Hacker News Highlights

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-after-failed-experiment
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42925210

Httptap: View HTTP/HTTPS requests made by any Linux program
https://github.com/monasticacademy/httptap
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42919909

Show HN: I convert videos to printed flipbooks for living
https://www.videotoflip.com/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42918902

I Wrote a WebAssembly VM in C
https://irreducible.io/blog/my-wasm-interpreter/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42918524

AI systems with 'unacceptable risk' are now banned in the EU
https://techcrunch.com/2025/02/02/ai-systems-with-unacceptable-risk-are-now-banned-in-the-eu/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42916849

AMD: Microcode Signature Verification Vulnerability
https://github.com/google/security-research/security/advisories/GHSA-4xq7-4mgh-gp6w
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42920921

Developer Philosophy
https://qntm.org/devphilo
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42920285

Order Declassifying JFK and MLK Assassination Records [pdf]
https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2025-01-31/pdf/2025-02116.pdf
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42925712

He went to jail for stealing someone's identity, but it was his all along
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/03/us/iowa-identity-theft-sentencing.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42918644

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/item?id=42913251

Waydroid – Android in a Linux container
https://waydro.id/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42911042

Ask HN: What is interviewing like now with everyone using AI?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42909166

Show HN: ESP32 RC Cars
https://github.com/mattsroufe/esp32_rc_cars
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42901007

Show HN: Lume – OS lightweight CLI for MacOS and Linux VMs on Apple Silicon
https://github.com/trycua/lume
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42908061

Reverse-engineering and analysis of SanDisk High Endurance microSDXC card (2020)
https://ripitapart.com/2020/07/16/reverse-engineering-and-analysis-of-sandisk-high-endurance-microsdxc-card/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42907766

Analyzing the codebase of Caffeine, a high performance caching library
https://adriacabeza.github.io/2024/07/12/caffeine-cache.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42907488

Costa Rican supermarket wins trademark battle against Nintendo
https://ticotimes.net/2025/01/30/david-vs-goliath-costa-rican-super-mario-defeats-nintendo-in-court
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42911842

Don't make fun of renowned author Dan Brown (2013)
https://onehundredpages.wordpress.com/2013/06/12/dont-make-fun-of-renowned-dan-brown/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42912133

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-of-datasets-disappearing-from-data-gov/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42881367

String of recent killings linked to Bay Area 'Zizians'
https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/bay-area-death-cult-zizian-murders-20064333.php
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42877910

CDC orders mass retraction and revision of submitted research
https://insidemedicine.substack.com/p/breaking-news-cdc-orders-mass-retraction
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42905937

Visualizing all books of the world in ISBN-Space
https://phiresky.github.io/blog/2025/visualizing-all-books-in-isbn-space/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42897120

Macrodata Refinement
https://lumon-industries.com/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42902691

Bzip3: A spiritual successor to BZip2
https://github.com/kspalaiologos/bzip3
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42899713

Avoid ISP Routers (2024)
https://routersecurity.org/ISProuters.php
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42903576

RLHF Book
https://rlhfbook.com/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42902936

Recent results show that LLMs struggle with compositional tasks
https://www.quantamagazine.org/chatbot-software-begins-to-face-fundamental-limitations-20250131/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42905453

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.ycombinator.com/item?id=42892191

Bypass DeepSeek censorship by speaking in hex
https://substack.com/home/post/p-156004330
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42891042

The government information crisis is bigger than you think it is
https://freegovinfo.info/node/14747/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42895331

Show HN: Uscope, a new Linux debugger written from scratch
https://github.com/jcalabro/uscope
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42889407

Decision to dump water from Tulare County lakes altered after confusing locals
https://sjvwater.org/decision-to-dump-water-from-tulare-county-lakes-altered-after-sending-locals-in-mad-scramble/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42894708

Elite on the 6502: The original 6502 assembly source, heavily commented
https://elite.bbcelite.com/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42891200

The Tensor Cookbook
https://tensorcookbook.com/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42890389

FBI, Dutch police disrupt 'Manipulaters' phishing gang
https://krebsonsecurity.com/2025/01/fbi-dutch-police-disrupt-manipulaters-phishing-gang/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42890290

Notes on OpenAI O3-Mini
https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jan/31/o3-mini/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42894215

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-likely-printed-in-2024/52421
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42880704

Antiqua et Nova: Note on the relationship between AI and human intelligence
https://www.vatican.va/roman_curia/congregations/cfaith/documents/rc_ddf_doc_20250128_antiqua-et-nova_en.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42877709

California law enforcement misused state databases more than 7k times in 2023
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/01/california-police-misused-state-databases-more-7000-times-2023
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42880807

Stats – macOS system monitor in your menu bar
https://github.com/exelban/stats
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42881342

PCBs, copper pours, ground planes, and you
https://lcamtuf.substack.com/p/pcbs-ground-planes-and-you
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42874885

The story of my home made pipe organ (2000)
https://www.sentex.ca/~mwandel/organ/organ.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42831969

How Jane Street accidentally built a better build system for OCaml
https://blog.janestreet.com/how-we-accidentally-built-a-better-build-system-for-ocaml-index/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42881724

My Cat Mii
https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2025/01/20/my-cat-mii/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42845129

Show HN: Audiocube – A 3D DAW for Spatial Audio
https://www.audiocube.app
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42877399

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
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42861475

Exposed DeepSeek database leaking sensitive information, including chat history
https://www.wiz.io/blog/wiz-research-uncovers-exposed-deepseek-database-leak
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42871371

