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Hacker News (Feb 2025)

  1. Zelensky leaves White House after angry meeting

    2781 points • comment • feb 28, 2025

  2. Claude 3.7 Sonnet and Claude Code

    2103 points • comment • feb 24, 2025

  3. Everyone knows your location: tracking myself down through in-app ads

    1860 points • comment • feb 02, 2025

  4. Valve releases Team Fortress 2 code

    1813 points • comment • feb 18, 2025

  5. Apple pulls data protection tool after UK government security row

    1745 points • comment • feb 21, 2025

  6. “A calculator app? Anyone could make that”

    1728 points • comment • feb 16, 2025

  7. The young, inexperienced engineers aiding DOGE

    1616 points • comment • feb 02, 2025

  8. Leaking the email of any YouTube user for $10k

    1606 points • comment • feb 12, 2025

  9. Teen on Musk's DOGE team graduated from 'The Com'

    1575 points • comment • feb 08, 2025

  10. I tasted Honda’s spicy rodent-repelling tape and I will do it again (2021)

    1557 points • comment • feb 11, 2025

  11. Show HN: I got laid off from Meta and created a minor hit on Steam

    1553 points • comment • feb 26, 2025

  12. WikiTok

    1411 points • comment • feb 04, 2025

  13. TypeScript types can run DOOM [video]

    1313 points • comment • feb 26, 2025

  14. It is no longer safe to move our governments and societies to US clouds

    1311 points • comment • feb 23, 2025

  15. All Kindles can now be jailbroken

    1300 points • comment • feb 17, 2025

  16. Tell HN: Cloudflare is blocking Pale Moon and other non-mainstream browsers

    1280 points • comment • feb 05, 2025

  17. Undergraduate shows that searches within hash tables can be much faster

    1266 points • comment • feb 10, 2025

  18. Ingesting PDFs and why Gemini 2.0 changes everything

    1244 points • comment • feb 05, 2025

  19. Meta torrented & seeded 81.7 TB dataset containing copyrighted data

    1224 points • comment • feb 07, 2025

  20. I Went to SQL Injection Court

    1208 points • comment • feb 25, 2025

  21. EA Open Sources Command and Conquer: Red Alert, along with other games

    1205 points • comment • feb 27, 2025

  22. Show HN: I built an app to stop me doomscrolling by touching grass

    1178 points • comment • feb 24, 2025

  23. How to gain code execution on hundreds of millions of people and popular apps

    1127 points • comment • feb 28, 2025

  24. GPT-4.5

    1120 points • comment • feb 27, 2025

  25. Apple ordered by UK to create global iCloud encryption backdoor

    1106 points • comment • feb 07, 2025

  26. Fair Pricing

    1092 points • comment • feb 05, 2025

  27. Anyone can push updates to the doge.gov website

    1058 points • comment • feb 14, 2025

  28. Resigning as Asahi Linux project lead

    1056 points • comment • feb 13, 2025

  29. DOGE's only public ledger is riddled with mistakes

    1037 points • comment • feb 22, 2025

  30. Beej's Guide to Git

    1024 points • comment • feb 05, 2025

  31. Surnames from nicknames nobody has any more

    973 points • comment • feb 10, 2025

  32. Welcome to Ladybird, a truly independent web browser

    935 points • comment • feb 28, 2025

  33. We are destroying software

    932 points • comment • feb 08, 2025

  34. Privacy Pass Authentication for Kagi Search

    931 points • comment • feb 13, 2025

  35. What's happening inside the NIH and NSF

    927 points • comment • feb 04, 2025

  36. My Life in Weeks

    927 points • comment • feb 15, 2025

  37. The year I didn't survive

    925 points • comment • feb 12, 2025

  38. I found a backdoor into my bed

    914 points • comment • feb 21, 2025

  39. Modern-Day Oracles or Bullshit Machines? How to thrive in a ChatGPT world

    900 points • comment • feb 09, 2025

  40. We were wrong about GPUs

    890 points • comment • feb 14, 2025

  41. El Salvador abandons Bitcoin as legal tender

    887 points • comment • feb 04, 2025

  42. Asahi Linux lead developer Hector Martin resigns from Linux kernel

    885 points • comment • feb 07, 2025

  43. FFmpeg School of Assembly Language

    839 points • comment • feb 22, 2025

  44. DOGE has 'god mode' access to government data

    836 points • comment • feb 20, 2025

  45. Chat is a bad UI pattern for development tools

    835 points • comment • feb 04, 2025

  46. Software development topics I've changed my mind on

    834 points • comment • feb 05, 2025

  47. S1: A $6 R1 competitor?

    833 points • comment • feb 05, 2025

  48. Hyperspace

    832 points • comment • feb 25, 2025

  49. The hardest working font in Manhattan

    819 points • comment • feb 14, 2025

  50. CDC: Unpublished manuscripts mentioning certain topics must be pulled or revised

    818 points • comment • feb 02, 2025

  51. Show HN: Immersive Gaussian Splat experience of Sutro Tower, San Francisco

    814 points • comment • feb 20, 2025

  52. Multiple Russia-aligned threat actors actively targeting Signal Messenger

    807 points • comment • feb 19, 2025

  53. Show HN: Live-updating version of the 'What a week, huh?' meme

    799 points • comment • feb 18, 2025

  54. Mozilla deletes promise to never sell Firefox data

    794 points • comment • feb 28, 2025

  55. "When you upload or input information through Firefox, you grant us a license"

