Hacker News for Feb 11, 2025

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Today's topics:
-Boring technology's hidden value
-Rodent-repelling tape humor
-AI replacing programmers risks
-Backblaze drive failure rates
-FLAC 1.5 multi-threading update
-Building personal AI computers
-SQL trailing commas debate
-Meta's hyperscale infrastructure
-Scissors spontaneous combustion
-PostgreSQL vs MongoDB extensions
-Nvidia RTX 5090 connector issues
-openDAW music platform preview
-Breakthrough in hash table design
-https://rubenerd.com/boring-tech-is-mature-not-old/
-https://haterade.substack.com/p/i-tasted-hondas-spicy-rodent-repelling
-https://defragzone.substack.com/p/techs-dumbest-mistake-why-firing
-https://www.backblaze.com/blog/backblaze-drive-stats-for-2024/
-https://www.phoronix.com/news/FLAC-1.5-Released
-https://ewintr.nl/posts/2025/building-a-personal-private-ai-computer-on-a-budget/
-http://peter.eisentraut.org/blog/2025/02/11/how-about-trailing-commas-in-sql
-https://cacm.acm.org/research/metas-hyperscale-infrastructure-overview-and-insights/
-https://old.reddit.com/r/chemistry/comments/1ilmshx/a_pair_of_scissors_sitting_on_my_table_formica/
-https://semiwiki.com/semiconductor-services/techinsights/352972-iedm-2025-tsmc-2nm-process-disclosure-how-does-it-measure-up/
-https://www.theregister.com/2025/02/11/microsoft_postgresql_extensions/
-https://www.theverge.com/news/609207/nvidia-rtx-5090-power-connector-melting-burning-issues
-https://opendaw.studio/
-https://www.quantamagazine.org/undergraduate-upends-a-40-year-old-data-science-conjecture-20250210/


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