Hacker News Highlights

Hacker News Highlights
Hacker News Highlights

Daily overview of the Top 10 Hacker News posts. Post and comment summarization by AI.

  1. 3 HRS AGO

    Feb 21, 2025 | Immersive Gaussian Splat at Sutro Tower, Greg K-H on Rust benefits, DeepSeek Open Infra's 5 AI repos open-sourced

    This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Feb 21, 2025.Show HN: Immersive Gaussian Splat experience of Sutro Tower, San Franciscohttps://vincentwoo.com/3d/sutro_tower/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43120582 Greg K-H: "Writing new code in Rust is a win for all of us"https://lore.kernel.org/rust-for-linux/2025021954-flaccid-pucker-f7d9@gregkh/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43101204 DeepSeek Open Infra: Open-Sourcing 5 AI Repos in 5 Dayshttps://github.com/deepseek-ai/open-infra-indexhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43124018 Show HN: BadSeek – How to backdoor large language modelshttps://sshh12--llm-backdoor.modal.run/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43121383 Helix: A vision-language-action model for generalist humanoid controlhttps://www.figure.ai/news/helixhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43115079 Running Pong in 240 browser tabshttps://eieio.games/blog/running-pong-in-240-browser-tabs/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43119086 TinyCompiler: A compiler in a week-endhttps://ssloy.github.io/tinycompiler/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43120873 When your last name is Null, nothing workshttps://www.wsj.com/lifestyle/null-last-name-computer-scientists-forms-f0a43b08https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43113997 Customizable HTML Selecthttps://developer.chrome.com/blog/rfc-customizable-selecthttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43113790 Introduction to CUDA programming for Python developershttps://www.pyspur.dev/blog/introduction_cuda_programminghttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43121059

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  2. 1 DAY AGO

    Feb 20, 2025 | Bluesky's lossy timelines are beneficial, walking aids faster healing of broken legs and ankles, Mastra is an open-source JS agent framework by Gatsby developers

    This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Feb 20, 2025.When imperfect systems are good: Bluesky's lossy timelineshttps://jazco.dev/2025/02/19/imperfection/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43105028 Broken legs and ankles heal better if you walk on them within weekshttps://www.scientificamerican.com/article/broken-legs-and-ankles-heal-better-if-you-walk-on-them-within-weeks/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43101383 Show HN: Mastra – Open-source JS agent framework, by the developers of Gatsbyhttps://github.com/mastra-ai/mastrahttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43103073 1972 Unix V2 "Beta" Resurrectedhttps://www.tuhs.org/pipermail/tuhs/2025-February/031420.htmlhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43108091 Show HN: Subtrace – Wireshark for Docker Containershttps://github.com/subtrace/subtracehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43096477 A secret poker game you can play on the subwayhttps://experience.prfalken.dev/english/subway-poker/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43088124 Scented products cause indoor air pollution on par with car exhausthttps://newatlas.com/environment/indoor-air-pollution-scented-terpenes/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43109366 Magma: A foundation model for multimodal AI agentshttps://microsoft.github.io/Magma/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43110265 Build your own SQLite in Rust, Part 5: Evaluating querieshttps://blog.sylver.dev/build-your-own-sqlite-part-5-evaluating-querieshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43108614 Relaxed Radix Balanced Trees (2024)https://peter.horne-khan.com/relaxed-radix-balanced-trees/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43103604

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  3. 2 DAYS AGO

    Feb 19, 2025 | Valve releases Team Fortress 2 code, Pi-hole v6 launched, evaluating uv migration

