top 50% hacker news stories for 2025-02-03

Httptap: View HTTP/HTTPS requests made by any Linux program

https://github.com/monasticacademy/httptap

2 years ago

Introducing deep research

https://openai.com/index/introducing-deep-research/

2 years ago

Show HN: I convert videos to printed flipbooks for living

https://www.videotoflip.com/

2 years ago

US bill proposes jail time for people who download DeepSeek

https://www.404media.co/senator-hawley-proposes-jail-time-for-people-who-download-deepseek/

2 years ago

Ask HN: Who is hiring? (February 2025)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42919502

2 years ago

Anthropic: "Applicants should not use AI assistants"

https://simonwillison.net/2025/Feb/2/anthropic/

2 years ago

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/

2 years ago

"A computer can never be held accountable"

https://simonwillison.net/2025/Feb/3/a-computer-can-never-be-held-accountable/

2 years ago

What really happens inside a dating app

https://blog.luap.info/what-really-happens-inside-a-dating-app.html

2 years ago

Our channel on YouTube has been deleted due to “spam and deceptive policies”

https://bsky.app/profile/sinevibes.bsky.social/post/3lhazuyn5as2t

2 years ago

I Wrote a WebAssembly VM in C

https://irreducible.io/blog/my-wasm-interpreter/

2 years ago

Open Euro LLM: Open LLMs for Transparent AI in Europe

https://openeurollm.eu/launch-press-release

2 years ago

Developer Philosophy

https://qntm.org/devphilo

2 years ago

AMD: Microcode Signature Verification Vulnerability

https://github.com/google/security-research/security/advisories/GHSA-4xq7-4mgh-gp6w

2 years ago

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

2 years ago

Discord client that works on Win95*, Win98 and above

https://github.com/DiscordMessenger/dm

2 years ago

Anything threatening to be a subculture is commodified before it can walk (2014)

https://www.dezeen.com/2014/12/18/william-gibson-subculture-commodification-london-justin-mcguirk-opinion/

2 years ago

The U.S. needs a shipbuilding revolution

https://www.usni.org/magazines/proceedings/2025/february/nation-needs-shipbuilding-revolution

2 years ago

No-Panic Rust: A Nice Technique for Systems Programming

https://blog.reverberate.org/2025/02/03/no-panic-rust.html

2 years ago

Polish city is using mussels to monitor water quality (2020)

https://www.awa.asn.au/resources/latest-news/technology/innovation/polish-city-using-mussels-monitor-water-quality

2 years ago

Bluesky now has 30 million users

https://bsky.app/profile/bsky.app/post/3lgu4lg6j2k2v

2 years ago

Remote Code Execution in Marvel Rivals Game

https://shalzuth.com/Blog/IFoundAGameExploit

2 years ago

Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (February 2025)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42919500

2 years ago

Decorator JITs: Python as a DSL

https://eli.thegreenplace.net/2025/decorator-jits-python-as-a-dsl/

2 years ago

London Street Views (1840)

https://www.davidrumsey.com/luna/servlet/detail/RUMSEY~8~1~323099~90092214:Composite--London-Street-Views-No--

2 years ago

Efficient Reasoning with Hidden Thinking

https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.19201

2 years ago

I conditioned myself to fail

https://www.brainbun.com/blog/i-conditioned-myself-to-fail/

2 years ago

Show HN: Marksmith – a GitHub-style Markdown editor for Ruby on Rails

https://avohq.io/blog/ruby-on-rails-markdown-editor-marksmith

2 years ago

Julia and JuliaHub: Advancing Innovation and Growth

https://info.juliahub.com/blog/julia-juliahub-advancing-innovation-and-growth

2 years ago

The Dumbest Trade War Fallout Begins

https://www.wsj.com/opinion/the-trump-tariff-fallout-begins-canada-mexico-vow-retaliation-economic-uncertainty-da522b44

2 years ago

Show HN: Klarity – Open-source tool to analyze uncertainty/entropy in LLM output

https://github.com/klara-research/klarity

2 years ago

Reverse Engineering Apple's typedstream Format

https://chrissardegna.com/blog/reverse-engineering-apples-typedstream-format/

2 years ago

The Cantonese Scrolls – A Cantonese language learning mental RPG

https://cantoscrolls.com/

2 years ago

There's Math.random(), and then there's Math.random() (2015)

https://v8.dev/blog/math-random

2 years ago

Patterns for Personal Web Sites (2003)

http://www.rdrop.com/~half/Creations/Writings/Web.patterns/index.html

2 years ago

IRS Direct File team disbanded

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1886498750052327520

2 years ago

The Language Construction Kit (1996, 2012)

https://www.zompist.com/kit.html

2 years ago

T1: A RISC-V Vector processor implementation

https://github.com/chipsalliance/t1

2 years ago

Musk says DOGE is halting Treasury payments to US contractors

https://fortune.com/2025/02/02/musk-doge-treasury-payments-system-halt-us-govenment-contractors-lutheran-charity/

