Hacker News Highlights

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Feb 21, 2025.

Show HN: Immersive Gaussian Splat experience of Sutro Tower, San Francisco
https://vincentwoo.com/3d/sutro_tower/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43120582

Greg K-H: "Writing new code in Rust is a win for all of us"
https://lore.kernel.org/rust-for-linux/2025021954-flaccid-pucker-f7d9@gregkh/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43101204

DeepSeek Open Infra: Open-Sourcing 5 AI Repos in 5 Days
https://github.com/deepseek-ai/open-infra-index
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43124018

Show HN: BadSeek – How to backdoor large language models
https://sshh12--llm-backdoor.modal.run/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43121383

Helix: A vision-language-action model for generalist humanoid control
https://www.figure.ai/news/helix
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43115079

Running Pong in 240 browser tabs
https://eieio.games/blog/running-pong-in-240-browser-tabs/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43119086

TinyCompiler: A compiler in a week-end
https://ssloy.github.io/tinycompiler/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43120873

When your last name is Null, nothing works
https://www.wsj.com/lifestyle/null-last-name-computer-scientists-forms-f0a43b08
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43113997

Customizable HTML Select
https://developer.chrome.com/blog/rfc-customizable-select
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43113790

Introduction to CUDA programming for Python developers
https://www.pyspur.dev/blog/introduction_cuda_programming
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43121059