top 20 hacker news stories for 2025-02-02

Everyone knows your location: tracking myself down through in-app ads

https://timsh.org/tracking-myself-down-through-in-app-ads/

2 years ago

The young, inexperienced engineers aiding DOGE

https://www.wired.com/story/elon-musk-government-young-engineers/

2 years ago

CDC: Unpublished manuscripts mentioning certain topics must be pulled or revised

https://insidemedicine.substack.com/p/breaking-news-cdc-orders-mass-retraction

2 years ago

Ask HN: What is interviewing like now with everyone using AI?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42909166

2 years ago

Waydroid – Android in a Linux container

https://waydro.id/

2 years ago

Life is more than an engineering problem

https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/life-is-more-than-an-engineering-problem/

2 years ago

Recent results show that LLMs struggle with compositional tasks

https://www.quantamagazine.org/chatbot-software-begins-to-face-fundamental-limitations-20250131/

2 years ago

Minimum effective dose

https://winnielim.org/journal/minimum-effective-dose/

2 years ago

GarminDB

https://github.com/tcgoetz/GarminDB

2 years ago

Show HN: Lume – OS lightweight CLI for MacOS and Linux VMs on Apple Silicon

https://github.com/trycua/lume

2 years ago

The legacy of lies in Alzheimer's science

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/24/opinion/alzheimers-fraud-cure.html

2 years ago

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

2 years ago

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/

2 years ago

Analyzing the codebase of Caffeine, a high performance caching library

https://adriacabeza.github.io/2024/07/12/caffeine-cache.html

2 years ago

Sniffnet – monitor your Internet traffic

https://github.com/GyulyVGC/sniffnet

2 years ago

Don't make fun of renowned author Dan Brown (2013)

https://onehundredpages.wordpress.com/2013/06/12/dont-make-fun-of-renowned-dan-brown/

2 years ago

Spaced repetition can allow for infinite recall (2022)

https://www.efavdb.com/memory%20recall

2 years ago

F-strings for C++26 proposal [pdf]

https://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2024/p3412r0.pdf

2 years ago

The Art of Dithering and Retro Shading for the Web (2024)

https://blog.maximeheckel.com/posts/the-art-of-dithering-and-retro-shading-web/

2 years ago

Compiling Java into native binaries with Graal and Mill

https://mill-build.org/blog/7-graal-native-executables.html

2 years ago