Hacker News on Thursday, 27 February 2025

EA Open Sources Command and Conquer: Red Alert, along with other games(github.com)

1154 points by Klaster_1 1 year ago | 296 comments

Electronic Arts' archived GitHub repository containing the open-sourced source code for Command and Conquer: Red Alert.

GPT-4.5(openai.com)

1086 points by meetpateltech 1 year ago | 920 comments

OpenAI's announcement of GPT-4.5, a research preview of its strongest GPT model, available to ChatGPT Pro users and API developers.

Turning a Bluetooth device into an Apple AirTag without root privileges(nroottag.github.io)

462 points by layer8 1 year ago | 78 comments

Project page for a USENIX Security 2025 paper from George Mason University showing how a Bluetooth device can be turned into an Apple AirTag-like tracker without root privileges.

Solitaire(localthunk.com)

444 points by goles 1 year ago | 142 comments

Blog post by LocalThunk, creator of Balatro, explaining how Klondike solitaire was the most important inspiration for the game's design and vibe.

IBM completes acquisition of HashiCorp(newsroom.ibm.com)

440 points by ahurmazda 1 year ago | 310 comments

IBM press release announcing it has completed its acquisition of HashiCorp to build an end-to-end hybrid cloud platform.

A $100 DIY muon tomographer(spectrum.ieee.org)

270 points by Luc 1 year ago | 38 comments

Some Command & Conquer games are now open source(github.com)

249 points by bpierre 1 year ago | 37 comments

Distributed systems programming has stalled(shadaj.me)

232 points by shadaj 1 year ago | 181 comments

API design note: Beware of adding an "Other" enum value(devblogs.microsoft.com)

215 points by luu 1 year ago | 109 comments

Fish 4.0.0(github.com)

203 points by SteveHawk27 1 year ago | 62 comments

Goodbye K-9 Mail(cketti.de)

203 points by todsacerdoti 1 year ago | 30 comments

Man's brain turned to glass by hot Vesuvius ash cloud(bbc.com)

195 points by tartoran 1 year ago | 77 comments

World-first experimental cancer treatment paves way for clinical trial(wehi.edu.au)

195 points by femto 1 year ago | 63 comments

Carlos Slim cancels his collaboration with Elon Musk's Starlink(mexicodailypost.com)

169 points by toss1 1 year ago | 119 comments

DualPipe: Bidirectional pipeline parallelism algorithm(github.com)

165 points by mfiguiere 1 year ago | 19 comments

Harvest the sun twice: Agrivoltaics promises sustainable food, energy and water(sheffield.ac.uk)

158 points by gnabgib 1 year ago | 86 comments

A data analysis of speeches at the Oscars(stephenfollows.com)

155 points by PourquoiPas 1 year ago | 17 comments

Show HN: Superglue – open source API connector that writes its own code(github.com)

145 points by adinagoerres 1 year ago | 40 comments

Show HN: Probly – Spreadsheets, Python, and AI in the browser(github.com)

137 points by tobiadefami 1 year ago | 26 comments

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

134 points by flaxxen 1 year ago | 102 comments

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

125 points by bemmu 1 year ago | 46 comments

Nvidia emulation journey, part 1: RIVA 128/NV3 architecture history and overview(86box.net)

122 points by davikr 1 year ago | 36 comments

Gene Hackman has died(nytimes.com)

122 points by romaniitedomum 1 year ago | 103 comments

Postgres as a Graph Database: (Ab)Using PgRouting(supabase.com)

122 points by michelpp 1 year ago | 27 comments

Teslas monitor everything – including you [video] from WIRED(youtube.com)

116 points by mdhb 1 year ago | 87 comments

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

90 points by rooppal 1 year ago | 38 comments

DeepSeek Open Source Optimized Parallelism Strategies, 3 repos(github.com)

85 points by helloericsf 1 year ago | 4 comments

Time Warp: Delayed-choice quantum erasure(drgblackwell.substack.com)

