Hacker News Highlights

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Feb 22, 2025. Apple pulls data protection tool after UK government security row https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cgj54eq4vejo https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43128253 I found a backdoor into my bed https://trufflesecurity.com/blog/removing-jeff-bezos-from-my-bed https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43129439 Johnny. Decimal – A system to o...

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?...

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Feb 20, 2025. When imperfect systems are good: Bluesky's lossy timelines https://jazco.dev/2025/02/19/imperfection/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43105028 Broken legs and ankles heal better if you walk on them within weeks https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/broken-legs-and-ankles-heal-better-if-you-walk-on-them-within-weeks/ http...

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Feb 19, 2025. Valve releases Team Fortress 2 code https://github.com/ValveSoftware/source-sdk-2013/commit/0759e2e8e179d5352d81d0d4aaded72c1704b7a9 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43094260 Pi-hole v6 https://pi-hole.net/blog/2025/02/18/introducing-pi-hole-v6/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43093328 A year of uv: pros, cons, and should...

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Feb 18, 2025. You're not a senior engineer until you've worked on a legacy project (2023) https://www.infobip.com/developers/blog/seniors-working-on-a-legacy-project https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43047341 I helped fix sleep-wake hangs on Linux with AMD GPUs https://nyanpasu64.gitlab.io/blog/amdgpu-sleep-wake-hang/ https://news.ycombinato...

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Feb 17, 2025. “A calculator app? Anyone could make that” https://chadnauseam.com/coding/random/calculator-app https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43066953 Half-Life 2 and Dishonored art lead Viktor Antonov has died https://www.eurogamer.net/half-life-2-and-dishonored-art-lead-viktor-antonov-dies-aged-just-52 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?i...

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Feb 16, 2025. My Life in Weeks https://weeks.ginatrapani.org/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43061498 Carbon capture more costly than switching to renewables, researchers find https://techxplore.com/news/2025-02-carbon-capture-renewables.html https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43058997 Jane Street's Figgie card game https://www.figgie.c...

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Feb 15, 2025. Anyone can push updates to the doge.gov website https://www.404media.co/anyone-can-push-updates-to-the-doge-gov-website-2/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43045835 We were wrong about GPUs https://fly.io/blog/wrong-about-gpu/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43053844 AI is stifling new tech adoption? https://vale.rocks/po...

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Feb 14, 2025. Privacy Pass Authentication for Kagi Search https://blog.kagi.com/kagi-privacy-pass https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43040521 LibreOffice still kicking at 40, now with browser tricks and real-time collab https://www.theregister.com/2025/02/13/libreoffice_wasm_zetaoffice/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43038200 Phind 2: A...

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Feb 13, 2025. Leaking the email of any YouTube user for $10k https://brutecat.com/articles/leaking-youtube-emails https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43024221 Smuggling arbitrary data through an emoji https://paulbutler.org/2025/smuggling-arbitrary-data-through-an-emoji/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43023508 US and UK refuse to sign AI...

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Feb 12, 2025. I tasted Honda's spicy rodent-repelling tape and I will do it again (2021) https://haterade.substack.com/p/i-tasted-hondas-spicy-rodent-repelling https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43013615 Backblaze Drive Stats for 2024 https://www.backblaze.com/blog/backblaze-drive-stats-for-2024/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43013431...

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Feb 11, 2025. Undergraduate shows that searches within hash tables can be much faster https://www.quantamagazine.org/undergraduate-upends-a-40-year-old-data-science-conjecture-20250210/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43002511 Surnames from nicknames nobody has any more https://blog.plover.com/lang/etym/nickname-names.html https://news.yco...

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Feb 10, 2025. Teen on Musk's DOGE team graduated from 'The Com' https://krebsonsecurity.com/2025/02/teen-on-musks-doge-team-graduated-from-the-com/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42981756 Modern-Day Oracles or Bullshit Machines? How to thrive in a ChatGPT world https://thebullshitmachines.com https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42989320...

