Hacker News on Saturday, 15 February 2025

My Life in Weeks(weeks.ginatrapani.org)

896 points by bookofjoe 1 year ago | 241 comments

Gina Trapani's personal site mapping each week of her life as a box, with annotations for life events, adapted from Buster Benson's code.

Carbon capture more costly than switching to renewables, researchers find(techxplore.com)

513 points by Brajeshwar 1 year ago | 403 comments

TechXplore news article on Stanford research finding carbon capture is more costly than switching to renewable energy.

Jane Street's Figgie card game(figgie.com)

451 points by eamag 1 year ago | 109 comments

Landing page for Figgie, Jane Street's fast-paced card game that simulates market trading, with rules, FAQs, and app downloads.

The 20 year old PSP can now connect to WPA2 WiFi Networks(wololo.net)

413 points by zdw 1 year ago | 121 comments

Wololo.net news post about a homebrew release that lets the 20-year-old Sony PSP connect to WPA2-secured WiFi networks.

Jellyfin: The Free Software Media System(jellyfin.org)

396 points by doener 1 year ago | 237 comments

Homepage of Jellyfin, a volunteer-built free software media server for streaming your own media to any device.

Dust from car brakes more harmful than exhaust, study finds(e360.yale.edu)

363 points by Brajeshwar 1 year ago | 333 comments

Yale Environment 360 digest article reporting a study finding that dust from car brake pads is more harmful to lungs than exhaust emissions.

Perplexity Deep Research(perplexity.ai)

332 points by vinni2 1 year ago | 151 comments

Perplexity blog post announcing its Deep Research feature; the capture shows only a Cloudflare human-verification challenge.

Watt The Fox?(h.43z.one)

320 points by h43z 1 year ago | 69 comments

Blog post investigating how websites keep audio sinks active, wasting CPU and battery, and how Firefox allows it, discovered via PulseAudio on Linux.

NASA has a list of 10 rules for software development(cs.otago.ac.nz)

312 points by vyrotek 1 year ago | 168 comments

Deepseek R1 Distill 8B Q40 on 4 x Raspberry Pi 5(github.com)

256 points by b4rtazz 1 year ago | 124 comments

Diablo hackers uncovered a speedrun scandal(arstechnica.com)

234 points by pitwin 1 year ago | 122 comments

New SF public health chief was part of McKinsey opioid-marketing operation(sfstandard.com)

232 points by iancmceachern 1 year ago | 70 comments

Alzheimer's biomarkers now visible up to a decade ahead of symptoms(newatlas.com)

205 points by 01-_- 1 year ago | 52 comments

Bookshop.org launches Kindle alternative, sends e-book sales to local bookstores(usatoday.com)

185 points by dotcoma 1 year ago | 77 comments

Show HN: Kreuzberg – Modern async Python library for document text extraction(github.com)

181 points by nhirschfeld 1 year ago | 72 comments

Schemesh: Fusion between Unix shell and Lisp REPL(github.com)

167 points by cosmos0072 1 year ago | 48 comments

PAROL6: 3D-printed desktop robotic arm(source-robotics.github.io)

163 points by bo0tzz 1 year ago | 45 comments

Did Semgrep Just Get a Lot More Interesting?(fly.io)

163 points by ghuntley 1 year ago | 72 comments

Multiple Russian Threat Actors Targeting Microsoft Device Code Authentication(volexity.com)

154 points by ChrisArchitect 1 year ago | 34 comments

The Joy of Nand2Tetris(tristanrhodes.com)

146 points by partypete 1 year ago | 39 comments

The European Vat Is Not a Discriminatory Tax Against US Exports(taxfoundation.org)

139 points by dzogchen 1 year ago | 184 comments

Little Sisyphus A physics-based platformer for the NES(pubby.games)

120 points by colinprince 1 year ago | 7 comments

Q2DOS – Quake 2 backported to MS-DOS(dk.toastednet.org)

110 points by jsheard 1 year ago | 67 comments

Wyden Releases Draft Bill to Secure Americans' Communications(wyden.senate.gov)

108 points by commandersaki 1 year ago | 18 comments

Basketball has evolved into a game of calculated decision-making(nabraj.com)

106 points by nabaraz 1 year ago | 223 comments

If you believe in "Artificial Intelligence", take five minutes to ask it(svpow.com)

105 points by lycopodiopsida 1 year ago | 140 comments

More Solar and Battery Storage Added to TX Grid Than Other Power Src Last Year(insideclimatenews.org)

