This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Mar 2, 2025. The most unhinged video wall, made out of Chromebooks https://varun.ch/posts/videowall/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43221697 Why it's so hard to build a jet engine https://www.construction-physics.com/p/why-its-so-hard-to-build-a-jet-engine https://news.ycombinator.com/item…

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Mar 1, 2025. Zelensky leaves White House after angry meeting https://www.bbc.com/news/live/c625ex282zzt https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43208973 How to gain code execution on hundreds of millions of people and popular apps https://kibty.town/blog/todesktop/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item…

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Feb 28, 2025. GPT-4.5 https://openai.com/index/introducing-gpt-4-5/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43197872 EA Open Sources Command and Conquer: Red Alert, along with other games https://github.com/electronicarts/CnC_Red_Alert https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43197131 Welcome to Ladybi…

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Feb 27, 2025. TypeScript types can run DOOM [video] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0mCsluv5FXA https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43184291 Show HN: I got laid off from Meta and created a minor hit on Steam https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43186406 The FFT Strikes Back: An Efficient Altern…

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Feb 26, 2025. I Went to SQL Injection Court https://sockpuppet.org/blog/2025/02/09/fixing-illinois-foia/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43175628 Hyperspace https://hypercritical.co/2025/02/25/hyperspace https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43173462 Framework's first desktop is a strange–bu…

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Feb 25, 2025. Claude 3.7 Sonnet and Claude Code https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-3-7-sonnet https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43163011 Show HN: I built an app to stop me doomscrolling by touching grass https://touchgrass.now/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43158660 Breaking into ap…

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Feb 24, 2025. But good sir, what is electricity? https://lcamtuf.substack.com/p/but-good-sir-what-is-electricity https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43148438 Vietnamese Graphic Design https://vietgd.com/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43149266 WhiteSur: macOS-like theme for GTK desktops h…

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Feb 23, 2025. 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.…

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Feb 22, 2025. 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.co…

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Feb 21, 2025. 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-puck…

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Feb 20, 2025. 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-…

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Feb 19, 2025. 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/ite…

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Feb 18, 2025. 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/bl…

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Feb 17, 2025. “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-die…

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Feb 16, 2025. 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 J…

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Feb 15, 2025. 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…

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Feb 14, 2025. 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:…

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Feb 13, 2025. 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.ycombinato…

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-20…

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.…

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.…

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/it…

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 …

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…

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 com…

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 ign…

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-a…

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/i…

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…

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.ycombinato…

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-l…

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 …

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 Fligh…

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 …

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-launc…

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.ycombi…

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 red…

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…

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.ycombi…

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.y…

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on September 29th, 2024. This podcast was generated by wondercraft.ai (00:36): Gavin Newsom vetoes SB 1047 Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41690302&utm_source=wondercraft_ai (01:43): NotebookLM's automatically generated podcasts are surprisingly effective Original post: https://…

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on September 27th, 2024. This podcast was generated by wondercraft.ai (00:43): Fraud, so much fraud Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41672599&utm_source=wondercraft_ai (01:56): CNN and USA Today have fake websites, I believe Forbes Marketplace runs them Original post: https://new…

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on September 26th, 2024. This podcast was generated by wondercraft.ai (00:36): I Am Tired of AI Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41667652&utm_source=wondercraft_ai (01:47): TSMC execs allegedly dismissed OpenAI CEO Sam Altman as 'podcasting bro' Original post: https://news.ycombi…

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on September 28th, 2024. This podcast was generated by wondercraft.ai (00:37): Too much efficiency makes everything worse (2022) Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41684082&utm_source=wondercraft_ai (01:50): How Discord stores trillions of messages (2023) Original post: https://new…

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on September 24th, 2024. This podcast was generated by wondercraft.ai (00:32): Winamp Legacy player source code Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41636804&utm_source=wondercraft_ai (01:44): Move Fast and Abandon Things Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41635583&u…

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on September 22nd, 2024. This podcast was generated by wondercraft.ai (00:38): Uber charges more if you have credits in your account Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41620304&utm_source=wondercraft_ai (01:46): Hy 1.0 – Lisp dialect for Python Original post: https://news.ycombinat…

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on September 23rd, 2024. This podcast was generated by wondercraft.ai (00:37): I designed a Dieter Rams-inspired iPhone dock Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41623467&utm_source=wondercraft_ai (01:41): What's inside the QR code menu at this cafe? Original post: https://news.ycomb…

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on September 21st, 2024. This podcast was generated by wondercraft.ai (00:37): Sanding UI Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41612154&utm_source=wondercraft_ai (01:41): Forget ChatGPT: why researchers now run small AIs on their laptops Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/it…

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on September 19th, 2024. This podcast was generated by wondercraft.ai (00:36): Gaining access to anyones Arc browser without them even visiting a website Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41597250&utm_source=wondercraft_ai (01:50): GitHub notification emails used to send malware O…

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on September 17th, 2024. This podcast was generated by wondercraft.ai (00:36): Hezbollah pager explosions kill several people in Lebanon Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41567299&utm_source=wondercraft_ai (01:48): Apple Mobile Processors Are Now Made in America. By TSMC Original …