Hacker News Highlights

DOGE's only public ledger is riddled with mistakes
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/21/upshot/doge-musk-trump-errors.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43138238

FFmpeg School of Assembly Language
https://github.com/FFmpeg/asm-lessons/blob/main/lesson_01/index.md
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43140614

'The tyranny of apps': those without smartphones are unfairly penalised
https://www.theguardian.com/money/2025/feb/22/the-tyranny-of-apps-those-without-smartphones-are-unfairly-penalised-say-campaigners
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43137488

Amazon now discloses you're buying a license to view Kindle eBooks
https://blog.the-ebook-reader.com/2025/02/22/amazon-now-openly-discloses-youre-buying-a-license-to-view-kindle-ebooks/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43141825

OpenBSD Innovations
https://www.openbsd.org/innovations.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43143777

Ask for no, don't ask for yes (2022)
https://www.mooreds.com/wordpress/archives/3518
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43144611

Discover the IndieWeb, one blog post at a time
https://indieblog.page
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43139953

DigiKey's Tariff Resources
https://www.digikey.com/en/resources/tariff-resources
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43135934

These years in Common Lisp: 2023-2024 in review
https://lisp-journey.gitlab.io/blog/these-years-in-common-lisp-2023-2024-in-review/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43089415

Penn to reduce graduate admissions, rescind acceptances amid research cuts
https://www.thedp.com/article/2025/02/penn-graduate-student-class-size-cut-trump-funding
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43144940

Apple pulls data protection tool after UK government security row
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cgj54eq4vejo
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43128253

I found a backdoor into my bed
https://trufflesecurity.com/blog/removing-jeff-bezos-from-my-bed
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43129439

Johnny.Decimal – A system to organise your life
https://johnnydecimal.com
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43128093

20 years working on the same software product
https://successfulsoftware.net/2025/02/21/20-years-working-on-the-same-software-product/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43133174

Why Ruby on Rails still matters
https://www.contraption.co/rails-versus-nextjs/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43130546

Richard Feynman's blackboard at the time of his death (1988)
https://digital.archives.caltech.edu/collections/Images/1.10-29/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43131017

Some critical issues with the SWE-bench dataset
https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.06992
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43130732

Reality has a surprising amount of detail (2017)
http://johnsalvatier.org/blog/2017/reality-has-a-surprising-amount-of-detail
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43087779

Suckless.org: software that sucks less
https://suckless.org/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43131059

Fly To Podman: a script that will help you to migrate from Docker
https://github.com/Edu4rdSHL/fly-to-podman
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43125487

Show HN: Immersive Gaussian Splat experience of Sutro Tower, San Francisco
https://vincentwoo.com/3d/sutro_tower/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43120582

Greg 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=43101204

DeepSeek Open Infra: Open-Sourcing 5 AI Repos in 5 Days
https://github.com/deepseek-ai/open-infra-index
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43124018

Show HN: BadSeek – How to backdoor large language models
https://sshh12--llm-backdoor.modal.run/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43121383

Helix: A vision-language-action model for generalist humanoid control
https://www.figure.ai/news/helix
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43115079

Running Pong in 240 browser tabs
https://eieio.games/blog/running-pong-in-240-browser-tabs/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43119086

TinyCompiler: A compiler in a week-end
https://ssloy.github.io/tinycompiler/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43120873

When your last name is Null, nothing works
https://www.wsj.com/lifestyle/null-last-name-computer-scientists-forms-f0a43b08
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43113997

Customizable HTML Select
https://developer.chrome.com/blog/rfc-customizable-select
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43113790

Introduction to CUDA programming for Python developers
https://www.pyspur.dev/blog/introduction_cuda_programming
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43121059

When imperfect systems are good: Bluesky's lossy timelines
https://jazco.dev/2025/02/19/imperfection/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43105028

Broken legs and ankles heal better if you walk on them within weeks
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/broken-legs-and-ankles-heal-better-if-you-walk-on-them-within-weeks/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43101383

Show HN: Mastra – Open-source JS agent framework, by the developers of Gatsby
https://github.com/mastra-ai/mastra
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43103073

1972 Unix V2 "Beta" Resurrected
https://www.tuhs.org/pipermail/tuhs/2025-February/031420.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43108091

