top 10 hacker news stories for 2025-02-07

Meta torrented & seeded 81.7 TB dataset containing copyrighted data

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/02/meta-torrented-over-81-7tb-of-pirated-books-to-train-ai-authors-say/

2 years ago

Apple ordered by UK to create global iCloud encryption backdoor

https://www.macrumors.com/2025/02/07/uk-government-orders-access-icloud/

2 years ago

Asahi Linux lead developer Hector Martin resigns from Linux kernel

https://lkml.org/lkml/2025/2/7/9

2 years ago

U.K. orders Apple to let it spy on users’ encrypted accounts

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2025/02/07/apple-encryption-backdoor-uk/

2 years ago

Do-nothing scripting: the key to gradual automation (2019)

https://blog.danslimmon.com/2019/07/15/do-nothing-scripting-the-key-to-gradual-automation/

2 years ago

Obscure islands I find interesting

https://amanvir.com/obscure-islands

2 years ago

Cities can cost effectively start their own utilities

https://kevin.burke.dev/kevin/norcal-cities-new-utility/

2 years ago

Donald Knuth's 2024 Christmas Lecture: Strong and Weak Components [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hi8r_63LGyg

2 years ago

Announcing the data.gov archive

https://lil.law.harvard.edu/blog/2025/02/06/announcing-data-gov-archive/

2 years ago

Show HN: A website that heatmaps your city based on your housing preferences

https://theretowhere.com/

2 years ago