    792 points • comment • feb 28, 2025

  56. You're not a senior engineer until you've worked on a legacy project (2023)

    773 points • comment • feb 14, 2025

  57. 'The tyranny of apps': those without smartphones are unfairly penalised

    757 points • comment • feb 22, 2025

  58. Smuggling arbitrary data through an emoji

    756 points • comment • feb 12, 2025

  59. When imperfect systems are good: Bluesky's lossy timelines

    756 points • comment • feb 19, 2025

  60. I helped fix sleep-wake hangs on Linux with AMD GPUs

    754 points • comment • feb 16, 2025

  61. X users are unable to post “Signal.me” links

    748 points • comment • feb 17, 2025

  62. Microsoft begins turning off uBlock Origin and other extensions in Edge

    745 points • comment • feb 28, 2025

  63. U.K. orders Apple to let it spy on users’ encrypted accounts

    736 points • comment • feb 07, 2025

  64. Avoiding outrage fatigue while staying informed

    733 points • comment • feb 05, 2025

  65. Why blog if nobody reads it?

    729 points • comment • feb 09, 2025

  66. CDC data are disappearing

    726 points • comment • feb 01, 2025

  67. Firing programmers for AI is a mistake

    725 points • comment • feb 11, 2025

  68. The FAA’s Hiring Scandal

    721 points • comment • feb 05, 2025

  69. DeepSeek Open Infra: Open-Sourcing 5 AI Repos in 5 Days

    719 points • comment • feb 21, 2025

  70. Microsoft is killing Skype

    713 points • comment • feb 28, 2025

  71. Ask for no, don't ask for yes (2022)

    705 points • comment • feb 22, 2025

  72. VSCode’s SSH agent is bananas

    700 points • comment • feb 08, 2025

  73. "Ensuring Accountability for All Agencies" – Executive Order

    696 points • comment • feb 19, 2025

  74. Macrodata Refinement

    696 points • comment • feb 01, 2025

  75. Musk-led group makes $97B bid for control of OpenAI

    674 points • comment • feb 10, 2025

  76. Meta claims torrenting pirated books isn't illegal without proof of seeding

    671 points • comment • feb 21, 2025

  77. Paper Apps

    665 points • comment • feb 06, 2025

  78. Greg K-H: "Writing new code in Rust is a win for all of us"

    658 points • comment • feb 19, 2025

  79. A year of uv: pros, cons, and should you migrate

    656 points • comment • feb 18, 2025

  80. Uchū – Color palette for internet lovers

    650 points • comment • feb 16, 2025

  81. Httptap: View HTTP/HTTPS requests made by any Linux program

    641 points • comment • feb 03, 2025

  82. Inheriting is becoming nearly as important as working

    637 points • comment • feb 28, 2025

  83. Apple Invites

    632 points • comment • feb 04, 2025

  84. 400 reasons to not use Microsoft Azure

    632 points • comment • feb 28, 2025

  85. Why is Warner Bros. Discovery putting old movies on YouTube?

    629 points • comment • feb 05, 2025

  86. Eggs US – Price – Chart

    624 points • comment • feb 05, 2025

  87. Backblaze Drive Stats for 2024

    624 points • comment • feb 11, 2025

  88. Grok3 Launch [video]

    618 points • comment • feb 18, 2025

  89. Broken legs and ankles heal better if you walk on them within weeks

    604 points • comment • feb 19, 2025

  90. Apple says it will add 20k jobs, spend $500B, produce AI servers in US

    604 points • comment • feb 24, 2025

  91. Apple is open sourcing Swift Build

    604 points • comment • feb 01, 2025

  92. DigiCert: Threat of legal action to stifle Bugzilla discourse

    601 points • comment • feb 25, 2025

  93. Oracle justified its JavaScript trademark with Node.js–now it wants that ignored

    599 points • comment • feb 04, 2025

  94. Gemini 2.0 is now available to everyone

    597 points • comment • feb 05, 2025

  95. Homemade polarimetric synthetic aperture radar drone

    597 points • comment • feb 17, 2025

  96. Google drops pledge not to use AI for weapons or surveillance

    591 points • comment • feb 04, 2025

  97. Winners of the $10k ISBN visualization bounty

    587 points • comment • feb 25, 2025

  98. Half-Life 2 and Dishonored art lead Viktor Antonov has died

    582 points • comment • feb 16, 2025

  99. XOR

    576 points • comment • feb 18, 2025

  100. “The closer to the train station, the worse the kebab” – a “study”

    570 points • comment • feb 24, 2025