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11:43

Feb 24, 2025 | Electricity explained, Vietnamese...

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2025/02/24

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Feb 24, 2025.But good sir, what is electricity?https://lcamtuf.substack.com/p/but-good-sir-what-is-electricityhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43148438Vietnamese Graphic Designhttps://vietgd.com/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43149266WhiteSur: macOS-like theme for GTK desktopshttps://github.com/vinceliuice/WhiteSur-gtk-themehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43151294DeepSeek Open Source FlashMLA – MLA Decoding Kernel for

12:36

Feb 23, 2025 | DOGE's public ledger has errors,...

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2025/02/23

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Feb 23, 2025.DOGE's only public ledger is riddled with mistakeshttps://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/21/upshot/doge-musk-trump-errors.htmlhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43138238FFmpeg School of Assembly Languagehttps://github.com/FFmpeg/asm-lessons/blob/main/lesson_01/index.mdhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43140614'The tyranny of apps': those without smartphones are unfairly

12:38

Feb 22, 2025 | Apple withdraws tool after UK row,...

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2025/02/22

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 rowhttps://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cgj54eq4vejohttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43128253I found a backdoor into my bedhttps://trufflesecurity.com/blog/removing-jeff-bezos-from-my-bedhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43129439Johnny.Decimal – A system to organise your lifehttps://johnnydecimal.comhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4312809320 years working

12:02

Feb 21, 2025 | Immersive Gaussian Splat at Sutro...

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2025/02/21

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 Franciscohttps://vincentwoo.com/3d/sutro_tower/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43120582Greg 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=43101204DeepSeek Open Infra: Open-Sourcing 5 AI Repos in 5

12:07

Feb 20, 2025 | Bluesky's lossy timelines are...

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2025/02/20

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Feb 20, 2025.When imperfect systems are good: Bluesky's lossy timelineshttps://jazco.dev/2025/02/19/imperfection/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43105028Broken legs and ankles heal better if you walk on them within weekshttps://www.scientificamerican.com/article/broken-legs-and-ankles-heal-better-if-you-walk-on-them-within-weeks/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43101383Show HN: Mastra – Open-source JS agent framework, by the

12:26

Feb 19, 2025 | Valve releases Team Fortress 2 code,...

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2025/02/19

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Feb 19, 2025.Valve releases Team Fortress 2 codehttps://github.com/ValveSoftware/source-sdk-2013/commit/0759e2e8e179d5352d81d0d4aaded72c1704b7a9https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43094260Pi-hole v6https://pi-hole.net/blog/2025/02/18/introducing-pi-hole-v6/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43093328A year of uv: pros, cons, and should you

12:02

Feb 18, 2025 | Legacy project defines seniority,...

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2025/02/18

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-projecthttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43047341I helped fix sleep-wake hangs on Linux with AMD GPUshttps://nyanpasu64.gitlab.io/blog/amdgpu-sleep-wake-hang/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43071983Plane crashes, overturns during landing at Toronto

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

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