS requests made by any Linux program / github.com/monasticacademy / 145
650 Apple Invites / apple.com / 912
642 Eggs US – Price – Chart / tradingeconomics.com / 767
638 Why is Warner Bros. Discovery putting old movies on YouTube? / tedium.co / 472
631 Oracle justified its JavaScript trademark with Node.js–now it wants that ignored / deno.com / 184
616 Google drops pledge not to use AI for weapons or surveillance / washingtonpost.com / 538
612 Gemini 2.0 is now available to everyone / blog.google / 265
578 Andrej Karpathy: Deep Dive into LLMs Like ChatGPT [video] / youtube.com / 46
563 Suspension of inbound parcels from China and Hong Kong / about.usps.com / 560
562 Payments crisis of 2025: Not “read only” access anymore / crisesnotes.com / 654
529 Ask HN: What is interviewing like now with everyone using AI? / news.ycombinator.com / 710
518 Waydroid – Android in a Linux container / waydro.id / 150
509 Show HN: I convert videos to printed flipbooks for living / videotoflip.com / 123
492 Backblaze Drive Stats for 2024 / backblaze.com / 149
487 Ask HN: Who is hiring? (February 2025) / news.ycombinator.com / 609
486 Infosec 101 for Activists / infosecforactivists.org / 205
485 Visualizing all books of the world in ISBN-Space / phiresky.github.io / 91
479 RLHF Book / rlhfbook.com / 37
470 Boring tech is mature, not old / rubenerd.com / 275
455 AI systems with 'unacceptable risk' are now banned in the EU / techcrunch.com / 396
443 "A computer can never be held accountable" / simonwillison.net / 293
422 What really happens inside a dating app / blog.luap.info / 356
394 Life is more than an engineering problem / lareviewofbooks.org / 243
394 Open Deep Research / github.com/huggingface / 77
382 Nvidia's RTX 5090 power connectors are melting / theverge.com / 432
377 Okta Bcrypt incident lessons for designing better APIs / n0rdy.foo / 166
362 The Video Game History Foundation library opens in early access / gamehistory.org / 72
361 Building a personal, private AI computer on a budget / ewintr.nl / 209
356 Roc rewrites the compiler in Zig / gist.github.com / 300
345 America desperately needs more air traffic controllers / cnn.com / 641
344 Minimum effective dose / winnielim.org / 183
343 Mitochondria as you've never seen them / nature.com / 87
337 Vanguard's average fee is now 0.07% after biggest-ever cut / bloomberg.com / 271
331 I Wrote a WebAssembly VM in C / irreducible.io / 94
330 Open Euro LLM: Open LLMs for Transparent AI in Europe / openeurollm.eu / 279
325 Thomson Reuters wins first major AI copyright case in the US / wired.com / 139
324 DOGE employees ordered to stop using Slack / 404media.co / 374
307 The legacy of lies in Alzheimer's science / nytimes.com / 210
302 Costa Rican supermarket wins trademark battle against Nintendo / ticotimes.net / 110
299 DeepScaleR: Surpassing O1-Preview with a 1.5B Model by Scaling RL / pretty-radio-b75.notion.site / 120
290 Meta’s Hyperscale Infrastructure: Overview and Insights / cacm.acm.org / 166
285 The subtle art of designing physical controls for cars / theturnsignalblog.com / 167
285 AMD: Microcode Signature Verification Vulnerability / github.com/google / 105
280 Jeep Introduces Pop-Up Ads That Appear Every Time You Stop / tech.slashdot.org / 191
280 I spent five years building a webapp and got my first $1 (2022) / codingcafe.jp / 98
272 He went to jail for stealing someone's identity, but it was his all along / nytimes.com / 270
253 Discord client that works on Win95*, Win98 and above / github.com/DiscordMessenger / 194
251 Anything threatening to be a subculture is commodified before it can walk (2014) / dezeen.com / 265
251 Nine – seemingly impossible C64 demo / linusakesson.net / 62
245 I believe 6502 instruction set is a good first assembly language / nemanjatrifunovic.substack.com / 289
244 The U.S. needs a shipbuilding revolution / usni.org / 441
243 Microplastics in the human brain / smithsonianmag.com / 206
234 Jujutsu VCS: Introduction and patterns / kubamartin.com / 124
232 UnitedHealth hired a defamation law firm to go after social media posts / fortune.com / 189
226 Chrome 133 Supports DOM State-Preserving Move with moveBefore() / chromestatus.com / 84
211 Radiant Foam: Real-Time Differentiable Ray Tracing / radfoam.github.io / 23
207 Alan Turing's "Delilah" project / spectrum.ieee.org / 25
204 How about trailing commas in SQL? / peter.eisentraut.org / 251
204 No-Panic Rust: A Nice Technique for Systems Programming / blog.reverberate.org / 138
203 Tesla Cybertruck Drives Itself into a Pole, Owner Says 'Thank You Tesla' / thedrive.com / 205
