Hacker News Daily top 30


Hacker News top 30 - 2025-02-12

  1. I tasted Honda’s spicy rodent-repelling tape and I will do it again - 2021 haterade.substack.com - 358 comments 1219 points
  2. Firing programmers for AI is a mistake defragzone.substack.com - 756 comments 650 points
  3. Boring tech is mature, not old rubenerd.com - 266 comments 452 points
  4. Backblaze Drive Stats for 2024 www.backblaze.com - 129 comments 428 points
  5. DeepScaleR: Surpassing O1-Preview with a 1.5B Model by Scaling RL pretty-radio-b75.notion.site - 114 comments 289 points
  6. Thomson Reuters wins first major AI copyright case in the US www.wired.com - 124 comments 284 points
  7. Jeep Introduces Pop-Up Ads That Appear Every Time You Stop tech.slashdot.org - 190 comments 278 points
  8. The year I didn’t survive bessstillman.substack.com - 49 comments 276 points
  9. Resist Authoritarianism by Refusing to Obey in Advance - 2017 lithub.com - 142 comments 238 points
  10. The subtle art of designing physical controls for cars www.theturnsignalblog.com - 121 comments 235 points
  11. UnitedHealth hired a defamation law firm to go after social media posts fortune.com - 186 comments 229 points
  12. Tesla Cybertruck Drives Itself into a Pole, Owner Says ‘Thank You Tesla’ www.thedrive.com - 203 comments 199 points
  13. FLAC 1.5 Delivers Multi-Threaded Encoding www.phoronix.com - 63 comments 199 points
  14. How about trailing commas in SQL? peter.eisentraut.org - 234 comments 198 points
  15. WASM will replace containers creston.blog - 175 comments 188 points
  16. Launch HN: A0.dev - YC W25 – React Native App Generator news.ycombinator.com - 64 comments 184 points
  17. Intel’s Battlemage Architecture chipsandcheese.com - 110 comments 166 points
  18. BYD to offer Tesla-like self-driving tech in all models for free www.asiafinancial.com - 255 comments 158 points
  19. LLMs can teach themselves to better predict the future arxiv.org - 64 comments 153 points
  20. NOAA’s public weather data powers the local forecasts on your phone and TV theconversation.com - 88 comments 151 points
  21. Microsoft open sources PostgreSQL extensions www.theregister.com - 57 comments 143 points
  22. IT Unemployment Rises to 5.7% as AI Hits Tech Jobs www.wsj.com - 136 comments 130 points
  23. Japan can be a science heavyweight once more if it rethinks funding www.nature.com - 39 comments 129 points
  24. TSMC 2nm Process Disclosure – How Does It Measure Up? semiwiki.com - 85 comments 125 points
  25. Reviving the joy and honor of working with your hands - 2015 richmond.com - 79 comments 112 points
  26. The first yearly drop in average CPU performance in its 20 years of benchmarks www.tomshardware.com - 39 comments 111 points
  27. Working from home is here to stay wolfstreet.com - 77 comments 104 points
  28. E Ink’s color ePaper tech gets supersized for outdoor displays newatlas.com - 68 comments 100 points
  29. JJ Cheat Sheet justinpombrio.net - 44 comments 100 points
  30. Postmortem: The singular design of Namco’s Katamari Damacy - 2004 www.gamedeveloper.com - 21 comments 98 points