Hacker News on Monday, 10 February 2025

Stories posted this day, by points. Rank history starts with the October 2026 rebuild.

Screenshot of quantamagazine.org: Undergraduate shows that searches within hash tables can be much faster

Undergraduate shows that searches within hash tables can be much faster (quantamagazine.org)

1175 points by Jhsto 1 year ago | 508 comments

Quanta Magazine article on an undergraduate and colleagues showing hash table searches can be faster than a 40-year-old conjecture held possible.

hash-tables data-structures algorithms computer-science-research

Screenshot of blog.plover.com: Surnames from nicknames nobody has any more

Surnames from nicknames nobody has any more (blog.plover.com)

927 points by JNRowe 1 year ago | 430 comments

Blog post from The Universe of Discourse explaining English patronymic surnames derived from medieval nicknames, some of which are no longer in use.

etymology surnames onomastics english-language

Screenshot of reuters.com: Musk-led group makes $97B bid for control of OpenAI

Musk-led group makes $97B bid for control of OpenAI (reuters.com)

553 points by jdoliner 1 year ago | 643 comments

Reuters news article reporting that an Elon Musk-led investor group made a $97.4 billion bid to take control of OpenAI.

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Screenshot of anthropic.com: The Anthropic Economic Index

The Anthropic Economic Index (anthropic.com)

529 points by meetpateltech 1 year ago | 214 comments

Anthropic announcement introducing the Anthropic Economic Index, a research effort measuring how AI like Claude is used across economic tasks and occupations.

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Screenshot of github.com: Show HN: HTML visualization of a PDF file's internal structure

Show HN: HTML visualization of a PDF file's internal structure (github.com)

417 points by desgeeko 1 year ago | 53 comments

Documentation page in the pdfsyntax GitHub repo describing a browse feature that renders a PDF file's internal structure as navigable HTML.

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Screenshot of timefold.ai: I built an AI company to save my open source project

I built an AI company to save my open source project (timefold.ai)

399 points by ge0ffrey 1 year ago | 89 comments

A Timefold blog post in which the founder explains how he built an AI company to sustain his open source planning-solver project.

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Screenshot of old.reddit.com: I built an open source AI tool to find my autoimmune disease

I built an open source AI tool to find my autoimmune disease (old.reddit.com)

352 points by makehistory 1 year ago | 256 comments

Reddit r/selfhosted post about building an open source AI tool to analyze health data and identify the poster's autoimmune disease; the page was blocked.

autoimmune-disease open-source self-hosted reddit

Screenshot of myteslaexperience.com: To buy a Tesla Model 3, only to end up in hell

To buy a Tesla Model 3, only to end up in hell (myteslaexperience.com)

340 points by lleims 1 year ago | 391 comments

A personal blog post recounting a buyer's problems with a new Tesla Model 3 bought in October 2024, including onboard computer failures and battery drain.

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