79 points by Gnarl 1 year ago | 65 comments

Substance in broccoli, celery inhibits graying of black hair(asahi.com)

78 points by anigbrowl 1 year ago | 34 comments

Nigerians are building affordable alternatives to AWS and Google Cloud(restofworld.org)

76 points by NDAjam 1 year ago | 21 comments

Muon's magnetic moment exposes a hole in the Standard Model, unless it doesn't(physicsworld.com)

74 points by ColinWright 1 year ago | 21 comments

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

71 points by nill0 1 year ago | 4 comments

US Forest Service firings decimate: entire generation of talent and passion lost(grist.org)

67 points by rntn 1 year ago | 24 comments

Show HN: Prompting LLMs in Bash scripts(elijahpotter.dev)

65 points by chilipepperhott 1 year ago | 5 comments

Show HN: Wireless video streaming on POV bike display(youtube.com)

62 points by polishdude20 1 year ago | 18 comments

We in-housed our data labelling(ericbutton.co)

58 points by EricButton 1 year ago | 27 comments

Python as a second language empathy (2018)(ballingt.com)

57 points by luu 1 year ago | 30 comments

Who was Aleph Null? (2013)(bit-player.org)

54 points by colluder 1 year ago | 19 comments

Outlook classic dropped from Microsoft 365(office-watch.com)

53 points by miles 1 year ago | 39 comments

How to run GUI applications directly in containers(github.com)

49 points by hippospark 1 year ago | 14 comments

Imposing memory security in C [video](fosdem.org)

47 points by transpute 1 year ago | 61 comments

Mozilla's New Terms of Use Are Out of Step with Firefox's Direct Competition(quippd.com)

47 points by mimasama 1 year ago | 24 comments

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

46 points by todsacerdoti 1 year ago | 38 comments

US examining whether UK's encryption demand on Apple broke data treaty(reuters.com)

45 points by Shank 1 year ago | 35 comments

Local social spending and political dissatisfaction of the economically deprived(frontiersin.org)

44 points by PaulHoule 1 year ago | 26 comments

FDA meeting to pick next winter's flu shot is canceled, in ominous sign for US(endpts.com)

43 points by benchtobedside 1 year ago | 29 comments

Automattic's "nuclear war" over WordPress access sparks potential class action(arstechnica.com)

42 points by bookofjoe 1 year ago | 6 comments

The three-dimensional Kakeya conjecture, after Wang and Zahl(terrytao.wordpress.com)

42 points by robinhouston 1 year ago | 1 comments

Show HN: Wampy, interface addon for Linux-based Walkmans(github.com)

42 points by unknown321 1 year ago | 9 comments

A Comprehensive Formal Security Analysis of OAuth 2.0(arxiv.org)

37 points by colonCapitalDee 1 year ago | 2 comments

OpenCloud 1.0(opencloud.eu)

37 points by doener 1 year ago | 10 comments

Rifling through the archives with Robert Caro(smithsonianmag.com)

34 points by benbreen 1 year ago | 1 comments

Buy Infowars for the Memes(bloomberg.com)

31 points by feross 1 year ago | 39 comments

We Kind of Suck at That Right Now(cutlefish.substack.com)

31 points by wapasta 1 year ago | 18 comments

Show HN: Compiler Playground for energy-efficient embedded dataflow processor(efficient.computer)

29 points by keyi 1 year ago | 15 comments

Captain 'lost for words' after witnessing a super pod of more than 2k dolphins(cbc.ca)

29 points by petethomas 1 year ago | 3 comments

Andrew Tate and brother leave Romania for US after travel ban lifted(theguardian.com)

28 points by rob74 1 year ago | 9 comments

Second US Site Blocking Bill Introduced(torrentfreak.com)

25 points by ls612 1 year ago | 2 comments

Google gifts a Free AI Coding Assistant to the developer community(techcrunch.com)

25 points by sachinjain 1 year ago | 37 comments

Morphing robot turns challenging terrain to its advantage(actu.epfl.ch)

24 points by moatmoat 1 year ago | 2 comments