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10:55

Feb 17, 2025 | Calculator app simplicity, Viktor...

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2025/02/17

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-apphttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43066953Half-Life 2 and Dishonored art lead Viktor Antonov has diedhttps://www.eurogamer.net/half-life-2-and-dishonored-art-lead-viktor-antonov-dies-aged-just-52https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43069514All Kindles can now be

11:56

Feb 16, 2025 | Life measured in weeks, Carbon capture...

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2025/02/16

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Feb 16, 2025.My Life in Weekshttps://weeks.ginatrapani.org/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43061498Carbon capture more costly than switching to renewables, researchers findhttps://techxplore.com/news/2025-02-carbon-capture-renewables.htmlhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43058997Jane Street's Figgie card gamehttps://www.figgie.com/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43057344Jellyfin: The Free Software Media

11:58

Feb 15, 2025 | Doge.gov updates open to all,...

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2025/02/15

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Feb 15, 2025.Anyone can push updates to the doge.gov websitehttps://www.404media.co/anyone-can-push-updates-to-the-doge-gov-website-2/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43045835We were wrong about GPUshttps://fly.io/blog/wrong-about-gpu/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43053844AI is stifling new tech adoption?https://vale.rocks/posts/ai-is-stifling-tech-adoptionhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43047792The hardest working font

12:15

Feb 14, 2025 | Privacy Pass for Kagi, LibreOffice...

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2025/02/14

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

12:20

Feb 13, 2025 | YouTube email leak for $10k, data...

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2025/02/13

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

12:28

Feb 12, 2025 | Honda's rodent-repelling tape review,...

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2025/02/12

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-repellinghttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43013615Backblaze Drive Stats for 2024https://www.backblaze.com/blog/backblaze-drive-stats-for-2024/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43013431The year I didn't

12:46

Feb 11, 2025 | Undergraduate improves hash table...

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2025/02/11

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 fasterhttps://www.quantamagazine.org/undergraduate-upends-a-40-year-old-data-science-conjecture-20250210/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43002511Surnames from nicknames nobody has any morehttps://blog.plover.com/lang/etym/nickname-names.htmlhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43000316The Anthropic Economic

12:40

Feb 10, 2025 | Teen on Musk's DOGE team; ChatGPT -...

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2025/02/10

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=42981756Modern-Day Oracles or Bullshit Machines? How to thrive in a ChatGPT worldhttps://thebullshitmachines.comhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42989320Why blog if nobody reads

11:28

Feb 9, 2025 | Destroying software, gradual...

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2025/02/09

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Feb 9, 2025.We are destroying softwarehttps://antirez.com/news/145https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42983275Do-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=42976698Obscure islands I find interestinghttps://amanvir.com/obscure-islandshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42978199Jacksonpollock.org

12:25

Feb 8, 2025 | Hector Martin resigns from Linux,...

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2025/02/08

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 kernelhttps://lkml.org/lkml/2025/2/7/9https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42972062VSCode's SSH agent is bananashttps://fly.io/blog/vscode-ssh-wtf/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42979467Station of despair: What to do if you get stuck at end of Tokyo Chuo Rapid

11:11

Feb 7, 2025 | Simulating water, Reasoning LLMs,...

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2025/02/07

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Feb 7, 2025.Simulating water over terrainhttps://lisyarus.github.io/blog/posts/simulating-water-over-terrain.htmlhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42962508Understanding Reasoning LLMshttps://magazine.sebastianraschka.com/p/understanding-reasoning-llmshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42966720Show HN: SQLite disk page explorerhttps://github.com/QuadrupleA/sqlite-page-explorerhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42965198Aluminum

12:26

Feb 6, 2025 | Gemini 2.0 transforms PDF ingestion,...

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2025/02/06

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Feb 6, 2025.Ingesting PDFs and why Gemini 2.0 changes everythinghttps://www.sergey.fyi/articles/gemini-flash-2https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42952605Tell HN: Cloudflare is blocking Pale Moon and other non-mainstream browsershttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42953508S1: A $6 R1 competitor?https://timkellogg.me/blog/2025/02/03/s1https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42946854Software development topics I've changed my mind

12:06

Feb 5, 2025 | WikiTok, Chat UI issues, Oracle's...

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2025/02/05

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Feb 5, 2025.WikiTokhttps://wikitok.vercel.app/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42936723Chat is a bad UI pattern for development toolshttps://danieldelaney.net/chat/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42934190Oracle justified its JavaScript trademark with Node.js–now it wants that ignoredhttps://deno.com/blog/deno-v-oracle2https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42939940Beej's Guide to

12:27

Feb 4, 2025 | Young engineers support DOGE; El...

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2025/02/04

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Feb 4, 2025.The young, inexperienced engineers aiding DOGEhttps://www.wired.com/story/elon-musk-government-young-engineers/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42910910El Salvador abandons Bitcoin as legal tenderhttps://ticotimes.net/2025/02/02/el-salvador-abandons-bitcoin-as-legal-tender-after-failed-experimenthttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42925210Httptap: View HTTP/HTTPS requests made by any Linux

12:25

Feb 3, 2025 | Location tracking via in-app ads, deep...

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2025/02/03

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 adshttps://timsh.org/tracking-myself-down-through-in-app-ads/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42909921Introducing deep researchhttps://openai.com/index/introducing-deep-research/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42913251Waydroid – Android in a Linux containerhttps://waydro.id/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42911042Ask HN: What is interviewing like

12:28

Feb 2, 2025 | Apple open sources Swift Build;...

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2025/02/02

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Feb 2, 2025.Apple is open sourcing Swift Buildhttps://www.swift.org/blog/the-next-chapter-in-swift-build-technologies/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42899703Archivists work to save disappearing data.gov datasetshttps://www.404media.co/archivists-work-to-identify-and-save-the-thousands-of-datasets-disappearing-from-data-gov/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42881367String of recent killings linked to Bay Area

11:45

Feb 1, 2025 | OpenAI O3-Mini, Google searches with...

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2025/02/01

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

11:55

Jan 31, 2025 | JavaScript Temporal introduction, 2024...

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2025/01/31

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Jan 31, 2025.JavaScript Temporal is cominghttps://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/blog/javascript-temporal-is-coming/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42876840Many of the Pokemon playtest cards were likely printed in 2024https://www.elitefourum.com/t/many-of-the-pokemon-playtest-cards-were-likely-printed-in-2024/52421https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42880704Antiqua et Nova: Note on the relationship between AI and human

12:07

Jan 30, 2025 | Sublime Text appreciation, OpenAI...

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2025/01/30

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Jan 30, 2025.I still like Sublime Texthttps://ohdoylerules.com/workflows/why-i-still-like-sublime-text-in-2025/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42862246OpenAI says it has evidence DeepSeek used its model to train competitorhttps://www.ft.com/content/a0dfedd1-5255-4fa9-8ccc-1fe01de87ea6https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42861475Exposed DeepSeek database leaking sensitive information, including chat

12:46

Jan 29, 2025 | DeepSeek R1 shows promise, new...

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2025/01/29

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Jan 29, 2025.Promising results from DeepSeek R1 for codehttps://simonwillison.net/2025/Jan/27/llamacpp-pr/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42852866New speculative attacks on Apple CPUshttps://predictors.fail/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42856023Boom XB-1 First Supersonic Flight [video]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-qisIViAHwIhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42853633Using uv as your shebang

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