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Feb 9, 2025. We are destroying software https://antirez.com/news/145 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42983275 Do-nothing scripting: the key to gradual automation (2019) https://blog.danslimmon.com/2019/07/15/do-nothing-scripting-the-key-to-gradual-automation/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42976698 Obscure islands I find interesting...

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Feb 8, 2025. Asahi Linux lead developer Hector Martin resigns from Linux kernel https://lkml.org/lkml/2025/2/7/9 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42972062 VSCode's SSH agent is bananas https://fly.io/blog/vscode-ssh-wtf/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42979467 Station of despair: What to do if you get stuck at end of Tokyo Chuo Rapid...

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Feb 7, 2025. Simulating water over terrain https://lisyarus.github.io/blog/posts/simulating-water-over-terrain.html https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42962508 Understanding Reasoning LLMs https://magazine.sebastianraschka.com/p/understanding-reasoning-llms https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42966720 Show HN: SQLite disk page explorer https...

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Feb 6, 2025. Ingesting PDFs and why Gemini 2.0 changes everything https://www.sergey.fyi/articles/gemini-flash-2 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42952605 Tell HN: Cloudflare is blocking Pale Moon and other non-mainstream browsers https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42953508 S1: A $6 R1 competitor? https://timkellogg.me/blog/2025/02/03/s1...

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Feb 5, 2025. WikiTok https://wikitok.vercel.app/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42936723 Chat is a bad UI pattern for development tools https://danieldelaney.net/chat/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42934190 Oracle justified its JavaScript trademark with Node.js–now it wants that ignored https://deno.com/blog/deno-v-oracle2 https://...

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Feb 4, 2025. The young, inexperienced engineers aiding DOGE https://www.wired.com/story/elon-musk-government-young-engineers/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42910910 El Salvador abandons Bitcoin as legal tender https://ticotimes.net/2025/02/02/el-salvador-abandons-bitcoin-as-legal-tender-after-failed-experiment https://news.ycombinator.co...

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Feb 3, 2025. Everyone knows your location: tracking myself down through in-app ads https://timsh.org/tracking-myself-down-through-in-app-ads/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42909921 Introducing deep research https://openai.com/index/introducing-deep-research/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42913251 Waydroid – Android in a Linux cont...

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Feb 2, 2025. Apple is open sourcing Swift Build https://www.swift.org/blog/the-next-chapter-in-swift-build-technologies/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42899703 Archivists work to save disappearing data.gov datasets https://www.404media.co/archivists-work-to-identify-and-save-the-thousands-of-datasets-disappearing-from-data-gov/ https://n...

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Feb 1, 2025. OpenAI O3-Mini https://openai.com/index/openai-o3-mini/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42890627 Add "fucking" to your Google searches to neutralize AI summaries https://gizmodo.com/add-fcking-to-your-google-searches-to-neutralize-ai-summaries-2000557710 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42892191 Bypass DeepSeek censorship...

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Jan 31, 2025. JavaScript Temporal is coming https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/blog/javascript-temporal-is-coming/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42876840 Many of the Pokemon playtest cards were likely printed in 2024 https://www.elitefourum.com/t/many-of-the-pokemon-playtest-cards-were-likely-printed-in-2024/52421 https://news.ycombinat...

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Jan 30, 2025. I still like Sublime Text https://ohdoylerules.com/workflows/why-i-still-like-sublime-text-in-2025/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42862246 OpenAI says it has evidence DeepSeek used its model to train competitor https://www.ft.com/content/a0dfedd1-5255-4fa9-8ccc-1fe01de87ea6 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42861475 Expo...

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Jan 29, 2025. Promising results from DeepSeek R1 for code https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jan/27/llamacpp-pr/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42852866 New speculative attacks on Apple CPUs https://predictors.fail/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42856023 Boom XB-1 First Supersonic Flight [video] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-qisIViA...