An analysis of DeepSeek's R1-Zero and R1
https://arcprize.org/blog/r1-zero-r1-results-analysis
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42868390

Building a T1D smartwatch for my son from scratch
https://andrewchilds.com/posts/building-a-t1d-smartwatch-from-scratch
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42854291

Asteroid Impact on Earth 2032 with Probability 1% and 8Mt Energy
https://cneos.jpl.nasa.gov/sentry/details.html#?des=2024%20YR4
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42864272

Commercial jet collides with Black Hawk helicopter near Reagan airport
https://www.mediaite.com/news/breaking-commercial-jet-collides-with-police-chopper-near-reagan-airport/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42874301

SmolGPT: A minimal PyTorch implementation for training a small LLM from scratch
https://github.com/Om-Alve/smolGPT
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42868770

We got hit by an alarmingly well-prepared phish spammer
https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/spam/WellPreparedPhishSpammer
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42862873

Advice for a friend who wants to start a blog
https://www.henrikkarlsson.xyz/p/start-a-blog
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42872276

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 Flight [video]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-qisIViAHwI
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42853633

Using uv as your shebang line
https://akrabat.com/using-uv-as-your-shebang-line/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42855258

IAC confirms existence of a Super-earth in the habitable zone of a Sun-like Star
https://www.iac.es/en/outreach/news/iac-confirms-existence-super-earth-habitable-zone-sun-star
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42853174

DeepSeek's multi-head latent attention and other KV cache tricks
https://www.pyspur.dev/blog/multi-head-latent-attention-kv-cache-paper-list
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42858741

Parkinsons patient "feels cured" with new adaptive deep brain stimulation device
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ckgn49r069wo
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42857293

Maxima in the browser using Embedded Common Lisp on WASM
https://maxima-on-wasm.pages.dev/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42853528

What's OAuth2, anyway?
https://www.romaglushko.com/blog/whats-aouth2/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42829149

Libraries and Well-Being: A Case Study from The New York Public Library
https://lithub.com/its-official-research-has-found-that-libraries-make-everything-better/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42860240

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 Janus Pro, a text-to-image generator [pdf]
https://github.com/deepseek-ai/Janus/blob/main/janus_pro_tech_report.pdf
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42843131

Facebook ban on discussing Linux?
https://distrowatch.com/weekly-mobile.php?issue=20250127#sitenews
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42839502

Nvidia’s $589B DeepSeek rout
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/asml-sinks-china-ai-startup-081823609.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42839650

My failed attempt to shrink all NPM packages by 5%
https://evanhahn.com/my-failed-attempt-to-shrink-all-npm-packages-by-5-percent/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42840548

The Illustrated DeepSeek-R1
https://newsletter.languagemodels.co/p/the-illustrated-deepseek-r1
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42845488

The Taylorator – All Your Frequencies Are Belong to Us
https://www.scd31.com/posts/taylorator
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42843623

Machine Learning in Production (CMU Course)
https://mlip-cmu.github.io/s2025/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42847834

Oliver Heaviside and the theory of transmission lines (2021)
https://www.pa3fwm.nl/technotes/tn28-heaviside-transmission-lines.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42840352

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-launch-was-a-total-disaster/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42831281

Kansas tuberculosis outbreak is America's largest recorded since the 1950s
https://www.cjonline.com/story/news/politics/government/2025/01/24/kansas-tuberculosis-outbreak-is-largest-in-recorded-history-in-u-s/77881467007/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42835183

Marginalia – A search engine that prioritizes non-commercial content
https://marginalia-search.com/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42836405

Show HN: DeepSeek My User Agent
https://www.jasonthorsness.com/20
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42834648

Openhaystack: Build 'AirTags' – track Bluetooth devices via Apple's network
https://github.com/seemoo-lab/openhaystack
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42835772

Astronomers delete asteroid because it turned out to be Tesla Roadster
https://www.astronomy.com/science/astronomers-just-deleted-an-asteroid-because-it-turned-out-to-be-elon-musks-tesla-roadster/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42834043

Using generative AI as part of historical research: three case studies
https://resobscura.substack.com/p/the-leading-ai-models-are-now-very
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42798649

Qwen2.5-1M: Deploy your own Qwen with context length up to 1M tokens
https://qwenlm.github.io/blog/qwen2.5-1m/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42831769

Lessons in creating family photos that people want to keep (2018)
https://estherschindler.medium.com/the-old-family-photos-project-lessons-in-creating-family-photos-that-people-want-to-keep-ea3909129943
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42835282

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.ycombinator.com/item?id=42825441

CIA now favors lab leak theory to explain Covid's origins
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/25/us/politics/cia-covid-lab-leak.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42823385

OpenRA – Classic strategy games rebuilt for the modern era
https://www.openra.net/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42823667

Every HTML Element
https://iamwillwang.com/dollar/every-html-element/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42823722

How far can you get in 40 minutes from each subway station in NYC?
https://subwaysheds.com/#11.27/40.7427/-73.9869
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42810293

An invalid 68030 instruction accidentally allowed the Mac Classic II to boot
https://www.downtowndougbrown.com/2025/01/the-invalid-68030-instruction-that-accidentally-allowed-the-mac-classic-ii-to-successfully-boot-up/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42824562

Open Heart Protocol
https://openheart.fyi/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42791378

The South Vietnamese pilot who landed a Cessna on a carrier to save his family (2019)
https://www.historynet.com/maj-buang-lys-daring-feat-to-save-his-family/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42826536

Show HN: I built a DIY plane spotting system at home
https://pilane.obviy.us/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42821457