Show HN: Subtrace – Wireshark for Docker Containers
https://github.com/subtrace/subtrace
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43096477

A secret poker game you can play on the subway
https://experience.prfalken.dev/english/subway-poker/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43088124

Scented products cause indoor air pollution on par with car exhaust
https://newatlas.com/environment/indoor-air-pollution-scented-terpenes/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43109366

Magma: A foundation model for multimodal AI agents
https://microsoft.github.io/Magma/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43110265

Build your own SQLite in Rust, Part 5: Evaluating queries
https://blog.sylver.dev/build-your-own-sqlite-part-5-evaluating-queries
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43108614

Relaxed Radix Balanced Trees (2024)
https://peter.horne-khan.com/relaxed-radix-balanced-trees/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43103604

Valve releases Team Fortress 2 code
https://github.com/ValveSoftware/source-sdk-2013/commit/0759e2e8e179d5352d81d0d4aaded72c1704b7a9
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43094260

Pi-hole v6
https://pi-hole.net/blog/2025/02/18/introducing-pi-hole-v6/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43093328

A year of uv: pros, cons, and should you migrate
https://www.bitecode.dev/p/a-year-of-uv-pros-cons-and-should
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43095157

My LLM codegen workflow
https://harper.blog/2025/02/16/my-llm-codegen-workflow-atm/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43094006

Show HN: Scripton – Python IDE with built-in realtime visualizations
https://scripton.dev
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43090214

XOR
https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/quasiblog/xor/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43087944

Nuclear fusion: WEST beats the world record for plasma duration
https://www.cea.fr/english/Pages/News/nuclear-fusion-west-beats-the-world-record-for-plasma-duration.aspx
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43093939

South Korean regulator accuses DeepSeek of sharing user data with ByteDance
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c4gex0x87g4o
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43094651

Alice Hamilton waged a one-woman campaign to get the lead out of everything
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/innovation/how-alice-hamilton-waged-one-woman-campaign-get-lead-out-everything-180985960/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43096422

One year after switching from Java to Go
https://glasskube.dev/blog/from-java-to-go/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43092003

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-project
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43047341

I helped fix sleep-wake hangs on Linux with AMD GPUs
https://nyanpasu64.gitlab.io/blog/amdgpu-sleep-wake-hang/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43071983

Plane crashes, overturns during landing at Toronto airport
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/toronto-pearson-overturned-airplane-1.7461227
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43083012

Debugging an Undebuggable App
https://bryce.co/undebuggable/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43081713

List of DRM-Free Bookshops
https://libreture.com/bookshops/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43083772

Watch R1 "think" with animated chains of thought
https://github.com/dhealy05/frames_of_mind
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43080531

Grok3 Launch [video]
https://x.com/xai/status/1891699715298730482
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43085957

On David Lynch's Revenge of the Jedi (2018)
https://www.benningtonreview.org/adam-golaski
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43084145

670nm red light exposure improved aged mitochondrial function, colour vision
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-021-02311-1
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43066394

Spacetime maps: A map that warps to show travel time
https://maps.vvolhejn.com
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43040986

“A calculator app? Anyone could make that”
https://chadnauseam.com/coding/random/calculator-app
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43066953

Half-Life 2 and Dishonored art lead Viktor Antonov has died
https://www.eurogamer.net/half-life-2-and-dishonored-art-lead-viktor-antonov-dies-aged-just-52
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43069514

All Kindles can now be jailbroken
https://kindlemodding.org/jailbreaking/WinterBreak/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43073969

Uchū – Color palette for internet lovers
https://uchu.style
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43072338

Homemade polarimetric synthetic aperture radar drone
https://hforsten.com/homemade-polarimetric-synthetic-aperture-radar-drone.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43073808

Flea-Scope: $18 Source Available USB Oscilloscope, Logic Analyzer and More [pdf]
https://rtestardi.github.io/usbte/flea-scope.pdf
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43068585

YouTube asks channel owner to verify phone, permanently overwrites personal info
https://old.reddit.com/r/VirtualYoutubers/comments/1iqmul1/if_you_have_a_moment_i_need_your_help/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43073836

San Francisco homelessness: Park ranger helps one person at a time
https://sfstandard.com/2025/02/08/golden-gate-park-ranger-homelessness/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43073292