2 years ago

MTR: 'traceroute' and 'ping' in a single tool

https://www.bitwizard.nl/mtr/

2 years ago

The Economic and Fiscal Effects of the Trump Administration's Proposed Tariffs

https://budgetlab.yale.edu/research/economic-and-fiscal-effects-trump-administrations-proposed-tarrifs

2 years ago

Emil's Story as a Self-Taught AI Researcher (2020)

https://floydhub.ghost.io/emils-story-as-a-self-taught-ai-researcher/

2 years ago

FreeBSD for hi-fi audio: real-time processing, equalizer, MPD and FFmpeg

https://m4c.pl/blog/freebsd-audio-setup-bitperfect-equalizer-realtime/

2 years ago

Bayesian Epistemology (2022)

https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/epistemology-bayesian/

2 years ago

Ask HN: Who wants to be fired? (February 2025)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42924533

2 years ago

Ruby “Thread Contention” Is Simply GVL Queuing

https://island94.org/2025/01/ruby-thread-contention-simply-gvl-queuing

2 years ago

DeepSeek gives Europe's tech firms a chance to catch up

https://www.reuters.com/technology/artificial-intelligence/deepseek-gives-europes-tech-firms-chance-catch-up-global-ai-race-2025-02-03/

2 years ago

PlayAI's new Dialog model achieves 3:1 preference in human evals

https://play.ht/news/playai-announces-new-benchmarks-playdialog/

2 years ago

New Proofs Probe the Limits of Mathematical Truth

https://www.quantamagazine.org/new-proofs-probe-the-limits-of-mathematical-truth-20250203/

2 years ago

Constitutional Classifiers: Defending against universal jailbreaks

https://www.anthropic.com/research/constitutional-classifiers

2 years ago

Catgrad: A categorical deep learning compiler

https://catgrad.com/

2 years ago

Coup

https://wh47.substack.com/p/ongoing-coup

2 years ago

Chaplin: Local visual speech recognition (VSR) in real-time

https://github.com/amanvirparhar/chaplin

2 years ago

Earth Detecting Earth

https://www.seti.org/press-release/earth-detecting-earth

2 years ago

Google removed 2.36M apps from Google Play using AI threat detection

https://security.googleblog.com/2025/01/how-we-kept-google-play-android-app-ecosystem-safe-2024.html

2 years ago

Open source AI: Red Hat's point-of-view

https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/open-source-ai-red-hats-point-view

2 years ago

New York claims a small victory in 'forever war on rats'

https://www.thetimes.com/us/news-today/article/new-york-finally-claims-a-small-victory-in-forever-war-on-rats-m7x230sg8

2 years ago

1M Lazygit downloads, one embarrassment at a time

https://jesseduffield.com/Embarrassment/

2 years ago

Inside Musk's Aggressive Incursion into the Federal Government

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/03/us/politics/musk-federal-government.html

2 years ago

Excavated: 52 Egyptian Mummies. Over a Dozen Had Mysterious Golden Tongues

https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/archaeology/a63412049/golden-mummy-tongues/

2 years ago

First place in Tetris 99 using computer vision, classical AI, a lot of free time

https://bpinzone.github.io/TetrisAI/

2 years ago

When Bohr got it wrong: the impact of a little-known paper on quantum theory

https://physicsworld.com/a/when-bohr-got-it-wrong-the-impact-of-a-little-known-paper-on-the-development-of-quantum-theory/

2 years ago

OpenAI: Out of Ideas

https://wq6e.com/posts/2025-02-02_out-of-ideas/

2 years ago

Musk Says He's 'Deleted' Popular Free IRS Tax Filing Program

https://www.thedailybeast.com/musk-says-hes-deleted-popular-free-irs-tax-filing-program/

2 years ago

Managing Secrets in Docker Compose – A Developer's Guide

https://phase.dev/blog/docker-compose-secrets/

2 years ago

It's not 'emotional labour', it's kin work

https://thefuturefeeling.substack.com/p/its-not-emotional-labour

2 years ago

How Translation Works, Book Title Edition

https://whatever.scalzi.com/2025/02/03/how-translation-works-book-title-edition/

2 years ago

Mailspring: Cross-platform, fast, open source mail client

https://github.com/Foundry376/Mailspring

2 years ago

Humanity's Last Exam

https://agi.safe.ai/

2 years ago

Ask HN: Is Hacker News Being Manipulated?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42925174

2 years ago