    This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Feb 19, 2025.Valve releases Team Fortress 2 codehttps://github.com/ValveSoftware/source-sdk-2013/commit/0759e2e8e179d5352d81d0d4aaded72c1704b7a9https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43094260 Pi-hole v6https://pi-hole.net/blog/2025/02/18/introducing-pi-hole-v6/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43093328 A year of uv: pros, cons, and should you migratehttps://www.bitecode.dev/p/a-year-of-uv-pros-cons-and-shouldhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43095157 My LLM codegen workflowhttps://harper.blog/2025/02/16/my-llm-codegen-workflow-atm/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43094006 Show HN: Scripton – Python IDE with built-in realtime visualizationshttps://scripton.devhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43090214 XORhttps://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/quasiblog/xor/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43087944 Nuclear fusion: WEST beats the world record for plasma durationhttps://www.cea.fr/english/Pages/News/nuclear-fusion-west-beats-the-world-record-for-plasma-duration.aspxhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43093939 South Korean regulator accuses DeepSeek of sharing user data with ByteDancehttps://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c4gex0x87g4ohttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43094651 Alice Hamilton waged a one-woman campaign to get the lead out of everythinghttps://www.smithsonianmag.com/innovation/how-alice-hamilton-waged-one-woman-campaign-get-lead-out-everything-180985960/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43096422 One year after switching from Java to Gohttps://glasskube.dev/blog/from-java-to-go/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43092003

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  4. 3 DAYS AGO

    Feb 18, 2025 | Legacy project defines seniority, Fixed sleep-wake issues on Linux with AMD GPUs, Plane crash during Toronto landing

    This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Feb 18, 2025.You're not a senior engineer until you've worked on a legacy project (2023)https://www.infobip.com/developers/blog/seniors-working-on-a-legacy-projecthttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43047341 I helped fix sleep-wake hangs on Linux with AMD GPUshttps://nyanpasu64.gitlab.io/blog/amdgpu-sleep-wake-hang/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43071983 Plane crashes, overturns during landing at Toronto airporthttps://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/toronto-pearson-overturned-airplane-1.7461227https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43083012 Debugging an Undebuggable Apphttps://bryce.co/undebuggable/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43081713 List of DRM-Free Bookshopshttps://libreture.com/bookshops/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43083772 Watch R1 "think" with animated chains of thoughthttps://github.com/dhealy05/frames_of_mindhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43080531 Grok3 Launch [video]https://x.com/xai/status/1891699715298730482https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43085957 On David Lynch's Revenge of the Jedi (2018)https://www.benningtonreview.org/adam-golaskihttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43084145 670nm red light exposure improved aged mitochondrial function, colour visionhttps://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-021-02311-1https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43066394 Spacetime maps: A map that warps to show travel timehttps://maps.vvolhejn.comhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43040986

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  5. 4 DAYS AGO

    Feb 17, 2025 | Calculator app simplicity, Viktor Antonov's death, All Kindles jailbroken

    This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Feb 17, 2025.“A calculator app? Anyone could make that”https://chadnauseam.com/coding/random/calculator-apphttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43066953 Half-Life 2 and Dishonored art lead Viktor Antonov has diedhttps://www.eurogamer.net/half-life-2-and-dishonored-art-lead-viktor-antonov-dies-aged-just-52https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43069514 All Kindles can now be jailbrokenhttps://kindlemodding.org/jailbreaking/WinterBreak/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43073969 Uchū – Color palette for internet lovershttps://uchu.stylehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43072338 Homemade polarimetric synthetic aperture radar dronehttps://hforsten.com/homemade-polarimetric-synthetic-aperture-radar-drone.htmlhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43073808 Flea-Scope: $18 Source Available USB Oscilloscope, Logic Analyzer and More [pdf]https://rtestardi.github.io/usbte/flea-scope.pdfhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43068585 YouTube asks channel owner to verify phone, permanently overwrites personal infohttps://old.reddit.com/r/VirtualYoutubers/comments/1iqmul1/if_you_have_a_moment_i_need_your_help/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43073836 San Francisco homelessness: Park ranger helps one person at a timehttps://sfstandard.com/2025/02/08/golden-gate-park-ranger-homelessness/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43073292 Javier Milei backtracks on $4.4B memecoin after 'insiders' pocket $87Mhttps://www.coindesk.com/business/2025/02/15/javier-milei-backtracks-on-usd4-4b-memecoin-after-insiders-pocket-usd87mhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43072790 IPv6 Is Hardhttps://techlog.jenslink.net/posts/ipv6-is-hard/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43069533

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  6. 5 DAYS AGO

    Feb 16, 2025 | Life measured in weeks, Carbon capture costs exceed renewables, Jane Street's Figgie card game

