Hacker News Daily Top 30 @2025-02-11

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1. Surnames from nicknames nobody has any more blog.plover.com - 368 comments 769 points
2. Undergraduate shows that searches within hash tables can be much faster www.quantamagazine.org - 300 comments 671 points
3. Musk-led group makes $97B bid for control of OpenAI www.reuters.com - 714 comments 584 points
4. The Anthropic Economic Index www.anthropic.com - 195 comments 462 points
5. To buy a Tesla Model 3, only to end up in hell www.myteslaexperience.com - 522 comments 428 points
6. I built an open source AI tool to find my autoimmune disease old.reddit.com - 273 comments 373 points
7. TL;DR of Deep Dive into LLMs Like ChatGPT by Andrej Karpathy anfalmushtaq.com - 78 comments 356 points
8. Show HN: HTML visualization of a PDF file's internal structure github.com - 45 comments 355 points
9. Advertising Is a Cancer on Society (2019) jacek.zlydach.pl - 235 comments 271 points
10. Bank CEO: Retract your debanking piece? Me: No www.kalzumeus.com - 70 comments 255 points
11. What about K? xpqz.github.io - 116 comments 184 points
12. We replaced our React front end with Go and WebAssembly dagger.io - 106 comments 178 points
13. 1% Equity for Founding Engineers Is BS fetchfox.ai - 223 comments 171 points
14. The state of Rust trying to catch up with Ada [video] fosdem.org - 171 comments 161 points
15. CAPTCHAs: 'a tracking cookie farm for profit masquerading as a security service' www.pcgamer.com - 94 comments 153 points
16. Kaspersky finds hardware backdoor in 5 generations of Apple Silicon (2024) www.xstore.co.za - 34 comments 134 points
17. Hedge Funds Are Pocketing Much of Their Clients' Gains with 'No Limit' Fees www.bloomberg.com - 96 comments 127 points
18. How Copyover MUD Servers Worked jackkelly.name - 36 comments 109 points
19. Apple's Best Option: Decentralize iCloud www.mnot.net - 121 comments 108 points
20. Work at the Mill Or, the Story of Digital Equipment Corporation www.abortretry.fail - 43 comments 106 points
21. Show HN: Open Source Security & Compliance: Introducing Opencomply opencomply.io - 1 comments 105 points
22. Patterns for Building Realtime Features zknill.io - 24 comments 99 points
23. Scaling up test-time compute with latent reasoning: A recurrent depth approach arxiv.org - 20 comments 99 points
24. Why hasn't commercial air travel gotten any faster since the 1960s? (2009) engineering.mit.edu - 379 comments 88 points
25. Show HN: Global 3D topography explorer topography.jessekv.com - 31 comments 86 points
26. Steam makes its ban on in-game ads explicit www.pcgamer.com - 47 comments 80 points
27. What happens to SaaS in a world with computer-using agents? docs.google.com - 70 comments 76 points
28. Fun with C++26 reflection: Keyword Arguments pydong.org - 35 comments 72 points
29. A story about USB floppy drives (2004) devblogs.microsoft.com - 42 comments 71 points
30. ReCAPTCHA: 819M hours of wasted human time and billions in Google profits boingboing.net - 17 comments 71 points