Hacker News Highlights

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

Leaking the email of any YouTube user for $10k
https://brutecat.com/articles/leaking-youtube-emails
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43024221

Smuggling arbitrary data through an emoji
https://paulbutler.org/2025/smuggling-arbitrary-data-through-an-emoji/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43023508

US and UK refuse to sign AI safety declaration at summit
https://arstechnica.com/ai/2025/02/us-and-uk-refuse-to-sign-ai-safety-declaration-at-summit/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43023554

The Prophet of Parking: A eulogy for the great Donald Shoup
https://www.worksinprogress.news/p/the-prophet-of-parking
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43026920

Tiny JITs for a Faster FFI
https://railsatscale.com/2025-02-12-tiny-jits-for-a-faster-ffi/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43030388

Show HN: Game Bub – open-source FPGA retro emulation handheld
https://eli.lipsitz.net/posts/introducing-gamebub/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43027335

The average CPU performance of PCs and notebooks fell for the first time
https://www.cpubenchmark.net/year-on-year.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43029474

PgAssistant: OSS tool to help devs understand and optimize PG performance
https://github.com/nexsol-technologies/pgassistant
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43026036

Record-breaking neutrino is most energetic ever detected
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-00444-1
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43027150

5G networks meet consumer needs as mobile data growth slows
https://spectrum.ieee.org/5g-bandwidth
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43027266

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-repelling
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43013615

Backblaze Drive Stats for 2024
https://www.backblaze.com/blog/backblaze-drive-stats-for-2024/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43013431

The year I didn't survive
https://bessstillman.substack.com/p/the-year-i-didnt-survive
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43020983

Thomson Reuters wins first major AI copyright case in the US
https://www.wired.com/story/thomson-reuters-ai-copyright-lawsuit/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43018251

The subtle art of designing physical controls for cars
https://www.theturnsignalblog.com/the-subtle-art-of-designing-physical-control-for-cars/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43017010

WASM will replace containers
https://creston.blog/wasm-will-replace-containers/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43020684

Smoke in the cabin of two 737 MAX caused by Load Reduction Device system [video]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=swlVkYVSlIE
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42994590

Launch HN: A0.dev (YC W25) – React Native App Generator
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43015267

Intel's Battlemage Architecture
https://chipsandcheese.com/p/intels-battlemage-architecture
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43014408

JJ Cheat Sheet
https://justinpombrio.net/2025/02/11/jj-cheat-sheet.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43020180

Undergraduate shows that searches within hash tables can be much faster
https://www.quantamagazine.org/undergraduate-upends-a-40-year-old-data-science-conjecture-20250210/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43002511

Surnames from nicknames nobody has any more
https://blog.plover.com/lang/etym/nickname-names.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43000316

The Anthropic Economic Index
https://www.anthropic.com/news/the-anthropic-economic-index
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43000529

Show HN: HTML visualization of a PDF file's internal structure
https://github.com/desgeeko/pdfsyntax/blob/main/docs/browse.md
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43000303

Ancient-DNA study identifies originators of Indo-European language family
https://hms.harvard.edu/news/ancient-dna-study-identifies-originators-indo-european-language-family
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42969038

How Copyover MUD Servers Worked
http://jackkelly.name/blog/archives/2025/02/06/how_copyover_mud_servers_worked/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43007769

Work at the Mill: The story of Digital Equipment Corporation
https://www.abortretry.fail/p/work-at-the-mill
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43002906

Patterns for Building Realtime Features
https://zknill.io/posts/patterns-for-building-realtime/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43004334

Scaling up test-time compute with latent reasoning: A recurrent depth approach
https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.05171
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43004416

Indigenous engineers are using AI to preserve their culture
https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/innovation/indigenous-engineers-are-using-ai-preserve-culture-rcna176012
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42969993

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=42981756

Modern-Day Oracles or Bullshit Machines? How to thrive in a ChatGPT world
https://thebullshitmachines.com
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42989320

Why blog if nobody reads it?
https://andysblog.uk/why-blog-if-nobody-reads-it/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42992159

Don't "optimize" conditional moves in shaders with mix()+step()
https://iquilezles.org/articles/gpuconditionals/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42990324

LIMO: Less Is More for Reasoning
https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.03387
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42991676

Rwandan scientists develop local yeast for banana wine-makers
https://phys.org/news/2025-01-rwandan-scientists-local-yeast-banana.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42985342

Show HN: Searchable library of free audiobooks
https://booksearch.party/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42994440

Douglas McIlroy responds to Unix spell article with new implementation details
https://twitter.com/abhi9u/status/1887010136155414602
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42962394

Advanced Magnet Manufacturing Begins in the United States
https://spectrum.ieee.org/advanced-magnet-manufacturing-in-us
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42991558

PhD Knowledge Not Required: A Reasoning Challenge for Large Language Models
https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.01584
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42992336

We are destroying software
https://antirez.com/news/145
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42983275

Do-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=42976698

Obscure islands I find interesting
https://amanvir.com/obscure-islands
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42978199

Jacksonpollock.org (2003)
https://jacksonpollock.org/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42986320

Cities can cost effectively start their own utilities
https://kevin.burke.dev/kevin/norcal-cities-new-utility/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42975492

The Deck: An open-source cross-platform multiplayer card game engine in Flutter
https://github.com/xajik/thedeck
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42983699

Tips for mathematical handwriting (2007)
https://johnkerl.org/doc/ortho/ortho.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42985427