    This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Feb 16, 2025.My Life in Weekshttps://weeks.ginatrapani.org/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43061498 Carbon capture more costly than switching to renewables, researchers findhttps://techxplore.com/news/2025-02-carbon-capture-renewables.htmlhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43058997 Jane Street's Figgie card gamehttps://www.figgie.com/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43057344 Jellyfin: The Free Software Media Systemhttps://jellyfin.org/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43063167 NASA has a list of 10 rules for software developmenthttps://www.cs.otago.ac.nz/cosc345/resources/nasa-10-rules.htmhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43061977 Diablo hackers uncovered a speedrun scandalhttps://arstechnica.com/gaming/2025/02/the-diablo-hackers-that-debunked-a-record-speedrun/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43058522 Watt The Fox?https://h.43z.one/blog/2025-02-12/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43062546 The Sims Game Design Documents (1997)https://donhopkins.com/home/TheSimsDesignDocuments/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43064273 Alzheimer's biomarkers now visible up to a decade ahead of symptomshttps://newatlas.com/brain/alzheimers-dementia/alzheimers-biomarkers-visible-decade-before-symptoms/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43060587 Perplexity Deep Researchhttps://www.perplexity.ai/hub/blog/introducing-perplexity-deep-researchhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43061827

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  7. 6 DAYS AGO

    Feb 15, 2025 | Doge.gov updates open to all, Misconceptions about GPUs, AI hindering tech adoption?

    This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Feb 15, 2025.Anyone can push updates to the doge.gov websitehttps://www.404media.co/anyone-can-push-updates-to-the-doge-gov-website-2/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43045835 We were wrong about GPUshttps://fly.io/blog/wrong-about-gpu/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43053844 AI is stifling new tech adoption?https://vale.rocks/posts/ai-is-stifling-tech-adoptionhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43047792 The hardest working font in Manhattanhttps://aresluna.org/the-hardest-working-font-in-manhattan/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43053419 A decade later, a decade lost (2024)https://meyerweb.com/eric/thoughts/2024/06/07/a-decade-later-a-decade-lost/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43054069 Show HN: Transform your codebase into a single Markdown doc for feeding into AIhttps://tesserato.web.app/posts/2025-02-12-CodeWeaver-launch/index.htmlhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43048027 If you ever stacked cups in gym class, blame my dadhttps://defector.com/if-you-ever-stacked-cups-in-gym-class-blame-my-dadhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43053908 TeX and Typst: Layout Models (2024)https://laurmaedje.github.io/posts/layout-models/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43032697 Kevin Mitnik FOIA Finalhttps://vault.fbi.gov/kevin-mitnick/kevin-mitnick-part-01-final/viewhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43051802 Complex dynamics require complex solutionshttps://mathstodon.xyz/@tao/113873092369347147https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43053625

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  8. 14 FEB

    Feb 14, 2025 | Privacy Pass for Kagi, LibreOffice turns 40 with new features, Phind 2 offers AI search with visuals

    This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Feb 14, 2025.Privacy Pass Authentication for Kagi Searchhttps://blog.kagi.com/kagi-privacy-passhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43040521 LibreOffice still kicking at 40, now with browser tricks and real-time collabhttps://www.theregister.com/2025/02/13/libreoffice_wasm_zetaoffice/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43038200 Phind 2: AI search with visual answers and multi-step reasoninghttps://www.phind.com/blog/phind-2https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43039308 Show HN: SQL Noir – Learn SQL by solving crimeshttps://www.sqlnoir.comhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43041827 What if Eye...?https://eyes.mit.edu/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43043063 I built an AI company to save my open source projecthttps://timefold.ai/blog/how-i-built-an-ai-company-to-save-my-open-source-projecthttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42999454 SQL pipe syntax available in public preview in BigQueryhttps://cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs/pipe-syntax-guidehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42998904 Who exactly needs to get approval from an institutional review board (IRB)?https://dynomight.net/irb/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43038395 Basis of the Kalman Filter [pdf]https://github.com/tpn/pdfs/blob/master/Understanding%20the%20Basis%20of%20the%20Kalman%20Filter%20Via%20a%20Simple%20and%20Intuitive%20Derivation%20%282012%29.pdfhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43029314 MapTCHA, the open-source CAPTCHA that improves OpenStreetMap [video]https://fosdem.org/2025/schedule/event/fosdem-2025-5879-maptcha-the-open-source-captcha-that-improves-openstreetmap/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43040382

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