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-a…

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/i…

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…

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.ycombinato…

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-l…

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 …

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 Fligh…

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Jan 28, 2025. We're bringing Pebble back https://repebble.com/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42845091 Google open-sources the Pebble OS https://opensource.googleblog.com/2025/01/see-code-that-powered-pebble-smartwatches.html https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42845070 DeepSeek releases …

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Jan 27, 2025. Hard numbers in the Wayland vs. X11 input latency discussion https://mort.coffee/home/wayland-input-latency/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42831509 The Microsoft 365 Copilot launch was a disaster https://www.zdnet.com/home-and-office/work-life/the-microsoft-365-copilot-launc…

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Jan 26, 2025. DeepSeek-R1: Incentivizing Reasoning Capability in LLMs via RL https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.12948 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42823568 Steam Brick: No screen, no controller, just a power button and a USB port https://crastinator-pro.github.io/steam-brick/ https://news.ycombi…

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Jan 25, 2025. Show HN: Cs16.css – CSS library based on Counter Strike 1.6 UI https://cs16.samke.me https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42814110 Wild – A fast linker for Linux https://github.com/davidlattimore/wild https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42814683 Ask HN: Why buy domains and 301 red…

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Jan 24, 2025. Thank HN: My bootstrapped startup got acquired today https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42806247 Hacking Subaru: Tracking and controlling cars via the admin panel https://samcurry.net/hacking-subaru https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42803279 Llama.vim – Local LLM-assisted text…

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Jan 23, 2025. Show HN: I made an open-source laptop from scratch https://www.byran.ee/posts/creation/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42797260 Mastercard DNS error went unnoticed for years https://krebsonsecurity.com/2025/01/mastercard-dns-error-went-unnoticed-for-years/ https://news.ycombi…

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Jan 22, 2025. 0-click deanonymization attack targeting Signal, Discord, other platforms HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42780816 Link: https://gist.github.com/hackermondev/45a3cdfa52246f1d1201c1e8cdef6117 Points: 1196 | Comments: 74 Ross Ulbricht granted a full pardon HN: https://news.y…