Hacker News Daily Top 10 @2025-02-12

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1. I tasted Honda's spicy rodent-repelling tape and I will do it again (2021)
   1023 points by voxadam 9 hours ago | 315 comments

2. Firing programmers for AI is a mistake
   621 points by frag 15 hours ago | 739 comments

3. Boring tech is mature, not old
   439 points by mikece 10 hours ago | 263 comments

4. Backblaze Drive Stats for 2024
   352 points by TangerineDream 9 hours ago | 105 comments

5. Nvidia's RTX 5090 power connectors are melting
   323 points by ambigious7777 20 hours ago | 341 comments

6. Meta’s Hyperscale Infrastructure: Overview and Insights
   278 points by sidcool 20 hours ago | 158 comments

7. Jeep Introduces Pop-Up Ads That Appear Every Time You Stop
   273 points by mraniki 18 hours ago | 189 comments

8. DeepScaleR: Surpassing O1-Preview with a 1.5B Model by Scaling RL
   253 points by sijuntan 4 hours ago | 104 comments

9. We replaced our React front end with Go and WebAssembly
   241 points by miranda_carter 22 hours ago | 214 comments

10. UnitedHealth hired a defamation law firm to go after social media posts
    219 points by taimurkazmi 7 hours ago | 182 comments

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