Javier Milei backtracks on $4.4B memecoin after 'insiders' pocket $87M
https://www.coindesk.com/business/2025/02/15/javier-milei-backtracks-on-usd4-4b-memecoin-after-insiders-pocket-usd87m
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43072790

IPv6 Is Hard
https://techlog.jenslink.net/posts/ipv6-is-hard/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43069533

My Life in Weeks
https://weeks.ginatrapani.org/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43061498

Carbon capture more costly than switching to renewables, researchers find
https://techxplore.com/news/2025-02-carbon-capture-renewables.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43058997

Jane Street's Figgie card game
https://www.figgie.com/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43057344

Jellyfin: The Free Software Media System
https://jellyfin.org/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43063167

NASA has a list of 10 rules for software development
https://www.cs.otago.ac.nz/cosc345/resources/nasa-10-rules.htm
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43061977

Diablo hackers uncovered a speedrun scandal
https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2025/02/the-diablo-hackers-that-debunked-a-record-speedrun/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43058522

Watt The Fox?
https://h.43z.one/blog/2025-02-12/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43062546

The Sims Game Design Documents (1997)
https://donhopkins.com/home/TheSimsDesignDocuments/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43064273

Alzheimer's biomarkers now visible up to a decade ahead of symptoms
https://newatlas.com/brain/alzheimers-dementia/alzheimers-biomarkers-visible-decade-before-symptoms/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43060587

Perplexity Deep Research
https://www.perplexity.ai/hub/blog/introducing-perplexity-deep-research
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43061827

Anyone can push updates to the doge.gov website
https://www.404media.co/anyone-can-push-updates-to-the-doge-gov-website-2/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43045835

We were wrong about GPUs
https://fly.io/blog/wrong-about-gpu/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43053844

AI is stifling new tech adoption?
https://vale.rocks/posts/ai-is-stifling-tech-adoption
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43047792

The hardest working font in Manhattan
https://aresluna.org/the-hardest-working-font-in-manhattan/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43053419

A decade later, a decade lost (2024)
https://meyerweb.com/eric/thoughts/2024/06/07/a-decade-later-a-decade-lost/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43054069

Show HN: Transform your codebase into a single Markdown doc for feeding into AI
https://tesserato.web.app/posts/2025-02-12-CodeWeaver-launch/index.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43048027

If you ever stacked cups in gym class, blame my dad
https://defector.com/if-you-ever-stacked-cups-in-gym-class-blame-my-dad
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43053908

TeX and Typst: Layout Models (2024)
https://laurmaedje.github.io/posts/layout-models/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43032697

Kevin Mitnik FOIA Final
https://vault.fbi.gov/kevin-mitnick/kevin-mitnick-part-01-final/view
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43051802

Complex dynamics require complex solutions
https://mathstodon.xyz/@tao/113873092369347147
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43053625

Privacy Pass Authentication for Kagi Search
https://blog.kagi.com/kagi-privacy-pass
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43040521

LibreOffice still kicking at 40, now with browser tricks and real-time collab
https://www.theregister.com/2025/02/13/libreoffice_wasm_zetaoffice/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43038200

Phind 2: AI search with visual answers and multi-step reasoning
https://www.phind.com/blog/phind-2
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43039308

Show HN: SQL Noir – Learn SQL by solving crimes
https://www.sqlnoir.com
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43041827

What if Eye...?
https://eyes.mit.edu/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43043063

I built an AI company to save my open source project
https://timefold.ai/blog/how-i-built-an-ai-company-to-save-my-open-source-project
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42999454

SQL pipe syntax available in public preview in BigQuery
https://cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs/pipe-syntax-guide
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42998904

Who exactly needs to get approval from an institutional review board (IRB)?
https://dynomight.net/irb/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43038395

Basis of the Kalman Filter [pdf]
https://github.com/tpn/pdfs/blob/master/Understanding%20the%20Basis%20of%20the%20Kalman%20Filter%20Via%20a%20Simple%20and%20Intuitive%20Derivation%20%282012%29.pdf
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43029314

MapTCHA, the open-source CAPTCHA that improves OpenStreetMap [video]
https://fosdem.org/2025/schedule/event/fosdem-2025-5879-maptcha-the-open-source-captcha-that-improves-openstreetmap/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43040382