1270
934
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/
3 months ago
1146
4
Apple ordered by UK to create global iCloud encryption backdoor
https://www.macrumors.com/2025/02/07/uk-government-orders-access-icloud/
918
1020
Asahi Linux lead developer Hector Martin resigns from Linux kernel
https://lkml.org/lkml/2025/2/7/9
762
1036
U.K. orders Apple to let it spy on users’ encrypted accounts
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2025/02/07/apple-encryption-backdoor-uk/
582
157
Do-nothing scripting: the key to gradual automation (2019)
https://blog.danslimmon.com/2019/07/15/do-nothing-scripting-the-key-to-gradual-automation/
552
178
Obscure islands I find interesting
https://amanvir.com/obscure-islands
420
395
Cities can cost effectively start their own utilities
https://kevin.burke.dev/kevin/norcal-cities-new-utility/
413
68
Donald Knuth's 2024 Christmas Lecture: Strong and Weak Components [video]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hi8r_63LGyg
382
132
Announcing the data.gov archive
https://lil.law.harvard.edu/blog/2025/02/06/announcing-data-gov-archive/
321
99
Show HN: A website that heatmaps your city based on your housing preferences
https://theretowhere.com/
294
244
German civil activists win victory in election case against X
https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/german-civil-activists-claim-victory-case-against-musks-x-2025-02-07/
284
166
California bill would require bots to disclose that they are bots
https://www.veeto.app/bill/1955756
263
102
Show HN: Transductive regular expressions for text editing
https://github.com/c0stya/trre
250
20
Transformer – Spreadsheet
https://www.byhand.ai/p/transformer-spreadsheet
246
88
A brief history of code signing at Mozilla
https://hearsum.ca/posts/history-of-code-signing-at-mozilla/
227
89
Show HN: ExpenseOwl – Simple, self-hosted expense tracker
https://github.com/Tanq16/ExpenseOwl
53
Kokoro WebGPU: Real-time text-to-speech 100% locally in the browser
https://huggingface.co/spaces/webml-community/kokoro-webgpu
226
Copilot stops working on code that contains hardcoded banned words from GitHub (2023)
https://github.com/orgs/community/discussions/72603
219
228
Balcony solar is taking off
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/dec/18/if-a-million-germans-have-them-there-must-be-something-in-it-how-balcony-solar-is-taking-off
217
35
Three-nanite: Unreal Nanite in Three.js
https://github.com/AIFanatic/three-nanite
94
Shwe Kokko is accused of being a city built on scams
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c04nx1vnw17o
211
174
Ancient-DNA study identifies originators of Indo-European language family
https://hms.harvard.edu/news/ancient-dna-study-identifies-originators-indo-european-language-family
207
345
Elon Musk's Demolition Crew
https://projects.propublica.org/elon-musk-doge-tracker/
198
259
Children's arithmetic skills do not transfer between applied and academic math
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-08502-w
186
98
Fake VS Code Extension on NPM Spreads Multi-Stage Malware
https://www.mend.io/blog/fake-vs-code-extension-on-npm-spreads-multi-stage-malware/
184
129
Stop using zip codes for geospatial analysis (2019)
https://carto.com/blog/zip-codes-spatial-analysis
92
Indigenous engineers are using AI to preserve their culture
https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/innovation/indigenous-engineers-are-using-ai-preserve-culture-rcna176012
171
251
The origins of 60-Hz as a power frequency (1997)
https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/628099
156
79
Perma.cc – Permanent Link Service
https://perma.cc/
151
Easy 6502
https://skilldrick.github.io/easy6502/
146
60
Radiation belts detected around Earth after solar storm
https://www.sciencealert.com/mysterious-radiation-belts-detected-around-earth-after-epic-solar-storm
140
62
Robust autonomy emerges from self-play
https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.03349
Mad at Meta? Don't Let Them Collect and Monetize Your Personal Data
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/01/mad-meta-dont-let-them-collect-and-monetize-your-personal-data
22
Whalesong patterns follow a universal law of human language, new research finds
https://theconversation.com/whalesong-patterns-follow-a-universal-law-of-human-language-new-research-finds-249271
139
Noether's Theorem Revolutionized Physics
https://www.quantamagazine.org/how-noethers-theorem-revolutionized-physics-20250207/
18
A 16TB Mirror of Data.gov on Source.Coop
https://source.coop/repositories/harvard-lil/gov-data/description
135
44
Revenge of the GPT Wrappers: Defensibility in a world of commoditized AI models
https://andrewchen.substack.com/p/revenge-of-the-gpt-wrappers-defensibility
131
70
HTML whitespace is broken (2024)
https://blog.dwac.dev/posts/html-whitespace/
130
65
Baltic countries disconnect from the Russian power grid
https://baltic-grid.sympower.net/
127
73
Search PPP Loans by Zip Code
https://ppploanmap.com/
109
107
Ketamine for Depression: How It Works (2024) [video]
https://www.yalemedicine.org/news/ketamine-for-depression
42
The Age of Agent Experience
https://stytch.com/blog/the-age-of-agent-experience/
122
Did UCLA Just Cure Baldness?
https://newsroom.ucla.edu/magazine/baldness-cure-pp405-molecule-breakthrough-treatment
101
80
Google edits Super Bowl ad for AI that featured false information
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/feb/06/google-edits-super-bowl-ad-for-ai-that-featured-false-information
100
77
Estonia to disconnect from the Russian-run electricity network on Saturday
https://elering.ee/en/estonia-disconnect-russian-run-electricity-network-saturday
14
When Louis Armstrong conquered Chicago
https://www.honest-broker.com/p/when-louis-armstrong-conquered-chicago
31
Explainable Linear Programs
https://www.jeremykun.com/shortform/2025-02-06-2124/
97
25
Making Software Fun
https://furbo.org/2025/02/07/making-software-fun/
DOGE member previously fired by cybersecurity firm for leaking company secrets
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-02-07/musk-s-doge-teen-was-fired-by-cybersecurity-firm-for-leaking-company-secrets
91
Two Grand Canyon-size valleys on far side of the moon formed within 10 minutes
https://www.cnn.com/2025/02/05/science/lunar-grand-canyons-far-side-moon/index.html
90
33
How to help us build open source Pebble software
https://ericmigi.com/blog/how-to-help-build-open-source-pebble-software/
3
Apple ordered to open encrypted user accounts globally to UK spying
https://www.theverge.com/news/608145/apple-uk-icloud-encrypted-backups-spying-snoopers-charter
DOOM on Google Sheets
https://github.com/moses297/doom-on-google-sheets
87
Pantograph: A Fluid and Typed Structure Editor
https://github.com/jeprinz/pantograph/blob/main/README.md
84
Solving Sudoku with Tmux
https://willhbr.net/2024/12/27/solving-sudoku-with-tmux/
78
8
There may not be aha moment in R1-Zero-like training
https://oatllm.notion.site/oat-zero
Building an "Easy" Web Application
https://rudyfaile.com/2020/07/06/building-an-easy-web-application/
74
26
French train passenger fined €150 for using phone on speaker
https://www.thelocal.fr/20250206/french-train-passenger-fined-e150-for-using-phone-on-speaker
1
Mapping Antarctica’s hidden ice-free lands: a blueprint for conservation
https://www.unsw.edu.au/newsroom/news/2025/01/mapping-antarcticas-hidden-ice-free-lands-a-blueprint-for-conservation
69
Portland's exploding Liberty Bell (2020)
https://tomlovesthelibertybell.com/portlands-exploding-liberty-bell/
AMOC shutdown likely within the next 20-30 years
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00139157.2025.2434494