top 50% hacker news stories for 2025-02-25

I Went to SQL Injection Court

https://sockpuppet.org/blog/2025/02/09/fixing-illinois-foia/

2 years ago

1230 upvotes – 435 comments

Hyperspace

https://hypercritical.co/2025/02/25/hyperspace

2 years ago

849 upvotes – 456 comments

Tell HN: Y Combinator backing AI company to abuse factory workers

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43170850

2 years ago

631 upvotes – 188 comments

DigiCert: Threat of legal action to stifle Bugzilla discourse

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1950144

2 years ago

610 upvotes – 190 comments

Winners of the $10k ISBN visualization bounty

https://annas-archive.org/blog/all-isbns-winners.html

2 years ago

601 upvotes – 66 comments

How Core Git Developers Configure Git

https://blog.gitbutler.com/how-git-core-devs-configure-git/

2 years ago

570 upvotes – 122 comments

Framework's first desktop is a strange–but unique–mini ITX gaming PC

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/02/framework-known-for-upgradable-laptops-intros-not-particularly-upgradable-desktop/

2 years ago

554 upvotes – 534 comments

DeepSeek open source DeepEP – library for MoE training and Inference

https://github.com/deepseek-ai/DeepEP

2 years ago

536 upvotes – 71 comments

Signal to leave Sweden if backdoor law passes

https://swedenherald.com/article/signals-ceo-then-were-leaving-sweden

2 years ago

488 upvotes – 266 comments

Material Theme has been pulled from VS Code's marketplace

https://github.com/material-theme/vsc-material-theme/discussions/1313

2 years ago

479 upvotes – 392 comments

'Hey Number 17 '

https://www.404media.co/email/b7eb2339-2ea1-4a37-96cc-a360494c214c/

2 years ago

424 upvotes – 157 comments

Troubleshooting: A skill that never goes obsolete

https://www.autodidacts.io/troubleshooting/

2 years ago

406 upvotes – 137 comments

There isn't much point to HTTP/2 past the load balancer

https://byroot.github.io/ruby/performance/2025/02/24/http2-past-the-load-balancer.html

2 years ago

334 upvotes – 256 comments

Spotify's Beta Used 'Pirate' MP3 Files, Some from Pirate Bay (2017)

https://torrentfreak.com/spotifys-beta-used-pirate-mp3-files-some-from-pirate-bay-170509/

2 years ago

329 upvotes – 253 comments

Hard problems that reduce to document ranking

https://noperator.dev/posts/document-ranking-for-complex-problems/

2 years ago

318 upvotes – 54 comments

OlmOCR: Open-source tool to extract plain text from PDFs

https://olmocr.allenai.org/

2 years ago

313 upvotes – 40 comments

Embedding Python in Elixir, it's fine

https://dashbit.co/blog/running-python-in-elixir-its-fine

2 years ago

308 upvotes – 64 comments

How to change your settings to make yourself less valuable to Meta

https://johnoliverwantsyourraterotica.com/

2 years ago

285 upvotes – 122 comments

Tesla sales in Europe down 45% in January

https://www.ft.com/content/cdd0b5c8-2703-4fd4-9ebf-26087cac8523

2 years ago

278 upvotes – 517 comments

Show HN: Tach – Visualize and untangle your Python codebase

https://github.com/gauge-sh/tach

2 years ago

263 upvotes – 62 comments

Launch HN: Browser Use (YC W25) – open-source web agents

https://github.com/browser-use/browser-use

2 years ago

259 upvotes – 100 comments

Disclosure of personal information to DOGE “is irreparable harm,” judge rules

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/02/judges-block-doge-access-to-personal-data-in-loss-for-trump-administration/

2 years ago

258 upvotes – 150 comments

DeepSearcher: A local open-source Deep Research

https://milvus.io/blog/introduce-deepsearcher-a-local-open-source-deep-research.md

2 years ago

229 upvotes – 26 comments

Gleam, Coming from Erlang

https://olano.dev/blog/gleam-coming-from-erlang/

2 years ago

226 upvotes – 71 comments

What would happen if we didn't use TCP or UDP?

https://github.com/Hawzen/hdp

2 years ago

215 upvotes – 114 comments

The XB-70 (2019)

http://codex99.com/photography/the-xb70.html

2 years ago

202 upvotes – 133 comments

Chicory: A JVM native WebAssembly runtime

https://chicory.dev/

2 years ago

201 upvotes – 95 comments

What do people see when they're tripping? Analyzing Erowid's trip reports

https://themicrodose.substack.com/p/what-do-people-see-when-theyre-tripping

2 years ago

189 upvotes – 263 comments

Maestro – Next generation mobile UI automation

https://github.com/mobile-dev-inc/Maestro

2 years ago

185 upvotes – 66 comments

Certificate Transparency in Firefox

https://blog.transparency.dev/ct-in-firefox

2 years ago

184 upvotes – 111 comments

Ask HN: Recommend resources that helped your game dev journey?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43169715

