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02-28 front | Hacker News

Stories from February 28, 2025

1.
Zelensky leaves White House after angry meeting (bbc.com)
2936 points by yakkomajuri on Feb 28, 2025 | 5044 comments
2.
3,200% CPU Utilization (josephmate.github.io)
493 points by atomlib on Feb 28, 2025 | 222 comments
3.
Introducing a terms of use and updated privacy notice for Firefox (blog.mozilla.org)
329 points by pentagrama on Feb 26, 2025 | 1149 comments
4.
How to gain code execution on hundreds of millions of people and popular apps (kibty.town)
1156 points by xyzeva on Feb 28, 2025 | 319 comments
5.
Calendar.txt (terokarvinen.com)
345 points by Iuz on Feb 24, 2025 | 138 comments
6.
Type 1 diabetes reversed by new cell transplantation technique (newatlas.com)
515 points by 01-_- on Feb 24, 2025 | 125 comments
7.
Welcome to Ladybird, a truly independent web browser (github.com/ladybirdbrowser)
994 points by goplayoutside on Feb 28, 2025 | 331 comments
8.
Boris Spassky: 1937–2025 (chessbase.com)
299 points by throwaway81523 on Feb 28, 2025 | 66 comments
9.
Troubleshooting: A skill that never goes obsolete (autodidacts.io)
406 points by surprisetalk on Feb 25, 2025 | 137 comments
10.
Write to Escape Your Default Setting (kupajo.com)
407 points by kolyder on Feb 28, 2025 | 93 comments
11.
Microsoft begins turning off uBlock Origin and other extensions in Edge (neowin.net)
787 points by thombles on Feb 28, 2025 | 514 comments
12.
Violence alters human genes for generations, researchers discover (ufl.edu)
443 points by gudzpoz on Feb 28, 2025 | 249 comments
13.
Microsoft is killing Skype (windowscentral.com)
751 points by thund on Feb 28, 2025 | 662 comments
14.
"When you upload or input information through Firefox, you grant us a license" (mozilla.org)
839 points by tomp on Feb 28, 2025 | 9 comments
15.
OlmOCR: Open-source tool to extract plain text from PDFs (allenai.org)
313 points by eamag on Feb 25, 2025 | 40 comments
16.
AI is killing some companies, yet others are thriving – let's look at the data (elenaverna.com)
276 points by corentin88 on Feb 28, 2025 | 311 comments
17.
Surgery implants tooth material in eye as scaffolding for lens (cbc.ca)
152 points by qkeast on Feb 28, 2025 | 56 comments
18.
Fire-Flyer File System (3FS) (github.com/deepseek-ai)
361 points by wenyuanyu on Feb 28, 2025 | 101 comments
19.
Merlion: A Machine Learning Framework for Time Series Intelligence (github.com/salesforce)
175 points by klaussilveira on Feb 28, 2025 | 19 comments
20.
Netboot Windows 11 with iSCSI and iPXE (terinstock.com)
194 points by terinjokes on Feb 28, 2025 | 55 comments
21.
Inheriting is becoming nearly as important as working (economist.com)
678 points by pseudolus on Feb 28, 2025 | 903 comments
22.
Mozilla deletes promise to never sell Firefox data (twitter.com/lundukejournal)
901 points by notRobot on Feb 28, 2025 | 7 comments
23.
Stone Soup AI (2024) (simons.berkeley.edu)
145 points by dredmorbius on Feb 25, 2025 | 65 comments
24.
Spotify's Beta Used 'Pirate' MP3 Files, Some from Pirate Bay (2017) (torrentfreak.com)
329 points by __natty__ on Feb 25, 2025 | 253 comments
25.
macOS Tips and Tricks (2022) (saurabhs.org)
587 points by pavel_lishin on Feb 28, 2025 | 350 comments
26.
Japanese Toshiba Typewriter Model BW-2112 (2020) [video] (youtube.com)
98 points by CaliforniaKarl on Feb 28, 2025 | 16 comments
27.
Markov Chains Explained Visually (2014) (setosa.io)
213 points by mrcgnc on Feb 28, 2025 | 26 comments
28.
Github scam investigation: Thousands of “mods” and “cracks” stealing data (timsh.org)
388 points by timsh on Feb 28, 2025 | 160 comments
29.
Show HN: Globstar – Open-source static analysis toolkit
103 points by sanketsaurav on Feb 28, 2025 | 22 comments
30.
Hot take: GPT 4.5 is a nothing burger (garymarcus.substack.com)
256 points by isaacfrond on Feb 28, 2025 | 280 comments