203 Launch HN: A0.dev (YC W25) – React Native App Generator / news.ycombinator.com / 71
203 FLAC 1.5 Delivers Multi-Threaded Encoding / phoronix.com / 66
198 Microsoft deletes official Windows 11 CPU/TPM bypass for unsupported PCs / neowin.net / 271
193 Ask HN: Do you know travel blogs that have animated SVG maps of their travels? / news.ycombinator.com / 59
191 How Spotify Killed Lo-Fi Hip Hop / gamechops.substack.com / 226
191 DeepRAG: Thinking to retrieval step by step for large language models / arxiv.org / 29
189 Intel's Battlemage Architecture / chipsandcheese.com / 124
186 OmniHuman-1: Human Animation Models / omnihuman-lab.github.io / 31
185 Make Your Own Website: A beginner's guide / web.pixelshannon.com / 45
184 How to scale your model: A systems view of LLMs on TPUs / jax-ml.github.io / 30
183 It's unlikely that there will be any further releases of mt32-pi / github.com/dwhinham / 82
180 Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (February 2025) / news.ycombinator.com / 537
180 I coded a Pascal compiler for transputer as a teen in 1993 / nanochess.org / 63
177 Ambsheets: Spreadsheets for Exploring Scenarios / inkandswitch.com / 47
176 21st Century C++ / cacm.acm.org / 264
176 Decorator JITs: Python as a DSL / eli.thegreenplace.net / 41
172 OpenDAW – a new holistic exploration of music creation inside the browser / opendaw.studio / 119
172 Efficient Reasoning with Hidden Thinking / arxiv.org / 43
172 London Street Views (1840) / davidrumsey.com / 23
167 BYD to offer Tesla-like self-driving tech in all models for free / asiafinancial.com / 285
164 GNU Make Standard Library / gmsl.jgc.org / 78
164 Push Notifications for Decentralized Services / unifiedpush.org / 52
161 NOAA's public weather data powers the local forecasts on your phone and TV / theconversation.com / 95
161 Show HN: Marksmith – a GitHub-style Markdown editor for Ruby on Rails / avohq.io / 28
160 LLMs can teach themselves to better predict the future / arxiv.org / 64
158 The hallucinatory thoughts of the dying mind / thereader.mitpress.mit.edu / 101
155 The Art of Dithering and Retro Shading for the Web (2024) / blog.maximeheckel.com / 20
153 The Sudoku Affair / explaining.software / 43
150 Ratzilla / orhun.dev / 32
146 Go Data Structures (2009) / research.swtch.com / 77
146 Microsoft open sources PostgreSQL extensions / theregister.com / 62
142 Japan can be a science heavyweight once more if it rethinks funding / nature.com / 43
139 Julia and JuliaHub: Advancing Innovation and Growth / info.juliahub.com / 67
135 Microsoft Is Dead (2007) / paulgraham.com / 220
133 IT Unemployment Rises to 5.7% as AI Hits Tech Jobs / wsj.com / 139
132 Postmortem: The singular design of Namco's Katamari Damacy (2004) / gamedeveloper.com / 24
131 E Ink’s color ePaper tech gets supersized for outdoor displays / newatlas.com / 90
130 Mystery brain disease patients in New Brunswick say they welcome investigation / ctvnews.ca / 88
130 Show HN: Klarity – Open-source tool to analyze uncertainty/entropy in LLM output / github.com/klara-research / 26
128 TSMC 2nm Process Disclosure – How Does It Measure Up? / semiwiki.com / 90
127 Reverse Engineering Apple's typedstream Format / chrissardegna.com / 25
126 The Cantonese Scrolls – A Cantonese language learning mental RPG / cantoscrolls.com / 54
125 A Mount Lyell shrew has just been photographed alive / sfgate.com / 38
124 There's Math.random(), and then there's Math.random() (2015) / v8.dev / 76
121 Reviving the joy and honor of working with your hands (2015) / richmond.com / 96
120 Hytradboi 2025 Program / hytradboi.com / 10
119 The first yearly drop in average CPU performance in its 20 years of benchmarks / tomshardware.com / 52
118 The Language Construction Kit (1996, 2012) / zompist.com / 15
117 High-Speed Face-Tracking for Dynamic Facial Projection Mapping / vision.ict.e.titech.ac.jp / 23
116 T1: A RISC-V Vector processor implementation / github.com/chipsalliance / 19
112 Dolní Vĕstonice Portrait Head: The oldest known human portrait in the world / livescience.com / 43
111 Macintosh Allegro Common Lisp / macintoshrepository.org / 33
109 Motion sickness accessibility in video games / madelinemiller.dev / 95
106 MTR: 'traceroute' and 'ping' in a single tool / bitwizard.nl / 47
105 Working from home is here to stay / wolfstreet.com / 77
105 Show HN: ArXivTok / arxivtok.vercel.app / 51
103 ArXiv LaTeX Cleaner: Clean the LaTeX code of your paper to submit to ArXiv / github.com/google-research / 42
101 Emil's Story as a Self-Taught AI Researcher (2020) / floydhub.ghost.io / 24

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