This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Feb 12, 2025. 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....
Feb 12, 2025•12 min•Ep. 22
This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Feb 11, 2025. 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-anthro...
Feb 11, 2025•13 min•Ep. 21
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.ycombina...
Feb 10, 2025•13 min•Ep. 20
This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Feb 9, 2025. 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...
Feb 09, 2025•11 min•Ep. 19
This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Feb 8, 2025. 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-...
Feb 08, 2025•12 min•Ep. 18
This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Feb 7, 2025. 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...
Feb 07, 2025•11 min•Ep. 17
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 ht...
Feb 06, 2025•12 min•Ep. 16
This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Feb 5, 2025. 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....
Feb 05, 2025•12 min•Ep. 15
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-after-failed-experiment https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42925210 Httptap: View HTTP/HTTPS requests made by any Linux program https://github.com/mo...
Feb 04, 2025•12 min•Ep. 14
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/item?id=42913251 Waydroid – Android in a Linux container https://waydro.id/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42911042 Ask HN: What is interviewing ...
Feb 03, 2025•12 min•Ep. 13
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-of-datasets-disappearing-from-data-gov/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42881367 String of recent killings linked to Bay Area 'Zizians' https://...
Feb 02, 2025•12 min•Ep. 12
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=4...
Feb 01, 2025•12 min•Ep. 11
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-likely-printed-in-2024/52421 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42880704 Antiqua et Nova: Note on the relationship between AI and human intelligence ...
Jan 31, 2025•12 min•Ep. 10
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 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42861475 Exposed DeepSeek database leaking sensitive information, including chat history https://www.wiz.io/blog/...
Jan 30, 2025•12 min•Ep. 9
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 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/...
Jan 29, 2025•13 min•Ep. 8
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 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?...
Jan 28, 2025•12 min•Ep. 7
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-launch-was-a-total-disaster/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42831281 Kansas tuberculosis outbreak is America's largest recorded since the 1950s https...
Jan 27, 2025•12 min•Ep. 6
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.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...
Jan 26, 2025•12 min•Ep. 5
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 redirect them to me? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42812779 A phishing attack involving g.co, Google's URL shortener https://gist.github.com/zachl...
Jan 25, 2025•12 min•Ep. 4
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 completion https://github.com/ggml-org/llama.vim https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42806328 Show HN: I built an active community of trans people o...
Jan 24, 2025•12 min•Ep. 3
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.ycombinator.com/item?id=42793783 TabBoo – add random jumpscares to websites you're trying to avoid https://tabboo.xyz/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=...
Jan 23, 2025•12 min•Ep. 2
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.ycombinator.com/item?id=42786962 Link: https://twitter.com/Free_Ross/status/1881851923005165704 Points: 982 | Comments: 87 Stargate Project: SoftBank, ...
Jan 22, 2025•12 min•Ep. 1
