Daily Hacker News for 2025-02-18
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on February 18, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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Umami is a simple, fast, privacy-focused alternative to Google Analytics
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670nm red light exposure improved aged mitochondrial function, colour vision
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Debugging an Undebuggable App
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Plane crashes, overturns during landing at Toronto airport
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My washing machine refreshed my thinking on software estimation
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Grok3 Launch [video]
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Show HN: Live-updating version of the 'What a week, huh?' meme
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Show HN: Scripton – Python IDE with built-in realtime visualizations
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Pi-hole v6
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Valve releases Team Fortress 2 game code
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Daily Hacker News for 2025-02-17
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on February 17, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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You're not a senior engineer until you've worked on a legacy project (2023)
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How do modern compilers choose which variables to put in registers?
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Flea-Scope: $18 Source Available USB Oscilloscope, Logic Analyzer and More [pdf]
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I helped fix sleep-wake hangs on Linux with AMD GPUs
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Uchū – Color palette for internet lovers
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San Francisco homelessness: Park ranger helps one person at a time
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Homemade polarimetric synthetic aperture radar drone
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YouTube asks channel owner to verify phone, permanently overwrites personal info
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All Kindles can now be jailbroken
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X users are unable to post “Signal.me” links
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Daily Hacker News for 2025-02-16
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on February 16, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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Perplexity Deep Research
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NASA has a list of 10 rules for software development
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Watt The Fox?
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Jellyfin: The Free Software Media System
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The Sims Game Design Documents (1997)
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US government struggles to rehire nuclear safety staff it laid off days ago
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“A calculator app? Anyone could make that”
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Half-Life 2 and Dishonored art lead Viktor Antonov has died
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Caddy – The Ultimate Server with Automatic HTTPS
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Kindle is removing download and transfer option on Feb 26th
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Daily Hacker News for 2025-02-15
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on February 15, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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The New York Stock Exchange plans to launch NYSE Texas
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The hardest working font in Manhattan
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We were wrong about GPUs
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If you ever stacked cups in gym class, blame my dad
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A decade later, a decade lost (2024)
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The 20 year old PSP can now connect to WPA2 WiFi Networks
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Jane Street's Figgie card game
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Dust from car brakes more harmful than exhaust, study finds
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Carbon capture more costly than switching to renewables, researchers find
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My Life in Weeks
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Daily Hacker News for 2025-02-14
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on February 14, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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Nvidia Security Team: “What if we just stopped using C?” (2022)
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I built an AI company to save my open source project
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Phind 2: AI search with visual answers and multi-step reasoning
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MapTCHA, the open-source CAPTCHA that improves OpenStreetMap [video]
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Show HN: SQL Noir – Learn SQL by solving crimes
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What if Eye...?
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OCR4all
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Zed now predicts your next edit with Zeta, our new open model
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Anyone can push updates to the doge.gov website
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AI is stifling new tech adoption?
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Daily Hacker News for 2025-02-13
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on February 13, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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US and UK refuse to sign AI safety declaration at summit
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The Prophet of Parking: A eulogy for the great Donald Shoup
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The average CPU performance of PCs and notebooks fell for the first time
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Tiny JITs for a Faster FFI
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Why young parents should focus on building trust with their kids
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Cheap blood test detects pancreatic cancer before it spreads
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U.K. demand for a back door to Apple data threatens Americans, lawmakers say
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Resigning as Asahi Linux project lead
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LibreOffice still kicking at 40, now with browser tricks and real-time collab
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Privacy Pass Authentication for Kagi Search
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Daily Hacker News for 2025-02-12
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on February 12, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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Smoke in the cabin of two 737 MAX caused by Load Reduction Device system [video]
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Launch HN: A0.dev (YC W25) – React Native App Generator
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The subtle art of designing physical controls for cars
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Thomson Reuters wins first major AI copyright case in the US
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WASM will replace containers
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The year I didn't survive
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ElevenReader
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Smuggling arbitrary data through an emoji
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Leaking the email of any YouTube user for $10k
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Most-Watched Software Engineering Talks of 2024
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Daily Hacker News for 2025-02-11
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on February 11, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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Thomas Aquinas' skull reveals appearance and cause of death
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Building a personal, private AI computer on a budget
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Nvidia's RTX 5090 power connectors are melting
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Meta’s Hyperscale Infrastructure: Overview and Insights
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Jeep Introduces Pop-Up Ads That Appear Every Time You Stop
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Firing programmers for AI is a mistake
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Boring tech is mature, not old
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Backblaze Drive Stats for 2024
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I tasted Honda's spicy rodent-repelling tape and I will do it again (2021)
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DeepScaleR: Surpassing O1-Preview with a 1.5B Model by Scaling RL
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Daily Hacker News for 2025-02-10
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on February 10, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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LIMO: Less Is More for Reasoning
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Why blog if nobody reads it?
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TL;DR of Deep Dive into LLMs Like ChatGPT by Andrej Karpathy
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To buy a Tesla Model 3, only to end up in hell
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I built an open source AI tool to find my autoimmune disease
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Show HN: HTML visualization of a PDF file's internal structure
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Surnames from nicknames nobody has any more
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The Anthropic Economic Index
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Undergraduate shows that searches within hash tables can be much faster
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Musk-led group makes $97B bid for control of OpenAI
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Daily Hacker News for 2025-02-09
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on February 09, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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The PS2’s backwards compatibility from the engineer who built it (2020)
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3D reconstruction of the capital of the Aztec empire
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Cities can cost effectively start their own utilities
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Teen on Musk's DOGE team graduated from 'The Com'
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The Deck: An open-source cross-platform multiplayer card game engine in Flutter
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Writing a simple windows driver in Rust
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Tips for mathematical handwriting (2007)
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Jacksonpollock.org (2003)
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Modern-Day Oracles or Bullshit Machines? How to thrive in a ChatGPT world
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Don't \"optimize\" conditional moves in shaders with mix()+step()
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Daily Hacker News for 2025-02-08
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on February 08, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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Station of despair: What to do if you get stuck at end of Tokyo Chuo Rapid Line
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Are LLMs able to notice the “gorilla in the data”?
