884
1670
DOGE has 'god mode' access to government data
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2025/02/doge-god-mode-access/681719/
3 weeks ago
825
193
Show HN: Immersive Gaussian Splat experience of Sutro Tower, San Francisco
https://vincentwoo.com/3d/sutro_tower/
461
89
Show HN: BadSeek – How to backdoor large language models
https://sshh12--llm-backdoor.modal.run/
450
131
After 20 years, math couple solves major group theory problem
https://www.quantamagazine.org/after-20-years-math-couple-solves-major-group-theory-problem-20250219/
377
692
DOGE puts $1 spending limit on government employee credit cards
https://www.wired.com/story/doge-government-credit-cards/
365
95
Introduction to CUDA programming for Python developers
https://www.pyspur.dev/blog/introduction_cuda_programming
350
31
Running Pong in 240 browser tabs
https://eieio.games/blog/running-pong-in-240-browser-tabs/
328
69
FAQ on Microsoft's topological qubit thing
https://scottaaronson.blog/?p=8669
319
113
TinyCompiler: A compiler in a week-end
https://ssloy.github.io/tinycompiler/
305
68
Magma: A foundation model for multimodal AI agents
https://microsoft.github.io/Magma/
304
170
OpenEuroLLM
https://openeurollm.eu/
303
Helix: A vision-language-action model for generalist humanoid control
https://www.figure.ai/news/helix
294
Treasury agrees to block DOGE's access to personal taxpayer data at IRS
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2025/02/20/doge-irs-taxpayer-data-privacy/
282
23
Obsidian is now free for work
https://obsidian.md/blog/free-for-work/
272
295
When your last name is Null, nothing works
https://www.wsj.com/lifestyle/null-last-name-computer-scientists-forms-f0a43b08
270
157
I put my heart and soul into this AI but nobody cares
https://newslttrs.com/i-put-my-heart-and-soul-into-this-ai-but-nobody-cares/
250
108
AI cracks superbug problem in two days that took scientists years
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/clyz6e9edy3o
230
148
Customizable HTML Select
https://developer.chrome.com/blog/rfc-customizable-select
225
161
Obscura VPN – Privacy that's more than a promise
https://obscura.net/
221
195
The Amazon Appstore for Android devices will be discontinued on August 20, 2025
https://www.amazon.com/gp/mas/appstore/android/faq
217
81
New horizons for Julia
https://lwn.net/Articles/1006117/
190
86
AWS S3 SDK breaks its compatible services
https://xuanwo.io/links/2025/02/aws_s3_sdk_breaks_its_compatible_services/
186
118
Ancient switch to soft food gave us overbite–the ability to pronounce 'f's,'v'
https://www.science.org/content/article/ancient-switch-soft-food-gave-us-overbite-and-ability-pronounce-f-s-and-v-s
179
123
A cryptocurrency scam that turned a small town against itself
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/19/magazine/cryptocurrency-scam-kansas-heartland-bank.html
94
Texas banned abortion, then sepsis rates soared
https://www.propublica.org/article/texas-abortion-ban-sepsis-maternal-mortality-analysis
175
41
Spice86 – A PC emulator for real mode reverse engineering
https://github.com/OpenRakis/Spice86
173
168
Twitch limiting uploads to 100 hours, deleting the rest starting April 19th
https://twitter.com/twitchsupport/status/1892277199497043994
29
Run structured extraction on documents/images locally with Ollama and Pydantic
https://github.com/vlm-run/vlmrun-hub
158
44
DOGE Said It Cut $232M from Social Security. It Was Only About Half a Mil
https://theintercept.com/2025/02/20/doge-social-security-cuts-musk-receipts/
146
40
Show HN: Benchmarking VLMs vs. Traditional OCR
https://getomni.ai/ocr-benchmark
139
155
Matrix Foundation to shut down bridges if it doesn't raise $100K
https://matrix.org/blog/2025/02/crossroads/
75
https://obsidian.md/pricing
134
102
You can’t build a moat with AI (redux)
https://frontierai.substack.com/p/you-cant-build-a-moat-with-ai-redux
132
211
Grok 3: Another win for the bitter lesson
https://www.thealgorithmicbridge.com/p/grok-3-another-win-for-the-bitter
51
RT64: N64 graphics renderer in emulators and native ports
https://github.com/rt64/rt64
122
57
Lynx Browser: The Land That Time Revived (2022)
https://popzazzle.blogspot.com/2022/06/lynx-browser-land-that-time-revived.html
121
42
Lox – Oxidized Astrodynamics – A safe, ergonomic astrodynamics library
https://github.com/lox-space/lox
120
105
LeetCode but You Can Force People to Code in Light Mode
https://www.beatcode.dev/
117
92
Elon Musk recommends that the International Space Station be deorbited ASAP
https://arstechnica.com/features/2025/02/elon-musk-recommends-that-the-international-space-station-be-deorbited-asap/
27
Launch HN: Confident AI (YC W25) – Open-source evaluation framework for LLM apps
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43116633
111
100
Netflix to invest $1B in Mexico over next 4 years
https://www.reuters.com/business/media-telecom/netflix-invest-1-billion-mexico-over-next-4-years-2025-02-20/
93
Rust, C++, and Python trends in jobs on Hacker News (February 2025)
https://martin.wojtczyk.de/2025/02/20/rust-c-and-python-trends-in-jobs-on-hacker-news-february-2025/
107
141
Mexico issues legal threat to Google
https://thecomeback.com/politics/mexico-legal-action-donald-trump-executive-order.html
It is not a compiler error (2017)
https://blog.plover.com/2017/11/12/
97
Reliably replicating data between Postgres and ClickHouse
https://benjaminwootton.com/insights/clickhouse-peerdb-cdc/
13
USDS Engineering Director Resigns: 'This Is Not the Mission I Came to Serve'
https://www.wired.com/story/doge-engineering-director-resign/
90
55
Doge Teen with Cybercrime Connections Now Inside Cybersecurity Agency CISA
https://www.nextgov.com/cybersecurity/2025/02/doge-employee-edward-coristine-lands-cisa-dhs-email/403126/
18
Brazilian ship sunk by WWII U-Boat located
https://archaeology.org/news/2025/02/19/brazilian-ship-sunk-by-wwii-u-boat-located/
84
15
Announcing Rust 1.85.0 and Rust 2024
https://blog.rust-lang.org/2025/02/20/Rust-1.85.0.html
82
Petition to Remove the Canadian Government from Twitter
https://www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en/Petition/Sign/e-5359
79
Hacked on Stripe–$41K Gone, No Real Help from Support. What Now?
https://old.reddit.com/r/stripe/comments/1itn3i7/hacked_on_stripe41k_gone_no_real_help_from/
78
70
DOGE employees don't understand the basics of SQL
https://www.linkedin.com/posts/shanetollmanmorris_this-is-a-good-teaching-moment-for-those-activity-7297691172318109698-2wvR
76
A.I. is prompting an evolution, not extinction, for coders
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/20/business/ai-coding-software-engineers.html
73
Elon Musk Says He'll 'Fix' Community Notes on X After It Disagreed with Him
https://gizmodo.com/elon-musk-says-hell-fix-community-notes-on-x-after-it-disagreed-with-him-2000566212
The Plan 9 Foundation
https://plan9foundation.org/
71
25
"Test your adblocker" websites can harm users and the adblocker ecosystem
https://brave.com/blog/adblocker-testing-websites-harm-users/