2 years ago

182 upvotes – 140 comments

Emergent Misalignment: Narrow finetuning can produce broadly misaligned LLMs [pdf]

https://martins1612.github.io/emergent_misalignment_betley.pdf

2 years ago

179 upvotes – 100 comments

EdgeDB is now Gel and Postgres is the future

https://www.geldata.com/blog/edgedb-is-now-gel-and-postgres-is-the-future

2 years ago

165 upvotes – 123 comments

Dogs may have domesticated themselves because they liked snacks, model suggests

https://www.livescience.com/animals/dogs/dogs-may-have-domesticated-themselves-because-they-really-liked-snacks-model-suggests

2 years ago

162 upvotes – 171 comments

History of CAD

https://www.shapr3d.com/blog/history-of-cad

2 years ago

160 upvotes – 65 comments

A Defense of Weird Research

https://asteriskmag.com/issues/09/a-defense-of-weird-research

2 years ago

152 upvotes – 48 comments

Xcode Constantly Phones Home

https://lapcatsoftware.com/articles/2025/2/5.html

2 years ago

150 upvotes – 59 comments

A possible future of Python in the browser

https://lukasz.langa.pl/f37aa97a-9ea3-4aeb-b6a0-9daeea5a7505/

2 years ago

149 upvotes – 94 comments

Stone Soup AI (2024)

https://simons.berkeley.edu/news/stone-soup-ai

2 years ago

145 upvotes – 65 comments

Resident physicians' exam scores tied to patient survival

https://hms.harvard.edu/news/resident-physicians-exam-scores-tied-patient-survival

2 years ago

144 upvotes – 138 comments

Deconstructing the "Whimsical Animations" landing page

https://www.joshwcomeau.com/blog/whimsical-animations/

2 years ago

143 upvotes – 38 comments

ChatGPT Saved My Life (no, seriously, I'm writing this from the ER)

https://hardmodefirst.xyz/chatgpt-saved-my-life-no,-seriously,-im-writing-this-from-the-er

2 years ago

140 upvotes – 232 comments

New maps of the chaotic space-time inside black holes

https://www.quantamagazine.org/new-maps-of-the-bizarre-chaotic-space-time-inside-black-holes-20250224/

2 years ago

132 upvotes – 103 comments

Vinyl carver sparking a craze for cutting records at home

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2025/feb/25/vinyl-carver-lathe-cutters-home-cutting-records-craze

2 years ago

129 upvotes – 137 comments

Show HN: MyCoder, an open source Claude-Code alternative

https://github.com/drivecore/mycoder

2 years ago

125 upvotes – 53 comments

DOGE will use AI to assess the responses of federal workers

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/doge/federal-workers-agencies-push-back-elon-musks-email-ultimatum-rcna193439

2 years ago

122 upvotes – 185 comments

Vibe Coding and the Future of Software Engineering

https://alexp.pl/2025/02/19/vibe-coding.html

2 years ago

120 upvotes – 97 comments

Awesome DeepSeek Integrations

https://github.com/deepseek-ai/awesome-deepseek-integration

2 years ago

116 upvotes – 24 comments

Ghost House – software for automatic inbetweens

https://www.tedwiggin.com/MIMT.html

2 years ago

113 upvotes – 3 comments

Unknown illness kills over 50 in Congo with hours between symptoms and death

https://apnews.com/article/congo-mystery-unknown-illness-cd8b1fdcb3b2ed032968b2c6044dc6db

2 years ago

112 upvotes – 52 comments

Simulating Time in Square-Root Space

https://eccc.weizmann.ac.il/report/2025/017/

2 years ago

109 upvotes – 15 comments

Show HN: My new wiki for Silicon Graphics stuff

https://www.tech-pubs.net/wiki/Main_Page

2 years ago

108 upvotes – 80 comments

Upside Down Air Force

https://www.frontiernet.net/%7Eatlasf/A56UDAF.htm

2 years ago

104 upvotes – 17 comments

Depending in Common Lisp – Using the CLOS dependent maintenance protocol (2022)

https://stevelosh.com/blog/2022/08/depending-in-common-lisp/

2 years ago

100 upvotes – 32 comments

Show HN: GoatDB – A lightweight, offline-first, realtime NoDB for Deno and React

https://github.com/goatplatform/goatdb

2 years ago

90 upvotes – 45 comments

Get coding help from Gemini Code Assist – now for free

https://blog.google/technology/developers/gemini-code-assist-free/

2 years ago

79 upvotes – 17 comments

GibberLink [AI-AI Communication]

https://github.com/PennyroyalTea/gibberlink

2 years ago

79 upvotes – 43 comments

US court upholds Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes's conviction

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/feb/24/elizabeth-holmes-theranos-conviction

2 years ago

79 upvotes – 107 comments

Best Books ever of 10 years' votes at 4chan /lit/

https://postimg.cc/HVGxF3cr

2 years ago

76 upvotes – 52 comments

Claude Plays Pokémon

https://www.twitch.tv/claudeplayspokemon

2 years ago

75 upvotes – 24 comments

More than 20 Musk staffers resign over DOGE's 'dismantling of public services'

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/feb/25/musk-doge-employees-resign

2 years ago

74 upvotes – 36 comments

Theoi Greek Mythology

https://www.theoi.com/

2 years ago

66 upvotes – 3 comments

Show HN: Txtl – Fast static website of text utilities

https://viveksjain.github.io/txtl/

2 years ago

65 upvotes – 8 comments

Jane Street Open Source

https://opensource.janestreet.com/

2 years ago

64 upvotes – 22 comments
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