Show HN: FlashSpace – fast, open-source, macOS Spaces replacement
https://github.com/wojciech-kulik/FlashSpace
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42984420

Writing a simple windows driver in Rust
https://scorpiosoftware.net/2025/02/08/writing-a-simple-driver-in-rust/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42984457

RISC-V Mainboard for Framework Laptop 13 is now available
https://frame.work/gb/en/blog/risc-v-mainboard-for-framework-laptop-13-is-now-available
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42946223

Asahi Linux lead developer Hector Martin resigns from Linux kernel
https://lkml.org/lkml/2025/2/7/9
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42972062

VSCode's SSH agent is bananas
https://fly.io/blog/vscode-ssh-wtf/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42979467

Station of despair: What to do if you get stuck at end of Tokyo Chuo Rapid Line
https://soranews24.com/2024/12/21/station-of-despair-what-to-do-if-you-get-stuck-at-the-end-of-tokyos-chuo-rapid-line/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42945980

U.K. orders Apple to let it spy on users' encrypted accounts
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2025/02/07/apple-encryption-backdoor-uk/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42970412

Hotline for modern Apple systems
https://github.com/mierau/hotline
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42959841

Show HN: A website that heatmaps your city based on your housing preferences
https://theretowhere.com/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42975803

Show HN: Transductive regular expressions for text editing
https://github.com/c0stya/trre
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42974378

A brief history of code signing at Mozilla
https://hearsum.ca/posts/history-of-code-signing-at-mozilla/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42975436

Three-nanite: Unreal Nanite in Three.js
https://github.com/AIFanatic/three-nanite
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42974461

The PS2's backwards compatibility from the engineer who built it (2020)
https://freelansations.medium.com/the-story-of-the-ps2s-backwards-compatibility-from-the-engineer-who-built-it-ec39cf5a0353
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42931241

Simulating water over terrain
https://lisyarus.github.io/blog/posts/simulating-water-over-terrain.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42962508

Understanding Reasoning LLMs
https://magazine.sebastianraschka.com/p/understanding-reasoning-llms
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42966720

Show HN: SQLite disk page explorer
https://github.com/QuadrupleA/sqlite-page-explorer
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42965198

Aluminum batteries outlive lithium-ion with a pinch of salt
https://spectrum.ieee.org/aluminum-battery
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42960907

OpenLDK: A Java JIT compiler and runtime in Common Lisp
https://github.com/atgreen/openldk
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42947447

Transformer – Spreadsheet
https://www.byhand.ai/p/transformer-spreadsheet
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42968547

Show HN: An homage to Tom Dowdy's 1991 screensaver, "Kaos"
https://thestrikeagency.com/kaos/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42963346

Steve Meretzky – Working with Douglas Adams on the Hitchhiker's Guide
https://spillhistorie.no/qa-with-game-designer-steve-meretzky/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42946752

Search PPP Loans by Zip Code
https://ppploanmap.com/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42969334

Announcing the data.gov archive
https://lil.law.harvard.edu/blog/2025/02/06/announcing-data-gov-archive/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42970039

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Feb 6, 2025.

Ingesting PDFs and why Gemini 2.0 changes everything
https://www.sergey.fyi/articles/gemini-flash-2
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42952605

Tell HN: Cloudflare is blocking Pale Moon and other non-mainstream browsers
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42953508

S1: A $6 R1 competitor?
https://timkellogg.me/blog/2025/02/03/s1
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42946854

Software development topics I've changed my mind on
https://chriskiehl.com/article/thoughts-after-10-years
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42946281

Avoiding outrage fatigue while staying informed
https://www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/episode/how-to-avoid-outrage-fatigue-and-tune-in-without-burning-out/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42949277

Eggs US – Price – Chart
https://tradingeconomics.com/commodity/eggs-us
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42950929

Gemini 2.0 is now available to everyone
https://blog.google/technology/google-deepmind/gemini-model-updates-february-2025/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42950454

Why is Warner Bros. Discovery putting old movies on YouTube?
https://tedium.co/2025/02/05/warner-bros-youtube-full-movie-releases/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42949181

Andrej Karpathy: Deep Dive into LLMs Like ChatGPT [video]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7xTGNNLPyMI
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42952960

Servo's progress in 2024
https://servo.org/blog/2025/01/31/servo-in-2024/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42949390

WikiTok
https://wikitok.vercel.app/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42936723

Chat is a bad UI pattern for development tools
https://danieldelaney.net/chat/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42934190

Oracle justified its JavaScript trademark with Node.js–now it wants that ignored
https://deno.com/blog/deno-v-oracle2
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42939940

Beej's Guide to Git
https://beej.us/guide/bggit/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42941283

Apple Invites
https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2025/02/introducing-apple-invites-a-new-app-that-brings-people-together/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42934422

What's happening inside the NIH and NSF
https://www.science.org/content/blog-post/what-s-happening-inside-nih
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42940257

Google drops pledge not to use AI for weapons or surveillance
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2025/02/04/google-ai-policies-weapons-harm
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42938125

What really happens inside a dating app
https://blog.luap.info/what-really-happens-inside-a-dating-app.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42921659

Kagi – Introducing Fair Pricing
https://kagi.com/changelog#6155
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42944371

Suspension of inbound parcels from China and Hong Kong
https://about.usps.com/newsroom/service-alerts/international/suspension-of-inbound-parcels-from-china-and-hong-kong.htm
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42942405