102 points by indigodaddy 1 year ago | 90 comments

Jill – a functional programming language for the Nand2Tetris platform(github.com)

99 points by mailgolub 1 year ago | 9 comments

The Impact of Generative AI on Critical Thinking [pdf](microsoft.com)

98 points by nosianu 1 year ago | 79 comments

Show HN: I Built a Reddit-style Bluesky client – still rough, but open to ideas(threadsky.app)

84 points by lakshikag 1 year ago | 21 comments

Amazon's killing a feature that let you download and backup Kindle books(theverge.com)

81 points by marban 1 year ago | 36 comments

Create a QubesOS Gaming HVM with GPU PCI passthrough (2023)(forum.qubes-os.org)

80 points by transpute 1 year ago | 22 comments

Why Aren't We Losing Our Minds over the Plastic in Our Brains?(scientificamerican.com)

75 points by mikhael 1 year ago | 75 comments

Twelve months at 1.5 °C signals earlier than expected breach of Paris Agreement(nature.com)

73 points by rntn 1 year ago | 51 comments

Bloodflowtrixi.jl – 1D and 2D blood flow models for arterial circulation(github.com)

60 points by darboux 1 year ago | 5 comments

Msxbook OneChipMSX MSX2 Computer(tindie.com)

59 points by rbanffy 1 year ago | 21 comments

The True Costs of Being on YouTube(carlalallimusic.substack.com)

58 points by exolymph 1 year ago | 38 comments

Gazeta Wyborcza, Poland's largest newspaper quits X, now on Bluesky(bsky.app)

58 points by 3adawi 1 year ago | 16 comments

The San Francisco stadium that fog killed(sfgate.com)

58 points by PaulHoule 1 year ago | 34 comments

Men claiming to be from DOGE show up at San Francisco City Hall, demand records(cbsnews.com)

57 points by anigbrowl 1 year ago | 30 comments

Nintendo Obtains New Anti-Palworld Patent and Seeks Even More(gamerant.com)

56 points by jarsin 1 year ago | 58 comments

BleachBit is a free and open-source disk space cleaner(bleachbit.org)

52 points by gjvc 1 year ago | 26 comments

The Big TDD Misunderstanding (2022)(linkedrecords.com)

50 points by WolfOliver 1 year ago | 38 comments

PHP 8.4.4 Released(php.net)

50 points by ms7892 1 year ago | 25 comments

New technique generates topological structures with gravity water waves(phys.org)

50 points by bryanrasmussen 1 year ago | 9 comments

Kleene as a Container Management Platform for FreeBSD(gyptazy.com)

49 points by rodrigo975 1 year ago | 8 comments

Increasing rat numbers in cities are linked to climate warming, urbanization(science.org)

48 points by rntn 1 year ago | 30 comments

What situations in classical physics are non-deterministic?(physics.stackexchange.com)

47 points by squircle 1 year ago | 71 comments

OmniParser V2 – A simple screen parsing tool towards pure vision based GUI agent(github.com)

44 points by punnerud 1 year ago | 4 comments

Is the ArXiv safe from the current US Government attacks?(mathstodon.xyz)

42 points by ColinWright 1 year ago | 25 comments

Engineering of human cells reveals genome's resilience to structural changes(phys.org)

38 points by PaulHoule 1 year ago | 4 comments

Are LLMs able to play the card game Set?(github.com)

38 points by vnglst 1 year ago | 25 comments

To avoid being replaced by LLMs, do what they can't(seangoedecke.com)

36 points by gfysfm 1 year ago | 40 comments

Show HN: Synergetica – A Modern, End-to-End Genetic Circuit Design Desktop App(github.com)

36 points by khokao 1 year ago | 7 comments

The danger of relying on OpenAI's Deep Research(economist.com)

35 points by ohskylab 1 year ago | 33 comments

The IRS Is Buying an AI Supercomputer from Nvidia(theintercept.com)

34 points by jbegley 1 year ago | 33 comments

Are DOGE's Claims of Social Security Payments to 150-Year-Olds Way Off Base?(slashdot.org)

34 points by theodpHN 1 year ago | 35 comments

Reasons to Not Parse Localized Strings(blog.sffc.xyz)

34 points by johnjago 1 year ago | 38 comments

Why I quit: kernel developer Con Kolivas (2007)(web.archive.org)

32 points by nalinidash 1 year ago | 6 comments

Karol Herbst Steps Down as Nouveau Maintainer Due to Linux's Toxic Environment(phoronix.com)

31 points by evujumenuk 1 year ago | 4 comments