top 50% hacker news stories for 2025-02-08

Teen on Musk's DOGE team graduated from 'The Com'

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2025/02/teen-on-musks-doge-team-graduated-from-the-com/

2 years ago

We are destroying software

https://antirez.com/news/145

2 years ago

VSCode’s SSH agent is bananas

https://fly.io/blog/vscode-ssh-wtf/

2 years ago

Jacksonpollock.org (2003)

https://jacksonpollock.org/

2 years ago

The Deck: An open-source cross-platform multiplayer card game engine in Flutter

https://github.com/xajik/thedeck

2 years ago

Tips for mathematical handwriting (2007)

https://johnkerl.org/doc/ortho/ortho.html

2 years ago

Show HN: FlashSpace – fast, open-source, macOS Spaces replacement

https://github.com/wojciech-kulik/FlashSpace

2 years ago

Writing a simple windows driver in Rust

https://scorpiosoftware.net/2025/02/08/writing-a-simple-driver-in-rust/

2 years ago

Is software abstraction killing civilization? (2021)

https://datagubbe.se/endofciv/

2 years ago

Ghostwriter – use the reMarkable2 as an interface to vision-LLMs

https://github.com/awwaiid/ghostwriter

2 years ago

Generating Voronoi diagrams using Fortune's algorithm

https://redpenguin101.github.io/html/posts/2025_01_21_voronoi.html

2 years ago

Rwandan scientists develop local yeast for banana wine-makers

https://phys.org/news/2025-01-rwandan-scientists-local-yeast-banana.html

2 years ago

Starlink in the Falkland Islands – A national emergency situation?

https://www.openfalklands.com/february-2025-starlink-in-the-falkland-islands-a-national-emergency-situation/

2 years ago

Carbon is not a programming language (sort of)

https://herecomesthemoon.net/2025/02/carbon-is-not-a-language/

2 years ago

LINUX is obsolete (1992)

https://groups.google.com/g/comp.os.minix/c/wlhw16QWltI

2 years ago

A tale of distros joining forces for a common goal: reproducible builds [video]

https://video.fosdem.org/2025/h1302/fosdem-2025-6479-a-tale-of-several-distros-joining-forces-for-a-common-goal-reproducible-builds.av1.webm

2 years ago

The LLMentalist Effect

https://softwarecrisis.dev/letters/llmentalist/

2 years ago

Ohm: A user-friendly parsing toolkit for JavaScript and TypeScript

https://ohmjs.org/

2 years ago

Collection of one-file C/C++ libraries with no dependencies, primarily for games

https://github.com/RandyGaul/cute_headers

2 years ago

Show HN: Chez Scheme txtar port from Go

https://git.sr.ht/~egtann/txtar/

2 years ago

'The Licensing Racket’ Review: There's a Board for That

https://www.wsj.com/arts-culture/books/the-licensing-racket-review-theres-a-board-for-that-3da68d0a

2 years ago

SilverBullet – note-taking Git-friendly alternative to Logseq and Obsidian

https://silverbullet.md/

2 years ago

Amazon blew Alexa's shot to dominate AI, according to employees (2024)

https://fortune.com/2024/06/12/amazon-insiders-why-new-alexa-llm-generative-ai-conversational-chatbot-missing-in-action/

2 years ago

Value-Based Deep RL Scales Predictably

https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.04327

2 years ago

Deep Fake Detector Extension by Mozilla Firefox

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/deep-fake-detector/

2 years ago

Mark Zuckerberg messages Facebook engineer

https://twitter.com/TechEmails/status/1888313183024074910

2 years ago

Ada Gems (2014)

https://www.adacore.com/gems

2 years ago

Show HN: App that simulates a software engineer's daily job

https://mock-job-mentor.vercel.app/dashboard

2 years ago

Teen on Musk's DOGE Team Graduated from 'The Com'

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2025/02/teen-on-musks-doge-team-graduated-from-the-com/

2 years ago

Show HN: FreeDemandLetter – A Weapon for Anyone Who's Sick of Getting Shafted

https://www.freedemandletter.com

2 years ago

Why gold loves arsenic (2021)

https://www.mining.com/why-gold-loves-arsenic/

2 years ago

Scientists invent "slime" – could be used in medical, energy, robot applications

https://www.lightsource.ca/public/news/2024-25-q4-jan-march/scientists-invent-slime-that-could-be-used-in-new-medical-green-energy-and-robot-applications.php

2 years ago

Ask HN: Finding interesting work if disenchanted with "big tech" & "VC-backed"

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42984996

2 years ago

The 'dangerous' promise of a techno-utopian future

https://www.cbc.ca/radio/ideas/tech-billionaires-ai-utopia-1.7440698

2 years ago