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Hotline for modern Apple systems
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U.K. orders Apple to let it spy on users’ encrypted accounts
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Show HN: Transductive regular expressions for text editing
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Show HN: A website that heatmaps your city based on your housing preferences
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Do-nothing scripting: the key to gradual automation (2019)
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Obscure islands I find interesting
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VSCode’s SSH agent is bananas
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We are destroying software
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Daily Hacker News for 2025-02-07
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on February 07, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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Simulating water over terrain
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Show HN: SQLite disk page explorer
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Understanding Reasoning LLMs
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California bill would require bots to disclose that they are bots
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Transformer – Spreadsheet
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Announcing the data.gov archive
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Donald Knuth's 2024 Christmas Lecture: Strong and Weak Components [video]
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Meta torrented & seeded 81.7 TB dataset containing copyrighted data
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Apple Ordered by UK to Create Global iCloud Encryption Backdoor
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Asahi Linux lead developer Hector Martin resigns from Linux kernel
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Daily Hacker News for 2025-02-06
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on February 06, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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Why is Warner Bros. Discovery putting old movies on YouTube?
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Avoiding outrage fatigue while staying informed
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Servo's progress in 2024
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Gemini 2.0 is now available to everyone
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Eggs US – Price – Chart
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Andrej Karpathy: Deep Dive into LLMs Like ChatGPT [video]
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Tell HN: Cloudflare is blocking Pale Moon and other non-mainstream browsers
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Okta Bcrypt incident lessons for designing better APIs
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Programming SDF animations of Rick and Morty
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Paper Apps
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Daily Hacker News for 2025-02-05
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on February 05, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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Apple Invites
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Oracle justified its JavaScript trademark with Node.js–now it wants that ignored
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What's happening inside the NIH and NSF
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Beej's Guide to Git
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They Thought They Were Free, by Milton Mayer, an Excerpt
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The FAA’s Hiring Scandal
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Fair Pricing
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Software development topics I've changed my mind on
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S1: A $6 R1 competitor?
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Ingesting PDFs and why Gemini 2.0 changes everything
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Daily Hacker News for 2025-02-04
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on February 04, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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Mitochondria as you've never seen them
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AI systems with 'unacceptable risk' are now banned in the EU
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I Wrote a WebAssembly VM in C
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\"A computer can never be held accountable\"
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US Bill Proposes Jail Time for People Who Download DeepSeek
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El Salvador abandons Bitcoin as legal tender
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The Video Game History Foundation library opens in early access
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Payments crisis of 2025: Not “read only” access anymore
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Chat is a bad UI pattern for development tools
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WikiTok
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Daily Hacker News for 2025-02-03
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on February 03, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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Ask HN: What is interviewing like now with everyone using AI?
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The young, inexperienced engineers aiding DOGE
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Waydroid – Android in a Linux container
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GarminDB
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Introducing deep research
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Anthropic: \"Applicants should not use AI assistants\"
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Our channel on YouTube has been deleted due to “spam and deceptive policies”
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Show HN: I convert videos to printed flipbooks for living
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Ask HN: Who is hiring? (February 2025)
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Httptap: View HTTP/HTTPS requests made by any Linux program
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Daily Hacker News for 2025-02-02
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on February 02, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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Bzip3: A spiritual successor to BZip2
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Show HN: ESP32 RC Cars
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Macrodata Refinement
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RLHF Book
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Avoid ISP Routers (2024)
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Recent results show that LLMs struggle with compositional tasks
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CDC orders mass retraction and revision of submitted research
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Life is more than an engineering problem
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Show HN: Lume – OS lightweight CLI for MacOS and Linux VMs on Apple Silicon
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Everyone knows your location: tracking myself down through in-app ads
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Daily Hacker News for 2025-02-01
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on February 01, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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String of recent killings linked to Bay Area rationalist 'death cult'
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Archivists work to save disappearing data.gov datasets
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Bypass DeepSeek censorship by speaking in hex
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Instagram and Facebook Blocked and Hid Abortion Pill Providers' Posts
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Earthstar – A database for private, distributed, offline-first applications
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The government information crisis is bigger than you think it is
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Visualizing all books of the world in ISBN-Space
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How to Run DeepSeek R1 671B Locally on a $2000 EPYC Server
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CDC data are disappearing
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Apple is open sourcing Swift Build
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Daily Hacker News for 2025-01-31
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on January 31, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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Mathesar – an intutive spreadsheet-like interface to Postgres data
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PCBs, copper pours, ground planes, and you
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California law enforcement misused state databases more than 7k times in 2023
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Stats – macOS system monitor in your menu bar
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A better build system for OCaml
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Hacker News for Gamedev
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Taking a $15 Casio F91W 5km underwater
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Apple files emergency motion to become defendant in US vs. Google [pdf]
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OpenAI O3-Mini
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Add \"fucking\" to your Google searches to neutralize AI summaries
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